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-»S C-e^» National Hotel, Wash. Apr 16, 1865

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In the presence of this terrible national calamity, I can scarce think of business, but I saw the Surgeon Genl. about your friend, & write you the result.

He said that two wards in Satterlee(?) are devoted to eye & ear cases, & in charge of a physician who is a specialist in such things & he says equal to D.H. He did not see how he could order the transfer, but could write to Satterlee(?) & ascertain your friend's condition.

As the assassin intended his knife for Grant, & doubtless knew me; perhaps, had I gone with the President, I should have had it. But, if it had saved Mr. Lincoln, I should not have felt it was to be sorrowed(?) over at all.

Yours truly, Schuyler Colfax —

Wo understand that the Colored Men of our City have been practically refused a place in the grand procession to-morrow in honor of the. ser- vices aud memory of President Lincoln. The

grief of this class is probably deemed too real- and hearty to bear any part in a mourning pageant devised and engineered by men who always opposed aud never even professed to honor and respect our late President until they were quite sure he was dead. "We trust the Blacks will not take this refusal to heart. So long as a draft impended over our City, they were 'vouchsafed the amplest oppor-

tunities to fill the rants of that quite earnest procession which was constantly moving hence ou Richmond and Charleston in response to the President's calls for "defenders of tho National integrity. Should more' soldiers be wanted, we warrant that a .large share of those who parade to-morrow will stand back and give every negro a fair chance to go in. Aud, as tho Blacks of our City do not nuod any display ot banners, mottoes, regalia, &c, to convince anybody that tluy grieve for the loss ot our good President, we suggest that they need not take to heart their exclusion fiom the parade of to-morrow.

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The suggestion of a National Testimonial of admiration for tho character aud gratitude for the services of our late President in tho form of a payment of $100, 000 to his stricken family no person to give more than $1 —seems to us appropriate aud timely. Abraham Lincoln has died for the country, precisely as if he had been shot down while serving in her armies. No one who now gives his dollar can bo uuspected ofseek- ing to ingratiato himself with the powerful orin any manner servo his own private ends. Mr. Lincoln has been paid $2f>,000 a year in green- backs; which is hardly more than half tho valim he would have received in timo of peace, while not merely his labors and anxieties but the claims on his hospitality, the cost of his house- keeping, have been enormously increased. Just as he had surmounted the difficulties of his posi- tion, and had a project of better times before

him, he is stricken dead by an assassin, and the $100,000 for a second term that the People had voted him goes to his successor. Not sympalhy> nor benevolence, but simple justice, requires that this sum bo made up to his family, w ithout regard to their circumstances, whereof wo know and wish to know nothing. We trust no dollar 'will be given to this fund by any but those who would rather pay it than not—Who feel it a privilege to place the family of our great and good leader beyond the possibility of want. We hope soon to hrar of some one having been appointed to receive contributions in this City. We can build all requisite monuments for our own satisfaction; but Ictus first pay our debt. .-JL*-^^

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with ot hers in ot her lands. Noeonquere-. tive Mansion. On this was a beautiful commander or captive monarch is chained pavillion, proiusely decked with flags, to a victorious chariot and dragged evergreens, and garlands of flowers. In thorough our streets. No prisoners of this pavilion were seated President the conquered are driven like slaves un- Ins Johnson and his Cabinet, Lieut.-Gon, der the lloiii.iii yoke. No trophies from Grant, and the Diplomatic Corps. < Mi sacked and demolished cities g]'aj.''C tie- each side of the pavilion other stands pageant. Xo clanking of chains and were erected for the accommodation of manacles is heard. The only trophies distinguished visitors from abroad and are the scars received in numerous bat- other privileged spectators. Here passed tles; flags which have baptized in lire samples ofpatriotic literffture, which had in review four of the victorious arinis of and blood, and torn to shreds by rebel been posted up in your streets in the form the loyal Union,— the army of the Po- bullets; no trophies but the conscien- of placards. " The spirit of Booth still tomac, the arm}r of Tennesse, the army tiousness of having saved the life of the lives." 'Yes, his spirit doubtless lives, of Georgia, and Phil. Sheridan's cele- Union ami gained the undying gratitude but I should judge from circumstances, brated cavalry. of 1 heir countrymen. that his black heart had got into the Each corps, divisions and brigade was The troops marched in (dose order, foul, wicked and treasonable author of headed by its respective commander; I eighteen abreast, and the whole line of those placards. I rejoice that there is thus giving the spectator a tine opportu- march extended thirty-six miles. j Gen. only one unconvicted traitor in your vil- nity to see Siikumax, Mkadk, Siikkidan Gn.iNT says that if they had moved in lage, base enough to utter such senti- and other renowned generals. the usual order of armies on the march, ments and to perpetrate such a villainous The troops on each day of the review, they would have extended from Wash- and dastardly work. It is a wonder that advanced at an early hour in the morn- ington to Richmond —a distance of near- the hand which penned them was notitn-' ing, from their various camps about the ly one hundred and fifty miles. The mediately paUied. While the wise the city and took their positiou on the street number of [roups reviewed is said to have great and the good, all over the world, are leading out from the eastern suberbs. been over one hundred and lil'tv thousand. lamenting our great natonal calamity, and At precisely nine o'clock in the morning extolling the virtues of our late Chief the great triumphal march commenced, Magistrate, we find in the village of and moved through the entire length oi Glen's Falls, a wretch so awfully de- Avenue, and thence onward to their re- praved as to use language and express spective campS. The time taken was sentiments from, which even the assas- two days —from 9 a. m., to •'! p. in. of on trial, ins, now , would turn away each day. with horror and disgust. And yet this As on a former occasion, we had rain monster walks about among you, on the previous lay winch laid the dust and two feet, just like a man, and possibly purified the .d}'. Tic sf, was cloudless, might by some be mistaken for a human the breeze, cad and refreshing, and su!- being. Arrest him at once and send him ficicntly Ivisk to give to the myriads <>l

it graceful an.', to Washington. At the present time, he i .lags w'hi-h sported in a will find congenial friends in the Peni- lively notion. ten.vl(Vi,y, Mudd, and Payne, and Sur- And now, what a magnificent picture ! | ratt, and Atzerott, and other mellifluous'' ava.Vy, artillery, infantry and zouaves names need Ids kindly sympathies at this alternating and succeeding each other steeds their hour of trial. the dancing and prancing war Yesterday and tQ-d^j nave been proud proudly bearing their illustrious riders- days for Washington and for the whole thousands of burnished sabres and bayo- ooiuiiry. Wc have witnessed another of the sunbeams and flashing/ j nets catching and the varied and wonderful series of pic- them hack to the sky— the beautiful : tures which during the last few weeks varied uniforms of the different .classes ol have been presented to vipw in the city of troops-the regular and steady tramp of &> Washington, The great military review manylthousand feet—the numerous batter- heavy V.'aa a spectacle which can be seen but ies of cannon thundering with -bands of musir once in our lives ; and he who \\i\a priv- wheels over the pavement- M other' ileged to. behold it nv.iy thnnts tils stars" drums ami fifes, succeeding each and cou.2'Yntukdc- himself a* being one of and pouring forth soul-stirring nationa hands, waving ot the must fortunate of mortals, I'm- 1 am' airs—the chipping of cheering confident, that, all things considered, it handkerchiefs, and continual has never been equaled in any age or from windows, balconies, and housetop* any nation and may never be again. along the whole line of march—the storm The field selected for the grand review of flowers, boquets, and garlands, pour- was the broad and renowned Pennsyl- ing down from a grateful people on tlie vania Avenue—paobably the widest heads of our gallant, troops— these, all street in the United States. A stage combined, presented a scene which can was erected on the south side of the Av- never be forgotten. How remarkable the ;nue and divec.tlv in front of the Execu- contrast of this grand triumphal entry into the capital of our country, compared j LINCOLNS DEATH. crowd, like some horrible carniva the audience rush generally upon it —at least the strong men do—the The Scene Graphically De- actors and actresses are all there in scribed by Walt. their play costumes and painted Whitman. faces, with mortal fright showing through the rouge, some trembling —some in tears—the screams and following' thrilling descrip- The calls, confused talk — redoubled, tre- tion,, of President Lincoln's assassi- bled—two or three manage to pass nation from the pen of Walt. Whit up water from the stage to the Pres- ident's box others try to clamber man, was recently published for the — up—&c, &c, ,&c. first time: ^Z,. -2, f. /f7C In the midst of all this the sol- Through the general hum follow- diers of the President's Guard, with ing the stage pause, with the change others, suddenly drawn to the scene, of positions, «fec, came the untitled burst in —some 200 altogether---they

. sound of a pistol shot, which not storm the house, through all 'the one hundredth part of the audience tiers, especially the upper ones, in- heard at the time—and yet a mo- flamed with fury, literally charging ment's hush—somehow, surely a the audience with fixed bayonets, vague, startled thrill — and then, muskets and pistols, shouting "Clear through the ornamented, draperied, out! clear out!--you sons of b- !" starred and -striped space- way of the Such the wild scene, or a suggestion President's box, a sudden figure, a of it rather, inside the playhouse man raises himself with hands and that night. feet, stands a moment on the railing, Outside, too, in the atmosphere of leaps below to the stage (a distance shock and craze, crowds of people, of perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet), filled with frenzy, ready to seize any falls out of position, catching his outlet for it, came near committing boot heel in the copious drapery murder several times on innocent (the American flag), falls on one individuals. One such case was es- knee, quickly recovers himself, rises pecially exciting. The infuriated as if nothing had happened (he real- crowd, through some chance, got ly sprains his ankle but ttnfelt then) started against one man, either for — and so the figure, Booth the mur- words he uttered, or perhaps without derer, dressed in plain black broad- any cause at all, and were proceed- cloth, bare headed, with a full head ing at once actually to hang him on of glossy, raven hair, and his eyes, a neighboring lamp post, when he like some mad animal's, (lashing was rescued by a few heroic police- with light and resolution yet with a men, who placed him in their midst certain strange calmness, holds aloft and fought thejjr v/ay slowly and in one hand a large knife— walks amid great peril toward the station along not much back from the foot- house. It was a fitting episode of lights—turns fully toward the audi- the whole affair. The crowd rush- ence his face of statuesque beauty, ing and eddying to and fro — the lit up by those basilisk eyes, flash- night, the yells, the pale faces, many ing with desperation, perhaps in- frightened people trying in vain to sanity—launches out in a firm and extricate themselves—the attacked steady voice the words. Xw temper Uj- man, not yet freed from the jaws of rannit—and then walks with neither death, looking like a corpse -the si- slow nor very rapid pace diagonally lent, resolute half dozen policemen, across to the back of the stage, and with no weapons but their little

