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ICPP08EO BZl'RDERER OF
PRESIDENT LIXCOLXt
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Biography aud
Character
Personal
' tort the Cincinnati Commercial, April 17,
John Wilkes Booth the infamous was
torn on "the Farui," near Baltimore, Mry
Mad. in 1838. and ii. consequently, bm
twenty-seven year old. He made his first
Use apprance in 1855, as "Richmond in
Richard III, at the 8u Charles Theater in
Iau;ore, and in the full tit 1857 appeared
rjjoder the Dime r Wilkes at the Arch
v Btrect Theater m Philadelphia, where ho
. played stocr. carta during the entire season
Ahe name of Wilkea was given him by hi
rather, in honor of an old Baltimore friend
Jini Wilkes, a successful merchant and
t great wit. Young Booth, next became a
member of the Richmond, Virginia, Thea
ter, improved rapidly; in his Jjrotession, ard
became, a great favorite there. During the
reason of 1860 and 61 we find him engaged
further South, playing chiefly at Montgom
ery and Columbian, Georgia. Probably not
fancying conscription into the Southern
army, however much he favored the cause,
,he escaped North, and in 1861 aud '62 play
ed in St. Louis, Louisville, and other Wec-
aern cities. .
It was during the season following,' we
Relieve, that he first appeared in Cincinnati
t Wood' Theater, and left the imoression
that, though rather an unequaled actor, as
Biigbt be expected of one ot hie limited ex
penenoe, he gave unmistakable evidence of
yenume dramatic talent. He bad, added
to hia native genius, the advantage ot
voice musically full and rich; a face almost
elastic in outline; features highly intellectual:
piercing black ere, capable of expressing
the fiercest and tne teiidert-at patston and
emotion, and a commanding figure and im
pressive stage address. In his transition
from the quiet and reflective passage of i
part to fierce, and violent outbreaks of pas
sion, his sodden and impetuous manner had
in it something of that electrwul force and
pywer which made the elder Booth so cele
brated, and called up afresh, to the memory
wf nieu of the last generation, the presence,
voice, and manner of his father. -Convivial
iu his haUts, sprightly and genial in eotiycr
wlion, John Wilkea wade many acquaint
ances aud friends among the young men of
his own ago in the city an acquaintance
that was renewed during two subsequent
etigagemciit.-
Our recollection of Booth is somewhat
indistinct, but, we remember, his Features
in repose had rattier a somber and melan
choly cast; yet, under agreeable influences
br emotions, the expression was very uni
mr.ted and glowing. His hair, jet black
ami glossy, curled slightly, and t off in
fiiii! relief a high, intolleetua! forehead, and
it fiioe full of inteHigenee. Both chin and
Jinn! were marked prominent, and the firm
set lips, and lines about the mouth, iudiait
y) hrmness of will, decision, and resolution,
lie was scrupulously neat in his dress, and
selected his habits with a rare preception of
vht was becoming to his figure and com
plexion. He would paw, anywhere, for a
neatly, and not overly, dressed man of fah
' ion.
Of his political views very little was
known. lie kept a atill tongue on the sub
ject, so far as wo have, heard. Being of
Southern birth and education, it was pre
sumed his spmriathies tended in that direc
tion; but he exhibited no particular warmth
or seal for the rebellion, and nothing to in
dicate the remotest desire to ' further the
eause by as much as giving it pecuniary aid,
much lest persoual assistance, . It is report
ed, by a gentleman who heard tho conversa
tion, that during his engagement in Louis
ville, in 1S612, Booth fell iuto a controversy
with the treasurer of the theater a rabid
Heflesrinnist while standing one morning
in the office. He remarked, in effect, that
, he was a Southern n an, and liked the people
. of the South, who had been kind to him,
but he could not. for all that, admit that
they had any right or occasion to secede;
' that they had it all their own way in Con
gress, awl that if they insisted on fighting,
, thev should have taken the American flag
and fought under that. There is another
story to the effect that Booth, while playing
an engagement in Cleveland, a year or more
ag&Tasuerted ill a bubUe bar-room that the
man who would lcul Abraham Lincoln would
tain a more enViahle notorict? than Wash
ington himself. -It is, of course, impossible
1a.say..whetherJilieiw. reported sayiugs are
apocryphal or not.. . '
The last appearance of Booth on the
tag (except at one or two benefit in
' Washington), was at the Winter Garden,
New . loi k,and in coiy miction., with his
trotherti Edwin and Junius Brutiis, in the
f play of Juliiit CWr; for -the benefit of the
fehakspeare Moimnient Fund. lie was, we
helievei to have played with them' again at
the-same-thBateroTf he 22d cf jbhr month,
Ibr'the benefit of the samo' fund. The play
delected was Rmiieo and Juliet, the cast of
the Uoortis being-Johu Wilkes as i "Ro-
eo.'dbidwia as, "iMoncutio, ana Junius
M.'.'Friar Lawrenoe,' ', As we have Baid, he
bail played Do engagements the present sea
on. Deleft the stage to engage in oil
peculations, in which ha was iuite fortu
nate, having netted within six nioDths be
ween. $50,000 auc( $75,000. -Nor 'had he
any attention of resuming t19 stage, and
decTttred all managerial Epplioations; potro
leui,4g he wrbte, being more profitable
tbaslthe profession. - '
' Itts iifficttlt'to tmderstsnd what motives
dbuhj hTOt)K)Wptec Booth to tho commis-
' lon Of the great crime of which he stands
accused. It would, intked, be very fortu
nateor thuvjf4toould be pro vea that this.
iUtamous deed was the trealc of two or three
razy ftnMic?t'jwhp plotted' it themselves,
without int'gatiou from tha rebel authori
ties and was executed in an insane desire to
gain notoriety, no matter by what means,
Bnl sucli we anticipate, will not prov to
be -the case;1 The incidents of the double
assassination, ; the preparation :. to escape,
verything, in fact, connected with it,, indi
oatsVdejiberate; preparation, . secretiveness,
caution and probably the contemplation of a
moti bloody purpose than the death of two
members of the Administration. f As it
stindi,- history" Tails 'topresenV juf an tuV
1 Btaooe of assnmsinatfon more dastardly, mora
owKrdly.'moi'B revolting in all iu details
than that whtcVhas filled the- land with
novmniTand ill hearts wUhjhe very .gall
apj wovdj wood-of bitterness, There will
bs no rest For the authors of this crime.
