1164!
he #ntitpttitut ppublion.
~.b.traitnollakee and Union of land%
A Union of States none enn sever;
A Uni ho e f
F h le earts
of ,
our Union foreve and a Union of W r ads,
Anda ."
CIRCULATION 3,100.
H. H.FRAZIER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Miritrose, Pa, Tuesday, Apr. 25, 1865.
ram•D 5 rotttptraty it WO known. Armies havetaen
war is tertai to an,ompZish it. There are oak/ two
Mot to the question. Erery man must be for the United
ar wind it. There can be no neutrals in au
sear—onty patriots or traitors.--BTSPISEN A. DOVGLLS,
at Chicago, April 11,1861.
Or What right has the North assailed / What jut,-
tke has been denied/ And crud elainhlounded in pa
tio! and right, has ban withheld, CCM either izr you to
day name one aingle - act of wrong, deliberately and pur
pmely done by the Government at Waxhingion, of which
the &nabs' a 'Via to complain I I challenge the an
swer.—Hon. A. a. Srarttexs. 1861.
PRESIDENT JOWISON
God 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
that ho accepted the, trust with trembling hands,
for the stern task before him might well appal
even his stout heart; but he did not shrink from
it; and as he accepted it with an humble ex
pression of his firm trust in God, we may look
forward with confidence to the future, assured
that he will take no step backwards, and dr(
nothing that will imperil the high interests com
mitted to him.
We have 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 turneditrai
tor, he, only, proved true. He stood like Abdiel,
" faithful among the faithless" in the session
of the Senate of 1860-1, treason was epidemic
among the Southern members. One after an
other 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, Bell, and Nicholson,
and nearly every other leading : Tennessean fell
away, for we find that he hurleid indignant de
nunciations 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 courve,
the sublime devotion to the cause of the country
which he then manifested, have characterized
his life since. He has been the staunch friend
of the President since his Mast inauguration, Luis
favored throughout the most vigorous prosecu
tion of the war, has given his days and nights 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 strong
est in urging radical measures for its extinction.
He has been a personal sufferer by the rebellion,
and brings to his new position, not only a living
faith in radical measures for the restoration of
a lasting Pes,ce„ , : hot an..11.421....,t
ath.swk.wAmiferersi, the never-flinching Union
men of the South, and a secret conviction that
the men who have brought on and have kept up
this war, deserve and ought to receive the heav
iest punishment that can be inflicted upon them.
He believes not only in emancipation but in con
fiscation, and, above all, in hanging.
Those who have known Andrew Johnson
longest, love him most. He has won for hiM
self, from those who have been associated with
him. the most ardent attachment. He will win
in like manner upon the country. There need
be no fears entertained for him. He is the man
we need in this new emergency. The demands
of justice will not be sacrificed by him to the
sentimental claims of mercy that have been eet
up in behalf of the greatest criminals this coun
try ever saw. Let ns leave the cause of the na
tion in his hands, in the confident assurance that
he will execute his dnties faithfully and meet,
without shrinking, the heavy responsibilities of
his position.
TILE ATLAS TIC TELEGRAPII.
Captain James Anderson, of the Cunard mail
steamer Chita, has been appointed to command
the Great Eastern during the laying of the At
lantic Telegraph cable. The Great Eastern will
sail from Valencia, Ireland, about the Ist of July
and may be expected at Heart's Content, Trinity
Bay, by the middle of that month. • There were
sixteen hundred and sixty-two nautical miles of
cable completed on the 21st of March, and the
whole twenty-three hundred miles will be made
and on board the Great Eastern in May.
The English Admiralty have agreed to order
two powerful steamers of the Royal Navy to act
company the Great Eastern from Ireland to
Newfoundland, and also to direct Vice Admiral
Sir James Hope'to afford such assistance on the
approach of the expedition to Newfoundland as
may be in his power.
It is confidently expected that Europe and
America will be in telegraphic communication
before the 20th of July.
PORT SORTER AItiISIVERS,9I.IIT.
Thitimgh the daily papers we are informed
that the programme at Charleston was punctu-
ally and scoessfully carried out amid the most
favorable auspices, and we hope soon to present
a correct report of Mr. Beecher's oration. We
shall not attempt to anticipate the shock which
will overcome that joyous party when they hear
the terrible tidings from the Capital, and learn
that the slave•power, even as they celebrated its
overthrow, was still sufficiently vigorous td in
stigate the foulest murder of the century. They
sailed for the South under one Administration ;
they_ return under another. Will they hate any
the less the evil genius of this transformation ?
..SIC SE3ZPER TYRANNIS."
The amassin who flourished his dagger on the
stage of Ford's theatre and theatrically quoted
this motto, upon the shield of Virginia, imagin
ed, or pretended to imagine, that in killing Mr.
Lincoln he had put an end to tyranny. He was
right, in one sense, but net as he dreamed. The
blow which took Lincoln's life away has nerved
the arm of the nation for a last but telling blow
at the life of slavery, and the tyrants *ha have
their heels upon the necks of liberty Will perish
with It, as well as all the oppressions and icor
ruptions that have P,TOlarlahMt of it.
' I THE NEW PRESIDENT. "(g.
General. Burnside, in a speech at New York,
or April 15th, spoke highly of the new President.
He had known Mr. 4ohnson for two years lima
intimately, - and waited that during, that exitiro
time he never knew of hie haring the =hippy
fault ;with which 'he has been charged;; that
there is no man more temperate habitually, and
that his eondition at the late inanguration ;ere
. - monies bas Induced solely by the necessity that
reqdred allinulants for his bealtl; than recently
so severely inderrilleKl . 1 4 sickuitas.
EM=MIMM=
GENERAL G. W. C. ! LS&
This rebel General,. caramel* at Butkaville by
Bherldan, is the second eon it Gen. Roberti.ee,imninsader-M-Chlif of the rebel atlases end
his Capture led to the report that It wRa the lat
ter who had been captured. Gen. Itobert E.-Lee
had three sons in the ~ rebel army. General G.
w. a Lee, wits was educated at West Point,
and Is about thirty-three years of age, Williem
H. Fitzhugh Lee, a farmer, who is reported to
have been killed recently at Five nil* who
was in his twenty.seventh year, and Robert E.
;Lee, Meaty years of age. The latter had been
taught at a military echool in Virginia. There
are three children surviving—daughters. Ncine
of the children are married bet Fitzhugh Lee.
General Robert E. Lee Is the son of Henry Lee,
of Revolutimuuy memory.
THE =WADS FOR THE lISURDEREE.
The rewards now offered for the arrest of J.
Wilkes Booth amount in the aggregate to ,the
largc•suin of one hundred and forty thousand
dollars. and probably will be considerably, in
creased.: Here is a large fortune in reservolor
some one, and while indignation at the crime,
and regard to the duty of every good citizen
would incite any loyal man who knows of ' the
whereabouts of the o -.von, to deliver him up,
to justice, the reward will be a great temptttion
to his accomplices, with most of whom it ispre
sumed honor is not a very powerful sentiment.
The War Department offers large rewards for
some of the accomplices of the murderer, and
the amounts at stake are sufficient to excite the
activity of professional detectives to a display of
energy far exceeding anything known in the an
nals of crime.