j disappears. (Had not all this terri- clubs, yet stern und steady through ble scene all in- —making the mimic ones I those eddying swarms-made presposterous had it not all deed a fitting side scene to the — been ! rehersed, in blank, fov Booth, before- grand traged}' of the murder. They hand?) gained the station house with the A moment's hush, ^protected man, whom they plac- incredulous— I a scream — the cry of murder ed in security for the night, and — Mrs. i Lincoln leaning out of the box, with discharged in the morning. j ashy cheeks and lips, with invojuu- '' And in the midst of that night tary cry, pointing to the retreating pandemonium of senseless hate, in- figure, 'Tie has killed the Presi- furiated soldiers, the audience, and dent." And still a moment's: the crowd --the stage, and all its ac- strange, incredulous tors and actresses, its paint pots, suspense—and I then the deluge!— then that mixture spangles, and gas lights -the life j of horror, noises, uncertainty — (the blood from those veins, the best sound somewhere back, of a horse's and sweetest of the land, drips slow- hoofs clattering with speed)— the ly down, and death's oo/.e alread3r people burst through chairs and begins it k little bubbles <>n ihe railings, and break them up—that lips. noise adds to the qneerness of the Such, hurriedly sketched, were scene— there is inextricable confu- the accompaniments of the death sion and terror— women faint—quite of President Lincoln. So sudden- feeble persons fall, and are trampled ly, and in murder and horror un- on — many cries of agony are heard surpassed, he was taken from 1 - the broad stage suddenly fills us. But his death was pain to ; .location with a dense less. and motley ; ^ WKIGflT 1 concluded peace with Gen. Lee and bad married Miss Harris, some years later in dealt magnanimously with the defeated a moment of dementia killed his wife, THE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN army. Late on tbat Friday afternoon, and afterwards took his dwn' : life.; Gen. Grant was suddenly called to New Boston Corbett, a private soldier who York, and had been obliged to decline participated in the search for Booth One of the Most Thrilling- Epi- the president's invitation. Booth was and finally killed him in the bum-1 sodes in the Nation's His- aware that Gen. Grant intended to ac- ing barn, became insane late in life.. tory Recalled. company the president to the theater, And, strange to relate, James A. C-ar-> and he stated a short time before his field, who electrified the restless Nation own death that it had been his purpose with the words: "God reigns, and the The Assassination of President Lincoln to kill also Gen. Grant. Major Rathbone government at Washington still lives!" in the Old Ford's Theater at and Miss Harris had taken the place of lost his life by the nana of another as- Washington* Gen. and Mrs. Grant as members sassin. Horror upon horror was piled of the theater party. When Booth, upon our country by subsequent legisla- ! who had noiselessly entered tho tion which might never have been end Tragic Event of Years fired revolver which he held* acted if Lincoln had lived. Tweety-Nlne box, the The trag- 1| Ago Described Again lor the Benefit close to the president's head, Map or edy was not ended by the death of the of Register Readers—John Wilkes Rathbone sprang to sieze him. The as- president. Even until this day the Na-^ Booth's Ignominious Crime. sassin dropped the revolver and struck tion which has ceased to mourn, suffers 'frfy Major Rathbone with a large knife aud in some degree from the msToar kbcallid disabled him. It was this knife, red- DR1CADFITL UNPROVOKED CRIME soldier's blood, which he of John ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. dened with a Wilkes Booth. Cassius plotted Waived aloft when he cried: -'Sit Semper the death of one man; the greatest man Washington, April 10. Special Cor- — Tyranuis." The fate o£ the assassin was of his age; the master mind of Rome. respondence: Having- failed to become sealed, seemingly by Providence, as soon Ho plotted aud acco-npiished the d***w famous, John Wilkes Booth determined as his deed was done. The president's of one man who had led the ihvil- to become infamous. The charitably box was draped with the stars and hosts of his country to victory every inclined have undertaken to cultivate stripes, and when he leaped upon the where; the man of all men who made Stage his spur caught in the folds of the Roman citizenship respected and hon-r the impression that he was insane. As flag. Not realizing that one of the ored throughout the world. John Wilkes a matter of fact he a deliberate, was bones of his leg was broken, because of Bootli completely controlled the minds cold-blooded assassin, who planned the the numbness, he bounded to his feet and impulses of the inferior men whom murder and his own escape, and carried and left the stage in the tragic manner he made his accomplices. He plotted out his part of a conspiracy. During described. the wholesale assassination of the presi- } the hours preceding his infamous deed, WILDES* EXCITEMENT. dent, the vice-president, the secretary of John Wilkes Booth resorted to the alco- As soon as Major RathboDe shouted: state and the general commanding the holic demon for stimulus to nerve him "He has shot the president," a scene of armies of his country. to the commission of murder. He was the, wildest excitement followed. Men He could nothing to his damnation in the theater in the vicinity during j and jumped upon the stage in pursuit of the add greaiter than this. He was the most I \the entire evening. Adjoining the thea- assassin. Others flew to the box wherp villainous cold blooded murderer and as- ter on the north there still stands a the wounded Lincoln lay, and the great sassin the Anglo-Saxon race ever pro- small building which was then used as a body of the people rose to their feet and duced. Benedict Arnold had rendered saloon. At that bar Booth, the assassin, poured into the streets. Medical aid the state some service before he was, I drank brandy and soda a half a dozen procured for the wounded tempted over much fell was at once and into ignOin- ! times between seven and half past it soon that he iny. No kind man, but was found was word can ever be said of | nine o'clock. H6 had been drink- pabt all help. As quickly as possible he Booth. There \vas not a single circuin-f ing- more than usual during the entire was removed to the house immediately stance upon which the slightest pallid- day. He stood near the box office with across the street and laid upon a bed in tion of his crime could rest. He was a his hand on his hip when President Lin- a small room at the rear of the hall on despicable, heartless villain; the vilest [ coln entered the door. play in The was the ground floor. -' traitor in the annals of American his-' progress, and Laura Keene waB on the house remains unchanged. tory. The old . . ^^.^ .MtSMlvu^St M&x, 1 stage when the tall form of the presi- The old theater walls are standing, but dent appeared in the box to the eight of nine months ago the interior collapsed 8/«fc«J-*, 5£X&&** i'\4 the stage. The acting ceased, the or- and many government clerks were killed \ i chestra played "Hail to the Chief." the and wounded in the crash. The . back audience clapped their hands and cheer- door of the theater and the alley through »5*r<# ,ed. The president was accompanied by ^which Booth escaped are practically un- Mrs. Lincoln and Miss Harris and Major changed. The suwounding streets and Rathbone. The latter were betrothed alleys have altered much and the local- lovers. The president acknowledged the ity would scarcely be recognized by any tumultuous cheering of the crowd and one coming here now, who dwelt in then took his seat. The play was re- then. ( Washington Old Ford's theater sumed. was in the center of the residence por- THE ASSASSIN APPEARS. tion of the city. But to-day it is a busi- At 10 o'clock, while every eye was in- ness section of the city; in fact the most tent upon the stage, a man was seen to prosperous part of the National capital. vault lightly from the president's box Thousands of strangers annually visit upon the stage. Falling, he jumped the scene and gaze in silent awe upon again to his feet, and, brandishing a the external walls of the building in dagger, shouted, "S(o Semper Tyrannic!" which the tragedy was enacted, and and then rushed from the stage. For peer curiously down the alley through an instance the audience eat gazing at which the escaping assassin spurred his the stage overcome with surprise. Ma- horse jor Rathbone from the box shouted, INTENSE NERVOCS 8TBA1N. "Stop him!" and then the cry was Lieutenant Frank Brownell, the raised, "He has shot the president!" avenger of Colonel Ellsworth, has told Tlite confusion, the appalling terror, me that for years he suffered from ner- that filled that crowded house will never vous prostration as the result of the in- be forgotten by those present. The tense strain upon his nervous system at tragic event will forever be lamented, the moment of that tragedy. Until his and the scene will be depicted every death the scene was uppermost in his year to rising generations. memory, and soma of his friends say Julius Caesar was stricken down by that his entire life was overshadowed the bands of fanatics and fools, who by that event. Lieutenant Brownell were instigated to their deed by an in- was a strong young man. In contrast lamous traitor named Cassius; a man with his experience, it is not to be won- who has been idealized into heroism by dered at that the horror of that terrible the pen of a great writer; a man. how- ordeal left a lasting impression ever, more infamous than Benedict upon the minds of those who were Arnold. Abraham Lincoln was assassi- with the president when that dread- nated by the hand of a man more de- ful deed was done. The mind erf Mrs. moniacal than Cassius, who was abso- Lincoln was forever clouded with the lutely without provocation for his deed. memory of the scene, and the remainder GRANT WAS INTENDED. of her life was melancholy and sad, so It is not generally known, but it is a that there was but a slight demarkation J BfKlUfiT fact that Booth intended to kill Gen. between reason and madness in her Grant as well as President Lincoln. The Career. Major Rathbone, who was iraneral bad only ..fpttr.-daH*. previously.; mmM b* ^.. ?!«?M&»!terwards \ ; — — —— [For the Messenger.] Dr. Franklin, who was cotemporary A friend has by letter, inquired of me r li i » s YVa»hiiiglon. lAa and Shadow of with the above-mentioned poet, once re- if -Jr. JoKL'Mt.v is intemperate. I an- MWer 1 the very Number Nine. marked, that it, would be a source of much emphatically No. have best Those BYKF.fJ "•ratification if he could revisit the United evidence to the contrary. states in the course of fifty or a hundred who know tl ie facts in regard to the un- Our present and future. —Lincoln and Johnson, i vears from that time. Has the spirit of fortunate occurrence at the iuailsriiratipn. wrong —Booth wished for immortality.— Jeff. Davis 'Yanklin lingered among us, or has it entirely exonerate him from any " or I have fif(-n in assumes a new character. —The Knights of comeback from its mysterious wander- blame whatever. As a .statement on Golden Circle" at Glen's Falls.—The great ings, to view the scenes of this moment- the Mksskngkk truthful this subject, I need not repeat the circiun- L Military Beview. >us period of our history? If so. with stances. docs witness 1 How wonderful the events which are what profound interest, he Poor Booth! Detestable wretch! to the events now passing before us! ;1 transpiring in our country ! What inter- what a miserable cud has he come ! The rebellion is virtually ended. The Xi esting subjects for history ! How curi- lame, suffering with intense of the South which was so Wounded, , ous that you and i are living in this event- subjugation Northern sympa- physical pain and mental agony—the ful age, and that we are witnesses of bitterly deprecated by " undying worm" already gnawing his some of the most important and remark- thizers, became a matter of necessity. oft-repeated guilty conscience — he skulks in barns ihle occurrences which the sun ever And, notwithstanding the — the south" and swamps, till at:' last he found, shot >eheld. A grand Drama, which has a story " you can't subdue his loath- accomplished. It is down like a rabid dog, and continent for its stage, and the inhabi- the work has been some carcase buried where neither curi- tants of the world for its spectators. A true, there are many obstinate, malicious osity nor sympathy will ever find it. war, probably the most systematic, obsti- secessionists still grating their teeth and Accursed be his memory ! Cain's mark, nate and sanguinary that ever bathed pouring out imprecations against the though black as night was white compared h.he earth with blood, is now nearly Yankees. It is true, there are yet or- with his. lie is said to have remarked brought to a close. Undertaken to sub- ganized bodies of Rebel troops who have some time before the assassination vert the best of governments, it results not surrendered; but their time is short. that a man could afiord to die for in making that government ten-fold more The ; great armies have disbanded and the immortal fame which such a deed ; powerful than ever ten-fold stronger ret rned to their homes ; satisfied that — would procure him. Such was the for its very efforts to destroy it. tin " favorite doctrine of" State Rights" J foolish ambition of the wretch who set The boasted " corner stone" of the is a humbug, that the great rebellion is a fire to the temple of Diana at Ephesus. Southern chivalry — the Pandora's bo.v failure, and, in fine, that they are com- On being asked his motive for so great a from which have proceded most of our po- pletely whipped. The masses and most crime, he replied, " that posterity might of the leaders now view with regret the' litical evils in the past, and our present know that such a man as once error they have committed, and are anx- civil war, has been dashed to atoms; and lived." The temple of Diana is remem- ious to, return to the glorious old flag these atoms will soon be swept into the bered by every reader of history as be- which they rashly abandoned. sea. ing one ot the "seven wonders of the No man's funeral was ever attended The blood that has been shed on" the world ;" but how many at the present by so many mourners— no man's death battle-fields of our country —the bones of know the name of the base incendiary who slain, soil, ever occasioned such universal regret and the now mingled/with the will undertook to destroy it ? lamentation throughout the world as that add new freshness to the verdure of her Jeff. Davis, too, has fallen. And, "O of Abraham Lincoln, Tim tiar of his meadows and forests, and give a bound- what a fall was there, my countrymen."' fame had culminated ; it could rise no less increase to the abundance of her Yesterday, the pompous, haughty em- higher. All nations saw and admired its harvests. Her position among the na- bodiment of Southern Chivalry: —the surpassing splendor. Indeed, the lan- tions of the earth has become second to mighty commader-in-chief of all the ar- guage of Cicero to Pompey, might well none, in whatever makes a nation great mies and navies of the great "Southern be applied to Mr. Lincoln, and powerful. All Europe now con- "He lived Confederacy" To day. what a tranfor- cedes the justice ofher cause, the military long enough ii:u v ftvVfie but Certainly too mation ! See his face blooming like the short a time for his country." And vet talents of her generals, the unsurpassed rose in that beautiful bonnet. See his who knows but that Providence had ap- bravery and patriotism of her troops. sylph-like form draped in flowing robes pointed Mr. Lincoln for a certain work; The successful workings of our great fi- and gracefully gliding to his favorite ar- and that when this work had been faith- nancial system is, to all, a subject of ad- bor in the grove! See how nicely those astonishment. The great fully accomplished, deoming anotheiv loss miration and buskins fit his delicate little ankles ! De- " financial crash," which the enemies of lenient, riapps.qary- \o V-Csjiove complete lightful sight ! Queen of the Paries ! tranquility to the country he permitted our government, both at homo and JJ.it hark! The Yankees saine him: the assassin's dagger to prepare the way ? ; broad, predicted, has proved but a bub- when, with feeling more horrible than And, if the great and good Lincoln must ble in the air, which has harmlessly ex- those of the poor frightened wight whom plodi d and disappeared. have been taken from us, upon whom grave yard, i the ghosts chased from the could his mantle fell The "golden age" of our country's morp worthily and— he exclaims, "1 —thought your govern-! more P,'t Anov •prosperity is dawning upon us. The featvdy Mmu Johnson. incut had more magnanimity— than to firmness clouds are breaking away, and the sun is lit possesses ajl the of Axnnuw hunt down icohte/t and children." bursting forth with an effulgence which Jackson, while at the same time, he has "Thus flourishes and fades majestic" we have never before witnessed. more regard for the wfehop and opinions misfortunes thus i Jeff. Davis ! All of his Dr. Dwight wrote, at the dole of the of the people, Hplelvlng like h.is prede- far have been " blessings in disguise." 1 to "' Revolution, the beautiful poem, com- cessor, that he iii merely then agent Wonder if he will say this crinolhte dis- mencing with carry out certain principles, his policy guise" is a " blessing*." Well. Jeff, hav- will be the same; tempered with less of according to the 1 'olumbia, Columbia, to glory arise, ing served his country of tender and more of the rigorous in 'J he t^ueen of the world, and the child the the best of his ability ami accquired nkk-H, his dealings with the guilty. Like Mr. " name that was not horn to die," with rupture behold; An immortal Thy duty eommands'thee Lincoln, he is easy of approach by all While ages on ages thy splendors untold." his oner- classes of people plain and yet affable in has bctrircd to be relieved from 5 to retire to private life. — [f he could look down on our country, ous du,'.ies. and his manners. All who have been favorei tnd be conscious of its wonderful pro- with an inter view, are pleased with his vn dnce those lines were penned, with kindly bearing and social qualities. The what delight would he realize the more nation seem to have full confidence 'than fullilliu'-n., of his most hopeful in his ability and patriotism to guide prophecies. With what increased joy the ship of state safely through the , I he look forward to the glittering storms, billows and breakers of these per- future. ilous times.

