Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 35, Number 10, 4 May 1865 — Page 1

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Brraat'sTritate tojfr. LinriMa. At the meeting inCnioa Square, Hew Vork, tm the orcasiun of te I'resident' funeral in that eitjr, Rer. Dt' Osgood tV'ted the following: out fob tbi rtiguuur iiiiam liscolw, r w.c. t,,5T,.; BBTAST. Oh,'ato l amito and awift to f pare, Uentle and merciful and jnst ! - ::'tV, " Who in taa lr of Ud did'at bear Tb ewca-J of power nln trait. Ia Sorrow br tiijr birr we atanJ, Amid the awe that Lnalx-a all, And ijmlr he aflr'xa f a land Tli l ahook wtik horror at tlir fall, a. Tli Vti ia tBw--thr bond an free; tear Www to ao wannrwt era, Whawa nabteat avmnBsent aliall be Tb jj-oiun letters of tljeslare. Pui waa tlie life i iu bloody ckiae Hath plseed Uea with the autia of light, A mow lew nuMe boat of titoee M'bw parub lu tha canee of right. ' . Trout the Independent. '"'The Nearest Duly. With the morning came Liberty anil Peace and Union, beautiful- umi tlie mountains as the feet of them that bring glad tiding. Already retrospect ia merged in prospect, and a disposition manifested, we fear too widely, to forget and forgive the difference which has engendered blood shed. and untold misery upon our common Soil. Already the revelations of the conflict are being forgotten, and a well defined sympathy is bestowed Upon Gen. Lec, as one who might rightly claim the epithet chivalric, and deserving consideration, not to say respectful treatment Mocti will be argued In his favor from the supposed reluctance wita which he assumed the character of traitor and liberticidefrorn . professed determination to fight only for the defense of his native State from his submission and apparent desire to prevent unprofitable slaughter, and much from the very success with which, ho battled our incompetent commanders, whotn he easily surpassed in audacity, and personal modesty. Hut there 4a nothing here from which to fashion a hero, while behind the dramatic front of the unwilling partisan, lurks the damning fact that Robert Lee deliberately, intelligently broke his oath of allegiance to his country, used the training irhe gave hirn to compass her destruction, became, if not the accomplice, the tool of men who sought to establish a despotism over all this continent, and to secure forever their power to steal, work, torture, barter, and breed for sale their fellow-beings. At his door lies thus catalogue, and with him we also link Belle Isle. What ean relieve him from the awful guilt of the Confederate vris ons, who if he had had a heart for he must have had the knowledge would have "protested, as a mere soldier whose trade was war, against the infernal treatment of our unhappy prisoners? who, if his private protest were not . heeded, should hare published it to the world, and, that failing, have flung away a sword which could not be wielded in support of such atrocious villainy and Indescribable cruelty ? Shall we so easily forget the testimony of the hos- i pitals at Annapolis? These horrors were not beyond the immediate inspec-. tion and cognizance of the rebel leader. In the James River, in full view of that capital of which he was the bulwark, in the streets of Richmond itself, the horrors of starvation, exposure, filth, agonizing outrage, wauton murder, flourished and - ran riot'. Here the miserable captive, surveying his attenuated frame, could cry : "I may tell all my bones they look and staro upon me." Here men rotted, and froze, and housed ver min, and died raving of hunger, and wandered idiot skeletons, neither knowing themselves nor to be known by dearest friends. TI'Aof little fngeT did Robert Let lift against this nightmare of barbarity? There is no record that it cost him an hour's thought or a moment's repose. We are not insisting upon indemnity for the past. There is no indemnity for the nation's sacrifices in this war. All the cowardly lives that devised and engineered this reliellion would not compensate, if taken, the loss of a single patriot soldier. ' We axk security for th t'uture. We insist that our charges of blood, guy tiness against the leading conspirators be withdrawn, or proved sincere. 