ThslsUty.auLwiU babble of, them, and the
'. aea,cast them upon the shore. They may
Md1(i"tne inountains, but justice will 'track
thum (hers, .The wilderntss cannot conceal
them, Jiot thr utterni ost parts of ths earth
atorst them' from that retribution which
will tawibly overtake aud consume fhem.
AniintheAituw. ntf names will heymor
- abhored., axertd aod hated, than those of
.Acjuwusjaina- et 'the Prfdnt,.':pd iliii
frtMroiifeT.- V ' ;
lommenti on (be Prealdent'a
muraer.
NlW YORK. Anril 17. The Tribune savs.
editorially: "The lamented head of the lie
public was never provoked to the exhibition
of one trace of hate, or even wrath, teard
those against whom he was compelled to
Dattie lor the lite of the nation, lie was
perpetually reprsented to the Southern peo
ple as a libel on humanity, and a tieer. rav
enous Ibr blood. He not only (tut forth no
speech, no paper, no manifesto that gavu
tne least countenance to the calumnies, but
he never, in bis most intimate and confiden
tial moments, indicated a hope that evil
noma Detail one ot these enemies, save as
it should be necessary for the salvation of
tne country.
"The blow that struck down Abraham
Lincoln bereft the Union assailants of the
firuiest aud most powerful opponent of all
avoidable severity in suppressing their re
bellion. President Lincoln fell a sacrifice to
his country's salvation as absolutely as
thOUch ha linii hppn ntmpk Hnwn ivKiht lad
ing the assault on the rampart at Peters
burg. His death seta the seal of fate to thn
decree that dooms slavery speedily to per
ish, not in this country only, but iu' all its
remaining'' lurkinc nlacea thmnshnnt thn
civilised world. To human vision it would
seem Mr. Lincoln had fallen at the very mo
ment when his loss would be most UpiiIv
and generally felt. The soldier had done
his work. The hour of the statesman bad
fully struck, and the Preside
and eager for the task. , Had he lived 'a
very few days longert wo believe he would
have issued a proclamation of amnesty
which would have dissolved all that remains
of the rebellion, loaving its leaders no
choice but between flight and unconditional
surrender.
"We have no SDecial knowledge of thi
purposes of his successor, but we will not
doubt the good Providence which has borne
our country so nobly through her past trials
win continue ner guide and guardian thro
whatsoever may be still before her. and that
the storm and trlnom of the nrexeni. will
u.j;i..u..ff. 'j l. a i' .
rpr.tuuj wo ruauru o iue suriMime or peace,
Union and impartial freedom."
The World savst "Hv no nthr .;,,.,!,
achievement could death have carried such
a feeling of desolation iuto every dwelling,
and to have caused the whole land tn nmm-n
as if over the sundering of some dear do
mestic tie. Had the country, previous to
Mr. Lincoln's first elcetion, foreseen what
was coming, it would not have chosen for
Presidents man of Mr. Lincoln's inexperi
ence; but if his party was to succeed, we
doubt whether foresight and deliberation
would have made so good a choice. Anv
tolicy which a Republican President might
lave adopted with decision, iu the surinc of
861, and adhered to with steadiness .lu
ring four years, would have exposed the
Uorernniunt to be shivered into fragments
by the shocks of cliamrinir otiinions
" hut was wnntimr in the infleiiliilitv nf
our political system, was mado up in the
character of Mr. Lincoln. As aonti as the
war-cloud visibly lifted, he set himself tn
ic performance of acts which rmiini,Ht
the approval even of his former opponents;
and the day which piwded his death was
pawed in employment more full of promise
than any other in the calendar of his mo-
nientousora. 1 here will fall into his open
ing and honored grave no wanner or' more
pientilul tribute nt honest sensibility, than
s shed by those of his lon fcllowititrnu
who did not contribute to' his re-election."
To-day's Herald Kays:
"Our institutions aro. fortnnnVlv. of s
character not depending on the life of any
nuiviuuai ior ineir maintenance or progress.
PL- i' . . . jt '
ne progress or tne American itovernment
onward, easting flowers, as it passes, up
i the gi-ave Of each new martvr. hut nev-
r halting in the march of its divine and ir
resistible mission. In Andrew Johnson.
henceforward President of the United Ftntcs
we have a man of similar oricin with Mr.
incnln, cauallv a child of the ncnnle.'nnd
anally in sympathy with their interests.
It is no longer in the nower nf chnneine for
tune to take away from Abraham Lincoln,
as might have haiipen.?d had ho lived, one
ot the most solid, brillant and stainless re
putation?, of which, in the world's annals,
any record can be found. Its only peer ex
isting in the memory is that of Geo. Washington,-'
-, , :- . .
