s of Publication.
Ihs Somerset Herald
. Wednesday Morning at r: M
1'"' i.id in advance; otherwise V 40
k H.ii..p ! .0'"tinac.1 uutil r-,
I up. ro.tui.Ker. neglect... to j
""''-"'"ll' u uleriher n-t takeout ihelr
"',-! I held "able 'ie f "'-r'4,,l"n-
fl, renting fn.m.mcP..t..mcto.n-
riiu n,n" f ,Le ,'nl"r,
the present office. A',JrC" j
,1.1!
merset Printing Company,
So
JOHN 1. SCl'IJ,
Buslnc. Manager, j
1t1',kb. rAt-LH.AiriiU!.:
i.llTHI-
N tiAITHKK, Attorney. i .
. i,..n . All liroilSSli.lli .'..-...'--.
I infill'
"Mammoth lil.H-k."
MU.LEK has permanently located
!" ;' rUnf Tll'- I'" ice .''" !';" "' - ;
1 ' '" " . Charles KrisMUr Mure. ,
-70 if- . .. ,
.-.MMI'I. will continue to practice i
I l1;- h and lenders his prol.-si-ional servi. ,
I I M.-'""1'- ,. Somerset mi.l .arrounding
' l" " '.' ... il..- ..1J i.lacc. a lew d.rs cast ;
ii..v. . ;i.
, ;ri'1'
idc
I
11 i .1 . . itiT.fl.f 't Somerset and lcin
,i 1 V 11
tenders Ills iin.lwM.mai i
ri.
...i.iicc. .me door w
i mi'-'
ii
,vU KtHtNTZ, ATTORNEY AT
..'U.H " "r-l. will Kive prompt attcn-
mi:1.iui- ...
- : ..-Alexander II. Oofftwth lias
A' . . .. .-..-11. ..I law In Somerset a ud
1 1 rf-uni'-'l 1 " ' ' , ,1( in ti,c Hc-cordcx's ulUee. j
..:iut.'
tun I CP.
KplMlX
,'.M'KX. ATTORNEYS T
s.mcrsct. I'a. Orhce I" residence ot
aug. 12 ly.
,.vn VHU ATTOKXEY AT
1 'liN. "ilii.r.mi.tlyatton.l to
rt" "i lo'tum Mun.-.v alviiiicNi
osVin in" rcsiii-m-c. n Main
AT LAW. SOM-
toall business
m collection
lenc-o. on Alain street.
, rvTlVF HAY. ATTOKXEY AT LAW
VA,'MoiTU.n-alV.t:.te. Soinerm-t. I'a.. will
' ? .ii l uMiioso entrusted to hio care with
;:U-i..y. u
i l 11 L HAER. ATTUl!Xtf. Al
, vV sm.wt. I'a.. will i.rartice In S..m-
, isHimlea. All l.usmeps en-
ln..- .! fth.-m m rivj-v -
M r'LLIXs7lEXTIST. Soiuerw-t,
1) ..'t-e iu tl.e tr..nt part of jail, up stairs,
1 , , ..n at allium- tw l..und l-r.-par.-d t...lo
" ''' 1 ,.rk u. -U a fllliiiK. reirulatins. cx-
IV " ... .tt-lltf.t to.
Ariin.-iiu imn .-i o..
inserted. All ieratin war
1 juue 7, TU.
,.! (. KIMMK1 ATTOKXEY AT LAM ,
I , -i I'-. i attend to all Imslnew en
" M .' 1 ,V, .re"iii S..111. -net and ailjoininc e..un-
zxti inM- xtzT
ATTOKXEY ATLAW.
II H unt. iMlVnM..n Avi-nt. S.,...ers.-t,
.:tl -villi Let. .UrtllwUSr. jau. ......
,,vi tx MEYEKS". ATTOKXEY Al LAVY.
I .! ,,:r.;.,. -a.. will Klve pn-mpt attention to
U-Ut'' ru-
!. n.r l-iilinl ltS
.( t.. iii can-111 Nomersei anu
om.-e en I'ni .n stn-et. ..m
r'ti-'i"-ideueeo( J1. Seull.
jy. i ll.
(IKSET IlofSE.-
Tlu-oiiderMniie-i r-i
tt:!v Inform, tbe pul
.ell Vnwn hotel iu the
....! .e li: leasi-l 11.11
k -..usrl. t Nirnerset.
li is his intention to keep
,.-. 1. i.,i..-s nillicive .atislactiuu to
ict... 111.1
v favor hi:u null tneireusi-.m.
JOHN li ILL. !
c KNU'l'
l .tM. Wi
l'liv.-i. Un an 1 Ih-ntlsf, Merlin. :
I Hive prompt atteiili n to al! cases j
PHYSIC AX
SUItGEOX,
smii:ksi:t. i
A.
tj-, i( ri. r. on Main Street. rvi'Ti j
- ' '
(I MILLKK after tWt'lvo
II ' .0 ,r,u In vl.s..l..vil,- i.a
aetive l.racti'
1 l. loe;,!.- ! at S-nnersat lur the pr.ic-
: e.!l-;llie.'all d tl-l.-4.TS Ills prol. SM'.iml ser-
T- t-.'.i.'.-iis ot Somerset and vicinity.
- t in tl.e tm Men. lonner'.y (KH iipie-i ( '. A.
;.1L h. re l.e eliu l- consulted al 11 times,
7 .... :T ies.i. lnlly vtiigxei.
SisHt caiif i-p-inpiiy anfwered.
...-. U'TMy.
H lMsri.ETIlWAITR ATTOKXEY
: Liw . S mi. rs.'t. I'a- l'r..leiiuiiiil bni- i
i.i-:tiilly s li.ited and ptUK-tui'ily atteu.l-
V
."-i.i:.
A I K'KXEY AT LAW.
S.-merset, I'eima.
;i.i:.
ATTOKXEY AT LAW,
- u.r-t. I'.i. Proiesshmal busiix.. -n!rute.l
ist -in-at: en. I.-.! !..itli .roinptnessatid h-iellty-
i! i. in.:, tii. w. il. r.rri'Ki..
MiFFKoTH k KVPl'LU ATTORNEYS AT !
Lit. All Imslne-q. entrusted to their care will
-.-;. !v ai, I pun. -4u:illy attended to. j
i. h. i- nd tlisir ot sonthern en I ! Mam- :
Ijitnua-e Irom Diamond. !
k li. .
It, r. :ims a. Dills still oootlnue the pra.-ti -.-ol
-i:i-tn: are prepared .. i rloriu all i.p-r.iti-.ns
' tutbeVt taia.nerajid at as low price anine same I
:r. : .: a. rk .-an tK- done aiivuhcre ill the State.
ilHilh-i.it ieth -(: a double m-t lorAl-i. All
H-wi-m. aarrjiited: and teelh exlraete.1 with-
-Jmiti. jun 7
I ! IIAKVEY k CO.,
't .
bLTILH fOMVIsstOX NEW 'JUSTS
:exciiwje place, ijaltimoue.
