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Booth In the parlor, with Suratt, but Booth has
taken Sniatt to a room up stairs, and engaged In
private conversation up there ; ho would say,
“John, can you spare a word I—come upstairs;”
they won!.-; go and Begone tu private conversation,
which would last tw<> or three hours.
Q. Did the same thing ever oocur with Mrs. Su
jatt?
_A. Yes, sir.
•a Have you ever seen the prisoner, Atzarott ?
A. I have, sir.
■Q. Do you recognize him here!
A. Yes, sir, that la he
q. state whether, on the following Friday, that
-is the day of the assassination, von drove Mrs. Su
ratt Into the country 1
A. Yes, sir.
Q. 'Where did you drive to 1
A. To Surattsvllle. We arrived there about half
past four.
Q. Did She stop at the honae of Mr. Dloydsl
A. Yes, sir; she went Into the p *rlor,
<J. What time did yen have to return 1
A. About half past six. ,
Q. Can you go down there In two hoars 1
A. When the roads are good you could easily got
■down there in two hours. .
ft. State whether you remember, some I time In the
month or March, a wan callinir at r3 * rif,
end giving htestlitbenamcof Wood, andinqulrlng
H. flopr ftr Mm } asked If
Mr Smut was in; I told him no, but 1 Introduced
.Sm to the family ;he bod then expressed a wish to
see Mrs. suratt. .
o Do von r®co«ilzc him herd i
A,' Vw. Sir; that's he; that’s the man Payne; he
A He step Ad In the house all night, and had
supror served up to him In my room; they brought
him f upper from the Utohfih*
q Whert was thatl
A- As nearly as I oan recolUot !6 was about eight
-weeks previous to the assassination; I have no exact
of the date.
q. Did he hi log a package ?
A. No, sir.
Q, H<»tf was be dressed 1
A . Hfc bad a black overcoat on and a black frock
coft, with gia.y pants, at the time.
Q. Did he remain till the next morning ?
A. Yes; he left in the earliest train for Baltimore.
Q Do yon lomembvr Whether, some weeks alter,
the same men cali-ul again ? t
A. Yes; I should think it was about three weeks,
and I again went to tee door; I then showed him
into the parlor and again asked his same: that time
he gave the same of Payne.
Ct. Did he then hare an interview with Mrs, Sa
xatt? .
A. Miss Titzpatrick, myseir, and Mrs. Suratt
were present. He remained about three days, and
repr€Bti : io«i hiicteli to be a Baptist preacher, lie
said he had boos in Ttaliimore about a weak, had
taken tho oath ©2 a)l‘k:iance, and was going to be
come a good loyal citizen.
Q, Did you hear any explanation why ho said he
was a Baptist minister 1
A. No ; Mlsa suratt said he was a queer-looking
Baptist preacher.
Q. Diu they seem to recognize him as the Wood
of former day b 1
A. Yes, sir. In conversation one of the ladies
called him Wo.-’is, anu then I reco-.lticted that oa
his previous visit he had given the name of Wood.
Q. How was ho dressed then ?
A. In a complete suit oi gray.
Q. Did he have any baggage ?
A. Yes, sir; he had a Jineh coat and two linen
ehlita.
Q. Did yon observe any trace of disguise, or pre
parations tor d’sguhe ?
A. One day I iounda false moustache on the table
in my rct-zn: I threw it into a little toilet box, and
Payne Eeaiched lor it and Inquired for his mous
tache ; I was sitting in lh« chair, and did not say
anythin'?; I retained it ever since; it was found in
my baggage, among a hex of paints I had In my
trank.
Q, Did you see him and Suratt together by them
selves 1
A. Yes; it was on the same day; I want to the
third story and found them sitting on a bed playing
with bowk knives.
Q,i Did you sto any other weapons i
A. Yes. sir; iwo levtdrfra and four ssta Of SOW
spurs.
Here tho witness was shown a spur, and identified
It as one of those he had then seen saying: “Yes,
these aie the spurs, three of these were In my
room.”
Question by the Court. That is the spur found in
Atzerott'6 room,
The witness was then shown the knife which had
been identified by Mr. Lee as the one found It Atze
roU’srcon.. But witness stated that he did not re
copniz© it, and that tj;e knlie that Payne had on the
bed was a smallercne.
Q\ They had a )/rac« of pistols, did you say 1
A. They had two Jong navy revolvers.
Here the witness was shown the pistol produced
finite gDee's examination, and said: “Thatlooks
like one of them.”
Q< Was the barrel round or octagonal 1
A. Octagonal.
Q. Do you remember having gone with Suratt to
the Hemdcn House to hire a room ?
A. Yes, sir.
Q, What time was that?
A. It mutt have been the 19th of March,
Q. For whom did he wish to rent this room ?
A. Well, he went and inquired lor Mrs. Murray,
and when she came, ho had a private Interview with,
her, but said that she did not seem to comprehend,
though he thought that a Miss Ward had spoken to
her already on the subject, and he said to Mrs. Mur
ray. Miss Ward may nave spoken to you about the
matter of hiring a room for a delicate gentleman,
and Mr. Suratt added he would like to have the
room by the following Monday, as the gentleman
wanted to take possession on that day $ I think
that was the Monday previous; it was the 27th of
March.
Q. The name of the person was not given ?
A. No, sir, no same was mentioned at all.
Q. Die you afterwards learn that Payne was at
that house ?
A. Yes, sir; I met Atzeroth on the street, and
asked him where he was going. He stated that
he was going to see Payne. I asked him, is it
Payne that is at the Herndon House, and he said
yes.
Q. Did you ever meet Harold at Suratt’s 1
A. Once.
Q where else did yon see him ?
A. I mot him on the occasion of the visit to the
theatre, when Booth pt&yed Pescara; also at Mrs.
Sur&tve. It; tho earing or 1863, when I first made
her acquaintance; he was there with some musi
cians, who were serenading some county officers
after an election; I next met him,in 1864, at church;
those are the only times I recollect.
Q. Did yon know either of the prisoners, Arnold
or Laughlin?
A- No, Bir.
Q.* What knowledge, if any, have you of Suratt’s
having gone to Kichmoud ?
A. About the 23d of March—no, it was the 17th—
there was a woman named Slader came to the
house; she went to Canada, and returned-on Satur
day, the 23d of March; Mr. Suratt drove her Into
the country, about 8 o’olock in the morning, and I
understood that he had gone to Biohmond with Mrs.
Slader ; this Mrs. Siader was to meet a man named
Howe, but this man was oaptured, and could not
take her.
a. She was a blockade-runner?
A, Yes, sir, or the bearer of despatches.
Q. Did Mis. Suratt tell you so 7
A. Yes, ’Sir,
Q.. When did he return 1
A. He returned on the third of April.
Q. Do yon know of Ms having broaght any gold
with them!
A. Ye;, he bad some nine or eleven twenty dol
lar gold pieces, and be bad some greenbacks, about
fifty debars; be gave forty dollars in gold to Mr.
Holliban, and Mr. Hoffiban gave film sixty dollars
In greenbacks; be remained in the bouse about
an hour, and told me be was going to Montreal; be
asked me, however, to go and take some oysters
with him, and we went down to the corner of Se
venth street and Pennsylvania avenue, and took
some oysters.
Q. And he left!
A. Yts; he left that evening, and since that time
I have not seen him.
Q. Have you seen any letter from him 1
A, Yes; I saw a letter to his mother, dated April
12th; it was reoelved here on the llth; I also saw
another written to Miss Ward ; I did not see the
date, but the receipt or the letter was prior to the
one of bis mother.
Q.. Bid he beva-any conversation with yon, as hd
paBBCd through, about the fall of Blohmond 1
A. Yes; he toldnioho did not believe It; he Said
be bad seen Benjamin and Davis, and they bad told
blm tbat 11 would not be evacuated, and be seemed
to be Incredulous.
Q, Have you been to Canada since 1
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Wbat old you there learn of Suratt 1
A. That be bad arrived at Montreal on the ffth,
and returned for the States on the 12th; returning
again on the 18th, and engaging rooms at the St.
Lawrence Hotel; heleft theSt.Liwrenoo that night
at ball-past ten; be was seen to leave tbe house of
a Mr. Butteifield, In company with three others, in
a wagon. ,
Objected to, and the statement not insisted on a
part of the record.
Q. Do you remember earlier in April that Mrs.
Suratt sent for you, and asked you to give Mr.
Booth notice that she wished to see him 1
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What was the message!
A. Merely that she wished to see him.
Cl. Bid Eh"! 6f»y on private business, or US9*BOy ex
resslon of that kind 1
A. Yes, sir.
Q.. Did ycu deliver the message 1
A. I did.
Q. What did Booth say !
A. He said he would come to the hodse imme
diately, or as soon as he could.
Q. what time was this!
A. Some time In April; It was the second; when
she sent me £ found In Booth’s room Mr. MoOal
lom, the aotor; I oommunloated to Booth her de
sire, and he did come in the evening of the 2d.
Q. State whether he called on the evening of the
Mth of April, the day of the assassination.
A. Yes, sir; about half past two o’clock, when I
was going out at tbe doer, I met Mrs. Suratt; she
to Booth,
Q. Were they alone 1
A. Yes sir; they were alone In the parlor.
Q. How long was It after that when you started
for the country 1
A. He didn’t remain more than three or four
minutes.
Q. And Immediately after that you set out for
the country 1
A. Yes sir.
This examination, In chief, like the preceding one,
was conducted by General Holt, Judge Advocate
of ibe United States.
Cross examination by Bovordy Johnson:
Q. How long have you been at Mrs. Suratt’s 1
A. Since December, 1861; Mrs. Suratt, at that
time, had moved to the elty from the ocuntry; she
bad rented her farm.
Q. Bid you ever live with her in the oonntry 1
A. No, sir; bat I had visited her.
< l . Yon knew her very well at that time!
A. Not very well; 1 made her acquaintance
through her son, who was a school mate of mine; I
sometimes went there, and always experienced
kindness and courtesy.
Cl. What sort of a house had she In the olty here 1
A. It contained eight rooms—six large and two
.small.
ft. Was she in the habit of renting her rooms out!
A. Yes, sir.
Cl. Did she fnrnlah board as well as rooms 1
A. Yes, sir.
Bid you say that young Suratt told ycu In
April be w&b going to Montreal. did you ever know
film to go tfaetv before 1
A. No, Sir; be was there in the winter Of 1864 and
1866 5 sometimes at homo, and sometimes not; du
ring the -winter of 1865, especially daring Novem
ber, he was in the country most of the time; bis
stay at borne w&snotpermabent;he was sometimes
away lor three or four weeks.
q. During tbe winter was he long enough away
to have been in Canada without your knowledge!
