i ttnrocrotticlifatrkman
P. a R MEEK, ' t gl)111011 VC° PROPRIZTt;R
BELLEFONTE, 'PA
FRIDAY - MORNING, MAY 5, 1865
II
TERMS.-42 per year when paid in ativan^e
S2,SO when not paid in snivel:we, and lit+fo iThen
not 'mid before the expiration of the enr.
The War.
TlitsConfederates have long had at Sbreviport
in Louisiana, on the upper Red river, sev'eral
'iron-clad rams- • To pro cui their erespe from
the rit era formidable beet of Fal..ral iron-clads
has been, fur some time, stationed at the mouth
of the slier. At nine o'clock on the 'evening of
April 23, the; Webb, ono of the Confederate
came, came down Red river, and though every.
attempt wee made to stop it, passed througl r tho
Federal beet and out into' Gip Miseissippi s The
current was strong,and it sailed down the Mis
sissippi.' At halt past-stA r on the morning• of
.tpril I, it passed an upward bound steamer,
fifty miles above New Orleans.
The last of the grand armies of the Southern
confederacy, under General Joseph E. Johnston,
has surrendered to General Sherman. ,The
terms extended to / General Johnston were the
rare LB those upon which General Lee hrren.
dered to General Grant.. This virtually ends
the war. The Confederate government is, bro.
ken up, and Jefferson Davis is a fugitive, with,
it is said, tenor twelve millions of dollars in his
lassession. , .
EZI
tiiity-foot general officers of satins gritiles
surrendered with Johnston's army." They arc as
rouow: Generals Johnston and Deauregard ,
Latatenant Generale Hardee, D. 11.11111, 8. D.
Lue,..ind Stewart; Major Generals Anderson,
Late, Drown,ilutler, Cheatham, Clayton, Unw
ell Cobb, French, nuke, Jones, I.nring. Lo% ell,
-
Wheeler and Young; Brigadier 0 eutirals Riker,
Mattis, - Bitanctrard;literitiilii; trio wee, theifilut,
Clinginess, Cumming, Deny, Dilibrel, KIRA, Fe,
: soon, Parley, Fry, Gartrell, Gorgrin, liar good,
.1, Alfred evion, Jackson, Kirkland,
Leasl4ltex, Lcavenilorpe, Leo is, Lowrr, Mack:
all,ltlaniginlkldercer, filler, Pettus, lieynotda
Ripley, Tallathrto, Vance, W afford, Wood,
'Wright and York. (Belo there are two gener
als, four lieutenant goner twenty major gen
erals, and thirty-eight brigade . The number
of men surrendered was twenty-seme thousand
four hundred.
When the Confederate ram Stonewall 'hilt
Lisboh she sailed to the. Canary Islands, and on
April 2d left there for a voyage across the At
: lantie „to the Wet ladies. Siise to expected to
appear 'off the Atlantic coast of the Flitted
pitates, anl seeeral ycoeds have . been sent to
watch for her.
The loss by the explosion of the steamer Sul
taxa, en the Mi , sissiPp , , near Memphis, is esti
mated at fifteen hundred. 5-enen hundred and
eighty-six soldiers, many, however, badly in
fared, have been rescued.
Nine hundred Confederates have surrendered
at Cumberland Gap, and slimy mere are coming
; in. These men come mostly from East Tenets
vie and Southwestern Virginia.
Gen. Palmer hu issued an order protecting
' this people of Kentucky from Unjurt arrests,
the governmeut ha: begun the Work of re
trenchment in earnest. All the clerks but four
in the Bureaus of Enrolment and Desertion at
Washington,, ave been dismissed. Reductions
in the number of clerks in all the department'
are being made. It is eptimated that the, milita
ry establishment will be reduced about four hun
dred thousand by the discharge of men not on
k; active duty in the field, and of eonv..lescent
dien in the hospitals. The reduction in daily
expenditures will be fully one million of dollars.
The iron-clad ram Webb, on the morning of
April 24th, passed New Orleans, and after ttearn
tog some distance down the river, her evaden
. sers gut out of order and she was blown up.
Net crew deserted to the shore, and some of
them were taken prisoners and carried to New
Orleans. Tho Webb was formerly a tow-boat,
and was of 665 tons register.
Icon. Benjamin C. Barris, M. C. frog Mary
,
land, has been arrested. The charge made
against him is that ho dissuaded paroled prie
d
emirs from taking oaths of allegiance. It is
rumored that Judge Campbell, of Alabama, is
to bit.lwrentliefif I;t4istrge of genOrta disloyalty
The.newswritarerara anti - rely at sea shout
r -Jades-ion Davis. Ile is now r
... s . ffortnd at Cbar
---- s. N
lustorth only 46600,000 in
':f
specie.
Sherman's army in tq march northward 'to
Ricikmond. Two corps, borrower, will remain 10
North Carolina.
Twit;-three hundred Confederates hare our.
iss4se•4l in-Keelticky.
Sincerity vs Hypocrisy
',l
' ' l• Aa insignificant abolition sheet, pub
iilicked in an adji;ining county, takes us
to task in earnest fur not turning the
' •` column rules of our paper upside down,
and going into hysterics over the death
•
of Mr. Lincoln. Were we an admirer oil
,
'•
ostentatious show, or had we been desi
ji'
.., roue of assisting the Abolition party to
..,, make political capital out of the remains
,
. , of the dead president, -we might have
done as other papers did, and not have
4, incurred the displeasure of those who
are now snarling and snapping at us for
:* doing what we believed to be our duty.
We have no inclination at all to be hypo
': critical. Our opinion of Mr. Lincoln is
-11 written, and from it we would not erase
`Ai a single mord. The simple fact of his
•' being called frotn,this world, in so sad a
t
~/, manner, Aces adVejkitege it. With him
• i we are willing to b u ry the bitter feelings
i'.s his course engendered, and along with
' him to forget Ole p t, with all its her
-':-.
tor, and blood, and d solation, and tears ;
"is!