I.iVml cnh a-lvnncc? on cims'tmim-nls and
'nis pr.-niptly ina.te.
A. WAI.k'J.K,
nie-rly fr. in S tii r. t Countv. Pa.. Ileal Es. i
mil I n I'jmmi Aa.irt. will i.uy and S.-I1 real i
lay tax. ', make eullecti.msl l.s-ale l uids
.ar'ie-. ':it. 111 Timrer and Nucleoli, c.rtmties. j
r-ii r.nrc. Address, Hebron, Thayer i
.W.ra-ki. uiiril 'i. .
'UN WILSON k SOX,
uiioi.iis im: i.iiot i:i:s.
ITt Liberty Street,
PITTSBURGH.
j
i
KTiriClA I. TEETH!!
J. YIJTZY.
1) U X
I'M.k ai r.
Ar
: :! T-li. arnnil.-(I to Ik- of the very U st 1
L:- l.k :iu-t Handsome, Inserted in tlic 1
i-.i c
irc -nlnr attention i.al.l to the pn-s- '
't tl-S li.it.ie-,1 f.-.l Yl...u i,l.ii.tf.
i. ' rji-'tt.T. .-an do so bv en.
l-eiing at iinji. !
JcUT !
"'. It. Ciiflrutli cV Co..
"'I.L-NALt: DEALERS IX
bbfj in fisiES.
330 Baltimore St.,!
ohtl Dour V-sUf Honiti-d, !
Baltimore, iviD.iS,MM,,x,,ti
IT U 11(11. IJ" ALU
Pin yl
" XKW FLori: MILL.
11 lo w H air Mill i,ulu ,, ,i,e ,lef ,he
nr.xNisdx mill,-
!'.'' ,ul1' of Somerset Is cm
- .j'.'T- it ha all the l.l. t inii.rove
l" 'u.'J, ;rraM''-' ''"' tl. l Jt k;i.d .4 .-k
j-.''t.it-e ja.:.! 1. all kind, ol grain.
VALENTIN h HAY.
'M'l'CEM EXTS.
i
JSX" Fru11 Tree,, Vine, j
f -j , . . I
H f r 3 1
w
Hi!,..... !
A I'N EIKS VI LLE !
' I
.. iir
- "ui-rwt i..mj, l a. j o,e
..l-a-vik
of Mm at luwer rater lhan ol i
Pen. a-':, j
for Sale Near mm
U''w.0 KN'?A.S OR KEHItASKA.
u'J" nT.r1 ? bnr, tarmhig lands a.
" '-i.., - ""ro'"i anu l-ulii t.rove.t. ,
, . -"niMi j.,. winriea
in AbHTH-a?
" U-, hrgh tbec.univ.
he countv.
":.. Urn" h sale
Have aeveral
cheap. Kornnnkw
.,.. ,... . AMOS ALLMAN.
"" JiketJ.,uiiiy, Indiana.
Itie
VOL. XXII.
Hardware.
HARDWARE.
John F. Blymycr
Has rc-o-m-J his store a
Tsct an.nicin- i
,-st..t ti.e iur.;pew Doors Above the Old Stand,
And offer, to hi. customers and Irlcnd. a full line
ol goal, at tlic very lowest price.
Hardware of Every Description,
won,
NAILS
AND GLASS,
f(Ien Ware of All KIimIm,
COAL OIL LAMPS,
COAL OIL.
CHIMNEYS,
Anl t-vorytl.inic 1k-1..ii1iii; I., tl.e Imp trade.
WHITE LEAD,
LINSEED 1 HI
VARMSHKS,
HKESHKS,
PAINTS IX OIL AX D HKY. AXD
PAINTERS' GOODS IN GENERAL.
A large stork ol
'I'a hi o Iinitei :iii1 ForkK.
POCKET KNIVES,
Sit N INS.
SHEARS
AND SCISSORS,
I'oKCI LAlX LINED KETTLES, e., fce.,
To.-tl.er with many artieles too numerirti. te men-
tion in an advert is.-m.-iit. He Is determined to
ell at I he very lowest pri.-e.. i ivc him a call.
June l' "7i
j. iioiiXEit,
Buggy, Carriage
AXD
LIGHT WAGON
MANUFACTURER,
SOMKRSKT PA.,
Is n.-w prelire l to iiiiinulaetnre to order every de
scription ol
CAKKI !ES.
; ItlOiilES.
SI J.KII S.
M-KlXtJ W AOOXS,
HACKS.
! SLEKIHS.
: kc., kc.
III the lat.t at. I Iil Kt li pj .roved styles.
and at the
I.omcs.1 IossilIo Iri''.
Al.l. IN WANT r A
Firt 'l:is i'ari'iajjo,
Or any ot'ier vehicle, are resja ct fully invited tt
call and eiaminc ln work. None but the very lest
inateri:il will lie u-d in the manufacture ul hi.
work, and none but the
Are employed in his establishment. ..smeol wh.Htt
have I. a. I nn ex-rien ol over tweniv years In the
business. He is. therefore, enahl.-if to turn out a
hrst-class vehicle. ImIi In oint of material and
workmanship. All work warranted to l asrepre-..-nted
when leaving the shop, and .atlslacti'on
gunr.tiiti-ed. All kin. Is ol
lM-'.PAIIUNCJ ANU I'AINITNCI
! 1 n in a Kent nn 1 fiiiWtantbil ?nr.fin.r, atM nt the
f ph.rti'?t n'ttif!. He (t ptrnninel to do nil hi n
- .rk in fii'-h mnniMT, nl at nurh pr-ren an to
u.nke it t tin IntfiTM t vcryiMlv t iwtniiize
' liiin. 4':tH aii-1 i-xauiinc Ui urk lieltirv upch?
inir t'Nj-whiTC.
jiiii-jy I. J. 1IOUNKK.
WM. BOOSE & Co.,
FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS,
Manufacturer, ol all kind, of
CASTINGS k 3IACHLVEIIY
t irderr by mail promptly attended to.
Address WM. IfOOSE k CO.,
S ilisl.ury. Elklh k P. O. Somei-l Co., Pa.
ILOl'SE A SI I IKES,
MtdiufiiclilHTSiif ail gnulcs if
CIGARS
DEDEOKD, PA.
Attention partlcolarly ked of Jublwr.
-Orders .diei:el by E. 11. Marshall, druggist,
Somep"--t. Pa. my. .
DKAI.LKS IN
Tohiu'oo ::nl
I
4S Market Street, Abore Fonrth,
PlULAllEIJHIA.
