respect for this distinguished citizen and faithful
public servant the various Departments of the Government will be closed
on the day of the funeral, and the Executive Mansion and all the
Executive Departments in Washington will be draped with badges of
mourning for thirty days.

The Secretaries of War and of the Navy will issue orders that
appropriate military and naval honors be rendered to the memory of one
whose virtues and services will long be borne in recollection by a
grateful nation.

U.S. GRANT.

By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
_Secretary of State_.

II. On the day next succeeding the receipt of this order at each
military post the troops will be paraded at 10 o'clock a. m. and this
order read to them.

The national flag will be displayed at half-staff.

At dawn of day thirteen guns will be fired. Commencing at 12 o'clock
noon seventeen minute guns will be fired, and at the close of the day
the national salute of thirty-seven guns.

The usual badge of mourning will be worn by officers of the Army and the
colors of the several regiments will be put in mourning for the period
of three months.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E.D. TOWNSEND, _Adjutant-General_.

SPECIAL ORDER.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, _Washington, November 23, 1875_.

The President of the United States announces the death of Vice-President
Henry Wilson in the following order:

[For order see preceding page.]

In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that upon the
day following the receipt of this the ensign at each United States naval
station and of each United States naval vessel in commission be hoisted
at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and that thirteen guns be fired at
sunrise, nineteen minute guns at meridian, and a national salute at
sunset at each United States naval station and on board flagships and
vessels acting singly, at home or abroad.

The officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will wear the usual badge of
mourning for three months.

GEO. M. ROBESON, _Secretary of the Navy_.

SEVENTH ANNUAL MESSAGE.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 7, 1875_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

In submitting my seventh annual message to Congress, in this centennial
year of our national existence as a free and independent people, it
affords me great pleasure to recur to the advancement that has been made
from the time of the colonies, one hundred years ago. We were then a