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eeu eer eee Mnuing we system oF negro slavery. “Z tell yu," he pra pen Crem, tat, w far as slavery is com ta dead; and I want to say to you, too, that it . wae-not murdered by me. I fought the question in the Senate, where it ought to have been fought. Go to my speeches and read there how I pictured this desolation and these horrors which have come to pass. I admon- ished aguinst the taking the question out of Congress and the Union. My advice was disregarded, and that of better men, They disregarded all sage advice, and fered to raise their’ traitorous and sacriligious hands agai, liberty in drder to save slavery. As they have murdered s/Avery in trying to destroy liberty, let them \bury it, Donot ecllom me for help, ‘ngf ghake your| «Addressing himself to aty black man who might be ~witidh the reach of his v then told them thit they were set loose and free. 'y had been admitted into the great fleld of competition, whete industry and enetgy alone thrived, and advised them that if they were ‘Rot industrious and economical they would have to give Way. to, those of such habits, and that they would be driven from the field if they did not work. “Freedom,” he Said, “means, liberty to work; and then to enjoy the f-wite ayd producto of your labor, This is the philosophy ‘of it Let all men have a fair start andan equal chance) in the race of life, and let merit be rewarded without regard to cctor."” Ho was for cutting the negro loose, “eet @rading slavery to the aristocracy, which he again | alluded to as ‘this infernal and damnable aristocracy,” + aud which he declared himself in favor of breaking up, “And in thusfreelug the slave, thereby committing a| +Breat right, you destroy aristocracy, and thus abolish a| Breat wrong.’? RESTORATION OF THE BTATR Another easy step to this subject. The Governor, with ™uch vehemence of manner, and in a tone of voice and witha peculiar gesture with his right fore finger, which « Berves to, ag it were, italicise his words and to attract the altel of his.audience, opened by declaring that in| the reo-ganization of the Sta'e as a member of the Union, with Qt her former rights and privileges, he was heartily ‘én favor of discarding the discordant and incongruous element of slavery—that curso which had brought war! ‘nd misery upon the land, which had caused the shedding of so much innocent blood and mado so many Interesting Facts About Booth Widowsend orphans. He advised the people now to leave! 4k: v6ry oul. He graphically pictured the condition of the Blate; resulting from the and again urged them, in reorganizing the State, to leave slavery out of the code of | Mts regenerated laws, He then asked who was to do this work of reatoration. Ce:tziny not the rebels whe had fought, or thore who had sgiv-n aid and influence to, the rebcl cause. Such men ‘Should not control the affairs of Stato, or else all the of- BY forta had been made ip vain—all our victories had been {4 evem im vain, and all our privations and sufferings had beer éud.ired'in vain and were tnavailing. He then an- Capture of Atxerot, One of the Assassins. no ned tas kis feeling and opinion that if there are not} «mo « than five thousand men in Tennessee who have been and| -are Wryal to'the country, to justice and to the principle of fm whilly the affairs of tho State. The traitor who had re- belled ceased to bo a cilizen, and wasanenemy. He all.ded to. the naturalization laws, and declared that he Ky was jnfavor of subjecting the traitor to a severer test fi than the foreigner, and, indeed, the severest test. He pil TWA ee: ~ S eeeeeeneaea aaa NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, Is: ee , ae, Se THE ASSASSINS. One Hundred Thousand Déllars Reward for Them. {mportant Orde¥ from the Secretary of War.’ All Persons Aiding or Sscreting the Suspected Parties to be Treated as Accomplices. in Pennsylvania. and His Family. ROBABLE ARREST OF BOOTH. ASuspected Person Apprehended He is Believed to be the assas- { sin of the President. Bccentricities of the Hlder Booth, and Bad Habits of His Son, Wilkes Booth, &e., &, do. objects to-Mr. Lincoln's amnesty oath, and says those BM suing him. who have token it are not to be trusted, He wankd lo pd see the trailors punished and their Waders hong; and the day was not far-disant when retribulion wuld be demanded, and tracon would be odious. It must be made +0, : A WARNING TO NAPOLEON, Governor Johnson also gaye vent to a few words of €] warving to the French Wmperor, which, if uttered fq dy (he. prinetpal on the 1, Would have raized al gresier excitamontin tle Froach capital than the réso- tury him Congress lately did, But coming from one of qeake in his boots. Hs declared himself in favor of (hepa Monr-e deetrine throughout, and prophesied that the day ®} should soy t Napotea tial he could not establish annarchy) in Mexid). This part of bi wh was received wiih great applause, and the crowd were evidently opposed to Maxi- milian und absolute monarchy on this continent, In concluding, the ( B engaged at this time in testiag the first great prinetple of free guvernment, and deciving for the beneiit of the “nations looking on whether man was capable of self-gov- eriifent, Ho held, with ment, and thet the people cult chonge the constitution (o sti tein adva. nt in the cause of” universal freedom. Hele then urged all to sustain the government in the great, revolution they were now engaged In, until the great step pm Dow being taken war completed, There could be no con- sservative, no middle ground, where only two great| Principles opposed each other. Every man was now for or against the government, and he called on all true patriots to sustain the government, the administration| cand the army. ae: ) IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDER. MAK OONFINCATION SALES POSTPONED FOR THE PRESENT. Special Orders—No, 92. Heanqvantens, Distsict or Eastern Viraryta, ‘Nowvonn, Va., April 17, 1865. “Tho following orders of his Excellency, the