WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, |1865. THE OBSEQUIES OP THB‘ XATE PRESIDENT, ABEAHAM LINCOLN A Ceremonial -will take place on this day at Washington, which will be marked by the greatest and most profound grief that any nation has ever felt—a grief which has for the last few days quenched our pride in the deepest tribulation, and rendered us apathetic even to the last triumphs which have written themselves in our history. The Obsequies of the late Chief Magis trate of the United States, the victim of a dastardly assassination, will be attended to day by thousands who visit Washington With the sole view of doing honor to his memory and appeasing their own over whelming sorrow. And thus closes the last impressive scene, after the end of the mortal life of one whom we conscientiously believe to have been the purest, most genu ine, and straightforwardly unswerving man who has ever filled the chief position in our Government. That he had faults we care not to deny. "Who is there that can lay claim to com plete spotlessness in the eyes of the Al mighty? But these faults were errors of judgment that in other mien would well nigh , take rank as virtues. They were chiefly caused by his largely.benevolent kindness of heart and amiability of dispo sition. As a ruler and statesman his sin gleness of character and upright honesty of purpose make him only second—if, in deed, he be second—to George Washing tom in the whole history of State-craft and Government. These two men stand alone, and we seri ously question whether the mournfully atrocious character of Abbaham Lincoln’s death will not give him the first place in the great national memory which, without distinction of party or political creed,has pronounced unhesitatingly his eulogium. He was most emphatically “ our father,” and has died a Martyr for his children and that Union which is at the same time our dearest inheritance and our greatest blessing. . Standing now in the presence of his Maker, he will present as clear and blame less a record as human ruler has ever laid before that God. The errors which he may have had, but to which -his pre-eminent excellence blinds our eyes, will ask for that mercy which will not be refused him, as he stands, conscious of them, yet hope ful, before the Eternal Throne. MURDER WIDE OUT. Public and ostentatious as was tbe mur der of the President of the United States and its savage accompaniment at the re sidence of Secretary Bbward, it is, never theless, shrouded with a strange, and, as yet, almost impenetrable mystery. If it be true that the leaders of this car nival of blood have been taken, much re mains to be discovered before we can see the ramifications of what really appears to have been a most carefully-digested and cold-blooded conspirae-y, to which,modern history furnishes no parallel, and which the darkest ages, even with the aid of the exag gerations of romance, have never surpassed. In this case the objects wuich the vic tims had aimed at were decidedly of' the highest and purest. They were identified" with the sublimest struggle for true civili zation and regulated liberty,and in the effort to maintain these bulwarks of human happi ness they were forced to resist the infuriated assaults of another and an antagonistic system, based upon the right to hold man in bondage. It was doubtless because this resistance had been or was about to be successful, that the wretched criminals Undertaken to remove the representative men of the Republic. These considera tions added immensely to the interest awakened by this awful transaction,, and sharpen the deßire that all concerned'in it may be brought to judgment. That this their fate we .do not entertain a doubt. Even if they are permitted to roam for a time undetected, they will only be a prey to a remorse from which there is no lining refuge or rescue. A 8 we peruße the melancholy details we are reminded of a chapter in our own history which may now be recalled, because it is a picture in some respects of the Satanic deliberation - and calculation of these bad men, and also a startling argument to show that however crime may for a period hide itself from jus tice, it is at last sure to* be. overtaken and punißhed. We refer to an extract from the speech of Daniel. Webster, on the trial of John Fbancis Knapp for the mur der of Jos»ph White, of Salem, Massa chusetts, on the night of the oth of April, 1830. Mr. White was a wealthy merchant, 82 years of age, and was found by his ser vants, in the morning, dead, and drenched with blood. The murdereflfad entered the window from a backyard* and had inflicted thirteen deep stabs, and a heavy blow on the left temple of the venerable man. ■ This frightful deed was committed in a populous and central part of the town- The house had contained many valuable articles, money inclusive, and yet nothing Was taken. A great effort was made to arrest the criminals, when, by a providential cir cumstance, they were discovered. In the midst of the.popular excitement it was announced that a heavy robbery had been committed by three foot-padß on Joseph , J. Knapp, Jr., and John EbanciS K^app, ; On the evening of the 27th of April, while they were returning from Salem. This unusual robbery was published, with the editorial remark that “these gentlemen are well known in this town, and their re spectability and veracity axe not questioned by any of our citizens. ’ ’ The robbery proved to be a fabrication, and was only reported ' for the sake of baffling and diverting public Inquiry. After a close investigation the two Knapps were arrested, and a man named Cbownikshibld, their instrument, who waß the murderer of the aged Mr, ■White, and -who, before trial, committed Suicide in his cell. The object of the Knaitb was to destroy the will of Mr. White, who had devised to the mother of the wife of one of them—to whom he was related—a legacy of fifteen thousand dol lars, whereas shs would inherit his whole estate if Tfe died intestate. Although they were hot the actual murderers, both were convicted and executed—the one for being accessory before the fact, and the pther for being constructively present as an aider or abettor of the murderer. Daniel Web BTBB prosecuted the Knapps, and in the course of Ms remarkable argument em ployed language which we reprint because of its singular appositeness to the case wMoh is now being discussed in every household. We subjoin it: “Tli# deed was executed with a degree of self possession and steadiness equal to the wiokedneßS with which It. was planned. The circumstances now clearly In evidence spread out the whole scene be fore us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, •and on all beneath hie roof. A healthful old man, to whom bleep mas sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him In their soft hut strong embrace. The aßsassln (enters, through the window already prepared, Into an unoccupied apartment, with noiseless foot he paces the lonely haU, halt lighted i lie the moon; he winds up the ascent and reaches the ■t door of thAcWtber. Ot this he moves the loclt, by l orft nTid contlntied pressure, till It turns on Its hinges | writhout tJoiFe. and enters and beholds Jiis viotiip f before him. Tfo> room la uncommonly open to the ad f Efi.oinnnfllsrht. The Innocent face of the sleeper la t Sid from the murderer, and the beams of the ) iSfresUng on the gray hicks ol his aged temple, stow him wfcere to strike. The fatal blow is givaa, and victim passes; wUbotiL* straggle or a mo tion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death! It Is the assassin’s purpose to make sure work, and he plies daggerpaiotigh it is obvious tfot life has been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises'the aged arm, that he may not fail in his aim at the heart, and replaces it again ovet the wounds of the poniard. To finish the ploturd, he explores the wrist for the pulse. He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats no longer !, It is plished! The deed Is done i He retreats: retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. «* He has done the murder. No eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and tt is safe I Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mis take. Such a secret can be safe nowhere . The whole cre ation of God has neither nooknor c orner where the guilty con bestow it , and say it is safe. Not to speak of that Eye which pierces through all disguises, and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon, sack secrets of gnllt are never safe from detection, even by men. True it & generally speaking, that ‘murder will out.