A. Yes, sir; he could have gone, but not returned
to the house without my knowledge.
Cl* Have you any knowledge that he was then In
Canada!
A. 80, sit.
Q. Were yon on Intimate terms with him 1
A. Verj intimate, indeed.
Q. Did he ever acknowledge to you any pnrpose
to assassinate the President! .
A. No, sir; he stated to me and to his sister that
he was going to Europe on a cotton speculation; he
said he had three thousand dollars advanced to him
by a gentleman ; that he would go to Liverpool,
thenoe to Nassau, and from there to Matamoro3, to
find bis brother, who,was In the rebel army—Ea
enmer’a army* s
*■ Q,. Did be go to Tms before tbe rebellion—tb«
brother, 1 mean!
A. 1 dOP’t know: I never saw the brother.
Q. Wire you in the b&bllef seeing yOUflg Suratt
almost every day l
A. Ycb, sir. Howould be seated at the flame table;
NB occupied tbe came room; he slept with mo.
Q. During tbe whole of that period you never
heard him Intimate It was his Intention to assas
sinate the President 1
A. No, sir.
Q, Did you see anything that led you to believe 1
Question was objected to by Colonel Burnett, As
sistant Judge Advocate, and was. waived by Mr.
Johnson., -
Q. Yon never heard blm or anybody else say any
thing about I', from the month of November to the
time ofthea£satBinatlonl
A.'No, sir; be said once he was going with Booth
te be an aotor, and he said he was going to Blah
mOBd! be was well educated, and was a student of
humanity.■
Qi Were you a student With him!
A. Yes, sir; I was In the college one year longer
than he.
/v. Daring that period what was his character 1
£ It waa exoellent; when he left he shed tears,
and the Superior told him he would always be re
znembered by those who had charge of the Institu
tion. . ...
Q. When did you first drive into tho country with
Mrs.Suratt? ..
A. The first occasion was on the nth or April.
Q. Dia she tell you what her objeotwas in going?
A She said to tee Nothy. who o wed her some
money, and the interest on It lot thirteen years,
ft. Is there suoh a man 1
a Do you know Whether she then saw Mm 1
A.’ When we arrived at the village Mr. Nothy
was not thore, and she tolcrrhe bar-keeper to send
a messenger for him. and he sent one; In tbe-mean
time we went to Captain Q-wynne’s house; re
mained there two hours, and took dinner; he said
he would like to return with ns, and he did, to Su
rettsvule; on returning we found Nothy, and she
transacted her business with him.
q. Did yon know the man 7
A. No; Mr. Nett, the barkeeper, said he was In
the parlor j I didn’t go In.
ft. State what her purpose was In the seoond
visit.
A. She said she had received a letter In regard to
this money One her by Mr. Nothy.
ft, Was the letter of the same date?
A. Yes, and she stated she was compelled again
to go to the country, and asked me to drive her
down, and I consented,
ft. Did you see the letter 7
A. Nc—no. sir ; she said that she had received It,
and that It required her to go to Surattsvlllo; that’s
all I know.
ft. Did yon go In a buggy 1
A. Yes, sir,
ft. Any one elee go with you 7
A. No one but I and her went,
O, Did she take anything With her 1
A. Only two packages—one with letters concern
ing her estate, and a smaller package, abont six
Inches in diameter; It looked like two or three
saucers wrapped in brown paper; this waß pnt in
the bottom of the bnggy, and taken out when we
got to Surattsvllle.
Ct. He w long did yon remain 1
A. Till hall-past six.
ft What time did yon reach home 1
A. About hall-past nine or ten.
q. .when did you hear, or did you hear oi the as
sassination of the President or the attaok on Secre
tary Seward 1 ... „ . .
A. I heard it at three o’olook on Saturday morn
ing.
ft. Who came to the honse within the period rrom
your return to the time you heard of the assassi
nation of the President 1
A. There was some one rang the bell, but who
It was 1 don’t know,
ft. Was the bell anßweied 1
A. Yes, sir.
ft . By whom 7
-A. By Mrs. Suratt.
ft. Was there any one at the door 7
A. Yes, sir; I heard footsteps going into thepar
lor, and immediately going out.
Q. How long was that after you got back!
A. About ten minutes; I was taking supper,
Q. That was before 10 o’clock?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Then It was before tho time of the assassina
tion, which is said to have been about 10 o’olock.
YT©s sir
Q- Had persona bsen in the habit of oomtng for
rooms to the houss 7
A. Yes; coming from the country, they would
stop at the honse; she had many acquaintances, and
was always very hospitable, and they eonld gab
rooms as long as they choose.
Q. dm Atzeroth take a room 7
A. Atzeroth, to my knowledge, stopped In the
house but one night.
Q,. Did he take a room 7
A. Not that 1 know of.
Q. what room did he Eleep in 1
A. On the third story.
U. Then he ban a room there that night ?
A. Y'es
Q.. Did he leave next day 1
A. Yes.
Q. You saw Paine yourself when he oame to the
honse7
A. Yes, sir; the first time he gave the name of
W ood; I went to the door, and he said he would llko
to fee Mrs. Suratt.
d. What was Ms appearance; genteel?
A- Yes; he had on a long black coat, and went
Into the parlor; he acted very politely; asked Mrs,
Suratt to play on the piano for him.
Q. Do you know why Atzerothleft the house?
A. No, sir.
q. Was there any drinking In the house at the
time Atzeroth was there?
A. Yes, sir; In February there was a mau there
named Harland; John Suratt had been In the coun
try, and had returned that evening; he slept that
night with Hcwe.
Q. Was there any drinking in the room oocupled
by Atzeroth 7
A Y6B.
Q*. Was lie noisy 1
A. No, fir. *
CL Have yon any knowledge that he was told
that he could stop there no longer t
A. No
Q. Did he leave there next day ?
A. Yes, sir; his leaving was owing to the arrival
of Suratt $ he eaitl he waited to see J ohn, andnavlng
Been him, he left; I heard them afterwards say
they did not care to have him brought to the house.
CL What reason did they give for that?
A. Mrs. .Suratt said Bhe did not ear® to have such
eilcks brought to the house; they were no company
for her.
CL He did not not come any more 1
A. Net since the 2d of April.
Q, You Bay youfonudupon your own table a false
moustache. What was the color of the hair?
A. Blache
Q. Was it large?
A, Aboutmealum Sized.
Q. This you put luto your own box ?
A. Yes, in a toilet box, and afterwards in a box of
paints; it was found In my baggage.
Q. When ho oame home he seemed to be looking
font?
A. Yes; he said, “Where la my moustache?’*
Q. Whydldyounotglveittohim?
A. I suspected; I thought it queer*
Q. But you locked it up?
A. Y r ea; X didn’t llko to have it seen In my
room.
Q. But could you have got it out of your room by
giving It to him when he asked for It ?
A. 1 thought no honest person had a reason to
wear a false moustache; I took It and exhibited it
to some of the e’erks in the office; I put it on with
specs, aztd was making fan with it.
Q. Can yon describe to tkO Court young Suratt’s
height ond general appearance?
‘A. He is about six feet; prominent forehead and
a very large ncee; his ayes are sunk; he has a
goatee and very long hair, black.
Q. Do you recollect how he was dressed when he
said he was going away ?
A. He baa cream colored pants, gray frock coat,
and gray vest, and had a shawl thrown over him.
Q. One of these Scotch shawls?
A. One of these plaid shawls.
Q. When he returned from XUchmond you say he
had in his possession twenty gold pieces ?
A. No, sir; I say nine or eleven twenty-dollar
gold pieces.
CL Did he tell you where he got them ? '
A. No.
Q. He said he had seen Davis and Benjamin; did
you understand, by Benjamin, the person who acted
as Secretary of State for tbe rebel Confederacy ?
A. All I know is, he Bald he saw Davis and Ben
jamin, and that Blchmond would not be evacuated.
Qi YOU didn’t ask him, nor did he voluntarily
tell yon, where he got that money ?
A. No, sir.
Q. Give tbe date of the letter his mother received
from him since he left.
A. It was dated Montreal, April 12tb, and was
received here April Uth.
Q, How did yon beoeme acquainted with the date
ol the letter 1 by the postmark 1
A. By the heading of the letter; the letter was
written in general terms; it stated that he was
mnch pleased with the Cathollo Cathedral, and that
he had bought a French peajacket, and paid ten
dollars for it, but that board was too high at the
St. Lawrence Hotel (two dollars a day in gold), and
that be would go to a private boarding house or to
Toronto.
Q. How was tbe letter signed!
A. John Hartlson; his name is John Harrison
Suratt.
' Q. Was tbe handwriting disguised 1
A. It was unusually good for him.
Q.. Unusually good, but not disguised! You
knew ltat once, didn’t you 1
A. Yes; and I remarked to Mrs. Suratt, John is
Improving in bis writing.
Q. Do you know anything about the letter that
was received by Miss Ward f
A-1 only know tbat a letter was leeelvea by her.
Q. "Who is Miss "Ward!
A. A teacher in the school bn Tenth street.
Q. What was the date of the letter!
A. I did not see that letter, Btr; I was merely told
that she received a letter, and oame to the house.
Q. Did the letter go to her directly, or through
any other person 1
A. I understand It went direotly to her, and was
received in the usual oourse.
Cl Do you know what tbat letter was about!
A. No, air: I merely heard Mrs. Suratt say that
Miss Annie W ard bad received a letter from John;
what it was about I don’t know.
Q, You have known Mrs. Snratt slnoa Novem
ber!
A. I have known her since the spring of 1863.
Q. And have been llvlng there since November 1
A. Yes.
Q. What bus been hsr character since that time!
A. Her character was exemplar; and ladylike In
everypartieuiar.
Q, Ib she a member olthe ehuroh!
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Is she a regular attendant 1
A. Y©B Blfe
q! or the Catholic Church!
A.* Yes ftiy.
0,. Have you been with her to ohuroh !
A. Every Sunday, Blr.
Q. As far as you could judge her character In a
religious and moral sense, It was every way exem
plary l
A. Yes, sir; she went to her duties every two
Q. Did she go In the morning !
A. It was sometimes in the morning and some
times in the evening.
Q. Was that the case all the time yon knew her 1
A. Yes, sir.
Q. If I understand you, then, she was apparently
discharging all her duties to God and to man 1
A. Yts, sir.
Mr.Eevcrdy Johnson here said: “Ism done,
sir i” and rising, left the court room, and the cross
examination was continued by otbereounsel.