The Times sar: "Public life has at-
tendency to chill kindly and generous affec
tions, and blieht the sweet charities of life.
but. as was said of Mr. Fox. his heart was
as little heartened as if he had lived and
died ina farm-heuse. With charity 'to all
and malice tor none, President Lincoln
made. his last speech to the world. Men
will rcperuse that solemn address with ever
increasing interest and emotion, as if the
shadow of his own tragic fate, and near and
unseen dangers to the country, .rested un
conciously on its words. . :,It is such a speech
to tho world as a christian statesman would
gladly have his last ; earnest, hnthunrt, truly
but not technically religious, filled with for
giveness and good will." . ..
Concerning the effect of Mr. Lincoln's
death, theTimes says:..: , . '..
. "The peculiar nntnre or our institutions
makes it impossible that any ono man aho'd
be absolutely indispensiblo to their preser
vation and successful working ' If Em
peror Napoleon had been assassinated, all
France would lia-vo been in revolution be
fore twenty-four hours. President Lincoln's
death, sudden' and awful as it was. does not
interrupt, for an instant, the grand move
ment of onr Republican Government." 1
. The Journal of Commerce says: "Tho
nation lives; the strong compact is victori
ous over rebellion, and it is for us to sustain
it now; Let us remember our duties.
President Lincoln is dead, .. The President
still Jives. He pe.eds, and must have the
sustaining. -power of the people.- Let-us
give it to him with earnestness."
The World adds: "We await his course
with hope, not mingled with solitude, for in
Snch a terrible conjuncture as the .present,
nobody! can calculate the consequence of a
false step or. a Wrong committal,
"His retaining the advisors of the late
President is a favorable and promising indi
cating and it is greatly tq tie hoped he will
see it his duty to pursue the healing policy
on which his deceased predecessor had en
tered.": ' ; '- '
In an editorial on' Andrew Johnson the
Tribune remarks: , J'Had Lincoln lived, we
ore confident that no Confederate flag would
have been flying in this country in thirty
days time. Now we can not read the future
with any certainty, but only trust that be
hind the clouds are all the stars of heaven.
-President Johnson will doubtless soon is
sue' some sort of manifesto setting forth his
views and what terms he proposes to offer
to the rebels, and what advantages are to
accrue to them from promptly laying down 1
their annc ; Meantime we entreat those
Who are. the intimate friends of. our new
President to insist that he shall hot allow
his'time and .energies to be consumed by of- j
fiee seeker. "This huutfVjr chm has almost
wwlvoot Mr. Lincoln. -.L-theni ?pare the
hwPrwidnl." ' Y ' ' ' " I
From the Columbus Crisis.
The liiaiilnat ian aftha Pm
IdtnL
Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uni
ted States, and from his surroundings the
foremost man of all the world, was basely
and cruelly assassinated. Probably no event
in the calendar of time, certainly no event
in the history of thir country, forebodes so
much of evil or Was so charged with calami
ty to the human race as this. The deed it
self lacked no clement of horror or atrocity.
As a crime committed against a single man
it is so hideous aud diabolical, so utterly
without justification, as to create a shudder
in contemplating it; but its horror and atro
city are itensihed by the tact that the victim
was the President, the head ot a nation,
unon whose inripmenr ami wikdnm denpnrt.
ea the security, the repose and the hopes of
a great people, aud the generations yet un
born. It seems marvelous that there should
live one human being so warped in iudic
merit, so steeped in wickedness, so hardened
in ueviuju ianaticismas to De capable ot the
deed.
hatcvermav have been thn nolitieal nf.
fenses of President Lincoln, they were pub
lic acts, incident to his position, aud insepa-
rauie irom u, ana oy no law, human or di
vine, could he be made responsible to the
assassin s knife for them. They were the
acts of the President, not tho man. His
private hie wasunobjectionable. He was of
a mud and kmulv nature, rent In and rental
in his intercourse among men, solicitous to
sawsry ins own conscience and judgment.
and trust! ul of his fame in history. What
motive could have bromnted. what dark
and crooked reasoning could hare been re
lied on to justify his untimely taking off in a
manner mado doubly hendisli by all the ac
companimeuts of murder and reiricide.
the Ruler of the Universe can alone di
vine.
The time at which the deed was done was
most fatal aud deplorable. At no season
during his administration had President
Lincoln been in so commanding a position of
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uncimm.BA ui ins lenowincn. ins political
opponents lor weeks had hesitated to cnti
cise lis public acts, and that class ot dan
gerous men who soucht to. train his nnnfi.
dence and misguide his better judgment and
purposes, were kindly but firmly put aside.
Just beginning a second term of office, with
four years of anxiety and uncertainty before
him, uninfluenced by the surroundings of
his former term, a better judgment and a
larger policy seemed to pervade his acts.
He was gaining confidence where before it
I...J II. L.l: I .1.. -i
" nnuiiiij;. no ueiievea inc civil
war virtually at an end, and he desired to
appeul from the sword to diplomacy and
stHtesmanshm.
His course since the fall of Richmond his
recognition of the on v elements bv which
that commonwealth could be restored to her
allegiance, tho wisdom aud moderation
which he brought to cornfront the mighty
difficulties licfore him, were all full of prom
ise of the greatest good. By hi.? immense
Influence lie could have controlled the fac
tions of his own party, and could have ac
complished the Salvation of his country.
lhat the bullet of a single brutal fanatic
should be allowed to crush all these glorious
hopes and plunge the nation into the. abyss
oi ucspair anu anurcny, confounds tne rea
son and pvalyzus the heart. '"Whatever
may be the inscrutable decrees of Providence
and it would be impious to suppose the
He who uoteth the full of asparrow had not
foreseen the fall of a man in whose hands
the weal or woe of a great people is held
this is certain, unless all are at a fault, gen
enerations yet unborn will curse the slavish
instrument of this awful catastrophe.