COURTING DESTRUCTION
The rebels seem bound to bring destruction
upon themselves as well as upon slavery. When
they hatched the rebellion, ft is now evident that
they pitched upon the surest plan, probably the
only plan, for the abolition of slavery. And now,
as if determined to unite all loyal men in favor
of greater severity than had been contemplated
against the .rebel leaders, they devise the atro
cious plot for murdering the President and his
Cabinet The acts of Booth and his co•conspir
titers make a stern execution of the laws against
treason necessary, not only to satisfy the public
feeling, but also for the safety of the administra
tors of the government In the future- And Pres
ident Johnson has already expressed his deter
mination that treason shall be punished. If
those who know the now President best are not
mistaken, there is a good deal of "Old Hickory"
in his composition, and rebels and traitors will
-soon begin to discover a resemblance between
Andrew Johnson and Andrew Jackson I
FOREIGN NEWS
By the arrival of the Belgian at Portland, and
of the Persia at New York, we have three days
later frnm Europe.
The Portuguese Government have published
an official account of the Stonewall affair. It is
assorted that the commander of the Union yes
selsmight have aiolded all difficulty by Bending
previous notice to the Governorof Belem Tower.
The Federal Diet of Germany, on April 6th,
passed the important resolution to request Aus•
tria and Prussia to cede Holstein to the Duke of
Augustenburg. Austria declared her willingness
to concord( with this resolution, but Prussia de
clared herself unable to do o.
The Emperor Napoleon has decided that a
marble bast of Richard Cobden, who died April
2d, 1865, should be placed in the museum at
Marseilles. All the papers of Paris and several
speakers in the Legislative Assembly paid a high
tribute to Cobden.
The plague still continues at St. Petersburg.
The total number of cases thus far is 10,000 and
A motion in the Belgian Chamber of Repre
sentatives, expressing regret that the govern
ment had not absolutely refrained from taking
part in the Mexican expedition, was lost by a
vote of 55 to 57.
Inauguration of President Johnson
WAIMINGTON, April 16, 1865.
Yesterday morning Attorney-General Speed waited
upon the Hon. Andrew Johnson, Vim-President of
the United States, and officially informed him of the
sudden and unexpected decease of President Lin
enle, and stated that an early hour might be ap
pointed for the inauguration of his successor. The
following is a copy of the communication referred
to
WASTIENCITTS CiTY, April 15, 1865.
Stu: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States, was shot by an assassin last evening at Ford's
-Theater, In this city, and died at the hour of 7:T3
o'clock A 11. About the same time at which the
Prisident was shot, an sssiissin entered the sick
chatober of the Hon. W. IL Seward, Secretary of
State, and- stabbed him in several places to rho
ththat, neck and face, severely It not mortally
wounding him. Other members of the Secretary's
faniily were dangerously wounded by the assassin
while making his escape. By the death of President
Lincoln the office of President has devolved under
thg Constitution upon you. The emergency of the
GoVernment demands that you should Immediately
qualify according to the requirements of the Consti
tution and enter upon the duties of President of the
United States. If you will please make known your
Pleasure such arrangements as yon may deem proper
I will be made. Your obedient servants,
• Boon lifcComoeu, Secretary of the Treasury.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy.
Wriztam Dmvsn. sou, PostmasterGeneray
•
J. P. lISIDEEL, Secretary of the Interior.
JANES SPEED, !Mini:my-General.
TO_ Axnuaw Joan - soli, Vice-President of the United
States.
. Johnson nested that the emernonies take
place t b ms at the Kirkwood House, in this
city, at o'clock in the morning.
The Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the
United States, was notified of the tact, and desired
to;be in attendance to adminliter the oath of office.
At the above-named hour the following gentle
men assembled at the Vice•Presldent's mom to par.
ticipate in the ceremony: Thu Hon. Salmon P.
Mae; the Hon. Hugh SicCulloch. Secretary of the
Trensury ; Mr. AtOrney-General Speed, F. P. Blair,
sr:, the Ron. Montgomery Blair; Senator Foot of
Vermont, Tates of Illinois. Ramsay of Minnesota,
Stewart of Nevada, Hale of New-Hampshire, and
Gen. Farnsworth of
After the presentation of the above letter, the
Chief-Justice administered the following oath to
Hr. Johnson:
...I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute
the office of President of the United States, and will,
to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and de
fend the Constitution of the United Starea."
After receiving the oath and being declared Presi
dent of the United States, Mr. Johnson remarked:
"Gzsrrimurs: I must ?eyeruitttedtoaay that
have been utmost overwhelined by the announce
nient of the and event which has so recently occur
red. 1 feel Incompetent to perform duties no im
portant and responsible as those which have been so
unexpectally thrown upon me- As to an Indica
tion of any policy which may be pututied.by me In
the administration of the Government, I have to say
that that must be left for development as the Ad.
ministration prop, uses- The menage or declare
non Must be made by the acts as they transpire.
The only assurance that I can now give of the future
is reference to the past. The course which I have
taken in the past in connection with this rebellion
must be regarded as a guarantee of the future. My
past public life, which has been long and laborious,
has been founded, as I in good conscience believe,
ripen a great principle of right, which lies at the
I ba,„is.of all things The - best energies of my life have
' been spent in endeavoring to establish and perpetu
ate the principles of free govenament, and I believe
that the Government, in passing through its present
peril's, will settle down upon principles consonant
with popular rights, more permanent and enduring
than heretofore. I must be permitted to say if I
understand the feelings of toy own heart, I have
longlabored to ameliorate and elevate the mu&
Gen 01 the great mass of the American people. Toil
and honest advocacy of the great principles of free
government have been my lot The duties have been
mine—Lice consequences are God's. This has been
the fnundalion of my political creed. I feel that In
the end the Government wilt triumph, and these
great -principles will be permanently established.
In conclusion, gentlemen, let me say that I want
your, encouragement and countenance. I shall ask
and iyely upon you and others in carrying the
Gov nMament through its present perils. I think in
making this request that It will be heartily responded
to
ly
you, and di other patriots and lovers of the
righ s and interests of a free people."
i . . . .
, A •the conclusion of the above reMarka the Presi
dent; received the kind wishes 01 the friends by
whets he was Surrounded. •
it relic' zuoineutagrernAevnted to conversation. All
wnrilidesply impolsed I VO the solemnity albs oc
c244in, and the reerut and occurrence that caused
==72
the necessity for Utter inauguration of the
President was gravely timed ( , ~. - - zt - ..
Mr. Johnson is to tine t gth;qindiuta'an earnest
sense of the important 'that hoespeen confided
Ds him : ----. .. V- i st',
Wm. lithater. esq., the chief claret the State De•
Pariment,les been sppointed Acting: Secrerary of
State. \ .:,---;,-.:,.
Addiess of the Clitizezu3 of Illinois
and Response of the President.
Wenn - norm, April.lB, 18a5.
In accordance with a revolution passed at a meet
ing of the citizens of Illinois, held •at the National
Hotel, yesterday afternoon the citizens of that State
assembled at Willard's Ho tel, preperatory.to paying
their respects to his Excellency :Andrew Johnson,:
President of thr3 United States. Gov. Og o lesby, N.
Hayne, ex-Senator 0. IL Browning, St un
D. L.
Phillips Gen. 3. F. Farnsworth, Hon. base N. Ar
nold, BCes, John Wilson, Gen. Gamble, Col. John S.
Loomis, Col. 3. H. Cowen. Gov: Pickering, of Ore-.
gon, Gen. Julius White, Hon. 3. lit Hanna, Maj. S.'
Wart, Mej. W. C. Canon ,Me). P. Flynn, and a large
concourse of citizens repaired to the rooms of Pred- '
dent Johnson In the Treasury building.