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Frank S. Fosdick Tells of Inci- dent Here Day After Eman- cipator's Murder — Recalls Speech of President at Amer- ican Hotel.

"Tiit* day following Lincoln's as- sassination, a man climbed ui> on the steps of the old postoffice build- ing at .Seneca a nil Washington streets and said he was glad Ihe President had been murdered' and thai he ought lo have been killed two years before. The crowd that had gathered about the speaker seized him and pulled him down into the road with cries of: "Kill him. kill him!" They dragged him into a grocery store that liny might kci a rope to hang the wretch. Timely arrival of the police prevented tin-it carrying out their purpose." The foregoing was ore of the stor- ies related, as incident.-? witnessed witii his i\v rieyes. |.>v Principal Frank S. Ko.-diek of M a si en I'atk high school, who addressed (hi- Ko- tary club, Thursoay, on "Tin Great l-nna ncipa tor. .\lr. Kosdick recalled tin- visit of

Lincoln lo Buffalo mi February 1 ( >,

IStil. He said he was one of I lie crowd that stood in Main streel he- fore the American hotel and listened lo a speech by the President. The American hotel .stood when- Adam, Meldrum & Anderson's building now is. Mr. Fosdick said the two things stressed by Lincoln in that address were respect for the constitution and supreme trust in the Living God. During the war. Mr. Fosdick said, the people had great faith In whatever Lincoln said. Tile Speaker slated Hint the ei!y was plunged in deepest gloom by the news of the President's assassination, and lecallcd thai the body ol the martyred leader lay in state here Coi part of a day when the President's tenia ins were being taken west. "During the time the body was here, former President Millard Kill- more stood at the head of the casket,'' said Mr. Fosdick. "When 1 passed the coffin, Mr. Fillmore was weeping as though his heart had broken." Major Josiah Wlllets read Lincoln's' Gettysburg address.

The report in 1 ho attendance con- test among the Philadelphia, Buffalo. ami Pittsburgh Rotary clubs showed the attendance at this week's meet ings v. is as follows: Philadelphia ,'._'; Buffalo, SO; Pittsburgh, '.-.

*•» memory of Andrew Johnson, who had it in his power to punish her sufficiently for A NIGHT OF HORROR. complicity without resorting to the dis- graceful method of legal or illegal stran- gulation. In this Johnson showed the Gen. James E. O'Bcirne's Account ot ferocity of his Carolinian birth and blood. Had ho been a New Fnglarider he would the Assassination of President never have committed himself to such a Lincoln. deed, however it might have apoeared to be justified at the time. Colonel O'Beirne's paper, which is published substantially in Andrew Johnaon Notable for the the news columns, will be found an illus- dogged " Coolness He Displayed at tration of the courage of the ac- cidental president." Andrew Johnson the Time. firmly declined a military escort from the hotel to the room where Lincoln lay dying,

i ainL walked on .foot, linked arm in arm Tlie Scene iu the Room VPJuere the ' »rrvr«ie provoAmm-^hcrty-rrhG wits- armed- Great lljicculivc Passed His ouly witha revolver. The picture of the able but vindictive Stanton standing by Filial Ifoui'S. the death-bed of his chief, in the gray of the fatal morning, can not fail to bring back his image strongly to anybody What the Grant Men Have to Say who has ever looked on his peculiar counte; About the Material of Car- nance, which indicated the broad capacity and iron will that sent our citizen sol- field's Cabinet. • diery to the field equipped, and clothed, and fed as no armies had ever been—not Their Guesses Diametrically Opposed even those of France and Germany—in the history of the world. The American to the Assertions of the Other , Carnot is a picture in the gallery of the Fellows. provost marshal's memory that time cannot destroy, and who that reads the brief but bold description of Lincoln's "last Text of the Forthcoming Report in Favor heaved sigh" in that shabby little room of Chicago's Claim to the Lake fronting Ford's theatre can fail to be af- Front Property. fected by the remembrance of his cruel martyrdom, even after so many years? ' As this is the first time Colonel O'Beirne's Miscellaneous Washington Blatters. narrative has been published, because of his having been sworn to secrecy for many

