Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-22
J0URNEYING TO THE TOMB
A HALT IN THE DRAPED RO-
TUNDA.

Parting Scenes at the COttage-The
Funeral SerVIce-PrOgress Of the
Train-CrOwds Along the Route
silence, Sympathy and SORROW
The Corpse at the CapItOI-FOI.
lowed by a Multitude 70 the Bier
Viewed by the ThrOngs-ThG
TestImOnY of the eAutOpsy-RaVagel
of his AgOny-The Tributes of Iht
Nation and the World.
WASHINGTON, September 21.-The city
has been sadder to-day and tonight thar
ever. The arrival OF the President's
body this afternoon called out the
population. The streets leading tc
the Baltimore and Potomac depot
where the remains came In, were thronged
with a surging populace that, though in
numbers almost countless, was as silent as
the grave. The people uncovered their
heads and waited in perfect silence the
passage of the coffin containing all that was
mortal OF the late Chief Magistrate.
The cortege to the capitol from the depot
was followed by many carriages. President
Arthur was the leading figure that followed.
He was with General Grant. Mrs. Garfield,
who was heavily borne down with grief,
did not go to the capitol. She went to At
torn6y General MacVeagh's house.
The body was taken into the black deco
rated rotunda around the south wing OF the
capitol, which was draped in mourning, and
up the steep hill leading thereto. The
rotunda, where the body lies in state, is
brilliantly Illuminated with gas. Crowds
Of people pass around the catafalque and
gazs upon the face OF their late Chief.
He is hardly recognizable. His face is
pinched and emsciated to the thinest de-
gree. 1t looks as if only the skin was
tightly drawn over the bones. There is
no flesh there or any resemblance of it.
The stricken widow is broken in health.
1t is feared by her immediate friends that
the shock may be too great to be endured.
The scene on the avenue to-day Tesembled
in an almost painful degree the scenes Of
the All Of March last, as there was the
military and the thousands that went
to the east front of the capitol. On the
fourth OF March they went there with
a live body, but to-day they took a corpse.
The line of march was from the depot, the
same as that taken by the living President
when he went to take the oath of office.
His body was taken up the same stairs that
he ascended, then in full health. There
was scarcely as many people around. To be
sure, there was not as much noise as when
he, IN full health, mounted up those steps
on the fourth of March. To cap the al
most similar picture, the body now lies in
state within forty feet of the place where
he 10 the flesh stood to deliver his inaugural
address.
Instead of the thousands surrounding him
at the same time OF the night of his inaugu
ration, as he stood the guest Of one of the
grandest balls ever, given, Thousands walk
tonight around his bier and look upon his
wizened and emaciated face.
President Arthur has not tsken up his
abode in the White House and will not
until after the funeral in Cleveland. He
will transact no business until that time.
He is staying with Senator Jones, Of Nevada.
General Grant is with him. The two passed
around the catafalaque in the lcapitol this
evening.
While it is, perhaps, somewhat unseemly
now to speak Of other matters than this of
death, it seems to be pretty certain that the
stalwart element of the Republican party,
the counsels of Gen. Grant and
Senator Conkling, will be the predominating
in the next administration.
Everything at the Jail is quiet this morn
ing. Guiteau is described as being some
what restless, but he alternately reads and
writes. He is thought to be engaged in
writing his reflections on the shooting and
the Presidents death. 1t is generally
thought by those who have examined the
statutes that Guiteau cannot be convicted
of murder under the laws of the District,
and Colonel Corkhill is now said to enter
tain that opinion.
DISCLOSURES OF THE AUTOPSY.
ELBERON, n. j., September 21.-The fol-
lowing official bulletin was prepared at
eleven o'clock last night by the
surgeons who have been in attend
ance upon the late President:
"By previous arrangement post mortem
of the body of Presi-
dent Garfield was made this after
noon in the presence and with the as
of Drs. Hamilton, Agnew, Bliss,
Barnes, Woodward, ReFburn, Andrew H.
Smith, OF Elberon, and Acting Assistant
Surgeon Lamb, of the Army Medical
Washington. The operation was
performed by DIR. Lamb. 1t was found
that the ball, after fracturlng the right
eleventh rio, had pas sed through the spinal
column in front of the spinal canal, frac-
turing the body Of the first lumbar vertebra,
driving a number Of small fragments of
bone into the adjacent soft parts, and lodg-
ing below the pancreas about two
inches and a half to the left
Of the spine and behind the peri
soneum, where 1t became completely
encysted. The immediate cause of death
was secondary hemorrhage from one OF the
nesenteric arteries adjoining the track of
The ball, the blood rupturing the perito-
duu uGdIiy q Plub ceCApluk luLO luC
abdominal cavity. This hemorrhage is be-
ieyed to have been the cause of the severe
pain in the lower part of the chest, complain
ed OF lust before death. An absoess cavity
,ix inches by four in dimensions was
found in the vicinity OF the gall bladder,
the liver and the transverse colon,
which were strongly adherent. 1t did not
involve the substance of the liver, and no
was found between It and
me wound. A suppuratiDg channel also
extended from the external wound between
he loin muscles and the right kidney, al
most to the right groin. This channel is
low known to be due TO burrowing Of
Dus from the wound, and was supposed,
turing life, to have been the track of the
ball.
"Oa examination of the organs of the
chest, evidence of severe bronchitis were
iOund, besides, with bronchial pneu-
nouia of the lower portion of the
light lung, though to much less
sxtent. On the left the lungs contain no
Assesses. Liver was enlarged aud fatty,
but free from assesses, nor were any
'ound in any other organ except the
eft kidney, which contained near its
surface small abscess about one
.hird of an inch IN diameter. In
.eyiewlng the history OF the case, In connec-
ion with the autopsy, 1t is quite evident
hat the different suppurating surfaces, and
specially the fractured spongY tissue of
he vertebr9, furnish sufficient explana-
ion of the septic condition which existed.
I'D. w. BLISS.
CRANK H. HAMILTON.
81 K. BARNES.
'D. HAYES AGNEw.
81. j. WOODWARD.
"ANDREW II. SMITH.
"RoBERT REYBURN.
sd. S. LAMB"