! but we are not willi to barter our judg
ment and conscience to represent Mr.
~ Lincoln what he was not, in order to
1• pander to public opinion, or to gain the
good will of those who havealways been
aneinies.
1
J. . W e regret as much as can any one the
r j : i sl ten et aul abti t li el"uali tionism, societhe teachings
in hin tEs o c f oi P in u- -
,:ry has been prought / into tho state, it
roe, antr•that the lite of noisier official
01l ' or eitisisu ill safe; but wee4anet see the
1 • - , - Outt istrtlY be derived from making
1 .. . mat of the man who was but '
t: I. . • - .. tative of the party that
'C-. as bratight this oonditiou of affairs
•
pon as:
i When we are aeartaied that Mr. Ida
!ln was the Peak good, *kg, aid mer
oiful president that his friends claim him
to have be'exil when we see that his ad
ministration was beneficial to our conn
try,stmd the course he pursued the only
one calculated to restore peace, harmony
and prosperity, and insure d:le liberty of
the citizen, then we may he willing to
take back what we have berelofortisnid,
and admit that we were wrong . in de
nouncing the policy he saw proper to
pursue. Until that time we shall hold
fa-t to Am. fir,t conviction—that he was
rvpre , entative of but oite idea—pu
ritan ; and as such, and
nothing more, be has gone down to his
grave.
Who Taught Assassination ?
--In our last issue r we proved beyond
doubt that f Die ptiritan abolitionists
did nut openly advocate the assassination
of Pre,idelits Jaelisoit and Buchanan,
they at '.ta.st, attempted to palliate the
crime by excusing the criminal. We
have now a little additional teqiniony
to add - to - that, which - Flews - that - they
hart not only been exeusers'of assassins
but have taught assassination and boast
ed of having men ready and willing to
carry it out upon the person of their own
„President should he pursue a certain
eiii:O / se. In August of last Year, Deacon
Gray, a leading abolitionist of Ohio,
wrote •ti letter, over his Own signature,
which u - as publi , hed in the Ohio State
Jonntt, the drgan of the abolition party
in Ohio, from which we clip the follow
ing extract:
I like the trpirit if the )lajor in eorpinsnil
or the'Rith Otto. When, in his presence, the
question was presumptuous ly ahkeil, "Shall we
eientually have compromise lie turned
with a withering Midi and said,
~.I,snitecd.tim
etifutrinign with over $OO 113011; to-day I ten mus
ter IiLL and toII . VOU .r it.• o t.-tt“./r
elan at •COM; rnloke,' TIII,RE ARE 192 As.
SASS INS IS xy WM NI A NJJ ILEADY
mitRTIT, iolitary and alone, TO THE WHITE
HOUSE.' It. ir Id nor •rwls at hoyor hod this
te—'he the aplrit of tho Federal army, n ho
bear the burden.
Is this not, enough? When the toys
tery that hangs around the assassination
of Abraln.at Lincoln is unraveled, it . may,
and we have. no doubt will, show to the
world, puritanism as the guilty perpe
trator of the bloody deed.
—Some of our democratic exchanges
are predicting that President Johnson
ill ignore the abolition faction, and ad
min. er the government according to
the Kin is he cnce professed to en
dcrsc. We Tray God that their predic
tions may be verified; yet we have little
hope that such will the ease. We
would have more hope fer-the 'future of
our country to-day, were its g'Civernment
for the next four years in the hands of
honest atolitiGnists like Horace Greeley,
Wendell Phillips, Gerritt Smith, and
William Lloyd Garrison, than we have
as it is, under the control of such renc
.gade democrats as Johnson, Stanton,
Dix, Dickinson, Butler, and Holt. The
former are hottest in their convictions
and consistent in their course; the latter
are neither. They are men who have
neither principle nouatriotism about
them. If a certain course will heap
emoluments andoffice upon them, they
will pursue it, let the consequence to the
country he what it may. Self is the
great thing with them—personal ag
grandizement their only incentive to ac
tion. From them um believe the coun
try or people have little to expect.
—W . eti John Brown expiated his
crime for the murder of innocent and
defenceless citizens of Harper's Ferry,
on the gallows, at Charlestown, Virginia,
the whole abolition parfy of the North
deified him and sang peans in his praise.
Now, when Abraham Lincoln has fallen
by the hand of an assassin, a large por
tioriof the same party immediately rec
ognize the hand of God in the occur
rence, 'amil say that it was done that a
stesner —and...mora nossolle.. mea- 4 ._ •
become chief magistrate. "Strange,
and yet 'tis not strange" that in one
case an assassin should be made a God,
and in the other that God should he
made an assassin.
THE KING Is DEAD!—Loco Idva THE
Kinn !—Two months have not elapsed sinco
all shoddy Puritanism was exerting itself in
a studied, and, shoddy thought, safe tibiae
of the heir apparent—Vice President Atoirow
Johnson. What anuffings,.alul ehullings
there are now Andrew Johnson, of Ten
nessee, on Saturday feat, took the oath of
office as President of the United States.
Now he has offices, and contracts, and fa
vors without end, at lila. disposal. Which
way will those time-serving Yankees now
look, who, one month ago, were calling on
him to resign? Who were calling on Con
gress to imphach him ! What a sualipg
time they will. have , of it! Let all thetr
neighbors hunt up, and note down, what
they said of Andrew Johnson, in the hour
when they thought he was down / They
thought he could not defend himself, and
that is the hour when any man may count
on a miserable Puritan to be valiant against
him. Puritan thinks he can get a triumph
cheap !—Ex. .......
----A story is told of the Colonels of two
regiments engaged at Mission Ridge.
They had bVen classmates and chums at
Waterville college; Maine, but when the
war broke out one went with the South and
the other remained true to the Union.
They were both mortally wounded in this
battle, and after the fight wee over a miftual
friend found them lying side by side ou the
battle field with their right hands clasped,
and both dead. They bad evidently recog
nized each other after being wounded, and
the old ties of friendship had asserted their
supremacy, and together their spirits had
ttaysed into etbraily. Side by side, in the
name ravc, they sleep their bud sleep.