President, of the United States are published for the information| ‘and government of all conc«rned :— Wastuxatox, April 16, 1865. To General Gorvox, Nor‘olk :-— ‘The President directs that the confiscation sales be postponed indetinitely until the orcanizat on of the Freed. fon'e Bureau, You will order_accordiugly and see that} It is done. E. M. STANTON, Secrotary of War. Ne sales of confiscated property will therefore take; place within this district until further orders from the Secrotery of War. By order of Brigadicr General GEO. H. GORDON, T. A. Hanns, Assistant Adjutant General, NEWS FROM SAVANNAH. THER CAPTURE OF MOBILE. Columbus, Ga, and Eufala, Ala.,§ Also Captured. Capture of Montgomery, Ala, Confirmed, ba, &e. ‘The Savannah Herald contains the following:— » deserter from the rebel army, Mr. Iverson Duprez, avd from a refugee, a native of Pulaski county, this State, who has arrived in the city, we Jearn that Mobile wet captured last week, We get, as yet, no particulars, By only the one maln, glorious fact that Mobile itself has) fulen befor» our besieging armies. What officers, pri- sonore, stores, Se,, oll Into our hands, we do not as yet kuow. y Columboe, Ga., wae also enptured on Thursday last by Tharnas’ cavalry, aftor a sovere fight with Forrest's trap- pos We hope to be able to give particulars in a subse- qu wt edition. Your or flve hundred of Torrest’s mon were captured nocal Thomas’ cavalry, ala, Ala., was also captured, and Montgomory was alse reported to have “gone up.” ‘Che names of the persous who bring the above intelli- gene) are Captain James R, Dykes, of the Georgia State militia, who belongs in Dyke's station, Gum Swamp, Pulveki county, and Iverson Duprea, who are recognized by soveral Union prisoners now in Savannah as having 1 them concealment and protection during the past winter, &e. by i LAUBLPHLA, April 20, 1865, Joy Cooke reporta that the subscriptions to the seven-| arrest of either this occasion. upon the subject. Batmiors, April 20, 1865. sion of the Assassins: War Derantuent, Wasmixcrox, April 20, 1865. Major General Jonn A. Dix, New York:— Our Special Washington Despatch, Wasuniatos, April 20, 1865. By an orderof the Secretary of War, all officers and /M achieved a bad eminence and Lerma of infamy, or! employes of the government engaged in making arrests hy 6! or investigations in reference to parties suspected of complicity with the murder of the President, are pro- i dence of guilt as has already been obtained points con- is hibited under severe penalties from divulging anything iq 4 It is also requested that nothing be: offered for transmission by telegraph for publication of B any statement in regard to the assassins. This is deemed necessary to prevent the hindranco of the successfull pursuit, capture and punishment of the fiends engaged in| the diabolical plot of assassination, Among the facts which the recent assassination of Reward Offered by Governor Curt! ‘’ Pennsylvania, Prartapecrma, April 20, 1965, Governor Curtin has issued a proclamation offering a reward of ten thousand dollars for the arrest of Booth, who is reported to have been seen jn this State, if ar-| rested in Pennsylvania. Reapina, Pa, April 20, 1865, Thave just seen Mr. Lyon, a United States detective officer, from whom I got the following relative to the @ Booth affair: — The report that Booth came to Reading on the train is} correct. He was in Roading all day. The man who recognized him informed detective Lyon of his boing in town and that ho know it was Booth, Mr. Lyon immediately and another dotective, proceeded to trace him. They nally trnced him to the depot, and ascertained that a man answering his doseription had got on,the train which had just left, The facts were immediately made known to Mr. @, A, Nicholls, superintendent of the road, and an effort wash mado to telegraph to Port Clinton, the first tele. graph station; but the operator not being about an 7 ongino was fired up, and Messrs. Lyon and Miller, to- iy gothor with the man who had seen Booth, proceeded Wt yz full spoed to overtake tho regular tratn, {a company with Mr. Miller 4 Arrest of the Suspected Perion Near Read- A despatch from qeneral E. B, Tyler, dated Rolay freedom, that that five thousand should control abvolutely and fig House, this ovening, says:— Sergeant Gammill, of the First Delaware'cavalry, Cap- tain Townsend’s company, of my command, has just| brought in George A. Atzerot, one of the assassins, He pi has been identified by the detectives who have been pur Government Reward for the Apprehen- will be paid by this Department for his apprehension in fe addition toany reward offered by municipal authorities or State Executives, Twenty-five thousand doliars rewara’ will be paid 16 wea not for distant wher, with the re'ellion crushed, we the apprehension of G. A. Atzerot, sometimes called of the above named criminals $ , thal the government fd °F thelr accomptices. ANI persoris harboring oF socreting 4 was made for the people, not the poople for the govern-B% the suid porsons, or oither of them, or aiding of assisting tneir concealment or escape, will be treated as accom- 4 ‘ices in the murder of the President and the attempted assassination of the Secretary of State, and shall be sub- #4 ject to trial before a military commission and the punish. ment of death. Let the stain of innocent blood be rentoved from the} y4 land by tho arrest and punishment of the murderers, All good citizens are exhorted to aid public justice on Every man should consider his own con- science charged with this solemn duiy, and rest neither 4 night nor day until it be accomplished, EDWIN M. STANT ON, Secretary of War. Ma actuated the assassin Booth. A gentleman who wash somewhat intimate with him states that he was an ardent) admirer of Orsini, who some years since attempted thefJ assassination of Louis Napvlcon. Booth often expressed his admiration of the act and of the heroism of tho! would-be assassin. Ho said that if he had undertaken