In a moment like the present, in the
midst of a calamity so astounding and crush
ing, human judgment of itsolf is power
less to divine or control the immediate fu
ture, and it becomes a christan people fo
fervently and sincerely invoke, and calmly
rely upon the assistance aud guidance of
God. ! ' '
WrK find the following in the St. Louis
Republican of the 16th:
J. Wji.kes Booth. The tcleeranh has
informed us that J. Wilkes Booth, the ac
tor, has been arrested as the asasssin of
President Lincoln, on the identification of
Laura Keeuo. Mr. Booth is a young mau,
about twenty-two years of age, the son of
Junius Brutus Booth, and embraced the
stage as a profession a little over four years
ago.
At the breaking out of the rebellion he
was playing in Augusta, Georgia, but soon
left and came North. One year ago last
January be played an engagement with Ben.
Be Bar, at the St. Louis Theater, and in all
the principal cities of the Union he wat ac
knowledged as a rising actor of great merit
woithy to be tho son ot the distinguished
Booth. He is a young man of unassuming
deportment, and quiet, retiring manners a
hard student of his profession, rind medling
with nothing beyond it. - '
He was born in the city of Baltimore
Md., but the exact date of his birth is not
known to any of his acquaintances in this
city.. Both unrents were English, and his
father owned a farm in the vicinity of Bal
timore!, on which he. lived during a portion
of even' year.- Young Booth went to a uiil
itary school in Baltimore, for awhile, and
filially, at an early age, commenced his ca
reer as an actor. On his return to Bulti
more from Georgia, when the rebellion was
dividing the people into ranks, North and
South, In was solicited by some of his old
companions, who were forming a company
for Stonewall Jacksou's brigade, to join
them, but he declined taking any part , in
the war. Sooii after he resumed his pro
fession in the North, ami was known at the
theaters where he played as a strong Union
man in sympathy from the commencement
of ournational difficulties. .While he was play
ing at the theater in this city, a circumstance
occurred ot a private nature, which gave all
who were cogn" nut of thi fact the idea that
he was strongly conservative from principle.
Those who know him best in this city aro at
a loss to account for the fact of his having
been the perpetrator of so terrible an assas
sination. -i. . I
" President Jolinnon's Policy.
New York. April 18 The Post's spe
cial says President ' Johnson yesterday laid
to a clergyman who begged of him to bo
merciful to the rebels, that mercy of indi
viduals was not always mercy to the Stato.
He also declared to a prominent niemhe'. of
Congress that he was willing to act with the
utmost magnanimity towards tho common
peoplo of the rebel States, but that the un
repentant leaders must be punished.
The Dayton ( Ohio. ) Journal notices that
it was on the 15th day of April, 1861, that
President Lincoln culled out the 75,000 vol
unteers oftcr the attack on Fort Sumpter.
Four years after that, on the 15th of April,
1865,.hedied. ..
. "The heads of Departments havooffieially
announced the death of the President, and
Issued orders that all attachecs of the sev
eral Departments," shall wear crane for six
months, find national white. (half be fired.
Tbc lata ol Mr. Lincoln.
The Dayton (Ohio) Empire, a Democratic
paper, makes the following comments upon
the death of the President. It says:
The country was this morning startled by
the mournful intelligence of the assassina
tion ot Mr. .Lincoln, and the assassination
or attempted assassination of Mr. Seward.
We have not the heart to enter into the de
tails. The tclegnphic columns must suf
fice for our readers to-dav. '
We regard this news as the worst that wo
have had to chronicle since four years ago,
when Fort Suuitor fell and the country was
plunged into a civu war.
The death of 5Jr.'; Lincoln is regarded by
os as a great national calamity. The man
ner of his death adds horror to the fact
We had been indulging the hope that peace
was nigh at hand; and we were impressed
with the belief that Mr. Lincoln was anxious
for the restoration of ncaeetndof ehe.IIninn.
We believe that at the time of his death he
was maturing plans for the pacification of
the country, which would have mot the ap
proval of the masses; and or our part we
were prepared to give it that approval, even
though we might not have igreed with him
in all its details. That he should have been
taken away just at this moment wo sincere
ly deplore as a grmtncitionitt-calamity, and
we have no other words to express it The
punishment of the aisassiu or assassins
will of course follow, but the crime com
mitted against a whole nation cannot be
compensated by the death of. the insignifi
cant actor in this trnpedy.
We had opposed Mr. Lincoln in his life
time in many of his acts, and did to ear
nestly and sincerely. We differed radically
from him on many poinU. Yet just at this
juncture wo had the expectation of lending
him our support in the carrying out of .the
measures which we believe ha had in con
templation when the hand 0$ the assassin
snatched him away not that we expected
tnem to coincidcentirelvwithiurown views:
but because we believed lhat he was sincere
ly desirous of arranging our laffairs upon n
proper basis, notwithstandinit the threats of
radical men, that would have given hope to
the conntry for the fufun. ' ? -
The whole country, without regard to par
ty, cannot but deplore the tragedy which
was yesterday enacted.
The Late Dreadful Tragedy at
svuauiiigton.
The late dreadful tragedy t Washington,
to the exclusion of almost everything else,
occupies the public attention aud engrosses
tho thoughts of men. Pery-where it is
tne subject ot comment and the theme ot re
mark. The popular heart has been deeply
'stirred, and the strongest feelings have been
armused in connection with it. It is alto
gether na tural and proper that it should be
be so. This occurrence is so different from
what has ever before taken place in our po
litical history, at once so horrible and novel,
so shocking a personal and so grojtt a public
1-aiuiuiiy, mat ior n long 111110 10 (JOHIC 11 Will
be remembered with, peculiar interest and
abhorence. Even vet we can ,not fullv real
ize the occurrence that has sef-suddenfy and
unexpectedly trans'iireil...,Thei-uv.ciytineo-ted
with !t bewildering scVsation of the
strongest character. J he time and the cir
cumstance's, the character ami official posi
of the murdered man, the bloody disposi
tion anu the cool hardihood ot the villain
who was his murderer, are commented upon
in every private circle.