* True it is, that Providence hath so ordained, and doth so govern things, that those 1 who break the' great law- or Heaven by shedding man’s blood seldom suc ceed In avoiding discovery. Especially in a case exciting so mueh attention as this, discovery must come, and will come, sooner or dater. A thousand eyes turn at once to explore every man, everything, every circumstance, connected with the time and place: a thousand ears catch every whis per : a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on .the scone, shedding ail their light, and ready to kin dle the slightest circumstance Into a blaze of, dls 'covery. Meanwhile the guilty soul cannot keep its man secret. Il is false to itself; or t rather , ilfcels an irre sistible impulse of the conscience to be true* to itself* It labors under Its guilty possession* and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a torment whloh it dares not acknow ledge to God or man, A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance, either from Heaven or earth. ■The secret which the murderer possesses soon comes to possess him; and, like the evil spirits of which we read, it over comes him, and leads him whithersoever it wills. He feels it beating at hn hearty rising to his throaty and demanding disclosure. He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes , and almost hears its workings in the very siknee of his thoughts, it has become his master $ it betrays his discretion ; It breaks down his courage; It conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with greater violence to burst forth. It must be confessed, it will be con fessed : there is no.refuge from, confession but suicide, md.smdde is confession.” Mark Ike striking resemblance between the manner in which the assassin ap proached Mr. Seward in his sleep and Mr. Lincoln from behind. The fancy, of Shakspeabe never produced such a sceue as this from real life, but it is in the last passage—-that which refers to the inevita ble discovery and' punishment of the murderers—that we may read the sure ana awful doom as well of the -principals as of the confederates in the direful tragedy of the night of Friday, April 14, 1865. The Tomb of Abraham Ulncoln. It is suggested by. the New York Times that the remains of our late and beloved President should 'be deposited at Mount Yernon at the side of those of the great man whose untiring energy and wisdom wrought out the Independence of this Na tion. We most heartily endorse this idea. Where so fitly should' Abbaham Lin coln, whose tenacity and unswerving fidelity of purpose to this Union has pre served it, rest as at the side of him who first bound it together? The love of the country for him will undoubtedly desire that this shrine of our constant pilgrimage should thus be. rendered doubly sacred to us and to our children. The Conspiracy. There cannot be much doubt, if any, that the murder of President Lincoln was the result of a.well-planned and deliberate conspiracy. It is certain, from the simul taneous action, that the bloody proceedings at Secretary Sewabd’s, and the deep tra gedy at Ford's Theatre, must been executed by two persons, at least. One of these, namely, the brutal murderer of Mr. Lincoln, certainly was John Wilkes Booth, a fanatic (who proudly claimed to be a Southern man, although some of the city press claims him. as belonging fo the North)—a man of the strongest rebel want of principle, who is now reported to; have been in the frequent habit of using threat ening language against the President. He has been identified as the man who entered Mr. Lincoln’s box, committed the murder, jumped on the stage, knife in. hand, and thence, with a knowledge of the theatre, behind the scenes, which none but a pro fessional person could have attained, rushed out of the house, through a door which had been purposely left unlocked and only on the latch, and thus effected his escape, almost'before the audience at Ford’s were -aWare that the beloved Chief Magistrate had .even been woundedi Of Booth’s identity there is no doubt whatever. The maimer in which Us retreat and that of Us associate in guilt has been covered and concealed shows that all had been pre pared beforehand. There was great danger, it is txue, to the person who shot Mr. Lin coln and to Ms associate, who literally 'ran a muck, in the Malay fashion, against every person. whom he saw at Mr. Sew abd’s.. But it was probably calculated that the unexpectedness of the double crime, aided by the active movements of, the criminals, afforded a chance of escape during the confusion. The wretches ef-, fected their escape, and it appears almost certain that they were aided, once out of Washington, either with .fresh horses to convey them away, or, which is - just as probable, into some place of concealment, already provided by thfe conspirators, so near Washington as, from that very conti guity, likely to be unsuspected. The design, still arguing on what is pos sible from the little that yet is known, must have been not only to deprive tbe country of its constitutionally-elected Head, but to involve other leading officials.. It had been announced that General Gbant, as well as President Lincoln, would visit the theatre on Friday evening. Circum stances induced him to snatch time to pay a flying visit to his family at Burlington, and it was Mr. Lincoln’s infinite good nature wMch prompted him to attend, contrary to Us own personal desire, in order that the public should not be disappointed by Ms absence as well as by that of General Gbant. It was also 'ex pected that Mr. Secretary Stanton would he present, and that Yice President Johnson might also be there. Who can say what preparations may have been made to de stroy these leading officials, had they been all present? Booth, no doubt, had de voted bimself to the" assassination of Mr. Lincoln —who can say how many others were pledged, prepared, and present to murder Gbant, Johnson, and Stanton ? Mr. Sewabd, confined to Us bed by a dan gerous accident, was separately dealt; with by another assassin. God grant that the details of the conspiracy may be developed. The South is suspected of being deeply, indeed, exclusively involved in it, and, af ter the St. Albans raid and murder, and the attempt to bum the New York hotels, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to re move that suspicion. Indeed, where elgq can it attach ? It would be ’easy to cite examples of inlers who have lieen murdered. Henby the Fourth of France was murdered-by the fanatic, Ravaillac, two hundred and fifty years ago; John re Witt, Stadholderof Holland, was massacred, nearly two centu ries since, during a sudden outbreak of the populace ; and Gustav ns the Third, of Sweden was assassinated, in 1792, by An kabstbom. But to the horrible organiza tion whose plots have culminated in the murder of that just man, President Lin coln, there is scarcely a parallel. ‘The only one at all resembling it was the Cato street conspiracy, at the commencement of the reign of Geoege the Fourth, and that was directed, not against the ruler’s life, but against the lives of his Ministers. Twenty-four to thirty disaffected men en tered into a.secret organization, the object of which was to assassinate Ministers, when assembled at a Cabinet dinner, and, in the confusion, seize the Bank of England, overthrow the monarchy,And establish a republic. The plot was re vealed to the Government by more than one conspirator, and, at the moment that the blood-thirsty ruffians were about issu ing from their haunt in Cato street, to exe cute their fell purpose, they were arrested by the police and the military, and the five ringleaders were convicted and executed. But the unhappy difference is that the con, spiracy against the ruler’s ■ ministers was 1 detected before it could accomplish its hellish purpose, while the plot, in this country, has swept away one of the noblest and best of men, and all but deprived the nation, also, of the distinguished states man who has so ably and successfully con ducted our relations with foreign Powers. “OiCCASIONAA.” Washington, April 18,1865. r V -It was my good fortune to know much of the sacrificed sage whose mortal remains are to-morrow to be borne from the .Presi dential mansion in Washington to the cemetefy of his family in ; Al though he knew that, like many thousands of Democrats who looked upon Stephen A. Douglas as the ideal of the fearless pro test against that policy of Buchanan which hatched secession into rebellion, and le bellion into .war, I had voted for that la mented statesman in 1860, this very fact made him apparently more and kind. Never having met him until' he came here to be inaugurated,-, he received and treated me like ’ an old friend, and the gelation so begun con tinued without break or pause to the hour of his murder. It was Abraham Lincoln’s utter indifference to prejudice and his fer vent love of justice that so soon fitted his otherwise inexperienced mind for the rough responsibilities of the Presidency. It was his rare temper that made him strong to smooths the rugged natures Of politicians, and to calm the unwritten storms that frequently disturb the cojunsels of the constitutional advisers of the Execu tive. The vexations that puzzled the sia cereßt and the wisest he promptly and easily composed. On .grayer and greater sub jects he was equal'to the ablest, and was,' deferred to by the most learned. Without the slightest asstifirption of "superiority, he was never nervous at the complications born of our national strife, and de manding the nicest discrimination to un ravel. As the war was of the moststu-. pendous dimensions, and for the' largest objects, it called out and taxed the strongest intellects of our age and times But it never induced Abraham Lincoln to despond or grow weary. I can never forget, and have often. narrated, an in cident which took place in New York, when Judge Douglas became a can didate for re-election to the Senate, and when he was opposed by the Republi cans and by the whole force of the Buchanan Administration. It was in the spring of 1858 when I called on the Judge, who was then staying, with Mrs. Douglas, at the St. Nicholas Hotel. He was preparing for his canvass with great* zeal, and knew that he had a hard struggle before him, The in telligence had just reached him that his Republican competitor would be Abraham Lincoln. While realizing that this fact only added to his own doubts of the result, he seemed to be flattered that his opponents had put forward their best man. Holding Mr. Lincoln’s well-known, and, for a long time, much-abused, but not the less prophetic, speech in his hand—that speech in which he shocked the slave despots by declaring that this [nation must be “all free or all slave” —with this-re markable production in his hand,-he pro ceeded to pay a high tribute to Mr. Lincoln. He said he was the leading mind of his party, the most difficult man to meet and match On the stump, and the most skilful