H. Marshall, agent, Somenwt I'a.
CO
f-H
to
u
1-4
HE-I'S TA II LI. "ill ED IN 1 Sf.9.
C. G. Hammer & Sons
Manufacturer, of Pine and Medium FI'KXI-
Tl RE. ol evenrd.-s.Tlpt am and price, hand-made
ami piiienor iu sivie ami iibsit .nan .'n.w.. ...
most iwanv other I'unilture llouae this side of the
mount ,1ns.
Phot.Mrrai.hs and Prl.vIJrt. arnt on application.
when in the cltv don't forgot til place Sign of
Lirge th.l.Uu hair.
48, S and M SEVENTH A VENT E.
uur.1
I'lMsburgh, Pa.
seeds, seeds,
1LAXTS, rLAMS,
TREES, TREES,
Early Peas. Iteans. Corn. Tiutoe.. thihsa SK
P.rtat. s. au.l a II oilier .!. u market ifanlnera,
laliillics. k. A l.x ol twenty varicli. .ol Flower
heeds .r one d.iilar.
K.-IMI ll.-nnett X'atalo-nje. free. A .Wires.
JAS. BENNETT, Seedsman,
IMIO. liusmiihfleld St., Piiulurgh.
MtirclldUeottK.
a. n. l.vlmkwip.
J. K. OMKOKS.
LIVENGOOD &0LINGER
Maiu Mrool, oppoMilc the 1oh1-
ofHrc, Dale City, Pa.
We sell Draft negotiable East and Wert. Draft,
and Cheeks on other lianas cashed. Hpectal atten
tion paid to collection.. Money received oa de
posit. avallc on demand; Interest paid on time de
Kslts. Everything In lite Hanking line will re
eeive iMir ptni4 pernvial attention: we .hall do
ourattno.1 to kits MtisiaeiioB 10 our uepositur.
ami eorresii.u-uu.
iua7 HVEXOtKil) Il ULIXOEH.
Cambria County
BANK,
M. AV. KEIr & CO.
XO. 266 MAIN STBEET,
JOHNSTOWN, PA.,
In Henry Schnable'. Hrlck Hulldlng.
A General linking Ilusinos Transacted.
Iraft and Oold and Silver honirht and mid.
V.llet-ti.ia made in all part, of the l ulled State.
an.l i:ana.ia. interest allowed at the rate 01 sli
ier cent. er annum, if left six month, or longer.
Siwciul arranxeuieulB made wltb Juardlan. and
other, who iioia monev. In trust.
april le-73.
JOHS DinKKT.
JI1HK D BOHKRTS.
JOHN DIDEUT A CO.,
NO. 240 MAIN STREET.
I O II X S T O W X . 1 K X X A
Weaell Draft, neif.it lable m all wrt. ol the I'nl
ted State, and Cunailas. and In Eorelirn countries
Huy (l.il.l, Couiam. and Government liond. at
highest market price.. Ian money on approved
MM-uriiy. until, aim l -necks nn oilier uaiux. easn.
ed. Money received ondeikit iayallcoo demand
Interest al the role of Six per cent, per
Annum paid on Time Dcjtoxits.
Everything In the Ranking Line receive oar
prompt attention.
Thankful to our friend, and customers for their
past patronage, we eolicit a continuance of the
a me, and invite other, who have husines. in oar
line to rive us a trial, assuring all, that we .hall at
an limes 00 all we can to give entire satisfaction.
Eel) 21 7e JOHN D1BEKT h. CO.
J. D. LIVE!fOMD.
KK,M
K
& LIVEX(JOOI),
SALISBURY' ELK LICK. P. 0.
SoJIEttHKTCorXTV, Pknx'a.
Iraft. lionght and .old, and eolrecrlon. made on
an part sot me country.
Interest allowed on line deposit..
Sjieeinl arrunirmciits with tiuunllajil nud other.
Who hol.l money. Iu trust. Jan 17 12
AN ACT
Ctiurerriii; Additional rriviletreH on the
JOHNSTOWN
Swtiosc 1. He It enacted l.y the Senate and
House ol Representatives of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. In Oeneral Assembly met, and It
is herebv enaelcl bv the authority ol the lame:
j That the JOHNSTOWN SAVINGS HANK
Is herebv authoriied to receive deposits from mi
I nor. and married women, and .hall have power to
' pay. on application, the chock, proper reeei it, or
onler ol auv minor, or married woman, .am money.
or any part then-ot, a. he or .he may have deiios-
lted to iiis or m-r rreuit, or anv iiueresi oroivi
dend accruing thereon, without the a went or ap
proval oi I he parent or guaruian ot men minor, or
the husband or creditors of the nu.hand of nich
married woman, to attach or in any manner inter
fere with any deposit. Interest, or dividend due
thereon to seen minor or married woman.
Skc. 2. That all act. and rt. of act. Inconslst
cut with the provisions of this act are hereby re-
jH-ale.1. v .ti. rjaiiui 1.
SiK.-akerof the House of Representative..
tIEO. H. ANDERSON,
Sia-aker of the Senate.
Approved the tenth day of March, Anno Domi
ni, one inousami t-igiit nun.irci ana seveniv-inrec.
JUH.X t. UAKlUA.Mi,
OKKICEOrTHK i
Su ltrTAEV IP THK CoBMOSWEAl.Tir. J
H ARRiKRt Rd. March 13, A. II. 1K73. )
1'EXNSYLVAXIA.w:
I do hereby certify that the foregoing and an
nexed I. a full, true and correct copy ol the oriiri
nal act of the Oeneral Assembly, entitled: An
Act conferring a.ldillonal Mivilea-e. on the John-
town Savings Hank, a' tbc same remains on file ln
ttiis om.-e.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand an.l caused the eal of the Secretary', office
to I athxeil, the day and year above written.
A.C. REINOEUU
iKputy Secretary of the Cowiuonwealth
juno
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enumeration.
OPPOSITE
MMKItSKT IIOl'KK,
Soat.UAKT, r.
July 17 A. W. KNEI'PER.
o
CO
Instates EelieT ill Sound, Belnsliio; Sleep
Ouaranloed by using my
Inntttht Ilclitffur the Athma.
It act. InstanlW, relelvlng the paroxysm imme
diately, and enabling the patient to lie down and
.leep. I fullered from till, dlwase twelve years,
but sutler no more, and work and sleep as well as
anyone. Warranted to relieve In I he worat ease.
Sent by nail on receipt ol price, one dollar per box;
ak yourdrngglat for It-
CH AS. II. HI KST, ll.iebeater, Beaver Co., Pa.
lebld-V.
. I. P. IIOYLE,
Dealer In fine
Hatches Jewf Iry, t'lorki & SH.f rwarf,
K5 FIFTH AVKNUE.
t duvrs above ftmiihncld St., Pltt.burgh, Pa.