the) ‘assassination he would have carried it through success- ‘and then,” said he, “I would have lived for- He thought that the attempt failed through fj Kean at the Drury, and was timidity. He was more successful in his imitation, and| doubtless has achieved the infamous notoriety for which he was ambitious, ‘Wilkes Booth, was connected with the’ theatre in this ‘city fora period of threo years, datiag'from the fall of| 1858 to the burning of the theatre, in 1661. During that period the management vested in George Kunkel, ‘known for many years previously 28° the successful leader of a troupe of Ethiopian minstrels, of which the 5 celebrated Billy Birch, saved from the lost’ Central Ame- rica, was the chief centre of attraction; Soon after’ Kunkel! leased the theatre here, which was'then known By the name of the Marshall theatre, he employed young Booth as one of his steck company. Duricg’ his service in this connection he was regard¢d—so the inhabitants say—as an ivferlor actor, but’ neverthe- Mg less a young man of promise in his profession, Like hia father he bade fair to become a confirmed drankard. He was intensely vicious and perverse, and in addition to the vice of drunkenness combined! every other habit of dissipation that the most depraved could indulge. He was then young and handsome, according to the recollections of others, and might readily move in 4 society of tone where his habits were not known: Soon fg after the burning of the theatro here he left Richmond Pa for walt Rit learn, Pooth played for some time int Pe ated on the corner of Calvertand Baltimore streets, which henston of David C, Harold, another of Booth’sa lad been leased by Kunkell after leaving thiscity.’ Booth , Mi went thence to Washington, where he was enzaged 4 by John T. Ford, and where, #0 far as I can ascertain, he} fa remained up to the period of the late sad and awful tra- fi vedy. Jolin T. Ford, the lessee of the Washington thea- tre, wher» the murder of the Pres dent took place, was general manager and cashior for Kankell while ho tra- velled through the country with his troupe of minstrels, After Kunkel! abandoned itinerant life, and took to thea- trical management, Ford became agent and manager fb the aeronaut Elliot, in which capacity he remaiuet out Mafora period, The next heard of him was as lessee of Pathe Holliday street theatre, in Baltimore, whicl» he oonducted with. admirable skill mud efficiency, pe Duging the Plog sly, régime in that city ordi party for his active services in thelr bebalf, py f which they rewarded by his election to the City Council, pM After a service of more than two dap in that body hoi was chosen its president, in which until the municipal system of Baltimore was changed i under the auspices of the democratic party, who were clevated to power by a sudden rovolution’ in popular, f# sentiment brought about by the alleged excesses of the Fi Baltimore Plugs. Ford next leased the Washington. theatre; and this statement completes his record so fas as it is necessary it should be known in connection with the late unfortunate tragedy in this Thespian temple. It must be saidof him that, so far as I can ascertain, he fe was considerably estecmed in. Richmond, and was’ originally a printer by profession. < The Kcecentricities of the Booth Family. ve with him by the ties of blood and marriage, than the! assastin of the President of the United States. Such ovi- clusively to John Wilkes Booth, a play actor, as the ‘assassin; and there is an unappeased curiosity to know 9 what imanner of man he Is whos? treasonous and bloody purpose consigned to death ono for whom millions mourn to-day, and doomed himself to be more heartily detested and execrated than any villain since the days of Judas Iscariot, Sr., by his second wife, who survives hifh, and now re- sides with her stepson, Edwin Forrest Booth, in New President Lincoln has brought to light is ono illustrating MJ York city. The elder Booth, the father of the imputed the character and throwing light upon the motives which assassin, was an Enghsh tragedian, born in London in the year 1796. During his minority he played in several of the provincial English theatros with moderate success, and in 1814 made his début ‘at Covent Garden theatre, in his native city, as Richard I1f, His personal resemblance to ‘that hunch- backed toad” conformed so well to the stage traditions, ‘and his personiffration of the character was, in other, Tespects so striking, that hé at once took a prowminent rank in his profession, and successfully competed with Edmund Kean, then the rising star of the English at Drury Lane theatre. He shortly after played with his reappearance was riot, which resulted in driving him temporarily from the London stage, We do not now distinctly recollect the of fg Particulars. Jeatoury professional or otherwise, stirred ‘up the flesy nature the obnoxious person, but falled to take it, The man sur. vived the assault, and {s now, we beliove, a resident of| St. Louis. Booth ‘remained in England till about the burg, Virginia, and the year following at the P New York, on both of which occasions he ‘tertored with his performances at times t} stage, and, towards tho close of his life, it required all the vigilnnoe and art of managers to keep him in a condition to appear on the stage at all, The stories told of him in this connection are innumerable, and some of them ox- tremely ludicrous, His appetite ‘for liquor was absoluto- pawned himvelf for money to purebase liquor, was rogn- arly ticketed and exhibited in # tolggtam from Conduetor Bright, dated Ca:siwisae, ‘aby Kine, eh tw if sharetwrith = ee Solepes ing, “No moh man came througb on my ira,” Pesan * ach tee tana — dinabie ti ty sos that bo is tatistod thee 2 ee tanta 8 Of those “crazy epelle” that’ bis every thing, in rate prej My tho fact, spe: face And prt. > death of was disfigored for Jie by on imporiled actor, the bridge pone thane. — 4s, + ‘ “ken by the blow delivered through istration, stan. : ny A: . = What measures