and thoughtful statesman of his school. It is unnecessary to do more than refer to the resulting debate between these two intellectual wrestlers. If it ended in mak ing Douglas, Senator, it placed in bold re lief before the nation the future President of the United States. Hardly ..had Mr. Lincoln been" seated in the Presidential office before the seed so carefully sown by Us predecessor began to flaunt its bloody blossoms. The successful rival of Mr. Lincoln in 1858 and the defeated candidate for President in 1860 became one of - the most earnest friends of the Lincoln Admi nistration in 1861. Had he survived to this sad hour he would be among the sincerest mourners at the bier surrounded by a be reaved and stricken people. Douglas left a legacy that has been jealiusly cherished and nobly employed by his hundreds of thousands of friends. With few incon siderable and some infamous excep tions, tbe great Douglas Democracy has . been a most faithful and undeviating ele ment of the Union party, against which, as against an adamantine wall, Mr. t Lin coln could rest his measures, and from which he could repel Us assailants. There • is not a free State'; nor,irindeedi/a, glaxe- State, in Which this mighty! - mass of citi zens have not been equally* true, disinte rested, and patriotic. And now that the noble chief whom they sustained in his troubles.and trials has gone to meet their own great leader, they must see that both fell in the same cause and by the same great ,enemy. The assassin that struck them both was Human Slavery. Although Douglas did not fall by the murderer’s hand," he died of the disease contracted in boldly fighting the Disunionists. Nothing but the fact that the tiger of slavery had not yet tasted Northern blood saved Doug las from the assassin in-1860. The men who followed Us standard will not be in sensible to his counsels now, when the grate has closed over Abraham Lincoln, and when another President, of Demo cratic antecedents, needs their support. It is true that Andrew Johnson did not vote for Judge Douglas, . but like his State gave his vote to Breckinridge; but he was the first Southern man to denounce the damnable secession plot when it was re vealed to him. Who will ever forget his ter rific indictment against Breckinridge,Davis, and their associates, on the 19th of Decem ber, 1860, after Abraham Lincoln’s elec tion ? It w_as the signal for a conceited assault upon him, beginning with Davis, who was followed by Hunter, Siideli, Wig fall, Tverson, Benjamin, and, meanest and worst, Jo Lane himself. Well did Mr. Johfiion say of this, assault in Us master reply to the whole of the conspirators, on the sth and 6th of February, 1861, when they had seceded fro.m the Union. I copy his very language: Mb. Fbbmdbmt : Since I made that speech on the 19th of December, I have been the peoallar object of attack. I have been denounced because I happened to be the first man south of Mason and Dixon’s line who entered a protest or made an argu ment in the Senate against this political heresy. From what I saw here on the evening whan I oonoladed my speech, although some may have thought that tt Intimidated and discouraged me, I was Inspired with confidence ; I fell that I had struck treason a blow. * * * * * * .* . * I.thought .then, and I know now, that men who were engaged m treason felt the blow that I dealt out on that occasion. * « * * * yesterday the last of the Senators who re present what are called the seceding; States retired, and a drama was enacted. Tno plese was performed; the aotors were perfect. In all their parts; It was got up to order; I will not say that the mourning auxiliaries had been selected in advance. One of the retiring Senators, In justifying the course that his Stale Gild taken, made a very specious and plausible argument In wftKSSf »"tffe"d66if&e Oi sebfljtibij. I allude to ' tie Senator firom Louisiana, ' .* f I thought the soenewas pretty well got. up-and was acted out admirably. The plot was executed to the my letter. Ton would have thought tbit his people in Louisiana were borne down and seriously oppressed by remaining in this Union of States. Now I have an extract before me from a speech delivered by that gentleman since the election of Abraham Lincoln, while the distin guished Senator was on the western slope of the Kocby Mountains, at the' city oi ban Fran cisco. He was oalled upon to make an address; end I will read an extract from it which I find in the New York Times, the editors or which said they had the speech before them; and I have consulted a gentleman who was In OaUfornla at the time, and he tells me that the report Is correct. In that speech, after the senator had spoken some time with his accustomed eloquence, h 6 uttered this language: 11 Those who prate of, and strive to dissolve this glorious confederacy of States, are like those silly savages who let fly their arrows at the sun, ta the vain hope .of piercing it. And still the tun rolls on, unheeding, 'in its eternal pathway, shedding light and animation upon all the world.” Even after Lincoln was elected, the Senator from Lonislasa is reported to have Bald in the State of California and in the city of Sau Fran cisco that this great Union could not be destroyed. * * 0 0.0 9 9 9 gt *- Mr. Fresidesit, I never do things by haloes. lam against this doctrine entirely. I commenced making war upon it—a war for the Constitution and the Udl on—and I intend to sink or swim upon it. In the remarks I made on the 19th of December, I dis cussed at seme lengQfthe alleged rights of secession. I repudiated the whole doctrine. I introduced au thorities to show its xmsoundness, and made deduc tions from those authorities which have not been answered to this day; but by Innuendo and indirec tion, without reference to the person who used the authorities, attempts have been made to answer tils speech.' Let those who can answer the Speech, answer the authorities, answer the conclusions which have been deduced from them. What friend of the lamented Lincoln, what friend of the lamented Douglas, “Will refuse to stand by a President who, in the very dawn of Rebellion, broke the bonds of party, and, with Ms own brave i heart beating proudly in his bosom, hurled his scornful denunciations upon the traitors ? And what of the murderers ? As I write it is rumored that Booth and the other in satiate assassin, who attempted to slay Mr. Seward, Ms sons, Ms nephew, and Ms attendants, have . been captured. The more I reflect upon this dreadful tra gedy, the more do I doubt the possibility ‘HESS.—PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19,*865. THE of, those ,-Wio consummated it being hu man. History wi]i W- studied in vain for ,a .parallel. The exaggerations of romance! r the traditions of barbarism, and the le gends of the dark ages are exceeded by this awful reality. When we think of the in nocence and [eminence of the victims, their 'virtues, their talents and their patriotism, and the long weeks of preparation,, the de liberate calculation, the evident concert of action, and the horrid perseverance in the very erisisof the double and quadruple crime Of thejmdrderers, weare in a maze of painful bewilderment. Can it be that these wretches bore the image of their Creator? Can the, htimah fraine be; filled with the bate and the crueltylof the’ devils'them selves ‘r If this is true, itfmustTbe for some inscrutable purpose—probably to give us a new proof of the wickedness of slavery; and yet, more probably, to hasten the. com plete, overthrow of that- accursed sys tenu'vW® shall all .rejoice if the* authors of this carnage have been arrested; but how can -their execution expiate their—guilt?. They, will attempt to brave it out—to make a parade,of death as they have made a havoc of • life—to cnact_a_ drama on the.scaffold as thiy con summated a tragedy at the theatre and the 'domestic fireside. What-if they are trans mitted, as they will be, to endless shame ? This is no compensation for a loss like ours ; we must be content with the .reflect tion that the patriot we have lost can never be fiorgotten, and that, if his assassiiis are consigned to unending infamy, hii’fame and his name will be cherished while time endures. • 1 - -Odo^bsAi. WA6HIN GTOW. lioioitaiK gsMaratorytopa7lDg their xetpeots to his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President otthe United States, Governor Ogelsby accompanied by Senitor Blohard Satesi General Isham N. Hayne, .ex'Senator O. K. Browning, Hon. Phillips, General JY F. Farnsworth, Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, Hon. John Wilson, General Gamble, Colonel John S. Xioomls, Colonel J. T£‘. Bowen, Governor Pickering of Julius White, Hon. J. M. Hanna, MXjatsfe Walt, Major W. O. Carroll, Major P. Flynn, and a large concourse of citizens repaired to the’ rooms bl Pre sident Johnson in the treasury building, Governor Ogelsby presented the delegation and addressed the President as follows: Mb. Pbbsukbmx: I take muoh pleasure In present* lug to you tils delegation of citizens-of Illinois, representing almost every portion of the State. Wo are drawn together m this city, by the mournful events of the past few days, to give some feeble ex* presslon to the feeling we, la common with the whole nation, realize as pressing us to the earth, by appropriate and respeetfoloeremonles. We thought It not Inappropriate, before we shall separate, to seek this interview with yom Excellency, that while the bleeding heart la pouring out Its mournful anguish over the death of our beloved late Presi dent, the Idol of our State, and the pride of the whole country, we may earnestly express to.you, the living head of this nation, our deliberate, fall, and abiding confidence in you ah the one who, In these dark days, must bear upon -yourself the mighty