Gov. Oglesby represented the delegation, and ad.
dreessd the President as follows :
Mr. President: I take much pleasure in presenting
to you this delegation of eitizens of Illinois, repro-
t almost evety sect Of the State. We are
drawn enting
together in this city ion
by the mournful events
of the past few days, to give some feeble expression
to the feeling we, In common with the whole nation,
realize as pressing as to the earth, by appropriate
and respectful ceremonies. Wo thought it not In
approptiate,before we shall separate,toseek an inter
view with your Excellency, thstorldle the bleeding
heart Is ponring out Its mournful anguish over the
death of our beloved late Preeident, the Idol of our
State and the pride of th e whole country, we may
earnestly express to you, the living head of this Da
tion, our deliberate, fell and abiding confidence In
' you as the <me who, In these dark days, must bear
upon youself the mighty responsibility of maintain
ing, defending, end directing Its affairs.
In the midst of this sadness, through the °ppm
' sive gloom that surrounds us, we look to you and
to a bright future for our country. The assassina
tion of the President of the United States deeply
depresses an sorel3 , aggravates the entire nation,
but under our blessed Constitution it does not de•
ley, nor for any great length of time retard its pro
green; down not for an instant disorganize or threat
en Its destruction. The record of your whole past
life Is familiar to us. 411 the spender of your recent
gigantic efforts to stay the band of treason and as
sassination and restore the flag to the utmost bounds
of the Republic, assures that noble State we repre
sent, and wt believe the people of the United States,
that we ma safely trust Its destinies In your hands,
and to this dwe come In the name of the State of
Illinois, and' weconfidently believe, fully, and faith
fully cypiessing the wishes of our people, to pre
sent and pledge to you the cordial, earnest and un
remitting purpose of our State, to give to your Ad
ministration the strong support we have heretofore
given to the Administration of our late lamented
President, the policy of which we have heretofore,
do now, and shall continue to Indorse.
THE PRESIDENT'S RELY.
The President said :
Gentlemen: I have listened with proforma emo
tion to the kind words you have addeesed to me.
The visit of this large delegation to s kto me
through you words of encouragement I not an
ticipated. In the midst of the saddening circum
stances which surround us, and the immense re
sponsibility thrown upon me, an expression of the
confidence of Individuals, and still more of an in.
Suer:Rai body like. that before me, representing a
great Vommonwealtb, cheers and strengthens my
heavily burthened mind. I am at a loss for words
to respond. In an hour like this of deepest sorrow,
were it possible to embody In words the feelings of
my bosom I could not command my Ups to utter
them.
Perhaps the best reply I could make, and the one
most readily appropriate to your kind assurance of
confidence, would he to receive them in silence
(Herniation.) The throbbing of my heart since the
sad catastrophe which has appalled us cannot here
dined to words, and op as! am with the new
and great responsibility which has devolved upon
me, saddened with grief, I can with difficulty re
spond to you at all. But I cannot permit such ex
prmlon of the confidence reposed In me by the
people to pass without acknowledgment. To an In
dividual like myself, who has never claimed much,
but who has, it Is true, received from a generona
people many marks of trust and honor for a long
time, an occasion like this, and a manifestation of
public feeling so well timed, are peculiarly accepta
ble.
Springing from the people myself, every pulsation
of the popular heart finds an immediate answer in
my own. By many men in public Ille such occasions
are considered merely formal. To me they are real.
Your words of countenance and encouragement sink
deep in my heart, and were I even a coward I could
not but gather from them strength to carry out my
convictions of right.
Thus feeling I shall enter upon the discharge' of
my great duty firmly and steadfastly (applause),if
not with the signal ability exhibited by my prde
cessor which Is still fresh in our sorrowing minds.
I
Need repeat that no heart feels more sensibly than
mine this great affliction t In what I say on this
i t vanillilg evertl49We f amnotlible
ine an
a a
event in the history of mankind. In the midst of
the American people, where every citizen is taught
to obey the laws and observe the rules of Christian
conduct, our Chief Magistrate, beloved of all hearts,
has been assassinated, and when we trace this crime
to its cause, when we remember the source whence
the assassin drew his inspiration, and then look at
the result, we stand yet more astounded at this most
barbarous, most diabolical assassination. Such a
crime as the murder of a great and good man, hon
ored and revered, the beloved and the hope of the
people, springs not alone from a solitary individual
of ever so desperate mickedeeek We can t race it s
cause through successive steps without my enumer
ating them here—back to the source which is the
spring of all our woes. No one can say if the per
petrator of the fiendish deed be arrested ha should
not undergo the extreme penalty the law knows for
crime. None will say that mercy should interpose.
But is he alone guilty ? Here, gentlemen, you per
haps expect me to present some indication of my
future policy. One thing I will say, every em
teaches Its lesson.
_ . .
TtfetiirTeSv74llve in are not without instructions.
ThltAmerican people must be taught, if they do
notialready feel, that treason Is a crime, and must
be linulahed. (Applanae.) That the Government
will nnt always bear with ita enemlea. That it is strong
not only to protect, but to punish. (Applause.)
When we turn to the criminal code, and examine
the catalogue of crimes, we there dud arson laid
down as a crime, with its appropriate penalty. We
there find theft and robbery and murder given as
crimes; and there too we and the last and high
est'of crimes, TWEABON. (Applause.)
With other and inferior offenses our people are fa
miliar, bat in our peaceful history treason has been
almost unknown. The people must understand that
it is the blackest oterimes, and will be surely pun
ished. (Applause.) I make the allusion, not to ex
cite the already exasperated feelings of thepublic,
bat to point out the principles of public justice,
which should guide our actions at this particular
juncture, and which accord with sound public mor
als. Let It be engrave's' upon every heart that tree
san is crime, and traitors shall seller the penalty.
(Applause.)
While we are appalled, overwhelmed at the fall
of one man in our midst by the hand of a traitor,
shall we allow men, I care not by what weapons.
to attempt the life of the Blab with Impunity"
while we strain our minds to comprehend tto enor
mity of this assassination, shall we allow the nation
to be assassinated! (Applause.) I speak In no spirit
olluthindness, I leave the events of the future to be
disposed of as they occur. Regarding myself as the
humble Instrument of the American people, in this
as in all things, justice and judgment shall be de
termined by them. I do not harbor bitter or re
vengeful feelings towards any. In general terms.
I would say that public morals and public opinion
should be established upon the sure and inflexible
principles of justice. (Applause.) When the ques
tion of exercising mercy comes before me it will be
considered calmly and judiciously, remembering
that I am the executive of the nation.
I know that men like to have their names spoken
of in connection with mercy, and how easy it is to
yield to th is Impulse. Bat we must not forget that
what may be mercy to the individual is cruelty to
the (Itate. (Applause.) In the exercise of mercy
there should be no doubt left that this high preroga.
live 18 not used to relieve a taw at the expense of
We many. Bo assured that lam not to consult MT
own feeling alone, but to give an account to the
whole people. (Applause.)
In regard to my future course I will now make no
peafession, no pledges. I have been connected some
what actively with public affairs, and to the history
of my past public sets, which is familiar to you, I
refer for those principles which have governed me
heretofore and shall guide tan hereafter. In general,
I will say that I have long labored for the ameliora
tion and the elevation of the great mass of mankind.
My opinions as to the nature of popular Government
have long been cherished, and constituted as I am,
it is now too late in fife for me change to them. I. be
lieve that Government was made for man, not man
for Government (Applause.)