Sticclal attentloa glran to re)uiag of Watche.
and Jewelry, at "owtiil rate. sua7
SAM&S BAIL
omer
SOMERSET,
TRITIiril. JAMKSTOTIIKIDITOII.
(YltKKA, 1H73.)
Which It It not my style
To produce needles? pain
By statements that rile.
Or that go 'gin th grain.
But here-. Captain Jack atlllalivln ,an I Nye has
no .kelp on hi. brain !
On that Caucasian head
There la no crown of hair.
Iti. Kane, it ha. fled 1
. And Echo sex "where T"
And I ask a, '-I. thli Nation a While Man's, and
Is generally thing" on the fUUare V
She was known In the cainp
A "Nye. other uaw."
And Silk, of that .tamp
Het no right, in the Law,
But i. trcaehcroui, .Infill ami slimy, a. Nye mi
bev' well known before.
But .he aald that .he knew
Where the Injlns was hid,
And the statement waa true.
For It .eeined that .he did ;
Since .he led William where he waa covero 1 1
Seventeen Modoes, and eli.l !
Then they reached for hi. hair :
But Nye aex, "By the Law
Of Nation., forbear !
I surrender. no more :
And I look, to be treated, you bear in:- ? as a pri.-
ner, a prls'nerof war!"'
But Captain Jack rose
And be .ex "If. too thin.
Such statements a. those
It, too late to begin.
There", a Modoc indictmrnl agin you, O Palef
and you're goin in !"
"Yon .tole Schoncbln'. uuw
In the year alxty-two ;
It wax In 'Sixty-Four
That Long Jack you went tlin.uj;U.
And you burned Nasty Jim", rancherl and his
wive, and hi. pjioosei! t.w.
"This gun iu my li.ui.l,
Wa ailil me by you
'Oalnst Die law or the land.
And I grieves II Is true V
Ami he hurled hi. face In his blanket and wept a
be hid It from view.
"Hut you're tried and end. nine. I
And .kelping". your doom,"
And he paused and he lieunu -d
But why thi. resume ?
He was akehied 'gainst the custom of X .-itlon--.au. 1
cut off like a rose. In It. Mown.
So I ask. without guile.
And I trusts not in rain,
ir this is the style
That Is going to obtain
If here's Captain Jack still a llvin', and Nye
with no. kelp on his brain?
Bukt Harte.
THE AKNAKKIXATIOM OF THE KEW
ABDS.
f Xote. Amonff tLc pages of war
aunals few Lave a more tlirillinir in
terest than those which record the
murder of the rresident and the at
tempted assassination of his Secreta
ry of State. Dr. Verdi, of this city,
who was the faiiulv phvsiciuu of the
Sewards, has furnished The IvErun-
Lic with the following graphic story
of that terrible tragedy, f he met
dents related, of which he was not
only an eve-witness, but an important
party, will, we think be valuable con
tributions to political history. Ed.
At the breaking; out of the war we
find Air. Seward in the Cabinet, and
all his sons, William, Frederick, and
Augustus in the service of their coun
trv.
i-reuerick, a man ol letters, was
selected by bis father as his coadju
tor in the Department of State, with
the position of assistant secretary.
Augustus already neii a commis
sion as paymaster iu the regular A r
my. He is a graduate nt West
Point.
William left a very lucrative busi
ness, a young wife and baby, and, as
Colonel of the Xinth Xew Vork Ar
tillery, camo to brave the hardships
of a soldier. At the battle of Alo-
nocacy he distinguished himself and
was wounded, for wlncX he was
raised to the rank of brigadier gen
cral.
In 18C3, while commanding at
Fort Foote, on the Potomac. Wil
liam was seized with an acute attack
of dysentery, induced by exposure in
that malarious district. Jle was
brought home to Washington by the
surgeons in charge, who looked upon
his case as one to excite the greatest
alarm. For several davs he lay lie
tween life and death, causing the
greatest solicitude to his parents. At
bis bedside I had ihe opportunity
of estimating the character of
that angelic woman, who, mov
ing around his couch as though
an ethereal form, administered to his
wants with bo much judgment and
infinite maternal love, ile rallied,
and his convalescence brought a con
sciousness of happiuess in that house
hold, which, without excessive de
monstrations seemed to prcvade the
very air. as ne became convales
cent, I recommended a temporary
change of climate, and ordered him
to his home in Auburn. There he
improved greatly, and gave hope of a
peedy recovery ; but a few weeks af
ter, the malaria still remaining in his
system developed into a dangerous
form of typhoid fever.
About the first of Xovember Mr.
Seward requested that I should im
mediately go with him to Auburn.
le had received a telegram that a
consultation of physicians had given
but little hoje of the recovery of his
son. t urnisned with an extra train,
accompanied by his daughter Fanny
now his almost inseparable compan
ion we Btarted for Auburn.
During this long journey he con-
erscd so freely that I ventured to
ask him the question "how it happen
ed that he, the acknowledged leader
of the Republican party, was not se
lected as the candidate for the Presi
dency hi 18C0 ?" I put my question
with some degree of timidity, for I
learcu that tie might be sensitive on
that imbjpet. He surprised mc with
his frank and unaffected answer.
There was no bitterness nor disap
pointment in the tone of his voice.
If he had had the ambition to be
come the Chief Magistrate of the na
tion particularly when his party,
the child of his brain came into pow
er it was smothered by the nobler
desire of serving his country rather
than himself. His answer was:
" The leader of a political party in
a country like ours is so exposed that
his enemies become as numerous and
formidable as his friends, and iu an
election you must put forward the
man who will carry the highest num
ber of votes. Pennsylvania would
not have voted for me,' and without
her we could not expect to carry the
election ; hence I was not the availa
ble man. . Mr. Lincoln possessed all
the necessary qualifications to repre
sent our party, and being compara
tively unknown, had not to contend
with the animosities marshalled
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against a leader. We made him the
candidate; he ws elected, and we
have never had reason to regret it.
Colonel Seward noon recovered,
and soou returned to the the field ami
led his regiment at the battle of Mo
nocracy. There he wm wounded,
and in tho hasty retreat of the na
tional forces he was left on the field.
Tho rebels rushing wildly in pursuit,
did dot discover that under a simple
blue blouse was rtnofficer of so much
importance. lie" played "possum,"
as they say in the Army, waited for
them to get out of sight, then caught
a stray mule, mounted it, and came
in the Hues at VVashington. The sim
ple and uneonspijeuous uniform saved
him, as it saved many of our officers
in the campaigns. Had it been other
wise he would have been discovered.
and probably would have ended his
life in one of the murderous Southern
prisons.
