NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.
—Booth is said to have been seen in front
of the theatre just previons to the assassination with
a companion by a Union soldier. They were wait
ing for the President to come out to his carriage at
the end of the second act. As he did not come,
Booth reentered the theatre, and the deed was
speedily consummated.
—Dispatches from Richmond and Peters
burg of last Monday, state that both those cities
were draped in mourning, and that Gen. Lee has
said he regretted President Lincoln's death as much
as any man in the North, and that he believed him
to be the epitome of magnanimity and good faith.
—A terrible accident occurred at the
Charleston Navy-Yard Saturday. A workman was
engaged in drilling out the fuse of an old shell,
when it exploded, instantly killing four and wound
ing all the men in the yard, some of them fatally.
—The steamer Lady Jane, for St. Louis,
on Wednesday night, struck the center pier, of the
bridge across the Mississippi, at Rock Island, and
broke in pieces. All the passengers were saved
except James Shultz. •
—The workmen at the Brooklyn Navy-
Yard, who were on a strike, have gone to work
again on being assured b} r Secretary Welles that
their grievances would be promptly attended to.
—The 22,000 Rebel prisoners, at Point
Lookout, through their sergeants of divisions,
have expressed their abhorrence at the assassina
tion, and their sympathy with the bereaved fam
ily.
—A freshet in the St. Lawrence last
week resulted in the loss of more than twenty lives,
and an enormous amount of property, including
much live stock.
—The new British Minister, Sir Frederick
Bruce, was presented to the President Saturday.
He made some remarks, to which the President re
sponded.
—lt is reported that Captain French, of
the sloop-of-war William Tell, of Boston, was mur
dered by his crew a month since at Pemumbuco.
—Gov. Gurtin has issued a proclamat on
ottering a reward of SIO,OOO for Booth if arrested
within the limits of Pennsylvania.
—The shock of a severe earthquake was
felt in several of the Southern Counties of Califor
nia on Wednesday.
—The Tennessee legislature has ratified
the amendment to the National Constitution ab
olishing Slavery by a unanimous vote in both
branches.
—The Legislature of Ohio has removed
the last restriction upon black suffrage in that
State. Henceforth the negro of Ohio will go
to the polls on the same terms as the white men,
We noticed a few days since, the similar action
taken by the Legislature of Minnesota.
—One of the first official acts of Hon.
D. S. Dickinson, as U. S. District Attorney, just
appointed by the lamented Lincoln, was the mov
ing of the adjournment of the U. S. Circuit Court
on the great mournful event which is now casting
the profoundest gloom throughout the country.
—On the occasion of celebrating the fall
of Richmond in Boston, Robert C. Wintlirop and
Fred. Douglas spoke from the same platform in
Faneuil Hall. The world moves.
—The captain and mates of the ship
Great Republic have beeu sentenced by the United
States District Court at San Francisco to various
terms of imprisonment, for extreme cruelty to sea
men on their late voyage to that port.
—lt is strange indeed that those who
have daily and hourly familiarity with fire arms,
should so often he victims to mistakes or careless
ness. On Tuesday Lieut. Cantwell. of the Engi
neer Corps, stationed at Fort Richmond, Staten
Island, was accidentally shot and killed in the
careless use of a gun by himself and a friend. He
was a tine young officer, a native of Utica, N. Y.
Graduated last year from West Point, and his death
has added deeper gloom to that caused by our
great national calamity.
—A Baptist clergyman from Bellingham,
Mass., preached by exchange in Milford last Sab
bath morning. Neither in prayer nor sermon did
he recognise the great woe that was oppressing the
heart of every hearer. The omission was so
clearly intentional, that at the close of the first
service a committee of the church waited upon the
unfaithful preacher, and ordered him to leave town
immediately, which he did.
—George Stone was tarred and feathered
at Swampscott, on Saturday, for cheering at the
death of the President; and Major Otis Wright, of
Lowell, Superintendent of the Middesex Horse
Railroad, narrowly escaped hanging for expressing
joy at Mr. Lincoln's death. Fifteen minutes were
finally given him in which to leave the city, never
to return.
—A copperhead blacksmith at Brook
field expressed joy at the death of President Lin
coln, and ou Monday morning li£ was given his
choice of a coat of tar and feathers or immediately
depart from the town, never to return again. He
chose the latter.
—A short time since a gang of guerrillas
undermined the Little Rock and Memphis Rail
road. The break was observed by the engineer,
hut not in time to save the train from running into
it, when it was surrounded by thirty men, who de
manded its surrender, but a volley from the guard
drove them away. A few passengers who rail in
the woods were robbed. The train was soon re
paired and arrived at Little Roek.
—There are now, 2,600 men employed at
the Portsmouth Favy-yard, and quite a fleet is get
ting ready for sea. The Agamenticus, double tur
reted monitor, is nearly ready for her trial trip,and
it is expected she will be soon ordered to Europe.
—Homer \V. Gilbert, of Adams, N. Y.,
telegraph operator at Colliersville, near Memphis,
Tenn.. was, with five or six other men, captured
by guerrillas on the 10th inst. They were paroled
the next day and returned safely bach to Mem
phis.
—lt is said that Ex-President Millard
Fillmore's house in Buffalo displayed no mourning
on Monday, in striking contrast with other houses
in that vicinity. The people gathered a crowd and
covered the front of the house with ink.
—On Sunday morning, the Congrega
tional Church of South Dartmouth, being found
destitute of mourning, the ladies.quickly removed
their black vails, and with them made festoons for
the pulpit, having previously covered it with a
Union flag.