responsibility and directing its affairs. In the midst of thlasaduess, through the oppressive gloom that surrounds us, we look to you and.to a bright future for our country. The assassination of the President .of tho United States deeply depresses and seriously sheravateg the entire nation j but, under our blessed Constitu tion, It does not delay or, far any great length ol time, retard its progress—doss not for an instant disorganize or threaten its destruction. The record of your whole past life Is lamliiartous. All the splendor of your roeent gigantic'effort*to stay the hand of treason and asassßinatton, and festore the fisg to the uttermost bounds of tho Republic, as sure that noble State we represent, and.’wabelieve, the people of the Halted States,that we may safely trust Its destinies in your hands, and to tills end we come in the name of the State of 'flllnou, and we confidently believe 1 fully and ,faithfully expressing the wishes of our people, to present a pledge to you, the cordial, earnest, ana unremitting purpose of our State to give to your adnfinisthatton the strong support we have heretofore glvenjta the administra tion of our lamented late President, the .policy of which we have heretofore, d« now,-and Khali oon tlnueto endorse. The President add,: / Gehtlbmbn : Ihave listened with profound emo tion ,to the kind words you have addressed to me. The visitor this large delegation, to jft»eak to ms through yon words of encouragement, f had not an ticipated. In the-mldat Of the saddeaing olronin atacees which furround ns, and thSaminehse re-' sponelhllity thrown upon me.-an expression of the cor iidence of individuals, and silll more of an in- ' fluehtial body like that before me, .'rapresenting a great Commonwealth, cheers and stfengt'aens my heavily, burdened mind. I aru at afloss lor jworua : to respond. In an hour like this, of deepest sor row, were it possible to embOdJ.ln words, the feet lngs of my bosom I could not command my Ups to utter them. Perhaps thebosfreply I could>make and the one most readily appropriate to, .your Jind assurance of confidence, w«IA MF to receive them In silence. [Sensations! The. throb blng of my heart since the sad'catastrophe'Which -has- appalled us-cannot here,lured to w*#ds,' and oppressed as 1 am with the new and greatreJtponal bliity which ha# devolved upon me, saddened with grle!, 1 can with difficulty respond ijo yea at -alh But I cannot permit such expyesslbss of the ;eonU denoe reposed In me by thepßbnie fw past- without acknowledgment. -To,an Individual like myself, who has never claimed much,butWhOhas, it Is true, received from ' a generous people many maSts 01 truEt aed honor for a long time; an ocoasloa Hko . this and a manifestation-of feeling so well-timed are peculiarly acceptable. Springing from the peo ple myself, every pulsation of the popular-'heart finds an Immediate answer la my Own. .By many men In pnhllo Uie EUhh'Oooasions are often consider ed merely formal.: To mo they are real. Tear words or countenance and encouragementsink deep In my heart, and were I even, a ,CO ward-1 coafil not but gather from them St&kgfh tO carry out my con-. ViOttOBB Of right. ' : , Thus feeling, I shall, enter upon .the discharge of mv great duty firmly andsteaefastiy—fappiausa]— If not with tho signal ability exhibited by my prede cessor, which Is stUlfi*slL.fU’our sorrowing minds. Need I repeat that no hOattfeols moresenel&iy than mine tills great a Auction T- In What I say'oa this oc casion I shall Indulge: so petty pplrtt of anger ; no feeling of revenge, bpi are have beheld a nota ble event in the bla tof’r of. mankind. In the midst of the American people, -Where every citizen is taught to obey the laws amt ’Observe the rules of Christian conduct, our Chief Magistrate, the be< loved of all hearts, has beenassasßlnated; and when we trace this crime to Its cause, when we remember theßource whence the assassin drew hfs Inspira tion, and then look at the result, we stand yet more astounded at this most barbarous, most diabolic as sassination. Such a crime as the miirder of a great and good man, honored and revered, the beloved and the hope of the people, springs not alone from a solitary individual, of ever so desperate wicked ness. we can trace Its cause through successive steps, without my enumerating thdmhere, hick to the source which Is the spring of all Our woes. No one can say If the perpetrator of the fiendish: deed be arrested ho should not undergo the extfemejt penalty In law known for crime. None trip Say that mercy should Interpose ; but, ,1s ho alone guilty 1 Here, gentlemen,-you-, perhaps, expect me ' to present some indication of my future policy. One thing I will say—every era teaches its lessons. The times we live In are not without Instruction. The-American people must be taught, If they do not alreadyfeel, that treason Is a crime, and must he punished. [Applause ]: That the Government will not .always,bear with its .enemies; that It Is strong, not, only to propeofc, but to. punish. . {Ap planfo.] when we turn to the orlmiEhl code and examine the catalogue'of-orlmes, wo there, find, arson laid down as a orftne, With its: appropriate penalty; we there find. theft androbbery andmar der given as crimes, and there, too, we .find the last and highest of crimes— Treason! [Applause.] With other and inferior offences our people are familiar, but lit our peaceful history treason has been almost unknown. The people must understand thatitis theblaokest of crimes, and will be surely punished. [ Applause.] I make the allusion not to exalte the already exasperated feelings Of the public, but to polntout the principles of public justice which [hould guide our action at this particular junctors, and which accord with sound public morals. Let it be engraven npon every heart that treason Is erlrno and traitors Bhall suffer the penalty. [Applause.] While we are appalled, overwhelmed at tno fali of one mau in our midst ny the hand of a traitor, shall we allow men, I care not by what weapons, -to at tempt the life of the State with Impunity T While we strain our minds to comprehend the enorlilty of this assassination, shall we allow the nation to be assassinated I[Applause.] I speak in so spirit, of unklndness. I leave the events of the tutute MS be disposed of as they oeonr. Begardlug myself a# the. humble Instrument of the American people In this, ’ as in all things, justice' and judgment shall fie do termlnedby them. I do not harbor, filler Of re vengeful feelings towards any. In general terms I Wbulj.foy that public mqrftifASd public opinion ’ Shouldbotr.SLoiea upon the n&tt afijPlnafxiblfi principles of justice. [Applause.] tho question of exercising mercy comes boiof* me, it will be eonsldered.oalmly and judiciously, re memberlng that I am the Exebutlvu of the nation. I know that men love to have their names spoken of In connection with acts of merfiy, and how easy it is. to yield to this Impulse, but wo must not ICrget that what is mercy to the. Individual is oruelfyfto the State. [Applause.] In the e&erclge of mercy there should be no doubt left that this high prerogative Is not used to relieve a few at theexpenseof the many. Be assured I shall never forget that I aim not to con sult my own ieeling alone,-bilt to give an account to the whole people,. [Applause ] in regard to my future course I will now make no professions, su pledges. I have been connected somewhat actively with public affairs, and to the history of my past public acts, which is TamUlar to you, I refer for those principles which have governed me heretofore and will guide me hereafter. In general, I will say, I have labored for the amelioration and elevation of the great mass of mankind. My opinions as to the nature • of popular government have ’Wong been cherished, and constituted - as I am it Is now too late In life for me Ito- change them, I believe that government was’made for man, not man for government. [Applause:] This straggle of the people against the most gigantic re bellion the world ever saw, has demonstrated that the attachment of the people to their government Is the strongest National defence human wisdom can devise. [ApplauseJ So long as each man feels that the interests of the Government are his Inte rests, so long as the public heart turns In the right direction, and the people understand and appre ciate the theory of .our Government andlove liber ty, our Constitution will be transmuted unimpaired. If the time ever cornea when the people ahalpfall it, the Government will fall, and we shall cease to be one of the nations of the earth. Alter havliig pre served our form or tree government, and shown its power to maintain its existence through the Flolsai tudes of nearly a century, it may be that it was ne cessary for ns to pass through this last ordeal of in testlne strife to prove that this. Government will not perish from internal wbaknewi bat will ever stand able to defend Itself against all, and to punish treason. ~ [Applause/l In the dealings of an inscrutable Providence, and by the operations or the Constitution, I%ave been thrown unexpectedly into this position, My past life, especially my course during the present Unholy rebellion, is before you. Ibava no principles to re. tract. I defy any one to point to any of my public acts at variance with the fixed prinolpJesjwMoh have guided me through lire. I have faoproftsslons to offer. Professions and promises would bej worth nothing at this time. No ono can foresee the cir cumstances that will hereafter arise. Had any man gifted with preselenoe four years -ago uttered and written down In advance the events of this period, the story would have seemed more marvellous than anything in the Arabian Nights. £ shMt not attempt to anticipate the future. As events* ooour, and it becomes