The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-25 00:00:00

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AMERICA.

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HEW YOU. MAX 13.
The following letter, which appeared in the
Times of yesterday morning, and is, I believe, from
the pen of Mr. Raymond, tb. editor, whose rela-
tions with Mr. Seward have long been intimate,
contains a good deal of interesting information
about the aassination plot:
Weeldestaa, Webs*, May 10,1866.
Toe will be glad to know **Ma sweater repels of
Bargeoa•Gooral Bus cetworalag figentary Bora* are
fully jug** by the tints. Hs is reseverlag eigadlly sod
rapidly. Indeed. his poen] system is as woad. and his
pawl health at good at ever. Hie wounds do not pain
him sow, and the pahas upon his bee end throat have
healed. Owing to the long delay in mediae the boom of
hie Isken jaworldelt was owed by the Seeps* semels,
the keels that. has been slow, and is still kapok* He
hie wont the Seals sad serviosable steel hams by which
his jaw is kept la pis, sow for about a week, sod is pOlaii
said to it somewhat. At &et il peeved* him sleeping,
go that be pined very little strength, and pew nervosa ;
hut he cm now sleep soundly with is. mil sal, has It
se incoavorase arid aassoyaeos. As it Sludge two or
three large *Aisles, kept he • fixed poi
within his
men* it of emeses interferes somewhat with his artier
Utica ; and at it preveeta him from takiag say food
semi in s liquid form, ted to him Is • Osage. it is
mesh to ke expected that be Said sepia etisselt
very vapidly. Nevesthelem he talks a peek deal. wept
about the hears, gess up sad down stake without eseist-
see, sod t.keeloag rides without much fatigue. I rode
with him over two beers on Monday, under the hot sun of
midday, *rose the Animate Bridge, end over the rough
made of the Maryland side of the Potomac ; and I think I
was more Miguel whoa we returned than he wee.
Mr. &sward Olio freely of the susigation sad of suite
the sad aateciedente. Ido not think he wee is
the last =pre* at it. Indeed. he ho se then see
with* the lest two years told me In ocavenatioa that we
*ski gem ease from this peat war without polities,/
seshatime. They might be OSP* In theism of aiding
the rebellion, or for the purpose of mewls be defeat ; but
they were literally certain to coma For hie own pest, I
knew that he had mede his pens' azreagetneate with a
view to the possibilityof is a Moms of hie own career. He
was never insensible of the extent to which the greet body
of the elsveholdisig oligarchy held him nopondble for the
political and moral *sages which prompted the rsbelllos.
Aced I may ma well add, that they know ism* better than
some of oar own people the fact that from the very beginning
at this war to its end, hie soma and advice have always boa
for the boldest and most vigorous measures for its snow
Kan
Mr. Seward talks very freely of public affairs. He has
now, as he always ham bad since he knew him in the
Berate, the pcofounden confides in Andrew Johns.
It wee very easy, he aid, to tell is the Berate, by their toes
mod bearing, what min were fitted for palate service in a
Kr of revolutiou, sad what men were not ; end he sever
had a monsaVe doubt concerning Johnson.
Mr. Seward, as yet, has tliken no part, since the smelt
epee is public affair; though he has supervised, to a
stain extent, the Sion of the state departmeat ; but I
think that, lints something should retard the Wittig
together of the See of his Ow, ha will DA the sled of two
or three weeks be fully competent for Ito highest duties.
And lam also oogfident that President Johns has never
for • moment thought ci placing than ditties is any other
Sada.

