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Funeral Services of the Late President.

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Springfield, Monday Evening, April 17, 1865.

A dispatch just received from Gov. Oglesby to Hon. Jesse K. Dubois states that the funeral of our late president will take place in Washington on Wednesday noon, (the day after to-morrow,) and that the remains will start for the west on Thursday of this week. Gov. Oglesby has issued a proclamation, requesting the people throughout the state to meet in their places of worship on Wednesday of this week, for prayer and humiliation.

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