'Either these men are, or are not the greatest criminals in history. If they are why, we have shot deserters and soldiers whose misdeeds were the work of the bottle ; and have hung spies, guerillas and hotel burners. What have any, or all together of such offenders done to be compared in magnitude with the authorship and conduct of the rebellion which gave them birth ? It is caudle light to solar it is the river to the sea. If it was not safe for them to live, how can we rest with the arch rebels at large? How can we endure the sight of those who have desolated the land, and struck at the very root of the Republic ? We hav as a nation a criminal code, with its classification of pains and penalties. , If we ever believed in it as a means of government we cannot abrogate it now. We are not speaking vindictively, nor in the interest of a spirit of "revenge. We address those who attach punishment to crimes against the individual and against society, and we hold up the enemies of the human rac It cannot be wrong to demand that they shall not be allowed to stalk with impunity amid the ram caused by their unhallowed passions, with no diminution of their freedom and no restraint upon their insolence. This would be to niock the hearts which have been wrung with grief for the heroic dead it would be to mock the dead themselves. The mourning hearts of North and South, and the graves to which their sorrowing goes out, alike forbid us to tolerate the prime ministers of destruction the heads, not the hands of the rebellion the busy architects of civil war, whose planning covered thirty years,' not the witless, deluded carriers of brick and mortar. For these pardon, temporary diafranttfrlsenient, and education ia freedom ; for those, two courses only ex-

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rl ... HISTORICAL gccini, BE VOL. r t s" patriot ion or death. , Tlie number is not large that will satisfy poetic and national justice.? The chiefs of the army and the chiefs of the State should forfeit their country or their lives. Let Lee and Johnson and Iieaoregard flee the soil, or lie in it. Let Stephens have the same alternative. Let Gov. Wise go into voluntary exile, or let him come to t!.e same gibbet on the very spot from which John Brown asceuded to heaven. Let Jefferson Davis end his days upon the scaffold, or meditate in foreign climes upon his pyramid of sins. "Hut, O tint trrant! Do not repent these thin? ; for they are heaier Than all thy woes ean atir ; therefore betake thee To nothing hut despair. A thousand knees. Ten thousand years together, nake.l, fasting, L'prtn a barren mountain, and still winter In filorm perpetual, could not mot the gods To look that way thou wert '." Emancipation not Revolution. During the funeral obsequies at New York, Hon. Geo. Bancroft delivered an oration, in the course of which he argues the legal right of the Government to abolish slavery in war, and to maintain its abolition when peace succeeded. .It is appropriate to the idea so mischievously held up hy the Democratic journals all through the war, that the Government is not now prosecuting the war to restore peace on the former condi tions, but in the course of the war it has lecotne revolutionary, and is now continuing the war to abolish slavery. We extract from it : ' Mr. Lincoln's proclamation did but take notice of the already existing right of the bondmen to freedom. The trea son of the master made it a public crime for the slave to continue his obedience the treason of a State set free the collective hondraen of that State. This doctrine is supported by the analogy of precedents. Id the times or feudalism, the treason of the lord of the manor deprived him of his serfs; the spurious feudalism that existed among us differs in many respects from the feudalism of the middle ages , but so far the precedent runs parallel with the present case: for treason the master then, for treason the master now, loses his slaves. In the middle ages the sovereign appointed another lord over the serfs and the land which they cultivated; in our day, the sovereign makes them masters of their own persons, lords over themselves. It has been said that we are at war, and that emancipation is not a belligerent right. The objection disappears before analysis. In a war between independent powers the invading foreigner invites to his standard all who will give him aid, whether bond or free, and he awards them according to his ability and his pleasure with gifts or freedom; but when at peace he withdraws from the invaded country, he must take his aiders and comforters with him ; or if he leaves them behind, where he has no court to enforce his decrees, he can give them no security, unless it be by the stipulations 6f a treaty. In a civil war it is altogether different. There, when rebellion is crushed, the old Government is restored, and its courts resume their jurisdiction. So it is with us; the United States have courts of their own, that must punish the guilt of treason and vindicate the freedom of persons whom the fact of rebellion has set free. And let no lover of his country say that this warning is uncalled for. The cry is delusive that slavery is dead. Even now it is nerving itself for a fresh struggle for continuauce. The last winds from the South waft to us the sad intelligence that a man, who had surrounded himself with the glory of the most brilliant and most varied aeheivements, who, but a week ago, was named with affectionate pride among the greatest