This struggle of the people against the most gi
gantic rebellion the world ever saw, has demonstated
that the atp , ehment of the people to their GoVern
ment is the strongest national defense human wis
dom can devise. (Applause.) Bo long as each man
feels that the interests of the Government are his
interests, so lung as the public heart turns in the
tight direction, and the people understand and ap
preciate the theory of our Government, and love of
lip=our Constitution will belranarnitted
If the time ever comes when the people
shall tall it, the Government will fall and we shall
cease to be cried the nations of ties earth. •
After having preserved nor form of tree Govern
ment and shown Its power to maintain Its existence
through the vicissitudes of nearly a century, it may
be that it was necessary for us to pass thrnugh this
last ordeal of intestine strife to prove that this Gov
ernment will not perish from Internal W
but will ever be able to defend Reel:against=
to punish treason. (Applatute.)
tar we know of Mat on attempt made to pavane
the flying coward After the assassination of the Pres
ident. Joseph B. Stewart. Esq., a well known wen
viler of our eityjumped upon the stage, end did
not lose eight of him till hs mounted and rude 014
hitt this be succeeded in doing ere Mr. Stewart co'd
ranch him. Unfortunately, sir. Stewart was not
armed. As 'Soap. mounted be knocked' down the
bey that held his horse, with a blow front, the ,hult
of his dazcar.—WashbratoriVidentee "
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TEE ATTACK ON MR. SEWARD
Wainiceriv, April rah, 1565.
George!. RetdM , e,the." soldier and nurse, who
wan to attetiflattee oa Secretary Remark on ,Friday
hmtebita th*Comstantielyabe proceedings
In tha - chamber. from which it-appears - that it was
through his brare'atid determined endeavors that
theeoneninalielit'of the. plan Of the. fiends - was
i Ac ca rding
ated. ,
Accordhor to Robb:oriel narrative, Fred.
8e Ward and Mr: Mansell;, Were all Wound
ed Girths stairway.= heretofore mentioned. ,
As Robinson opened the door to team the cause
at the disturbance without, the man struck at his
breast. In his hand he had a long knife, the blade
of - which appeared to be about twelve inches in
length and one Inch in width.
Robinson determined to oppose-his progress, and
raised his arm to parry the blow, the consequence
Of which was a wound on the forehead close to the
hair, which he wears turned back. The knife glanc
ed-and the clenched hand in which the dagger wee
held Came dowttupOn his head and felled him to the
floor. '
. MO Seward at this juncture -escaped from the
room, and ran to the front wind= screaming mur
der.
The assassin leaped to the bed where Mr. Seward
lay in a helpless condition, and aimed a tremendous
blow on his face. He missed his mark, and almost
fell across Mr. Seward's body.
Mr. Robinson had by this time recovered, and
lumping on the bed caught bold of the assassin's
arm. While he was thus attempting to hold him
the magnate struck Mr. Seward on the left side of
the face and then on the right side. The assassin
then raised up, and he and Robinson came to the
floor together. They both got on their feet, Robin
son still keeping hold of him. The assassin reach
ed his left arm over Robinson's shoulder, and en
deavored to force him to the floor.
Finding he could not handle him In that position,
he dropped his pistol, which bad been forced against
his face, in the hand which was around Robinson's
neck, caught hold of the letter's right arm, and
struck behind him with his Knife.
They still continued struggling towards the door,
with the intention of Robinson's to throw him over
the balustrade. They bad nearly reached the door,
when Major Seward entered the room and Robinson
called on him to take the knife out of the assassin's
hand. He immediately clutched the miscreant.—
The latter then struck Robinson In the stomach.
cocking him down, broke from Mal. Seward, and
rushed down stairs.
Daring the struggle Robinson received a wound
near the upper part of the right shoulder blade,
and a little lower down, and another on the left
shoulder.
While struggling with the assassin near the bed
side, he caught hold of the right hand which held
the dr, and did not release his hold until he was
knockedagge down near the door.
He returned to the room after the assassin had es
caped, and found that the Secretary had got otf the
bed.on to the floor, dragging with him the bedclothes
and was lying In a pool of blood.
Upon going to the Secretary he found no pulse in
his wrist and stated that Miss Seward, who had re
entered the room, asked If her father was dead.—
He answered that he believed he was. But upon a
second examination he ascertained that his heart
was still beating.
The Secretary then said : "I am not dead. Send
for the pollee and the surgeon, and close up the
house.'
He then placed the Secretary on the bed, telling
him be most not talk. Mr. Seward did not speak
after this.
Mr. Robinson remained with Mr. Seward until 11
o'clock, the next morning when he was removed to
Douglas hospital.
Every attention to being paid to this brave man by
the attendants of this Institution, and his condition
is favorable.
How the Game was Bagged.
Speck! Dispatch to the New York Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday. April 18, 18f.5.
Late last night R. C. Morgan of New York made
a lucky strike in working up the assassination plot.
Acting as one of the Special Commissioners of the
War Department, under Mr. Orcutt, he visited the
residence of Berndt on H-st., between Ninth and
Tenth.
The women were put under arrest and sent to 1
headquarters for examination. Then a search of the
house was made. Papers and correspondence of the
most Important character were found, but the most
important event transpired while search was being
made In the garret.
A peculiar knock was heard at a lower outer door.
The expert at once entered and opened the door,
when a large man confronted him with a pick-ax in
his hand. Morgan then closed the door upon him,
and quickly locking it, put the key In his pocket.
The stranger then discovering that something wan
wrong, turned and remarked that he had made a
mistake—was in the wrong house, &c. "NV ho did
you wish to see?" was asked. "I came to see Mrs.
Barrett," said he. " Well, you arc right, then—she
lives here," was replied.
He nevertheless insisted upon retiring, but a pis
tol was pointed at him and he was ordered Into the
room adjoining. His pick-ax was taken from him
and he ordered to sit down. Hero a lengthy ques
tioning and cross-questioning took place.
He stated that he was a refugee from Virginia ;
was a poor mason's son; had been brought up on a
Al iteg l'Artrifirr=rerdiftieertsgParr, b ra
then showed his oath of allegianee which he had
in his pocket, and said he had worked on the horse
railroad here.
When asked where he lived, he boggled a little.
When asked where he slept last night, he said,
"down to the railroad." When asked where the
night before that and Friday, he was still more em
bwrrassed, and equivocated considerably. He said
he came to this house to dig a drain for Mrs Barrett;
that he was to work at It early In the morning, and
thought he would come In before he went to bed,
as she would not he up to the morning.
It la proper to state that up to the question where
he stayed no suspicion had been excited that he was
other than a veritable laborer ; but the fact of hi•
coming at so late an hour led to the suspicion that
he might know something of the family connec
tions.
A glance at his hoots covered with mud disclosed
them to be fine ones; his pants, also very muddy,
were discovered to be of tine black cassimere. His
coat was better than laborers generally wear, and
nothing but his hat indicated a refugee.
He was still farther questioned, and on saying that
be had no money he was searched and twenty-five
dollars in greenbacks and some Canadian coins
found on his parson, a fine white linen pocket
handkerchief with delicate pink border, a tooth and
nall-brush, a cake of fine toilet soap and some poma
tum, for all of which he tried to give a plausible ac
count, though bothered,agood deal about his taste
for the white handkerchief In his possession.
Here his bat was examined, and found to have
been made of a fine gray or mixed undershirt, of his
own, which he had taken off to make a hatof, cut
out in confederate soldier style, and not sewed up
but pinned. This led to the conviction that he had
lost his hat, and other circumstances fixed suspic
ion that he was the aosesain of the Seward family.
The Secretary's ne doorkeeper was sent for
without the knowledge gro
of what was wanted, came
Into the room and was seated, the gas having
been turned down previously. After he was sealed
the gas was turned on brightly, and, without a word
being spoken, the poor boy started as If he bad been
shot and the pseudo laborer started and turned
deadly pale.