TAXATION GRINDING. There is • bill be-
I fore Congress providing for the appointment
of onnuoineionere to travel over Ifni' despotic
con nt Hee of Europe and inquire into their
by stems of taxation, and to report the details.
-Ti. e j ngen silty of their entire Abolition party
ban been put to the test In contriving the
best IMAM to press the greatest amount of
money out crf the people, The Internal Rev
enurbill screwed over two millions of dol
lars out of the Pint Congressional distrlot
of Connecticut last year. A.nd now our Re
publican friends propose tit send a roving.
commission through Europe learn some
additional kink la the scheme strewing
1. 4
taxes out of the people wain out
Of power are looking on.—/Tert ord flares.
Remarks of H. N. 1110,111ster, esq., be
. lore the the Court of Common ,
on the death of Hon. James T. Hale.
Becurrowri, Apra, 29a, 1866
Data Bta : Whereas, certain unkind com
ments have help mile in the Bellefonte pa
pers, touching your eulogy on the charac
ter of the:late Hott. James T. Hale, delive.r
ed in Court, on Monday the 24th instant,
we, the undersigned officers of the Court,
and members of the Bar, desiring that the
same may be read by the public, in justlea
to yourself, do therefore, respeetfully re
quest a Dopy of your 4paeoli on that occa
sion for miblication.
Yours Respectfully,
J. P. Gephart, J. 8. Froudfoot,
Jas. A. Beaver, • R. C. .Durham,
R. Conley, A. 0. Furst,
G. 0. Beige, E. & E. Illanchvd,
Wm. P. Wilson.jas. 11. Rankin,
Orris & Alexand er, Jas. It. Lipton,
J. D Shugert, &dam Roy,
Bush & Yocum, Delttuna Gray,
Jas: %% manila, If. Y. Slitter,
Batu'l Linn, ThV. P. klacrnanus,
Sbugert
Mcm,Listszt, Esq ,
BZI.LiFoIfrIC, ) ' ay, lit 18f5
Gssirc.A},e :, Your letter of the 29th ult.
lute been received. As it affoi•tia, in the.
beet way possible, an opportunity of cor
recting the mi pprehension and perversion )
by the editors of the Central Preat awl Ann
°erotic Watchman of toy remarks' upon Abe
character and services of the llon.'llames
T. }late, I most cheerfully comply with'
your request by furnishing you berestith
copy for publication. ' •
3ly sole object, ihroughout my 'hole re
market was to exhibit Judge Ifile'S true
character as deditsible.from lila conduct to
present the principle 6 and niat.cies or his
action, as well in public as in private life,
soil to show that his course in Convess, al
coi-Ulemned by ultra politicians—the
b‘i..b run lea—lltri,ttlintfliMi:
ion of the moderate maned all parties
It was with this view ali;ite I made allu
sion to the very decided approval of hie
course by the public meeting held in—the
Court House in the winter of 1 . 860-1861, at
which the Press would seem'lO have taken
offence; and fur no other purpone than to
stow the 'neither in which - ho influenced
legislation did relate the incident which
occurred under my own observation at the
cars If , fll, equally offensive to
the 11 AIeIiMAIN.
The truth of history seems to toe to justi
fy, if it did not require, that I should have
said just what 1 did say, and I do moat sin
cerely assure you, gentlethen, that in thus
discharging the solemn duty assigned me
by you, I did not suppose I would thereby
wound the feelings or give just cause of
complaint to any of our fellow citizens. •
Yours Respectfully,
IL N. MeALLLISTER.
To Jas. McMan•'n, Esq., lion. Sanfl Linn
and other members of the Bellefonte Bar,
and officers of the court.
104Lp/rase the Court : I rise in accord
ance with the resolution adopted by the
officers of -th.to court and the members of
this bar on the ifth inst. to announce in
open court death Of the Honorable
Names T. Hale.
During the last session t Anding. the , Ist"
day of the present month, Times T. Bale
was with us—was of us—activ4engaged
in the laborious duties of au attorney . of
this court.
Di!CALIO, sudden and unexpected, at
o'clock on the night of the 6th instant, !er
mined his earthly career—a most striking
verification of the impressive warning that
"in the midst of life we are in death."
In the brief period allotted to these re
marks, on what part or the '•history of the
deceased shall I dwell? Of his many vir
tues, of which shall I speak? The very
endearing relation ho bore to his family as
the most affectionate and thoughtful of hus
bands and fathers we all know.
And need I speak of his uniform kindness
ana benevolence to the distressed, whether
in mind, body, or estate, to this community,
who have so frequently been participants
of his kindness, and recipients °lbis bounty!
Or shall L.speak of the high and honorable
position he me:Tied, as a member of this
bar, to those who have so often experienced
his courtesy—felt his power and been con
vinced of his reasoning ? Or shall I speak
of his conduct when on the bench lour hon
or now occupies, to those who, as at toeneys
and suitors, tto 4 often witnessed his urbanity,
imp rt il lnSeezily.leuning. and onnr
gy, and never had cause to complain of his
decisions?. Or shall 1 speak of his great
moral worth as a christian man, and his
liberal public spirit as a citizen which made
him prominent in every enterprise calcula
ted to ameliorate and improve the condition
of his fellow men.
From all these and many other limits of
character which endeared him to us all, and
which, dill time permit, we could dwell upon
with pleasure and profit, let us turn for a
few moments to contemplate him as the Rep
resentative of this District in the Congress
of the Culled States—the scene of his prin
cipal labors during the last six years of his
life. How little the mass of his constituents
know of his labor, his anxiety and his influ
ence'as a member of our National Legisla
ture during that eventful period of our
country's history. This however, we do
know, that notwithstanding his utter'abhor
once of human bondage, be adhered to the
compromises of the Constitution, conceding
th the elaveholder‘ his full rights as thcp ,
were recognized and understood by the pa
trlots, North and South, who framed that
instrument ; and that In this session of 1860
and 1861, before the inauguration of open
rebellion, to prevent the shedding of blood,
he took • prominent stand in favor of the
adjustment of our national difficulties by
manifesting a willingness to concede to the
South all they could reasonably ask under
the Constitution.