benefactors of his country and the ablest generals of all time, has usurped more than the whole power of the Executive, and under tlie name of peace has revived slavery and given security and political power to traitors from the Chesapeake to the Rio Grande. Why could he not remember the dying advice of Washington, never to draw the sword but for self-defense or the rights of his country, ; and when drawn, never to sheathe it till its work should be accomplished. And yet from this bad act, which tlie people with one united voice condemn, no great evil will follow save the shad ow of his own fame. The individual, even in the greatness of military glory, sinks into insignificance befo.e the resistless movements of the history of man. No one can turn back or stay the march of Providence. No sentiment of despair may mix with our sorrow. We owe it to the memory of the dead, we owe it to the cause of popular liberty throughout the world, that the sudden crime which lias taken the life of the President of the L'nited States shall not produce the least impediment in the smooth course of public affairs. Interesting Correspondence. To LteI. Gem. Grant : I think Lee will surrender if things are pressed. Yours. PHIL. SlIEBIDAN.i To Mj. Gem. Skridm , Press things. Yours, - l S. GRANT. In the poem by Hoffman, the German poet, who was expelled from the Prussian dominions, the following word appears u n "Stettereverweigerungver fassungsnassigberechtight" meaning a man who is exempt by the constitution from the payment of taxes. The expulsion of such a poet would be justified by the laws of prosody if not by the code of Prussia, Girard College, in Philadelphia, has 563 pupil each of whom costs 8180 a Tear.

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RICHMOND, ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE GENERAL JACKSU5T. ;.Xow that an assassin has deprived the nation of its Chief Magistrate, the following account of an attempt upon the life of General Jackson, during his sec ond term, will oe found interesting.' We extract it from the first volume of Col. Benton's Tihrty Years View: On Friday, the 30th of January, 1835, the President with some members of his Cabinet, attended the funeral ceremonies of Warren R. Davis, Esq., in the hall of the House of Representatives of which body Mr. Davis had been a member from the State of South Carolina. The procession had moved out with the body, and its front had reached the foot of the broad steps of the eastern portico, when the President, with Mr. Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy, were issuisng from the door of the great rotunda which opens upon the portico. At this instant a person stepped from the crowd into the little open space in front of the President, levelled a pistol at him, at the distance of about eight feet, and attempted to tire. It was a percussion lock, and the cap exploded, without firing the powder in the bareel. The explosion of the cap was so loud that many thought the pistol had fired. I heard it at the foot of the steps, far from the place, and a great crowd between. Instantly the person . dropped the pistol which had missed fire, took another which he held ready cocked in the left hand, concealed by a cloak levelled it, and pulled the trigger. It was also a percussion lock, and the cap exploded without firing the powder in the barrel. The President instantly rushed upon him with his uplifted cane; the man shrunk back; Mr. Woodbury- aimed a blow at him; Lieut. Gedney of the Navy knocked him down; he was secured by the bystanders, who delivered him to the oltlcers of justice for judicial examination. The examination took place before chief justice of the district, Mr. Cranch, by whom he was committed in default of bail. His uame was ascertained to be Richard Lawrence, an Englishman by birth, and house-painter by trade, at pret ent out of employment, melancholy and irascible. The pistols were examined. : and found to be well loaded, and fired ! afterwards without fail, carrj-ing their I bullets at thirty feet distance; nor could any reason be found for the two failures at the door of the rotunda. On examination the prisoner seemed to be at his ease, as if unconscious of having done anything wrong refusing to crossj examine the w itness who testified against him, or to give any explanation of his conduct. The idea of an unsound mind strongly impressed itself upon public i opinion, the marshal of the disI : : i - e . i . . & i i utvb iiiumi mu ui lue must resiiectaoie physicians of the city ( Dr. Cussin and j Dr. Thomas Sewell), to visit him and ex- ; amine into his mental condition. They ' did so, and the following is the report j which they made upon the case, j We omit the phj-sicians report, which j is to the effect that Lawrence was of a morbid, melanchaly disposition, who had l been induced te believe that the