—At New Haven, on Saturday, a party
of soldiers marched over to Fairhaven. where a j
treason-talker lived, called him out, and made him I
give a formal bond ot $3,00(1 to appear when wan
ted. and then returned to camp.
—llarvey Ford, an old man in New Ha
ven, was very much effected at the news of Presi- j
dent Lincoln's decease, and after feeling much
depressed all day, he dropped dead in the evening.
—A passenger train on the Boston and
Worchester Railroad was fired into in Worehester
on Wednesday, the bullet passing directly under
a gentleman's chin, taking off some of his whis
kers.
—Charles Gil vert, who has been on trial
at Harttord, for the murder of Henry Calwell, in
New Britina, a year ago hist winter, has been found
guilty of murder in the second degree.
—The french government has already
spent $25,500,000 in the improvement of the
French sea-ports, and it will require §17,400,000
more to complete the work.
Reporter.
Towanda, Thursday, April 27, 1865,
THE NATION'S SORROW.
A week of National mourning ; a week
of National sorrow, of humiliation, of heart
felt anguish ! As the lifeless remains of
the wis \ the good, the gentle LINCOLN are
borne towards their final resting place in
the West, the people Hock to testify their
respect, to manifest theirgrief, and to show
how deep a hold he had upon the heart of
the Nation. Business is at a stand-still ;
for once the greed of gain loses its power ;
the sombre emblems of mourning darken
the streets, and the universal expressions
of sorrow attest the public appreciation of
the worth of the man, and of the great loss
the nation has sustained
Eulogies of the illustrious dead, are well
enough ; panegyrics upon his sagacity, his
statesmanship, his kind heart, overflowing
with good will towards his fellow-men, de
served ; but he who does not see in this
awful and mysterious dispensation the hand
of Divine Providence, fails to read aright
the lesson of the hour. For four years
ABRAHAM LINCOLN had borne burdens such
as seldom fall to the lot of those in power;
four long years of blood and carnage ;
years of trial and gloom, armed traitors
at the South assaulting the integrity of the
Union, and partisan prejudice, and covert
treason, endeavoring to undermine the
Government, at the North. With a wisdom
which seemed almost inspired ; with a pa
tience unexampled, he had guided the Ship
of State through the dangers which threat
ened, until he saw a safe deliverance, and
the dawn of peace which is, we fondly
trust, to be the full fruition of our Coun
try's trials and her prosperity.
The same infatuation which brought up
on the Country the troubles of the past
four years, has struck LINCOLN down when
he was preparing to astonish the world
with an exhibition of magnanimity such as
was never before witnessed ; as if in the
Providence of God it was willed that Sla
very should become so blackened by crime,
so bated by the American people, so abhor
rent to the world, that its extinction should
be certain and swift. The cowardly hand
which struck down the President, has
struck a deadlier blow at the accursed in
stitution, whose barbaric teachings are
bloodshed and assassination, and the effect
will be to exterminate,root and branch, the
curse which has produced so much misery.
Years of prayers and and preaching, of
honest effort, had seemingly failed to break
the power of Slavery-propagandists, up
to the day when the first gun was fired at
Fort Sumpter. It appeared as if the polit
ical and social power of the Slave aristoc
racy, was increasing with each hour From
that position of power, they have been
hurled by the madness of the men who
had ruled the government for so many
years. What agitation had failed to do,
what it might not have accomplished in
centuries, the infatuation of the South has
done in four years. Slavery is dead to-day
in the United States, never to be recusita
ted. If it had any vitality, the murder of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN has crushed out the last
sign of it. Henceforth there is to be no
place for it where waves the " flag of the
free," and throughout this broad republic
there is to be universal liberty.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
Gun has placed the destinies of the nation
in ANDREW JOHNSON'S hands at a perilous
time for himself and the country. We do
not wonder chat he accepted the trust with
trembling hands, for the stern task before
him might well appal even hix stout heart;
but lie did not shrink from it; and as he ac
cepted it with an humble expression of his
; firm trust in God, we may look forward with
j confidence to the future, assured that lie
i will take no step backwards, and do noth
ing that will imperil the high interestscorn
! mitted to him.
We have all faith in ANDREW JOHNSON.
He has been tried in the hour that most
fiercely tried men's souls, and has not been
found wanting. When every Senator from
the South turned traitor, he, only, proved
true. He stood like ABDJKI,, " faithful
among the faithless." In the session of the
Senate of 1800-1, treason was epidemic
among the Southern members. One after
another dropped away from the cause of
the Union, until none were left but ANDREW
JOHNSON. But he was not content to stand
firm, merely, in that trying hour, when
FOOTE, and BELI., and N ICHOLSON, and nearly
every otfier leading Tennessean fell away,
for we find that he hurled indignant denun
ciations at the traitors, invoked the curses
of heaven upon their guilty heads, and
threatened them with what they as richly
deserve now as then, and what we hope
he will give them, the halter.
The firmness, the unfaltering moral cour-
age, the sublime devotion to the cause of
the country which lie then manifested, have
characterized his life since. He has been
the staunch friend of the President since
his first inauguration, has favored through
out the most vigorous prosecution of the
war, has given his nights and days to the
task of driving the rebels from Tennessee,
was among the first to see that slavery must
perish with the rebellion, and among the
strongest in urging radical measures for its
extinction. He has been a personal sufferer 1
by the rebellion, and brings to his new po- i
sition, not oidy a living faith in radical
measures for the restoration of a lasting
peace, but an intense sympathy with his
fellow-sufferers, the never-flinching Union
men ot the South, and a secret conviction
that the men who have brought and have
kept up this war, deserve and ought to re
ceive the heartiest punishment that can be
inflicted upon them. He believes not only
in emancipation but in confiscation, and,
above all, in hanging.
