The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-16 00:00:00

AN ENGLISH SOHOONER DESTROYED.

HORRIBLE CASE OF

We (Meta) have received the following from our own
correspondent :
"SYDNEY, March 215.
IT "New Zeihind news to the 11th has been received

OhiuTitaki lcas been captured; l 5 of the enemy were
killed and 80 taken prisoners.
"The Psi Mann natives at Opotiki have taken and
destroyed the schooner Eclipse, murdered the Rev. hi.
Volkner. and eaten his brains and eyes. They have
taken the Rev. Mr. Grace, Dr. Agassy, and Captain

,
-- prisoners."
,• A second dispatch, dated Sydney, March 27, is in
corroboration of the first :
" The friendly natives have taken Ohintaki and
several important chiefs prisoners. John Williams was
; killed in the attack. The Psi Marini fanatics have
visited Opotiki, hung and beheaded the Rev. M.
Volkner, abandoned by and vainly calling upon his
, flock for aid. They scooped out and ate his brains. A
fanatic priest ate his eyes.
M. Volkner died calmly, praying.
AMERICA.

By the arrival of the Persia we have advises from
New York to the 3rd instant. It appears that the
entire force surrendered by General Johnstone numbered
27,000 men, and included Beauregard, Hardee, and
Breckenridge. At Memphis an order had been issued
announcing that after a certain date those of the
. .

Confederates who have not surrendered will not be
treated as prisoners of war. Mr. Mallory, Confederate
Secretary of the Navy, had surrendered. Mr. Davis,
with • body 'of cavalry, was putsning his course south-
ward. He is reported to have taken a residence at
Porto Rico. It is reckoned that 400,000 men will be
at once discharged from the Federal army. Butler, as
might be expected, advocates a military government for
the South. The trial of the pennons in custody charged
with complicity in Booth's conspiracy is about to be
opened. It is asserted that the Washington Govern-
ment has notified to the Consul General in Canada that
those implicated in Mr. Lincoln's assassination must be
surrendered to the United States. Mr. Seward is
nearly restored to health, and his eon is improving
gradually.
_ PARTICULARS OF THE CAPTURE A.D DEATH 01

-fiight—ii had been impeded byabroken
leg, he having bad his horse fall with him on the night
of the assassination, thereby fracturing his ankle. This
incident finally led to his discovery, the surgeon who
reduced the fracture having been arrested in Maryland,
and the necessary information derived from him and
others in the same neighbourhood. As soon as the barn
,was surrounded Booth was called upon to surrender.
'The following colloquy is said to have taken place
between Booth and Lieut. Baker, of the cavalry:—
Baker :—You must give up your arms and surrender.
We will give you five minutes to consider, and then we
will burn the barn.—Booth :—Who are you, and what
do you want'—Baker :—We want you, and intend to
take you.—Booth:—Phis is a hard case. I am a

cripple with one leg, but give me a-c—hance-.for my life.
Withdraw your men 100 yards from the barn, and I will
come out and fight. —Baker : —We don't come here to
fight, but to take you prisoner. You must give up
your arms and erurrender.—Booth :—I could pick off •
dozen of you while you are talking, but I do not wish to
kill anybody. I will never surrender though. Never be
taken alive.—Baker :—Then we will fire the barn.—
Booth :—Well, my brave boys, prepare a stretcher for
me.—Harold by thus time having concluded to surrender,
thrust his wrist through the door to be handcuffed, and
was then dragged out, denounced as a coward by his
desperate companion. All this took place in the dark,
the night being cloudy. Colonel Conger, in command
of the cavalry, being 'satisfied that further parley was
useless, set fire to the hay through the crevices of the
barn, and the building was soon in flames. Through
the cracks between the boards Booth was seen in the
middle of the floor leaning upon a crutch, which he
now threw aside, and, grasping • carbine, he limped
towards the door. Sergeant Corbett, who had crept up
to the barn now fired through an aperture, the shot
taking effect in the head of Booth, who fell to the
floor. The soldiers then en d the barn, and removed
the then dying man to the of an adjoining house,
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and Colonel Center at on nt for a surgeon. Booth
was at first insensible, but finally revived a little, ant
said to Colonel Conger in a feeble voice, "Tell my mother
I die for my country. I did what I thought was for
the best." When an effort was made to revive him by
bathing his hands and face with water, he uttered the
words, "Useless, useless," and soon afterwards expired.
He was shot at fifteen minutes past three a.m., and
: died about four hours afterwards. His body was
nwseadereyed to Washington, and is said to have been fully
Villintifsed, and secretly buried, being first merely sewed
.t. up in an army blanket.
Tfil WOULD-HZ Amason/ea.—Lewis Payne, the man
who attacked Secretary Seward, is now in gaol in
Washington. He recently attempted to beat his brains
out against the iron bars of his cell, but was prevented,
securely bound, and his, head incased in a wadded cap,
in order to frustrate any similar attempt at self -destruc-
▪ tion. Nearly all the parties directly implicated are now
as in custody. Payne, the would-be assassin of Secretary
' Seward, is a brother of the St. Alban's raider. There
are six brothers, all reckless and daring fellows. Two
were with Walker in Nicaragua.

THE RING of the Belgians is dying.
A GLASGOW cabman has been fined 2s. 6d. for wearing
a bad hat!
Trig strike in North Staffordshire is virtually at an
end.
Ma. PRITCHARD is to take his trial at Edinburgh
about the end of June.
FORD'S theatre (where President Lincoln was mur-
dered) is proposed to be pulled down, and a monument
built on the site to the memory of the martyred
President.
THIC Morning Advertiser, in summing up the results
of the "May Meetings," gives the following as the
total contributions to six of the largest societies during
the past year :—British and Foreign Bible Society,
£187,454 ; Church Missionary Society, £144,464;
Wesleyan Missionary Society, £141,399; Society for
Propagation of the Gospel, £102,987; Religious Tract
Society, £110,928; London Misiiionary Society, £91,01L
Tam DUBLIN EXHIBITIOS was opened on Tuesday
**cording to Progrium• me. No more brilliant scene has
tthr.,
witnessed foe years. About 15,000 were present.
e evening the Prince met a dinner party at the
Lodge, and at half-past eleven reached the
Mansion House for the ball, which was held in George
IV.'s room, 2,000 persons being present. The illumina-
tions at night were numerous. On Wednesday the
exhibition had a fair share of visitors, notwithataeding
the attractions of the military review at the Phainia
Perk, where from 80.000 to 100,000 persons assembled
in the course of .the afternoon, in spite of the rain. In
the evening their Royal Highnesses the Prince and the
Duke of Cambridge dined with Sir George Brown,
commander of the forces in Ireland. On Thursday the
Prince spent two hours in the exhibition,and afterwards
visited St. Patrick's cathedral, through which he was
conducted by Mr. Guinness. The Provost 'and Fellows
of Trinity College have conferred on His Royal
Highness the honorary
_rive° of L.L.D. The Prince
was entertained at a halt on Thursday night, by the
Lord-Lieutenant and Lady Wodehouse, at the Vice-regal
Lodge. On Friday he visited Lord Powersoourt., at that
nobleman's seat, in the county of Wicklow. The
Prince and suite embarked at Kingstown, at seven
o'clock on Friday evening.the guns of the Black Prince,
LiTeepael, Royal George, and the corvette Thor,
firing a Royal salute as the vessel steamed out of the
hub's,.
.
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