Death Of Gen. Post

Washington, Jan. 7. - General Philip Sidney Post, mombor of congress frorn the Tenth district of Illinois, died at the Humilton hotel in this city yesterday morning, after an illness of but one day. His death was from licart failure resul ting from acute gastritis. Kor some timohe had been suffering at intervals with attacks whlch physlcians pronounced dyspepsia, but had attended to his congroseional dutlea unremittingly. He passed the holldaya at his home in Illinois aml reaclied Washington Wednesday. Karly Saturday morning he was scized with an attack of his old trouble, which did not, however, assume serious form until even" ing. Heart Failure .Sets in at Night. During the night heart fiiüuro set In and for some hours before his doath, which oecurred at 1:30 a. m., the physicians could detect hardly any pulse beat. Mrs. Post and a son, W. S. Post, woro with him. There is another son, Philip S. Post, a lawyer in Chicago. The Illinois delegation in congress held a meeting at 10 o'clock this morning and took approate action, and the house adjourned after the readtag of the journal. The usual committee from the house andisenate were appointed to act as an escort to the body to Illniois. The funeral party will leave Washington at 8 o'clock tonight, arrive in Chicago lomorrow night and tho funeral services will be held in Galesburg, Iils.. prubably Wednesday afternoon. There will bu no funeral services in this city. Wou Distiuction us a Soldier. General Post was best known through his brllliant military services in the re bellion, where he won high rank aud distinction with great rapidity. When tho war bogan lio was appointed second lieutenant in the Fifth Illinois infantry. After the íirst Missouri canipaign he became major, and eight months aftor his siilistiuent was made colonel of the Fiftyninth Illinois for gallantry at the battle of Pea Ridge, in which he was desperately wounded. Before he was able to tnount his horse without assistance he rejoined the troops, then hurrying forward to Corlnth, and was at once assignod to the oommand of a brigade. From May, 181)2, to the close of the war he was constan tly at the front. Bt-iraii the Battle of Stnnn Kiver. In the Army of the Cuuiberland as flrst organized he conimanded thefirst, brigade, Urst división of the Tweutieth army corps f rom its lormation to the dis.solution of the corps, a brigade conspicuous in all the engagements of that army, under General Rosecrans. With it ho commenced the battle of Stone Rivor, drove the enemy back several miles and captured Leetown. During the Allanta campaign he was transferred to General Wood's división of the Fonrth corps, and whuu the latter was wounded at the battle of Lovejoy Station took conmiand and returned with it to Tennessee to op pose the progress of the enemy north. Wounded Again at Xnslivülc. On Dec. 15, 1864, in the Nashville flghting he carried Montgomory hill at the point of the bayonet, and in thenextday's battle feil dangerously wounded while leading an assault on Overton hil!. In July, 1S65, he was given command of the western district of Texas and remained until the withdrawal of the French from Mexico removed the danger of military complications. Sketch of llis Civil Caree?. General Post's civil career has been an eventful one. He was born March 18, 1883, in Florida, Orange county, N. Y. ; was graduated from Union college in 1855; practico J law in Kansas, whore he also editod a newspaper, and in Illinois. After the war, in 1SBS, he was appoiuted consul to Vienna; was promotcd consul-general for Austria-Hungary in 1874, resigned in 1879, was commander of the department of Illinois G. A. K. in 1886 and was a Republican meiuber of congress for four terms beginning with the Fiftleth congress.