I hose who have known ANDREW JOHNSON
longest love him most. He has won for
himself, from these who have been asso-1
dated with him, the most ardent attach.
ment. lie will win, in like manner upon
the country. There need be no fears enter
tained of him. He is the man we need in
this new emergency. The demands of jus
tice will not be sacrificed by him to the sen
timental claims of mercy that have been
set up in behalf of the greatest criminals
this country ever saw. Let us teave the
cause of the nation in his hands, in the con
fident assurance that he will execute his
duties faithfully and meet, without shrink
ing, the heavy responsibilities of his posi
tion.
ASTOINIMNG NEWS FROM SHERMAN.
The latest intelligence from Gen. SHER
MAN is calculated to astonish the country,
and strip that brave and hitherto popular
General of the laurels he has so nobly
earned The War Department publishes
the terms of surrender agreed upon be
tween General SHERMAN and Gen. JOHNSTON,
as follows :
MEMORANDUM.
Memorandum of bases of agreement made this 18th
day of April. A. D. 18(55, near Durham's station,
and in the State of North Carolina, by and be
tween General Joseph E. Johnson, commanding
Confederate Army, and Major General William
T. Sherman, commanding the army of the Uni
ted States, in North Carolina, both present :
First. —The contending armies now in the field
to maintain their statu quo until notice is given by
the commanding general of either one so its oppo
nent, and reasonable time—say forty-eight hours—
allowed.
Second. —The Confederate armies now in exis
tence to be disbanded and conducted to their seve
ral State eapitols ; there to deposit their arms luid
public property in the State Arsenal, and each offi
cer anil man to execute and file an agreement to
cease from acts of war and abide the action of both
State and federal authorities. The number of urms
and munitions of war to be reported to the Chief
ot Ordinance at Washington city,subject to the fu
ture action of the Congress of "the United States,
and in the meantime to be used solely to maintain
peace and order within the borders of the States
respectively.
Hard. —The recognition by the Executive of the
United States of the. several State governments, on
their officers and Legislatures taking the oath pre
scribed by the constitution of the United States :
and where confiding State governments have re
sulted from the war the legitimacy of all shall be
submitted to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
Fourth. —The re-establishment of all federal
courts in the several States, with powers as defined
by the constitution and laws of Congress.
Fifth,- —The people and inhabitants of all States
to be guaranteed, so far as the Executive can, their
political rights and franchise,as well as their rights
of persons and property, as defined by the consti
tution of the United States and of States respect
fully.
Sixth —The executive authority of the govern
ment of the United States not to disturbe any of
the people by reason of the late war so long as
they live in peace and quiet, abstain from acts of
aimed hostility, and obey laws in existence at any
place of their residence.
Seventh —ln general terms war to cease ; a gen
eral amnesty, so far as the executive power of the
United States can command, or on condition of
disba dmeut of the Confederate armies, and the
distribution of arms and resumption of peaceful
pursuits by officers and men hitherto composing
the said armies. Not being fully empowered by
our respective principals to fulfill' these terms we
individually and officially pledge ourselves to
promptly obtain necessary authority to carry out
the above programme.
It is hardly necessary to say, that this
agreement was promtly rejected by the
i'resident, and Gen. Grant immediately
dispatched to Gen. SHERMAN'S army with
instructions to commence offensive opera
tions. It appears also, in aggravation of
this fatal blunder that Gen SHERMAN had
ordered Gen. Stoneman to withdraw from
Salisbury and join him, thus probably open
ing the way for Davis to escape to Mexico
or Europe. For from the reports, it ap
pears that Jeff Davis and his Cabinet at
the time of the negotiations must have
been under the protection of Johnston's
army.
CONDITION OF THF. SK WARDS.
A despatch from Surgeon-General BARNES,
dated Sunday, 9 o'clock, p. in., says that
Secretary SEWARD is doing quite as well as
could be expected. FREHERICK SEWARD is
somewhat stronger, more conscious and
less restless than he has been.
FROM HARRISBURG.
HARRISBURG, April 17, 18C5.
Our brave armies, led by skillful generals, con
quer the enemies of the republic, capture the eap
itol of the Southern Confederacy, drive out the
Congress and the President, dash on in pursuit of
the retreating generalissimo and his broken and
dispirited columns, eut off their retreat, surround
thern with a wall of thundering cannons and fixed
bayonets, and finally force them to surrender.—
Swift as lightning the news of these successes are
carried from city to town, and village, and hamlet,
and the people are wild with joy. Night or day,
whenever the news arrives that Petersburg and
Richmond are captured, and Lee with his army
has surrendered, the people give vent to their feel
ings of joy and gratitude. Flags are thrown out,
cannons boom, and shouts rend the air. The Pres
ident, ere these movements, which resulted so glo
riously commenced, leaves the capitol of the na
tion to visit the army. He is greeted with shouts
and hurrahs wherever he is seen by the soldiers.