necessary for me to aot, I snall dis pose of each as It arises, deferring any declaration or message until It-can be written b y pars graph In the light of events as they transpire. Tho'members ol the delegation were then seve rally introduced- to the President by Gen. Oglesby. -ltmvisw OX THU PEKBIDBHT WITS THE CHaiS TIA» COMMIBSION. Directly after the Illinolslanß reared the Presi received a J&Tge number of delegates of fca« Christian CommlsaioD,- temporarily residing tti Washington. Tho JRev. Mr. Borden, of Al&any* delivered a brief but eloquent and Impressive ad dress, recognized Mm as oalled In the Provldcnre of God to have rule ovor the nation. Tn the tiftit public service of the President they had. a truer foundation of hope for the Juturej and, now, as they lcok«d on the face of his Illustrious prede rtonfor. whose sad death had moved the country to tSrsf’thcy believed that God had sent him as Moses, to lead the people* and h*s successor as Joshua* to give them a land of promise, and that the BcmlniEtratlon of justice aod mercy everywhere follow the success of our arms. Their prayers were* for an enduring peace ana an the bWsln«sot free government. , The Preeidetrt rrplled, that such were his foellngs in oonsequence of the late afflicting event ha could notTiespond in appropriate terms. best rep& would be silence. He, however, achuow. ledued his Mianfes for the kind sentiments expressed. Although he .might fail, he would promise that he would undertake the performer ce of tbo groat and reßponslble dnUeadevolvltiK bb o ? ,^ lm > ' zeal of an honest heart. Be had knowledge of and aoDreoiated the - officers of the Christian Oommis siom He always had an abiding faith in tne people, Mdlortelon the Government as based upon the principles of human rights. This nation’s mission is not vet , oompleted. £t tt in our hands. When we look at the country’s condition it K»-vo_a. oom plete contradleiion to tte essaraptmu ene mies. in the midst of treason and rebellion we find that we will triumph at civil war which has covered the laed With glo®m> and while the entire oonntry were rejololagover the triumphs of the straggle, there has neon an as sassination the most atrocious and dlaboffeal tho world has ever witnessed ; while the nation was jubilant the Chief Magistrate was stricken down like a star from its sphere. An interregnum or hiatus was created in the Government. In Franc*, for Instance, under similar olronmstanoes, there would have been scenes of anarohy; but not so here, where the Government is founded on jnseloe and • ri ?Te have developed the great truth that It Is strong enough to preserve its- existence whilo sup pressing all public disorders within onr wlpely ex tended limits. The-Government is made for the people, and not ike people for the Government. He was no Beotarlan. He claimed a charity coextensive wlihthe human family. He believed, In tim lan guage ol another, “that religion IS an’arch of pro mise spanning humanity, with Its ends resting on tho horizon.” Bellgion is seen in its acts more than. I’ B professions, and good deeds never eßcape reeogni tlOß* •/ . He then repeated tbs sentiments regardiag bis future pubilo course, similar to those addressed to the Illinois delegation,saying: The time had oome when intelligent men, like those before him; should exert their moral influence In erecting a standard by which everybody should ba taught to believe that treason Is the highest crime known to the law, and that the perpetrators should be visited with the punishment which It deserves.: The sentiments met with -hearty responses of "iinei.” ; '/ ''V : ' . ' The gentlemen were then severally introduced to the-Fresident, and all expressed themselves highly gratified with the interview. THE PERUVIAN MINISTER. Sefior Don Josb Ahtouio Gauoia yesterday presented his credentials to the Acting Secretary of State, and was received as the charge d’affaires of the Bepubllc of Fern to the United States. CONSULS RECOGNIZED. Robert Barth has been appointed consul of the Grand Dttohy of Mecklenburg Sohwerin, and also consul of the Electorate of Hesse at St. Louis, and A. OhAnesEHiua consul of the Grand Duchy of Mechlesbnrg Schwerin at Chicago. They have been recognized by onr Government accordingly. THE OBSEQUIES. The Last Honors to tlto National Martyr. THE CEREMONIES IN WASHINGTON THE EOtTIE OF THE EEHOVAL TO rLiINOIS OEEEBB OF THE STATE AND TBEA BVB.Y DEPARTMENTS. WASHiMOTOir, April 18.—The body of the late President is lying in state in the East Boom of the Executive Mansion. Thousands of persons, of both sexes, are thronging thither, forming a long line of procession, and being admitted in the order in which they approach the Executive Mansion, A raised platform, on which to accommodate six hundred pessohs, has Men erected all around the East Room. * The guard of honor In attendance on the remains tc-nlght consists of Major General Hunter, Adju tant General Thomas, General Dyer, Colonel Ord, and Captains C. E. Nesmith and Dewees, of Gene ral Humphrey's staff. The order of the funeral ceremonies is as follows: Reading a portion of Scriptures, by the Rev. Dr. pale. Opening prayer, by Bishop Simpson. Funeral' address, by the Rev. Dr, Gurley, mid closing .prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Gray. The eotpse will be conveyed to tho Capitol, where Dr. Gurley will repeat the gervloe and pronounce the benediction. THE IBAItSI-Oltl'ATlOtt on THE BBKAIUS SO ILLI- . ‘ Governor John Brough, of Ohio, and John W. Garrett, -Esq., have, upon the request of the War Department, consented to act as a committee to make arrangomonts -for the transportation of the remains, of president Lincoln from Washington to >thelr fiiiitl. risSting plane. They, are authorized to arrange the ifiaetableswlth the respective railroad companies,:afid-to do and regnlate all things for the safe and appropriate transportation. The programmc % the tomsportation brFrasl dent LtEcoin’B remains from Washiugiori lias been Issued. ” The railroads over which the remains trill pass are declared military roads, aubject to the or der of the War Department, and the railroada, loco motives, cqrs> and engines engaged In said,trans portation are subject to the military control of Brig. General McCallnm, No pepsonwUl be allowed.; to be transported on the oars constituting the funeral train save those who are specially authorised by the orders' of the 'Why Department. 1 The funeral train will not exceed nine oars, in cluding baggage and hsarse-car, which will pro ceed :over the whole route from? Washington to Sprlngfleia. The time schedule for the transportation is as follows: . Leave Washington Friday, April 21,8 A. M. Arrive at Baltimore, Friday, April 21,10 A. IS, Leave Baltimore, Friday, April 21, 3 P. M. Arrive at Harrisburg, Friday, April 21,8.20 P. M- Leave Harrisburg, Saturday, April 22, 12 it, , Arrive at Philadelphia, Saturday, April 22: 6.30 P.M. ' - Leave'Fbiladelphla, Monday, April 24,4 AM.. Arrive at New York, Monday, April 24, 10 A. M. Leave New York, Tuetday, April 25,4 P. M. Arrive at Albany; Tuesday, April 28,11 P.TSL - Leave Albany, Wednesday, April 26,4 P. M. . Arrive at Buffalo, Thursday, April 27, 7 A. M. Leave Buffalo, Thursday, April 27,10.10 A. M. . Arrive at Cleveland,-Friday, April 28,7 A. It. Leave Cleveland, Friday, April 28, midnight.'' ' Arrive at Columbus, Saturday, April®, 7 30 A. M.- LeaveColumbUß, Saturday, ApriV29, BP. M, , .Arrive at Indianapolis, Sunday, April 30,7 A, M. Leave Indlannpols, Sunday, April 30, midnight.' Arrive at Ohleago, Monday, May 1,11 A. M.:: - . -Leave Chicago, Tuesday, May 2,9.30 P. M. „ , Arrive at Springfield, Mdnday„May s, BA. M. " At various points on the' jronte, whore his re ■ mains are to be taken from thus hearse-oar by State or municipal authorities, to 'receive public honors, according to the aforesaid programme, the authori ties will make such arrangemenfsas may be fitting and appropriate to the occasion, under the direction of the military commander of the division, depart ment, or district, hut the remains wlll'obntlnue al ways under the special charge of the officers and escort asalgned by the War Department The route from Columbus to Indlanapolio is via the Columbus and Indianapolis Central Ballway, and from Indianapolis to Chicago via Lafayette and Mlohlf gan City. In order to guard against accident, the train will not run faster than twenty miles an hour. OKDBB BY THB AOTIKO 6KCJEKTART OP STATU. Dkvaktmbut on Stats, Washikotoh, April 17,1865. It is hereby ordered that, In honor to the memory of our late Illustrious Chief Magistrate, all Officers and others subject to the orders of,the Secretary of State wear orape on the left arm for the period of six Months. Wm. HtrsTuni" . AoticgSeoretary of State, OBDEEB OB TBB TBBAST7RY DBPABTMSKT. ■ Tbbasubv Dbpaktmbnt, __ ■■ Wasbikotoh, April 17, 1885. The Secretary or the; Treasury, with profound Eorrow, announces to, the revenue marine the death of Abraham Lincoln, late -President of the United Stater, He died In this city on the morning of the 15th Instant, at twenty-two minutes past 7 o’clock. The officers -of the revenue marine will; as a manifestation of their 'respect for the exalted character and eminent public cervices of the illus trious dead, and of their sense of the calamity the country has sustained by this afflicting dispensa tion of Providence, wear erape on the left arm and upon the hilt of the sword for six months. It is further directed that funeral honors be paid on board all revenue vessels in commission, by firing thirty-six minute guns, commencing at meridian on the day of the receipt of this ordeT, and by wearing their flags at half-maßt. Hcoh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury. THE ASSASSINATION PLOT. CAFTUKB OF OWE OB THE PEDST OIPAL CONBPIBATOBS. AN ACCOMPLICE TAKEN IN CUSTODY, Wassikotos, April is.