Q. Wbat time was it you said Dr. Mudd Intro
duced Booth to yourself and Suratt I
A. On the 16th of January. I think.
Q. Have you no mean's of fixing tbe exaot date 1
A. Yes, If tbe register at the Pennsylvania House
could be had; Dr. Mndd had his rooms there at
that time.
Q. Are you sure it was before the lßtof February!
A. Yet, Blr ; I am sure.
Q. Are you sure It was after the Ist or January 1
A. Yes.
Q. Why!
A. From a letter reoelved about that time, about
the 6th of January, and from a visit I made there
again; It was Immediately atter the recess or Con
gress, and tbe room of Booth bad been previously
occupied by a member of Congress, and Booth
polled down some Congressional documents, and re
marked what good reading he wonld have when left
to himself.
q. you are certain it was after the Congressional
holiday, of the occasion, and have no other means of
knowing.
A. No, air..
Q, Did ;bU ever have any means of knowing it
was after Chilstmao 1
A. Merely that It was after the CofigMESlonal
holidays.
q. Well, who said anything about the member
not having returned 1
A. Booth did.
Q, Do you know who the member was!
A, No.
Q. How did you know that pretty mueh all tbe
other members had returned 1
A. Because Congress was In session at the time.
Q. How do you happen to rccolleot Congress was
In session at the time! . , .
A. Well, merely by Booth’s taking down the do
cuments and saying what good reading he would
have when left to himself.
Q. Was it tbe first day of Booth's arrival In the
oltyl
A. It was tbe first day of his taking possession
of that room.
Q,. Do you reoollect that It was after the Con
gressional holiday as distinctly as any part of the
conversation that took place 1
A. I don’t reoolloot that act as distinctly as I do
tbe conversation about tbe purchase of the farm,
Q. Have you any memorandum of your own that
Will enable you to fix tbe date!
A. The date Mold probably bo fixed by the re
slater tt tbA PenwiTmi*
Q. On what street was It that you met Mnddi
A. On Seventh street, opposite Odd Fellows’ Hall.
q. What did Mndd say In explanation of the in
tr A n No°tbliigtbat loan remember; Suratt intro,
fluoed metohlm, and he introduced Booth to both
ML WUeh introduction came first!
: a Tbat of Mudd, by Suratt, to me»_
q. And did Booth immediately invite yonaU to
his room!
; q. what was said while yon were going to the
room! ’ '
lA. Nothing that I know. „„„ „ ,
Q. Did he give any reason for wishing you to go !
• £ Nojingoing down Seventh street Suratt took
Mudd’s aim, and Y took that or Booth. "
! A. And you went directly to Booth’s room, Mid
'how long in all did you stay there!
! A. That I can’t say exactly.
Q. You say MudcJ wrote something on a piece of
paper ?
A. I say Booth traced Hues on the back of an en
velope, and that Suratt and Muf d.wero looking at
it, and were entt&ged In a deep private conversation
scarcely audible.
Q. Wore you lu tho room all that time?
y ee
Q, How close to them?
A. A !mut *s far a? that gentleman 1b from me.
Q Was the conversation io part audible ?
A. It was on indistinct murmur*
Q. Y r ou heard none of ttt
A. No.
CL Who went cut of the door? Did Mudd go
first?
A. Booth went first.
Q. Are you £U«?
A. Yes, fir.
Q How long were they out together?
A. Ab near as I can judge, not more than five or
eight-minutes.
Q.. Where did they go ? .
A. Into a pftfsage that leads past the door.
Q. How do you know they stopped there ?
A. I don’t know, for the door was closed after
them, but by their movements I judge they stood
outside.
Q. Wbv ?
A. I did not hear any retreating footstep 3.
Q. Suratt went out with them?
A. Yee,
Q,. Are you sure Booth was with them when they
went out the second time ?
.A sir.
Cl". Jh<t Mudd say anything as to heir he came to
Introduce Booth to Suratt?
A. No, sir.
Q, watch one or them said it was about the farm?
A. Mudd apologized to me for the privacy of the
conversation, and said that Booth wanted to pur.
olaEe hlfl farm, but that he would not glreasnffi
dent Mgh price, and he did not oaro about selling
it.
Q.- You had neverseen Mudd helore 7
A. No, sir.
Q.. Had yon beard Mm spoken of In the houss 7
A. I had heard the name mentioned, bat whether
it was this particular Dr. Samuel Mudd, I cannot
say.
Q,. Did yon hear It mostloned In connection with
any visit to the house 7
A. No, sir.
d- Do you know whether he did visit the house,
during the time you were there?
A. No, elr.
d. mere aid Mrs. Suratt formerly live ?
A. At Surattsvllle.
(J. On the road to Bryantown 7
A. 1 can’ttay exactly ;Tam not sufficiently ae
qnalntrd with the country.
Cl. Do you know whether it is on the road leading
to Mudd's house ?
A. There are several ways of arriving at Mudd’s
house; one road, called the Port Tobacco-road, out
by Plseataway. .
Cl. How far Is Mudd’s house from the olty 7
A. 1 don’t know.
Q. How far is Surattßvtlle 7
A. About ten mlleß lrom the Navy bridge.
Q.. Did you o?er hear his name mentioned In the
family I
A. Yes, I heard the name or Mudd, Dr, Samuel
Mudd, only once, I think.
Cl. Alter Booth, Suratt, and Mudd returned from
the j.asraae outside, how long did yon remain to
gether 7
A. Abont twenty minutes.
Cl. And then where aid you all go I
A. We left the hotel, and went to the Penn
sylvania House, where Dr. Mudd had rooms,
and Mudd went Into the sitting-room and sat
down with me, and talked about the war, and ex
ptesEOd the opinion that It would soon oome to an
end, and spoke like a Union man; Booth was
speaking with Suratt; Booth left, and hade us good
night, and went out; Dr. Mudd remained there, but
leu, next morning; he said ho was going to leave;
whether he did or not I can’t say.
Cl. What time was it when yon separated 7
A. It must have been about half-past ton In the
evening.
ft. Was Booth talking when drawing those lines 7
sir
Q. And Mudd and Snratt were attending 7
A. Yes; all three sat around the table and looked
at what Booth was marking.
Q. Are you sure they were looking at what he
was drawing, or simply attending to what he was
saying? _
A. They looked beyond Booth, their eyes on the
envelope.
Q. How near were yon to them?
A. As I stated, about as near as that gentleman
over the re, (pointing to Judge Holt).
Cl. Well, now, what dlstanoe is that in feet 7
A. Perhaps eight feet.
Q,. Hon large was the room 7
A. I have no means of arriving at that.
Q,. About how large 1
A. I cannot tell exactly how large It was.
Cl. I do not expeot yon to do that, Abont how
large?
A. Abont half the size of this room.
Mr. Pitman here asked the witness whether he
meant half the room In length and naif In breadth,
which would be quarter or the room, or merely half
the length with the same breadth. The wltnesß
then pointed to a dividing railing In the room, and
said about tho Blze from there.
(J. In what part of the room was the table
situated 7
A. In the centre.
Cl. You say you saw Mr. Harold In the summer Of
1562 at Mrs. Suratt’fl at Surattsvllle 7
A. It was at the time of the election of county
officers ; a band had gone down to serenade the offi
cers who had been elected, and In returning they
serenaded us; I also saw Mm la July at Plseataway
church, and also the time at the theatre.
Q.. When you left the theatre yon all walked
down the street together a portion of the way ?
A. Five of us leit together, and wheiwve oame to
the corner of Tenth and E streets we turned around,
at least Suratt did, and saw the other two were not
following, and told me to go back anti find them; I
went hack and found them engaged In elose con
versation with Booth.
Q. You met them at the restaurant?
A. Yes, sir; and on my approaching them Booth
asked me to sake a drink, and Introduced me to a
man whose name I do not remember, but whose
face Is familiar to me.
Q. Did you take a drink 7
A. (Emphatically.] Yes, sir.
Q.. They were all standing together when you
approached!
A. Yes.
Q. Near the bar!
A. No, sir ; around the stove.
Q. Was it a cold evening 7
A. No, sir; there was no fire in the stove ; It was
a very pleasant evening.
Cl. Do you know whether Harold and Atzerott
had taken a drink together berore you came in ?
A. No, sir.
Cl- When you left, did you all leave together?
A. Harold, Atzerott and-I left together and over
took Suratt on Seventh street; he invited ua to take
some oysters, but Harold weutdown Seventh street.
Q. Do you know where Harold lived 7
A. I was at the house only once ; I don’t know
the precise spot.
Q. You remarked, sir, that at some time when
you were In company with Mrs. Suratt a party
wonld call to tee net; do you remember of Mrs.
Suratt sending a request to have a private conver
sation with Booth?
A. On the second of April she sent me to the ho
tel and told me to tell him that she would like to
see him on some private business.
Q. In reference to that $lO given you by Booth to
obtain the buggy i .. . .
A. I thought it on act of friendship ■ Booth had
been in the habit of keeping a buggy and had
promsled to let Mrs. Suratt have the loan of It, and
when I went for It he said: -< Here Is $lO, go and
hire one.”
Q. You spoke of going to Montreal, at what time
was that! „ . ■ „
A. On the 18th of April, the Monday after the
assassination.
Q. What business bad you there 1
A. I was seeking Suratt.
Q. Did you find blm!
A. No, sir.
Q.. Did you ever see Mrs. Suratt leave the parlor
to have a private Interview with Booth!
A. Frequently she would go Into the passage and
talk with blm.
Q. How mush time did these Interviews gene
rally occupy 1
-A. Generally not more than five or eight minutes.
Q. Well, sir, by any conversation with her, were
you ever led to believe that she was in secret con
spiracy with Booth or any of bis confederates!
Here It was remarked by a member of tbe court
that the Witness had better confine himself to a
statement of facts, and the question was waived by
tbe cross.examining counsel. itwas also here Stated
by the court that It was a rule in tbe examination
of witnesses that each one should be examined by
one judge advocate and by only one counsel for
each prisoner.
Q. Did you ever transact any business for Mrs.
Suratt!
A. I only wrote a letter to Mr. Nothy.
Q. What was that!
A. It was as follows: Mf. Nothy: Unless you
can forward and pay that bill at once I will begin
suit against yon Immediately.
Q.._ Anything else 1
A. J figured some interest sums for her; the In
terest on $436 for thirteen years.
Q. Do you know of any Interview between Atze
rottand Suratt!
A. I have been there frequently, at Interviews
with Suratt, In tbe parlor.