finanj cial condition of the country was owing to Gen. Jackson s veto of the bank and his war on currency, and that if he was once out of the way, no matter who might be his successor, business would improve and money become plenty. It is clearly to be seen from this medical examination of the man, that the attempted assassination of the President, was one of these cases of which historypresents many instructs a diseased mind acted upon by a general outcry against a public man. Lawrence was in the particular condition to be acted upon by what he had heard against Gen. Jackson; a workman out of employment ueedy idle mentally morbid; and reason enough to argue regularly from falss 'premises. He heard the President accused of breaking up the labor of the country, and believed it of producing the distress, and believed it of lieing a tyrant, and believed it of being an ob- ; stacle to all relief, and believed it- And j coining to a regular conclusion from all I these beliefs, he attempted todowhat he j believed the state of things required him ; to do take the life of the man whom he ' considered the sole cause of his own and i the eencral calamity and the sole olstacle to his own and the general happi i ness. Hallucination of mind was evi1 dent; and the wretched victim of a dread fnl delusion was afterwards 'treated as insane, ana never brought to trial. Rut the circumstance made a deep impression upon the public fellings, and irresitably carried many minds to the belief in a supertending Providence manifested in the extraordinary case of two pistols in succession so well loaded.so coolly handled and which afterwards fired with such readiness, force, and precission missing fire, each in its turn, when levelled eight feet at the President's heart. Plot to Assassinate Washington. In the book entitled "The Old Mercliants of New York City," there is a notice' of an attempt to assassinate George Washington. One of the conspirators, Thomas Hickory, a private in the body-guard of Washington, was hung. In June 1776, Peter" Curtinius, Commissionary General, wrote to Col. Richard Varick a, letter; regarding the plot, in which the writer said : Nsw York, Jane 16, 1776. Sir: Last night was discovered a most infernal pfott against the lives of General Washington and Putnam. Ac. Some of the Villians concerned ore in Custody. Among them are Mr. Matthews our Mayor, Gilbert Forbes a Gmnsrnith, a fifer and Drmmner of General Washington's guard, ate. The particulars are not yet Transpired ( from officers who were employed to apprehend them ) that a great sum was offered to asinte General Washington and

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WAYXE CO., IVD., Putnam that a plan was found in- their possession of all the fortifications, that whilst the regulars made the attack, some persons were to blow np the Powder House, and others were to destroy Kings's bridge to prevent reinforcements coming in from New England. In short the plot was a most damnable one and I hope the Villians may receive a punishment equal to perpetual itching without the benefit of scratching. Booth's Death. Washixgtos. April 27. The fourth edition of the Star has the following additional details of the capture of Harrold and the killing of Booth. A detachment of the 16th New York cavalry, under the command of Lieut. Dougherty, numbering twenty-eight men, and accompanied by two of Col. Baker's detective force, which went down the river on Mondav, and obtained th, first news of Booth at Port Royal, Tuesday evening, from an old man, who stated that four men, in company with a rebel Captain, had crossed the Rappahannock but a short time previous, going in the direction of Bowling Green. He added the Captain would probably bo found in that place, as he was courting a lady there. On rushjng Into Bowling Green the Captain was found at the hotel and taken into custody. From him it was ascertained that Booth and Harrold's whereabouts were at John and Wm. Garret's, three miles back towards Port Roj-al, about a quarter of a mile from the road passed over by cur cavalry. In the meantime it appears that Booth and Harrold applied to Garrett for horses to ride to Louisa C. II. The latter, fearin?: the horses would not be re turned, relused to hire them, notwithstanding large sums were offered. These circumstances, together with the recriminations of Booth and Harrold, each charging the other with the responsibility of their difficulties, had aroused the suspicions of the Garrett brothers, who urged Booth and Harrold to leave, lest they (Garretts) should get into trouble with our cavalry. This Booth refused to do without the horses, and the two men retired to the barn, the door of which, alter they entered, Garrett locked, and remained himself on guard in a neighboring corn crib, as he alleges to prevent his horses from being taken and ridden