The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

from our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. D. c., July 8, 1882.
1T is consoling to believe that the
curtain is now drawn upon Guiteau.
His earthly remains are buried in
the damp basement of one of the
wings of the gloomy structure within
which he passed the last year Of his
life, where no adventurous body
snatcher is likely to break through
and steal. The funeral was a fit end
ing to the final scene. 1t was attend
ed by three relatives: John Gull
teau, Mrs. Scoville and her little
daughter, the Rev. Mr.. Hicks, Miss
Chevaillier, of Boston, and two re-
porters. In the centre of the prison
room, on plain wooden settee, was
the limitation rosewood coffin
which contained the body, the lid
having been down to conceal the fea-
lures from view. All around the
room were evidence of the autopsy
held the day before, A large tin
bucket filled with bloody water was
conspicuous object in one corner
was pile of old ropes, ladders, pull
legs, and blocks, indicating that the
room was devoted to storage pur-
poses, and on the walls were inscrib
ed the names and regiment of a num-
Der of the soldiers who have been oc-
cupants ofthis room since the second
of July. 1t was amid such iur-
roundings that the funeral of the
dead assassin was conducted, and
the desolate appearance seemed in
every sense appropriate to the occa-
sion.
A short Invocation by DIR. Hicks.
closing in an impressive Danner
with the Lcrd's Prayer and The fa-
miliar words
dust thou art, to dust retur1eth,
Was not written of the soul'
constituted all the ceremony. Then
five stalwart colored prisoners were
called in to act as pall-bea.ers, and
picking up the plain coffin as though
little mindful of the contelts, bore
it quickly down the chapel Seps.and
placed it on the elevator to le taken
to the basement below where grave
had been prepared. Here there was
no ceremony, and but three Witness
es besides the warden and his depu-
ties and two prisoners who had been
detailed to fill up the grave The
coffin was covered with heavy boards
before the earth was put in and, as
the soil was of gravely nature
where the interment was made, the
sound of stone falling upon the coffin
rang cut with startling distinchess.
Owing to the small size of the eeva-
tor leading down stairs, when the
coffin was taken down it was found
necessary to stand it on end and the
body was moved out of position a
trif1e. The gloomy surroundings
adjacent to the grave of the dead
murderer will not likely be forgotten
by those who witnessed the burial.
1t was four o'clock when the first
spadeful of earth ratified upon the
coffin, and Mr.. Irving Croker, a son
4 of the General, called attention to the
fact that it was the same time that
the assassin's victim was buried at
Cleveland, Ohio,
The effort to secure an adjournment
of Congress on the 10th has failed
and it is probable from present ap-
pearances that the Goth will be about
the date. There is some force in the
argument of Senator Beck that it is
= a one.sided arrangement to allow the
House to keep the appropriation bills
seven months and then expect to
make the Senate dispose of them in
a few days; but there is probably
more in the general disinclinatiOn of
Senators to be excluded from their
full share in the personal profit or To-
cal influence to be derived from a
manipulation of the items of Nation
al expenditure. Anyhow, the Sena-
tors are taking their time, meeting
no earlier and sitting no later now
than they did in December. After a
seven months session the record of
this Congress is not very proud one
NO great measure of Legislation hay.
ing been matured-though there is
consolation in the thought that it
might have been worse. 1t is prob
ably better to do nothing than to do
wrong.
Dom PEDRO.
WhirIWinds and Eloodc