Many here will recollect the attempt made
in a public meeting, at that time convened
In this house, to condemn the conciliatory
course of our representative, which resulted
in p, most triumphant vindication of his
conduct. Although anxious to strengthen
the arm of the Executive, and at all times
prompt to vote supplies of men and money
%o enable the govornipent to suppress the
rti r belllon by force of %ruts, be was so from
from vindictiveness and so moderate and
oonoiliatory that be obtained in Congress
the confidence of the moderate.,men of all
parties, and was thus enabled to exercise
over them a ',entraining influence.
Most distinctly do I recollect en incident
which occurred at the extra session held in
the summer of 1861.. I sat for hours in the
gallery of the House whilst the members
were discussing and voting upon resolution
after resolulon involving the principles
upon which he war was le be conducted
and the poi* of holding up the hands and
strengthening the arm of the Executive.
They were resolutions sprung upon the
House with a view to test the opinions of
members and their willingness to pledge
their own and theirootuitituents' lives and
property in defense of our nationality and
the suppression of thi rebellion by force of
arms. It was a crisis in dre great Amplest
in elhiell we'were engaged. My eyes were
fixed upon oar representative. Although
he ojened not his mouth? in public debate, he
Was active and appeared anxious. I saw
him upon the Astor of the House. passing
from seat to sent, engaged In earnest con
versatioU wlth Members, on well on the
Democratic tie on the fiepnblican aide. And
when the ayes and time were called, I no
ticed Democrats—men whom I had long
known is Democrats—members elected as
•Democaafs, with whom he had been conver
sing, vote on the same sideyrith him, in
position to the majority of their party.
At the adjournment 1 :eft the gallery sad
went dawn to the floor of the House and con
gratulated my Democratic friends upon
their votes; adding that although they may
not have loved their party less, they had
shown That they loved their country.thore,
They re teed: "We voted with your mem
ber, Judge Hale, and we shall continue to
Stand tiff our country with him, shoulder to
shoulder, hand in hand " „I never did, I
never can feel prouder of the repreeentative
of our district than I did on that occasion.
That promise was faithfully; kept, and
among the last acts of those men were their
votes for the amendment of the Constitution
of the United States abolishing the institu
tion of slaiery.
Twice during the session of 1858-4 your
speaker visited Washington City at the in.
stance of the citizens of Centre County, to
procure, ifpossible t ti_credit for our colon-.
leer - I upon the grime required under the
draft. We found Halealways at Ike post of
kuty, always busy in the service of his fel
low citizens, and anxious to servr them and
b indomitable energy and 'untiring perse
..tte
nce,aCtually obtaining ' fbr them many
Ore benefits and many more favors than
I fell to
.the lot of the constituents of other
`Coligrossmen. Ivor were his services emu.
fined to his own ecinitituents or to the eit i
-1 :cps of his own State. Hie ear was always
open to the cf.) , of distress, whether it came
from the loyal citizen of Louisiana. rep:
easel, Kentucky, Alissouri, WesternirVir
glom, or from the citizens of his own State
or district.
Judge Hale was, during his whole Con
gressional career, a member, and during
the last Congress chairmnn of the Committee
on Claims—one of the moat laborious, the
most iMportant and the most hotturahle
offintitreci of Itielrotise, ani Fin mem - tiers
LIZZLLibi, gre.t." lonue” , o-11.1)014-1• •
action. It is
that - a member,
participate in the
House. The speechei
rarely listened to, and are
ered es made more to pronMiei
of tqe member himself at home thail
ence the determinations of Congress.
Hale, though quite competent to hare ma
speeches, chose rather to serve his constitu
ents and promote the Interests of his coun
try than LLy making buncombe speeches to
adfauce his own-personal interests.
But I am consuming q more time than I had
int e 0.1,1 0t..1 v therefore conclude by
reading the preamble and resolutions refer
red to. and by moving this honorable court,
as I now do, that the saute bo entered upon
the records thereof.
great mistake to auppoLto_
obiain influence, must
,blte debates of the
jiveeed are very
Lerally consid
mpularity
Captor" and Death `of Booth
The last hours of his life. The body brought
to 11 ashington. it strange we:rd
Only Iwo tura blow 'Acre the body lies.
The correspondent' of the New York
World furnishes a full a d kril l :Alio account
of the chase and captu e of John Wilkes
Booth, the assassin,. of President Lincoln.
After giving an account Of the chase, and
the conversation between Lieut. Baker and
Booth while the latter was in tho barn of
the Garrets, the correspondent proceeds:
Colonel-Conger, slipping around to the
rear, drew some loose straws through a
crack, and lit a match upon- , them. They
were dry and blazed up in an instant, car
rying a sheet of smoker and flame through
the parted planks, and heaving in a twink
ling a world of light and heat upon the mag
salmi within. The blaze lit up the black re
cesses of the great barn till every wasp's
neat add cobweb in the root was luminous,
Hinging Streaks of red and violet across the
tumbled farm gear in the corner, plows, har
rows, hoes, rakek sugar mills, and linking
every separate grain„in the high bin adja
cent gleam like a mote ,of precious gold.
They tinged the beanie the upright c
the barricades, where clover and timothy,
piled high, held toward the hot intim:nary
their separate straws for the funeral' Rile.