The recognition was instantaneous and mutual.
On being asked why he seemed so affected, the no.
scio immediately answered: " Why, dat's de ma.--
wnt cut Massa Seward," sod moving for a moment
uneasily and with Ms eyes Intently fixed upon the
prisoner, he continued: "I doesn't want to stay
here, no bow."
Major Seward and sister were tent to Identify him
this morning and did so completely. Ills
ldentlfi
cation Is absolute and he Is now a prisoner on board
s monitor. All the circumstances connected with
the arrest and detection are of the most marvelous
character.
The detectives would not have been at the house
but for the fidelity of a freedman, a poor colored
woman, and the merest accident divested him of
his well-assumed character of a poor laborer.
Other evidence makes It probable that he is one
of the St. Albans raiders. He gives his name as
James Paine, and is known hero by several atlases.
We hear the supposition is, that, finding himself
unable to get outof the picket lines, he had returned
to Barrett 's house.
The following advertisement was published In the
Selma, Alabama, Dtspateh In the month of Decem
ber last. In consequence of recent events It is cm
1y suggestive:
ONE ALMIJON DOLLARS WANTED TO RAVE PEACE
DT Ina IFIHAT Or Mancn.—lf the citizens of the
Southern Confederacy will furnish me with the cash,
or good securities for the sum of one million dol
lars, I will muss the lives of Abraham Lincoln,
William H. Seward, and Andrew Johnson to be
taken by the first of March next. This will give us
peace and satisfy the world that cruel tyrants can
not live In a " land of liberty." If thls Is not ac
complished, nand= will be claimed beyond the
sum of fifty thousand dollars, In advance, which Is
supposed to be necessary to reach and slaughter the
three villains.
will give, myself, one thousand dollars towards
this patriotic purpose.
Every one wisbing to contribute will address box
X. Eabawba:
December 14,1861.
What was the object or. Booth In seeking an in
terview with Vice President Johnson, on Friday
morning? Not to kill him, for that would foil the
other attempt, and explode the whole conspiracy--
Was it not to involve the Vice President, and cast
suspicion on him! To get him to write a note—e
Simple response toads card would do—" I shall be
happy to have an interview With Dir. Booth on—."
This dropped on the scene of murder would be an
evidence of collusion with Mr. Lincoln's destined
successor—a shallow device—but one in the fashion
of a hundred stage-plots. What other theory ac
counts for the visit to Johnson, the note, the desir
ed interview, and the expected response ?" If we
discard the idea of an intended murder of the
Vice President, this seems the only remaining con
jectnte.
P I IILADB milks ThortdaY. 401 201.13, 1865.
Gov. Curtin has issued &proclamation offering a
reward of $lO,OOO for the arrest of Booth, ' who Is
reported to have been emu ia,thlaPitate. if Riveted
1n Pennsylvania
g MT M.
Does this Account for it ?
Booth's Note to Mr. Johnson.
Pennsylvania Offers a Reward,
MM=PMI7Mw 3
The President's PnneraL
Spacial Dispatch to the Nos York Peseta •
WABlitrio.roll, Wednesday, ddillgs lB6s .
No more beautiful morning, no brighter annillerl
day, with sky clear as crystal and the air all Chart ,
ed with the ethereal brightnees of Spring, everieeti• I
ed in glory, ascended to the meridian 'Tender and
set in peace, than thin day of the obsequies of Alainel
ham Lincoln.
In the early moraing the whole city thronged WS
on the streets, not an upon a gala day, not as when
Richmond fell, not as when Lee surrendered; then
there was nioleing,—to-day there Was sorrow. The
closed shutters nod barred doors of all places of bn
einem, the black drapery of mourning that festoOned
every home, the profound solemnity that dwelt upon
every face, and the tears of strong men in the'
streets and the More than one instance where wo-
men fainted In the houses, these were not the inci
dents and attendants of joy; bd. the attestation of
grief; ordinary words lose their significance In the
oresence of facts and feelings never before known. 1
Pennsylvania-ave., down whh the cortege was to
move, was densely packed before 10 o'clock, and
yet the procession was not to move until S - ' ' 1
The privilege of viewing It from a window was sold
for ten dollars. A newsboy gave twenty-five mots
to another for his place in the top of aUm Boys •
pressed through the mass selling crape, and found
many purchaser, Everybody wore crape; every
body was silent, grave, solemn ; everybody stood ! ,
patiently awaiting the hour ; there was no disorder,
no disquiet--all were chief mourners. None betray
ed any thought unbetitting the occasion, all seemed
-to feel that the great national family bad lost Its
head, that this was the funeral of the foremost man'
in all this world.
The colored population, old and young, and all
the fifteen thousand that live In this city, were rev
erently awaiting the procession. • Messed in their
best, and all, even children in arms, wearing badges
of mourning, they talked in low tones of him that
was gone as the savior of their race, their liberator.
The organizations that were to move in the pro
cession assembled in the vicinity of the War Depart
ment beyond then Whtth Rouse, what with the
galloping of sundry bad riding Marshals and the
natural malleability of an American throng were 0-
- nally got into their designated places.
Meanwhile there were the ceremonies In the
honae, simple, solemn , fitting, and promptly at 2
o'clock the procession moves, and them are sobs
and teats now.
The dead march walls in the people's eats, the
cortege is hours passing a given point—first the
troops of the cavalry, the measured tread of the In
fantry and the bands, the long guns and Sage,
every man and every horse, every saber and
gun, every fife and drum, and every flag black
with the emblems of grief.
The stricken family, a hundred Illinoisans and
chief mourners, the Lieutenant-General an a pall
bearer, vartlias Generals and their staffs, General
Butler in citizeo`a dress on foot, with the other Bay
State men, and then the great funeral, all slowly
moving to the music of dirges, twenty thousand
following him, the man of amplest Influence, yet
clearest of ambitious crime, to the tomb, and fifty
thousand more of the mourners looking on in sym
pathy and sorrow, and then we all went each his
way.
We had all come to bury our more than dead
Cfesar, and to praise him, yet there were not
thoughts to stir up a mutiny tut at the Roman fu
neral. The feeling was too holy for turbulence,_ yet
not too abstract or sentimental for justice. Men
said, let not the traitors who are guilty of this, let
none of the prominent ones of this Rebellion ever
again become American citizens. We do not cry for
their blood, but we demand that they shall never
vote at the same polls with us, .never claim a part in
the flag they would have dishonored. C. A. P.
Dispatches to the Associated Press
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY.
The ..V.tional Intatgeluxr sae:—" We can state
on the highest authority, that it has been ascertain.
ed that there was a regular conspiracy to aasittainate
every member of the Cabinet, together with the
President
Booth, it is said, sent up his card to the Vice
President, at the hotel, but Mr. Johnson could not
conveniently Bee him. The names of the severally
appointed assassins are, we understand, known, and
alter the present investigation is concluded and pub
fished, the public will be astounded at the develop
ments From motives of public interest we refrain
from mentioning the Lama of those that reach us
at this time.
A member of the Cabinet remarked on the day af
ter the murder of Mr. Lincoln, that the rebels had
lost their best friend ; that Mr. Lincoln, at every
Cabinet runetlng, invariably counseled forbearance,
kindness, and mercy towards there lniagnided men.
The hastfitienner also - -contains the following :
"We understand, from authority that Is deemed un
questionable, that a few days ago, after an interview
between the late Chief Magistrate and the present
one, Mr. Lincoln expressed himself gratified with
their concurrent views, and said that he placed the
most implicit confidence in Vice-President John
-6011.