off in the night by Booth and Harrold. Upon the approach of our cavalry from Bowling Green, about three o'clock on Wednesday a. M., Garrett came out of the corn crib to meet them, and, in answer to their inquiries, directed theru to the barn. Booth was at once summoned to surrender, but refused. Harrold expressed willingness to give himself up but was prevented by Booth for some(time, but finally surrendered, leaving Booth in the barn. The latter then assuming a defiant air, called out to know the commanding officer, and proposed to him that his men should be drawn up at fifty yards distant, when he would come out and fight them After the barn had been burning threequarters of an hour, and when the roof was about falling in, Booth, who had been standing with a revolver in one hand and a carbine resting on the floor, made a demonstration as though to break through the guard. To prevent this, Sergeant Corbet fired, intending to hit Booth so as to cripple him. The ball, however, struck a little too high, and entered his neck, resulting fatally. Booth had in his possession the ehort, heavy bowie-knife, with which he struck Major Rath bone, a Spencer carbine, a seven shooter, of Massachusetts manufacture, three revolvers and a iocket pistol. He wore, besides his suit of gray, ordinary cloth, a cap, heavy, high-topped cavalry boot on his right "foot, with top turned down, and a Government shoe on the left foot. No clue could be obtained of the other two men. Taking the two Garretts into custody, the command immediately set out for Washington, after releasing the Captain. Lieutenant Dougherty who commanded the squad entered the service with the "1st New York militia. Sergeant Corbett, who shot Booth, was baptised in Boston about seven years ago, at which time he assumed the name of Boston Corbett. To-day he has been greatly lionized, and on the street was repeatedly surrounded by citizens, who occasionally manifested their appreciation bv loud cheers. The Garretts are dressed in rebel grey, having belonged to Lee's army, and just returned home on parole. Ihey profess to have been entirely ignorant of the character of Booth and Harrold, and manifest great uneasiness concerning their connection with the affair. Booth and Harrold narrowly escaped on this side of the Potomac. Marshal Murray and posse of New York detectives, traced them to within a short distance of Swan Point, but the Marshal be ing unacquainted with the country and j without a guide during the darkness of I the night, took the wrong road, and j before he could regain the trail Booth i and Harroid succeeded in crossing the j river to Virginia. j The report that Booth attempted to i shoot himself w bile in the barn is incorrect. He, however, in his parley with his besiegers indicated that he would not be taken alive. His manner throughout was that of harden desperation, knowing his doom was sealed and preferring to meet it there in that shape to the more ignominious death awaiting him if captured. He appeared to pa a little attention to the fire raging abou , him until the roof began to fall, whei he made a movement indicating his pur pose to make a desperate attempt to cu his way out. Perhaps he really hope to succeed amid the smoke and confusion. It was this movement on bis part whiclseems to have caused Corbett s fata' Shot. - " - - ' ' -v. ' Harrold, before leaving the barn, lal down his pistol, which was immediatel picked np by Booth, who had it in bi band st the time he was hot-

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MAY 4, 1865. Boston Corbett, who killed Booth, is said to be a man of deep religious feeling, who has. at prayer meetings, lately, prayed fervently that the assassin of the late President might be brought to justice. It is said, also, that in pulling the trigger on Booth, he sent ud, audably, a petition for the soul of the criminal. The pistol used by Corbett was a regular large sized cavalry pistol. He was offered 81,000, this morning, for the pistol with the five undischarged loads. This afternoon. Surgeon General Barnes, with assistants, held an autopsy on the body of Booth. It now appears that Booth and Harrold had not clothes which were originally Confederate grey, but, being faded and dusty, presented that appeal ance. Further Particulars of the Killing of Booth How he spent his Time Appearance of his Body. Washington, April 27. The Star, in in a later edition, has the following: 'Booth and Harrold reached Garret's some days ago. Booth walking on crutches. A party of four or five accompanied them, who spoke of Booth as a wounded Marylander on his way home, and they wished to leave him there a i short time, and would take him away by the 26th, (yesterday.) Booth limped somewhat and walked on crutches about j the place, complaining of his ankle. J He and Harrold regularly took their ! meals at the