The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-07-31

authorized by informal action of the author
tiles, which will be made officially to-day,
/ TO tender to you last resting place for the
remains of General Grant in any one of the
! parks in this city which you may select.
am also authorized to offer the Governors
room at the City Hall for the purpose of al
i lowing the body TO lie in state.
About 4:30 p. m. the Mayor received the
following reply:
Mt. MCGREGoR, July 3.
Mayor Grace, New York:
| Thanks. Can you send some one to confer
with me! Yours, FRED GRANT.
/ Mayor Grace decided to send his Chief
| Clerk, Mr.. Turner, to confer with the family.
NEW YORK, July %.
| Colonel F. D. Grant:
| Please present your mother with the as
surance of our sympathy. Can l serve you
/ in any manner? Please command me with
out hesitation. ALoNZO B. CORNELL.
NEW YORK, July %.
| Colonel F. d. Grant:
i sympathize with you most profoundly in
| your great sorrow. ANY facilities over the
/ New York Central that may be required will
CHAUNoEY NJ. DEPEw.
WASHINGTON, July 24.-General Fitz-
hugh Lee, of Virginia, sent telegram to
Mrs Grant in which he says:
/. As the son of General Robert e. Lee,
send my most profound sympathy. The
whole South mourns the Nations loss
General Shelly, of Alabama, Fourth Aud
itor of the Treasury, formerly of the Con-
federate army, also sent his coincidence,
expressing the belief that all of the Confed-
| crates will mourn the death of America S
greatest soldier and statesman.
/ These are some of the many messages of
condolence received:
/ COLONEL f. D. GRANT-Will you please eX-
press to Mrs. Grant my grief at the loss of
my dearest friend and comrade, and my sim
l. with IN
this hour of great distress
+ P. Fl. SHERIDAN, Lieutenant General
Mrs. u. S. GRANT-Please accept my pro-
I foundest sympathy in your great bereave-
ment The entire Nation mourns the loss of
its first soldier and its first citizen.
/ JAMES G. BLAINE.
| COLONEL FRED GRANT-The painful news
| to me of your fathers death has just been
/ received. The sympathy of myself and fam
| lily goes out from the depth of our hearts to
| your mother and all of you in your great be-
/ reavement. The country is filed with SYM
| pathy and grief at this news, but its loss
must grow upon it as the future unfolds the
| coming years. JOHN A. LOGAN.
Late last evening General Sherman tele-
graphed from Lake Minnetonka, offering
his services and saying he will 80 to New
York at once.
| Adiutant General Drum arrived at Sara
| toga last evening and Immediately tele-
/ graphed to Washington suggesting Arling-
ton as the burial-place of General Grant.
SARATOGA, n. Y, July pa meeting
OF citizens, residents and guests at present in
Saratoga was held and assistance offered the
Grant family. The following message was
sent to Mrs. General Grant last evening, and
| fully explains itself:
SARATOGA, N. Y, July %
| Mrs General Grant, Mt. McGregor, N. Y:
! At meeting of citizens and guests at
present at Saratoga Springs, it was determ-
i ined to hold public meeting in the town
/ hall Friday evening to express their feel
/ ings in the great public loss in the death Of
| General Grant; also to communicate TO
| yorself and family their deep sympathy at
/ your great bereavement Further, as cnajr.
! man of the committee / was directed 90
convey their wishes in thus communicating
to you, and / was also requested to inquire
| how and in what way they could serve you
/ and whether in any arrangements now being
made they could give assistance, and finally
| to say that the committee will cheerfully
wait upon you for any directions if their
visit would not be considered intrusive.
HENRY HILTON.
LETTER FROM JEFF DAVIS.
BOSTON, July 24.-The Globe last evening
printed the following letter from Jefferson
Davis, wired April 4, when the death of
] General Grant was expected at any hour
A part of the letter was stolen from the
wires at the time and sent to various papers.
Afterwards a denial that Mr.. Davis had ever
said any thing in praise of Grant was pub
lished During all this time the Globe said
nothing as the matter was obtained under
promise that no part of it should be printed
until General Grant was dead.
NEW ORLEANS, April 4.
The following was received by your CORE
| spondent to-day from Jefferson Davis:
BEAUvOIR, Miss, April 2, 1885.
SIR-Your letter asking me to give my
| views on the subject of General Grant mill
| itary career, has been received. With most
| respectful consideration for you and the in
| f1uential paper you represent, l must de-
| cline to comply with the request for the
| following reasons: General Grant is re-
| ported dying; although he invaded our
country with ruthless track, it was with
| Open-hand, and SO far as know, he abetted
| neither pillage nor arson. When his armies
were so successful that General Lees army
| had not even the power further to retreat,
| General Grant gave terms both liberal and
courteous, and has, since the war, l believe,
| shown no malignity nor perpetuated SLAM
derS against the COnfederateS, either of the
military or civil service. Therefore; instead
| of seeking to disturb the quiet of his clos
| ing hours, would, if it were in my power,
| willingly contribute to the repose of his
mind and the comfort of his body.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
New YORK, July 24.-General Mcmahon
has summoned the Executive Committee of
the Memorial Committee of the G. A. r.
| L
dent of the Society. He signed 500 certif-
Gates during his illness The Grand Army
comrades, Army of the Potomac, Veterans
and members of the Loyal Legion are to
wear Grape for thirty days. General Grant
was an honorary member of the Union
League Club. The executive committee of
the club will meet tonight
In pursuance of Geographic directions
from Colonel Fred Grant, the Grant man
sion in East Sixty-sixth Street was made
ready for occupancy.
HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED.
WASHINGTON, July 24.-After the Cab
met meeting yesterday, the President issued
an executive order closing all the Executive
Departments at one p. M, out of respect to
the memory of General Grant. He also di-
rected Adjutant General Drum to proceed
at once to Mt. McGregor, as the personal
representative of the President and to confer
| with Mrs. Grant and Colonel Grant concern
ing the military honors to be rendered to the
| deceased General and to perfect the military
arrangements for MS funeral. AS soon as
the day for the funeral is announced, Sec
rotary Whitney will issue an order closing
the navy yards, ETC., on that day, half-mast-
ing the flags on all the United States ships,
directing the navy officers to wear black
badges and ordering that gun be fired
every half-hour during the day of the fu-
neral from each vessel and battery.
ALBANY, N. Y, July 24.-The drapings
of business houses, private residences,
hotels, newspaper and State and Federal
buildings are profuse In front of the
famous Grant Club Rooms are two medal
lions bearing the names Lincoln and
"Grant" The Burgesses Corps, of this
city, have offered their services as an escort
when the remains reach this CITY, Governor
Hill will probably confer with different
State officers as to what action shall be
taken to fttingly honor the dead General.
The hope is expressed and will probably be
realized that the remains of General Grant
will be allowed to lie in state in the Senate
Chamber so that the thousands from Buffalo,
Rochester, Syracuse and other cities may
take last look upon the face of the illus
trious dead. a committee is now at Mt
McGregor for that purpose.
BosToN, July 24.--At special meeting
OF the Board of Aldermen and the City
Council of. Boston, resolutions were adopted
expressive of sorrow at the death of General
| Grant extending to the family of the illus
trious deceased the warm and sincere sym
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