They bathed the mprderer's retreat in .a
beilutiful illumination, and while is bold
outline kis figure stood revealed, they rose
like an impenetrable wall to guard from
sight the hated enemy who lit them. Be
hind the blati,Nvith his eyes to the crack,
Conger saw Wilkes Booth standing up•
right upon a crutch. Ile likens him nt
this instant to his brother Edwin, whom
says he so much resembled that he half be=
lieved, for the moment, the whole pursuit to
have been a mistake. At the gleam of the
fire Wilkes dropped his crutch and carbine,
• • a-both-itaitslo-isser4--eip-so—t Ler .po. to
espy the hmeudiary and shoot him dead,
Ills eyes were lustrious like fever, and swel
led and rolled in terrible beauty, while his
teeth were fixed, and be wore the expression
of one in the calmness before frenzy. In
vain he peered aMI vengeance in his look ;
the blase that made him visible concealed
his enemy. A !wend lie turned glaring at
the fire, as if to leap in upon and extinguish
it, but it had made such headway that this
was a futile impilirse and he 'dismissed it.
As calmly as upcut,AbsCbattle field to veteran
stands amidst the hail of ball and shell, and
plunging iron, Booth turned at a man's
stride, and pushed fur the door,' carbine in
poise, and the last resolve of death, which
we name despair, set on his high, bloodless
forehead.
As so he dashed, intent to expire not
accompained, a . disobedient sergeant at an
eye-hole drew upon him the fatal bead.
The barn was all glorious with conflagration
and in the beautilul ruin this outlawed man
strode like , that we know of wicked valor,
stern in the face of death. A shock, a
shout, a gathering up of his splendid' figure
as if to overtip the stature Clod gave him,
and John Wilkes Booth fell headlong to the
floor, lying there in a heap, a little life re
maining. But no. ,
"lie has shot himself P' cried Baker, un
aware of the source of the report, and rush
ing in be grasped his arms to guard against
any feint or strategy , . A moment convinced
Lim-that further struggle with the prone
flesh was useless. Booth did not move, nor
bre/the, nor gasp. Conger and two ser
geants now entered. and taking up the body
they bore it in haste from the advancing
flame, and laid it without upon the grass,
all fresh with heavenly dew.
"Water," cried Conger, t'bring water."
When this wee dashed into hie face, he
revived a moment, and stirred his lips.
Baker put his ear close down, and heed
him gay :
.'Tell mother—and die—for my country."
They lifted him...again, the lire esimoach
log in hotness upon them, and plaoed him
on the porch before the
A mattress was brought down, on which•
they placed him and propped kis'head, and
gave hint water and brandy. The woman
of the house-hold, joined meantime by
another son, who had been found in one of
the horn cribs, watching as he said, to sea
that Booth and Harold did not steal the
horses, were nervous, but prompt to do the
dying mar all kinduetises, although waived
sternly back by the detectives. They dip
ped a rag in brandy and water, and this
being put between Booth's teeth he sucked
it greedily. When he was able to articulate
again, be muttered to Mr. Baker the same
words, with an addenda "Tell mother I
died for my country._ I thought I did for
the best." Biker repeated this, saying)
..
the same time: "Booth, do I repeat it Ger
reedy t" Booth nodded his head. By this
time the grayness of dawn was approaching;
moving figures inquisitively miming near
were tob seen distinotly,and the cooks
began to ow gutturally. though the barn
by this eaas • bulk of blase and ash*.
seking wads the zenith a spiral column
of dens p smoke. The women became im
poituhote at this time that thelroops might
be ordered to extinguished the fire, which
was spreading towards their precious corn
cribs. Not even death could banish the call
of interest. Soldiers were sent to put out
the fire, and Booth, relieved of the bustle
around him, drew near to death apace.
'twice he was beard to say, 'Kill tne, kill
me." His lips often moved but could com
plete no appreciable sound. Ile made once
a motion which the .quick
,eyo of Conger
understood to mean disc lath
g ained
him. Conger put his - 'Kea
the dying man attempt& to cough, uConly
caused the blood at hie perforated neck to
flow more lively. 'lie bled very little, al
though shot quite through, beneath and be+
hind the care,• his collar being severed on
both sides.
4 soldier had been meanwhile dispatched
for a doctor, bulgie route and return was .
quite six miles: l, l'nd the einqtriras sinking
fast. Still the 'women made efforts to get
tlt_itelikkm, but work slimy& rebuffed, and
all tie brandy they could find was demand
ed by the assassin, who motioned for strong
diink every two minutes. He made fre
quent desires to be turned over, not by
speech, but by gesture, and be was shit
nately placed on his back„ belly and side.
His tremendioua vitality ovideneed itself
almost tuirtlously. Now and then his
heart weuMEtiffie to throb, and his pulses.
would he as cold as a dead man's. Dtrectly
life would begin anew, the face would flush
up effulgently. the eyes open and brighten,
and soon relapsing, stillness re-asserted,
,would again be .dispossessed by the same
magnificent triumph of man over mortality.
Finally, the fussy little doctor arrived, in
time to be useless. He probed the, wound,
'to see if the ball was not in it, ,and shook
his head sagely, and talked learnedly. .
Just at his coming Booth had asked to
ltniti hist hands_ramad,and shown . Lim.
,They were so paralyzed that he did not know
-thetr-leratiorr-- hs. Mey - were' dl.ulayed
in multorad,-with-sLeatt lethargy; `.Useless,
useless." These were the last words he
ever uttered. As he began to die the sun
rose and threw beams into all tffe tree Lops.
