DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT.

Otago Witness, Issue 1762, 29 August 1885, Page 3 (Supplement)

DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT.

General Ulyss.es & Gran_t , died, at. Mount j M'Gregor, New York, on July. 23, afte.r (Suffer: ing nine months from cancer, with which he was afflicted. , ;The nfeJKs was received with general expressions of regret in all parts, of the country, and in the principal cities a .number of guns were, fired,, bells, tolled, 'and flags; hoisted halfmast. ' Three_doctors were in "attendande . up' to' , the last, and >issUed bulletins periodically as ftp the i .condition of the patient;. 'but,.'.tb.eiri utmost. ■ .skill !/ was.- i.only.' .usTeful^ in halle4i viating his torture. The deceased exprjesse4a wish to be- buried-~in« the- Soldiers' Home grounds, north of Washington, but his wish could^notfilSe* capried'buty&ino'woni&i were ieceived for sepulcher -there-, and it was the General's 'further' wish" that his wife^ wherever she might die, should""be "interred by his side. New Yj>ifk vr ,'therefdre',''iriaae a proposition thafc ex-Piffekidens Grant' should be Mried' in' RiverSide Park, 'on the Hudson*; neaif'th'at city, which was' consented' to 'by the' family, although violently opposed by the Press of 'several States'' on the grouAd thatthe T park was a,place' of 'plea* sure ? .and.fleybid of the solemn'it^'Defltting the gra,ve' of^ t!ne v hero, '"' The journals of Philadelphia and Baltimore ' were particvjlarly-severe^assert:, , ing that the burial' £a • the place 1 proposed would to some • degree ■ dentttidrialige the •gravfe. ' The' expressions of regret from England a^jbllecleat^' of •fcne's'bluier ex-Pxesiclent were vadespr.ead and Sincere. Cablegrams from tte Prince ;and PrnV cess of rWales, Mr,Gladstone,'<Lord Ripon, Comte de Paris, and other notables,' were sent ' to Mrs Gratify' atid 1 Heij Majesty 'the. Queen"'ifistruct;e(i the^ritisji Minister at WlashmgfoW l ashmgfon i tq'con J vey';(i)' the widow and family an expression .of sincere condolence. • English, 'journalistic ; comments on the "death'"'Were bf^'.extrem'e' 1 kindness, and the same' r may be' said^of cqrainent' in .every capital in Europe, ,, save., ffapgj, 'where, General Graiit was condemned as, an enemy of France. (The ; bitterest invectives of .Victor Hugo, directed against him^ were printed in the Parisian journals. • A number of Ara'ericari'g 1 ntlemen,, resident in, , London, assembled at; thje mansion pOIr P,hilpy,U. S. Minister, on Ju,ly 28, to arrange. for a meniorial Service omthe day of the General's burial in New'Yprk. A' committee' was appointed to wai| upon' the .D.e'an'of Westminster. [ 'v(ho readily .granted thft i'use,'o'f .' thp abbey for the desired service. Among the mes T , sages of condolence received by the bereaved" family are mauy from leading ex-Confederates in, the South, Bea'uregard's being"' the, ''firs4L, The feeling iri' Southern States w^s, however, ' by no means unanimous. , Quite eAscene- occurred in the -Georgia Legislature, with theintroduction dfthe sympathy resolutions oil account of the Opposition. i 'i . ' - '"'