Editors of The Times, having ihelr headquarters la Wash- years after the events narrated therein lugtou. telegraph as follows Uus morning: occurred, additional interest will attach Colonel James R. O'Beirne, ex-United to the publication of the sketch in The States provost marshal of the District of Times. Not the least interesting point of Columbia, incumbent of the office at the the story i3 that in which, on his return time of Mr. Lincoln's murder in 1865, has to the hotel, Andrew Johnson, then sworn published in his newspaper, The Sunday in as president by the wish of the unin- Gazette, of Washington, a very interesting jured members of the cabinet, in reply to a account of his own experiences of that suggestion from the marshal that the per- most atrocious assassination. The style petrators of the crimes ought to be pun- is simple and strong, and unconsciously ished without mercy, said: " When you reveals the peculiar disposition of the kuow more of mo you will think better of American people, when excited beyond rue;" or words to that effect. This opens self-control, to vent their fu'-y upon some- a good field for speculation. For instance, thing that symbolizes what they are angry it may be asked, did the " accidental pres- with, rather than upon the body of an ident" think that the provost marshal offender, unless the latter happens to suspected him, or did Johnson moan that offend in some region where judge and because of • his southern birth the juries are not handy, or where law has marshal should not doubt his 'de- only an existence in name, as iu many of termination to destroy the offenders? the western territories, and in portions of The latter is the more plausible theory, Kentucky, Tennessee, and other wild re- because Andrew Johnson was a mau of gions of the sunny south. Thus, when the too much nerve and self-command to hint mob, or crowd, rather, found a man dressed at such a thing as suspicion of himself at in the rebel uniform near Mr. Seward's a time when the public distrust led many residence, immediately after his attempted people to suspect everybody who could destruction, they tore the gray clothing have been in the slightest degree bene- from his back, and then let him depart fited by the death of Abraham Lincoln. unharmed. Had the man been a Fenian Not a particle of evidence pointed to with a green suit on after the Clerkenwell the vice president as having even antici- explosion, a London mob would have first pated such a catastrophe. His silence at trampled him in the mud and next the death-couch of the head of the nation hanged him to a lamp-post; or had he was that of a strong man impressed with been a Bonapartist discovered iu Paris the sudden assumption of a grave and after the rising of the commune, the stern responsibility. Perhaps another rea- French sans culottes would have either son for his harshness in the case of Mrs. shortened him by a head, or cast him into Surratt was a desire to show the north the Seine with a stone tied to his neck to that his hoing of southern origin could keep hiin from being a floater. It is this not make him spare even sex, allied to absenco of blood-thirstiness among the ambiguous guilt, in anything connected majority of Americans outside of the un- with the assassination. But in any case, regenerated sections already specified from the humble room where Lincoln that explains the mild manner in which died, and which remains almost unchanged the leaders of the rebolliou were treated, to this day, on that dreary morning of an example which England subsequently April 15, 1865, the smitten nation saw felt constrained to follow iu the case of again a head, albeit not like the one lost Colonel Thomas F. Burke, sentenced to forever, come forth to guide it, and six death for high treason; and nothing but weeks later the solemn tramp of our the butchery attempted on members of brave armies through the streets of Wash- the cabinet and carried out on the presi- ington, as they came laden with the lau- dent could have braced the victor nation rels of victory, announcod the salvation of up to the act of hanging some of the con- the republic and the burial of secession. spirators, and particularly of consenting to the execution of the unfortunate Mrs. Surratt. an act that will forever stain the knife. His son, too, in the attempt to save the LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION. father, had been struck down, and both were ly- Special Telegram. ing insensible in an'upper bed-chamber. A man wearing a confederate uniform was met imme- THE INNER DETAILS OF THE GREAT trag- litue other iurniture TfTit than few" chairs, a a diately opposite the house, and, being ques- small table, and a washstand of a cheap kind. edy tioned, said Lie was a paroled prisoner. His gray The floor was covered with a kind of grass Washington, Feb. 20.—Gen. James B» mat- jacket was instantly torn from bim and thrown ting, and everything betokened a simplicity and O'Beirne, who was provost marshal in the Dis- into the park, and he ordered on his way. In I absence of expenditure which the limited likely trict at the time the agitated condition of the crowd it is of Lincoln's assassination, pub- means possessed by the occupant of the house that, in a moment of blind fury, which then pre- lishes to-day for the first time, a narrative of rendered necessary. After describing tlie scene vailed on all sides., had he not quickly obeyed his official outside, the general says: "Mr. Lincoln knowledge of the inner details of was the provost marshal's orders he would have this great tragedy. 1 LAID GENTLY ON THE BED, After speaking of the gen- beeu i after having been partially disrobed. Dr. Charles eral situation, Gen. O'Beirne says: Bunting LYNCHED ON THE SPOT. A. Teale was holding and examining his head, turned and flags This ex-confederate soldier has never were brought out in profusion and from tho side of which, near the left ear, blood up to tell his story, and among a great many a the city was generally decorated, some of the was oozing with some parts of the cerekral doubt still exists whether he had any connection public matter mixed with it, which trickled over the buildings being literally covered with a with the man Payne, who attempted to kill Mr. pillow and counterpane. Life seemed extinct, drapery of union flags. As the joyous masses Seward and his son William. Why be was and no breathing was at first apparent. The ac- surged to and fro there at that particular time has never been the congratulations became expression ot Mr. Lincoln's face was, however, counted for in the minds of the officials, but harmlessly boisterous. The public buildings, more that of one n a comatose than in a dead certain it is he knew of the fresh tragedy when and lastly the white ' state, and withoir. the slightest expression of house, received visits from ha was on the verge of being assailed. Dispo- ' pain. The physician in loud tones and per- thousands, and Mr. Lincoln, in good spirits and sitions for further safety having been made, 'i&.-iiitGJiij-, aiiyr cii-nfchiiErEjrtStF.'^jJnco!-^ cl:.t:wi>. in charitable accents, greeted people on the provost marshal nroceeded instantly to the the :as he held his head slightly raised in his baud', auspicious residence of Mr. Stanton, secretary of war, and occasion. He was so full of forgive- said: 'Bun and get me some brandy.' The thence to where Mr. Lincoln was lying, whither ness that he consented jocosely, in response to provost marshal dashed from 'Jie room and over the former was reported to have gone. Upon a call from one of the the way to a bar-room opposite, where bo pro- crowd, that the serenad- there it was found that the uninjured cured a large glass of brandy, with which he arrival ing band should play " Dixie," for, said he, members of the cabinet bad arrived at Mi-. quickly returned and assisted Dr. Te a l \to pour "as we have captured Lincoln's bedside, aud a consultation was had Richmond, and, there- some liquor down Mr. Lincoln's throat. Alt.." cabinet session immediately resolved on, fore, the confederacy, wo have captured 'Dix- a few momenta the president's chest nurgad, and a which was held in a back parlor adjoining. ie' with it, and are entitled to hear ft played, and with a spasmodic effort he drew a loqg as Mr. Lincoln was fast neanng death. After the it is one of our breath and continued thereafter in rapid bu own tunes now." This great meeting Mr. Stantou, to whom the provost shoi.t stertorious respirations. Proceeding .^o pubiic rejoicing was, however, of brief exist- marshal reported for orders, directed the latter place guards at the door to keep the crowd b*;k, ence, for immediately to the Kirkwood house ! the provost marshal observed a gentleman to proceed Johnson, vice president escort Mr. Audrew j THE ASSASSIN standing in the hall bleeding profusely from a and elect, to where the remaiuiug representa- by whose hand the centre of all this wi und in the arm, and manifesting somo s'lgus glad scene of the administration then were. Mr. of faintness as he slowly moved Xo^ ard tives was to be removed from its midst, without a was found in his room in tho ball door. This proved to be Col. Buth- Johnson moment's warning, was sleeves, sitting with a friend abroad in the streets bone, who bad accompanied Mr. Lincoln his shirt bad long been on terms of in- that day, and even mixed up unsuspected with to the theatre that night, and sat in the box Mr. Farwell, who with him. The evening was warm and the jubilant throng. Barely twenty-four hours with him and the rest of th6 presidential t>irty. timacy oppressive. Both seemed to be in a meditative elapsed after the He had come over when Mr. Lincoln was car- rejoicings were exhausted and being ushered in by Mr. ried to tho humble back room where he then and silent mood. On the participators had resumed the serious busi- private secretary to the vice presi- laid. He was Browning, ness of every-day routine and habit, when a dent, the provost marshal announced the wishes , SUFFERING FROM A STAB WODND pale, youthful, request of the secretary of war that Mr. light-haiidd young man, AValter in tne right arm, inflicted,; by the same hand and Johuison would proceed to the house on Tenth Hellen, the son of a banker by that name, which fixed the fatal shot j^t" Mr. Lincoln. It street, where tho members of the cabinet rushed into wai received while he was hi the act of seizing the Metropolitan hotel, almost assembled. hold of Wilkes Booth as he sprang from tho were breathless with ercitement, and gasped out: QUIETLY ASSENTED, theatre box te the stage to make his escape MR. JOHNSON "President Liuco?ii"has on his coat announced to the pro- just been shot while In when be inflicted the deadly injury. The pro- and putting that he was ready to accompany a box In Ford's theatre!" It was then located vost marshal exchanged a few words with Col. vost marshal the street the latter asked Bath^-'^e, ivhti did not speak of his him. When on where the army medical museum is, on own wound now it would not be advisable to have a in tho 'great and overshadowing presence of the whether Tenth street, between E and F stroets. This him as a precaution. In the more' serious damage to Mr. Lincoln; but he guard accompany was said to a small group of persons, condition of affairs a hidden danger among was observed to grow suddenly pale and faint, excited supposed by everyone to be lurking in close whom were the provost marshal of the District then vtaggered a httle, when the provost mar- was proximity, one knew not where. Such was the and one of his special detectives. The former shal iemarked that he, too, was injured, but ho condition of every thing among the in reply: 'It is unhinged jumping into a buegy at the door, precipitately merely responded only a mere existed on all BODE TO FORD'S THEATRE, trifle." It being evident that he was growiug populace a sense of insecurity weak from loss of blood, the provost marshal sides. No one could tell where anew calamity but a few blocks distant, where he found a led him down the front steps of the bouse, and might bo found. To the provost guard Mr. shuffling crowd, dazed and panic-stricken, mov- assisied in placing him in a carriage, which was Johnson objected. Ho was then requested to marshal, as it ing around outside oi the building. They acted rapidly driven to his residence, some friends ride in tho buggy of the pro\ost accompanying him and administering restora- would be more sate than moving through the as If they knew not whither they were going, tives to cope with the effects of the profuse crowd, where another assassin might be found nor what they were doing, but were indulging bleeding. who would plunge a knife into the back of the in such ejaculations as "Oh I what a terrible ' TLrojgh the hurryingand agitated crowds vice president and easily kill him. thus carrying govern- thingl Who could have done it? If we only of people now in the streets, when Mr. Lincoln out apparently the plan ot leaving the Mr. had the assassin, we was found to be as well cared for as possible, ment without its head. Again would make -short would work of him." No one among them kuew the provost marshal drove rapidly to the houses Johnson objected and said he conversation was where Mr. Lincoln was then, aud none could of Messrs. Seward and Stanton, the secretaries prefer to walk. A whispered the steps of the answer intelligibly inquiries made, but the of state and war, who were reported also to have then held with bim on assassinated. the first place excited house, then on the site of the Shep- hasty glance of a practiced eye took in the situ- been At an Kirkwood great danger pos- ation as be elbowed his way through the stupe- and augry crowd of loyal citizens were found, herd building, intimating the safety. Mr. fied lookers-on, and a small bunch of men was and the information obtained that Mr. Seward sible aod urgiug provision for discovered to be carrying the Inanimate was then (though just recovering from injuries Johneou was steadfast in declining to go other- aud ; provost marshal apparently lifeless body of Mr. Lincoln up the received in a carriage accident) bleeding anj ai- wise than alone, but asked the replied that steps of a small house opposite the theatre, if lie had "any weapons.' To this he now occupied by Mr. Louis Schade, editor of he had a Colt's nary revolver, and reaching lhe Washington Sentinel. He was carried into to his breast pocket proposed to give.lt to Mr. ' it, but the rear room at the end of the hall, which had Johnson. He said, No, I do not want it will a large double bed in it. This apartment was as you hr.ve that means of protection evidently used for sleeping purposes, and had do should anything happen.' Theu taking the arm of the provost marshal he proceeded coolly to walk toward Teutb street by way of Pennsylvania avenue. Both 'elbowed their way through the crowd, with his protector; aud the remaining head of the gov- ernment was jostled about here and there among thi throng. The provost marshal saya he had great apprehension lest Mr. Johnson should be recognized and some desperado at- tempt bis lite while in his company. It was with a great Bense-of relief that, having el- bowed his way through the dense crowd on Tenth street above ami below Ford's theatre, now the army medical museum, he safely reached the house where Mr. Lincoln waa dying, and conducted hi in to the room whpre Secretary Stautou and the re6t of the cabinet were, and the doors were then closed and the situation calmly dLscurSed. To provide for fut- ure contingencies, it waa resolved that as eoon as possible after the death of Mr. Lincoln, which was a foregone conclusion, Mr. Johnson should be SWORN IN A3 PRESIDENT. I After looking at the still insensible form of Mr. Lincoln- for a few moments, and without an expresiiiou of any kind, which reticence he had observed from the beginning, Mr. Johnson si'.'iiitietl-iiiq-readiuess to return to £ns rooms with the provost marshal. In going or coming but few words were Hpokeu. Once, however, the provost marshal, wiio felt deeply the waning condition of Mr. Lincoln, his good friend, vent- ured to remark that he hoped now that all kindness and forbearance had proved unavail- ing a policy of severe and uncompromising punishment would be visited upon the bad* men who were leading in the attempt to destroy the nation. To thia he replied, ' \Vherr yotr know more of me you will think better of me.' To thia day the enigmatical words have never been explamod. Mr. Johnson safely left at his hotel, the provost marshal resumed hia post at the side of Secretary Stanton In the room where Mr. Lincoln was. Acting Assistant Sur- geons 0. S. Taft and F. A. King, who had helped Dr. Teal to carry Mr. Lincoln out of the theatre, were joined by Dr. Robert K. Stone, Surgeon General Barnes, and Assistant Surgeon General C. fl. Crane, who were endeavoring to do all they could to restore Mr. Lincoln to con- sciousness." After describing the affecting scenes of Lincoln's bed-chamber that long even- ing, the general says: " During the night Sec- retary Stanton, with wonderful thoughtfulness, dictated from time to time a large number of messages to various sections of the union. He was remarkably calm throughout, methodical and reflective, betraying no evidenee of emo- tion except once or twice whon the breathing of Mr. Lincoln became less audible, and it was supposed that the last moments of life had come. At these times he turned almost invol- untarily from a little table at which he stood, HEAVED A SIGH, reassured himself that death bad not super- vened, and then, looking Out thoughtfully through the open window into the starlit night, apparently gave himself up to the business of reflecting" upon what waa to be done next by the administration to meet the emergency and provide for the future. Mr. Lincoln's res- piration gradually became inaudible aa daylight appeared on the morning of April 15, and just as dawn waa blending with day a sudden short deep guttural noise, oceasionea by a last strug- gle, for breath, excited the attention of the watchers. It sounded as if caused by a choking obstacle or thickness of phlegm in the throat. The chest expanded to its utmost capacity, and slowly sank. Then all waa silent. Surgeon General Barnes moved noiselessly to the aide of the bed, examined the pulse, shook his head. and walked away, Hia assistant, Gen. Crane, also made an examination, and both signified unmistakably by their looks that Abraham Lincoln, the faithful and devoted president of the United States, was dead. Mr. Stanton then approached the bed and looked intently foi a few unnute3 at the features of the murdered one. He resumed his position at the window, placing one foot on the chair-seat near by, leant unon his knee with the left arm bent as a prop, braced hia chin with the closed hand, sighed bitterly, and, almost AS IF WITH REVENGEFOL FEELINGS, the stern gaze out into the early morning was again resumed. The union was for the time being without a president. The first one who had met death by violence while in office, and the farst who had^^st his life by the band of an