Q. Do you know of any between Payne and Atze
rout
.A. Yes; on the cesaflon of Payne'S last Visit to
bouse. Atzerott called to seeSuratt ones, and tuoy
were In my room.
Q.. Do you know of any conversation m reference
to tbe assignment of Atzerott to tbe assassination of
the Vice President 1
A. No, sir.
Q. Have you ever beard any conversation having
reference to Payne’s assignment to the murder of
the Secretary of State 1
A. No, sir. ..
Q,. Now you say that at 2)L«’olook on the eve.
Mng of the Mth of April yousaw Atzerott at allvery
stable 1
A' Yes sir*
Q.. Tiylng to get a horse. Did he say what he
was going to do with the horse!
A. He said he was going to take a pleasure ride.
out in the country.
Q. Ycu said he did not get the horsd!
A. The Stable-keeper refused to let hjm have one.
Q. Do you know whether ho succeeded In getting
one tbat day!
A. No, sir.
Q. When did you part with him!
A. Immediately after, at the post offioe; I dropped
a letter and came baok to tbe stable.
Q. Was that tbe last Interview you had with him
until the assassination!
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Where did you see him again 1
A. In the dock there.
Q. Today!
A» Yflfl gfp to>d&7t
Q. You say you recognized that spur as having
been seen by you on the bed of Payne at tbe house
of Mrs. Suratt; what makes you recognize it, and
what marks are these that distinguish it Itom spurs
In general 1
A. I bad them In my hand. ...
Q. Was ft tbe same with the knife; I understand
you to swear you saw that knife there 1
A. No, not that knife. ■
Q. On the 4th of April-do you know whare Payne
was stopping 1 Do you know anything about Payne
on that uay 1
A. Yes, sir; I remember tbat Atzerott and I met,
and I asked him where be was going, anil belaid be
was going to get a horse for Payne.
Cl- But where was Payne!
A. I don’t know; I only saw blm on those two oc
casions.
Q. Where, then, was Atzerott stopping!
A. I don’t know.
Q. Did not be speak of the place where Payne
was stopping!
A. No. sir.
Q. Do ycu know of his having stopped at the
Herndon House.
A. I know it, because Atzoroth told me. I met
him one day on Seventh street; he said he was go
lr g to see Payne, and I asked him If it was Payne
tbat wss at tbe Herndon House, and be said yes,
Q,. You Bald Payne 'paid a visit- to Mrs. Suratt,
and stepped only one night 1
A. Yts, sir.
Q. With whom did be appear to have business t
A. He appeared to have business with Mrs. Su
“ql Did he have any other dress going to show
tbat bo wanted to oonceal himself that you saw 1
A. No, sir.
Q. Have you seen Payne since the assassination
unilLto-dav 1
A. No, Fir; I believe not.
Q. Was he received by Mrs. Suratt as an inti
mate friend l ... , . •
A He was; by Mrs. Snratt he was treated as an
did acquaintance on me first visit. _
Cl. Now yon IM-y be represented hlfllSCif to bo a
Baptist minister. Did they regard bunas a man
in disguise or as a minister ! '
Alone of the young ladles remarked that he was
a queer-looking Baptist preaoher, that ho wouldn’t
convert many sonls. _ . ..
q. dm you ever see Payne and Atzerott in com
pany •
A. Atzerott was at the house on the ooeaslon of
Payne’s last visit.
q. were you or were not at Mrs. Suratt’s when
Payne was arrested !
■ A. No, sir.
Q. Were you in the house at three o’olook on So
tuiday morning when the officers took possession 1
A» Yfeß sir.
Q.. Was Payne not there then!
A. No, Ur,
Q. i would Ilka te know what professional em
ploy ment you are in 1
A. Clerk in the office of the commissary general
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1865.
(if prisoners, unci bay? been eluoe tho 9ill day of
Jat uary, tens.
ft. Colonel Hoffman's office!
A. Yes, sir.
It was here moved that the court adjourn; bat,
alter some discussion, the adjournment was post
poned.
Robert R. .Tones sworn:
ft. Ytu are a clerk at the Kirkwood House!
A. Yes. sir.
ft. Rook at that paper and say if It is a pzge
taken front the register of that hotel 1
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you read upon It tho name of Atzerott!
A. Yes, sir. J. G. Atzcroa f, I believe.
ft. From that register, does It appear that he took
a room thero!
A. Yes; on the 4th of April; I should think la
the morning, before 8 o’clock.
Q. What Is the number of the room 1
A. No. 128.
ft. Have you any recollection of the man being
soon by you that day 1
A. I saw him that day, sir.
Q- Ho you recognize him amongst those prisoners!
A. That looks llko the man.
Major General Hanter to Atzerott. Stand up.
Witness said: I think that Is him, sir.
ft. Do you know what became of him after he
took the room 1
A. I do not know ; It was between 12 and 1 o’clock
when I sarr him that day.
ft. Do you know anything or Booth having called
that day to inquire the number of Vioe President
Johnson’s room!
A. I don’t know that he Inquired; I gave a oard
of Booth’s to 001. Browning, Yloe President John
son’s secretary.
Q. You did not receive it from him yoursein
A. I did not, I think, although I may have done so,
ft. You have not seen the prisoner till now»
A. No, sir.
ft. Were you present when the room was opened 1
A. I wus not there when it was opened; I went
up with Mr. Dee after It was opened.
ft. Did you see anybody there during the da; that
Atzerott was at the hotel 1
A. There was a young man spoke to him when I
saw him at the office counter.
Cl. Did you see any one go to the room with him!
A. No, sir.
* Q. Would yon know Booth 1
A. I don’t think I would; he has been at the
house, but I don’t think 1 recollect him.
Cl. Were you present when that bowie knife was
taken from the bed 1
A. Yes, sir; It was underthe sheet,
ft. On what day was that!
A. The day after tho murder of.the President, or
on lhe evening after,
ft, Had tho bed been oocupled!
A. No,sir; the chambermaid had not bean In
there.
Q. Was Atzerott out the night of the assassina
tion!
A. Not that I know of; It was between 1? and 1
o’clock ’.list I saw him; he asked If any Ode had In
quired for hlob
■ ft. This was on the I4th day of April 1
A. Yes, sir.
Q, He paid for one day In advance for his room!
A. Yes, sir; it appears on the book.
ft. He bad never been to the hotel before to your
knowledge!
A. I hud never seen him there before,
CROSS KXAMINED.
Q. Were you clerking at the desk tho day when
he registered!
A. 1 went off duty at K o’eloek that day,
4. Did you seehim register!
A. No, sir.
Cl. What reason have yen for supposing that the
person who wrote this name was the person you
have Identified ?•
A. He called to the counter, pointed to his name
on the register, and asked If any one bad called.
Q. What day was that !
A. On Friday, between 12 and 1 o’clock,
ft. Did you see him after that again In person 1
A. No, not after he lea the counter.
Cl. Did you see him when his baggage came in t
A. No, sir. '
ft. Had he an; baggage when he arrived 1
A. I was not there when he arrived.
ft. Did he go to his room while he was there 1
A. I didn’t go there till next evening, between 6
and 1 o’clook.
Q. Do you kn ow whether he slept there 1
A, No, Mr; the chambermaid could not get In;
she could not find the key.
ft. Did yon ever find tbe key t
A. We sever have seen it slnoe.
Q. Did you have any conversation with a detec
tive In the course of the evening of the 15th in re
ference to a suspicions person at the Kirkwood
House!
A. On the 15th, the day after the murder, I think
probabiy I had, but I don’t recollect of any particu
lar conversation with regard to It.
ft. Do you remember going with the detective to
the room!
A. I went with Mr. Dee to tbe room.
ft. Do you know whether the prisoner, Atzerott,
had expressed any choice of the room, or for the
particular number, No. 128!
A. I was net there when he was roomed.
Cl. Did yon Inspect the different articles which
were found In the pockets of that coat 1
A. Yes, I saw them as Mr. Dee took them out.
Cl- Could you identify the pistol you saw on that
occasion 1
A. I don’t think I could the particular one it
was a large pistol; such as cavalry soldiers wear.
Q. Was it loaded or act 1 ■
A. It was.
ft. How were the barrels t round ?
A. I think It was a round, single-barrel, with
Chambers.
d- Could you recognize the books!
A. I think I could, the one that had J. Wilkes
Booth on the outside; the kulfe was a sheath
knife, the same as that one on the table, but I oould
not swear to the identity of It.
The assistant counsel for Mrs. Suratt then said:
Mr. president, I have to ask that the examination
ol Mr, Floyd may be postponed until Monday, as
bis testimony afieots Mrs. Suratt, and is of great
importance. and I feel desirous that his examina
tion may take place when her senior eonnsel, Mr.
Reverdy Johnson, Is present.
The court refused the application to defer the
examination of Mr. Floyd, on the gronnd that It
oould not wait on the whims or conveniences of
eonnsel,. and that Mr. Johnson might have re
mained in court, had he so chosen.
Mr. Floyd sworn—
ft. Where doyonreßlde!
A. At Surattvllle. "
d. Are yon acquainted with John H. Suratt!
A. Yes; since the Ist of December, 1884; not much
previous to that.
Q. Do yon know theprUoner Harold!
A. Yc?j slf
ft. Do you know the prisoner, Atzerott!
A> Ycb sirs
Q. Will you state whether or not some fire or six
weeks before the assassination of the President any
nr all of these men came to your boose 1
A. They were there, sir. ,
Q. All three!
a _ S ]r *
d- What did they bring to your house!
A. Atzerott came first; went on to T. B.; was
gone about half an hour, atfd the three of them re
turned— Suratt, Atzerott, and Harold; I noticed no
thing with them until all three came, when John
Suratt oalled me Into the front parlor, and then on
the sofa I saw two carbines and some ammunition.
Q. Anything else!
A. A rope. -
- d. How long 1 . .
A. About sixteen or twenty feet!
d- Were these articles lets at your house!
A- Yes ; Suratt asked me to take care of them,
and I told him I did not like to have those things
in the house; he then carried me Into a room I had
never been into before, and showed me wheral could
place them under a joist,
d- Were they concealed there!
A. Yes, sir; I put them there myself.
Q,. How much ammunition was there 1
A. Just one cartridge-box.
d. What kind of a carbine was It!
A. Dld’nt examine them; they hod covers over
them.
ft. state whether on the Monday preoeedlng Mrs.
Suratt came to your house ?
A. I met Mrs. Suratt on the Monday previous to
the assassination, when she jast broaohed the sub
ject to me; I did not undeistand her; she asked me
about the shooting-irons, or something of that kind,
to draw my attention to those things: I had almost
forgotten they were there, and I told her they were
hidden away she said they would be wanting soon;
I don’t recollect the first question Ishe put tome;
she only referred to it In a manner, but finally name
ont and said they would be wanted soon..
ft. Now will you state whether, on the evening or
day on which tho President was assassinated, Mrs.