While the battles are going on he remains tit the
front to encourage the army and counsel with the
generals. He visits Richmond and holds a levee
in the palace of the pretended President. He
meets those who have for four years fought to de
stroy the nation of which he is the head, he advises
measures for peace upon honorable terms, he be
comes more than ever the idol of the people. All
think that longed-for peace is just at hand, and he,
the President, is the very man of all others to
hasten the time, when on the night of April 14, a
dastardly villain, a cowardly ruffian, a black hear
j ted murderer, rushes into the theatre, quick as
thought sends a bullet through the head of ABBA- j
I HAM LINCOLN, rushes upon the stage, brandishes a
! dagger and disappears ; at the same time another i
I demon by deception gains access to the sick chain- j
! her of WM. H. SEWABU, Secretary of State, cuts
! his throat, breaks the skull and otherwise wounds i
j his private secretary and son, and escapes unhurt, j
Mr. LiNcoLN lingers till morning and expires; dies !
when the affections of a whole nation are entwin
ing around him, when the people love him as a
chief magistrate was never loved before, loved for 1
his honesty, his unselfish patriotism, his benevo- j
lence, loved for his unostentatious goodness of
heart, his pureness of motive, his kindness of dis
position, and his simple christian integrity.
: Again lightning sends out from the national cap- :
itol the mournful tidings through all the land. At '
first the cities hear the dreadful tale of sorrow and '
contradictory reports run along the telegraphic
wires, people are alarmed, anxiety is depicted in
every face; but at last the confirmation of the re- j
port comes with terrible crushing weight, and men
mourn as for a brother dead, women weep bitter j
scalding tears, and strong brave men who have j
stood unblanched before the death dealing batter
ies of rebellion, turn aside in order that their sobs !
be not heard ; mourning is in every house. Surely
a just Clod hath a controversey with this nation. ;
May we not hope that he has reserved this great
est affliction, this direst calamity, this most dread- !
ful judgment till the last, or must we believe that
this is but the beginning of still more terrible
judgment in store for us because we have not yet i
repented of our national sins.
The good people of Harrisburg had made exten- |
sive arrangements for celebruting our recent vie- j
Tories on the 15th. The celebration was to be in
deed n great affair. Adjutant-General Russell was
to have charge of the whole proceedings. The
citizens of the county had been invited, arrange
ments made to have out all the military of the
county, a baud had been sent on from the front,
an oration prepared and all the preliminaries ar
ranged for a grand illumination in the evening, but
alas' how different was the feeling on the morning
of Saturday, and li JW differently did the city ap
pear. The thousands of flags were dressed in
mourning, the buildings were draped in black, sad
ness and gloom were on every countenance. Men
and women were in such a state that they did not
know what to do, and were prepared for anything,
either to sink down in sorrow, or in the anguish of
their souls to cry out for revenge.
With that feverish restlessness it was unsafe for
any one who rejoiced at the death of Mr. Lincoln,
if such a wretch could be found, to give expres
sion to his feelings. One miscreant intimated that
he was glad that the act was done, aud declared
that it should have been done two years ago. If
the officers and some of the more prudent and con
siderate of the citizens had not Interfered he would
have been hung up in the streets. The ladies of
of the city were determined that such a man should
not live, he was finally rescued and sent to camp
Cnrtin for safe keeping. Every one must rejoice
that the threat of the excited populace was not
carried into execution, had they been, the result no
one can foresee. No man with right feelings will
justify " Lynch Law," still a man who will he so
imprudent as to use such expressions when men
are so much excited, should sutler some for his
imprudence if not for his recklessness.
The citizens met at the Court House at nine.
Several addresses were made l>y men of the two
political parties, hut all breathing the same spirit
of grief and mourning. At four there was a Union
prayer meeting held. X.
BSL. Rev. G. \Y. GATES, of Elmira, N. Y.,
will preach at the Baptist Church in this place,
next Sabbath morning, April 90th, at 10 o'clock.
Also at Moliroeton, at 2 o'clock p. m. We hope to
see a good attendance.
It is now certain that the scoundrel
who attempted the life of Secretary SEW
ARD, lots been arrested." The police had ta
ken possession of the house of Mr. SVRRATT,
after having arrested the inmates and sent
them to head-qua tors. The}* were search
ing the house, late at night, when a pecu
liar knock was heard at the basement front
door. A detective opened it and a man
disguised as a laborer entered. The officer
turned the key and put it in his pocket,
when the laborer wanted to retire but was
not allowed On cross examination his
muddy rlothing was found to be of finer
texture than laboring men. Secretary
SEWARD'S colored door-waiter was sent for
and the man fully identified as the assas
sin Maj. SEWARD and Miss SEWARD, who
were present at the time of the attack, al
so fully identified the man. He is now a
prisoner on board a Monitor.
BffL. A Letter from J. Wilkes Booth, the
assassin of President Licoln, written in No
vember last, is published. It consists prin
cipally of a rigmarole of stale piattitudes,
expressed in a mock heroic style, about the
wickedness and injustice of the government
in maintaining its authority over tin; whole
country and the righteousness of the rebel
cause ; but there is one point in it of some
consequence. It discloses a plot which
Booth had then formed to make a prisoner
of President Lincoln. No intimation is giv
en in the letter that at the time it was writ
ten he contemplated taking the life of the
President.
It is now reported that General Dos
ser, one of the rebel chiefs of the Shenan
doah valley, has also asked to be allowed
to surrender, on the same terms as those
granted to Mosby, though a few days ago
the rumor was current that, he having pos
tively refused to give up the contest, his
men had deserted him en maxse, and he had
gone to North Carolina to join Johnston's
army.