The American people, brave even to rcck
lcstness upon the field of battle willing to
encounter every danger and risk not afraid
of any peril where the King of Terrors lies
eseonced yet recoil in horror from cold
blooded private murder and assassination.
Nothing has shocked the public mind with
in our recollection comparable to this mur
der of our Chief Magistrate, ina crowded
theater, aud before thousands of people and
the presentation 'before them, like an nnna-
rition, of the desperadcrwho had committed
tho sanguinary deed. No clement of sur
prise and of hoiTor seems to be wanting in
this tragedy to invest it with a character
that would require the searching of history
to find a parallel resembling it in demoniac
cruelty and vengeance.-Cin, Enq.
Hon. William II. Seward Ills
Career.
This gentlemen, who has so recently been
stricken by the hand of a cowardly assassin,
whilu languishing with severe injuries, upon
his sick-bed, has Occupied a large space in
the public eye for the last thirty years. Our
first recollections of him were iu 1830, when
he was elected a member of the State Sen
ate, in New York, in the Cuyahoga district,
on the Anti-Mason ticket. He was then a
very young man, but immediately took high
rank as adebatoraud politician. He served
four years in that capacity, and in 1834 he
ran as the Whig candidate for Governor
against the Hod. William L. Marey, who
was his predecessor in the office of Secretary
of ate. . Mr. Seward was beaten - by his
distinguished opponent by some. 13,000 ma
jority. In 1838, however, he was again a
candidate against Mr. Marcy, and this time
was elected by a majority of 11,000. In
1840 ha was re-elected Governor by 5,000
majority, over Wm. Bouck, then one of
the most popular men in the State. ,
In 1842 he retired to private life, and there
remained until 1849, when he was elected to
tho United States Senate in , place of Gen.
John, A. Dix. ; Jn that capacity he exerci
sed a controlling influence in the Adminis
tration of General Taylor. In 1855 he was
re-elected to the Senate, . afser an excited
and vehement content. ,
In I860 he was a prominent candidate for
President against Abraham Lincoln before
the Chicago Convention, and the contest
between them, tor a time, was close and
doubtful. - After Mr. Lincoln's nomination
and election, he tendered Mi. Seward the
first place in the Cabinet, Unt of Secretary
of State, an office he continues to hold to
the present time. With his career in that
office our readers are familiar. To his skill
and tuvt as a diplomatist many attribute the
fact that wo have avoided a foreign war and
other European complications-'-T-CVn: Enq.
n ; . From The Now York Herald.
The Rebel Evrell on the Proal-f-
' i dent's Murder. .
The rebel Gehoral Ewell, accompanied by
his Adjutant, Major Campbell Browp, passed
through this city between 5 and 6 o'clock
yesterday morning. route from Washington 1
to Fort Warren, Boston. The General was
taken to tho Soldiers' Rest, Fourth avenue,
to breakfast. While there, he learned of the
assassination of President Lincoln. It is said
he was unaffectedly shocked by this intelli
gence, and declared that it was the worst
event that could have happened just now for
the Seuth, as well as the North.
: ;At the last meeting of the Cabinet, at
which the President attended, Mr. Lincoln
stated to General Grant that there would be
some; big nows soon, . as he bad a strange
dream tho night before,, and . he Dover had
one of these dreams but immediately after '
some great evtnt occurred. 'i
now Johnson' life wii Saved.
From the Washington correspondent Of
me uincinnau Uiuette.j
rum against the vice prkidist.
Between 4 and 4:30 on the afternoon of
the murder, J. Wilkea Booth called at the
Kirk wood House, and lvft the following
note lor V ice-fresidcnt Johnson :
"Don't want to disturb you. Are you at
home .'
Signed,) "J. W. BOOTH."
For several days previous, a large, dca
parate looking man has .been stopping at
the Kirkwood. He is now missing, and
among the papers found in his baggage is a
letter from Booth. This, and other suspi
cious circumstances, confirm the opinion
that the Vice-President was included in the
hellish plan, and to this missing individual
was allotted his death. . The Vice-President
retired to rest that Friday night about 9
o'clock. i
HOW MR. JOHNSON HEARD OF THX PKB8I
PE.Vr'8 MURDER.
overnor Farwell. of Wisconsin, was
at Ford's Theater at the time of the assas
sination. Susvectine that an attcmot would
also be made on the life of the vx Presi
dent, he rushed from the theater to Mr.
Johnson's room, which ho reached within
five minute after the shootine of the Presi
dent. ; He knocked at the door several times
before receiving reply. At length the
Vice President, who was axleen. awoke
and asked, "who's there?" Governor
Farwell replied. "Let me in iiumediateW." ;
at the same time giving bis name, and say
ing he had important information to com
municate. :;:.-..,! '.,; I v
Mr. Johnson at onee onened the door.
and Mr. Farwell told him of -the murder of
the President. , It tell, like a , thunderbolt
upon Mr. Johnson, who, at first, refused to j
ociieveit. Upon being convinced, be tuani
tested powerful emotion, and both gentle
men were so much affected, that for mo.
ment they were mutually obliged to support
Bacn ovner io avoiu inning.
. Governor Farwell soon recovered his nre-
sencc of mind, and to guard against further
calamities, which he believed menaced the
heads of the Government, took the nrecair
tion to lock the door and extinguish the gag
wnicn nau peon dimly burning in the room
After giving warning below, ho went and
procured a guard. Either the miscreant to
whom this part of the work was assigned
qualified when the time come, or the earlv
retiring of the Vice President or the auick
arrival of Governor Farwell drranged the
pian.