assaasiu ; the fhw'one who had dared by a proclamation to liberate four millions of slaves fn tlrpuncie of f-^edo;n •had now passed ^o-hn-> mortality,- a mail ^'though loved and rejected by all, and who had. never even wronged the feelings of his follow mart. Gradually all the witnesses of the 6ad scene withdrew. Prepar- ations were at once made for embalming the body and its removal to the white house. Secre- tary Stanton immediately gave orders for the necessary arrangements. No one who has gone of. this tragedy through the incidents awful \ will ever forget that night or horror, and few, if any, can describe It in all its sadness." '

TELLS OF ASSASSINATION NIGHT street. We halted him a..d asked if he knew what was wrong. He replied that Interesting Account Given by J. S. Abe Lincoln was killed, the lieutenant of Crisweli of Malvern. patrol had been shot and Secretan^ Sew- cut, Mosby's men were Among those now Iowa men, who saw ard's throat and In the city In disguise, in conspiracy to Lincoln, and had a part In the stirring murder the president and the entire cab- scenes In Washington at the time of the inet and leave our government without Lincoln assassination, was J. S. Crisweli a head. After saytng this, he trotted on, Of Malvern, la. Mr. Crisweli enlisted in using language not found in any religious 1881 from York county, Pennsylvania, In work. Company H, Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, which made a rendezvous at Military Protects From Mob. Camp Cameron, Harrisburg. "We hurried up the avenue and found "We marched Into Harrisburg- 1,010 the military out in squads protecting civ- strong," says Mr. Crisweli In telling of ilians. When the mob would get after the experience, "feeling afraid that the anyone, the, crowd would increase until war might end before we saw a fight. the military arrived and drove It away at "We went through Baltimore and down the the point of the bayonet. Sometimes I bay to Fortress Monroe. We left there saw men climb up over the shoulders of on Dec. 5, 1861, and landed on Hilton the crowd, to get clear of the bayonets. Head island on December 10." It was reported that four strangers were Mr. Crisweli tells how he served under killed by brickbats and other missiles

, different generals until 1863, when he was near where I was. discharged for disability caused by fever. "Many things happened that I cannot re- In New York, en route home, he learned call clearly. One incident showing the that the rebels were In his county seat spirit of revenge that possessed the minds ' town, and he was forced to go down the of the people was as follows: east side of the Susquehanna river and "A man was chased Into a brick house come up in Lee's rear to get home. Dur- somewhere near Tenth street. The crowd ing the following summer he again en- threatened to break into the h«use, when listed as a musician. His command was a military man appeared at a window in quartered in Washington on Sept. 1, 1864, the 'tipper part of the building and waved for brigade dut^ in the veteran reserve his hand to the crowd until it became corps, and remained there until after the quiet. Then he said: " 'Gentlemen, the war. " I know man you C«c/vr/< Zil *sf/*s , jru^^ chased in here to be a good union man." Night of Tragedy. '(Kill Him Anyhow." Mr. Crisweli continues his account as "One of the crowd yelled, 'D n him, follows: lt-/y~0»t.P* *< r~< " I kill him, anyhow, he ma/ have had some- "Our band took part in the inauguration I thing to do with It.' of Mr. Lincoln, his second ! after election, "The next morning everything seemed played at the Inaugural ball and at Lin- quiet. Little groups of people all through coln's funeral, occupying the second post the city discussed what would be done of honor In the procession from the white under the administration of Andrew John- house to the capitol. son. "On the night of Lincoln's assassination "I am glad that I have lived to see the we were playing for torchlight a proces- day that I can say to another generation sion of the workingmen of the arsenal, that I was personally acquainted with one by order of Edward M. Stanton, secre- of the greatest men that ever lived—Ab- tary of war. We, reported at Four-and- raham Lincoln." a-Half street and Pennsylvania avenue (If my memory serves me right). We were placed on the extreme right, or head of the procession. We marched to Secretary Stanton's .residence, and he came out and made a speech to the men

and then walked ' off with some men in the direction of the W^llard hotel. We then marched out Pennsylvania avenue to the white house, marching close to the balcony. - j _ /^ # ff9 Waved Recognition. "Mr. Lincoln came out and waved rec- ognition, and' the boys cheered loudly, but did not halt, as they knew that he was due at the theater, as advertised. We marched up somewhere In the neighbor- hood of Twenty-first and E streets, where lived some officer of the arsenal who came out and made a speech to the men. While he was talking, William Sewall, our solo alto player, came to where our bandmaster, Joe Winters, and I were .standing, and said 'Joe, I don't want to go back with your procession to Four- I * and-a-Half street.' ." 'How are you going to help It?' said Joe. " 'Just this way,' said Bill; and he broke a valve from his Instrument', Then the baritone player did the same and I broke a valve from my cornet. Then we asked Winters to report to the officer In charge that these three important instru- ments were broken, and ask that he ' ex- cure the band for the remainder of the parade and place one of the other bands at the right. He complied with our re- quest.