The statement that BOOTH had been
seen in Pennsylvania, turned out to be
false. As yet there has been no clue found
as to his whereabouts—at least no public
announcement made of any. That he can
long evade the vigilance of those search
ing for him, seems incredible. It is thought
by many at Washington, that lie is still
hiding in that city.
It is said that the authorities have infor
mation which render it nearly certain that
Booth's horse fell ith him on Friday night
(14th inst.,) and it is believed, caused a
fracture of one of his legs. It is also re
ported that he has divested himself of his
mustache.
B*!L. The guerilla Mosby, we are inform
ed from Winchester, surrendered his entire
command to General Hancock at Berry ville,
V a., on I uesday of this week. The terms
of the surrender are similiar to those accor
ded to General Lee by Gen. Grant. The
number of Mosby's men is thought to be
about seven hundred.
'lhe \\ ashington National Inteliigen
j er of Thursday, says the facts developed
by the official investigation show that there
I was an organized conspiracy, the object of
which was the destruction of all the lead
ing officers of the Government. Prominent
j officials, who have access to a mass of evi
dence which cannot be published, make
| similar assertions.
On Monday last, at the headquar
ters of the Sixth Corps, A riny of the Poto
mac, the eighteen battle-flags taken by that
corps in the late campaign, were formally
: turned over to the government by the brave
boys who captured them. Gen. MEADE per
sonally thanked each man, and highly prais
ed the courage and devo'tion of the entire
army.
ien. Hal leek succeeds Gen. Ord is
command at Richmond. Gen. Ord relieves
Gen. Gilmore in command of the Depart
ment of the South.
I®" Col. Dent, late of Gen. Grant's stall',
succeeds Gen. Shepley as Military Gover- i
nor of Richmond.
A Southern girl at school at Sarato
ga was expelled last Saturday for saying
that was the happiest day in her life.
THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD.
FUNERAL CEREMONIES.
The Remains on the way to Springfield.
THE FUNERAL.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, April 19, lKt>s.
The great and solemn pageant of remov
ing the remains of the nation's revered and
beloved Chief from the White House to the
Capitol is closed.
Never was such a scene witnessed where
each and every one of the vast throng
moved in silent sadness, as if bearing the
burden of a personal bereavement. It has
been the writer's fortune to witness the
funerals here of John C. Calhoun, Henry
Clay, and President Taylor. These were
solemn and imposing, yet the event of to
day was as the loss of an ardently loved
parent to the death of a stranger.
• At the White House the body lay un
coffined in the center of the East room, as
heretofore described, the head resting to
the north. From the entrance door at the
north-west end of the room were placed
the pall-bearers, next the representatives
of the army, then the judiciary. At the
corner the Assistant Secretaries of the De
partments. First on the eastern line the
Senators of the States ; next the Diplomat
ic Corps, who were out in very large num
bers and in full court suits. Then the la
dies of the Cabinet Ministers ; next the
Judges of the Supreme Court. Next, in the
center and in front of the catafalque, stood
the new President, and behind him the
Cabinet Ministers. The members of the
Senate joined their left, the House came
next ; at the corner turning southward
stood the Kentucky delegation divided on
the left by the delegation from Illinois ; on
the" south end were first the clergy, then
the municipal delegations, the Smithsonian
Institute, New-York ("hamber of Commerce,
Common Councils of New-York and Phila
delphia, Union League delegations, and
around beside the southwest door of the
Green Room were stationed the citizens'
delegations from various quarters. The
; space surrounding the body to within
! about 10 feet was filled by a raised plat
form, upon which the several bodies des
cribed above stood.
Throughout the ceremonies, within this
leserved space on the north corner were
seated the officiating clergy, on the south
corner the mourners, consisting of the late
President's two sons, his two private sec
; retaries, and members of his personal
i household. Mrs. Lincoln was so severely
indisposed as to be compelled to keep her
j room. The recess of the double center
J doors leading to tin* large vestibule was
| assigned to the representatives of the press.
The coffin was surrounded by an extend
' ed wreath of evergreen and white (lowers,
and upon its head lay a beautifully wrought
cross of Japonicas and sweet, elysium, at
the center a large wreath or shield of simi
lar flowers ; but by far the most delicate
j and beautiful design was the anchor of
white buds and evergreen seqt by Mr
Stetson of the Astor House, and placed up
| on the foot of the coffin by the lion. X. 1).
i Sperry of Xew-llaven. Its flukes were
made by an ingenious insertion of a calla
j lily, its ring and shaft a bar of choice white
buds, Lily of the Valley, and the like. The
! east room was heavily and plainly shroud
i ed in black cloth and crape.
I The services were peculiarly impressive,
and the quotation concluding I>r. Gurly's
! sermon was most aptly appropriate and
significant. The sermon over, the body
was removed to the funeral-car for trans
portation to the Capitol, the pall-bearers,
mourners, Diplomatic Corps and Supreme
| Court riding in carriages, all others walk
ing-
The exercises had commenced at pre
cisely 12J o'clock, and it was 2 o'clock as
the cortege from within began to move out
I at the north-western gate.
Nothing could have exceeded the entire
| decorum and good management through
j out, and to Assistant Secretary Harrington
i is the credit due of arranging details so
minutely that nothing was omitted, iioth
| ing went wrong, and that everything was
i done just at the proper time.
Outside the great gateway leading from
J the White House grounds and extending
far back upon all the radiating streets were
the thousands of delegations from nearly
every loyal State who marched into line at
i proper moment and moved on with the im
i mense mass following the hearse.