are boing iakon for his arrest are\hept Chere Mdecence® Th. very Vndrigous, aoene "wh lantgpce cf atl oa) M7, more iasda Becbiirticenseet tres Re sheer devon . we c eh Of asssasination mn. ils, than haf" Mch) ‘The following is @ description of the party:—About and =the celebrated §=“fat_ girl’ with mourning, ly, more revolts: ‘the ing in all ite der. * Ul hearts iitm seas, 288° will Frooties tains, - bos Sunuct Museu is probably furiiar to most of ourg™the very gall and worn: termes. five feet eight inches im height; binck eyes, black hair, er, and is, perhaps, one of the most amusing inci-—™be no rest for the culhane of thts aia i out short nd tnclined io oust; short, black mustache; fiidem, *12 the annals of the stage, It is very doubiful will babble of them, end the sea cast ther U haa <2tton in both ears, wore a white felt hat, bad a Remi oe Dense a pom ocer of si wil Sa he meme pleoo of ¢raz6 on the loft arm, wore a Linicoin badge on fey infu. wes, fl wildernes ality, and in his pecullar sphere— the very flery @™. expression of concentrated the right breast in mourning, and had on a black frook coat with common blue military pants, Reaviva, Pa, April 20, 1865, On my return from Pottaville the representations to me last evening were such that I sont a special engine to Potteville after the up evening Passenger train; but the man had left the train at Auburn before the telegram could reach it, He then walked back to Port Clinton, after dark, and stole his passage to Tamaqua on one of| our coal trains last night’ He is now caught at Tama- ‘que, where we telographed to look out for him, and will be held until identified. There has been some ground for suspicion that it is Booth, @. A. NICHOLLS, Superintendent Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Another Version of the Mysterious Affair| in Pennsylvanta,. [posed he was guided in bs." (7amnatic than consuramate much levedas in his' profes Jon he Was is still unmarried—ch\iid ron by bis ter, now wife of Joi°a children of his second wife JUNIUS BRUTUS , VOOTH. ‘Miss Clementina DeBar, an Irish ‘actress, Mr. Booth married a mizs in ‘This member of the family would have complusa two week’s en unent at Pike's House, red. An excited crows He asked the citizen whether he was going up in the; train. Upon Lis answering that he was not, the man eaid that he would be back in Reading in # day or two, The citizen then ieft the train, and comnminicated these facts to a government dewetive at this place, by whose Ste skill. Off the stage the genta! Warm. end ; foseph, and a ident Lincola, shoul a so atm, Fry, "Gecgenae dae” Bi aah im * American wviving, and who taust be ai tte stime past fifty years of age. The oldest of the boys, Junius Bratus, was born in South Carolina, in 82> He made his first Spee aan eed Sr ic! 4 ‘at the Bowery, in 1951. ‘the sean wh. San Fran‘isco, in 1850, after a lugertig ih, "08% attend rehearsal, aly unaware of what twans- for torn down the bill in which he was an- Boorn. them, nor the uttermost parts of the earth secrete them| as [from that retribution which will terribly overtake and, on rvom “ick and subtle passages of ie aaiten, consume them. And in tho future no names will be! Jn the more @ |, Unsurpassed by any actor of is, ons—he was, nased for crazy if tt were sup- time, and would have outbursts by feeling a more abhorred, execrated aud hated th, ¥ ascassins of the’ President and his Prime Minis Insanity in the Booth Family. IGRORGS D. FRRNTIOR'S RBECOLLEOTIONS ov THE EL- DER The fam! consisted of oy | {From the Louisville Journal, April 17. oA pO eeryy nog wh, if vd ‘There'can be no doubt that J. Wilkos Booth. tho’ dis. hile te an Engi tinguished actor, i Pew 3 of having assassinated Presi. him hung so from alt of the conti cket days before, anh ge we it Mon it was to be . Ho instantl, exclaimed in his tragic style, Wi im worthy of our friendship. hung. We would gladly have igh that our people could see hin by tele. ‘e have no doubt that John Wilkes Booth, though al of great bistrionic genius, bas a broad streak of in- ip bis nature; but the evidences of his long. rately-considered, and terribly executed [4 ible all considerations or and feeling of every Ii Major General Dix, New York:— f Wilkes, Edwin, etc., came to this city upon a theatri-f leg err} cal engagement. Ho sent for us to hia Dove jand reputed to have been one of the mom ws Ladi bat pt re NE ag et if women of her day. They Saheeauenly sep 10, ae received In a little while he asked how much,” said he. eran presented to us two hands, showing him how avg it on high, et of the Surgeon General. . associated with the js to Bave you bow?” leruel assassination at Washington, Mr. Booth, wiopy “e,Tulrede.stop and replied, “What is to save mo ts f im company with another, drinking freely. Learning had been up late the previous wight, left his room an@ gh, “Ol pistol. (o responded in a most joyous I don’t care for knives or Fe ge I v you don’t; but I wanted to find you worthy to be: ond.” @ told him that we bad not thus far “Lasked us to go up to his room and see some of repo lagency he has since-beon arrested, and is now awaiting py lcf the city. He is said by those who claim to know [ij bypoc section a taaene for bis third ‘The Informer Not so Positive as to the Identity of ttie Arrested Many Raamma, April 20, 1865. The citizen who “recognized’ Booth” was taken Before |@ justice of the peace this afternoom to make affidavit of his knowledge. Ho swears now that he has only seen ‘Booth once, and that was seven years ago, and also that he does not believe the person pursued was Booth. Here- tofore ho stated positively that it'was' Booth, and that knew him intimately. Booth's Career in Richmond. MR. WILLIAM H. MERRIAM'S DESPATCH. New Yorw Hexaco Ricumoxp, Va. April 10 188s. } The villanons assassin of the late President, John exproacions under the influence of excitement, EDWIN BOOTH. finished actor than his father, whom he was named. He | rently attected Mr. ecte renown. JOSEPH BOOTH. know very Vittle, other than t delphia, whera’he has since resided, THK ASSASSIN OF THE PRESIDENT. ore in company with his emp yer. ‘There, as he theatre situ- stage appearance ta 1865, as Richmond, in Ri atthe St. Charles theatre in Baltimore, an of 1857 appeared under tho name of Wilkes al street theatre in Philadelphia, where he played was given him by his father in honor of an old friend, Jim Wilkes, a succefsful merchant and Young Bvoth next beeame a member of the Richm me ® pecuilar favorite with the Know Nothing g@ left the impression, that thoug! capacity he continued 4 matic talent. He had, added to his nati classic in outline, features highly Intellectt and impressive stage the quiet and refiectiv violent outbreaks of passion, ddrees, In his transition: [From the Cincinnati:Commercial.