Heard Long Roll. "We skipped to our quarters a few blocks away. As we were hanging up our instruments and fixtures we heard the long roll. We ran out of doors and cuuld hear the long roll from all the military posts within reach. , \ "With a comrade, I started up the street' toward Pennsylvania avenue. We met a] the man in a dark euit, coming down | y WniuhT Detailed to Duty Here.

"After I became unfit for field duty, because of my wounds," Gen. O'Beirne evident*-., got u* lyriher along, and 1 at said. "I was detailed on duty at the once laid all the facts and material feofj Stanton, the Secretary of War. Department here In Washington, lore Mr- War "The Secretary of War leaued an or- in the provost marshal general's bu- der directing me to take up the pur- reau. I helped to organize the enlisted hu.lt- of Booth at once. In twenty-four men of the Veteran Reserve Corps, hours 1 had detectives at the gateways I composed of wounded soldiers and tem- of Maryland and Kent othfrs to join porarily invalided men. There were I Mosby's Confederate command to see twenty-two regiments of them. Then could learn there. With six I they of what I was ordered by the Secretary War 'detectives and twenty-five privates and provost marshal's Gen. James R. O'Beirne to take charge of the non-commisii»oned officers, under Lieut. Was of office of the District Columbia. gallant officer, we dashed drafting Lafferty, a "It was I. who directed the down the Potomac on the flagship Mar- of District in the District of Columbla. Provost Marshal of men tin, to Port Tobacco, where Booth and Incidentally, I sent to the front $3,380,- bis accomplices played poker, drank in substitute money, which came Fifty Years Ago. Q00 and hatched their plot. We went* here from the New England states, the ashore and scoured the Bryantown bringing the fees those substitutes swamp, and after a while I stopped to did not go to who were drafted and light my pipe. the front paid the government. This FOUND CLUES THAT LED came largely from Maine, Massachu- Marks of Booth's Crutches. setts, Vermont, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The money was all sent to "I threw the burning match among TO CAPTURE OF BOOTH City Point, Va. It was at this time that the dry leaves and there was a little I had the opportunity to be of service blaze, and I looked I a to the peple of the District of Colum- as down saw bia, in getting the draft here cut down. queer little hole in the ground. It at- Under Orders of Secretary Stanton, "I know my Washington pretty well, tracted my attention, and there were the old as well as the new, for I was others leading to the river and across He Escorted Johnson to Lin- also provost marshal of the defenses of Washington during the raid of Gen. it. It was the markAnade by Booth's crutch, and we followed it Jubal Early. I paroled his prisoners for miles, il coin's Deathbed. until my men were buried his dead. I and was exhausted after and saw ten within a few feet of Lincoln at the days' pursuit. We went back to sr/6~ Port Tobacco battle of Fort Stevens, when the bul- for supplies, and S. C. H. t m Beckwitl), cipher telegraph Among the visitors to Washington lets were flying around him in the dust, operator on Grant's staff, for the G. A. H. reunion is Gen. James and he was being urged by the officers who had been sent to join us, did so, and he to remain out of danger. I had a cir- tapped a tele- R. O'Beirne of New York, who was graph wire. cuit about twelve miles around We sent Mr. Stanton a provost marshal of the District of Co- of message saying Booth Washington, which I rod« constantly, was near Port lumbia the night Lincoln assas- Royal, and there he was and at the time of Early's raid I was in was captured the next day." sinated, and who talked today with a. the saddle practically twelve days, Gen. O'Beirne succeeded reporter for The Star of his experi- never once sleeping in a bed, Just William R. Hearst as president of the occa- catching 'cat-naps' here and there. American ences that night and upon other Boy Scouts, of which MaJ. Gen. E. A. sions during the civil war period. In On Trail of Early. McAlpIn, also of New York, Is now the connection with subjects In which the head. While head of that organization Gen. older residents of Washington -are. "After Early withdrew I was sent by O'Beirne raised $42,000 for its the Secretary of War on scouting par- support. During the Boer war the Boer especially Interested. government endeavored ties into Pennsylvania to find his to .have the Gen. O'Belrne, who is now connected United States recognize Gen. O'Beirne T*?lth the supreme court of the state whereabouts after he left the front of as minister at Washington. of New York, was at one time assis- Washington. I took twelve picked men, tant United States marshal for the Dis- obtained the information desired and trict, upon another occasion register of was back In Washington In eight days. wills of the District, and after the war Later I was assigned to capture Mosby, he was in charge of the Washington after It was learned that he was lying

bureau of the New York Herald. During OyiMt&ded.jj.t i ,Y^ iB the ,Bluo HJPJ>£4Wttl& the cvlll war, while he was provost I Itidge mountains. They gol me but "of marshal, he received the thanks of the bed at midnight one night for that Job, mayor of Washington, Richard Wal- but I missed him, his friends having lach, and of the board of aldermen spirited him away, although we came and of the board of councilmen of mighty close to him, for I got his horse Washington, for his services in re- and saddle and saddle bags. I had a lieving the District of what was con- detail of the 8th Illinois Cavalry on sidered an excessive draft of men. that trip, and 1 may say that the 8th Illinois Cavalry were the best scouting Present at Lincoln's Deathbed. troops I ever saw. The horses as well Discussing civil war conditions in as the men were trained to the minute and they could stand anything and O'Beirne said today Washington, Gen. everything. Wc marie that march In at the New Ebbitt House, where he is fifteen hours from Washington, which staying, that the claim that Andrew was fast time." Johnson was not present at the death- After leaving the provost marshal's O'Beirne was placed In bed of Lincoln, which has appeared in office here Gen. command of the camp of Confederate print many times, is not true. prisoners at Cleveland, Ohio, and later "I will state it as a fact," the gen- entered civil life, returning eventually eral declared, "Andrew Johnson was to bis home state of New York. Some th*>re, for I brought him to the death- o.f his most interesting reminiscences, bed on my own arm by direction of the however, were the result of his experi- Secretary of War. 1 was sent especially ence as provost marshal of Washing- to bring Mr. Johnson to that scene and ton, and he said today that it was he I did. Incidentally, 1 may say that I who found the clue and instituted the am the only man now living who was search which led to the capture of present at that scene officially." Booth, Lincoln's assassin. Gen. O'Beirne, who has been United btates commissioner of immigration at Glues to Assassination Plot, New York and commissioner of chari- ties of the city of New York, enlisted "When I went to get Vice President for the war in the 37th New York ..Johnson," the general said, "and bring the Volunteers, known in the Army of him, to the bedside of Lincoln, as I had Potomac as "The Irish Rifles." This been ordered to do, he lived at the Kirk- regiment was not in the famous Irish Brigade, as, for some unexplained rea- wood House, on the tepot where now son, Gen. Kearny would not let the utan'ds the Raleigh Hotel. When I told 37th Join that brigade, Gen. O'Beirne Mr. ' Johnson that Lincoln had been shot tayt. The latter advanced rapidly he Informed me his suspicions had been through the various grades, and was in aroused that night at the Kirkwood every campaign from the second bat- House. Mr. Johnson had heard footsteps tle of Bull Run to the battle of Chan- for hours irt the room above him. In the cellorsvllle, in which he was shot j morn'ng I went to the hotel again, and in the lungs and the let? and ' through the room which had been let to George received fchell wounds on both sides Atzerodt I found Booth's hank book, a of the head, making four wounds In large bowle knife, a Coll na-vj revolver ti battle. He received the medal ».t end a handkerchief with the initial H em-^ honor ar,

I uuented the i'P.oni In which Ifpund thje How Lincoln's Jjeaoi JtvoTULsecl ilic JNation's Ire

Above, a recently discovered print of a Lincoln indignation meeting hold at Blooming* on April 25, 1865. The liinooln funeral (ruin as it appeared' May 3, and William Porter, the last survivor of the Lincoln train crew. T WAS fifty-four years of the supreme court; Judge Lawrence being removed. The corpse of Lincoln ago last Monday that Weldon and others. A photographer, was placed upon a pyramid in the Abraham Lincoln was fortunately, secured a negative of the center of the car and a railing erecte'd shot and mortally scene and this was recently dis- around it. Thousands viewed the body I wounded by John Wilkes covered after a lapse of a half cen- in this car at points were the funeral Booth. Indignation and tury. train was stopped. horror swept over the The famous funeral train, which A guard of honor from New York north when the intelli- conveyed the body from Washington City accompanied the body and rode gence was flashed to to Springfield, 111., was also photo- in a following train. Elaborate pre- every state that his graphed. The train was composed of cautions were tr.kcn to prevent de- death had followed soon but a single coach and was pulled by lays and accidents. Pilot engines were after the bullet was fired. It is im- one of the old time wood burning loco- sent ahead, all switches were spiked possible for the present generation to motives with the enormous smoke and all other trains ordered to sidings realize the intensity of public feeling stacks of the j)loneer days. Of the one hour ahead of the funeral train. of a half century ago. A series of crew- that handled line train between On the evening of the May 2, the indignation meetings was held, one of Chicago and Springfield over the special left Chicago for Springfield, the most notable being that in Bloom- Chicago and Alton one brakeman, arriving at th latter city about noon lngton, 111., on April 25, 1865. This William S. Porter, of Jerseyville, yet of May 3. gathering was held upon the court survives. Porter was a soldier of the At every station along the way, it horse sqrare. Thousands of people Civil war but was mustered out in the appeared as if the entire populace assembled from central Illinois points. fall of 1864 and secured a position as had assembled to witness the move- The speakers were the famous spell- trainman. ' He was assigned to the ment of the funeral special. Tho binders of that era and included Jesse Lincoln funeral train. He recalls that demonstration furnished one of the Pell, the closest friend of Lincoln; the catafalque car .vas fitted up espec- most remarkable incidents in the his- David Davis, afterwards chief Justice ially for the purpose, ail the seats tory of the nation.

