Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-24

Since he commenced to sink Tuesday night he has been free of pain" Toward the last no food was taken, but when q wet cloth was pressed to his lips hs would suck from it the water to moisten his mouth. During the generals last night Dr. shrady was constantly within call. Dr. Douglass was all night at ths cottage. Dr. Sands slept 1t the hotel after midnight.
 Within twenty minutes after ths death of General Grant Karl dsfhardt, a Hartford sculptor who has been making study here of the general, was stiintnbtisd to the cottage at the suggestion of Dr. Newman to make a plaster mask of the dead mans face. He was highly successful.
 The folio wing dispatches have been re- ceiVed here:
 EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAsHISaToN, July 2s this afternoon to Mt McGregor bearing a letter to Mrs. Grant, and in order to confer with you in
 GROVER CLEVELAND
 s .,...- NEw YORK; July 23
 Col; F. D. GRANT: Please present your mother without hesitation. ALoNzo B. CORNELL. Hay n Gs disposal CHAUNcEY M. DEPEw. Colonel F: ?. Grant-wilI you please express to Mrs Grant my grief at the loss of dearest friend and eon1rade and my sincere. sympathy and condo fence with her in this hour of her Efsat
 Mrs. U. s: Grant-Plsase accept my profoundest nation mourns the loss of it's first soldier and first citizen. J. G. BLAINE.
 Messrs Joseph W. Drexel and W. J. Arklel have been placed in charge of the details and arrangements in regard to the remains until the time they arrive in New York.
 SARATOGA, July 23.-When the subject of pest-r1ortem examination was preached to the family they would not listen to it, de- claring themselves satisfied with the doctors diagnosis and treatment of the case from the beginning. Dr. Douglass is entirely un- nerved and wept like a child to-day when he entered the room where the boy reposes. Dr. Sands after trying to have post-mortem ex- animation held and failed left for Saratoga. Everything in and around the cottage is quiet. The doors are closed and the blinds drawn. All trains arriving from Saratoga bring crowds of people. The cottage is the center of all eyes and the members porch are objects of curiosity. All day tele- grams of sympathy have been pouring in, among them from President Cleveland, Gen eral Badean, Governor Hill, MT. Gladstone, J. G. Blaine, VIC. Gresham, Potter Palmer, General Mcclellan and General Sheridan Resolutions adopted by several military com panies throughout the country were received also. Holmes 6 Co.,, undertakers, of Sara toga, are engaged in embalming the body un- der the supervision of Drs. Douglass and Mo Ewen The body is in a wonderful state of preservation and the embodiment will re- tain it in very natural condition. The work of preparing the body began this after noon and will not be concluded before to- morrow. It will be placed in an ice box un- til taken to it's last resting place. Flowers arrive on every train. They are placed around the room as fact as received. tel egram from the Greenwood cemetery officials offers the use of 8 receiving tomb as long as required and choice plot may be selected The body weighed less than one hundred pounds, how much less the physicians do not care to say. The treatment given the general was merely prolonging his life The case presents no doubt that this dis ease was epithelomia. A guard from oPost Wheeler were sent up to the mountain and are now guarding the body. They will by guard which will be sent up by General Hancock from Governors Island. Everything is quiet and hardly anyone can be seen stir ring around the place.
 The expression npon the dead generals face is peaceful and natural. The family are bearing up bravely under their sorrow. The ladies have remained upstairs in their rooms all day, while the colonel and Jesse have been busy attending to affairs connected with the coming funeral.
 Late this evening General Sherman tele- graphed from Lake Mennetonka offering his services and saying he will go to New York at once. The citizens and resident guests of the Springs have agreed upon a public meeting to express their sorrow for General Grants death and sympathy for the family. Judge Hilton was requested to ask Mrs. Grant if the people of Saratoga could serve her in any way.
 The surrender-to the Grant family of the a1, . l;ol the only kindness shown to the invalid by his old friend MT. Joseph w. Drexel. There is no kitchen in the cottage and the meals for all in the household brought from the hotel The household has included thirteen persons most of the time and the hotel keep CT agreed to supply them with the best the market afforded for $57 day. Every Sat sends check for $390.
 sympathy From the President.
 WASHINGTON, July 23.-Soon after o'clock this morning the President was in formed of the death of General Grant. He immediately directed that the flag on the White House should be placed at half-mast. The lowering of the flag was the first intima tion that the citizens of Washington had ot the death of the distinguished general. A l6W uluut0S dlGcI GA0 w HUG hOubC ActS Wac placed at half-mast, the flags on all the pub lie buildings and on many private houses were placed in like position. The bells o1 the city were tolled. Business men immedi ately began draping their houses with mourn ing While the bells tolled President Cleve' land sent the following dispatch to Mrs Grant at Mount McGregor:
 Accept this expression of my heartfelt sympa thy in this hour of your great af1iction. The peo pie of the nation mourn with you, and would reach if they could, with kindly comfort the depths of the sorrow which is yours alone and which only the pity of God can heal"
 The Thursday meeting of the Cabinet was called for II o'clock instead of 12, the usua hour to take action on the death of the ex President. The following proclamation wal issued by the President:
 The President of the United States s just re ceived the sad tidings of the death of that lustr State of New York, to which place he had lately In H11 making this announcement @ to the people o the United States, the President is impressed witt leader, who was in the hour of victory magnanf nous; amid disaster serene and self-sustained wht l Magistrate twice called to power by his fellow countrymen, trod unswervingly the pathway O | straightforward The entire country has witnessed with deep emotion his prolonged and patient strug I his couch of suffering with fearful sympathy. Int destined end has come at last and hi spirit returned to the Creator who sent it forth | The great heart of the nation that followed him | when living with love and pride. bows now in thu l sorrow above him dead, tenderly mindful of hi
 vrtues his great patriotic services and of the los | occasioned by his death,
 In testimony of respect to the memory of Gener al Grant, it is ordered that the Executive Mansion | and the several departments at Washington b. | draped in mourning for period of thirty days and that all public business shall the day of tn | funeral be suspended; and the Secretaries of Wa and of the Navy will cause orders to be issued fo ! appropriate military and naval honors to be ren l dered on that day.
 l In witness whereof have hereunto set my han.
 and caused the seal of the United States to be af l fixed
 | Done at the city of Washington this twenty -thir day of July, A. ID. one thousand eight hundred an eighty-five and the Independence of the Unite | States the one hundred and tenth
 | GROVER CLEVELAND. | By the President:
 l T. F. BAYARD. Secretary of State.
 A Proclamation By Governor Hill.
 ALBANY, N. Y., July 23.-The followin
 proclamation has been issued by the Cover | nor:
 I STATE OF NEW YORK 1 EXECUTIVE CHAMBER