The Reply of President Johnson
to an Address oi Clergymen-
Ills Reference to Mr. Lincoln.
W'ASHINOTON. Anril IS. .Tn nn rtlrot.
by a number of clergyman, who called on
him to-day, .the President replied, thanking
tnem in tne warmest terms for - their very
kind mention of Inm, and for their tendered
support and encouragement. ; He spoke
with feeling of the great personal and public
worui oi ins lumcntcd predecessor.. .As
suming the great responsibilities imposed
noon nun. in Obedience, to thn rprnnrciripnH
of the Constitution, inconsequence of this
saadisnensnffori of Providence, he folt hia
own individual insufficiency, and tho nei-
sity of the kind counsel mid co-operation of
nu iiiuiius ui uieir country, i inis support
he should endeavor to deserve bv sbnoinr
liiscourse to those immutable principles of
rignt. wnicn unucrne our uovernmcnt. Ha
said he had a sure faith that, if wo adhered
to those principles, the Almiehtv would
save the nation. He believed that the na
tion had a great mission to fulfill, and that
God would not allow it to perish before its
woi k was uoue.
ihey had a luded to the mtirdnr nf thn
late President,, and to the attempt on Mr.
Seward's life, in just terms, of indignation
and horror. The assassination of any man,
high or low, was a crime of the darkest dye,
and especially diabolical was it when the
blow was struck at tho loved and hnnnrprl
head of a great nation, in the very moment
of triumph; but this horrible crime was only
purumi ui i ne greatest, or crimes, tne at
tempted assassination of a nation, and h
believed that the American people felt it to
be so. Treason, he said, was a crime, and
not a mere difference of uolitical onininnx.
The President closed by again thanking his
visitors ior giving mm, at tins hour, their
God speed.
J. Wilkes Iloolh.
(V correspondent from Cincinnati writes as
follows to the Chicago Tine:
"Junius Brutus Booth is in ien rinf
over tne tragedy wnicn involves his brother
Wilkes as an assassin. His engagement
would have closed to-night, but he dared
not appear. He informesme that J. Wilkes
Booth was to have been maried soon to a
daughter of Senator Hale; that if he com
mitted this act, it wasunder a sudden im
pulse. The family consists of fnurhrnthi.
.1 . i i . . . . . 7 n-
and one sister. The mother of these five
children is now in New York city. Wilkes
iionin was oer javonto child. .- Jidwin was
in Boston, where he was to conclude an n.
gagement to-night. ! J. Brutus, Edwin and
W likes all three brothers were encaewd
to appear at the Shakspearean benefit, in
New York, soon to take place, and only yes
terday Brutus received a letter from Wilkes
making mention of their engngment in New
York: that he Was well and all amino nn
brightly. Recurring to his alliance to Mi6s
Hale, Brutus can hardly believe the report.
yet he knows that Wilkes has often ex
pressed himself as 'bearin a deadlv hrd
to kings and tyrants.' Mr. Booth has gone
to the country to night, to keep quiet until
the cxeitement has passed. He paoCs his
room and pulls his hair like a man deranged.
Brutus nlso states that, if the renorts are
true against Wilkes, Edwin and himself
will be compelled to leave the stage. '
The Duty of Southern Men In
Regard to Booth and Ills Con
. federates. .
It is to be feared that the assassin. Booth.
and his confederate have made their escape.
iuo jaicai, nwuuiiin uu uui represent eiiner
to have been arrested. It is sunnosed t.W
have got into Virginia, and are now within
Mosby's lines. But if they make good their
escape into the South, every Southern man
should interest himself in securing tho mur
derers. Astasination is not war, and the
honor of the Southern people demands that
these parties should not only be allowed not to
remain among them, but that they should
be secured and handed over to the Federal
authorities. And Jeff. Davis could not do
himself more credit than to issue a procla
mation calling upon Southern men every
where to secure the assassins, and deliver
them to the nearest Federal military post.
Such an act on his part wold raise him ,in
the estimation of tho people, not only of
the whole North, but of tne civiliued world.
It they are allowed to find a refuge at the
South, the stain of tho crimes of these
murderers will never be effaced from tha
Southern character,, as the people of the
o...;u u l. . ' :j j f. 5-..
Kjuuiu wuum uo cuuoiuercu- as saucuomng
the horrible atrocity of which these parties
stand coDTMved. Cm. , v-
IVtwi From Richmond Erod
ing Rebels Deploro tho Assas
sination. .
Advices from Richmond, under date of
yesterday, state that all civilians who be
longed North had been ordered out of the
city. A special provost officer was appoint
ed to furnish passes, to hasten their exit.
- The details of the astassinauon bad be
come known, and produces considerable ex
citement among the people. A number of.
houses had been draped in mourning, and
all citizens who expressed an; opinion, de
nounced it, without Qualification. General
Lee, it was said, would issue some kind of
an address to the people on the great event.
In Petersburg, Roger A. Prvor declared
that the South, in this crisis, had lost its
best friend. In connection with the Mayor,
he intended to call a' Dublio meeting, to de
nounce the act, and extend sympathy to the
Northern people. Special Corrttpondenet
vuicinnan commercial. . -
Distinguished Citizens of Illl
nols en route to Attend the Pre
stdent's Funeral. -
Crestline,, Ohio, April 18. A commit
tee of nromincnt citizens of Snrinefield. Illi
nois, consisting of .Hon. a. 1. otuart, Uen
eral John Williams, Mayor Dennis, Hon. J
K. Dubois. S IL Kelvin, Jfisa.. Hon. S.
M. Cullum, and, others, named through
Crestline to-day ex rewfo lor Washington to
attend the tunerai obsequies ot our late
rresident, and also to accompany his re'
mains to their last resting place in Spriug
field. .,,'. - '.. .
