St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-24
At IHse Cottage.


At Ilse Cottage.
MT. MCGREGoR, July 23.-Quietude
pervaded the mountain this morning when
it was announced that Gen. Grant had
ceased his long struggle. This feeling,
however, gave place later to a sense of relief
that the struggle was ended and that
the tired mind and body were at rest
While there was not heart that mOurned
not in sympathy toward the generals fam
lily, yet there was a strong feeling of graft
tude that the man who had suffered so
brayely and patiently had earned the quiet
of a long rest. The day was a perfect
summers day, warm and clear, and
the sun beat down upon the
cottage roof just the same as
when there was a weak invalid within the
house to be more weakened by the heat
Visitors came up the mountain roads as
they did yesterday. and a squad of work
men made some clatter with hammer and
adze as they proceeded with the construc-
ton of pavilion to which excursioniSts
might come to be gay and joyous. The
cottage was as deserted house,
save that the shutter blinds at
the parlOr windows were turned
little to allow light breeze to daily
through the room in which the dead gen.
eral lay. The doors of the cottage were
closed. The shutters up stairs We're fast
ened and the members of the family were
scarcely seen during the day, except as
they walked almost silently from the cot
tage up through the grove or
the nearby ridge to lunch
eOn and dinner in private
deputation from Gov Hill called upon
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capitol building at Albany for the lying in
state of the generals remains. The gen.
tlemen were informed that the place for the
Obsequies was at the time so indefinite that
nothing could then be said i'm reply, but
that the courtesy was thankfully acknowl-
edged Soon afterward Gen. Beale of
Washington, one of Gen. Grants
wARMEsT PERSONAL FRIENDS,
called to tender to Mrs. Grant the use of his
house in Washington during the stay of the
family there, in event of the generals re-
mains being taken to that city. Mrs. Grant
could not be seen, but Col. Grant thanked
his fathers friend for his kindly thought.
Late in the afternoon squad
of uniformed men from Wheeler post, G.
A. R.. of Saratoga, came up the mountain
to guard the cottage. A tent was pitched
on the needles beneath the pine trees,
where last night the anxious correspond
ents bivOuacked. Guard lines were soon
established and at dusk patrol of
the beats was begun. The guard
will be temporarily maintained and thus
morbidly curious persons will be kept from
the cottage. DR.. Shrady remained here to-
day in order that DR.. Douglas and himself
might. after quiet had been restored in the
household at the cottage. converse with
Col. Fred Grant of the remains
of his father. The physicians
therefore this evening repaired to the
cottage and there met the colonel with a
formal preference of a request that an au-
topsy might be held. They stated that their
purpose was not in the least to confirm their
opinion of the disease, for they had at all
times been united in diagnosing the case as
one of cancer, but the time had come
when the medical staff might step aside
from the patient, and invite any other med
ical or surgical autopsy to conduct the eX-
animation. which should speak for itself.
This, both Drs Douglas and Shrady urged
as far as professional and personal dignity
could permit. but Col. Grant replied that
the entire family were so thoroughly united
i'll their confidence in the diagnosis and
treatment Of the physicians that they could
not conceive necessity for an autopsy.
PUBLIC INTEREST
now centerS chiefly upon the obSeQuieS of
state and the burial. Col. Fred Grant him
self does not know this evening where the
choice of a spot for the sepulchre will be
made. A messenger from the president
and another from Mayor Grace of New
York arrive here tomorrow TO present to
the colonel, in personal, the invi-
tatiOn of the respective cities
of Washington and New York to bring
thither for burial the remains of Gen.
Grant. George Horace Porter will arrive
here tomorrow to confer with Col. Grant
relative to the arrangement of the funeral
details. The city of Springfield, ILL.,, has
also rendered a resting-place for the re-
mains of the general. Some days must
eIapse before the details and arrangements
can be perfected and in the meantime the
boey, into the veins of which the embalm-
ers are tonight injecting ante-septic fluids
for their preservation, will be kept on the
mountain. Mr.. w. j. Arbell will vacate
his cottage near Artists lake and the remains
of Gen. Grant will be placed there. The cot
tage to be sealed and guarded by the platoon,
which will be sent by Gen. Hancock. The
public viii be kept at distance. in accord
ance with the generals desire expressed a
week ago. When all the arrangements are
made and burial place has been chosen
the remains will be conveyed
away in a special train to Albany, where
they will undoubtedly lie in state for day.
From Albany the body will be taken by
special train to New York, and possibly to
Washington, depending upon which city is
chosen for the burial.