—About three c’olook this morning a man clad In laboring clothes, covered with mud, and bearing a piok-axo on his shoulder, was arrested entering a house occupied by members of the Surratt family on H street, be tween Ninth and Tenth, On moving the mud from his person he turned out to be of much more genteel appearance than his disguise indicated. ; - He has since his arrest been confronted with those at Secretary Seward’s, who saw the Secretary's as saUant on Friday night, and he was at oneeldenti fled as the man. It is reported that his name Is Paino, but the full particulars have not yet trans* pired. Surratt, it is now believed, was not a direct actor in the assassination, but Beems to have been in some way Implicated in the plot. Upon the pri soner being brought to Gen. Augur’s headquarters this'morning, Mr. Seward’s coloredservant, who was at the door at the time the assassin applied for admission, wss Bent for. The servant had acknow ledge of the arrest of the prisoner, but upon enter ing the room in which the prisoner and a number of persons were, instantly'exclaimed, “ Why, here ib the man that cut Mr. Seward.” BOOTH BAJTD TO BB HBABBO OIL ; Ealtimoek, April 18.— A gentleman, who ; was at Point Bcohout yesterday morning, was Informed by an office* of .one of our gunboats that Booth and other conspirators, about thirty In number, were In St. Mary’s county,’ heavily armed,'and endeavoring to make their way across the Potomac, which was stroThly picketed, and no on* was allowed to pass. He a?BO stated that on Sunday evening a small squad or onr cavalry bad a “"““f one bed been repulsed, but succeeded in capturtnif oaa of them. In tbe meant ime our ca,a ' r n y forced, end yesterday morningwo.e unde.sitmW to have them completely surrounded, and tbelr escape was deemed impossible* . BBWASrt FOB TSB ABBBST OF BOOTH. Bai/timokx. April 18.— The City Councils have offered a reward of ten thousand dollars for tba oi rest of tbe assassin of President Lincoln. Tbe reel Jug here against Booth Is greatly Intensified by the fact that he Is a Baltimorean, and onr loyal pecpia are anxious that one who so dishonored the fair fame of Baltimore should meet*wlth spoedyjastica. ABEKBT OB 088 OB THB COBSBIBATOB3. Baltimokb, April 18. —A highly Important ar rest has been wade here. The name of the party * withheld at present. He has madeafutl oone#- slon, being onb of the conspirators against the ft of the President, and acknowledges himself to bo tLe autbc* of the letter signed "Sam,” which as round in Booth’s trunk. It U understood that he parti alluded to states that the original design of the conspirators was merely to capture the Pre sident some tlmebaok-aridtin thw way compel a general release of all the rebel prisoners then held by the United states. That when the gene ral exchange commenced, the project was aban doned by him and others, and he says he refused to haye anything further to do with It, and endea vored to induce the others to give up their designs ■upon the life of the President. This la substan tially a correct version of what the prisoner has so far divulged. He is a well-known resident of Baltimore. TEH IDENTITY OB THB ASSABSIH OB HE. BBWABD. The person arrested this .morning was supposed to be Surf att, but there Is reason to believe that the desperado is no other than "Thomas,” the so exiled u French lady,” who, It will be remembered, cap tured the, steamer St. Nicholas In 1881, and who was subsequently apprehended, tried, convicted, and senteneed to the penitentiary, from whlohfby some means, he was released. Nothing positive, however, is'known on the snbject. Secretary Seward la much better to day, as is also Frederick Seward,, who Is gradually regaining full consciousness, and. it is now confidently hoped and expected that both the Secretary and his son will ’speedily recover.' ' •CHE ASSASSIN J. Mil l, IDS BOOTH. His Xeasons fox Commuting the Heed. Wo havejnet received the following lotter, writ ten by Join Wittes Booth, and placed, by him In the hands of his brother-in-law, J. S. Clarke. It Was written byhim In November last, and left with j. S-ICIKSe tn a sealed envelope, and addressed to himself, in hTs own handwriting. In the same enve lope were someJCniled States bonds and ollatooks. This letter was opened by Mr. Clarke for the first time on Monday last, and immediately handed by him toMarshal Millward, who has kindly; placed it in pur hands. ‘Most unmistakably it proves that he must fof many months have contemplated seising the person of the late President. It is, however, doubtful whether he imagined the black deed which has plunged the nation into the deepest gloom, and at the same time awakened it to a just and righteous indignation: , 1884. Hr Peak Sts: You may me this aB you think best. Bat ai'tome may wish to know when, who, and why, and as I know not haw to direst) I glye It (la. the words of yoor master) “ To whom, it may concern " : Bight or wrong, God jndge me, not man. For be my motive gobd or bad, of one thing I am sure, the lasting condemnation of the North. I lore peace mole' than Hfe. Hare loved the Union beyond expression, e’er foar years hare k watted, hoped, ahd prayed for the dark olondsto break, and for a restoration of onr former sunshine. To wait longer would be a crime. All hope for peace Is dead. My prayers have proved as Idle as my hopes. God’s will be done. Igo to'see and share the bitter end. I have ever held the South were rlght. The very nomination of Abraham Lincoln, four years ago, spoke plainly war—war upon Southern rights and institutions. His election proved It. “Await an overt act.” Yes, till you are bound and plundered. "What folly 1 The South were wise. Who thinks of argument or patience when the finger of his enemy pi esses on the trigger 1 la a foreign war, I, too, oould say, “Country, right or wrong.” Bat In a struggle' such as ours (where the brother tries to pierce the brother’s heart), for God’s sakehhboso the right. WJen a country like this spums’justtce from her side, she forfeits the allegiance of every honestfrecman,and should leave him, untrammelled by any fealty soever, To act as his conscience may approve. People of the North, to hate tyranny, to love liberty and. justice, to strike at wroiig and oppres sion, was the teaching of onr fathers. The study of ourearly history will not let me forget It, and may it never. This country was formed for the white, not for the black man. And, looking upon African slavery from the tame standpoint held by the noble framers of our Constitution, I, for one, have ever considered .(t one of the greatest blessings (both for themselves and us) that God ever bestowed upon a favored na tion; Witness heretofore our wealth and power; witness their elevation and enlightenment above their race elsewhere. I have lived among it most of my life, and have seen toss harsh treatment from master to man than I have beheld in the North from 'father to son. Yet, Heaven knowsy ito one would "be willing to do more for the negro race than I, oould I hut see a way to etill belter their condition. Bull Idncoln’s policy fa only preparing the Way for their total annihilation. The South ore not, nor have they been, JtgtUinftoit he oonticasnco of slavery. The first battle of Ball Hun did away with thajt Idea. Their causes sir.ee for war have been as noble and greater fer than those that urged our fathers on. Even ekcuklwe allow they were wrong at the beginning of this contest, cruelty and in justice have made lie wrong become the right, and they stand now (before the wonder and admiration of the world) as a noble band of patriotic. heroes. Hereafter, reading of their deeds, Thermopylie will be forgotten. *When I aided in .the capture and execution of John Brown (who was a murderer on onr western border, and who was fairly fried and convicted be fore an impartial judge and jury, of treason, and who, by the way, has eln.ee been made agod), I was proud of my little share In the transaction, fori, deemed It my duty, and that I was helping our com mon country to perform an act of justice. But what was a crime In poor John Brown is now considered (by themselves) a* the greatest and only virtue Of; the whole Republican party. Strange transmigra tion ! Vice to become a virtue, simply because more Indulge In It! - X thought then, as now, that the Abolitionists were the only traitors In the land, and that the entire party deserved the seme fate as poor old Brown, not because they wish to abolish slavery, but on account of the means they have ever endeavored to use to effect that abolition. If Brown were living I doubt whether he himself would set slavery agalaßt the' Union. Most, or many in the North do, and openly cursetheUnlon, If the South are to, return and re tain a single right guaranteed to them by every tie which?we once revered as sacred. The South can make no, choice. It Is either extermination or Blayery for themselves (worse than death) to draw fiomr I know wy oholce. . Ehave raise studied hard to discover upon what grounds the right of a State to secede has been de nied, when our very name, United Spates, and the Declaration of Independence, both provide for se cesElcn. But there Is no time for words.. I write in haste. I know how foolish T shall be deemed for undertaking such a step as this, where, on the. one side, I have many friends and everything to make mo happy, where my profession alone hue gained me an income of more than twenty thousand dollars a year, and where my great personal ambition In my profession has such a great field for labor. On . the other hand, the South have never bestowed upon' me one kind word; a place now where I have no friends, except beneath the sod; a’ ’place where I must either become a private soldier or a