Important to the Agricultural
ists Income of Farmers.
The following- latter, from the Denutv
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, may be
ot interest to many larmers ana planters or
this State:
Treas. Dept. Oipice Int. Rev. )
Washington. March ll. 1865. I
5Yr Your letter of March 9, in regard to
farmers' income returns, is received.
I reply that the act of July 1, 1862, un
der which returns were made for the annual
income taxes of 1862 aud 1863, required far
mers to return each year the entire crop
narvestca. ,
But the act of June 30,. 1864, now in
force, under which the returns for the srie-
cial income tax of 1863 were made, rcauires
farmers to return each year the amount of
produce told. .
: It will be found that farmer's income re
turns for 1 864 will include some portion of
the crop ot 1863, and which was taxed as in
come for that year. There is an apparent
injustice in subjecting the samo income to
tax in two different years, the rear when
raised and the year when sold ; but a con
sideration of the question will show that it
is only as apparent one.
For, suppose the income of a farmer to be
the same every year, and the rate of tax the
same, it is plain that the amount of tax the
should be also the same. Now, the farmer
does not sell the whole crop of each year
t-itfAui that year, and if he is taxed in 186
on such produce only as he raised and sold
within that year, it is clear that he will- not
pay the full tax due on his real income.
Suppose the yearly cron to be the same.
the farmer will, in the last year nf the tax,
raise a certain amount of produce on which
he will pay no tax, because unsold, and such
produce will, on an average, be a fair offset
against the produce raised in 1863, but sold
in 1864, and which consequently pays two
taxes.
It is true that in particular cases hardshios
will arise from the fact that the practice of
fanners is not uniform in regard to selling or
storing produce, and in other cases farmers
will escape their just share of tax for the
same reason.
But the same occasional inequality will
occur under any general provision of law,
and cannot be avoided.
The entire amount, therefore, of produce
sold in 1864, must be returned as income by
farmers, without regard to any taxes pre- j
viousiy paid on any such produce.
v ery respectfully,
E. A. ROLLINS,
Deputy Commissioner..
E. F. Church. Esa.. Revenue Insneotor.
Towsontown, Maryland. - i
Items of Washington Xew.
The W-fcshinitton CorresDondcnt of tho
Cincinnati Gazette, ot Aunl 18. contained
the following items of news:
t MRS. LINCOLN ILL.
"Mrs. Lincoln is very ill. Her medical
attendants were with her all last night and
to-day. By Mrs. Lincoln's special request,
Mrs. Welles, wife ot the Secretary of the
Navy, has been in most constant attendance
at the White House since the tragedy took
place. . ,
THE PRESIDENT'S TEMPORARY RUfilDINCE.
"Attorney-General S need having tender
ed his quarters to President Johnson, on J
street, between Thirteenth nnd Fourteenth
streets, the President will take up bis resi
dence there until he is permanently located
in ine .executive mansion.
'ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BYCOLORED TROOPS.
"A letter from Charleston to a ecntloman
in this city, from a relative, dated Charles
ton, ytn mst., contains tho following state
ment: A plot has just been discovered tht
is startling. . It was headed by the colored
troops, who were to kill their officers and
take posession of the city, and then put to
death every white male inhabitant. .
"The churches and bouses were to be
blown up, ko. Fortunately the plot was
discovered, and the colored troops were re
moved, and a New York regiment brought
in.' To-day, (Sunday.) while all were at
church, was the time set. Ten of the lead
ers are now in jail, and four or five have
been shot. , Tho white troops are exasperat
ed bcyoud roeasuro, and blood will be shed
yet, if the feeling becomes any stronger.".
The IWevr President, Andrew '
Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, lately Vice-President.
has become, by the Constitution, on the
death of Mr. Lincoln, President of the U
nitod States. He is a nativi of Tennessee,
and after filling prominent position in that
State, he was elected to Congress from the
eastern portion in 1843. He was successive
ly re-elected until 1853, a period of ten years.
In that year he was chosen Governor of
Tennessee, and was re-elected in 1855. In
1859 he was elected to the United state s
Senate. In 1801, when Tennessee seceded,
he remained in his seat. In 1863 he was
appointed Military Governor of tho State by
Mr. Lincoln,, and in 1864 he was elected
Vice-President upon the ticked with him. j
He is the third Vice-President who has suc
ceeded to the Presidency. The first was
John Tyler, who succeeded General Har
rison without one month after the letter's
inauguration, . in 1861. The second was
Millard fulmore. who became President, bv
the death oi General Taylor, in one year sod
three months after his uauraatioa, t i
Msrcli,. 1849 ; vu. , Jutf, 1
An Important Letter from tho
. Commissioner of Interim! B.
enue.
Joseph 0. Lewis, the Commiaslooer of
Internal Revenue at Washington,, ha writ
ten a letter on our financial condition, from
which we make the following extract:
"The heeds of Government will be larrer
than before our war, ' The military and na
val establishments cannot be suddenly redu
ced, nor to their former standard. Multi
tudes of claims, occasioned bv thm
tions and changes of the war, will be urae4
on the Government, sous of which, after
the severest scrutiny, must be allowed.--But
with that care and scrupulous regard
roi the interests of the Government which
the time! demand, til this oas be den, end
well done, for an average of a amber of
years of peace, at a cost not to exceed, at
most, two hundred aod fifty millions of dol
lars. If we add fifty millions more for ths
interest on orrBC leans,' enough fat
debt of six hundred and eighty millions at
present rates of interest, or mors than we
seem likely to sell or need before the sup
pression of the revolt, it fbllows that ths
Government will reonire the use of three
hundred million or dollars per annum ia
currency, before the amount row ia circula
tion can be reduced, ,
"The prent returns of this office are at a
rate much larger than this. On the whole,
as the system of administration is impro
ving daily, nd both officers Sbd peopio are
continually learning their duties and liabil
ties under this law, I am satisfied that an
average yield of three hundred and twenty,
five millions of dollar may be relied upo
with much confidence for a series of yean.