Colonel Seward afterwards gener
al remained in service during the
entire war, resigning only on June 1,
18C5.
In Xovember, 18C4, Frederick
Seward was in Xew York on official
business. On descending the stairs
at the Astor House, he fell ami broke
his right arm at tho elbow. He was
consequently confined to his house for
several weeks, and threatened with a
a stiff arm the rest of his life. He,
however, recovered the perfect use of
it, and resumed the duties of his of
fice. On the fth of April, 18C5, the Sec
retary and Frederick Seward rode out j
to pay an official visit to one of the
foreign ministers. As the carriage
stopped in front of the house the dri
ver descended from his box to open
the carriage door; from smne reason
or other, probably from an uncon
scious pull at the rein, the horses
started, dragging 'the driver. They
soon became unmanageable, and flew
off at a frightful speed. Ioth Mr.
Seward and Frederick, seeing the
danger, jumped from the carriage
Frederick waa unhurt, but Mr. Sew
ard could not rise; people rushed to
his assistance, and found that he
was seriously injured, the blood
streaming from his mouth, and his
right arm lying powerless by his side.
Ile was immediately carried to his
house, not a block distant.
I found him in his bed, his face
frighttullv bruised, his lower jaw
completely fractured on both tides,
his right arm fractured, also, near
the shoulder. He was in great pain,
and it was with difficulty that he
could Imj relieved. His condition,
cons..lering his age, was perilous in
the extreirle. SuiTusion soon took
place, his fight eve closed, and the
right side of his face became blue
from the contusion. His lower jaw
was hanging down, and being frac
tured on both sides, he could not
raise it for mastication. The right
side of the jaw, upon which he evi
dently fell, became greatly tumefied
and inflamed, so much so that he
could not bear the slightest bandage.
His sufferings became iEtense, a high
fever rose, which greatly aggravated
his condition.
Mrs. SewSrd and Fanny, after re
covering from the shock that this new
misfortune caused them, were unre
mitting iu their attentions; every ca
price that a feverish imagination
would excite was promptly gratified
bv those tender and loving hands.
His nights became so restless that
he required a constant watch. His
jaw was in such a condition mat it
was a difficult problem for surgeons
to decide how it could be kept in co
aptation, so os to favor ossification
and the knitting together of the bro
ken ends. He took his food through
a tube and with great difficulty. His
right arm was in splints, and Mr.
Seward lay helpless on a bed of ag
on v.
On the 9th, four days after the ac
cident, the news reached Washington
of the surrender of (Jen. Lee. The
bells chimed the jovful tidings; the
people rushed to and fro in their in
toxication of gladness. The Presi
dent and the Secretaries received the
ovations of the people, and lie, the
great premier, the man who had con
tributed so much to the salvation of
iiis country, was held down by rc
entless physical suffering.
The citv was thrown in a blaze bv
a general and spontaneous illumina
tion ; the cannon resounded from e v
ery fort, and from the centre of the
city the penis of gladucss. Even
the sympathizers w ith the South rejoi
ced that the end of the war had come.
His own house was a beautiful trans-
. i n .1
parency oi national nags, yet lie
hardlv dared to move a linger tor fear
of drawing an unwilling groan. His
face bespoke, however, his joy within,
for the play of his features could not
ide the emotions ot that stout Heart.
If the family sorrow was not for-
goiten at that moment, it was not un
alloyed with happiness, for even that
noble lady whose heart was filled
with grief, gave evidence that she
too shared in the nation's joy.
For five davs our citv, the capital
of this redeemed land, wore the garb
of festivity; The people were loth
to settlo down, so great was the mag
ic effect ot the late events. The ex-
itcment seemed now and then to al
lay, but only to break forth in some
new form. Every little incident was
made an occasion for a gathering,
which ended in tho deafening hur
rahs for the Union, for the country,
for the General, for the President,
and for whatever favorite chief.
On tho 14th of April, Mr. Lincoln
was to receive an ovation trom the
people at the theatre. - Preparations
were made on a large scaio lor tins
soulful reception by tho people of
their President At 9 o'elock 1 went
to make my evening visit to the Sec
retary, and found that his condition
was amclorating scnsiuiy ; l staid
talf an hour with him ; then bidding
lim good night, left him with Mr.
Aobinson, the night watch, from
there I returned to my house, and
alf an hour had not elapsed when i
heard e person running, who sudden
ly stopped to give an extraordinary
pull at my bell. Thinking that this
was a pressing message, I went to
the door myself, and there met Wil
liam, Mr. Soward's colored waiter,
who, with a frightened look, and iu
the most excited manner, said, "Oh,
come, doctor, Mr. Seward is killed!''
Hardly comprehending the import
of so sudden an announcement, I
grasped my surgical case, and, hat-
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loss, ran with him to the house.
There was only two blocks between
my house- and Mr. SewardV. While
ruuning I asked tho hov what ho
meant, how was Mr. Seward killed?
" Oh," ho exclaimed, "a man came to
the door and asked admittance in
your name; I let him in; Lo went up
to Mr. Seward's room, and killed
him."
I was amazed ! "How, who, in
my name?" It was all I could utter.
"Who, for what, did a man go in my
name?" were unanswered questions
that flashed through my mind. . In
this short time, so great is the power
of imagination, . I thought of a man
who had begged me to recommend
him to Mr. Seward for a consulship ;
that I had done so, but that Mr. Sew
ard, not having the place vacant,
would not gratify the office-seeker.
Xow this man, mad with disappoint
ment, is surely gone to assassinate
the Secretary. These thonghts had
hardly crossed my mind till I reached
tho door of Mr. Seward's; I ascend
ed quicKly, and when I got up stairs
I met the blanched face of Mrs. Sew
ard, who, in an agonized tone, said,
"look at Mr. Seward !"
Mr. Seward lav upon his bed, with
pallid face and half-closed eyes: he
looked like an exsanguinated corpse.
In approaching him my feet went
deep in blood. Blood was streaming
from an extensive gash in his swolen
check ; the check now laid open, and
the flap hung loose on his neck. With
prompt applications of iced-water I
checked the hemorrhage, and then
examined the extent of the wound.
The gash commenced from the high
cheek bone down to the neck, in a
semi-circular form, towards the
mouth; it was, probably, five inches;
long and two inches deep. It seemed
the jugular vein or the carotid artery
must le wounded, so great was the
loss of blood. I was greatly relieved
to find that they were not.
Mrs. Seward and her daughter, al
most paryMzed, were waiting and
watching for my first word. Reliev
ed to see that the Secretary had so
miraculously escaped the severing of
those two vital vessels, I said : "Air.
Seward, even in your misfortune, I
must congratulate you ; the assassin
has failed, and your life is not in dan
ger." He could not speak, but he made a
sign with the hand for his wife and
daughter to approach, took hold of
their hands, and his eyes only spoke
and bid them hope.
