Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-13
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS.
 GOOD PROGRESS. THE BEST DAY AND NIGHT
 SINCE JULY. The Symptoms Looking Better The Wound and Incisions
 Healing Rapidly. No Danger From the Lungs. This Trouble Under the
 Doctors Control.
No Danger From the Lungs.
THE PRESIDENT.

l Better News From Long Branch-Th Patient On the Road to HeaIth-Th Best Day and Night Since July-Th
 Parotid Gland About Healed -Th Wound and Incisions Rapidly Healfns ! An Exodus From Elberon-The Cabi
 net Officials Or on Vacations-The At ! tempt Against Guiteau-MortaI Terro, 1 of the Assassin.
 II LONG BRANCH, N. J., Sept. 12.-Last nigh
 and to-day are admitted by Drs. Agnew, Bis
 and Boynton, Colonel Rockwell, Genera
 Swain and Private Secretary Brown to hav
 been the best period of rest, refreshment ant
 actual gain the President has had since July
 say he is perceptibly improving He enjoy
 occasional maps and profound sleep. Hi
 sleep of late has greatly changed in character The restlessness and wakefulness which unti
 his removal and for two or three days aftei
 that marred his sleep has entirely disappear
 ed, and when he closes his eyes now he falls
 into deep sleep, not dreaming nor moving
 about, but lying still and breathing well and
 freely. The parotid swelling has almost en-
 tirely disappeared with all of it's attending
 symptoms. Hardly any perceptible pus now l comes from that affection. All the incisions
 except the last made have actually healed and
 the last has so far healed that it will be closed | up naturally. It is believed that within | twenty-four hours by Wednesday morning the attending physicians say, every trace of parotid trouble will have entirely disappear ed. The wound is healing now with very perceptible rapidity, the granulation being strong and heel lthy From the point of entry of the bullet to it's accepted present location is distance of about nineteen inches The last incision made intercepted the channel made by the ball at point seven inches from the mouth of the wound. The most deli cate and pliable catheter in possession of the surgeons was this afternoon carefully inserted and used for the purpose of definitely ascertaining if the bullet was fully encysted. The examination was protracted and thorough. Dr. Bliss told 8 reporter of the National Associated Press to- night that at this examination the catheter could not be inserted beyond nine inches, at which distance it met solid obstruction of completed granulation. That is, the wound is tonight healed up solidly for three and one-half inches from the furthest point the catheter easily reached some time ago. The solid growth from the ball outward is there fore now three and half inches. This is gain of one and one half inch in the healing process of the wound since Saturday morning. when the catheter entered ten and one-half understandable progress and the great est made in the entire illness of the President. As indicative of the recent progress made by the patient the channel of the wound for the entire distance of nine inches still open is granulating beautifully and is perfectly fabricated by the natural flow of healthy pus in proper quantity. The rib where.it was shattered by the ball has been carefully watched. The shattered bone could be plainly seen as long as it re- mained bare through the last incision. To- days examination showed that the rib at that point is now covered by healthy and solid granulation full half an inch in depth. The exact quantity of stimulants ad- ministered to the President after persistent enquiry has been stated by Dr. Bliss to the reporter of the National Associated Press. Every four hours the President is given by the enemata process what is equivalent to two grains of quinine. Up to this reading there has been given him in the form of brandy punch made with milk three spoonfuls of the oldest and finest brandy ob- tainable every three hours Hereafter the same quantity in the same form will be given every four hours. This latter form of stim- ulant is relished greatly by the President and has good effect on him.
 THE PATIENT LEFT TO DR. BLISS
 Dr. Agnew came out of Francklyn cottage immediately after the issuance of the even ing bulletin, and his demeanor was unusually cheerful. He said: ''The evening bulletin is very much more favorable. can say no more than that, no matter how much might talk" Dr. Agnew has informed Dr. Bliss ttat the Presidents condition is such that he deems it unnecessary to remain with the pa- tient until the return of Dr. Hamilton to- morrow evening. He said he felt justified in going to Philadelphia on the first train on Tuesday morning, and did not think it nec- essary to even delay his departure until the morning dressing. He would therefore go away on very early train and would not be present at the morning dressing. As Dr. Hamilton will not reach Elberon until to- morrow evening, the President will be prac- tically left over twelve hours under the care of but one attending physician. This is the striking feature of the Presidents case to- day, and it is admitted that the present is the only period since the President was shot that his condition has been such as to warrant such peculiar departure from the estab- lished custom. The fact that Dr. Agnew has concluded to go and avowed the above reason for doing so at the present time is comment ed on as specially significant.
 DEPARTURE OF THE CABINET OFFICERS.
 Attorney General MacVeagh is the only member of the Cabinet here tonight. All the others have gone to New York. MT. MacYeagh will, if no unfavorable change in the Presidents condition occurs join the Cabinet in New York to morrow and go with them to the White Mountains. Dr. Bliss was asked tonight by reporter of the Ma tional Associated Press if the departure of the Cabinet officials had been decided upon as the result of any formal conference on the Presidents condition with the attending sur geons. He replied slowly: ''No would not like to state it in just that way. They went because they are satisfied that the Presidents condition at. present was such as to allow them to go away for brief vacation. They felt assured from what they know of the actual state of affairs that the prospect was favora- ble enough to justify brief absence on their vacation.
 HISTORY OF THE LUNG TROUBLE.
 Dr. Bliss gave the reporter of the National Associated Press to night the following his tory of the lung affection: "We have been watching the lung trouble for long time and had been carefully trying it before the President left Washington. We know what it is and that yesterday it came to a head. It is not in the nature of an abscess at all. The nucupurulent matter which the President has been lately ejecting is due to 8 bronchial affection entirely. That affection advanced downward until it got below the pharynx and mucupurulent matter was raised thence. No pus of any kind has been raised since at all. In this expectation the President has thrown of with the mucupurulence some pus, but only what got into his mouth from the paro- tid All else was not pus. If there was a pus cavity in the lungs or an abscess what would come from it would certainly be pus, it could be nothing else; but no pus has come up from that direction. When we left Washington we came prepared to treat the lung for whatever it should prove to be. I brought along an aspiration. If the trouble had proven an abscess or pus cavity and an operation had been deemed necessary this