house, and both kept up the i appearance of wealth. - One dav, at the dinner table, the conversation turned on the assassination of the President, when Booth denounced the assassination in severe terms, saying that there was no punishment severe enough for the perpetrator. At another time some one said in Booth's presence, that rewards amounting to 8200,000, had been offered for Booth, and that he would like to catch him, when Booth replied, "Yes. it would be a good haul, but the amount would doubtless soon be increased to 8300,000." The two Garret's, who lived on tlie place, allege that they had no idea that these parties, Booth and liar rold, were any other than what their friends represented them, paroled Con federate soldiers on their way home. They also say that when the cavalry ap peared in that neighborhood, and they heard that they were lookiug for the assassins, that they sent word to them that these two men were in that place. In other words, thev assert that the3rare entirely innocent of giving the assassins aid and comfort, knowing theiu to be such. The Ida (tugboat) reached hereabout 2 o'ejock last night, with Harrold and the two men above referred to, as well as the body of Booth. Harrold was immediately put in a safe place. He thus far, it is stated, has manifested no disposition to speak of the affair, but as he was known as a very talkative voting man, he rnav soon recover the use of his tongue. Booth and Harrold were dressed in Confederate new uniforms ; Harrold was otherwise not disguised much. Booth's mustache had been cut short off, apparently with scissors, and his beard allowed to grow, changing his appearance considerably. His hair had been cut somewhat shorter than he usually wore it. Booth's body, which we have above described, was at once laid out on a bench, and a guard placed over it. The lips of the corpse are tightly compressed, and the blood has settled in the lower part of the face and neck. Otherwise the face is pale and wears a wild haggard look.indicating exposure to the elements, and a rough experience in his skulking flight. His hair is disarranged and dirty, and apparently had not been combed since he took his flight. The head and breast alone are exposed to view, the lower portion of the body.ineluding the hands and feet being covered with a tarpaulin. The shot which terminated his accursed life entered on the left side at the back of the neck, a point curiously enough not far distant from that in which his victim, our lamented President, was shot. No orders have yet been given as to what disposition will be made of his body. Large numbers of persons have been seeking admission to the Navy Yard, today, to get a sight of the body and to hear the particulars, but none excepting the workmen, the officers of the yards, and those holding orders from the De partment, are allowed to enter. A Spencer carbine, which Booth with him in the barn at the time he was ! shot bv Seret. Corbett, and a lare f knife with bio d on it supposed to be the one with which Booth cut Major Rathbone, in the theater box, oa the night of the murder of President Lini coin, and which was found on Booth's body, have been brought to the city, f The carbine and knife are now in the ' possession of Col. Baker, at his office. The President's Assassination. Letter From Ee-Vitne Statement of aa Actor ia Ford Theater.

Mr. William J. Hawke, of Chicago,! Lee and myself, for the Army of Northwho resides at No. 254 State street, has I era Virginia

received a letter from his son Harry, who j ! is a member or juaura neene s taeatricai j company who were playing "Oar American Cousin" at Ford's Theater, in Washington, on the night of the horrid tragedy. He gives some new facts in reference to the assassination and the assassin. We are permitted to publish the letter, which is as follows : Washisgtos, Scsdat, April 16. This is the first opportunity I have bad to write to you since the assassination of our dear President on Friday night, as I have been in custody nearly ever since. I was one of the principal witnesses of that sad affair, being the only one on the ete at the time of the fatal shot. I was plaving "Asa Trench ard." in the "American Cousin.'" The "old lady" of the theater had just gone of the etage. and