beggar. To give up all of the farmer fbr Jftp. latter, besides my mother and sisters whom I love* so dearly (although they so widely differ with me in opinion.) seems Insane; but God is my judge. I love j-ustice more than I do a country that disowns It; more than fame and wealth; more (Heaven par den-me if wrong) morothan a happy home. I havo " never been upon a battle-field; but oh! my country men, could you all hut see the reality or Affects of this horrid war, as I havo seen them (in every State, save Virginia,) 1 know you'would think like me, and would pray ihe Almighty to create in the Northern mind a sense of right and justice (even should it possess no seasoning of meray), gRd that Ho would dry up this sea of blood between 'us, vhfleh is daily growing wider. Alasl poor country, isshe to meet herthreatened doom !; Four yearn ago I would have given -a. thousand lives to,* see her remain (as Ihadalways known her) powdr* • fol and unbroken. And even now I would hold my life ss naught to seeder what she was. Ohl my friends, If the fearful scenes of the past four years had never been enacted, or if what has been had -been but a frightful dream, from which we . could now awake, withwhat overflowing hearts could we bless our God and pray for his continued favor! How I have loved the oldjteg can never now bs known. A few years slnco and the entire world eould bout of none so pure.and spotless. But I have of late bean scelngfand hearing pf the bloody deeds of which Bhe idea been made me errr blest, and would Bhudder to'think how changed she had grown. Oh! how I have longed to iee her break from the mist of blood and death that clr-. cles round her folds, spoiling her beauty, and tarnishing her honor. But no, day by day.has she been dragged deeper and deep® Into ordeit 1 ? and oppression, till now (in my eyes) hew once bright red stripes look Ilka bloody \ashes on the face of Heaven. I look now upon my; early admiration of her glories as a dream. My love (as thingß stand to-day) is .for the South alarm. Nor do I deem’ it a dishonor In attempting to make for-her a prisoner of this man, to whom she'owes so mnoh of misery. If success attend me, Igo penniless to her slde. They say die has found (bat “last ditch" which the North have so long derided, and been endeavoring to force her in, forgetting they are our brothers, and that it is im politic to goad an enemy to madness. ShouMll reach her in safety and find it true, I will proudly beg permit sion to triumph or. die in that! same, “ ditch” by her side. j ■ 1 A Confederate , doing duty upon his own responsi bility. J. Wilksb Booth. KENTUCKY. ' PROBABLE SURRENDER OF THE REBEL GENERAL LYON. St, Dome, April 17. —A despatch from Paducah announces the probablo surrender of the rebel General Lyons to General Meredith. Loujbvillh, April 17 The guerilla chief, Ma jor Walker Taylor, Captain Taylor, and five or his mein; who sutmmdeied thfsmselyesjto Dr. Owlnas, member Of our LegisJatrirei under tUeTato order of General Pab&em arrived here on the Henderson packet-boat this morning. i The guerilla chlef-Captaln Bowley, who Was cap. turedby General Stedp back of Oleveßport camp, alsooameonthe same boajjja a prisoner. latest from mobile. . DESPATCHES FBOM GEN. CASBY. CAPTUBE OP SPANISH POST AND FOBS BLAKELY. r»ty Onus anilKearly Three Thousand prisoners Valtenu MOBILE OCCUPIED BY -GEN, GKANGEB’S FOSCFS ON THE 12th, THE STABS AND STRIPES FLOATING OVER THE CITY. OFFICIAL G AZETTE. W ajshikgtok, A pril 18 .—The following despatches from Major General Oanby report tie capture of the Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, which form a part of the rebel defenses of the city .of Mobile : HKADQUABTKKB MILITARY DIVISION Y72ST2IIS . Mississippi, IS Tint Fisi.% BA. M., April 9. To Major General Bailee!:, chief of Staff: Spanish Fort and its dependencies .were capture# last night. We hare' twenty-five officers and fire hnndred and-thirty .eight enlisted men prisoners, and hare taken fire mortars and twenty-fire guns. The major part of the garrison escaped by water. Blakely is already invested, and will be assaulted to-day, unless the works are stronger than I now believe them to bo.- Oar casualties axe sin ill. Ed. B. S. Oasby, Major General. Hbaequabtbbs Military Divreiour Wrstsbw Mississippi, is TBB Firijj, April 9. Lieut. General Grant and Major General BalUck: I hare the honor.to report the oaptnre this day of the rebel fortifications at Blakely, with twenty-four hundred prisoners and twenty gaps. ’ Ed. B. ,S. Cabby, Major General. Edwin M. Stabtob, Secretary of War. Was Depabtsteht, Washikstow, April 18.— Official Information has reached this Department of the occupation of Mobile, on the 12th Inst., by the troops under the command of Major Gen. Canby, No particulars of the oaptore have yet been re ceived. THE CAPTURE OP BPAHI6H POST. Cairo, hi,, April 18 —Letters, dated at the head quarters of the military division of West Mis sissippi, Spanish Fort, April 9, say that the left lunette of the Spanish Fort having previously been taken by General Smith, the enemy evacuated the other parts of the fort at daylight on the 9th, and Colonel Berton’a brigade Immediately occupied the fort, and found two brass howitzers, one 21 and one jo-pounder Parrott gups, sixty-four Napoleons, two «• pounders, one 8-lnoh mortar, aa 8-ineh eolumblad,, a large quantity or ammunition, a number of mulfs ahd holies, but few rations. Ail the guas were spiked with nails. The prisoners taken were 26 officers and £27 men. The oaptore of Spanish Fort gives ns Forts Alexis, Eugene,.and Blakeley. THB OCCUPATION OP MOBIER. New Oelbaxs, April 13.—T00 Times has the fob lowlng.speeial: Lakypoet, April 13.—1 have just arrived from Mobile. The stars and stripes were hoisted onjlat teries Porter and MaointoslT&t 10.30 A. M. yester day, and on Big Church steeple Ifi Mobile at 2,20 P. M. General Granger’s forces/occupy the city-. The rebels eommeneed evacuating on the loth, and continued untfl yesterday, when all left. The tug-, boat Allen was blown up by a torpedo yesterday. 1 " There is no movement In the New Orleans mar ket. The citizens generally are anxiously looking for the opening of the’port of Mobile as a relief to the restriction on trade. ‘ ' NORTH CAROLINA. ADVICES FROM SHEBMAX’S ARMY. I The Pursuit of Jolmston. THE CAPTURE OP RALEIGH GENERAL STOHEBAR’S EXPEDITION. SALISBURY TAKEN ON THE 12th INST. Immense Captures cf Prlsonors, Artillery, Ammn- nltlon, and Supplies. GOVYBKOB VASCOS TAKES. PRIS9SSB. The Surrender of North . Carolina to Sherman Ordered by Johnston and then Countermanded. JFeflr Bawls uitb lobnston at Hillsboro. FoETiress Monrob, April 16.—The steamer Ad miral Dupont arrived from Morehead City, N. 0., bringing interesting advices from Gen. Sherman’s forces. Gen. Sherman having left Goldsboro In his rear, at oneaEtrnck out for Johnston’s army, hoping to be able to foroehlm to give battle.' Johnston, how ever, kept retreating, and It appears that Sherman has met with but Tittle resistance to his much •North. ‘ ' * ..a . Balelgh, N. 0., was eaptnredlast Thursday- with very little fighting, and that opnfined principally to the oavalry, and skirmishing between the ad vanced pickets of both armies. The supplies for Gen. Sherman’s army are all concentrated near Roanoke psland, anj{ the vessels lying at anchor are an ailing the orders of, his chief .commissary. : ' OAYTfiRR OB SALISBURY fir GBSEKAL BTOSXJTAN. Lbnoirb, Caldwell county, N. 0., April 18.-r-Tite expedition underMojor General Stoaeman, which left Knoxville, the loth ult., struck the East Tennessee UiU ult,, at Wythe vllle,' Ohrlctlanßburg, and Between these points 83 bridges were horsed andl&tjajlteor track totally destroyed, and besides many pritonec| irere taken and considerable quantities of corn aadj oirterl stores destroyed. On the 6th moved via Jacksonville, Danbury, and MirkiviHe'- arrlving at Grant’s creek, five miles from SalifbUryj N.C., the rebel line for the defence of tiedown, 'at 6A. ffi., on the 12th Inst, Thls llne, defended by aytlllery and Infantry, was soon fereod, and our fore?* entered Salisbury at 10 A. ML., capturing 8 gtands of colors, 19 guns, 1,164 ef arms and accoutrements, 1,000.0& rounds ofemall ammunition, and I,ooorounds offixetLammunltion and shells, of powder, 76,000 complete. ! knits or olothlhft 35(h«l» army blsnkets, and 20,00 a pounds o; bacon,.loo,ooo pgasds'or salt, 25,000 pounds ' of sugar, 27,000 ponnds'of pounds of salt petre, £O,OOO bustmlE3fc»rS«ift, slTOsß|worth of file-/ dksal gnppiiesfand 7,000 bales-ef ootloSfc^Tnirteeh' pteCes of artillery were brought away, and another siojes not needed for ourlmrnsdiatßTsmmusndwfcre destroyed. The greater part ef just been received from Ealeig. We large arsenaSl machinery complete, with depots,jtwo ; englnbs arm* trains, several bridges between ~ Greensboro and Danville, with several mUes of railroad track, were. destroyed. Onr loss was-very few ln klUed whd' wounded; among the litter, Gaptata R.HCnow, A, A. .G, of Stoneman’s staff. / ' “ OFJTOIAL GAZffi&Si. "' i "WAR Department, Wmameeraer, April 18.— The following despite?’containing details of the expedition tfifdef ebmnlihd’JrtSlAjffr’&eneral Stoneman, have been forwarded to the Department by Major General Thomas:-, v ' Hbaeqttaetebs, Hashvuih, 10,30 P.M.: Major General H. W. HalUck,.Chief of I forward tie following'report from Gen. StonA TO. A. HL, AprU M, Mfilfo. Tfi.