DESCRIPTION Or lIIE ASSASSINS
Every effort that Ingenuity, excited by fervor can
make, is being put forth by the proper authorities
to capture or trace the assassins of Mr. Lincoln and
Mr. Seward.
trerVll tratTIETE
a reward of mow for the arrest and conviction of
the assassins. To this sum another of $lO,OOO Is of
fered by Colonel L. C. Baker, Agent of the War
Department, making the whole reward EBO,OOO. To
this annoneement Is added the following description
of the Individual accused. _ _
. .
The description of J. Wilkes Booth, who usual
nat,d the President on the evening of Aprll 14th,
1865 :—Height. 5 feet, 8 inches ; weight 160 pounds,
compactly built; hair Jet black, Inclined to curl,
medium length, parted behind ; eyes black and hea
vy ; dark eyebrows ; wears a large seal ring on his
little finger; when talking, Inclines Mahood forward
and looks down.
The News in Richmond.
Special Doi-patch to the Ph aaddphia inquirer.
Waeninoron, April 19th 1865.
The following despatches from Richmond, have
been received at the Washington bureau of the
Philadelphia inquirer:
RICILMOND, Monday, April 17th, a. m.
The news of the murder of Pre.identLincoln,
reached here on Sunday morning, and was noised
around, but was not credited, except by a few of
our officers, who received the facts, and the Sweatt,
who hoped ir was true.
There was no outward manifestation of their
joy, but many of them sail they were sorry for It.
Judge Otild, the late Rebel Flag of Trace Commis
sioner, called on General Lee, who had been inform
ed of the tragedy on Sunday afternoon.
LEE JLEORETS TILE LBSASEILILLTION
L'c expressed his regret—said the South bad last
a friend : that Mr. Lincoln had shown, In the past
few daps , such a leniency that he was led to believe
that the South could make terms easier with him
than with Mr. Johnson, who was a Border State
LEE GOLNO TO LEAVE EICIIMOND
Lee said he shonid sell everything out in Rich
mond, and go down the James to Hill Carber's
place, near City Point, "and spend tho,remalnder
of his days." lie manifested no desire to go South
to make peace, or to go to Europe. Ha is not a
Union man, and never will be.
lle DON'T EXPECT TO BE DCVO.
He considers that.the parole from Grant will ex
empt him from banging In the future. He la hale
and hearty, and the only sorrow - he really feels, is
because be was unable to get men enough to kill
and destroy every man who was disposed to stand
by the Union.
E. A. Pollard has been released on pasole. He
feasts at the. Spottswood, on the, best to be had, and
sass lie will not take the oath. Ile Is a dangerous
man, and If any man Is responsible for this rebel
lion, his hands are as deep as any one.
=BEL DIPUDWICIL
The Rebels are allowed to draw forage end subsis
tence from the Quartermasters, about the same as
our own men.
They wear their swords and pistols, and boast of
their deeds of death, and their intentions in the fu
ture. More rebel uniforms than blue coataare to be
teen at the hotel table. They crowd you out, elbow
you off from the sidewalks, rejoice over the sending
sway of the negro troops from Richmond and the
old Union men, who were true to our prlaonets In
Libby, are dissatisfied with such treatment.
A. IL PAnrran.
Interesting From New York.
Ntw Yont, April 17th, 1865.
George Wells, John Gallagher, William Fanning,
and Peter Britton, the latter the trusurer of a thea
tre, were to-day each sentenced to six-months' im•
orisonment In the penitentiary, for utteringtreason
able sentiments
Last evening a round of patriotic young men vis
ited the house of Mrs. John Tyler. the widow of the
ex-Prealdent, on Staten Island, and demanded and
obtained a Rebel Bag, which has long been hanging
prominently In her parlor. Ex-Mayor Lewis, of Sa
vannah, a violent Rebel, was present, hut kept quiet.
The parlor of Nita. Tyler la where - Secessionists have
often met during the war, and wan theheadquartera
of a Rebel sewing society. Thellag was sent to Gen.
Dim
Several Secessionlate are reported to have beaten
by infuriated Unionists, on lowing thelrawful nom.
ments made on the aseasalnation. An inflammatory
placard was nomad around the city this morning,
conclodlng with " Death to Traitors! The Union,
one and Indivisible Strike often! No more par
ley
A !"
man was thrown from the Brooklyn forry-boat,
Into the liver to day for using disloyal language.—
lie was picked hp and his life saved by a passing
boat.
Both this city and Brooklyn are enveloped in
mourning, and the streets have been crowded with
promenaders since early morning viewing the deco•
rations.
The mysterious deaths of Presidents Harrison
and Taylor; the attempted assassination of West.
dent Buchanan, in order to remit the exocatlva
tbeitity into the hands al Vice President Breekin.
ridge ; the plot to bill President Lincoln at Barn
more. when be passed through that city on the way
to his first inauguration; the assassination of Pres-
ident Lincoln and Mr. Secretary Seward; all point In
one direction, and attest the ferocity of that. pro.
slavery democracy which has resolved to rule or to
thedown the pillars of the republic, and engulf
the people In direst anarchy.
M=!NwmmEMN;
MO=
The President's Aseasinn.
REWARD OVYMED.
•
Wan Trlmairti .1
WASIII2t6rIti Thursday. itteittS4 1863.
Mhos-Glmeral 4, 4 .Dirr -- ,-
Ite murderer of imitate beloSed
ham Lincoln; Is Still at huge. -Pfty thousand dolliti . s
reward will to paid by this Department fOr his rip•
prehension In adillUon to any_ relard offered' by
Municipal Authorities or BtateMirectitivii. Twenty-
Bye thousand dollars reward will be paid for the ap-
Eritlasi4l o n of R. ,
' ,l i t. n A or ro E tzm s em o es m :ll eeL
Twenty-five thousand
rfollare reward wilt be paid
the apprehension of 'David C. Harold, another of
Booth's accomplices. Liberal rewards, will be paid
for any inlormatien that shall conduce o the arrest
of either of the above named criminals, or their ac
complices. All persona harboring or secreting the
said persons, or either of them, or aiding or assist
ing their concealment or escape, will be treated as
accomplices in the murder of the President and the
Attempted assassination of the Secretary of State,
and shall be subject to trial before a milittiry.popt-,.
mission. andthe purdshinentrif death':
Let the stain of innocent Mood be removed from
the land by the arrest and punishment of the mur
derers..
All good damns /ire evhorted to aid Write justice
on this occasion. Every man should consider his
own conscience charged with tbla sacred duty, and
rest neither night per day until it be aecomphlialierL
LEE'S SURRENDER.
A letter from the Army of the Potomac, dated
ADrill2tb says :
Thu final arrangements for the surrender of Lee's
Army were completed yesterday, and today they
are at liberty to proceed to their homes. or else
where as they choose. The tame granted were ve
ry liberal
A large number of officers, together with thou
sands of the men of this army, express their dissat
isfaction not only at the unparalleled liberality gran
ted to the Army of Northern Virginia, but at the
manner In which they were paroled and allowed to
go their way without our men being permitted to
enjoy the results of their long struggle In the paw
sage through the lines of General Lee and his army.
But it is claimed that this would have been humili
ating to General Lee and his officers, and that it is
not the wish or desire of our Government or com
manders to act towards them in any way that would
tend to Irritate their feelings or make their position
MOM intolerable than it actually Is. The policy put ,
rued may have been for the best, and our soldiers
will submit, as they always do, to what is judged
• most wise.
