Smyrna times., 1881-07-06
TAKEN TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

The excitement was intense. The news
travelled all over the city in an incredibly
short space of time and in a few minutes
the depot was surrounded by thousands
of people. The President was conveyed
to an upper room, where he VOmited.
| This made him so weak that the gravest
doubts were expressed for his recovery.
An ambulance was sent for and drew up
to the door, and at quarter past ten the
victim of fanaticism was borne mourn
| fully from the depot, while the thousands
without stood with uncovered heads. 1t
might have been in the quiet recesses of
some old forest, 50 respectfully and ten
! derly quiet was the assembly. Before the
ambulance they gave way to the street
| above. Once on the smooth asphaltum of
| Pennsylvania avenue the ambulance team
was urged to gallOp, and, surrounded by
mounted police, the cavalcade swept clat-
! tering up the street toward the White
House. The waiting public had just be-
| gun to understand that the President was
I still alive. There was great commotiOn
along the avenue. Word was passed from
mouth to mouth with much greater rap
idity than a horse could fly that the Pres
ident was being removed from the depot
to the White House. The crowds rushed
to the curb and awaited the approach of
the procession. First came a mounted
| policeman, on a gallop, about sixty yards
in advance of the police ambulance. In
front of and surrounding the ambulance
were eight other mounted officers. The
vehicle was drawn by pair of gray hOr-
ses, which, under the lash of the driver,
went at full gallop up the south side of
the avenue. Colonel Corbin, of the Ad-
jutant Generals Office, sat on the seat by
the driver, and three or four men hung to
the steps in the rear, Several physicians
preceded the eavalcade in carriages, and
the rear was covered by four mounted
officers The gates at the east entrance
of the White House grounds, south of the
Treasury building, were thrown open as
the ambulance approached, and the mourn
4 full procession entered. The crowds OF
people on foot who ran at full speed be-
hind the escort were prevented from en-
tering the ground by the closing of the
gates, and policemen were stationed al
every entrance to prevent people from in.
vading the grounds The ambulance was
driven to the south eptFanee of the build.
, ing and the wounded President was care,
fully carried to the northwest chamber on
Z the second floor. Before the removal wa,
effected the Secretary Of War had ordered
four full batteries and mounted battalion
numbering $50 men on duty, the first a
infantry and the latter as cavalry. TIL,
, CLEAN of bayonets shone ag0gnd the Bal
timore and Potomac depot within few
I minutes and glistened over the green swar,
/. about the Executive Mansion. When tn,
!. Deputy United States Marshal tendere,
his assistance TO the Secretary of War MI
. Lincoln gravely said |" ! have charge'
: myself with the public peace" He wa
D very moody and much affected by the In
happy tragedy which so terribly reminds
!. him of the death of bis own father BY th
= hand of an assassin. Another militar,
i provision was the ordering Of the Dis
e trict Militia to guard the District jail
fi where the prisoner Giliteau had bee
. taken. Once at the White House tn
President was made as comfortable as 20;
K sibie. Half a dozen of the best phys
Il clans In the city were called in.
II MRs, GARFIELDs RETURN HOME :.
4 As the afternoon woreon the President
r symptoms grew Noeae and il was tell
= graphed all over the Woad tE8t there Wa
g but very slight ground for hope. Tt
e. President converscd freely with tho'