-Mt>jor General Thomas 1 , CommantlingDpparlment Cumberland: >v ~ lhave the honor to report thdfollowlng as the ‘ result of our operations since my last despatch from Boone, N. C.: From Boone, it.became necessary to . jgosa the Blue Bldge Into the Yadkin river, In order - to tSfltUte. lajjnlics fdr mon and horses. There we were From thence we struek.for Chrlstla'Ssbarg7oh'tha.route,l detached Col. Hiller with a portion of his brigade to Wythe vllle, and Major Wagner, with a portion of the lßth Pennsylvania, Palmer’s brigade, to Big Blok. Theie three pointstwere struck almost simultane ously, Col. Palmer attseked, and attar tome fight ing, captured Wythevfilo, destroyed the depot of sullies at that point; and alto at Malr’s Meadow. Major Wagner, arterstrttlng the railroad at Big Blok, pushed on toward Byndhburg, destroying on Ms lmportant bridges over Big and BUtle Otter, andgot to wlthiitfonr miles of Bynohbnrg. Wlthlthe .main body effectually destroyed the roajl between New river and Big Blck, and then struck for Greensboro on the North Carolina By road ; arrived near Salem, N- C., and detailed Palmer’s brigade to destroy the bridges between Danville and Greensboro, and between Greensboro and the Yadkin river, and the large depots of Snppltes ralOßg the read. This duty was par formed with considerable -fighting, the capture or 400 and to my entire satisfaction. With the other ’two 'brigades—Brown’s and Mil ler’s—and thp* artUlyry, under the command of Blwtepant -Beagan, we pushed for Salisbury, whew wS'fSfend.-aboat 3jspo -troops, under the com mand of sinjor General W m. Tff; Gaxdlnek, and fourteen' pieces ofjartnksry, udder command of . Colonel (late Blentcnant General) Pemberton. , -Tim whole formed behind Grant’s creek, about two and a half miles from-Sallßbury. As coon as a pro per disposition could be made, I ordered a general ; charge along the entire line,’and the result was the capture of Ute. whole fourteen pieces or artillery, I,SM prisoners,' including 53 officers. AUtbrraTtn lery and 1,164 prisoners are now with ns. The re-, malnder of the force was'ehased throngh and: seve ral miles beyond town, bat scattered and esoaped into the woods. We remained at Salisbury two days, during which time we destroyed fifteen miles of railroad track and the bridges towards Char lotte, wad then movefitjo this point, From here we shall move- to the south side jof the Catawba river, and be In position to operate toward ' 'Charlotte and Columbia, or the flank of an army moving south. Following Is a partial: list of the pnbllo property captured north of Salisbury, and destroyed by us. Four large cotton factories, and 7,000 bales of cotton, four large magazines contain ing 10,000 stands of small arms and accoutrements 1,000,000 rounds small arm ADjOOO rounds fixed artillery ammunition, and7o,ooopounds of powder, 86,000 bushels of com, 5p,000 buahels Of wheat, 160.W0 pounds of aurad may uniform clothing, 250,9.0 ar „r pounds harness leather, lo oco P L' also a very large amount, of other stores and medical supplies’' medioaldirectors|at twopooit to the arsenals at Salisbury, ti, s being fitted np, and was filka wJ‘ from Balelgh and Richmond an ",, stroyed. The depots alom the f ,'. ‘ our various parties bare form ■ dance. The number ol torses ~,i and taker along the road I h. «a '“.~ s mating. I can say, however." t , better mounted than when we i er . * h a surplus of lead, animals, ana haul off all of our captures, tnon " ' prisoners,and about sttoita,,,''/;--, this after crossing stone Br.)j-,V''v Blue Bldge three times, a B; headquarters since th, 2, T ;~ -■ com, A. A. G,, my chief of ka - of Baleigb. Whether Davis Err; ■ , after Vance had been sent to Sber a .-‘ Jobpsttn’s inelrncdoas to Vanes does not appear. P. S. Sfierman’s forces entered ; ; days since, and are moving on Dcr. ;i V‘ ’ after Jobnston. who eontinuw to idj t . fighting. „ CAUFORNi Meet of the Sews from v,v DESTEHCTIOH OF OPPOSITIOif K£t:-- X.AHGE PUBLIC EBETIKG * . • PBAECISCO. sZsTbahoisco, April 16,—A-rini, p 4 H steamer Golden City, fromPanam-d H and passengers that left New York H The destruction of the Demoirit]' lest evening, was not the result of »i•.- ■ H isive ■ utterances, hut the sudden on, . H pent-up Indignation at their opposiu _. H ▼eminent all through, the war. TA It was effected with such rapidity, ;i - jffl expected, that the authorities were s 3P j scything to prevent It. At nightti!! SP2 were In possession of the whole a i: _ Sal gomery street, the principal thorou.i a. approaches,"thus preventing farther n9k quartern! the city where ft was most. ,jK hendod. Hf The Frenehorgan, L'Ecode Puctf.rr?, ~ mm ened, and Is now under guard. S The Unieet and American was destroy Jp eAcitementpruvatlcd ail sight. W ;■ Memortai-Bervloos were hold in -,!! • , SEx and public meetings to express the pi and-tho Mayor has called one thh as, Jp. pare for the obsequies. ' It Is reported that the Demos: Marysville and Grass Valley hare t i' g Two French men-cf-war arrival in r. * Sah Fbasoibco, April ll.—A !-.r< citizens was held on Sunday, the Resolutions were passed, am-, following, which amply expmivr lng of Indignation on this ooast : “Thegreat, capacious, mat!? trar Lincoln was generous enough to t .*. within the forgiveness of its livirr; • their mEdnesß they have killed iii n peace was possible. All tho t.s.i, with generous emotions and hind :■ peace means subjugation ovannttdiin merer/ upon the souls of the rcbrl ch f.' When, this,was read there was r ■ and the people cheered over and cvt Acommlttee of fifty citizens r< mahepreparations for the obieqa: dent, and all level citizens were ; r . crape for thirty days. No disturbance of tie publte |w;i, since the last despatch. Tie aims, and patrol tie streets at i:- .. •. is no probability of fefthar otto patches from Nevado and Oregon .= States movedeqnally with. Cal "or 2;, m TlieSpa-render or jl«sc—'*t« Nro and Arms tuajiro - A special WashlEgtoc despatch th> ' Z&priss States tSat “General Lc ' . eight or ten-.ttouaand men stated r: Jvrned tSe; articles of l, mtn, utilk a pieaief mtiOen/,an# fttflyMt'as;' fc h_ _ \ -4M mmmi bese^e „ bostoh, . Bostok, April 18.—All tba~c^rslri s otty will suspend publication ti » „ . HBW YORK. .rrs-wXoKK, A£rl) %-AH bC9!l!B?? I s F!' ****• lafsakadjoumedti = Minute guns are city and harbor U will he opened fr i the day. —vmnmvß 17.—8 y the -la] been brought mi trate of the nai States, Abraham belllous hate, under! Bln. He has ration at ties of humanity wsret healing of cur national vindictive nature upon hi. O' generous sympathies am untimely fan hasHtjewed a hi log- - ._ ’.. », Of on Wednesday, the isth Sestet, fvh.-a: twelve o’clock, the hour of his funor.-X “ chUMlt.beU bo tolled througiioat :L: V wealth, anff on that day M7aU brer ■ tended, and all bustness houses bo ci v . 1 Jo offices closed and draped In nm". - leaoaofcEfißtuhky aw» invoked to pi; to. to .the nadonrij grief which such a er? • ; inspires. • Taos-E/Bitix •'•••. * *•*.. - i 4. . Governor c:- ‘ . '«4' v , '“"■ < itans[aka. '• ISBrAlfiMSOhje, April l£—Governor - ’ ' claims: Tlie Assist apt Secretary of S’ United States having announced tfea- : 1 soltnlhltlps prop or to he observed la ?f the death brjPresldent.Jdnco'in will U ' the city of Washington on Wed E-d :.’- : therefore request the people of fn-il-ur. : Bald day as a day of mourttloar, hii-n: prayer, instead of Thursday, the 20th. :i-- iexetcfore announced. >' O. R. Mbxros- 5:~ MOSTSBAL. MosTHhAt, Aprlllg.—The followKK P ; tlonhas been issued by the Mayor of itu PROCtAMATIOir. Whereas, Wednesday next. April 19. i2 ‘. .noon, has been fixed upon for the fus3- j monies of the Chief Magistrate of the Uui.t I» the undersigned, Mayor of the city of-- respectfully Invite the citizens general’: : their places of business from 12 o’cl-A f ““?» ff a Whnteof respect to thememer, - President of the United states, and o' t with the hereaved members-of 4ila family’ as an expression of the deep sorrow-aad - hythe citizensof Montreal at theatre:: by whlah. the President came to bis nnti.r- J. I<. BUAIfCiIY- The Bey, Mr. Gunnison, chairman of il tee on resolutions, reported a series w: unanimously adopted. The resolutions el and irrepressible grief over the death of - Lincoln, and the belief that in his death i. has lost a public benefactor, while the the loss the country has sustained In if heightened by the fact that it came It Is a Eonrce of consolation to Sc it—trill be remembered to his :- ■= hte life was devoted to law and f - reeolhtloßß express deep sympathy v. r reeved widow and afflicted family of -■; dent, and trust “ He who tempers the T ” Ebom lamb,” will enable them to best ffi . tlan resignation this afflictive dlapensa:.-’- Providence. . Sesolved, That It Is with m’.njled and’horxerwe learn of the attempt tots’ 1 ’;;- the Hon. Wm H Seward and M» son thewtreeity of the act ie only ecash-: ■■ ■■. the loss our country would sustain 07 tn ; . Resolved, That ua eminent sbfii’y. v ' ship, and enlightened poliey which e>/- : . diplomatic eweer of the Secretary 0* ' have been nniTeznaily respecfe-1 et boms - we hope, -throuxh a hand and gonero* l will spared to hiecountry and uianti-- TOUONTO. Tobokto, O. W-, April lg,—The • Toronto to-night passed a rßsolutfn Impious act of Lincoln's assassination J- Eympathlstog with his countrymen. -' mending that the business of the city ' two. hours from neon to morrow- one her dissented. ’’ HAMTAX. H&xvax, N. S * April 18.—Th® Co^!: ; Cl), tc-day, p&s&da resolution espre??*- .** thy with the bereaved family of tnel* I 'tpi Llncoln.and, as a mark of respect to deceased, ordered that the flags be ct--’’ City buildings pn the day of the obse#‘fy I( j; The Americao citizens resident here - • , Ing to-day, at the Consulate; for th» ■-J their sorrow o-rer the death of and testilylng their respect to his Hon. 3hdirjaekE6n,U.S. Robert Bellows, of New York After an able wed eloquent ealogy up-,... trlous deceased, bis character .and v>-, . and the great loss to the n«W»> . pressed Ms own sympathy, **>A Americans, for leeretiay Seward, »- tatents he hoped a Mnd Provfdeace «- hlsnenhtiyp He So assured men oftfae integrity, ability, Saint JohBHHMh whom they “{lSj* "4 «