During Sunday night and Monday large numbers
of the Rebels, as well as some of the officers, made
their escape from the lines, and scattered through
the woods, many, no doubt, intending to return
home. Our camps last night were filled with them,
begging something to eat, which of course was free
ly given-
These men, when asked if they had been paroled,
Invariably replied : "No—but we are allowed to go
where we please."
The number of men that General Lee claimed to
be able to give up, was ten thousand with muskets,
with as many more men from the commissary,
quartermaster, hospital, and other departments.—
lint our officers who have been permitted to pass
through their camps, assert that not more than
seven or eight thousand will be found to have been
surrendered.
The cavalry operating with General Lee was also
.turned over But only a very smstl force with old,
broken down horses,- could be found, report stating
that the best had been picked out and sent to Gen.
Jehnston.
There were thirty guns given up, with from SOO
, to 400 wagons.
Very little ammunition, and no supplies were
found.
As an evidence of the state of their commissary
when they reached Parmville, the residents tell us
they had been issuing ears of corn to the men for
several days previous, but that a train from Lynch
burg met them there with flour and pork ; but of
some 2,000 horses turned over to us, not more than
WO were found to be worth a single ration of forage
for each.
Capture of Raleigh, N. C
NEWBEIIN, W. C., April 15, 1865.
The Superintendent of the railroad has arrived
here from Goldaboro', and states that Governor
Vance was captured by our cavalry between Hills
born and Raleigh, on the 15th inst The report
states that he (Vance) had been sent to Sherman by
Johnston, who was at Hillsboro', with instructions
to surrender the Stateof North Carolina to Sherman,
but these Instructions were afterwards counter
manded, and Vance wasretuming to Johnston with
out having seen Sherman, when ho was captured.
Ho is now a prisoner of war, not having carried
out his mission. The report also states that Jett
Davis and family bad Joined Johnston at Hillsboro',
which is about thirty miles west of Raleigh. Wheth
er Davis arrived at Hillsboro' after Vance had been
sent to Sherman, and caused Johnston's instructions
to Vance to be set aside, does not appear.
P. 8. Sherman's forces entered Raleigh a few days
sines, and are moving on beyond that place after
Johnston, who continues to tail back without fight
-1 fug•
XONROE, .apro lb. ISMS.
The steamer Admlrsl Dupont, arrived at More
head City, N. C., and brings Interesting adtices from
lien. Sherman's forces.
Gem Sherman having left Goldsboro' in his rear,
at once struck out fogJobnston's army, hoping to be
able to force him to give battle. Johnston, however,
kept retreating, and It appears that Sherman has
met with but little resistance to bii march. •
Raleigh, N. C., was captured last Thursday, with
very little fighting, and that confined principally to
the cavalry and skirmishing between the advanced
pickets of both armies.
The supplies of Genera Bherman's army are all
onrentrated near Roanoke Island, and the vessels
lying at anchor are awaiting the orders of his Chief
Commissary.
Capture of Salisburv, N. C
Lamm, CALDRECLL Cnuarrr, N. C,
RPM 16, 1865.
The expedition under Major-f4enend Stoneman,
which left Knoxville, Tennessee, on the 10th nit,
struck the East Tr nnessee Railroad on the 14th tilt.,
at Wytheville, Cbristlatibiarg and Salem. Between
these points t hirty-three brie Fes were burned, and
twenty-five miles of track totally destroyed, and be
sides many prisoners were taken, and considerable
quantities of corn and other stores were destroyed.
On the oth inst General Stoneman moved, via
Jacksonville, Danbury and Marksville, arriving at
Grant's Creek, live miles from Salisbury, N. C., the
rebel line for the defense of the town, at 6 A. IL on
the 12th Inst.
This line, defended by artillery and infantry, was
now forced, and our forces entered llallarotry at 10
a. ar., capturing 8 stands of coleys. 19 guns, 1,104
prisoners, 1,000 stands of arms and accoutrements,
1,000,000 rounds ot small ammunition and 10W
rounds of fixed aumarmitlon and shella, 0 0000,
pounds of powder, 75,000completo suits of cloth i ng,
WO,OOO army blankets, and 20,000 pounds of bacon,
100,00/ pounds of salt, 3:1,000 pounds of sugar, 27,-
000 pounds of rice, 10,000 $ undo of saltpetre, 50,-
000 bushels of wheat, 8100 $ $ worth of medical sup.
piles 7,000 bales of cotton.
Thirteen pieces of artillery were brought away,
and all other stores net needed for our Immediate
command were destroyed. The greater part of these
sapplles bad just been received tram Raleigh. One
arsenal, machinery complete, with depots, two en
glues and trains , several bridges between Greens.
glues
and Danville, with several miles of railroad
track were destroyed. Our loss was very few In
killed and wounded. Among the latter Captain R.
Morrow. Aasistruat AdJutant•Gencral of Stoneman't
Staff.
Will Canada call Booth aßelligerent?
We should like to ask the friends of Judge Smith,
two questions. If Bnoth should escape to Canada,
be arrested and brought before Judge Smith, and it
should be found that the assassination of Mr. Lin
coln was authorized by a confederate °Meer, would
the Judge refuse his extradition on the ground of
the belligerent character of the act ? Would he de.
dare that the Ashburton treaty was abrogated, and
refuse to surrender the assassin? We pause for a
reply. To our mind' there would be as much reason
for refusing to give up Booth as the St. Aides raid
ers, supposing th at Booth could prove that he had
authority from some officer of the Confederate
States to commit the deed, which he probably had.
—Toronto Globe.
News Items.
—To kill a king is regicide. To kill the Prod
dent of a free Republic, chosen by the voluntary
suffrages of the people. is a crime without a name,
a wir.keducas too great to be deelguated.
—Justice Dowling, during the last two days, has
sent throe venomous miscreants to the Penitentiary,
for openly rejoicing in the murder of the President.
All honor to this loyal magistrate, lie hes found
law In his heart for the rebnko of thfamy, if not fur
nished to Um by the books, and the people will sup•
port and thank him—WO:air Spirit of the nmee.
—Washington correspondence states that Mr.
Seward has so far recovered from his 'trent injuries
as to be able to dictate bra dispatches to our minis
ters abroad, and they were forwarded last week.—
In those dispatches the ground is taken that the war
Is over and the Rebellion crushed. The victories of
our arms, reaolting in the fall, of Richmond and the
surrender of Lee, are dwelt upon by Mr. Seward In
emphatic terms, as an evidence of the power of our
Government to maintain its integrity end repress in
enrrectino, and it has proved that the wrestled Con
federacy has no longer even the shadow of a separ
ate existence. Mr. Seward also apprises foreign
Government* very plainly, that it la expected that
Rebel pirates will no longer be allowed to enter for
pert&
...The following impressive paragraph is from the
editorial leader of the Pittsburg Rut:—" What the
abets of Mils terrible affair will be, either at home
Or abroad, it is impossible to eoeftiVe. it will star
tle the world wherever it reaches, and be another
terrible illustration of the act that the miens 61 na
tions who die by asiassinatlon, are among the moat.
virtuous public servants the world over saw. not
the ways of the Great Ruler above are inscrutable,
and as the Savior of the world offered up hie life to
save guilty man, it may be said that President . Lin
coin's% death,. on the same slay, Goad Briday, was
necessary to tho plane of en all•isise and mysterious
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Ea==M
LATEST ram; WASEM‘CITON.
orionui, sad= To omit.= AT VICIDIOND.