} In the world’s history no. man has more suddenly na more unenviable distinction to those connected and glowing. His hair, jet black THE ELDER BOOTH. Jobn Wilkes Booth is ason of Lucius Junius Booth, % derite to further the cause by 60 as giving it pecuniary ald, much less perso th, and he attempted the life of fM engagement In Cleveland a year or more azo, ‘ear 1820, when he crossed tho Atlantic, and made his whether there reported sayings are apocryphal or not. rat professional pory in this country at Peters- ifo he fulfilled engagements in nearly, if fj Cwear, for the beneiit of the Shakspere Monument Fund, atre in the United States, and was accounted fa teat actors of his tiie, though the range My the sarno theatre on th it Oxel to those which be had gH Juliet, th tions, in which he was quite fortunate, havi nettod within six monthe between $69,000 aud $75, Nor had ho any intention of resuming the stage, and do. r 1850, where ho fal- ng more profitable than the profession. which he stands accused, There seems to Le no that it was along cherished design, have Leon exeoated at least a mont! The Farm”? for burial. Booth's habits were exceedingly Loy ney and so ta-— hat an actor less ‘eared sober on thoff in possession of the robels, def Be and well appointed army, under a co 4 lend himadlf to #0 dark mption. ft was rarely that ho w onterpris the coufusion and excitement’ produ fountain head of executive je (9 the Confederate cause. voraciovs, Being without money at one time when in Be fa low York, he wont to a pawnbroker’s shop, literally ndow, Weare he staid of secession poison or sympathy; but of his polith gmance at the theatre. cal kits we know nothing. Ho Pebicabian bie father, ge more than-any other of tho family, having antique type of face, and features capable of wonder- Edwin Forrest Booth, the eldest son by the second wife, has-att#ined a greater eminence in his profession than any member of the aon. A more versatile and ie has surpassed him in the reputation he has gained'on the American stage, and stands confessed, to-day, the most distinguished star in the profession, excepting, perhaps, Edwin Forrest; after scholarly attainments. During the present season layed Haraict over onv hundred consecutive nights ‘at the Winter Garden, of which he was one of the lessees. He cannot be over thirty-two orthree years of age. His residence is in Mew York city, and bis ¢: ments bave £ of late been exchnsively in the East, He bad, incompany with his brother-in-law, Mr. Clark, purchased the Walnut street thoatre, which it was their intention to open and manage during the coming seasom Bir. Booth’s wife, one child, a daughter, The poctic tributes to her'memory by Emerson, Stoddaw and other poets, wou'd, of themeclvos make @ small volume. Hor loss h, and gaveto: his pele, intel- fair prospects of Edwin, and driven from: the stage one of the brightest ornaments in the very heyday of bis Of Josop'xBroth, the youngest of the arotners, wef hi tion was not in that direction. When the rebellion broke ‘out he was studying medicine in Charleston; but, not MM questions. If Booth showid eseape to Canada, be arrested and brought before Judge Smith, and tt should be fouhayy ‘that the assassination of Mr: Liacoln was authorized by a& Confederate officer, would the Judge refuse bis extradi- tion on the ground of the belligerent character of the act? Would he declaro that the Ashberton treaty. was fg abrogated, and refuse to ‘surrender the ngsassin? We pause tor a reply. ‘To our mind there would be as mueh reason for refusing to give up Booth as the St. Albans raiders, supposing that Booth could prove that he had uthority from some officer of the Confederate States to satisfied with the cause of the South, escaped’ to Phila- Jobn Wilkes Booth—the infamous—was boron ‘the Farm,” near Baltimore, Md., in 1888, and {# conse- ‘quently but twenty-eeven years old. He made bis first paris during the entire season, The name of Wilkes & ond, Va,, theater, Improved rapidly in h's profession, and becam’ a great favorite there. During the season. of 1860 and ‘61 we find him ongaged still furthor South, playing chiefly at Montgomery and Columbus, Ga. Pro- Abably not fancying conscription into the Sdethern army, however much he favored the cause, he Hescuped North, and in 1861 and ‘62 played in St. Louis, Louisville and other Western cities. It was during the season following, we believe, that he first appeared in Cincinnatl, at Wood's theatre, and, h rather an unequal ac- tor, as might be expected of one of his limited expe- rience, he gave unmistakable evidence of genuine dra- genius, the advantage of a voice musically full and rich, a face almost |, © piercing black eye, capable of expressing tho fiercest and the ten- derost passion and cmotion, and a.commanding figure rom | ao & part to flerce and is sudden and impetuous Bi manner had in it something of that electrical force and power which made the elder Booth so celebrated, and called up afresh to the memory of men of the Inst genara- E tion the presence, voice and manner of his father. Con- vivial in his habits, sprightly and genial in conversation, John Wilkes made many acquaintances and friends among the young