Of Ur. Frederick Seward's prospective rervery, I can.
mot speak with so much oonfidenes. He is sot yet coati.
dere by hie surgeon out of daapr, though then is a per.
oeptible improvement in his oonditioe. It seen that on
of the blows from the pistol in the sommin's hoed ruptured
a hind venal lying agog the upper Nolen of the kris,
when it was impossible to use the allies:7 suppliant cd
surgery. The bleeding was stopped, therefore, with the
• until • ooegulation of the blood served the same pur-
pose ; and the aim of the surgeon now is to
keep it in this tradition until the ruptured artery
heals. It bee Om way ones or twice already, but
soccer is hoped for still. He is perfectly 0006600 a
end ma talk ; bat he ia act allowed to speak as all nor to
move, and all visitors are rigidly excluded. It is hoped
that with this perfect quiet, and with nothing whatever
to accelerate the circulation, the requisite healing may take
pine.
It has 'beady been shred that the person known as
Pain bee onfeeted the attempt sorsa Kr. Seward's life.
He says that he had never seen him, that he had
nothing spinet him, and that be attempted to kill him
only because be bad swan to do it. The whole affair,
he bas aid. was • gigantic failure—only two (Booth
and himself) of the whole number concerned Lavin
kept their oaths. If it had snecteded, he as" the
actors in it would never have been known. This
stems at first sight inoorisistent with the open exposure mode
of himself by Booth aks the smastiaation of Mr. Lineal,
But I have been told that it was part of the plan to turn off
the pa in the theatre the instant the pistol ahot was heard,
sad that the man was found at the controlling stop-cock to
whom that duty bad been usigned, but that he failed to
fear the signal. Paine is not at all communicative. He
refuel to disclose tie 1111212011 of his amodates, or to
say anything of his own antecedents. It is sot believed
that he has given his real Dime, nor is it known to
what part of the country be belongs. He looks young,
not over twenty-one or two ; bas a square, hard
face ; a clear firm eye, which returns even now unflinchingly
the darned,' and steadiest: gaze; is very athletio in his frame;
has whits, soft hands, evidently unused to work, and
although utterly unmoved by throats or by harehnass, gives
indications of tangibility to acts and words of kindlier. He
is • roan of more than ordinary mark. He says that when
be fled from Mr. Seward's room he knew that be bad failed,
and expected to Sod the hall below full of can, summoned
by the cries of murder raised by the coloured boy, who had
ruched into the street, which cries he himself had distinctly
heard. But be was prepared and determined to out his
way through them all, and wan surprised to find himself un-
-oPPose-

The man Paine is supposed, I do not know why,
to be a Canadian. He was arrested at 2 o'clock in
the morning, on entering the house of a Mrs. Surstt
in Washington, whose son has disappeared, but it
has been ascertained that the latter had been in
Canada shortly before the assassination.
There has, within the last few days, been a good
deal of angry discussion here over the decision of
the government to try the prisoners in secret. The
newspapers in this city of every party were on
Thursday morning unanimous in denouncing
it. Some objected to the trial before a
military commission ; others, while acknow-
ledging the necessity or propriety of this,
argued strongly against the secrecy, not only be-
cause of its danger as a precedent, but because of
the opportunity which it would afford the enemies
of the government of throwing doubts on its good
faith in the charge it has made against Jefferson
Davis. It has offered 100,000 dollars for his appre-
hension, and solemnly accused him before the world
of complicity in the assassination, and has alleged
that it has evidence in its possession sufficient to
prove it. This evidence, if it exist, will, no doubt,
be produced on the trial of the conspirators already!
in custody, but if it be produced in secret, and
only those portions of it are allowed to be pub-
lished, as is now declared, which the Judge
Advocate may select, it is difficult to believe
that it will produce much impression on any-
body. No faith or credit will be plated in it
by the enemies of the government, not much by
its friends, and it would find itself saddled with
the very embarrassing imputation of having
trumped up a monstrous charge against a political
enemy with the view of justifying design' against
his life for which no warrant could be otberwbi
discovered. In fact, from the moment tines
charges were made, the President came under a
most solemn obligation to the whole civilised world
to make them good. Should he fail to do so, there
will unquestionably be a strong re-action in Davies
favour. Even those wbo bare most horror of his
political career will be revolted by an unsuccessful
attempt to make him out an assassin, end be will