the United States without delay. If it concur with your judgment, we
will be very glad if you will come here on the earliest train to-morrow
morning.

WILLIAM WINDOM,
_Secretary of the Treasury._
WILLIAM H. HUNT,
_Secretary of the Navy._
THOMAS L. JAMES,
_Postmaster-General._
WAYNE MacVEAGH,
_Attorney-General._
S.J. KIRKWOOD,
_Secretary of the Interior._

[The Secretaries of State and of War were absent from Long Branch.]


REPLY OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT.

[From the Evening Star, Washington, September 20, 1881.]

New York, _September 20, 1881_.[A]

I have your message announcing the death of President Garfield. Permit
me to renew through you the expression of sorrow and sympathy which I
have already telegraphed to Attorney-General MacVeagh. In accordance
with your suggestion, I have taken the oath of office as President
before the Hon. John R. Brady, justice of the supreme court of the State
of New York. I will soon advise you further in regard to the other