men of his own age in the city—an.ac- quaintance that was renewed during two subsequent en- erments. ; Sur recollection of Booth is somewhat indistinct; bat, we remember his features in repose had rather a sombre gm Went away in a body. and melancholy cast; yet, under agreeable in- fluences or emotions the expression was vory animated «1 glossy, curled slightly, and sot off i One relief a high, intellectual fore- head, and a face full of intelligence. Both chin and nose f¥ cannon, & were markedly prominent, and the firm set lips and lines about the mouth indicated drmuneas of will, decision sistance. It-fa reported, by @ gentieman who heard the conversation, that during his engagement in Louisville: in 1862, Booth fell into a controversy with the treasurer IM surronder. morning in the box offioe, He remarked in effect that, thousand. As the case stands, subsequently announced tofyhe was a Southern man, and liked the people of the) pear at Covent Garden. Meantime an affair occurred 4 South, who bad been kind to him, but he could not, for wh an rendered him very unpopular with the public, and @ all that, admit that they had any right or occasion to ‘the eignal for a aorious theatrical JM secede; that they had it all their own way tn Congress, and tbat if they insisted on fighting they should have taken the American flag and fought under that. There is another story, to the offect that Booth, while playing an in a public bar-room that the man who would kill Abra. hai Lincoln would gain @ more enviable notoriety than Washington himself. It i of course impossible to say ‘The last appearance of Booth on the stage (oxcopt at) Park theatro, fj ono or two benefits in Washington) was at the Winter SM) PRESENTATION OF TROPHIZ9. TO TUR WAK DEPART umed bit £4 Garden, New York, and tn conjunction with his brothers, favorite réle of Richard III, From that time to the## Edwin and Joulus Brut in tho play of Julius a close of his not every, t Aone of the grea of characters which bho aesumed was Hmited, and was coniaed alm a studied in the beginns und, The play selected was Romeo and ast of the Botune being—John Wilksa as) scarcer, Having secured fs Romeo, Edwin es Mereatlo, and Junius as Friar Law. f& moderate competence, Booth purchased a proporty BY rence. | As we guid he haa played no engagement near Baltimore, known as “Tho Farm,’ where, during his latter yours, be resided, making occasional’ profes- sional visita to other cities. Ho made an excursion to California womewhore about the y filled a very luctotive engagement, and on his way home# stopped in New Orleans, where be made bis last appear- fa ance at ihe St. Charles, as Sir Giles Ov Way to Pay Old Debte. It was while on his passage from that city to Cineinnat! that he died, His remains wore taken to He Yeft the stage to engage in oil clined all managerial appications—petroleem, aa he ewoh, in A New Mg feult to understand what motives could have doubt r ind that it war topml: FS. Foster, nd tan days, before fa Bon. M. B. Ficld, Fitoccurred. Had it then happened the nation would not Hitrensury, ata private dinver at Willar@s Hotel this af. fed would have forfeited his popularity beyond re-fM have been ro profoundly surprised. Richimond waa then od by @ large imma’é general. ; y d damnable an could have, at least, pleade excitement’ pe $ the removal evento tral ority would be 4 arouse the South s desponding lethargy. Brad he has not even this use to offer, The crime wig committed at a m0- ven the loss of no ono, at¥a doaon men, could, in b didn’t how bimeelf.. 7 Immense crowd asaemb! \paticnce became irrepressible, jand the people in the Hour * bad their money returned at he door. As we 'passedidow, ? # Cross. ‘olce from a sarriage exota ‘med ‘Hall eon at tho theatre?” “Fox? ’ we said. hens and pullots, his travelling com- the country, saying tha®they were his ., and telling ‘us the name of ‘each, Maolemnity was ow ‘ce of his sincerity. There was nol a well-known “What sort of] SEWARD. THE SECRETARY OUT OF DANGER. ie is Ape to Sit pant is More Comfortar!o. FREDERICK SEWARD IMPRu YING SLOWLY, Official Reports of the Condition of the Sufferers from the Surgeon General, &., &e., ko. The Oficial Despatches. SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL DIX, Wan Devarruant, Wasursaroy, Apri 20, cbs, The following is the official report from Surgeon Gene ral Barnes of the condition of Secretary Seward and his with many fil gon, Mr. Frederick Seward, this morning. The deep interest of the American people in the weby: fare of the great statesman and patriot, whose life wae ‘assailed by the murderers of Prosideut Lincoln, induce ‘me to send you the official morning and evening reports _ EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. BUBGEON GENERAL BARNES’ REPORT. Arau, 20-0 A. M Hon. £. M. Srantos, Socretary of War:— , Sin—I havo the honor to report that the Secretary ef State passed a restless night, but Is more comfortable this morning. Mr. F. Seward continues to improve slowly. Very respectfully, your obodsent servant, J. RB. BARNES, Surgeon General, Ww. ‘To Major Generaf Dix, New York :— The evening report of the Surgeon General as to the Condition of Secretary Seward and his son ts as follews:— SURGEON GENERAL BARNES’ EVENING REPORT. 