I had hardly sponged his face from
the bloody stains and replaced the
flap, when Mrs. Seward, with an in
tense look, called me to her. "Come
and see Frederick," said she.
Somewhat surprised, 1 said, "What
is the matter with Frederick?'' In a
painful whisper she muttered, "He is
badly wounded, I fear."
Without adding another word, I
followed her to the next room, where
I found Frederick bleeding profusely
from the head. He had a ghastly
appearance, was unable to articulate,
gave me a smilo of recognition, and
pointed to his head. There I found
a large wound a little above the fore
head and somew hat left of the medi-
an line, and another further back, on
the side. The cranium had been
erushed'in both places, and the brain
wrs exposed. The wounds were
bleeding profusely, but the applica
tion of cold water pledgets soon stop
ped the hemorrhage. 1 feared these
wounds would prove fatal.
Mrs. Seward again was haunting
me with that intense look", oi silent
anxiety. 1 gave her words of en
couragement ; I feared they were un
meaning words.
Again she drew me to her with
that look I had seen in the other
room
As I approached, almost be-
wildered, she said, "Come and see
Augustus."
" For Heaven's sake, Mrs. Seward
what does all this mean?"
I followod her in another room, on
the same floor, and there found Au
gustus, with two cuts on his forehead
anil one on his right hand. They
were superficial.
As I turned to Mrs. Seward to give
her a word of comfort, she said, Come
and see Mr. Robinson.
I ceased wondering; my mind be
came as if paralysed; mechanicly I
followed her and exaiuiued Mr. Rob
inson. H bad four or fiveeuts.on
his shoulders. ' They, too, were su
perficial. Again I turned to Mrs. Seward.as
if asking, "Any more?" yet unbeliev
ing that any more could le wounded.
She answered my look. "Yes, one
more." . ..
In another room I found Mr. Han
sell, piteously groaning on the bed.
He said he was wounded in the
back. I stripped him, and found a
deep gash just above the small of tho
back, near the spine. I thrnst my fin
ger in the wound, evidently made by
large-bladed knife, and found that it
followed a rib, but had not penetrat
ed the viscera. Here was another
miraculous escape. Even here I was
glad to be able to give a word of
comfort. ' '
And all this the work of one man
yes, of one man I
X'o one in that ' house knew then
that at that very moment, a more
fatal, if not so extensive a tragedy
was being perpetrated in that theater
where we thought people were re-
MS- .
Wo were so engaged witn the per
ilous condition of the victims of this
terrible slaughter, that we had not
time even to ask for an explanation.
' A blight, as if from a thunderbolt,
had passed over this house, laying
its Inmates low with stricken bodies,
with paralyzed souls. ;
What human passion, what fran
tic revenge, could find vent in such a
monstrous deed ? '
' What i could Mr. Seward have
done, in the course of his life, to have
awakened such demoniacal passion.
These questions each mind put to
itself, yet no answer could be given.
Yet, one man, a man unknown even
to Mr. Seward himself had done it
all. ; ' '' . . .r-
IncxpiTeable, as horrible; was this
foul deed. ' " ' '
Xot comprehending either object
cause, or extent, we had the doors of
the house locked. " " " '
In a few minutes the city was full
of the wildest rumors ; horrified and
excited, the people ran through the
streets, giving utterance to express-
era
ions of grief and alarm, that grew
deeper and deeper, and rose higher
and higher, until the unusual sounds
surged into au uninterrupted motion,
wo lent our car to comprehend the
meaning of tho mysterious and fran
tic echoes of the people's lament. It
was then we learned that Mr. Lin
coln had been shot and killed, in the
midst of his friends, by the side of his
wife, at the acme of the people's joy.
The mystery was solved. It was a
hellish machination of political mad
ness. The discovery, although over
powering, was a relief. The victims
of the tragic act were innocent ; the
causes were not personal. The odi -
ous act sanctified the victims.
In the face of so great a national
calamity, the calamity of Mr. Seward
paled in comparison.
What a . night for these two fami
lies ; what a night for the people of
Washington. The deed was as dark
as the night ; the people were con
vulsed with rage, with sorrow, with
fear.
Tread, tread, tread ! The people
excitedly passed to and fro, as if in acutencss. For three days all at
search of an unknown something, I tempts to get a trace of him arc vain.
stopping each other to ask unanswer
able questions, and to relieve, with
groans, their sorrow-stricken he-arts.
Shutters were inquiringly thrown
open by the fearless, doors were
locked by the timid, anxiety was on
every face. v ere we walking ou a
volcano? Households rose from
their 1m-i1s, mothers folded their chil
dren within their arms, as if they
feared danger in the very air. Men
returned to their homes to shed tears
with their grief-stricken families.
Let us now recur to some of the
chief indictments of the
attempted
nssassinatiou.
At or about 10 o'clock of the even -
iugof the 14th of April, thirty min-1
utes after I had left Mr. Seward, the!
bell of his house gave a ring. Will
iam Wells, a colored lad, who usually
attended the door, answered that
ring. A man holding a little package
in his hands, presented himself, say
ing I must go up to Mr. Seward, to
deliver him the medicine and a mess
age from Dr. Verdi.
The lad tells him he cannot go up;
but would deliver both medicine and
message himself.
Xo ; the stranger cannot trust the
important message, he must go up
himself.
In vain the lad remonstrates. In
his testimony lefore the court, he
states:
"I told him he could not go up ; it
was against my orders. That if he
would give me the medicine, I would
tell Mr. Seward how to take it That
would not do ; he started to go up.
Finding that he would go up, I step
ped past him, and went up the steps
before him. Then, thinking that
such might Ihs the orders of Dr.
Verdi, and that I was interfering, I
begged him to excuse me. I became
afraid he might tell Mr. Seward and
the doctor of my interference. He
answered 'all right.' As he stepjied
heavily, I told him to walk lightly,
so as nt to disturb the Secretary."
In the adjacent room to Mr. Sew-
ard's, Frederick is lying on the sofa,
resting. He hears steps and voices
ascending, he comes ont on the land
ing and there meets the stranger.
Frederick inquires, "What do you
want ?"
"I want to see Mr. Seward. I
have medicine and a message to de
liver from Dr. Ve-rdi."
"My father is asleep ; give me
the medicine and the directions ; I
will take them to him "
"Xo, I must see him ; I must sec
him," he rt-peats in a determined
manner.
"You cannot see him ; you cannot
see him. I am the proprietor here ; I
am Mr. seward s son. It you can
not leave them with me, you cannot
leave them at all."