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runt. i.IC ; -s . . - - V I L Whole Wan HIT. ber,) t xo. 10 I was answering her exit speech when I beard the shot tired. I turned, looked up at the President's box, heard the man exclaim "Sitf semper tyrannis, saw him jump from the box, seize the flag ou the staff and drop to the stage: he slipped when he gained the stage, but got upon his feet in a moment, brandished a large knife, saying, "the South shall be free!" turned his face in the direction I stood, and I recognized him as John Wilkes Booth. He ran towards me, and I, seeing the knife, thought I was the one he was after, ran off the stage and up a flight of stairs. He made his escape out of a door, directly in the rear of the theater, mounted a horse and rode off. The above all occurred ia the space of a quarter of a minute, and at the time I did not know that the President was shot; although, if I had tried to stop him, he would have stabbed me. I am now under one thousand -dollars bail to appear as a witness when Booth is tried, if caught. All the above I have sworn to. You may imagine the excitement in the theater, which was crowded, with cries of "Hang him !" "Who was he?" !cc, from every one present. In about fifteen minutes after the occurrence the Presideut was carried out and across the street. I was requested to walk down to the police headquarters and give my evidence. They then put mo under 81,000 bonds, to appear at ten o'clock next morning. I then walked about for some time, as the city was wild with excitement, and then I went to bed. At half past three I was called by an aid of the President, to go to the house where he was lying, to give another statement before Judge Carter. Secretary Stanton, aud other high officials assembled there. I did so, and went to bed again. On Saturday I gave bail. It was the saddest thing I ever knew. The city only the ni jht before was illuminated and everybody was so happy. Now it is all sadness. Everybody looks cloomy and sad. On that night the play was going off so well. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed it mueh. She was laughing at my speech when the shot w as fired. In fact, it was one laii?h from the time the curtain went up until it fell and to think of such a sorrowful ending! It is an era in my life that I shall never forget. Inclosed is a piece of fringe of the flag the President was holding when shot Da is' Whereabouts. The Richmond Whig of the 25th says Davis was at Hilsboro, N. C, from the 12th to the 14t!i inst. He then went byrailroad to Greensboro, whence with an escort of 2.000 picked cavalry selected from Hampton's and Wheeler's command, he started on horseback due south to Ashboro and Cheraw. By this route he lelt Salisbury and Stoncman forty miles to his right. From Cheraw he probably struck southwest to Columbia, South Carolina, from which place the country was open before him until he reached the lines of Gens. Can by and Wilson. His one object now is to escape to the Trans Mississippi, and he cannot regard himself out of extreme danger until he has run the gauntlet of the United States armies now operating in Alabama. Davis, Breckenridge, Trenholm, Benjamin, St. John and Reagan, all ride in the center of that forlorn band of 2,000 cavalry. THE PRESIDENT'S BODY GUARD. Nkw Yokk, April, 27. The Tmies' Washington ppecial says: The statement that the President declines all prosecutions for his personal safety are erro neous. He has not given any special directions for guards to be placed about his person, but he approved the precaution when taken by the authorities which embraced the continuance upon duty of the late President's body guard, commanded by Lieut. Jameson, of Ohio. This company consists of one select man from each county in Ohio, numbering nearly one hundred men. A suffi cient force of the guard is upon duty at i all times, and visitors who call upon the j President at his temporary mansion are confronted immediately upon approaching the door bv three or tour soldiers. ' who do not iennit him to advance further until his name has been sent in and order j given by the President to admit him. In j the hall adjoining the reception room j are aiso lounu sot tiers or genteel dehad i Prtraent, who quietly remain about the entrance within a few feet of Mr. John son. Sentinels also surround the Louse upon the street and in the lot upon which the building stands. Official War Bulletin. War Depabtmkjtt, Washixgtosc, April 28 3 P. M. Jfojor Genral Due : A dispatch from General Grant, dated at Raleigh, 10 P. M.April 26. states: Johnston surrendered the forces in his command, embracing all from here to the Chattahoochee, to General Sherman. On the basis noTPPil ll nnn htwan Signed E. M Stastojt, Secretary of War. Xif When the news of Lee's surrender was received in Murfreesboro, Tenn, the individual who tore down the Stars and Stripes and hoisted the first rebel flag in thst towns, was "persuaded" by the provost marshal to raise the old flag upon the Court House dome, and afterwards to remain upon the dome for half an hour, that the public might enjoy this act of "retributive justice." The whole town turned out to enjoy the spectacle. LiAVK ob. Get Tajik &.i. A blacksmith at Brookfield expressed joy at the death of President Lincoln, end oa Monday morning he was given his choice f a coat of tar and feathers, or immediate departure front the town, never to return again. He chose the latter.