Suratt didn’t come to your house 1
A. Yob; i was out attending a trial, and found
her there when I oame back; I judge it was about 6
o’clock; I met her at the wood-pile, and she told me
to have them shooting Irons ready that night, and
said there would be some parties call for them that
night; she gave mo something In a piece of paper to
keep for her, and I found It was a field glass; she
asked me also to have two bottles or whisky ready,
saying they would be oalled for at night.
ft. And were they called for by Booth and Harold
that night!
A. They both oame, Booth and Harold, and took
their whisky ent of the bottles; Booth didn’t come
in, but Harcid did; it was not over a quarter after
12 o’olook; Booth was a stranger to me; Harold
came in and took the whisky, but I don’t think he
aßked for It; he said to me get me those things.,
ft. Did not he say to yon what those things were ?
A. No; but he was apprised that already I knew
they were coming for him; I mode no reply, but
went and got them; I gave him all the artlolss, with
tbe field, gloss and a monkey-wrenok,
ft. She told ;6U to give them the whisky, the ear
bines, andthe field-glass ?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. How long did they remain at your house 1
A. Not over five minutes,
ft. Did they take both the oarbines, or only one?
A. Only one; Booth said he oould not take his,
because his leg was broken,
ft. Did ho drink also ?
A. Yes, while sitting on the poroh; Harold car
ried the bottle out to him.
ft. Did they say anything about the assassination!
A. As they werejaboutleavlug, Booth said “ I will
toll you tome news, I am pretty certain we have as
sassinated the President ana Secretary Seward .”
ft. Was that In Harold’s presenoe ?
A. lam not certain; I became so exMted that I
am not certain.
ft. At what hour was the news of the President’s
assassination afterwards received by yon I
A. I suppose it was about 9 o’clock,
ft. As the news spread, was It spoken of that
Booth was the assassin?
A. I think it was, on several occasions,
ft. DldyonEce the prisoner, Dr. Mudd, before 1
A. I never saw him before; lam not aoqualnted
with him at all.
Q. What was the exact language used when Ha
rold asked yon for those things?
a. For God’s sake make haste and get those
things.
4. At what time did you rent the house 1
A. About the Ist of December last.
Q. At tho time yon commenced the occupation
of tlie premises did you find any arms In tbs
bouse 1
A: No, sir.
4- No guns or pistols 1
A. There was a broken gun—a double barrelled
gnn.
Q. l)o you keep a bar therel
A. 1 do, sir.
4- Detail the first conversation yon had with
Mrs. Suratt on the two last times you saw her.
A- It was out of TJnlontown ; we had passed eaoh
other ; I stopped and saw ft was her and got out and
went to her buggy, slid she spoke to me in a manner
trying to draw my attention to those things, the
carbines, but she finally came out plainer, though
I am h«t quite positive, but I think she said shoot
ing irons. _ -.
4. Can you swear, Mr. Floyd, on your oath, that
she mentioned shooting Irons to yon at all 1
A. I am pretty positive she did on both oooaslons,
and I know she did on the last.
Q. At what time on Friday did yon meet Mrs.
Suratt. ,
A. I didn’t meet her on Friday at all; I was ont,
and when I anived home I found hor there.
4. How long did she remain after you returned 1
A. Not overten minutes.
. Q. Now state the conversation between you and
her during those ten mlnntes 1
A. The first thing she said was, “Talk about the
devil and some of his Imps will appearthen she
Bald, 11 Mr. Floyd, I want you to have the shooting
irons ready; some parties will call for them to
night." She gave me a bundle, but I didn’t open It
until I got up stairs, and I found ft was a field
glass.
4. At what time of day had yon this conversation
with Mis. Suratt 1
; A. I judge It was about 5 o’clock, but It might
have been later; she told me to have those shooting.
irons ready, and 1 carried them and the other things
Into the house i that Is all the conversation I had
with her in refeienoe to that; I went Into the barn
and she reddOEtOUtSe to tlx her boggy, the spring
of which had become detached from the anle.
• 4- Was any other person piesont during this ln
fWs. Offett was there.
4. Was she within hearing distance 1
A. Idon’t know; I suppose she was.
U. Inis we Bln the yard 1
! a. Yes, sir.
; Q, is Mrs. Offett a neighbor of yoursl
A. Sbelsmy BlßteMn-law.
I 4, When did yen first have oooaslon be reooueol
those conversations 1
i A. When I gave .all the particular* to Colonel
Burnett, the Saturday week following. ,
4. Was that tho first time youdetaited thase oon-
Ivenatlons 1
i A. Yes.
4 Did you relate UJ Of the olroumstanoes teeny
other perm 1
OHOS.S-BXAKIHATIOH.
A. Only to Dlent. Dovett and Uapt. Cuming
bom ; I tola them it was through the suratts.tbat I
got myself Into difficulty, and If they' hvin’t
brought those arms to the house I would net have
been In any difficulty at all.
Q. Were Dovett and Cunningham together when
you told them 1
A. Yes.
ft. Did you talk to Mrs. Offett about It!
A. 1 don’t think I did; lam not sc positive about
that.
Q. How soon after Booth and Harold left you did
you learn positively the assassination of the Presi
dent!
A. I got it from them.
d- How soon after -did yon get It from other par
tiea!
A. About 8 or 9 o’clook the next morning,
d. Did you have any conversation with tto sol
diers In regard to it!
A- No, sir.
d- Hid yen tell tbem about Booth and Harold
being at your place!
A. I did not, and I am only sorry that I did not.
Q. Did Mrs. Sufatt have any conversation with
you In reference to any conspiracy 1
A. Never, sir.
d. Did Mrs. Suratt hand anything to you when
she spoke about those shooting Irons 1
A. Yes, sir, the field glass,
d. Have you any family 1
A. I have a wife.
Q. Have you a son!
A. No, sir.
d- Docs any person work for you!
A. Ycb, sir; a couple ol colored men.
d> Were any or them present at the conversation
between Mrs. Suratt and yon!
A. No, sin
ft. Was the package handed to you by Mrs. Su
ratt’s own hand 1
A, Yes, by herself.
ft. Where were you standing when She handed It
to you f
A. Near the woodpile.
' Here a different counsel entered upon the task of
continuing the cross examination, a cross-examina
tion rendered exceedingly tedious by the Insufficient
voice ol the witness, whom the court and' counsol
oould scarcely hear.
ft. Mr. Floyd, can you recollect who it was, after
Booth and Harold left the house, that first told you
It was Booth who killed the President 1
A. 1 cannot; It was spoken of in the bar-room
tho next morning and throughont the day.
ft. Were the circumstances told, and the manne
In which he did it 1 .
A. 1 don’t remember any circumstances being
told.
ft. Do you know whether the soldiers who just
esme to tue house know it WAS Booth!
A. I do not; I suppose they knew It, as they
brought tho from the city.
4- Mr, riuyd, how !OPB before »» assassination
v™ B -t that the three gentlemen you referred to
Came to your house 1
A. About six weeks; they had two buggies; Small
and Have Harold were In the buggies; Suratt
cettd on horseback 1
ft. They all oame together 1
A-e Yes*
ft'. Weil, who went down*lo this plaoe called
T. JB.-t
A Suratt and Atzerott.
ft. Did Harold go with them then 1
A. No; Harold was there the night before; he
had gone down the country, and told me he had
come from T. 8., when they all three oame back,
ft. How long were they gone!
A. Not over half an hour.
ft. Who handed tbe carbines to yon 1
A. John Suratt, when they all oame into the bar;
Suratt told me he wanted to see me, and took me to
the front parlor, and there,,on the sofa, wore the
carbines. ’ '
ft. Do you know which buggy they were taken
Horn!
A. I did not see anything of any arms at all until
they were on tho sofa.
ft. What became of the rope that was not taken
away 1
A. It was put In the store-room with the monkey
wrench ; I told the colonel about It at the Old Ca
pitol, and’l suppose he sent for It.
Q. Did at any time any conversation pass be
tween you and Herold about tbe arms.
A. The night of the assassination, when he got
the carbines.
ft. Which road did they take!
A. Towards T. B.
ft. Hid Booth and H. start off together!
- A. They did.
Q. Can you say whether It was in Harold’s pro-
Bence that Booth told yon he had killed the Presi
dent. ....
A. I am not sure, because Harold rede across the
yard like.
ft. You were arrested on the Tuesday following!
A. Yes.
Q. Where!
a. About 1600 yards from T. B. on my way home,
ft. Did Harold take a drink at the bar!
A. He did and carried a bottle to Booth,
ft. Did he take the bottle baok 1
A. He did.
ft. Did he pay for the drink!
A. He said): "I owe you a couple of dollars,” and
he gave me one dollar.
ft. Was it light enough for you to observe the
kind of horses they had 1
A. One was almost a white horse, and the other
was a bay; the bay,was a large horse; Harold was
riding on the-bay.
Here another counsel took up the oross-examl
ration, beginning with the oft-repeated injunction
to the witness to speak louder.
ft. Mr. Floyd, you say yon met Atzerott In com
pany with Suratt ami Harold!
A. He came there fire or six weeks before in com
pany with Suratt.
ft. Dldyau ever see him before that time 1
A. Yea; he had been to my house before,
ft. Did he ever deliver to you anything!
A. Never. . „ „ _
ft. Have yon seen him since the assassination! Q
A. Never till now.
ft. Have you ever known Atzerott by nick
names!
A. I used to call him stranger, often; I didn’t
know his name.
ft. Did you ever see the prisoner, Arnold 1 (the
one in the corner.)
A. I don’t know him.
ft. Did Booth take a rifle with him 1
A. No, sir, but Harold did.
ft Whore wore tho arms then!
A. They were In my bed chamber,
ft. When did you bring them there t
A. Alter Mrs. Suratt left, in consequence of her
order.
ft Did you give them the carbines before they
said anything about shooting the President!
A. No, sir, afterward,
ft. What time was it!
A. A little alter 12; I WOkO up just before 12
o’clock; I had gone to bed about 9 o’clock.
ft. When thesoldlors searched, did you give them
aid! .
A. I told them I did not know anything about It;
I should have been perfectly free if I had given
them the Information they asked for.
ft. Did you have any conversation with Mrs.
Oftett after Mrs. Suratt went away t
A. lam net certain; I think I told her.
ft. How far do yon enppose it Is from the gate to
the house?