1 DEPARTI RE FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINOTON, I). C., April 21—11:30 P. M,
The remains of ABRAHAM LINCOLN have
departed from Washington. All of the
moral part that is left on earth is now on
its way to its final testing place beneath
[ the sod of his cnoscn State. The last trib
ute of honor that could he paid by the peo
ple of Washington, was tendered this mor
! ning in escorting the body from the capitol
; to the cars.
All day yesterday, despite the rain, until
0 o'clock, thousands wended their way up
the Capitol steps, into the grand rotunda,
I by the bier and coffin of the President, and
I then out at the eastern entrance. The poo
i pie clung to their friend with tenacity, and
! their silent homage was deep and fearful.
At 7 o'clock this morning the Congres
j sionul escort, the Illinois Committee, Gov.
j Ogelcsby and Staff, Gen. Townsend, of the
| War Department, and all others who, by
invitation or appointment, were selected to
j accompany the remains to Illinois, assem
bled at the Capitol, where a guard of two
! hundred men oi the Veteran Reserve Corps
were assembled to escort the remains to
| the cars. A large number of distinguished
persons were also present to pay their last
| tribute of respect to their ruler and chief—
President Johnson, Lieut.-Gen. Grant, Bre
vet Major-Gen. Meigs, Brevet Major-Gen.
Pucker, Brig.-Gen. Howe, and others.
Rev. Dr. Gurley at 7:15 o'clock offered
up a fervent prayer, and at 7:40 o'clock the
, body was placed in a hearse by twelve or
: derly sergeants of the Reserve Corps, and
was escorted to the depot by Lieut.-Gen.
Grant and staff and President Johnson, who
j were followed by the Cabinet in carriages,
consisting of Secretaries Stanton, Welles,
['slier, Postmaster-Gen. Dennison, Attorney,
Gen. Speed, Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs, Hon. W . P. Dole, Commissioner o
. Patents and Pensions. A large number of
officers followed on foot, and then a great
concourse of citizens.
On arriving at the depot the coffin was I
placed in the car assigned for the convey- j
ance of the remains, and at 7:45 Rev. Dr.
Gurley made a final and touching prayer.
At ten minutes before 8 a pilot engine,
handsomely draped, started in advance ;
and at exactly 8 o'clock the engine bell j
slowly tolled ; other bells tolled in unison,
and the train slowly moved off, the Cabinet
Ministers and others standing uncovered
till the train passed out of the depot.
ARRIVAL AT BALTIMORE.
The funeral cortege arrived from Wash
ington at the Cowden Station of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad Company, about
10 o'clock, the train bearing the body and
escort being in charge of Gen. McCallum
and Joshua W. Garrett, President of the
road. On the platform were assembled
Oov. Bradford, Lieut.-Gov. C'ox, Oen. Ber
ry and Staff" the Hon. W. B. Hill, Secre
tary of State, the Hon. Robert Fowler,
State Treasurer, with other officers of the
State Government, Mayor Chapman, and
the City Council of Baltimore, Major-Gen.
Lew Wallace, Brig.-Gen. Tyler, Gen. Mor
ris, Brig'.-Gen. Kealey, Commodore Dorin,
Capt. J. Howard Welles, Capt. Rods Kent,
and other officers of the At my and Navy.
Amid the tolling of the city bells and
firing of minute guns from the forts, a pro
cession composed of military and civic so
cicties, under command of Brigadier-Gen.
Lockwood, was soon formed, Provost-Mar
shal Col. Woolley acted as Grand Marshal,
and march taken to the Exchange, where
the remains were laid in state in the ro
tunda.
The noble columns of the rounda place
were draped with black cloth, and the walls
covered with the same material. The gal
leries were likewise draped in black. From
the base of the dome four large national
flags, starting from each cardinal point of
the compass and meeting in the centre,
hung in graceful folds over the catafaque
which was erected, immediately beneath the
dome.
The catafalque was richly draped, the
floor and sides of the dais being covered
with black cloth. The canopy was formed
of the same material—rich folds drooping
from the four corners, and bordered with
silver fringe. The cornice was adorned
with silver stars, the sides and ends of the
dais being similarly orncmented. The in
terior of the canopy was of black cloth,
gathered in fluted folds to a central point,
where was a large star of black velvet,
studded with thirty-six stars, one for each
•State of the Union. The floor of the dias,
on which the body of the dead President
rested, was bordered with evergreens, calla
lilies, and other choice flowers.
Upward of 10,000 persons succeeded in
obtaining a view of the body, but double
that number were denied the coveted priv
ilege, as when the hour of 2 o'clock p. in
arrived the coffin was closed and the re
mains escorted by the military to the de
pot of the Northern Central Railroad. At
a few minutes past 3 o'clock the funeral
train was wending its way towards Har
risburg, Pa.
LEAVING BALTIMORE.
1 The funeral train started from Baltimore
at a lew minutes past three o'clock p. in.
by the Northern Central Railway, Mr. Du
Barry, the General Superintendent, having'
charge of the working of the road. \\ il
liain B. Wlison, the Superintendent of the
telegraph attached to the line, was also on
the train, provided with a pocket telegraph
instrument, to be used to communicate in
formation in ease of necessity. Every pos
sible pains had been taken by Mr. Du Bar
ry and his associates to render the situa
j tion of the passengers comfortable.
