fracturing the right eleventh rib, had passed through the spinal column in front of the spinal canal, fracturing the body of the first lumbar vertebræ, driving a number of small fragments of bone into the adjacent soft parts, and lodging just below the pancreas, about two inches and a half to the left of the spine and behind the peritoneum, where it had become completely encysted. The immediate cause of death was secondary hemorrhage from one of the mesenteric arteries adjoining the track of the ball, the blood rupturing the peritoneum, and nearly a pint escaping into the abdominal cavity. This hemorrhage is believed to have been the cause of the severe pain in the lower part of the chest, complained of just before death. An abscess cavity, six inches by four in dimensions, was found in the vicinity of the gall bladder, between the liver and the transverse colon, which were strongly inter-adherent. It did not involve the substance of the liver, and no communication was found between it and the wound. A long suppurating channel extended from the external wound, between the loin muscles and the right kidney, almost to the right groin. This channel, now known to be due to the burrowing of pus from the wound, was supposed during life to have been the track of the ball. On an examination of the organs of the chest, evidences of severe bronchitis were found on both sides, with broncho-pneumonia of the lower portions of the right lung, and, though to much less extent, of the left. The lungs contained no abscesses, and the heart

no clots. The liver was enlarged and fatty, but free from abscesses. Nor were any found in any other organ except the left kidney, which contained near its surface a small abscess, about one third of an inch in diameter. In reviewing the history of the case in connection with the autopsy, it is quite evident that the different suppurating surfaces, and especially the fractured spongy tissue of the vertebræ, furnish a sufficient explanation of the septic condition which existed.

The official report was signed by the followingnamed surgeons: D. W. Bliss, J. K. Barnes, J. J. Woodward, Robert Reyburn, Frank H. Hamilton, D. Hayes Agnew, Andrew H. Smith, D. S. Lamb.

The preparations for the burial, those saddest rites which the human heart has to bear in this life, were made in accordance with Mrs. Garfield's desire, without ostentation or extravagant expense. The coffin was plain and substantial, with the simplest ornamentation, and the dresses of mourners and bearers were less costly, and made less display, than those seen at the funerals of many private citizens of the republic.

The Cabinet felt that, as he was peculiarly the friend of the nation, and related to it by such near official relationship, there ought to be a public funeral at the Capitol; and, the friends of the dead consenting to such arrangement, the body was taken to Washington on Wednesday after the President's death. The railroad along the route of the funeral

train, from Long Branch to Washington, was visited by thousands of people, who, with uncovered heads or in a kneeling position, watched the train as it swept by.

At the stations in the large cities immense throngs, numbering fifty thousand or more, gathered, and as the train with its sombre decorations came in sight the crowds wept in grief-stricken silence. In Washington every person able to be in the streets, white and black, appeared to have joined the mourning multitude assembled to show their respect and sympathy.

The body was taken at once to the Capitol, and placed in the centre of that great rotunda where he met the gaze of the acclaiming multitude at his inauguration but a few months before.

For two days the body lay in state at the Capitol, and was viewed by more than one hundred thousand people.

Once the crowd was shut out, and the guards removed from the rotunda, and Mrs. Garfield was left alone for an hour with her precious dead. In that great circular hall that rose to such a height, where art and science have striven together to add to its grandeur, where every whisper or sob echoes with weird distinctness, the lonely widow kept her sad vigil. Sacred hour! when the stricken heart sits alone with its dead and its God!

The floral decorations about the coffin were of the most elegant description, yet so chaste and plain