Delaware State Journal And Statesman

MR. Lincoln's OLD HOME.-The Chicago Tribune publishes a letter from Springfield, Ill., containing the following:

The old residence of Mr. Lincoln was the centre of mournful interest throughout the entire day of the funeral. With the appearance of the house which has now become historic, all are familiar. Plain, unpretending and substantial, it is the type of Mr. Lincoln's character. The shrubbery in front of the house, principally rosebushes, many of them planted by Mr. Lincoln's own hand, are in full leaf, and a beautiful rose vine clambers up one of the door-posts, and trails over the cornice. Lilies are sprinkled here and there, and closely shaven trim grass plats run down to the neat picket fence surmounting the wall. The columns of the piazza at the rear of the house are also twined with vines and creepers, and the apple trees between the house and the barn, showered the ground with the pink and white blossoms, and filled the air with fragrance. The house, which is now occupied by Lucien Tilton, was very heavily draped in mourning. The windows were curtained with black and white, the corner posts wreathed with evergreens, the cornice hidden by festoons of black and white looped up at intervals, and the space between the cornice of the door and the central window filled with the American flag gracefully trimmed.

There is little of the furniture in the house which belonged to Mr. Lincoln. In the front parlor is a what-not and a small marble-top table, on which was lying a beautiful cross of white camelias. In the back parlor, which he was accustomed to use as his study, is his book-case. This was his favorite room, and here he toiled and wrote, unconsciously preparing himself for the great mission he was to fulfil.