Upon reaching the State line at 5:30 it
was found that Gov. Curtin had arrived
I from Harrisburg in a special train, accom
panied by his staff, consisting of Adjt-Gen.
| Russell, Quartermaster-Gen. Renolds, In
| spector-Gen. Lemuel Todd, Surgeon-Gen.
| James A. Philips, and Cols. R. B. Roberts,
I S. B. Thomas, Frank Jordan, and John A.
I Wright Gov. Curtin joined Gov. Bradford,
i who was in the front car with his staff,
! sonsisting of Adjt.-Gen. Berry, Gen. Ed
! ward Shriver, and Lieut.-Cols. Thomas J.
| Morris, Henry Tyson, and A. J. Ridgeley.
j Gen. Cadwallader, commanding the De
j partment of Pennsylvania, accompanied
; Gov. Curtin. The General's staff consisted
| of Major VV. McMichael, A. I). (.'., andCapt.
L. Howard.
The greeting of the Governors of Penn
| sylvania and Maryland, adjoining States,
was exceedingly cordial.
The remains of the President left lfar
risburg on Saturday, reached Philadelphia
I the same night, and were placed in Inde
j peudence Hall, where they were viewed by
! thousands of mourners. The programme
I from Philadelphia is as follows :
Leave Philadelphia at 4 a. m. of Monday, the
| 24th. and arrive at New York at 10 a. ni.
Leave New York at 4 p. iu. of the 25th, and ar-
I rive at Albany at 11 p. m.
Leave Albany at 4 p. m. of Wednesday, the 26th,
; and arrive at Buffalo at 7 a. m. of the 27th.
j Leave Buffalo at 10:10 a. in. same day, and ur
! rive at Cleveland at 7 a. nt. of the 28th.
Leave Cleveland at midnight the same day, and
j arrive at Columbus at 7:30 a. m. of the 20th."
I Leave Columbus at Bp. m. same day, via Colum
; bus and Indianapolis Central Railroad, and arrive
! at Indianapolis at 7 a. m. on the 30th.
Leave Indianapolis at midnight of the same day,
' via Lafayette and Michigan City Railroad, and ar
rive at Chicago 11 a. m. of May 1.
Leave Chicago nt 9:30 p. m. of May 2, and ar
rive at Springfield at 8 a. m. of May 3.'
Andrew Jackson, Jr., adopted sou
j of the late President Jackson, accidentally
| shot himself while hunting near the Her
mitage, Tennessee, on Monday week, and
I died on the Sunday following of lockjaw,
j He was a son of Mrs. Jackson's brother,
j Samuel Donelson, and a cousin of A. J.
j Donelson. He took his adopted parent's
| name, and inherited, at his death, the Her
mitage, and a large cotton plantation in
I Mississippi, both of which, however, passed
| out of liis hands. lie was fifty-six years
I of ago, and leaves a wife, daughter and
two sons. The sons cast their lot with the
rebels, both entering the army. Samuel,
I the younger, was an officer in the rebel
! service, and was killed beyond Chattanooga.
| The eldest brother, Andrew Jackson, is a
i Brigadier-General in the rebel army. He
j terminated.his military career in the sur
render of Fort Morgan, in Mobile harbor,
! to the United States forces, at which time
; lie was taken prisoner, and is now in our
hands.
Senator L. S. Foster, the new Vice
j President, was born in Franklin, New-Lon
don County, Conn., November 22, 1805, and
is a direct descendant of Miles Standish.
He has been a member of the General As
sembly of Connecticut, Speaker of the
House, Mayor of the city of Norwich, and
I nited States Senator to which position he
was elected in 1855, and re-elected in 1860.
At Roxbury, Mass., on Tuesday, a
party of men, including some of the most
prominent citizens of that city, numbering;
oue hundred, called on Mr. John M. Way,
Mr. Franklin W oodside, Mr. Charles Davis,
Mr. Win.S. Shattuck, Deputy-Sheriff Brad
ford S. Farrington, and Mr. Haskins, and
compelled them to display and cheer the :
flag, and in some cases to promise that they ;
would never agan utter a disloyal word.
flea? The following is the official account;
of the number of men and arms surrender-!
Ed by Lee: Paroled prisoners, 26,115;
small arms, 15,018 ; cannon, 159 ; colors,
7L _
Sigr The greater part of the army of the
Potomac was still near Burkesville on mon
day, hut it was thought they would soon
be ordered to move toward Richmond and I
Petersburg.
The Assassination of President Lincolr,
and the Attack on Secretary Seward
We publish the following statementx r
give a reliable and accurate account of tl
assination of the President, and the rim,
derous attempt upon the life of Secret
SEWARD :
AFFIDAVIT OF MAJOR RATH BONE.
Dixtrii t of Columbia, City of WaxhiiiyUm **
Henry R. Rathboric, brevet major in tl„
army of the United States, being <l u ] v
sworn, says—that on the 14th day of i
I instant, at about 20 minutes past 8 o'cloej.'
; in the evening, he, with Miss Clara 11. H a
ris, left his residence, at the corner of p,
j teenth and 11 streets, and joined the IV
i dent and Mrs. Lincoln, and went with tin i
lin their carriage, to Ford's Theatre,in Tent s
j street ; the box assigned to the Preside;
; is in the second tier, on the right hand sid<
j of the audience, and was occupied bv tl..
President and Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Hani.