It was of • man's height when the struggle
of death twitched and fingered in the la
ding bravo's &eel His jaw drew spasmod
ically and obliquely downward; hie . eye
balls rolled toward his feet, and began to
<lll ; lividness, like a horrible ahadow,
'Lied upon hint, and, with a sort of
id sudden check, lie streothed his
his head back and gave up
.1i
• •
I; .‘
' I . up in a saddle blanket;
too like a soldier's.
en tied to a tree,
arch. 'Corti
•-1 for Waqt
' ooth's
wo I
gurgle
feet •ud t
the igboat
They sewed Lim
this was his shrew
Harrold, meantime, hurl
but-was now released for Ih
nel Conger pushed on immediate _
ington ; the cortege was to follow.
only weapon was a, carbine, knife, &DU
revolvers. They found n'auut him bills
exchange, Canada money, and a diary. - A
venerable old negro living in the vicinity
had the misfortune to possess a horse. This
horse was a relic reformer generations, and
showed by his protruding ribs the general
leanness of the land. ;He moved in an ec
centric amble, and when put upon his speed
was generally run backward. To' this old
negro's horse was harnessed a very shaky
and absurd wagon, which rattled like ap
proaching dissolution„ and each part of it
ran without any connection or correspon
dence with any other past. It had no tail
board, and its shafts were sharp as famine;
and 'into this mimicry of a lehicle the mur
derer was to be sent to the 'Potomac river,
while the man he had murdered was mov
ing in state across the moorning, continent.
The old negro geared op his wagon by
means of a set of fossil harness, and when
it was backed to Garrett's porch, they laid
within it the discolored corpse. The corpse
was tied with ropes around the legs and
made fast to the wagon sides. Harrold's
legs were tied to stirrups, and he was placed
in the centre of four, murderous looking
cavalrymen. The two sons of Oarretts
were also taken along, despite the sobs and
petitions of the old folks and women, -but
the rebel captain all) had given Booth
a lift, got off amidst (lie night's agitations,
and was not rearrested. So moved the cav
alcade of retribution, with death in its
midst, along the road to Port Royal. When
the, wagon started, Bomb's wound till now
scartely dribbling, began to run anew. It
fell thrdugh the crack of the wagon, and fell
dripping upon the axle, and spotting the
road with terrible wafers. It stained the
blankets ; and the old negro, at a stoppage
dabbled his hands in it by mistake ; he
drew back instantly, with a shudder and
stifled expletive, "Gor-r-r, ,
never come
off in de world; it murderer's blood." lie
urung his hands, and looked imploringly
at. tt e officer'. a :I jppnio tip r ,
r-r, won ( n't have dat ou me fur tousand,
tousand dollars.'"
The progress of the team wee slow, with
frequent danger of shipwreck altogether,
but toward neon the cortege filed through
Port Royal, where the citizens carne %tit to
ask the matter, and why a man's body, cov
ered. with sombre blattkets, was going by
with so great escort. They were told that
it was a wounded Confederate, and so held
their tongues. The little ferry, again in
requisition, took them over by squads, and
they pushed front l'ort Conway to Celle
Plain, which they reached in the middle of
the afternoon. All the way the blood drib
bled from the corps, in a slow incessant,
sanguine exudation. The old negro was
niggardly dismissed with two paper dollars.
The dead man untied and cast upon the ves
sel's deck, steam gotten up ip a little while,
and the broad Potomac shores saw this skel
eton ship flit by, as the bloody sun-threw
gashes and blots of unhealtlily light along
the silver surface.
All the way associate with the carcass,
went Harold, shuddering in so grim com
panionship and in the awakened fears of
his own awproaching ordeal, bey Mil which
it loomed already the gossamer fabric of a
scaffold. He tried to talk for his own ex
oneration, saying he had ridden, as was his
wont, beyond the East Branch, and return
ing found Ilooth wounded, who begged him
to be his companion. Of this crime he
knew nothing, so help him God, But
nobody listened to hint. All interest of
crime courage and retribution centered in
the dead 'Flesh at his feet. At Washington,
high and low turned out to look on Booth.
only a few were permitted to see his corpse
for purpose of recognition. It was fairly
preserved, though on one side of the distor
ted, and looking blue like death, and wild
ly bandit-like, as If beaten by avenging
winds.
Yesterday the Secri'lartof War,
without
instructions of any kind, commitatito Colo
nel Layfayette C. Baler, of the secret ser
vioe, the stark corpse of J. Wilkes Booth.
'The secret service never fulfilled its volition
more secretively. °I "What , have yon done
with the body ?" said Ito Baker. "That is
known" he answered "to only ono man liv
ing Imaides myself. ^lt is gone. I will not
tell you where. The only man who knows
it Iv sworn to ailenoe. Never till the great
trumpeter comes shall the grave of Booth be
discovered." And this is true, Last night
the 27th of April, a small row boat received
the remains of the murderer ; two men were
id It; they carried the body off into the
darkness. and out of that darkness it will
never return.
BOOTU7I LAII? LITTER
We Primal beloW a literal eopy of a letter
written by ,Pohn Wilkea Booth to hie mother,
and which was penned early on the morn
legg of .the memorable 14th of April, (Good
Friday,) thi day when the assassination
took place. The letter is directed to Mrs.
IC A. Booth, No. 28 East Ninekeeith street,
ew York, N. Y. and bean a Washington,
D. C. Poet Office Stamp, dated April 14 It
bears the appearance, of having been writ
ten latoonslderlible keels and 4411 contained
on one side of half a sheet ,of note paper.
The contents we give withotit farther com
ment.
APIIIL 14-2 £ M
Dear Not4er:,--I know you expect a let
ter from me, and am sure you will hardly
forgive me. But itrdeed I have Wad nothing
to write about. Everything is dull; that is
ban been till last night. (The illiiminationy
Everything was bright and splendid. More
so in my eye*, if it had been a' display in a
nobler cause. Hut so goes the wdrltt.
Might makes right. I only drop you *belie
(eV -lines to let you kiwi I am well, and to
nay I bare not heard from you. Excuse
brevity; lam in haste. Had' one from
Rose. With best love to you all, I am your
affectionate eon, ever,
Tea New PRIBIDWIT'S OPIPION or bisc
sscuosirm's.—ln the winter of 1860 and 61,
made memorable by the secession of thio
Southern States from the Union, Andrew
Johnson, of Tennessee, now President of the
United States, deliTered at speech in which
be said :
"I think, sometimes, it would be almost
Ood-send if Massachusetts and South Caro
lina could be joined together, like the Sia
mese Twins, and separated from the govern
ment, and taken or into some remote, some
secluded part of the ocean', and fastened
there, to be washed by the wares and codl
ed by,the winds, and after they had been
there a sufficient leught of time, the remain
der of the people of the United Stales might
entertain a proposition for' taking Chem
beck."
