And it is respectfully recommended to the officers of Government that
they wear the usual badge of mourning.

DANL. WEBSTER,
_Secretary of State_.
T. EWING,
_Secretary of the Treasury_.
JNO. BELL,
_Secretary of War_.
J.J. CRITTENDEN,
_Attorney-General_.
FR. GRANGER,
_Postmaster-General_.

[The Secretary of the Navy was absent from the city.]




[From official records in the War Department.]

DISTRICT ORDERS.

WASHINGTON, _April 5, 1841_.

The foregoing notice from the heads of the Executive Departments of the
Government informs you what a signal calamity has befallen us in the
death of the President of the United States, and the prominent part
assigned you in those funeral honors which may bespeak a nation's
respect to the memory of a departed patriot and statesman, whose virtue