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An Aepeal JueJSaf.:;; At a meeting held ia .Philadelphia ou last Friday night, Mr. Albert K.Crflbert. delivered the follow iug" ""pPrtiiirht address: . -; ' -., "We owe a debt to tLe lexers of the rebellion. " What ? Thoroughly read in history, understanding the principles of political economy, familiar with the springs of national action, they iuaugura ted this rebellion. They were not misled. They knew all the consequeucea of the venture they made. They knew that if the North were loyal and brave, they must wade through seas of Wood, yet"theycat the die and assumed the rik. .......... They hud us great moral end in view, no lofty political principle to vindicate, no worthy object to achieve. Hut two things were to be accomplished, personal aggrandisement, and, as they hoped, the perpetuity of slavery.,, Yet they sounded the tocsin whose ur&tpeal made tlie whole world tremble. By fraud and force combined, by falsehood saoai foul, and intimidation of every degree, : they misled the masses, and organized their forces. They towered in the very sublimity of all conceivable crimes, falsehoods, robbery, assassination, starvation, savage cruelty to prisoners, sacrifice of honor and pledged word, all these were but departments of the one great crime that comprehended all, the most stupendous treason the world b,as eer seen. A million of our men lie cold in death, the result of their experiment. Thousands of our homesteads have been destroyed, the air is black with the sombre drapery of those who mourn, the glare of burning cities has lit the heavens', and the earth has become criinsou with blood, that these leaders might try their expert ment. The world has stood apalled at their fiendish cruelty. The men, the object, the means were all unholy ; yes, satanic ; and we are asked to take thesu men to our hearts; not only to forgive, but to conciliate, to love, to honor. It is shameful. It is atrocious. I care not though a thousand Ward Beccher haI said it, it is atrocious. It insults the memory of our dead heroes, and the faces of our living ones. It defies God and ridicules our national existence. It proclaims the satanic principle, the more heinous the crime the less guilt. If m man in your midst commits a murder you hang him ; if he commits a burg lary, yon imprison him. These have committed tens of thousands of both, and we are to forgive and embrace them. A while ago you hung CaptainKJrdon for engaging in" the slave trade, and the men whose legitimate ultimate would have been its re establishment, we are to embrace. You hung Captain Beall a few weeks since, aud after him again Kennedy, and the devils in human form who employed them you ask the nation to forgive and love. With the sunken cheeks and lacklustre eves of our poor ttarved soldiers now in our midst, with the sight of the skin of living men dried over the extremities of bones like dried meat, to blister our eyes with funeral columns, teeming with deaths from starvation, we are asked to clasp the hand of their savage destroyers in a fraternal pressure. Never ! Never ! Never ! I call not for vengeance, but for justice; stern, inexorable justice. No more severe than that which you administer in your courts every day, justice which proportions punishment to crime. I demand that the majesty of the Government ihall bo vindicated; that sneers of Europeans at our rope of sand shall not be justified; that these men oblivious of every moral restraint, shall be turned loose iu the i South to poison its springs of life, to be t returned again to our National councils ! to polute the air of our capital. I de mand that a premium shall not be put upon treason for all time to come, I demand that the excitable people of South 'shall not.be continually tempted by the Tatal facility of crime and improbability of punishment, to renewel attempts upon the National existence. We owe to the leaders of the rebellion indexible jus . tustice. (Great applause.) i Tiik N. Y. Herald's Nassau eorrei--pondent says that the profits of Blockade j running paid off the debt of the island ; and paid 8150,000 in gold in its treas ! ury. All revenue from this source has now ceased. ,' A Rb;cest order of the War Department directs that female nurse travel-" ing on duty, under proper orders, may have their rations commuted at the rate ; allowed to soldiers traveling on detatched service, viz ; seventy-five cents a I day. : ' r' " ' Rktcbus from New York complete, except Dutchess county, give 55J85 votefor the amendment to the state Const!i tution authorizing the appointment of Commissioners of Appeals, and 89,936 i votes against itan adverse majority of 2o,6ol. Tub Topeka (Kansas) Record says the workmen on the Union Pacific Bailroad at Calhoun's Bluff, while exes vat ing the rocks, find in the crevices thouj sands or snakes every day ratuesoaaes, t I copperheads, vipers, Ac They are iu a torpid state, and are wheeled oa ana thrown into the river. , The first sale of cotton captured at Savannah took place on Tuesday; three thousand bales were sold at prices ranging from 15 to 22 cents In gold. The Ohio Legislature has removed the late restriction upon the Black Suffrage in that State. Henceforth the negro of Ohio will go to the polls on the earn ' terms as the white man. ' 1 ' ' j Tkckaji La Bat of 'Searsborg, Vt, ; while tapping a maple tree the other day. noticed a carious kola at, the roots, and found, on investigation, that it wan inhabited by an old bear and two, cob. The first he soon dispatch tX ead tLe

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