So far as we are advised, Mr. Johnson has
never retracted the sentiment.— Ex,
—On Saturday last, a number of the
old fashioned worn oat mail pouches, from
-soma ottho Western post offices. were receiv
ed at the Washington post office. In one
wisttsi - -- Truli7 - p - t'itiriiiitiire - a
"Ventialia, Illtualn. - lifi — trcli SC - 1828.' 1 It
contained information in regard to a .Law
suit Wore justis," upon which an appeal
had been taken, "requiring twenty-nine
years and twenty-three days after it was
mailed, having been carried shout all that
time for ten cents.
—The name of God. ie spelled in four
,]alters in almost every language, thus:,—ln
Latin, Deus ; French, Dieu;'Creek, Thetis;
German, Cott; Scandinavian, Odin; Swe
dish, Dodd ; Hebrew, Aden ; Syrian, Adad;
Persian, Syria; Tartnrian, Igda ; Spanish,
Dios; East Indian, Eagi or Zeni ; Turkish,
Addi ; Egyptian, Aumu or Zent ; Japanese,
Zain ; Peruvian, Linn ; Wallaschian, Zone;
Etrurian, Churr ; Irish, Dicb; .Arabian,
Alfa, &c.,
Ilitm Milting, Esq., Solicitor of
the War Department, has resigned that po
i. • .n„ to resume the practice of law at Bos
ton. le tine discharged the duties of solic
itor wit . t comPensatien. It-may be ad
ded, in vie (some of his decisions, which
were in the ht_ est degree yevoldlionary
and mischievous, t Nr. Whiting received
all that his services w worth.
I==alfil.,7ZEl
• -
F IVE Y)LLAES REWARD.
Lost on last Monday, May La:.
somewhere in the'borough of Bellefonte. a buck
skin puree, containing between sixteen and sev
enteen dollars, and a postage stamp. The
above reward will be paid on its delivery at the
Democratic Watchman office.
A.ll. H UTCHISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,,
AZ Li.troirrs, PA.
Military Claim Agent. Office with W. P, Nilson
may 5, 1885-Iy.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Letters of administration on the es
tate of JAR. T. Hale, deceased, late of Bellefonte
Centre county, Pa., having been granted to the
subscribers, all persons indebted to said estate,
are hereby notified to make immediate payment,
and those having claims against the same to
present them, gull authenticated for settlement.
E. C. HUMES,
ADAM 110 Y,
M4th 186.5-6 t. a' Administrator.
EXECUTOR'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
The subscribers offer, at private aalo,
a valuable estate, well known as the old Brisinn
farm, situate in Potter township, Centre county,
containing
03^E HC.VDRED AND TWENTY ACRES,
more or less, ninety acres of which are cleared
and under a high state of cultivation. The bal
ance is covered with a line growth of timber,,
consisting of 'chestnut, chestnut-oak, and white-
other outbuildings, are erected on tho premises.
The farm is well supplied with good water, and
a young orchard of choice fruit, second to non.
in tho valley. For particulars apply to Ezra L.
Spangler, who resides on the farm.
EZRA L SPAT R,
- MARGARET SFAWILER.
• Kientt. eVor &nue/ Sparieer, deed
May 5, 1865=2m. -
N OTICE.
TO ALL ennn IT bIATCOICCERN
110 It known that on list Saturday afternoon
between the hours of 4 and 5 'o'cloci, an indi
vidual, well known to the undersigned, did wil
fully enter the baggage room of German's hotel
and then, and there did (mitigated by the Devil
and not having the fear of .I.luiL bttfore his eyee,),
feloniously steal and carry awy, and did ap
proprutte to his own arse and Elmer, without
leave or License of i nrcsent ow er, a well matte.
and substantial umb.elta, much needed by its
proseet owner, as it was raining fast at the time. -
I hope the iudividoil who,is so blue will come
to repont'of bin folly, whe t reading this notice,
and then, like a prodigal, return said umbrella
to its lawful owner, and swear by Him that liv
eth for ever and ever that he will clever gala
commit snob a diabolical and heinous crime
while he lives, arid then I will.furgips hlm toe;
otherwise I will deal with him according to the
laws and customs of our nation, Said um
brella is marked with a'
CHRISTAIN SIMON,
WATCHMAKER di" JEWELLER,
MILEIIIII7RO, thimPriL,
Would respectfdlly inform the public that be
has opened up a 'hop in the room formerly oc
cupied by.htr• Reed, where he will be rea dy at
all times to repair
CLOCKS, WATCHES, dis JEWELRY,
the best style, and on the most reasonable
terms. All work done bLiiim will bewarranted.
Wind ma with ears and treat me well,
And let me have fair play, - _
And .4 to you will try add tell
Thb precise time of day.
If, from some emus., I chance to stop,
And foil to give the hour,
Than take me gulek e to Situon's shop,
And he will Airs me'power.
Ap. 2. 8 1 n
'ARM FOR SALE.
The Undersigned offers for sale a
tract of land, situate In Walker township, min-
Wining 140 ACRE'S, one hundred of whi chars
cleared and tort high state of caltivationothile
the balance is covered by a Ana gthwth of qak
and chestnut tbnbar. A house era barn and
Ether oritbutldings are eroded on the premises
and a geed orchard le also attached to the
For particulars Inquire of the subscriber, who
wisides on the funs, near Untdersburg.
iAp.2ll-4t. D. D. hIcILDAN. -
pRINTINie NEATLY it/NUTTED AT
THE WATCHMAN 0 'PUT.
NEW Al)
THU BIG SNOW 1$ CONIINC.
GARDNER, HEMMINGB I COL
ORBIT SIIBRICIIV ONUS.
Jottx
.
ELFIN. OR FAIRY CHARIOT.