The man still insists; Frederick
still refuses. The determined tone of
Frederick causes the man to hesitate;
he even turns to go down stairs, the
lad preceding him, telling him to walk
lightly. He descends four or five
steps, when suddenly he turns back
and springs upon redenck, giving
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unit a uiuw uuuuursu w iiia iuv
heavy pistol on the head, that fells
him to the ground. The lad, seeing
the brutal assault, runs down crying,
"Murder, murder !" He flies to the
comer Oeneral Augur's headquar
ters. He finds no guard.
In the meanwhile Robinson, the!
nurse in attendance on Mr. Seward,
hearing the unusual noise, opens the
door and sees the stranger, and Fred
erick thrown on his hands and
bleeding; before he has time for
thought the assassin is on him, strik
ing him to the ground ; he quickly
rises, but before he can clinch with
him the assassin is on Mr. Seward,
who, having awakened and compre
hending the scene at once, had risen
in his bed. The assassin plunges an
immense knife in Mr. Seward's face ;
he attempts another stroke at his
neck, but Robinson is on bim, and the
knife is partially arrested. He tries
to disengage himself from Robinson
by striking him with the knife over
the shoulders.
The daughter, who too, is watch-Lctnc
ing in the dimly, lighted room,
screams "help" and "murder."
Augustus Seward, who is taking
an early sleep to be able to watch his ;
father later in the night, is awakened
by the heart-rending screams of his
sister. .; This room is on the same
floor ; and undressed he runs to his
father's room. His mind, hardly
awakened, does not take in the situa
tion ; he thinks his father delirious ;
he sees a man in the middle of the
room ; he thinks it is his father ; he
takes bold of him ; as he grasps him
he perceives, by his size and strength,
it cannot be his father ; be thinks it is
the man servant drunk or crazy ; he
grapples with him to cast him out ;he
receives blows with some instrument
about, tho head and bands. The
man yells like a tiger, "I am mad ! I
am mad 1" Augustus pushes him out
and follows him, locking the door be
hind him to prevent his return.
' Augustus quietly goes back to his
father's room, only" to discover that
his father and brother have hardly
escaped death from the hands of an
assassin. ! '
Mr. Hansell, a messenger of the
State Department, was sleeping in a
room above Mr. Seward's. Ho is
there to help if wanted, ne hears
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the streams of murder; not being
much of a hero, ho tries to make hisi
. way out of the house ; as he ascends
i the assassin is behind him, w ho,
thinking that this man is going uown
to give tho alarm, springs on him,
nluutres his knife in his back, fells
bim, and passes by.
William, tho colored boy, in the
meanwhile had rnn about crazily to
get assistance, and returns A'ith three
soldiers jnst in time to sec the as
sassin mount his horse and ride off.
All this took less time to happen
than it takes to relate.
J. Wilkes Rooth. the arch-assassin.
j educated to theatrical tableaux, must
play the Brutus ; he assassinates the
President before two thousand peo
ple, leaps on the stage and exclaims,
"Sic semper tyrannis!" He flies,
but a whole army is after him, and
he is run down like a cowardly fox.
Rut the assassin of Mr. Seward no
one knows ; there is no clue to his
identity. All the detectives are at
work upon all sorts of impossible
theories ; this man baffles their
Booth, having thus exposed himself,
gave the detectives a point at start in
their plan3 of detection. They soon
learn Booth's strange affiliation with
John Surratt arid his family. Ac
cordingly an order is given for the
apprehension of the Surratts. At 11
p. m. of the 17th the officers go to
Mrs. Surratt and inform her of their
mission. While they are waiting in
the hall for her to get ready, a knock
is heard at the door. An officer
opens, and a laboring man, with a
pick-axe on his shoulder, appears.
lie, seeing the officers, says,
Think I
'am mistaken."
1 "Whom do vou waut to see ?" the
officer inquires,
"Mrs. Surratt.
"You are not mistaken, then, walk
in."
He walks in ;the door is locked be
hind him.
"Do vou want to see Mrs. Surratt?
"Yes"
"What for?"
She has engaged me to
dig
'gutter for her in the garden."
'Where have vou worked
"I have worked about the streets."
"Where did Mrs. Surratt engage
you?"
"She knows I work by jobs ; she
got me in the street and engaged me."
"Did vou come to dig a gutter to
night?" .
"Xo; I came to ask her when she
wants the job done."
An officer goes and asks Mrs. Sur
ratt if she has engaged a man to dig
a gutter ?
Oh, no ; not she ; she engaged no
man; gets excited; she fears it is a
thief; she is so glad the officers are
in the house !
She conies in the hall, looks at the
man, and declares she never saw him
in her life. Yet, as it is proven by
the evidence in the trial, this man had
been for three days, March 14, 15,
and 16, a guest at her house, ate at
her own table, went to the theater
with her son, Ac.
This man gives his name as Lewis
Payne. Lewis Payne is arrested
tinder the suspicious circumstances.
William Wells, the colored lad, was
j sent for ; leing shown to a room con
taming several people, he is asked if
he recognizes the assassin among
them ?
Xo ; he does not see him.
Several other people are then
brought in, When suddenly he walks
towards Lewis Payne, and iu an ex
cited manner exclaims : "There he
is! I knew I could never forget that
lip !" The recognition was complete.
Xext morning I accompanied Miss
Fanny and Augustus Seward to the
Monitor, where Tayne was held a
prisoner. What a feeling must have
pervaded the bosom of this girl while
she was going to meet this assassin,
who, before her own eyes, had so
brutally assaulted, and all but killed,
her father. She had seen him in a
dimly-lighted room, under great ex
citement. Would she recognize him
now ? The idea of meeting this man
face t0 face, although where he was
I. . ' . ...
harm ess. tvnnlil hare excitpil vain
less,
fears in many a girl's heart ; but she
was composed, and her demeanor ex
pressed only the dfgnity of her own
strange position. She met the naval
officer on the Monitor with the same
calm and gentle manners so natural
to her. 1 he officers, on the other
oand, felt almost a reverence for this
girl who, instead of making a demon
stration of her harrowing grief, was
commanding self, and in her own un
affected manner recieved the express
ions of their respect and sympathy
with unfeigned gratefulness.
Ravnc gradually rose from the
hatchway, and with, neck exposed.
head uncovered, showing a serious if
not stolid face, and colossal frame, he
stood unmoved before this frail girl,
who, would not even utter a curse
I upon him. Uod alone knew what
i passed in those two hearts at that
moment. Strangely quiet they stood
before each other. Were they over
whelmed br the magnitude of a crime
41. .if waa luiv-nnil Tivnn'a roilrea 7 XfiA
was a soicran one too solemn
for man t0 ntter a . 8aemx
brokcn on,y by tlie Lissiriff w;nJ and
surging waves pervaded -the whole
8nip. it was almost a weird trans
formation from a mysterious power.
