Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-07-30
HOW HE DIED.
Sad Scenes at the Hero's Death-Bed.
Surrounded by His Sorrowing
Family, He is Quietly
Mustered Out.
PROCLAIM ation-by the President.

Mt. MCGREGoR, July g. Shortly
before 8 o'clock this morning while the
family were preparing for breakfast
and the doctors were discussing the
patients chances on the piazza of the
cottage, Henry, the nurse, who was
with the general, stepped out of the
sick-room, and going to where the doc
tors were standing, informed them in
whisper that he thought the end was
near. The doctors hastily went to the
room and at a glance took in the situa-
tion. They quietly ordered the nurse
to summon the families to the sick
room. Mrs. Grant, Jesse Grant and
wife, U. 5. Grant, jr, and wife arr. nsirs.
Col. Grant instantly answered the sum-
mons ard were soon at the side of the
sick bed. Mrs. SartOris, noticing the
doctors hurriedly going to the room,
followed them and was the first MEM
Der of the family present. Col. Fred
was now the only one absent, having
strolled off around the grounds. Ser
wants were sent in search of him, but
he entered the sick room of his own
accord before any one had succeeded in
bringing him the news of his fathers
approaching DEATH Col. Grant took
seat at the right side of the bed, plac-
ing his left arm on the pillow above his
fathers head. Close by the bedside sat
Mrs. Grant, intensely agitated, but.
bravely suppressing her emotions, and
the bed with one elbow and gazed,
with eyes blinded with tears, into the
generals face. There was, however,
no sign of recognition in his pallid face.
He was breathing fast and with slightly
gaspirations. Mrs. Sartoris leaned on
the shoulder of her mother, and wit
messed with pent up emotion the ebb
of a life in which she had constituted
an element of pride. The scene was
quiet one. The general passed peace
fully and painlessly into another world.
At little distance behind Mrs. Grant
and Mrs. Sartoris stood the three ply
sicians, Douglas, Shrady and Sance,
silent spectators of q scene which, but
for their efforts, would doubtless have
occurred months ago. Jesse Grant and
q. S. Grant, jr., stood opposite their
mother, at the other side of the bed.
Near by, at the foot of the cot, and
close by Jesse, was N. r. Dawson, the
generals confidential secretary and
stenographer. At the foot of the bed
stood Mrs. U. s. Grantjr., and by her side
Mrs. Col. Grant and Mrs. Jesse Grant.
These three gazed down in the face
of the general while their eyes became
suffnsed with tears. The sad express
sion of their faces plainly reflected the
anguish of their feelings. Now and then
they stole glance at Mrs. Grant, who,
with bowed head, was watching the
face of her dying husband. No word
was spoken, and the stiffness of the
room added to the impressiveness of
the sad scene. Mrs. Grant several
times affectionately stroked the face
forehead and arms of her husband, and
seemed utterly beside herself with des-
pair at the thought of her approaching
separation by death from the man with
whom she had passed so many years of
welded happiness. DR.. Douglass several
times felt the pulse of the patient, who
was now quietly passing away, but this
dwindled to a point beyond detection.
The inspiration grew momentarilly
more quickened, his face reflected no
pain, and although ut first his breath
ing seemed labored, it gradually be-
came weaker, and with but little effort.
Towards the end, as if by sudden i'm
pulse, Mrs. Grant arose and seizing
both of the generals hands within her
own, pressed them, and, turning kissed
him fervently on the forehead. At
this few convulsive sobs were heard
coming from the direction where L. S.
Grant, jr., stood, but these We're speedi-
ly repressed and solemn stiffness again
fany nyy hn Iae,k
tary words were spoken yesterday
afternoon, when he said: II hope no.
body will be distressed on my account"
WASHINGTON, July 23.-The presi-
dent, at few minutes past II o'clock
this morning, issued the following pro-
clamation: "By the President OF. the
United States of America-A Proclama-
tion.-trhe president of the United
States has just received the sad tidings
of the death of that illustrjous citizen
and ex-president. of the United States,
General Ulysses S. Grant, at Mt. Nc
Gregor, in the state of New York, to
which place he had lately been remov-
ed, in the endeavor to prolong his life
In making this announcement to TIL,
people of the United States, the presi
dent is impressed with the magnitude
of the public loss of great public
leader, who was In the hour of victory
magnanimous, amid disaster serene
and self-contained; who in every sta
ton, whether as soldier, or as chief
magistrate twice called to power by his
fellow countrymen, trod unswervingly
the pathway of duty, undeterred by
doubts, single-minded and straightfor-
ward. The entire country has wit
messed, with deep emotion, his prolong-
ed and patient struggle with painful
disease, and has watched by his couch
of suffering with fearful sympathy.
The destined end has come at last and
his spirit has returned to the creator
who sent it forth The great heart Of
the nation that followed when living,
with love and pride; bows now in sor-
row above him dead, tenderly mindful
of his virtues, his great patriotic SER
vices and the loss occasioned by his
death. In testimony of respect to the
memory of Gen. Grant, it is ordered
that the executive mansion and the
several departments at Washington be
draped in mourning for period Of 80
days, and that all public business shall
on the day of the funeral be suspended,
and the secretary of war and the navy
Will cause orders to be Issued for appro-l
priate military and naval honors 10 be
rendered on that day. In witness
whereof, i have hereunto set my hand |
and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed. Done at the city ofl
Washington, this 23d day Of July. AZ.