Drawn hr th. DintinniiroTitand Ponies,'
o , 'nerals Grant and Sharman.
The ',mallow* Pair of Pankow in ilho World, alld impor ‘ .4
&Ton during Om P.. 1 , A inert. at .n expensr
or, 81.000, as Lally to lend additional atraetina M fhb
esonnalin All iloa liorsos, Pont., Halve, Piirriapre,
paw.. kr ..01. ',pee. In the Prnove•Polly {ht. beVillig
A (OLAND I ROCF.PPION. OF 7/IF 1 / 7 14011T DOAN.
DEUIt AND imroarAsco:,
THE CORPS OF PERFORMERS.
neve nni boon nortortod, but rho Mit will he found ,f.
with U. nano. of the moist eolobratod •e 11.4.• of Corti..
.nJ •wirsic•
LOOK AT THIS AB,RAY OP TALENT,
• '
There will be Two Grand Performance",
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
nr prrrorrot roF IC. 11 mai •lid can. 1. I. to w
'ha
••••nl , 110 I I. twit) any of lb. many otithiotta
`howls that will !land tha raglan)
'Mors open at 2 and 7 ceelnek. P M Perform
• to commence ktklf an /Soup' litter.
APMISBIO/ 1 1, 60 CENTS
CL.ildrin under 1211 , es rs, Half Priam
"- Wll4. EXHIBIT AT
BELLEFONTE, PENN'A,
On Monday, May 15, 1805.
rPORTANT TO ALL
--SINCE TIM FIRE-
W. W.•IIIoCLELLAND
ku rimovicd Ma largo and oplondid Ida*. of
lILMADT-10EAD.111 OZOTIUNO-
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
la the ARMORY DUILDING, on the north
we steamer of the Diamond, where he will he.
harm sti see his old Weeds and customers. Ula
stook Imaoreprfaed In part of
CLOTHS, cAssrmEßEs..
VESTING'S, TRIMMINGS,
COLLARS, NECKTIES,
HATS AND CAPS
sidle fact, entry article worn hi well-dressed
G. 0
CLOTHING! MADE TO ORDER
OD the Aortas! notice and upon tle most rea•
mutable terms, and eatisfeetion guaranteed.
Give him a esti. Jan '64-1y
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
• Letters testamentary on the estate of
John Sankey, demised, late of Mlibeho, Cen
tre county, Pe., basing been Emoted to the sub
scribers, they request all paw Indebted to
geld estate to make kninediate payment, anti
those hewing claims eitalast the same le present
them, duly autheaticsAtok for Mittholneme•
JACOB' SAMMY,
300.11SAMMY, Y
JAUBB SANKE
Jonzi REIOD4R6,
Exenston.
H Aprizessvit mrsam.yr
THAT 0 11IN 917ISTIO1!
April iTISt.
All nervous sneerer, atheted with spencer
bunking, seminal emissions, loss of power, im
potence ho. caused by self abuse, veinal estee
m and impure otionections, ems have the mesas
of eel! as» fahridnerthsch, by Odreubig, wito
sbunp.
JOHN 0. WILLIAMS, P. 0. Box. 28113.
apt 14 1y Phll4olola, Ps.
.4 Emelt* aeepelp — Perm — l a r
east. thi11.1.1411 all rower, wore
the head eau • V. /ft [LH
IN or 111117e1PIIAN7MIX
it
i th i e ... prZ.: a l ri4 leo'
' MI oneerneet of t► 4 hietautien
vet ea
eittrian Entertainmentof
'Me Highest Order,
meen...l•• poem, b.. Arsogitt
asole.ron w..w to poorothon,
tho 'roam' fookatin they &O.
+lie. 001 they mill
vet
anus Faultless Is
very Feetleader.
hatzuzi.,
tire Paraphernalia,
7 agoni4
Canvass,
Drosses,
Properties, &c .
VATED, eALTICieED sal
IDELED; •n that linty saw
ase apparatuses, a! sons than
uty and Elegance.
The khevaltleent •
OttAititer,
adored by Yielding, Breibere
'ovk C4t 7 , at so gnomons
M one of the Great reaturee
etabliekment, and ynuestaaat
ton of
ENTAL SPLENDOR.
lIINm the town er city nn lbw
'trahlbillon, drawn b Twee*
4...8 Chetienh Mimed by the
lon Whip, Mr linteldneon.
ntainulf FRITZ MITICIIe.
idelphia Brass Band,
..teal Cosblealles celebrated
Miss Eliza Gardner.
The boat l'imeatrienne in Ailment&
Madame Camille.
Darins;e fi g: nm
afeeul lear.
. 4 idas
La Petit Camille,
like Little Islay .f lie tingle,
Mlle Katie,
The Beautiful Nuadriemem
Richard Hemming*,
lie 7% onpuoill roisoptrism, end ?al r
Rival lit the r mu. Moat&
Dan Gardner,
Th. Yrore• (Aim C 1...
Mr. George Derious,
Gifind Equator/4n and Urea
ellauker.
Adi Hassan,
eat Ara Limn Gyntnit.t
h Brothers,
picric.
1 .0 a Pod..
The P;
Wil tam a
The wool .kflfall liye
a.* do.e.
Mr. Frank INhitti
I Le Arrompinied Maim 4.ll'irvoi!
Mr. George gastello,
TLe bra.tlemally N itS•4
Mr. William Hill,
11.• k.xsark able “ y..•• 14.
Mr. George Kirg.
Ibe t bemplonr rumbler. ea&
Weerlll E lino, Breenly,
sw. et, Billings. t with,
w. 4 s Hut of well
seleetsdassilianin.
The Shall Rona, & Mulm
Ara th• anent and beet mined
gnu of 111......aghtneds in .he
rule, and nee' role among Me a...A..1e
lie rick Pont..,
HE " .4$ •
•e ee e u5e.111.4 I caw.
ANTIETAX s ALIMIULITZ.
A ne .l. .e. elerlel reverreung
Yea.
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genthunen.