A. About as far as from here to tho partition,
(about fifteen feet.)
ft. Where were you standing when you had the
conversation with her last ? '
A. Near the wood-pile.
The court adjourned till Monday morning, at
o’olook.
®|}* f! MS.
MONDAY, MAY 15, 1885.
The Great Criminal Taken*
Jefferson Davis, a prisoner in the
hands of Andrew Johnson, constitutes an
antithesis better than a bloody triumph
over a desperate opposition, and more ex
pressive than the strongest argument. The
aristocrat is the captive of the, democrat—
the head of a crushed rebellion is at the
mercy of the head of a vindicated Republic.
There has been a wondrous Providence
in the last scenes of this war, and the man
ner of the taking of Davis is as strange as
any of the events that have followed so
rapidly the fall bf Richmond. There is
nothing of grandeur in it. He fled from
the stubborn rebel capital after he had
ordered it to be given to the flames.
Laden with spoils himself, he left a starv
ing and plundered people to he clothed
and fed by the conqueror. And even
as he saw ruin before and around him, and
flying to save his own life, he attempted to
force bis armies into new conflicts, and to
shed BlOie bipod in a lost and desperate
cause. Caught at last, in the midst of the
victims of his ingratitude and tyranny, after
a reward had been offered for his arrest as
an accomplice in the great assassination, his
fate is the beginning of the end of a life
never stained with dishonor until he broke
the oath he 'swore to defend his country,
and led the hosts who had doomed it to
destruction. Hor was the catastrophe
wanting in the ludicrous. The proudest
spirit of the South— the most sensitive of
the slave aristocracy—the “ Admirable
Crichton” Of society, whose pride it was
to excel in every manly grace and every
scholastic acquirement—the Martinet of
the army—the pretentious Cato of the
Senate—assumed the garments of his wife
to escape the search of the soldiers of the
Union. We have often beard that the ma
dame of the rebel monarch was the Catha
rine of the Court; but this is the first
time that Davis has ever voluntarily as
sumed the petticoat. Oh, what a pic
ture for the satirist! What a theme
for Punch / We will not anticipate his
punishment. But if his own cruelty to
others is to be applied to himself, it will be
one long and inconceivable torture. As we
study this man’s character, with the aid
of the proved miseries of the Southern
people, it assumes a most revolting aspect.
At any hour he cpuld have saved -thou
sands from death, by an honorable sub
mission ; but, in the face of defeat, he
forced them to remain in the army, and
to refuse the terms of the Government
of their fathers. It seems to have been or
dained, however, that he should only fall
into the hands of justice after his armies
bad been crushed and his agents had impli
cated him in the blackest crime in human
history. As the web of this vast conspira
cy is being unravelled, and while a mourn
ing world contemplates the murder of the
mighty dead, Jefferson Davis is on his
way to a Retribution which Bhould be as
marked andmemorable as his own offences
have been numerous and appalling.
“ But now, from thy reluctant band,
TbS thunderbolt la wrong;
TOOlate tbou leaveac tbs Ugh e&mmaml
To which thy wtahnesß clung.
As Evil Spirit, as tbou art,
> It la enough to grieve tke heart,
To see thine own unstrung;
TV tblnk that God’s fair world hath boon
The footstool of a thing so mean."
The National Finances.
The firm confidence of the people in the
< strength and security of the Government,
j as shown in the recent unprecedented in
! vestments in the Hfttional Loan, may well
cause every patriotic bosnm to swell with
emotions of pleasure and satisfaction.
Never in the history Of tho world his a
government loan of such proportions
been taken up with such eagerness and
rapidity. On Saturday, seven-thirty bonds
to the immense amount of_nearly thirty
and a half millions of dollars were sub
scribed to by the-people in various sections
of the Union, and during last week the
total sales reached almost one hundred
millions. We know the effect which was
produced in Europe by the news of the
complete downfall of the rebellion, but
when these amazing financial statements
are announced, the inhabitants of the Old
World will see that from the storm of war
our Government has emerged doubly
strengthened at all points.
The New York World newspaper has
made the repeated statement that Mr.
Osbon, the gentleman now being tried in
New York for furnishing improper infor
mation, was the “special” correspondent
of The Press. This is unjust to Mr.
Osbon and this newspaper. Mr. Osbon
was tbe naval correspondent of a dozen
journals, among which was the World.
He furnished his information to all of them,
and they all printed it. We did it ourselves
as a matter of enterprise, and the circum
stances of the publication on our part were
made fully satisfactory to the Government.
This persistent effort to make The Press
the organ of contraband news is one of the
most disingenuous acts of the dig
ingenuous career,
" .Isaac B. Gaba, for eighteen years iden
tified with the Erie Oasetle , of which, during
nearly all-that period, he was the principal
editor, has sold out his interest and retired
to private life on account of ill health.
The original proprietor of the establish
ment, Mr. Stkrbett, for forty, six years
connected with it, goes out with his friend
and associate. Wp have been acquainted
with Mr. Gaba since- boyhood and have
never known a more faithful, courageous,
and industrious journalist. The great ma
jorities in all the Pennsylvania lake coun
ties are, in a considerable part, attributable
to his sagacity and skill.
LETTER FROM “ OCCASIONAL."
Washington, May 13, 1805.
On the motion, this morning, of Judge
Advocate General Holt, the sessions of the
Military Commission will hereafter be con
ducted with open doors, unless for the pur
poses of consultation.. This action was in
accordance with the known wishes and
intentions of that officer, who never con
cealed his desire that the trial should be as
public as the weighty questions in issue
would allow. What has been elicited in this,
awful secret “Star-chamber” will, of course,
he laid before the people. The accused
and their counsel know it; it has not been
hidden from them, and they do not com
plain. The work of calumnious censure,
commenced by the New York papers, and
echoed by all the organs in sympathy with
the rebellion, haß been successful only in
giving the President a new chance to show
that, in all his proceedings to maintain the
Government, he has not resorted to a single
unjust or despotic expedient. Indeed, so
far as the case. Of the conspirators has pro
gressed, not a word of complaint has been
made by them or their lawyers. Only those
conceive themselves injured who could
not gratify an unreasoning curiosity by
being allowed to fill their newspapers with
the evidence. If the Commission had re
fused to grant all the proper facilities to
the accused, had deprived them of counsel,
or had declined to call their witnesses,
there. would have been some reason for
the bitter and inflammatory reproaches
of the New York papers and their Cop
perhead echoes. But these are only
general reasons for what was demanded
by specific dangers. When the case
is made up you will realize that if any
Other course had. been pursued the
whole object of the inquiry would have
been defeated. To none will this revela
tion be so full of costly admonition as to
the partisans who have.made the trial the
pretext for. a concerted assault upon Pre
sident Johnson's Administration. It is
vain to attempt to make Mr. Stanton the
scapegoat. No one has'taken so much
interest in the formation of the com
mission as President. Johnson. He deli
berated calmly, and for days, before he
decided;-and when he finally issued the
proclamation offering the reward for Davis
and others, and ordered the military
Court to be formed for the .trial of the
assassins and their accomplices, he did so
without fear, and with no purpose of re
gretting or recalling his decrees. The
TESTIMONY, FAIRLY ELICITED, IN THE FBE
-BENCE OF THE ACCUSED, WILL SHOW THAT
HE WOULD HAVE COMMITTED A' CRIMI
NAL ACT IF HE HAD NOT TAKEN PRE
CISELY THE COURSE SO STRONOLV 'OB
JECTED TO by his enemies. What if, in
this testimony, it appears that the assassina
tion of the President and his Cabinet, and
others, was plotted in the rebellion, paid
for with rebel money, and known to the
rebel chiefs ? What if the raids into Ver
mont, the hotel burning, the throwing of
crowded trains from railroads, &c., were
arranged under the same influences and.
paid for out of the same funds ? What if
George N. Sanders, who swears he does
not know, or had never seen Booth, is
proved to have been his close companion ?
And yet such facts as these are believed to
have been established, ajid yet are imma
terial compared to much more which
came out with the doors of the commission
closed. But’what will surprise the coun
try is the suspicious eagerness of certain
newspapers to rush into this crusade upon
the manner of trying the assassins before
the nation had recovered from the first
effects of the dreadful shock of Mr. Lin
coln's murder, and before President
Johnson had himself comprehended the
mighty duties suddenly cast upon him.
What ‘a comment upon the noisy and
ostentatious grief over the assassina
tion, and the profuse proffers of con
fidence to the new Administration 1
The sense of the loss of our" illustrious
Chief Magistrate did not persuade them to
entrust the manner of punishing his slayers
to President Johnson, nor did the know
ledge of his new and overwhelming oh.
ligations save him from the insult of being
charged as the instrument and tool of bad
men intent alone upon revenge and blood
shed. The experiences a valuable one, and
will not be forgotten. Occasional.
The New York Papers and the Conspira-
[From the Washington Chronielo, May 13 ]
Two of tho editorial columns of tho Philadelphia
Ledger of yesterday are .filled with solid extracts
from three New York papers—the Evening Pool, the
Times, and the Tribune —of the day before, taking
Issue with the Government booaußa the oonsplra
tors are being tried by a military commission,whose
first sessions have been, for sufficient reasons, held
with closed doors.
Although the articles oopled Into the Ledger do
not offensive ly single out any particular individual
as especially responsible for this grave proceeding,
the in close 1 natation or the New York
World— the most noterlett* assailant of the lfU and
the Government—selects Mr. Stanton as the great
offender, andlarralgns him in the following terms
Secret Military Tribunals —The attempt of
Mr. Stanton to set aside the oourtß of law for the
trial of offences and to substitute seoret military
tribunals are not receiving that quletdeferenoe that
he possibly hoped for ITom the pubUo. * » * *
Mr. Stanton greatly mUtakes the temper or the
- American people when ho undertakes this
oos Innovation upon the established .
which every man has learned to respoot, and which
he himself Is bonnd to recognize and defer to by Ms
oath Of offloe. There Is no functionary In this ooon
try above the Jaws, and the strsngtti of power to the
heads of the Government Is In -adhering to thorn
In their integrity and as the people have oreated
them.
The World, also of yesterday, strikes the same
; key thus:
And what guarantee hare we that torture has
not been practised by the tools and underlings of
Stanton 1 Every other method known to despots
has bees practised and Improved upon by him; why
Bhould he stlek at this 1 Torture was never prac
ticed m pubUo, and we apprehend that anybody
nh» eonld unfold the secrets or Stanton’s prison
houses Might a tUennroM whlehwvhlft'mu* the
hair of humane men stand oirend with horror.
