General Garfield still lives. His removal to Longbranch has not
injured him, he sits up occasionally, and his pulse and temperature only rise high at intervals, and for short periods. The daily bulle- tins, however, now signed by the Attorney-General, the Secre- tary of State having gone for a holiday, are not sanguine in tone ; the doctors are very vague about the chances of abscess in the lung; and the Lancet, upon the evidence as to that point, evidently regards the patient's condition as very grave. The public sympathy is as deep as ever, and has found a lawless expression in a resolution of the soldiers guarding Guiteau to kill the prisoner. The lot fell to a serjeant named Mason, who fired through the window of his cell upon the assassin, but only cut the skin of his head. Guiteau betrayed the most abject cowardice, and evidently now considers that to fire a bullet at an unarmed man is a most dastardly offence. There is a notion here that Serjeant Mason will not be severely punished, but those who think so forget the stringent discipline of the United States Army. Democracy has preferences for laxity, but not in the armed force.