The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-07-08

told the tclang did best 70 allow
one to SEQ the President except the members of hts
family.
EX-SENATOR coNxLno
Late in the evening, when Mr.. Contiins had par
tally recovered from the awful news, he left his
room and ppced thoughtfuly along the halls OF the
Fifth Avenue Hotel 81 hardly know what to
who met him. II was prepared for almost
anything rather than this. When saw
thu; Dispatch hin in General Arthur; hand. H
scarcely hold my breath. God grant II be not true.
I cannot yet bring myself TO believe It'll IS bad as
soourge that has afflicted this country since tho
der Of Lincoln. All have to ray further, gentle
men, IL turning TO 60 to his room and throwing up
his handsl may Heaven help our countryW
month"; - OF ANXIETY.
WASHING ON, July 4, 4:20 O. m
The President IL given up n beyond recovery.
He IL dying under the influence OF opiates.
Mrs. Carrie has been with him almost al night
and Is now FRUSTRATED with grief and exhaustion
Ths President is suffering intense pain in the feet
which Is considered q fatal symptom The alb
domina swelling WIS only slight but peritonitis has
set in and his fever Is rising. Powerful opates
being administered and patient is barely conscious
Secretary Lincoln says hope is dead" Dr. Bliss
refuses to concede the wors'.
HOPE REvIvEs.
WASHING ION, July 4, 9:'5 a. m.
The general symptoms OF the President are much
better He is conscious, and says If it not for
the pain in his feet he would feel as well as he ever
did. DIR. Bliss is very hopeful that his patient will
ARTHUR UsDsn GUARD.
wAsHISGroN, July 5.
Gen. Arthur has received a number of letters
warning him to take of his personal safety and
he is constantly guarded by detectives.
FROM lHE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, July 8.
The Secretary Of State has issued the following:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, wAsHIsGIoS, ID. c.,
July Al p. m.
On bebaf Of President and Mrs. Garfield de ire
to make public acknowledgment of the very numerous
messages of coincidence and affection which have been
received since Saturday morning from almost every
State in the Union. From the South as bount-
fully IA from the North, and from countries be-
yond the seas, have come messages of anxious
inquiry ana tender words OF sympathy in such
numbers that 1t has been found impossible to
swer them III detail. therefore ak the newsps-
pers 10 express Tor the President and Mrs Gan ie
the deep Gratitude which they feel for the devot
OF their felow-countrymen and friends abroad in
this hour of heavy afIction.
JAMES @. BLAIsr,
Secretary of State.
WAsn1so ov, July 5-6a H.
The President ~ sill alive, but there IL little If any
hope of his ultimate recovery. He dozed at inter
walls al night, and at times continued 70 complain OF
pain in his feet
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ASSASSIN.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 3.
Guteau cent for District Attorney Corkhill t''s
afternoon, and asked for an interview. COL Cork
hill took a stenographer with him, and the inter
view lasted for three hours The District Attorney
refuse to give to the press the story tod by the
prisoner, but says that he made very full state
ment which he is now engaged in verifying. In
answ r to a suggestion made by Col. Corkhill that
IL "A horrible me- OF which lie was guilty
80 horrible that all having any connection
With him in any way would be suspected OF being
implicated with fim-Guiteau said " IL that was 30
he would tell all" He thea told all the incidents of
his life in Washington from ms arrival here until
the attempted assassination. He told where he lived
what he did from day to day, where no received
his money, who lent 1t to him, whom he knows
and associated with. and where he bought his
his published letter that his motive in shoot
ing the President to save the Republican
party He told how he had formed the p an
and when. how long he had brooded upon IT, aud
how 1t had become fixed fact in his mind that the
only salvation of the Republic n party Was the
death Of the President. He seems to have said very
little about the defeat OF his asp rations for Office
and the District Attorney rejects the theory that he
10 insane. He has deluson. and talks nationally
and calmly about his crime, glorying in it,
and evinces symptoms Of regret at its
commission. On he contrary, he is firmly con-
WINGED that il his duty to kill the Pre-
dent and says that he .hot him with precisely the
same feeling that he would have shot rebel had he
been In the army. His talk this subject is appar
emily that Of fanatic The only regret that he ex
presses at all is that the President is not dead He
said that he learned with sorr W that he Is growing
better. This early in the afternoon. and he
based his remark on the talk he had heard among
the officers OF the Jail, who had been expressing
their pleasure at the favorable bulletins that were
then issuing by DIR. Bliss. Guiteau SCOTS at the
idea that he IL ordinary criminal, and desired
to himself from punishment. On the contrary,
he says that the happest moment Of his life since lie
matured his plan 10 kill the President he experienced
when he On his way 10 Jail The carriage that lie
hired 10 take him To the Congressional Cemetery was
really intended to carry him ~ the jail, which Gd-
joins the cemetery. He had the carriage ready and
waiting for him, aud had instructed the driver TO
hurry quickly as possible to the cemetery when he
should jump i'll.
There is no one here who believes that the crime
has any political Significance whatever. The Dis
trict Attorney says that Guiieau now talks very little
q IA fa1u rtfsp, any rata
not there is general fee ing here that 1t Is crue y
unjust TO no d tue stawarts in any way responsible
for the criminal vagarics of man who il not
absolutely crazy, but Is most de.uded
fanatic. No one, Of course, thinks that
Conkling Arthur, any other stawart, had any
thing directly to do with the shooting of the Pres
dent but they their friends here that an effort
is making to cast odium upon them by reason of the
shooting.
GUIrEAU RECORD.
lFrom the Chicago TIibune.l
Guiteau IL man 80 years Of age. He was
born in Freeport H., whore his father cashier
OF a bank for many years. but now dead-was a re-
spected citizen. He studied in Ann Arbor, and
went from there to the Oneida Community In New
York. His father believer i'll the d. Grimes Of
the peculiar people OF whom Dir. Noyes WAS The
head, and the " ung man had read much in earlier
days OF the literature Of the Community. His life
there, however, was neither very long nor very
happy one ,o lie was unwilling dS TO wTrx,
the return OF the $40 which he had put
into the common fund when he entered the
| community tnere. was NJ mist reIuseu
him, and in 1868 he began a suit against the Com
| munity for the recovery of this money. Finally,
with the aid of Mr.. George Scovile, lawyer who had
married HE sister, he succeeded In getting some OF
| 1t back, and after very brief residence in New
York, he came 10 this city, where he appeared In
1869 as lawyer, oic ng at No. G. La Sale street.
The following year he moved his quarters to No. lo4
Dearborn street, still protesting to be lawyer.
this period he got into troub with the Young Mems
Library, from which he was charged with stealing
some books He was prosecuted, but was
acquitted, and afterwards brought suit
against the association. Toward the
close Of 1870 no married young lady in this city
and moved with her to New York, where they lived
I unhappily for few months, and she finally got
divorce from him account of his cruelty and i'll
treatment He remsineAin New York until the lat
ter part OF 1874 During his residence there he go
into difficulty account OF his cheat ng the boteis
out Of their board bills, Imprisoned la Ludlow
street jail and was released only by the exertions OF
his brother-in-law. In 1875 he back in the city
oficing at No. 1T6 Fifth avenue, and living for
time at the Clifton House. Failing to pay his bill
| at this hotel, as he had failed to pay IL at 81
many others, he was summary elected. The
following year he was at No. lat LsSae street
and was making an effort TO live at the Gault House