R
Idsloalenerel Hensel left eh; city het erenh
for Maimed; S te stated, to relieve MUr•Genenl
Ord, ln e s d hwu cmusmdM ohpohned ,DPutmnt
of
Vyg d
orb ono To cowman LT otraarssrar.
illejor•Generet E. O. 0. Ord Is to rellsre We?.
General Q. 0. °Simon In command of the Depart.
went of .the South, bead•quarters at flbarleeton, S.
MajorGerend 0111 more Is ordered to- report In
person to the Adjutant-General of the ermy for
dens
WV SllllTAnlokivinVoi , O 7 DICIIMOND.
Brigndler•General Dent, late of Llentnuant4ene.
rat Grant's 04 has beat soloed to duty es Wilts.
ry Governor of Illelanor4tellevlnst General Shop-
ley
arssan. cizawris asux2 maims.
General Grant hint established hie reTri t An_arters In
the house formerly oconpled byGene Uthecir. and
Istti steep th ere.- - Mr s . Grant will in Burling.
ton, N. J.. 4ntri tbetr.honse In Philadelphia le ready
fittroommatlon. 'Thls atternorm the Genetatode trot
to try the tesgnitleent addle presezted tn,ldm by
some of hls hasty Mends. • • •
Tun rumunswr's Tatlci
It is understood that President Johnson Villainy
out the views of President Lindregarding the Dr.
tenor Department, and that ar James Huila
will Evened° Usher.
• PILOCLLWATION VOUTIIMING.
President - Jobson la ping a proclamation sp.
pointing • day of national mournhurtor President
Lincoln. It will probably be the 29th pf May or ISt
of June. of
first Was of national inertuabig was an
the death of General hington.
Letter from the let Pa. artillery.
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Gann , Falls, Mn., April 17th;1865.
Mr. Moss—Atm:Ram Lincoln is dead. No ads.
quote language can depict the indignation snit grid
with which we received the news. Indignation
arainat the vile authors of such a hellish plot—grid 1
that we have lost by the same patricidal hand, a Fs,
they. and our best friend. •
There are no parties now; from Democrat mina !*
publican arises a deep and mournibl wall of wee •
for what they justly deem an irreparable loss. A
wail mingled with the hoarse demand forspeedy and
condign vengeance on the perpetrators and abettors
of the detestable &ed. 'idea who but yesterday
condemned his every act; today vie With each nth.
er in praising his transcendent merit, his stern; en.
swerving integrity, and his generous, hnmane heart
Now, at the auspicious pert , od when the gnat nation. ,
al heart Is throbbing with thejoy for recent Tido- r"
des and the consequent anticipations they have
awakened, of en early and favorable-tamion
the war ; when that astute mind is contemplating
projects of reconstruction, advantageous and honor ya
-
able to the South, he dies, by the hand of a memo.
all ihe army loved him and reverenced him. Could •
the origin of the plot be traced to Southern =chi
nations the army would wreak a fearful vengeance.
Hecatombs of the slaughtered chivalry, sacrificed to
the manes of the illustrious dead, could not atone
for one drop of the blood that bedabbled the robe
of an actress.
He smote the vile reptile, even as be lay •
Coiled round our altar, poisoning at1111;is prey, r-
Expelled the foe that threatcated as a fate.
And raved from loss the sacred shield of State.
~‘
Now the great falls from us. We have need to fear
When voice like his no longer thrills the ear.
Battery H, let Pa., Light ArUry. r.
Complete Victory at Mobile. •
The City and all the Pests Taken.
am
N Oztatarta, April lab, 1814,1
via Carno April 16th, 1865.
The Times publishes official 'despatches Income.
leg the capture of Spanish Fort and Blakely, the
former at 10:SO a. tn., on the 9th, with semen Inradied .2 -
prisoners. and the latter on th e same day by assault,
and over eve thousand prisoners, with a
amount of ordnance stores, gnu-boats, and 4
troops proceeding unreeisted toward Mobtleorhlch
was captured last evening by portion of Gmenl
Smith's command, assisted -by the lighted/aught
gun-boats, after a very short residence by the enc.
my-
Another Dispatch.
. ,
Naw OaLEANN April 16th. "-
A special despatch from Cairo, 'lava :—"Oar forms
occupied Mobile on the 9th Inst. 'the Spanish Fort
was captured, with three thousand prisoners. Thom
hundred guns were captured In Mobile. The gaet.
son fell back up the river on can-boats, and by wry
of Chickasaw Bayou. Gen. Nihon has captured a '-
of Roddy's command. •
gear Vvertionnento.
L H. BURNS,
ITORMIT AT LAW. Mks Irith win= J.
oppasite s.oes PIMISOII slut Bouncy CU=•=t , 1 .
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Ventrose. Nov. 21.1934.-IS.
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Patnam's Tron Clothes Wringer.
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Administrator's Notice.
NOTICE Ishetob=otn all pane . toortegdorandsottlii
, the Estate o H. Hut. Lot* of Wet 11111brd tom.
011p.,deoesoed. that theism. moo. be proseated to the anderdp
ed for arronvoment,ml all perm. todobted to sold Loots
regarted to ma ts immediate pavm.a.
HARVET GEINNELUMmt.
Now 11:11ford.AP&24.1hC3.
PUBLIC VEIDVE.
pint 'ma...1...d knew sold be. Farm will rfEr talc o ite .
T
premise lately 011 ry Elk idder,onerroehrnsi one l c .
17, on kursds 9. Ike 29th dss of ALFA I oics.o. ik3ol , lrl p 1 PET
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Bladnitlrk Bolt eniring teosears old, !Ilene Onen, 1 Ikea -
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on, Plows, I Harem IMT IH. n'Thard Motor, and .
Farming rionnini, 9 Double and 1 t. ode Scum, and micas otl•
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T • OEM =rider SA club down.; or .11:1/& r,
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Lets. April 14. 1.999.-144.
NOTICE. -
VinrEAR. my will. Bonk A, his het z 091.11 bra
itliont )rut claw or prom:attn. I hereby SWIM all pinal
i""cau"ai T: . Evmntraetb M
ultason, A;;r11 5ith,11163.-hrp
I' : 1 4 *4;i V4:014151
(Fbrtnerty occupied by W. K. Hata,)
MONTROSE, PENN'A.,
Er .. beard and reopened g s the extrhteed= -•.r
to tbe k =Tolf the trim:ll4w: sod the ;rants of jet, [.02, •I.
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Montrose. April 24.1861,-11. apsni.aßect.
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Manu f actunn of 7
PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS,
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A. a redlnon to our math Dodoes of Photo12101 3 : 7 Mann ] . "
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Photographic Mum.
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will ee seat by man, new. to reeetpt of prim.
IW Fine Albums toade to cader.,,Al
Card Photogrgphs.
Our Catalowas now embeoces Flee Mmes.:3 demi soVV.
(to which addltioos are coutlnuallyb•lorf m 3.00 of ronnan ofg •
Welt A illetinz l eta. rte r 4: 100 Mojonlieneralo, .40 Mk
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Photozraphen and ottws contend reds p. win :"
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gW — The pekes and (panty of Our goods mums ran to
Aprn H. 1463.-4:n.
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WCYIIO2Ia bereba dorm to all Komi haalvaidemaada 40 1 1
LI the Mats ofAsallasotll, dreautd,lata of roma Lab teo
dap, that the mot MUMS be presented to the ondevidameo no, 0
dement, and all ptraoas ledtattd bold estate are froatool'
mats tmoddlata paywent. MILUN BIIItIIASL, toltet
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