Without stopplng(to askfctha Evening Post, Tri
bune, and Times how they relish the usas to which
their censures of an Administration they profess to
support are devoted by Its most proscriptive assail
ant, It la easy to discover that the Ledger and the
World have not nearly so muoh horror of “seoret
military tribunals” as they have hate or Stanton.
The Times and Post object on what seems to them
to be good public grounds. Tho Ledger and World,
affecting the same argument, are simply Instigated
by personal animosity. What wo have nuclei u
oonolnslve as to that. Mr. Stanton used) no
defence against suoh enemies. Ho Is accustomed
to calumny, especially from disappointed and
dißftffeoiM newspapers* Suffice It to Bay, there
Is no IMcg man who is more endeared to the frunds
of the Union, and none who has Berred the oountry
with a pnrer or amore undaunted patrlotlßm. With
the manner of trying these conspirators, he has had
no more to do than any other member of the Oabl*
net. The President consulted him and all his ooa
'stltutlonal advisers before issuing the proclamation.
He toot tho advice of the Attorney General, that
the confplrators, their alders and abettors, were
“ snbject to the jurisdiction of, and legally triable
before, a military commission.” And the President
then directed the Assistant Adjutant General to
detail nine military officers to servo as the Commis
sion • the trial or trials to ba conducted by the Judge
Advocato General, who was to prefer the oharges,
Sts. and that “ the said Commissiomstabltsh such, order
or rules of proceeding as may avoid unnecessary delay
and conduce to the ends of justice," Thlß order was
Issued on the Ist of May, and read to the Military
Commission on the 9th of the same month, and
was signed 11 Andrew Johnson.” This to any friend
of the General Administration should bB sufficient
to show that the President does not seek to escape
the full responsibility of his share in the proclama
tion and trial. And they intentionally Insult him
who attempt to create the Impression that his dell-,
berate and'oonsolenttous action was the deolslon.of
others,"and In oppositlon(to his real feelings. Suoh
Is the effeot, If not the object, of the course of
the Ledger and World. II wa desired to oonrer
a new honor, upon the Secretary of War, we
should advise him to accept what 1s now offensively
thrust upon him, In the hope that It may bring him
Into disrepute—vis, tho credit or having originated
the manner of trying the conspirators. Under the
roles of the distinguished officers composing tho
Commission, no act of Injustice has bean com
plained of by any of the parlies concerned In the
trial. The accused have not only had permission
to send for counsel, but the Government has
employed, its own messengers to convoy their
wishes in this respect. Their oounsel and their wit
nessf f Jisye been In regular attendance. The only
step that has been taken by the court, not In ao
cordance with ordinary trials, Is that thus far It
has sat with closed doors. How long It may be n<S
cessory to maintain this precaution cannot now be
decided. As it was adopted to asoertalu tho truth,
and the truth alone, It wiU sot bo abandoned if the
ecmpUints of the New York press are swollen Into
a torrent of denunciation. Yesterday the evi
dence was of so much Importance as
ly to establish the propriety or this very alter
native. The lives of some of ike witnesses depended
upon the regulation; and we feel free to say that
neno were more oonsolous of Its necessity than the
witnesses themselves. Most of them are honorable,
intelligent, patrlotlo citizens, Who is it that puts
IHEIII LIVES in danger l Who are encouraged
to send anonymous letters to officers of the oommts
eionl Who constrained the Government to place
guards around the doors of the President, his oa.bi
net, the Uommlssloh itself, and the residence of your
Judge Advocate General? AnGwer us, “gentlemen”
of the New York press. Mr. Greeley tells hi)
readers that the Commission Is Illegal. Does he
knew better than the Attorney General of the
United States what Is the lawl He “warns” the
“ gentlemen of the Cabinet,” and adds that “the
people” "will compel them to speak in tones they can*
not refuse to hear." Shame 1 shame I There Is not a
secret assassin In Washington that does not re
echo this threat; there Is not a disbanded re
bel that has Eot used precisely this language
against the same “Cabinet" a thousand times.
The World takeß another course. It deifies Booth to
make Stanton a fiend- It sinks the-horrid reality
of the bloody butchery of the 11th of April In Its
ploture ol “ the seer* v of Stanton’s prison-house,"
which, If unfolded, ays, might a tale Unfold which
would make the hair are humane men stand on end with
horror," Why the savages, who murdered Lincoln,
and brought the Sewards to the very verge of the
grave, from whloh one of them may never be rescued,
are gentle and pious in comparison with the Cabinet
whom Mr. Greeley “warns,” and the War Minister
with his Becret “ tortures ” and “ prison-houses.”
Andrew Johnson begins his Administration under
novel außpioeß Indeed, if these are to be the fruits
and followings of his very first well considered
order. Tho people need not, however, be alarmed
by this clamor. He will be vindicated. The military
commission called by him will be vindicated. His
vr.mi.Da oak go bbvobb thb oouhtst VBAtt-
LKS6LT OK THE TBSTIMOBY. And not One. BOt Of
the court, Including tho comjielled closing of its doors
for thepurpose of reaching the truth and convicting
the guilty, will be disapproved by the people—that
people who never yet have deserted a faithful
public servant, and never yet have defeated Andrew
Johnson, of Tennessee:
THE HOMEWARD MARCH.
All tlie Army of the Potomac within the
Defences of Washington.
The Army of the Potomac has all reaohed the
’defences south of the Potomac, and General Meade’s
headquarters are established at Fort Albany, on the
road Jrom the Long Bridge to Bailey’s Cross Roads.
The 2d Corps, Major General Humphreys, and
the 6th Corps, Major General Griffin, will onoamp
In the vicinity of the. railroad loading from Falla
Church to Leeßburg, although the pormanent camp
lug grounds have not been fixed upon.
Major General Sherman’s headquarters are
established at Alexandria, and hid army la to-day
marching from Fredorlokahurg to that plaoe, whence
It will probably go Into oamp outside of the fortifi
cations, where wood and water may be moat con
venient.
General Sheridan’s Cavalry Corps will be here on
Tuesday or 'Wednesday. All of these troops will
encamp within the limits of this department,
although the Army of the Fotomae, General Sher
man’s army and the cavalry eorps will each retain
Its present organization, and transaot Us military
business through the regular official channels as
before.
EUROPE.
The Feeling over foe Assassination of
our President.
Nhw Yobk, May 14—The steamers City ef Bos
ton and Saxonta have arrived with Liverpool and
Southampton advies of May Bd.
The steamers Moravian and New York arrived
ont on the 3d.
INDIGNATION AMD BBGBBT AT THB HUBDBB.
Demonstrations of sympathy from the publlo
bodies throughout England Btlll oontlnue.
The Spanish Senate and the Dower House of the
Austrian Beiahsrath hare unanimously voted their
regret and sympathy.
In the House of Lords, Earl Bussell moved ahum
ble address to the Queen expressing the sorrow and
Indignation of the House at Mr. Lincoln's assassi
nation, and praying that these sentiments be com
mnnioated to the American Goverment.
ft is said that the Queen has written a private
letter to Mrs, Lincoln expressing her deepest sym
p&thy ftrit irreparable loiii
Earl Derby seconded the motion of Earl Gray,
consequent on Palmerston's illness, and Disraeli
moved a second similar motion, to which both Houses
agreed unanimously.
The Times says: “Both Houses were crowded to an
unusual degree beaanse of the members sharing and
representing to the utmost the strong popular sen
timent which pervades England, ana were anxious
to add as muon as possible by their presence to the
simple solemnity to be enacted.”
The demeanor of Parliament Is In the highest de
gree Impressive. ■
Mr. Adams presided at the great meeting of Ame
ricans lh London expressive or sorrow and Indigna
tion.
Public meetings have been called In London and
all the chief cities of England, expressing abhor
rence of the frightful orlraes against Ltnooln and
Seward. St. James’ Hall, In London, was draped
In mourning, and the president of the Emancipation
Society presided.
The Times hoped OUr m&Wrestafclona of Iftdlgne.
tion and sorrow will be received by the Americans as
meant, that Is, as spontaneous, genuine expressions
of feeling, wrung from the national heart Letneone,
for a moment, oonfonnd the manifestation with any
political object or ulterior deßlgn. Wo feel confident
that the sorrow in which England and America
may, wlthont exaggeration, be said to share, cannot
pass by without leaving them better acquainted
with each other, and more lneUned to friendship
and mutual allowance for each other’s faults than
before.
Slidell declined an Invitation to attend the fune
ral services performed on President Lincoln’s
death, stating that no one could feel greater horror
at the late crime, but that he feared that his pas
senoe at the eeremony would lead to erroneous In
terpretations.
The American minister has thanked M.Drouyn
de l’Huys for the Preach condolences. Iff. Bonher
communicated to the Chamber a despatch convey
ing the sympathies Of Franoe, on aooouat of Lin
coln's assassination, to the American minister.
The fit. Petersburg Journal expresses sympathy
with America on Lincoln’s murder, hoping Johnson
will prove b worthy successor.
The Austrian Relohsrath has unanimously voted
an address to Amerloa expressing sympathy. The
Government has expressed to the American minis
ter at Vienna Its deep sympathy.
The Spanish Council of Ministers and Congress
unanimously agreed to resolutions exprosslve or
sympathy with Amerloa. ' .
A solemn service In the German and English
languages was performed In Berlin, on the 2d last.,
in memory of President Lincoln. Numerous depu
tations were present. The King was represented
by aides-de-camp. The church was orowded.
;k cm.
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At Gallagher’s Stook Exchange this evening,
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Erie, 76%; Hudson Elver, 181% 5 Reading, 82%;
Michigan Southern, 63; Illinois Central, 114% ;
Pittsburg, 64; Book island, 06 ; Canton Co., 85%;
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The stook market was very doll but steady; Gold
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ssw iui
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of French and other dry geode &o„ oomprislng
about 960 lots of staple and fancy artisles, including
ajopleoes silks, 300 pieces mouse de laines, 160 pieces
grenadines, taffeta de Paris, c*0.;176 pleoeaa* black
and white skirtings, 326 pleee&whttegeods andUnens,
600 Spring Shawlf, 469 plash. and silk mantles, he..
876 cartons Choice ribbons, nowors, and trimmings,
46 oases straw hats and hoods, 60 oartons sun urn"
brellas; also domestic ’goods, veils, gloves, hosiery*
patent thread, Ac., to. be peremptorily sold, by cata
logue, on four months’ credit, and part for cash,
commencing this (Monday) morning, at 10 o'olook,
ty John B. Myers & Co., auctioneers, N 232 and
234 Market stwet.. •
; Stocks akd Bbal Ebtats To-kobbow,—See
Thomas k Sou' advertisement page, auction hud
Press, and pamphlet catalogues.