81 Gewerat’s Orrica, Wasmncrox, Apri 20-9 P.M ‘om audience was Shere?” ‘A tremendous one” ‘Did To Hon, 8. M. Stanton, Seoretary of War:— they see Booth?” “No, wad Bou'th treated them like a —— dog!” “Ab, well, were Shey very mach disap- pointed 2?” % ‘Two days afterwaitts we were sent “or by the keeper of the cit; 1. Poor bacth wasin hr keeping. & been ken in astate cf unconselousuea $ from the streets jand was still unconseious. Me had blacked bimeel! lias undoubted genius and MM blacker then tho blackes negro in Kentacky. Wo helped B and when he cwn¢ again he be- him away from the city, haved botter and spoke bie gratituds to us, ‘We do not mention thes# evidences of pate rnal insanity’ had jas the slightest reason for the sparmg of President Lin- coln’s murderer from the gallows. We memtiou them simply because, at a the ike this, they may be interest. Ming to many readers. Au‘ for the assassin, we repeat that iy Mj he shoultt, if possible, be hung-higher than the ciouds. Mary, a most estimmble woman, greatly loved and deeply 2 Booth’s ‘Note to Mr- Johnson Intended to motrned in Bosten, died some two years ago, leaving Implicate Him in the Murder. [Frem the A'ban® Argus. J' What worthe object of south in seeking an inter- view with Vtco President Jobnson on Friday morning? Not to kill him; for that would foil the other attempt, fuce a tinge of sadness, which some of bis friends ff and oxplode the whole conspiracy. attrib-rted, In part, to bis continued study and P egoped y fication: of Hamlet, a very probable elfect. He is re- garded ae moody and eccentric, frequently shutting him. self in his study, and refusing admittance to his most destined successo: Was it-not to inv the Vice President, amd cost suspicion on bim? To get % FE him to write enote—esimple respocse to bis card would & AA do—‘‘I shall bo" happy to have an {nterview with Mr. fM x, Booth on —."’ This dropped on the scene of murder 4 familiarfriends Yor days together. The telegraph an-B¥would be an ovidence of collusion wtth Mr. Lincoln's nounces*hiy fatention to withdraw from: the stage alto: gether. His assassin brother will have added to other ings of femorse the reflection that he has: blighted the aballow device, bet one in the fashion ofa hundred stage plots. Wha? othar theory ac- Bd q u counts for the visit to Joanson, the note, the desired in- Bi q; I'we discard-the pa by terview and the re! get response? idea of an intended murter of the Vico"President, this seems the only remaining conjecture. From the Toronto Globe, Ap commit the deed, which be probably Li: Will the Canedtans Look on Booth ava at he tried thestage only BY Belligerent ? long enough to satisfy himeeif and friends that his voea- ri 18] add, The Last of Lee’s Army Disbanded. The Whole Number Paroled Twenty-six Thou- Woe should like to ask the friends of Judge Smith two! GRANT. sand One Hundred and Fifteen. Estimate of War Materia! Sur- rendered, &e., &c. rick’s Despatch. Heapqvanters, Fivre Aruy Corrs, Neaw Avromarrox Count House, April 14, 18 THE CLOSING OF THE PAROLE OF Lin's MEN. 3} Tho last of the surrendered army left yesterday. Most lof them went away in straggling equads, Genoral An- idersou’s brigade, however, remained till the last, and proud Army of Northern Virginia, OFFICIAL REPORT OF CAPTURED MEN AND WAR MATERIAL. The official report of the number of men paroled and uurrendered, has just been made out, and is And thus has disappeared the il No official report of the two latter tema has yet been butl give the figures they are most generally Then the number hopped up to thirty-five several thousand have gone away without being paroled. Lt was starvation with many to remain, and they were accordingly allowed to lion, and vothing to indicate the remotest Mi there have beon most astonishing variances as to the @ sand prisoners. This report was given me by the com- missioners appointed to carry out the stipulations of the go. Our army was ehort of rations, and although all the rations that could be spared were given them, there wi not enough for all, WASHINGTON. Wanmuxetox, April 20, 1865. MENS. Brevot Brigadier Generat Tompkins and Major Farrer, i He was, we believe, to have played with ther again at fag of Major Genoral Wright's stad, arrived to-day, in charge ‘22d of this month for the beneilt of nineteen battle flags and two guidons, captured by the Bixth corps in the worka at Petersvarg on the 6th mstunt Tho presentation of those trophies of victory to the See- rotary of War will take piace on Monday next, The fif- ty-one flags brought by Colonel She mm froma G Shoridan’s command will also be presented at (he sare timo, that event having been postponed from, to.day. DINNAR BY THE NEW YORK UNION LEAGUS CLUB. ‘The New York Union League commitice entertained, Presient pro tempore of the Sen cond Assistant Secretary of the ternoon, The dinner ts said to have bren equal to Del monico’s best, end was highly onjmyed by tho partici pants. The Lea Mee left for New York in the NO PRISONERS OF WAR TO ‘DE RENT TO WasHiNnoTON. & For the present rebel doserters and paroled prisoners laro to be landed at Fortress Monroe, instead of Wash- ington. arrested, charged with the murd under the following circumstances:— pq Which brought in several persons from U gjson J. MeMurray entered Kealy’s apartryents, when thee accused was found etandng by a pool of blood on ther Biloor. He made no conveyed the aecuse 0 Pation. While goiug there when on the sidewalk, NeMure Pa ray said to Koaly, You 4 woman." Kealy replied, Bi received at the station by Sery Ejsnrched a medium sized poek fi which the accused admitted he 7 rere of age. Cham & Bayliss, 80 South street. They are both natives of Py irofand. The deceased is thirty-eight years of age, and Koaly is forty years of age: ‘ceased cat cision of U A Kealy, on the 20th day of April, 1866, at No. 122 Bast Fourth street. Orst of their trouble January, that when and erwards came in, and called him ail sorte names, and abused him.’ Hodon’t know then what happened. Coroner Wildey committod the accused to prison for drawings and a BTROYING PAC eral Ca] Wig Depot, wholesale and retail, No, and Wester Thave the honor to report that there has been a de ¢.ded imprevement fo the condition of the Secretary ef State to-day. No perceptible alteration in the caso of Mr. F. Seward Very respectfully, your obedient servant, “J. K. BARNES, Brigadier Genera EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. The Press Despatch. Wasninoron, April 20, 1865, Secratary Seward |s'able to elt up today, and is im Proving very fast. Frederick Seward pasved'a comfortable night, and t algo improved. Another Wife Murder. About noom yesterday a men named Houry Kealy wae of bis wife, Cathaytae, It seeais, by tho tstimony (then by Corover Wildey, hat Kealy resi@ed at No, 122 Gast Fourth etrect; tae BH for some time past be and bis wife bave quarteied, and he has beaten-hey on nore than ‘one occasion. Yester lay he came homeat about noow,and not foding bie inner ready a quagrel bogan, and sho, It ls sad, Look @& room stick to difend herself He then seized her around the watet, eed in the struggle he drew a nife and infioted a deop wound on the left thigh, severe img the femoral artery. She then rushed out of the room to the apartments of Mrs, Catharine 'Burke, when: she fell on the floor dxelaiming, “Ho's medica! assistance could be proctred Mi woman bled to daath tMed mi." Boforer the unfortusae Mrs. Burke opened her window at ance. MeSurrayt.w to the Fevent a Fi arderer, you Lave killed that Sknow it.’ Thowsceused wag nt MeGiven, and whem nife was found, wite inflicted the fatal wound. ‘These unfortunate people have one child, &-boy elgit He is a laborer, and worked for Frothinge Coroner Wildey late last evening concluded the im quest, Ann Jasper, Catharine Burke and Catharine Moflt, occupants of the atoning appar ceased all corroborate each over in t described, having heard the deceased call out ‘and goon after the injury was inflicted, It does net aj pear in the testimony that Kealy was time of the difficulty. Dr. Wooster B pot mortem exam uation of the decen fan inciecd wound on the lef? thigh, extending from the knee pan upwards, inflicting a cut of over a foot tm length and about three inches deop, sovering the maim artery of the leg. and found ‘The Jury rendered the following verdict:—That de to her death by hemorrhage from anim’ leg, at the hands of. ber husband, Henry When examined by the Coroner, Kealy raid that the - ommenced the second week tn last came home to-day she went THE PLAY BILL.—NOTICE. In consequence of the obsequice of President Lincolm being fixed for Wednesday, Its usual day of publication, amd Thursday being appropriated fora general fast, the WEKKLY PLAY BILL will not be tasued uatil Friday moruing. 865. Mowpar, April AwwLottery Prizes Cashed. Circulars. it bd CARTON, 10 Wall street N. ¥. AuweUee the Best.—Bowden's Moth Dew ET. For ale by all druggists. A Miblent Sewing Machine. wi I BOX & OLBBS, 8 Broad wag. 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On anhther occasion, being fH ao much as @ halr, affect the rvautt; when, indeed, all ~ tg 7 thirty loan today amounted to §8,062,200—tnctuding hy They did overtake tho train; but at Port Clinton were renounced to appear in Philadciplia—ut the Walnut fa being given UP aA loKt to the, ‘rebolilon, tho Ineurgental@™ Farat Harcuway Accineer—Yesterday afuernoon yuo (rom Pitteburg for $204,500, one from Chicago forf tnformed that the man dosoribed had got of tho tealn FY atroct, wo believe the rusnagor, ot the day for the per- py wore themselves look Ing focmard, pees, ne pees pruiens Bling ofoasin hor V0 Gee woh gh whe No Pimp ? 10,100, on phi } ho Catawissa train or notf% formance, had Booth locked up, but was out §) their trust the clemeney and large-hearted magua- ro) ng office, o ect, While 6-H aves appear a(ier tol iga few boitlos of UM! gee pees 0600, ‘sae rechington 4 {o00,000, pram hho geal witted by the actor, who bribed’ the gervaht tofg nimity of the Executive (or terms as little humiliating Pa gaged io repairing @ holst wh el on the fourth staty, A CENTMATED BATH ACT BA LA 7 Fo a Olds taalvidial soveortyiene te 900 oe Eibring a bottle of brandy, a saucer and am clay fd and penal in thelr charr stor aw it was within his power to M™slipped and fell head foremost to the ground thor, break i aed an| also 2,144 individual subsoriptions ss A despatch was sont to Tamaqua, to tho conductor of Ftp. Insorting the pipo through the keyhole, with py grout. At the momer,4 (he assassin’s too certain buliot ing through the board of the batch and landing tn Uy Rid Yourself of He LMROLN® CONCEN brs SSRI CIDE Ana RENNES TET the train, and in tho meantime Port Clinton was tho- Bf the bow! inverted, the brandy ired Into the gan] eped on its fatal mie gion there was no man in authority gacetlar, He was taken up unconscious apd removed to Bi in the ie ate GAP ARICA ‘ a and suoked up through the plpeby the thirsty traf to whom the neue ant leaders and thelr followers could Bathe New York Hospital, but died before reaching that in D EXT — SNe ee aiatied oe Foaghly searched, 1 gedian, and the fact wns disc! von tn the Weilisbeph lock wth OT gonfdence In thelr hane of need, ItPaetitution; whereupon he waa taken to the Kighth pro- fi chu Cares ell A@bettons 60 He amneements, in consoquence of our great season of Upon the arrival of the train at Tamaqua the conductor) % 1 m to th ed, "ye very fortanate for them if It contd be bacinet police station, Hie resides tn ‘Ainton avenue, near ig ithe Kidne , of men, WW men and ehiidrem, mioarning, that of the op ra must be incl tolegraphed as follows:—-“The man is on the train.” ry i condition, It © fa Infamous deed was the freak of two orf Park avenue, Hrooklyn, Whore » foavos a wife and two Fenct 14i strech & YY". druggies, b 1 his intelicetval t , an play Richwond tof finatica, who plotted it themselves, without Bgchiitven. Ho waa a native of, Connecticut, thirty-six * : Pee Maing bene the bok ottice Witt Another dexpatch was sent to the next station for fur- By 5, ff the actor inf inv ator. trom the Febellauthor ties, nnd was executed PMP voars of age. Corduer Wildes will holdan inquest at tho fy 6 Injurious EMeety of Alcohatte Soapaes on Batutiay for te convontance of thace who | wer Information, with orders for his dotention n field, ato to rots, no tuattcr by WhathA Kighth ward stayin howe, at baif-past seven o clock ie wid (89 avetem puriied, by wstng would se0.re te Lest places in the house. This morning at eight o'clock devetive Lyon rocoived b lia tea 9D, sha in an sue sidor bimselt yp yewiity the Gp ineane,,”f wi web, We antleipats, will uot prove Ww be i thie evoutng oy te over ad thy HEMOLD'S BATRACT 87 ashPARILLA,