Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-06
Simon Cameron sent the following teio-
gram to-day:


TO Col. Fred D. Grand. nm glad to
know that Generals Johnston, Buckner and
Gordon are going to act as pall-bearers with
Sherman and Sheridan. Your fathers
prayer for peace to his country has been
answered, and the last bitterness Of the
war wiped out forever
[signedl SIMON CAMERON.
GENERAL JOHNSTON COMING FROM OREGON.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The President
to-day received a telegram from General
Joseph E. Johnston saying that he was in
Portland, Oregon, when he received
word of his selection as one Of General
Grants pall-bearers and that he had
started Immediately for New York.
SUNDAY SERVICES.
Mt. McGREaoR, Aug. 2.-This after
noon there was quiet gathering of the
family in the room where General Grants
body lay, and DIR. Newman read the 18th
chapter of Job and offered prayer.
After an hour the little group arose, and
the last Sabbath service Of the family
| with their dead was at IN end. DR.. New
man, after carefully scanning the generals
face, expressed satisfaction at its appear
ance, and the opinion that the remains
are in condition of perfect preservation.
THE FUNERAL.
Mr.. MoGREGoR, N Y, Aug.
guns were fred at sunrise, and as the grey
mist cleared away before the rising sun,
the soldiers broke camp. gun is being
fired every half-hour during the day and
will SO continue until sunset when 80
guns will be fred.
As early as o'clock crowds began to
arrive by trains. The funeral car arrived
early and lay awaiting its burden. By
O'Clock all was astir on the mountain.
Last night the family in a group and
alone had taken their final farewell of the
dead general, and to-day they gave up
his body to the nation. At $50 q. m. the
doors of the cottage were thrown open
and the stream of visitors poured in
steadily for over an hour, the road
| outside being thronged with horses and
wagons brought by farmers and their
wives from the surrounding country. At
$50 Generals Hancock and Sherman,
Senator Evarts and number of other
distinguished visitors arrived by trains
and proceeded to the cottage.
THE SERVICES AT THE COTTAGE.
At 10 o'clock services were held at the
cottage in the presence of over thousand
persons many ladies' being accommodated
with chairs under the trees. The cere-
monies opened with the reading of Psalm
xo., followed by an impressive
prayer by Bishop Harris. The
| hymn "My Faith Looks up to Thee" was
| Joined in by the whole assemblage present
with fine effect. DIR. Newman then came
| forward and delivered his sermon, the
family sitting around the remains in the
parlor.
| DIR. Newman chose his text from
Matthew XIV, "a: "Well done, thou
| good and faithful servant, enter thou into
the Joy of thy Lord" The reverend
doctor then spoke eloquently and ut great
length, eulogizing Grant us seen i'll the
fury of battle, in the glory of VIC
tory, in the chair OF stnte, Us
the guest of the world, in the
quiet of private life, in the sorrow of
misfortune, in the suffering of the sick
room, and could we rend the veil we
would see him in his better form of i'm
mortality. He was one of the few men in
history who did more than was expected.
He preferred honor to wealth and
poverty to riches not his own.
Gentle, true and kind, gratitude
was one of the noblest emotions
OF his soul. His words were firm but
pregnant with grateful recognition.
Speaking fe 'lingly of the love of husband
and wife, who are to sleep side By side i'll
the same tomb the doctor snid And
such WIS the tenderness of his love and
solicitude for her and hers, he surprised
her by letter found after his death. II
came MS message TO her from him after
he had gtna. When his spirit had returned
to the God who gave it, there was found
secreted in his robe, his last letter to her
enyeloped, sealed and addressed. lie haG
written it b times; written it secretly anG
carried the sacred missiye day after da,
during IA days; knowing that she woult
find it at last. In it lie poured forth hi
soul in love for her aud solicitude FOL
+ their children.
| Look after our dear children and direc
them in the paths of rectitude; il would dis
trGss me far more to think that one of then
could depart from nm honorable, uprigh
$ and virtuuus life, than 1t would to know
!. that they We're FRUSTRATED on d bed of sick
1 ness from which they were never TO aris
4 alive. They have never given us any clus
4 for alarm on their account, and i earnestl
pray they never will.
" With these few njunctions and knowlt Dig
have of your love and affection, and q
+ the dutiful affection of all our children,
o bid you II final farewell until we meet Il
another and | trust better world. Y0
n will lind this on my person after my demist
n Mr.. Mcdnsdon, July ., 1885.
!. And who should marvel that in n HON
n of such parentage, that parental love an
Il that affection could reign supreme
"Honor thy father and thy mother" wa
/. in perpetual obedience there. o! wha
ii reverence for that honored father show
Is by those devoted sons and that preciou
daughter. OF what blissful love the
manifest for that dear mother to-day
i widow. What pure delight in each other
company;what mutual pride in each other
future welfare. And while all honor is du
. to each child of the departed for love, d,
a votion and anxiety and now for grief; W
# the American people will never forget til
d sleepless nights, the ceaseless vigils b
J. day, the profound Difference, the tendt
k caresses, the deathless love of his firs
L born son whose manly heart was crushe
Y when his father died. Such home
u worthy to be called an American home.
"a The general, he said was man {
e prayer, but bigotry was no part of hi
% noble and generous mature. His friend
% have at last come to escort the conquerc
10 over to the "last enemy" to coronatio
e never seen on thrones of earthly powt
y and glory.
DR. Newman concluded MS follows
Il From his view on Monday at the easter
!, outlook he was to ascend to behold
l. grander vision. Tuesday came and wen
), Night drew ON apace and death SCENE
Is imminent. Around his chair "
- knelt in prayer for some divin
y. manifestation of comfort. On
" prayer was heard. The sufferer r,
10 vived. Again he wrote messages of 10,
Be and wisdom. The night wore away
r Wednesday dawned on hill and dial,
" Hope revived. His intellect WI
f clear and his consciousness WI
~ supreme. Again he wrote, an
heart. As came the eventide, so can
his last night. From out of that cha
wherein he had sat and suffered, an
written, and prayed, tenaerly he WI
carried to that couch from which he WI
le never to rise. Around him we guthere
Is and bowed in prayer TO commend his Ill
Of parting spirit to the love and mercy I
1t Him who give it. He answered in mon,
II syllables to questions for his comfort. III
l. brain was the lust to die. All wei
!. watchers ON that memorable nigh
II recognitions were exchanged. peacefl
m death and consciousness to the last breat
y were granted unto him. The last nigl
le passed.
n Tis morning. The stars have melte
il into the coming light. The rosy fingere
morn lifts the drapery of the night. III
RS distant mountainsstand forth aglow. I'll
y soft, pure light of early dawn cover
earth and sky. The dew-drop sparkle
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