Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-07

vocabulary in expressing it's disgust. The general opinion prevails that MT. Squire is neither lucid nor poetic. He had faith in his verses, however, and stood the storm of ridicule and denunciation without finching. It is said some members of the Grant family hinted that it would gratify them to see the verses taken down.
 During the evening the crowds continued to pour into the hall and file past the casket at the rate of one hundred 8 minute. The guard over the remains tonight consists or members of the Twelfth regiment of New York, several members of the Loyal legion and special guard from the G. A. R. At 10 o'clock fully five thousand persons were in line waiting their turn to view the, body.
 At midnight the line of people waiting to view the body extended from the City Hall to Grand street. At 12:30 the police cut the portion that as the doors closed at 1 o'clock it would be useless for them to wait. At the time of closing the doors it was estim ated that 162, 900 persons had viewed the gene ral's face since it reached the City Hall.
 Under the resolutions adopted by the meeting of ex-Confederate soldiers held last evening the following gentlemen were ap- ern soldiers in the funeral obsequies on Sat urday: Generals W. W. Loring, R. D. Lil- ley, Thomas P. Cookery and Thomas J. Clineman; Colonels Thomas l.. Mead, ". L. Duff, w.. B. Stennett and J. H. a1aas Anderson; M Majors William ,EMssa Hsncoek F. Q. Defontaine, 6. E. sursdorf and D. s. Bridgeford; Captains William M. Conner, John A. McCaull, George Dunlop, Wilson Mcdonald, J. H. Blakemore, J. H. Francis and James E. Troybill; Lieutenants W. P. Montague, Thomas A. Young and H. M. Bullington; Sergeant A. M. Davis and Pri- yates John B. Mayo, Douglas Walker and John Halbert. The committee will meet at the Hoffman House tomorrow afternoon
 The Truth About a Sensational Story.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. GA sensational story has been published in New York to the effect that one of the great secrets of which General Grant was the custodian was evi- dence tending to show that Andrew Johnson was implicated in the taking off of Abraham Lincoln, of which great crime he was the po- litical beneficiary. The names of some per- knowledge of this. The story is not new one, nor is it secret. It is as old as the in vestigation into the assassination of President Lincoln, the record of which is contained in about 1000 printed pages. General B. F. Butler was chairman of the Investigating committee. Ex-Secretary Boutwell, was a member of it. There is reason to believe that at the beginning of the investigation and for considerable period both of these gen tlemen were of opinion that Andrew John son was in some way connected with the ori- glnal Lincoln conspiracy, which contemplat- ed abduction and not assassination. A great many detectives were employed to discover the evidence which should support this theo- ry. It was not produced, and it has long been the judgment of those who knew all the details of that investigation, many of which were never published, that there was no foundation whatever for the suggestion that Johnson had the slightest knowledge of the conspiracy.