; and the deponent, and by no other person
| the box is entered by passing from tin-front
i of the building in the rear of the dress cir
j cle to a small entry or passage-way, about
i eight feet in lengtli and four feet in widt'
This passage way is entered by a door
which opens on the inner side. The door
is so placed as to make an acute angle be
tween it and the wall behind it on the inner
side. At the inner end of this passage way
is another door, standing squarely across
and opening into the box. On the left-ban 1
side of the passage way, and very near tin
inner end, is a third door, which also open*
into the box. This latter door was closed.
The party entered the box through the do
at the end of the passage way. The h
is so constructed that it may be divkii
into two by a movable partition, one
the doors described opening into each. Tl
front of the box is about ten or twelve fa -
in length, and in the centre of the tailing
I is a small pillar overhung with a curtail',
| The depth of the box, from front to roar
j about nine feet. The eleva'ion of the |„ >
j above the stage, including the railiij.r
' about ten or twelve feet.
When the party entered the box, a cus
i ioned arm chair was standing at the end
i the box furtherest from the stage and n,-„ .
jest the audience. This was also the ii<- ;tr .
| est point to the door by which the buy .
I entered. The President seated bin, self
> this chair, and except that lie once l-ft the
j chair for the purpose of putting ~nli.
! overcoat, remained so seated until lie w ;i ,
I shot. Mrs. Lincoln was seated in a cha :
between the President and the pillar in •
centre, above described. At the opp,,sit,.
I end of the box—that nearest the end f;
■ stage —were two chairs. In one i f the
: standing in the corner, Miss Harris
seated. At her left hand, and along ?
| wall running from that end of the box:
the rear, stood a small sofa. At the end •
this sofa, next to Miss Harris,this dep.
was seated. The distance between t! .-
I pouent and the President, as they w, n •
j ting, was about seven or eight feet,and t!
distance between this deponent and •
door was about the same. The distan, -
| between the President, as be sat, and t,
door, was about four or five feet. The ,1
according to the recollection of this l<q,
went, was not closed during the evening-
When the second scene of the third ac
was being performed, and while ties d, j,
| nent was intently observing the proo
; ings upon the stage, with his hack t<nva:.
the door he heard the discharge of a pis;
behind him, and looking around, saw
; through the smoke, a man between
, door and the president. At the same tin
1 deponent heard him shout some word wis
i deponent thinks was "Freedom !" Th -
| ponent instantly sprang toward him a
j seized him ; he wrested himself from t
grasp and made a violent thrust at tL
| breast of deponent with a large knife.—
i Deponent parried the blow by striking
up, and received a wound several imi -
deep in his left arm, between the ell" w
the shoulder. The orifice of the wound
about an inch and a half in length, and ex
tends upwards the shoulder several hub-
The man rushed to the front of the l"X. a.!
deponent endeavored to seize him agar
but only canght his clothes as he was foil
ing over the railing of the box. TL
clotbes, as deponent believes, were torn
this attempt to seize him. As he went<A-:
upon the stage, deponent cried out wi' .
loud voice, "Stop that man!" Pep ;
then turned to the President : his posit
was not changed ; his head was sligb
bent forward, and his eyes were closed.-
| Deponent saw that he was unconscious
| supposing him mortally wounded, rush
to the door for the purpose of calling rut",
cal aid. On reaching the outer door of tb
passage way as above described, depmiet
found it barred by a heavy piece of t
I one end of which was secured in the wall
i and the other resting against the door,
had been so securely fastened that it r
: quired considerable force to remove it. Ti. •
| wedge or bar was about four feet from to
floor. Persons upon the outside werel v
ing against the door for the purpose -P
tering. Deponent removed the bar,an: -
door was opened. Several persons v, "
represented themselves to bo surgeons w ,
allowed to enter. Deponent saw there'
onel Crawford, and requested him t ;
vent other persons from entering the V> x •
Deponent then returned to the t>"X.
found the surgeons examining the l*r, -
j dent's person. They had not yet discuv
Jed the wound. As soon as it was disenvt
cd it was determined to remove him fr
the theatre. He was carried out, ami ti
deponent then proceeded to assist Mr-
Lincoln, who was intensely excited,ti li
the theatre. On reaching the head of'
stairs, deponent requested Major Potter:
j aid him in assisting Mrs. Lincoln aer -
I the street to the house to which the In -
dent was being conveyed. The won:;
which deponent had received had l>
bleeding very profusely, and on read-: -
i the house, feeling very faint from the 1 -
1 of blood, he seated himself in the hall.a
--| soon after fainted away, and was laid up
the floor. Upon the return of consent
j ness, deponent was taken in a carriage t
i his residence.
In the review of the transaction, it is th
I confident belief of this deponent that t
time which elapsed between the disclnu-'
of the pistol and the time when the assas
sin leaped from the box, did not exo' l *'
thirty* seconds. Neither Mrs. Lincoln n
Miss Harris had left their seats.
H. R. RATH BONK
Subscribed and sworn before me
17th day of April, 18A5. A. B. OUN,
Justice Supreme Court, D 1
GEO. F. ROBINSON, a soldier and nurs<
who was in attendance on Secretary Srwf
on Friday night, has related circumstantial !
the proceedings in the chamber, front wlia ,
it appears that it was through his hr ;,Tt
and determined endeavors that the com"'''
mation of the murderous designs ot
fiend were frustrated.
According to ROBINSON'S narrative, FßE ,:
RICK YV. SEWARD, Maj. SEWARD and Mr. " lV
ZELL were all wounded on the stairway.
heretofore mentioned in this correspondent
As ROBINSON opened the door to learn t |il
cause of the disturbance without, a " | l
struck at his breast. In his hand he be
long knife, the blade of which appeared t-