J WKItfUT with the positive news of his assassination their hopes of liberty after the war became for the moment clouded, confused and The Anni seemingly blasted; for to them President Lincoln was father, brother, friend and lib- erator. -iversary A WELL REMEMBERED EVENING | The feeling of grief and despondency that By GEORGE BYRON LOUD thrilled the armies of the Union from the Atlantic to the Gulf can be attributed to FIFTY-SEVEN years ago, April 15, no other sentiment, than that of love and 1865, the nation was robed in veneration for one who had gradually grown mourning and shrouded in near and dear to his soldiers. It was known gloom and sorrow by the assas- to all how in the dark days of defeat and sination of President Abraham loss his eyes grew heavy and his heart sore, Lincoln, and his funeral casket depressed with sorrowing for the motliers />L^\^ was drenched with a nation's and wives of those who had gone down to tears. His tragic death in the unnamed graves on the battlefield, the J and path of duty, though a costly closing words of his last Inaugural address sacrifice on the altar of freedom,' added the held President, army and navy together crowning glory of a martyr to the spotless with bands of gold. to fame of the patriot, and caused a world T remember that evening when the news sigh in pity and all civilized nations to had been confirmed, a downfall of rain came crave the privilege of chopping a tear on upon us from overshadowing black clouds,' his tomb. as if the very heavens joined with the loyal On the night of April 14th, 1865, John people of this country in weeping and wail- Wilkes Booth fired that awful bullet and ing over the calamity that had befallen the shortly after the first rays of the golden sun- nation on the eve of returning peace. And shine drifted into his window*, the Angel of when Abraham Lincoln died all who Avere Death kissed down the eyelids of Abraham loyal in the nation Avept with a sincere sor- Lincoln, and the hands which had wrought row. The silent monitors of grief glistened such noble work in life and had never been In every eye. Business, pleasure, trade and stained by an ignoble deed, were folded commerce stood still to do him reverential across his breast. Peacefully as a little homage. child that great heart whose religion had ft was as though there were one dead in been love of humanity, passed into unend- every house. The mourners went about the ing love of God. streets uncomforted; men forgot their love On that morning, April 15, the news flashed for gold and their lust for power; statesmen across the wires of the civilized world, so grouped about like blind men for some hand shaking the social system of our country to lead. The world was ip mourning; for with the terrible tidings that all loyal hearts all the world knew that he had come to were filled with a dreadful suspense which the kingdom for such a time as that. Not made them tremble with the palsy of dire- only the victors but many of the vanquished ful forebodings, and even the South, till who had come up out of a great struggle to j then so embittered in the despair of a ground their arms at his feet, and who had in received threatened defeat, lifted up its hands his benediction of peace and good I horror, fearful of the result of such a use- will were alike mourners when the assassin's less of deed murder. bullet did its deadly work; for no one bullet IMPOSSIBLE OP DESCRIPTION ever went forth on a more gigantic, terribly mistaken mission or inflicted so crushing a the troops in our camp at Tefre, Among blow to friends and foes alike, as did the Bonne, La., the effect of the news was to leaden missile which silenced forever the things impossible of de- create a sense of generous heart beating of Abraham Lincoln. scription then and now. A great feeling of It was no accident that the assassin was oppression personality and weighed down caught In the American flag when he at- everything around us; the very cane brakes ; tempted" to^eVapXafTer he* had ThoT the to on the borders of the bayous appeared President. It was the vengeance of the flag join in the melancholy of the hour, as it The flag was the country's nemesis. That to dismal appearance, were, assume a most flag kept securely in a glass case, is held while the overhanging moss on the live sacred in the treasure house of the nation. oaks and magnolias seemed to cast their greenish gray hue and to assume a more HISTORY'S BRIGHTEST PAGES sombre shade and an additional length of He was fortunate in his career while liv- natural drapery trailing to the very earth ing and fortunate in his sad and tragic like nature's veil of mourning for the mar- death. Hardly in the history of the human tyred President. race has a ruler died Avhose loss seemed to tor the time chaos of thoughts and con- the people so near a personal one. His life dition took precedence of military order was filled to overflowing with sorroAv. From and duties. To us the whole earth was at the day of his inauguration to the hour of a standstill; man looked at man with that his death was one long night of Gethsem- silent questioning in which souls talk to ane; closing as it did at a moment when its each other without the aid of speech. It dramatic unity was complete. seemed as if a terrible lightning shaft had His story is Avritten on the brightest htruck our camp in front and rear and in pages of the world's history. It is sancti- falling had seared us all, intellectually and fied in every patriotic household- the state- physically, everyone unable to speak except ly mansion of luxurious life, the cottage in in whispers when conversing with each oth- the lane, the little cabin on the plantation. »: Even our appetites were gone -the food It is glorified in the God ordained pure and. remaining untouched upon the mess tables. untrarnmeled liberty of every man, Avoman But when the news did come proving the and child on American soil. One hundred first statement to have been true, and the millions of people are studying that story, horrible details reached us in full, the col- the key to .righteous statesmanship, patri- ored men of one of the detachments became otic grandeur, national love and honor. almo-t frantic and unmanageable in their He approached the Christ himself more despair. Greai lamentations in company than any other ruler within tiie knoAvledge quarters ensued, during which moans andi of mankind. What a Moses Avas he in lead-

ora ' ol the most heartrending pathos fol- ing us through the Red Sea of rebellion be- lowed '-l'li other with sincerity of utter-j fore he sank to rest under the cruel shot ance which none could witness unmoved, for of the assassin. Made in the image of his these men somehow *eemed to think that in God, none but the Son of Man and his faith- the death or Lincoln their freedom was in ful apostle St. Paul had a more delicate jeopardy, if not entirely lost. So long as he mission and performed it more faithfully. iivf-o1 fchev believed their freedom sale; henoe Since the Master in Israel went about the earth doing good, no one has so beautifully 1 and lovingly spoken and no one lias so drawn all men unto himself. His sad, pathetic face is ever before us and his life is a con- stant and abiding factor in human affairs.

He is one of the few among the myriads of - earth who have successfully defied oblivion,

enthroned as he is in the heart of the world. I All of the great leaders marshalled by Lin-

coin have passed to that mystic shore and i the roll call of his soldiers and sailors will { soon receive no response; but immortal his- tory shall bear witness that he has lived and that neither life nor weath nor any^ principality or power shall be able to sep- arate us and oiir glorious institutions from the influences of his sublime character. And the wider the interval of time since the day of his death, and the farther Ave get away from the few feet of earth enriched by his sleeping dust, the more convinced are we that it was very little of Abraham Lincoln that John Wilkes Booth was able to kill and a very small part of him that his loved ones were able to bury. The record of our first martyred President is in Heaven and is graven on the heart of every loyal American with the pen of im- mortality. No human eulogy gan enhance his" glory, no failure to do him justice can lessen it. He will guide from his grave the patriotic thought of America, yea, largely of the world for centuries to come, as man- ifestly as does the humble Nazarene guide Christian thought from Gethsemane and the Cross. SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS Sunshine and shadows each in turn ascend- ant were strangely blended in Lincoln's life; but when disasters came thick and fast and days of agony lengthened into weeks, and weeks into months, and months into seem- ingly hopeless years, melancholy took com- plete possession of his soul and he became in truth a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Every burden rested on his shoulders, every arrow penetrated his heart; every soldier on the weary march and every mother mourning for her first-born knew that he was a profoundly sympathizing friend; yet withall his judgment never wav- ered and he never faltered in his work. He brushed aside the politician and went direct to the people' and took them by the hand, and explained his every plan and purpose with such evident sincerity and wisdom that he gained their confidence to a remarkable degree and bound them to him with hooks of steel. Lincoln was large enough to love the people North and South, and only hate the things that made two people where there ought to have been one people. The robins come to build their nests, the; songbirds pipe their sweet melodies in the early spring as they did on that memorable April morning fifty-seven years ago, when Abraham Lincoln joined the choir invis- ible whose music is the gladness of the world. The flag he uplifted is the banner honored of all nations, and heads the pro-. cession in ; the world's great march of uni- H i0n And beneath - - that b*n- nefof rK ^i - Avavin e m triumph all over tiethe world,wmi r r millions are grateful to Almighty gnent ham SS* ° °Ur nati0n a" ^ MAN OF THE AGES glo iou welcome must have been, hishlFihL?when X f without a tarnish or blot on raw fame he Utfj passed in full-orbod glory to ° l0Ve Hud llght that ' S-S JSbJFSPm r* c , }

