NAVY DEPARTMENT, _April 5, 1841_.

The Department announces to the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps
the death of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United
States, which occurred at the Executive Mansion, in the city of
Washington, on the morning of the 4th instant, and directs that, uniting
with their fellow-citizens in the manifestations of their respect for
the exalted character and eminent public services of the illustrious
deceased, and of their sense of the bereavement the country has
sustained by this afflicting dispensation of Providence, they wear the
usual badge of mourning for six months.

The Department further directs that funeral honors be paid him at each
of the navy-yards and on board each of the public vessels in commission
by firing twenty-six minute guns, commencing at 12 o'clock m., on the
day after the receipt of this order, and by wearing their flags at
half-mast for one week.

J.D. SIMMS
_Acting Secretary of the Navy_.




OFFICIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL.

[From official records in the State Department.]

WASHINGTON, _April 4, 1841_.