$30,451,950.
Immense. Subscriptions to tj,
7-30 s on Saturday, !
THE SHISCBIPTIOIVS IS 4HIR WKkK
HllNUfiEll MILLIONS! IJ, I
An Unprecedented Success in H-,,;
Finances. 11
The Second Series of the 740 s Entirely in,,,
The Secretary of tho Treasury has dec; l«i j,.
the balance ortho loan that was.authorlf.oil t-. 11
of March, 1866, and whleh amounts to *330 «,,j
seven and three-tenths notes, precisely 81n!;,,’! 11
tenor, form, and privileges to the so ret thi'.,,* 8
already sold, payable three,years from the i stk w
next July, exoept that the Government will rti , *
to Iteeir the option of paying Interest in ; ,r|
at the rate of 6 per cent., Instead of 7 S-latLs In, 1
renoy. Subscribers will deduct the Inte-eetT
currency up to July 15th, when they sub-crib, T i
delivery of the notes of this third series of the
thirties will commence on the Ist of Ju nt!) Mi) ,
be made promptly and continuously after that ,w?
Subscriptions, however, will ba rsestred at '
end interest at 7 3-10 per cony. allowed tC so 5
berß up to the 16th of J My, (a the same
it waß allowed for the Interval between the g..,-!
series and tho first series. Ary oicess of subs-;,!
tlons to the present seilesywili be one!) with tho ae.
issue as Bpeedlly as the notes cm, be prepared u. q,
treasury. " '
The slight change made In the conditions or tau
third series sffects only the matter or Interest t, *
payments In gold, If made, will hs equivalent |!
the currency Interest of the higher rate. The
portant privilege of converting the notes Jtto trs
long and five-twenty gold-bearing t 4i l.
or Of demanding payment at maturity, at tie
er’s option, is l|ot Interfered With. The put,/
takers of the seven-thirty loan will rejoice if the by
crotary, sooner or later, avails fclmsoir of tho o, -
to pay them six per cent, in gold, In lie-- “
larger rate of Interest In currency. The ntmy
specie payments, In the event of w£!ii bii!«K7
this option be available, weald so reduce and e<;
Ire prices as that purchases made with six j () '
C6nt, In gold would be fully equal to those aa ' (
With seven and three-tenths per cent. In ourrez j,
The machinery need In popularising the ..p.j
two series of tho seven.thirties will be .employed ij
the Secretary of the Treasury In the saio or til,
third series. It will be under the supervlsl <r.
Jay Ooofci, the Government loan eubsociptk,
Agent, Who will employ the sub agencies heraw'ij,
employed, acdwlth whloh the people are familiar.
It Is confidently expected that tho whole Mnouct
win be sold In the next sixty or ninety days, -wins,
this $280,000,000 Is disposed of the last opportunity
for these profitable Investments In United Statu
Government secnritles will be gone.
Tho subscriptions on Saturday re.'o’vei by ,f,,
Cooke amounted to $30,461,960. Tho largest.sing],
Western subscriptions were:
Second National Bank, Chicago, $1,036,000.
First National Bank, Cincinnati, $1,000,000.
The largest single Eastern subscriptions were:
.Ninth National Bank, New York, $5,664,000,
Bank of Commerce, New York, $1,000,000.
Fisk Si Hatch, New York, $1,082,600.
Henry Clews & Co., New York, $1,000,000.
National Metropolis Bank, Washington, $109,609,
National Exchange Bank, Hartford, $200,000,
Second National Bank, Frovldeneo, $200,000.
Second National Bank, Boston, fooo.oeo.
The total sales for the week were $08,834,060.
At the close ef Saturday’s sales of the seven.
thirties but little If any of the seeondjserles of ti,-st
hundred millions will remain. AU the telegraph
orders received on Saturday will be filled. If as;
of the loan romalns over it will be given to the fi-,i
applicants by telegraph on Monday morning,
Two weeks ago the amount of the second ser'ei
sold and reported, Inclusive of voucher oenvwiioM,
was about $145,C00,000. The cash sales lsst west
were about $40,000.000; this week, $98.060 000, Tug
balance of the oonverslonß of quartermaster’s vouch
ers during the last two weeks, and which were not
Included in the dally published sales of the seven*
thirties, together with the sales In California mi.i at
the various sab treasures, also not Inoludod la its
dally sale), Will mate about $16,000,000— ftHog-p.t?,
a total of sates of $298,000,000.
THE END OF THE WAR.
JEFF DAVIS OUR PRISONER!
Davis’ Wife, Postmaster Reagan, ani
others Captured with him.
CKFOBTBNATK COUISIOY BETWBBBi TWO OP «
pimsmse pabhhs.
Davis Essays to Escape in his Wife's
Clothes.
OFFICIAL GAZETTE.
Wab Defabtmbnt, Washington, May 11.-
The following details of the oaptnre of Tefrora.>n
DavlP, whlle attempting to make his escape la hu
wife’s clothes, have been received from Major dm,
Wilson. E. M. Stanton.
Macon, Ga,, 11 A. M., May 12, IMS.
Bon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
The following despatoh, announcing the oaptars
of Jeff Davis, has just been handed me by Gol.
Minty, commandlug the 2d Division:
BBAnqvABTBns 4th Mich. Cavalbv,
Cn«rßßfttA«»viniK ; Ga, May 11, JB?S,
To Captain T. W. Scott, A, G, 2d Division ;
Sib : 1 have the honor to report that at daylight
yesterday, at Xrwlnsvllle, I, surprised and capturel
Jeff. Davlß and family, together with his wife, slb
tors, and brother, his Postmaster General Hea?u>,
his private secretory, Colonel Harris; Ooluiel
Johnston, A. D. O. on Davis’ staff; Colonel Mor
ris Lubblek and Lieutenant Hathaway; also severs)
important names, and a train of five wagons and
three ambulances—making a perfeot suocess, hid
not a most painful mistake occurred by which tie
4th Michigan and Ist Wisconsin collided, which oott
us two killed, and Lieutenant Boutelle wounded
through the arm, In the 4th Mlohtgan ; and lour
men wounded In the Ist Wisconsin. This occurred
just at dayllght r alter we had captured the camp,
by the advanoe of the Ist WJsoonsln. They won
mistaken for the enemy.
1 returned to tils point last night and shall move
right on tC Mason without Waiting Orders from yea
as directed, feeling that the whole object Of the ex
pedition Is accomplished, ft will take me at lease
three days to reach Macon, as we are seventy dve
miles out and our Btook Is much exhausted. 1 hops
- to reach Hawklnsvllle to-night.
I have the honor, etm, D. B. Pibitchabd,
Lieut. 001. 4th Michigan Cavalry.
The Ist Wisconsin belongs to Lagrango’s brigade,
MoGook’s division, and'bad been sent due east by
General Croxton, via Dublin, Colonel Mint; bed
distributed his command all along the south bask
of the Ookmulgep and’&ltamaba This accounts tot
the collision between parts of the Ist and sd Dirt,
stems, end shows the seal of the oommand lu the
pursuit. I have directed Increased vigilance on the
part of the oommand- In tho hope of catching the
other MsasslßP, Our. dispositions are good, and 50
far none of the »bcl chiefs hath beta Rble to get
through.
Breckinridge's son was captured night before lost
eleven miles south from here.
I will send further details as boob as received.
J. H. Wilson,
Brevet Major General.
Macon, Ga., 9.80 A, M„ May 1».
Hon, E. M. Stanton, Secretary of Wari
Lieutenant Colonel Harden, commanding Ist WIB
oonsin, bas just arrived from Irwlnsvllle, He
struck Davis’ trail at Dublin, Laurens eounty, on
the evening of the 7th, and followed him closely,
night and day, through the pine wilderness of Alli
gator Creek and Green Swamp, via Oumbeilaad
vllle to Xrwlnsvllle. At OumberlandriUe Colonel
Harden met Colonel Prltohard, with 150 p'Ohed
men and horses of the 4th JVHohigan. Hard Ml fM'
lowed the trail <l3r*oUy south, while PiltCU&ril,
having fresher horses, pushed down the Oomulges,
towards Hopewell; and thenoe by House Oreek tt
Irwlnsvllle, arriving there at midnight of the Sit,
Jeff Davis had not arrived. From clt'zons Prttobard
learned that his patty were encamped two mllos
from the-town. He mado his dispositions, and sur
rounded the camp before day. Harden had oatnpsd
at 8 P. M., within two miles, as he afterwards
learned, from Davis.
The trail being too Indistinct to follow, he pushed
on at 3 A.M., and had gone but little mare than
one mile when his advance were fixed upon by men
of the 4th Michigan. A fight ensued, both parties
exhibiting the greatest determination. Fifteen
minutes elapsed before the mistake was discovered.
The firing In this skirmish was- the drat warn™*
Davis rsoslved. The oaptors report that he bas™’
put on one of his wife's dresses, and started lor .sc
woodb, closely followed by. our men, who »
first thought him a woman,, but seeing his ooow
while running, suspected Ms sex at once.
7603 was a short cue, and the. rebel President was
soon brought to, IX6 brandished a boWII) JfflM* *?
elegant pattern, and showed signs of btttio, rat
yielded promptly to the porsnaslon of the OMt'« JJ'
the men to firs.
expressed great Indignity ah the energy with K '
he was pursued, saying that he had believed o“
: Government more magnahlmojs than to hunt
: women and ohlldren. Mrs. Davis remarked to
Harden, after the emltement was ovor, that -f
. men had better not provoke the Prosldont, tr a
might hurt some of’em. ...
Beagan behaves himself with beootulng dlKsm
and resignation. The party were evkiently
for the coast. J. H. Wilson,
Brevet Major General-
THE HEW SECRETARY OF SHE INTERI
It will he reooUooted that Horn Jamiss K al ‘I'* 1 '* ’
Senator from lowa, was, towards thoclosoM
late session of Oongress, nominated to nn* „
firmed by the Senate as Seosetary of tho Interim ’
the place of Judge xisHna, resigned. Fres’ .
JonneoS Mtying requested him to r "!? ID J£L ?
folio, he wIU to-morrow enter apsat. m
of the duties of the office, It belngthifliayf
vely designated for that parpaSe.
Snpposed Anest of Ctnanf fcH- m
Louis villb, May 18.—A guerilla, fiippo-
Quantrell, of the Lawrence massoorensto
was wounded by Terrell's STOUtl.near Tay #
on Wednegday, find lodged. In th« MlUtwyl 1
today,