Miss F'anny was hanging on my
arm. Did I feel a quiver ? Probably
1 did, for I gently drew her from the
painful scene. Conscientious even at
this trying moment, she could not
identify the man ; her identification,
she thought, might be his death. Sho
had only seen him by a dim light as
if a frightful vision.' That is all she
said.
To the questions of tlie detectives
Payne answered hesitatingly and
somewhat evasively. Had he ever
seen the lady before? X'o. Could
he pronounce Dr. Verdi's name ? He
pronounced it so well that it made me
shudder. Yet my name was a foreign
one, and he a stranger to me. Had
he ever seen Dr. Verdi before? Xo.
Such was the assassin Payne ; a head
and face that expressed a preponder
ating criminal element There was a
vacancy in that face, amounting al
most to Imbecility. His answer be
spoke only a light degree of fear, not
of Intelligence. His physique was
herculean ; he was purely a brute ; an
instrument well adapted for the use of
a refined brain like Booth's.
Booth,. 'egotistical In IU ylot wan
ted no intelligence to share the hon
ors of his self-imposed h-roiiau. He
only wanted Mind instruments to aid
him in his diabolical schcm-. All
his aerymipliceb were of tint cLarae-
t.T.
Trne to hi nature, Iioolh bad pre
pared means of escape for himself.
Payue, a stranger in these parts, had
been left ignorant of the topography
of the country, and eren without
means of sustenance. Rooth had
taught him well the habits of Mr.
Seward ; he had taught him the phy
sician's name that was to bring; him
to Mr. Seward's couch, but had not
taught Lim how to escape from the
avenging hand or justice, and rayne
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fell a Tk-tim to his own ignorance and
to his master's tatanic egotism.
For thren davs ravnc roamed
t ai,u uo country in the vain attempt
to coneeal himself. Hungered, inemi-
less, restless, ho wandered back to
the only one who could and should
offer him aid and comfort he return
ed to Mrs. Surratt's. A mysterious
power was dragging him there. This
criminal, whom man did not know,
was led by necessity to the house of
Mrs. Surratt at the very moment that
the functionaries of the law were ap
prehending his accomplices. Useless
were then the reiterations of inno
cence. There they stood, Belf-ac-cuseel
!
, An illustrative instance of this
man's insensibility waa related to me
by Major Doster, one of his attor
neys in the trial :
One night Frederick Seward had
had one of those terrible hemorrhages
from his wounds that several times
had so threatened his life. Major
Doster visiting Payne the following
morning, said, "Payne, your case is
getting desperate ; it is feared that
Frederick Seward may die at any
moment ; he has had another hemor
rhage." Payne remained silent for a mo
ment, then made this remark: "I
think I owe Frederick Seward an
apology."
Mr. Seward lay prostrate ; his
wounded cheek had tumefied and in
flamed. His nervous system had re
ceived snch a shock that even without
that excessive loss of blood, had di
minished the natural resources for re
action. His sleep was restle?3 and
interrupted by terrible dreams. We
feared that even his strong constitu
tion would finally yield. Rot no his
power of resistance was truly extra
ordinary ; it was principally due to
his mental strength. This man, so
foully dealt with, would struggle and
conquer in adversity. He treated his
case from a high stand-point of phil
osophy. He spoke of it as of an
historical fact, avoiding individualism
and treated it as another instance of
the madness that overcomes weak
minds in great national convulsions.
It was sublime to hear- this stricken
down man, with jaws sere wed togeth
er by surgical art, speaking through
a hole made in the apparatus that
held his month fast, not a word for
himself, but the words of a sound
philosopher who will not despise hu
man nature for the act of a madman.
With nothing but misery, suffering
agony, and with death staring him
in the face, he waa calm, submissive,
even forbaring. All his solicitude was
about his son Of the calamity to
his fellow-colaborer, Mr. Lincoln,
he knew nothing for several days.
The wounds of Frederick excited
his solicitude. The brain wa3 ex
posed in both places ; in the anterior
one fully a square inch of the mem
branes of the brain was exposed to
view. A lacerated vessel cn the in
terior surface of the cranium would
from time to time bleed so profusely
as to put his life in imminent jeopar
dy, and yet it could not be reached
for a ligatnre. We were constantly
kept in fearful apprehensions of these
hemorrhages.
With noble fortitude did that fami
ly bear the anxieties and fatigues of
the long and sad period. Mrs. Sew
ard, so delicate in frame, so feeble in
health, unceasingly supervised all
the nursing that required such fine
judgment and unremitting care.
Unman endurance, however, has
its limits, and Mrs. Seward finally
succumbed. The little flame that
lighted that body expired on the 21st
of June. Like her lite, her death
was the calmness of a Heaven-born
spirit.
Overcome by these multiplied trials,
her daughter at length sank into a
nervous fever that consumed her.
Her body could not bear what her
soul had born, and in a year's time
she added one more to the number of
victims to the horrible plot of Rooth
and Surratt. -
The Secretary himself is now dead.
After completing the history of hi
travels around the world, at the age
of seventy-one, with only a few days'
illness, hi mind unimpaired he peac
fully breathed his last in bis own
home, at Auburn, on the 10th of
October, 1SV1
Aaicllet f !; William.
The German Emperor, while visit.
ing a village, was welcomed by the
school children of the place. After
making a speech for them he took an
orange from a plate and asked :
"To what kiogJvia uos this be
long ?"
"The vegetable kingdom, sire, re
plied a litle girl.
The Emperor took a gold coin from
his pocket, and holding it up asked :
"And to what kingdom does this be
long T
"To the mineral kingdom sire," re
plied a little girL
"And to what kingdom do I belong,
then ?" asked the Emperor.
The little girl colored deeply, for
she did not like to say "the animal
kingdom," as he thought she would,
lest his majesty should be offended,
when a bright thought came, and she
said with radiant eyes, "To God's
kingdom, sire."
The Emperor was deeply moved.
A tear stood in his eye. He placed
his band on the child's head and
said, most devoutly, "God grant that
I may be accounted worthy of that
kingdom."
Our Teutonic friend Johannes X
entered one of our drug stores, and
thus addressed one of the clerks:
" Toctor, I feels sig oil ofer, nn de
beebles dells me I better vos take one
fissick." . . . -
"All right, sir," says the clerk,
" will you have a dose of salts or
some" purgative pills?"
M Veil, Vot it costs for dem saulds ?"
Ten cents, sir."
. " Und how mooch is it for dem fis
sicking pills."
"I'll give you a Jose at the samo
price."
After a vain search, in his pockets
for the required sum, he asked :
" Toctor, you toad got no second
hand fissicking pills, aint it I"
Postal cards addressed to "the
prettiest girl in town" are quite nu
merous in many placet, and one was
directed to tho "meanest cu3s in Co
hoe9."