The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-24
THE DAY ON MT. MGREGOR.
The Silent Cottage-A Guard Established-N
AutOnSY To BE Had.

lie SliGu COJCaSe-A EStaOUSneO-NO
Autopsy To Be Had.
MT. McGREGoR, July 23-Quietude pervaded
the mountain this morning, when it was an
nounced that General Grant had ceased his long
struggle This feeling, however, gave place
later to a sense of relief shat the
,struggle was ended, and that tie tired
mind and body were at rest. While there
was no heart that warmed not in sympathy
toward the Generals family, yet there was a
strong feeling of gratitude that the man who
suffered so bravely and so patiently had
earned the quiet of a long rest. The
day was perfect summers day, warm
and clear, and the suns heat shone down upon
the cottage roof just the same as when there was
a weak invalid within the house to be more
weakened by the b eat. Visitors came up the
mountain roads as they did yesterday, and a
squad Of workmen made some clatter with
hammer and adze, as they proceeded with
the construction Of pavilion to which eXcur-
sionists might come to be gay and joyous The
cottage was as a deserted house, save that the
shutter blinds at the parlor windows were turned
level to allow the light breeze to daily through
the in which the dead General
closed the shutters up stairs were fastened, and
the members of the family were scarcely seen
during the day, except as they walked almost
silently from the cottage up through the grove
on the near by ridge, to luncheon and dinner in
private room at the hotel.
Between and o'clock deputation from
Governor Hill called upon Colonel Grant and
rendered the State capitol building at Albany
for the lying in state Of the Generals remains.
The gentlemen were informed that the
plans for the obsequies were q at
the time so indefinite that nothing
could then be said; but that the courtesy was
thankfully acknowledged.
Soon after General Beale, of Washington, one
of General 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 the
event of the Generals remains being taken to
that city. Mrs Grant could not be seen, but
Colonel Grant thanked his fathers friend
for his kindly thought
Later in the afternoon SQUAD of uniformed
men from Wheeler Post, G. A. R. at Saratoga,
came up the mountain to guard the cottage.
last night the anxious correspondents bivouacked
Guard line were soon established, and at dusk a
patrol of the beats was begun The guard will
] be temporarily maintained. and thus morbidly
curious people 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 house
hold at the cottage, converse with
Colonel Fred Grant on the subject of a
postmortem examination of the remains
of his father. The physicians, therefore, this
evening repaired to the cottage, and there met
the Colonel with the formal preference of re-
quest that an autopsy be held. They stated
their purpose was not in the least to confirm
their opinion of the disease for they had at all
times been united in demonstrating 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 medical or surgical author
ity to conduct the examination which
should speak for itself This, both
Doctors Douglas and Shrady, urged as
far as professional and personal dignity could
permit, but Colonel Grant replied that the entire
family were so thoroughly united in their conf
dence in the diagnosis and treatment of the
physicians, that they could not conceive a
necessity for an autonSv