. .
"I suppose that our custom duties nay
easily with some reduction and adjustments
be made to Yield a nc-rmanent rrnn.
whose minimum will be one hundred mil.
lion of coin. This would provide for s
funded debt, payingeoin interest of above
fifteen hundred millions, besides accumula
ting a aufficient sinking fund;: The simplest
solution of our embarrassments would then
he to exchange limited amounts of such
bonds for currency, front time to time, is
they might have demanded, retiring per
manently all that is thus paid in. By this
means the amount in circulation misht ha
easily controlled by the Government. '
1 ought to say, but as an individual
opinion, from which many abler men dis
sent, that, in my view, these or any -other
measures for restoring our national Mvriii
demand imperatively, as a condition of iuv
cess, an immediate end to the issue of na
tional currency; or legal-tender money in
auy form. The circulation of national banks
must be arrested at once. All circulation
not authorized bv Cohirresa. and nut mjntn.
ed in coin on demand, must be taxed to,
death. Every means consistent with good
faith towards tho national banks should be
employed to reduce their circulation. The
present condition of the currency should of
itself prevent prudent institutions from ex
pansion, and the legitimate and ordinary
business of banking is a wide and nrofitabl
field to cultivate, without any privilege of
manufacturing credit into money.;
"One common prejudice must be remo
ved if ourourrenoy ia ever, to- be restored,
that, namely, of sellinsr our Government
bond at a nominal premium."
. All Wrong : : .'- .
It appear; from diana'clm that Jeff Ti4a
issued an address to the people of the Soutk
in which he sttttc that the war will be con
tinued, notwithstanding the kt of the Ar
my of Northern Virginia. W'e regret that
such is to be the case. Wo had hoped thai
General Johnson, after hcarinr nf 5nonl
Lee's surrender, would have eonsidertsd it ton
have been his duty to surrender his army
also. Siuco the destruction of General'
Lee's army, nosano man has believed that,'
the Confederacy has the remotest prospect'
of success. It is folly, therefore, to contiti n
nc the contest. It is worse than foolish; it
is criminal. The rjeoulc of the
conquered, and Khould submit without fur
tner opposition.; i he contest has to them
become honoless. and its oontinuann muW .
those who control their armies responsible ,
for all the blood that may be hereafter shed
in the war. The sentiment of the civilised '
world is against a party that protracts a war
without hope of final success. The South
is without hope of final success. The South -,
is without that kind of hope, and should. '
therefore, surrender its armies, or disband'
them, at once. v ,, .;
Since tha above was put in type, the dis-.v
patches inform us that General Johnston
has surrendered to General Sherman. Ws
hope the information may prove to be true. .
Humanity, good sense, and considerations,
of sound policy alike concur in demanding '
tho closs-of the war, by the surrender of all
the troop of the South uow in the field.. j
Ct'n. Enq. , , . .. . .-, .
Truculent Radicals" on General
Grant.-;-. ".;;,',,,
The radicals . continue . their diatribes '
against Gen. Grsht for his recent extension
of terms to the vanquished army of Geuer- :
al 'Leo. Tha Utic 'New York Hraii
w: ' -.. ' ' ' .' . ; . ,'. -j
"Is it possible that all we have said about -the
enormity of the oots of tho rebels ia
merely declamation without any truth in it?
If it be not, is it possihie .that we sre to ;
pronounce tho authors of these horrid erimea '
good fellows, honorable men. and take theta ,
tA Ail. k..a .ttoin? I'kia . & .,.. a. ..
. ..... ul.u. aMiM. a law uub u uv gvn
erosity, nor Justice, lul maudlin tmtimental ;
ity, or something worte. , For reasons of '.' ,
pediency, it may become advisable to remi .
the severe and just legal penalties of trea
son in almost every cose, but that is a' vary
different act from this which is now done.
To attempt now to debauch the jopula S
sentiment, which abhors treason and.; trek;
tors, is a work which we decline to have the'
smallest share in," ; . , ''
s , mm" " '''
A tartllna; Announcement"
. . ..i 7; Lee's Force. : , i ,..
v The Washington correspondent of . ths ,
New York Iribuu makes the following
rather remarkable announcement:
"Lee surrendered less than 8,000 fighting
men to Grant. - Les than 5,000 muskets 1
were surrendered. It is the ODinion off man 1
patriot here that the morale of our success '
should be celebrated, and that with exceed-1
ing modesty. Grant had 123,000 men .am-'.'
der his command. . . , . . .
Butler Jealous of the Military. ;
In his late sneeoh a Washington. Gennral
Benjamin F. Butlersaid: -' '-
in the future the danger to our libertMS
can oomc only from the ambitions of . those
in the srmy who may conspire against ths
life of the nation," ...
Thi following, from the Louisville "Jeium.
sol, is s specimen of genuine wit: y
. "Abuse the Government as yon will. It
ha for the last three or . fotp , yssrs, been '
dearsr to us than ever," ' .-' , ,;"
WHIN Mr. Uuid. the boulhnrn: Csmnfa4
doner, received tho news of Line, b' sspssv
tiDitkm, be said it ws ths voni- btoww-' '
vonWency bad yt teottrvd.
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