President Grant, wnose retwmnewu. tion of him was TRAGEDY OF LINCOLN'S DEATH f sufficient to gain him the position of coachman to President Garfield. He lived temperately, saved his HALTED FEAST OF REJOICING money and bought a house and lot at 506 Forty-seventh street. Yesterday he came to the- business section to get his rent. Seated in the realty office of Midnight Dinner at White House in Cele- Charles S. Muir, son of the late Rev J. J. Muir, chaplain of the United States Senate, at 1403 New York avenue, he recalled those stirring times, in very bration of Downfall of Confederacy good Washington dialect. Brown's Statement. „< Hastily Abandoned. "My father was born a slave and became the property BY GEORGE M. BATTEL. JB. of Mr. Ed Turner Matter ot Speculation. of Fauquier County, Va.," he said. "I A midnight feast, celebrating the fall was born at Rectortown, nearby, and of Richmond, the surrender of Gen. Going a step further, considering the was owned by Conrad B. Kincheloe, the Robert E. Lee and the end of the Civil 1 ramifications of the plot and the des- master of quite an estate. Mrs. War was due to have been held at the perate character of the assassins, it is Kincheloe was a member of the Glas- White House the night of Good Friday, not impossible that had Booth been cock family of Virginia. Their son. April 14, 1865. foiled at the theater and Payne re- Mr. James M. Kincheloe, is a loan The mansion had been appropriately strained at the hour his foul blows were broker In the Franklin National Bank set in order for the joyous occasion,' directed at Secretary Seward, the at- Building in this city. 1 tempting viands were steaming on the tempt upon the life, of Mr. Lincoln "In our neighborhood there was some great stove In the basement, and the might have been matte at the White talk about setting the slaves free sev- hired help, allowed to repair to their House itself. While those who know eral years before the Civil War. and homes for a few hours, had been little of the inner workings of the con- Mr. Priest, an Englishman engaged in o'clock ordered to report back about 11 spiracy may SCGut, sucii a theory, a "P^g" conducting an 'underground railroad' the guests. for to serve and attend in support of it may be borrowed from smuggling slaves out of the South supposed to This prandial affair was the memoirs of Gen. Grant, who testi- 4ji to the North, a a ,ly,- presidency, and was In a position to Lincoln had been mortally that Mr. rode ahead, then executing a sharp drive a bargain or two. He kept a shot. about-face, peered impertinently into string tied to my father by having Mr. of gathering at the ap- Instead the closed vehicle as he passed again. Buchanan appoint him butler at the at the White House, the pointed hour Booth did not follow farther, but White House, and, everything arranged. went their several prospective guests roused Michael O'Laughlin and put Mr. Buchanan agreed that my fathor's ways to guard their own households, to in cash should go to my father's him on the trail. O'Laughlin took the pay join in the pursuit of the assassins or In Virginia. I don't same train and tried to force his way former master to augment that melancholy circle j know the details, but they made the Peter- into the Grant coach on nearing Bal- around Mr. Lincoln's bed at the arrangement, left it. so father timore, but found the door securely and my home. have upkeep for himself and son locked. would K family. The butljr was expected to eat Incident of Unwritten History. Gen. Grant Precaution Noted. at the White House, and now and then other member of the family did So far as the writer is aware, the some catching the 6 o'clock train. say that those who worked circumstance of a planned supper at By Gen. too. I will this memorable Grant made it almost impossible for around the White House received more the White House on J the conspirators they do now. but why to work in consonance i pay then than dav is unwritten history. That as as six as they had planned, with himself con- that is I am unable to explain. such an event, told to many | sidered one of prospective ; people, should have escaped the noticv the victims, and not only saved himself, Made Home in Alexandria. of biopraghers or been obscured so long but en- belief. dangered the whole plan, the In anv manner is almost beyond main "My parents lived first at Alexandria, were part of which was rescued Tet we know that certain officials by the where I saw coming down the road one astute jncommonly reticent concerning that young tragedian. If Grant had day in a fine carriage Gen. Robert E. been killed last day. not only as to their own at any time before 9:30 Lee of Arlington. He: never knew I whereabouts but as to any event con- o'clock the alarm would have been used to ride with him. because I was hand, nected with it; and, on the other spread to Washington and the horrors behind, but other peopte did. If I a witness appears whose story in other there averted. Lukewarm in his re- didn't ride the Lea coach it was because particulars so neatly dovetails with fact solve and believing he could not reach the driver happened to whip up thej to doubt his that it appears impossible Grant, O'Laughlin probably left the horses. - i questioning tale In an hour of close cars at Baltimore and went to his y—"After five months we removed from that was this man relates so much brother's home. A telegram announc- Alexandria and went to live in a house. od that 1 common knowledge of the per ing the assassination was received by on Twelfth street between G and H to contribution recommends Itself Grant at Philadelphia. streets hi Washington. While my father, his which Instead of i the category of stray fragments obeying Stanton's order to return was buttering at the White House I time to to have bobbed up after some Washington at once, he continued on started shining shoes around the' Lincoln what it make the mosaic of to Burlington, arriving about 2 o'clock Treasury Building, and now and then H in the morning of Saturday, and reach- ranged elsewhere. I met lots of big that party Assuming It to be fact a men in this way Congressmen, mem- j ing Washington 12 hours later, where — for the White House was scheduled he Immediately conferred with Presi- bers of the Supreme Court, cabinet presentation of "Our Amer- after the dent Johnson's outraged cabinet. ministers, heads of Government depart- it may be lean Cousin" at Ford's, j ments and natives of Washington. I bringing to- thought of as an occasion , Former Slave's Testimony. used to shine around the White House, and ; gether Cabinet ministers, generals hoping Mr. Lincoln would call me, but (beyond Now let the grizzled witness, a for- others to the number of 25 somebody was shining his shoes arid- hav? re- mer slave, who had some" acquaintance which limit it could not well boots Inside. So not long after the be with President Lincoln, relate his nar- secret 63 years), or it may inauguration in March, 1861, father mained rative that the my grouping of a handful reader may form con- i ncelved as a took me to the White House to see Lincolns< clusions of his own. Robert S. Brown of close personal friends of the Abraham Lincoln. We found him in the • of 1435 N street is a son of the late and even as a quiet compliment to his office. a Prcst- Peter Brown, who served as butler at pair who occupied the "My father said, 'Mr. Lincoln, I want affianced the White House through the Buch- dentiaj box with them that nignt£H you to see my l>oy.' N. anan and Lincoln administrations and Mai Henry R Rathbone of Albany, "Mr. Lincoln pulled himself to his Volunteers the first part of the incumbency of Y and the United States feet, and said, 'He's a handsome boy. Andrew Johnson. Brown will be 78 Harris, daughter or all right.' ?nd Mtes Clara , Then he put his big right City. years old April 25, having been born Senator Harris of New York hand on my bare head and rubbed it April 25, 1850, at Rectortown, Fauquier I over my scalp. Lord, but he made me County, Va. He is not a talkative man i-mad; I wanted to hit him, so I ducked and he enjoys a reputation for veracity; away. I suppose I was surprised, be- further, his mind Is perfectly clear on cause the way my mistress did when the things he relates. As a Wash- I she wanted to Danish me was to lay a ington bootblack he won the confidence of notables In public life, particularly w '

hickory across my back. suppose he had other thoughts when Took Up "Odd Jobs." he was alone in his room." "Mr. Lincoln wasn't exactly the kind ,.,T made myself at home around the of man you best remembered from Vir- Kitchen and the hutler's | pantry and ginia, was he?" round it convenient to do odd jobs, "No, sir, he was a poor ! run- man who ning errands and carrying things back learhed to work hard as a boy. He and forth. At this time I was H vears knew all about life and the struggles of old. nine years younger than Robert T the unfortunate. That was why he sym- d V0 or three vears o'der pathized With us colored folks, and we tnanKWrTad,^ theJ youngest son, and I loved him." guess about the same age "Was he a heavy eater? What ' as Wiliie dish R°bert went did he ^<^ away to college, so I like best? Did he like fancy see ™ch of him except when foods?" hehi?returnedI home in Summer, but Tad Brown chuckled as he ran his fingers S lheTe *11 ">e time and kept over the. iron gray stubble on his £1body every- chin: on the move, including his father Willie was No Fancy Foods for Lincoln. a great favorite with his parents; he was quieter than the other "Fancy foods for Abraham Lincoln? two, arid died about the middle of the No, siree! Was war Robert He old-fashioned about was what vou would call " that. He liked cabbage better than nd ready for anything, but Tad could™?J . follow his pace. The boys had a anything else. The cook had to fix lar "gu menagerie in the rear of him a mess of White the cabbage nearly every House grounds. Among the ani- day. He wasn't mals a big eater or little- were donkeys, horses and goats, and of just moderate. I would say he had a course bird pets came to them from everywhere. Some kind of riding good appetite and digestion." tournament was always going on, and "He was the kind of who, if there man he were sufficient animals to play went down South, would pass up the circus whenever we took the notion. asparagus tips and braised beef and "The animals were supposed to be call for a fat 'possum?" kept up by the hostler, but they man- "That's it, you hit it right. aged to get out and roam at will about With some yellow yams, the inclosure, and they just rained the of course. And he liked Irish potatoes, too." flowers, and kept the gardener distract- ed. "Tell about some conversation They also rode the donkevs and " you j had with him ponies in wet weather, and just tracked up everything. "Well, sir, I remember once a meet- Tad often drove his team ; of goats through the White House, and ing with him in the hall/ when he call- ed out to didn't care what else he did. There was me, and says, 'Peter, are you no color line there; the bootblacks and hungry?' Peter was the name he gave other colored boys, who came and peep- me, after my father, though my* real ed through the fence were invited in. name was Robert. Says I, 'Always, Mr Now and then when we got too noisy Lincoln.' " for the cook, the hostler and the gard- 'Well* that's a terrible state for a ener, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln came out to growing boy to be in. We'll have to see what see about that.' we were up to. and gave us . nice presents Tad was a liberal-hearted "He told my father to come there j boy, and would have given away every- and said to him, 'Peter, I want you to feed thing if he had not been stopped. this boy. He looks hungry, and admits it. Fill up his legs, too; if he President Evaded Crowds, is like my boys, his legs are hollow.' "I didn't need a second "Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed fixing up for invitation to enter the White House pantry. Tad 4 company, but the President did not like and crowds I had been there before, as we j so much—when he had time said, looking for mice." from official business he used to pace j "Where were up and down the halls in deep thought. you on the night of the assassination?" or he would sit for hours reading a - "I was home ' book." on Twelfth 'street, be- tween G - "How did Mr. Lincoln impress you and H. about three or four blocks :from personally?" he was asked. "He was a Ford's. It was about half past 10, and kindly, tolerant man, wasn't he?" I was taking off my clothes to ~ - go to bed." My father '"Yes, sir, he waS"icrnd to everybody had just left the house, saying I never heard him speak unkindly of he had j orders to return to the any one or get out of patjence. He just Executive Man- sion about 11 and help moved along about the same each day." with a sUpper they intended "Certain persons have circulated the to have, and he~w6uid' be back when report that he was careless in his per- he could, but he didn't say what time. sonal habits. Did you ever see him He went out and I was just ready to crawl walk around in his socks or put his into bed when I heard a big feet up on the mantelpiece?" commotion in the street men running this sir, I did. way and that, people , "No, never When he shouting, military giving reached the front door he took off his orders, horses dashing by. When I hat and cape and quietly handed them stuck my head out the door some to my father just like any other gentle- one ran up sayin<* Mr. Lincoln was shot man. He was never noisy in his con- at the theater My mother pulled versation, but he enjoyed telling jokes, me back in the house and made me stay in •and now and then he would break into bed. She said it was dangerous to be out. a laugh. He had a lot on him in those and we should stay in. days." We kept awake till my father returned and told us of the excitement, "Absurd Stories" Cited. over at the White House. He stayed

1 oyer "You heard many absurd stories out- there trying to comfort Tad but after putting side about things that never happened him to bed there • wasn't anything he could do, so he locked up over there, didn't you?*' after a while and came home. Then I "Yes, sir, people have to have some-j fell asleep." thing to talk about." "Who was to have made up the nartv "Did he appear sad over at and downcast the White House?" - over the war?" cou ldn't say. • My father .-"Not that "P*&. I I could notice, though I just said they were to have some kind of supper after the performance, and he was needed there." "How many were invited?" "That I don't know, sir. You see ' mv father wasn't the steward, other- wise he would have known how many He only helped wait on the table in emergencies, and I can't say whether ne was to do table duty that night " Were the fftiests coming from Ford's Theater.r„_ with the Lincolns or from elsewhere?" "«»« "That, sir, is beyond me."