Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-02-28
ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO -ASsAssINATB
MIR LINCOLN

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO .ASsAssINATB
MIR. LINCOLN.
The President elect brought up at Washing
ton on Saturday morning, nearly twenty.four
hours earlier than indicated in the programme,
in consequence of dispatches sent him at Har-
risburgh by Messrs Scott, Seward and Holt
by the hands of a special messenger. 1t APP
pears highly probable that conspiracy existed
at Baltimore to assassinate Mr. Lincoln provi-
ded he escaped destruction on the way where
arrangements had been made to throw the
train off the track down a very high and steep
embankment.
Inc special correspondent of the New York
I'"es in writing from Harrisburgh, Saturday
morning gives the following particulars:
abraham Lincoln, the President elect of the
United States, is safe in the conitol of tbo no-
ton By the admiral arrangements of Gen.
Scott, the country has been shared the lasting
disgrace, which would have been fastened ;n'
delibly upon it had Mr. Lincoln been murJorod
on his journey thither, as he would have been
had he followed the programme as announced
in the papers and gone by the Northern Cen
trail Railroad to Baltimore
On Thursday night after he had retired. Mr.
q
ger desired to see him on q matter of life and
death. He declined to admit him unless he
gave his name which he at once did, and such
prestige did the name carry that while Mr.
/. Lincoln was yet disrobed he granted an inter-
view to the caller.
prolonged conversation ELECTED the fact
that an organized body of men had determined
that Mr. Lincoln should not be inauguratcd
and that he should never leave the City of Bal
timore alive, if indeed he ever entered it.
The list of the names of the conspirators pre-
sented most astonishing array persons high
in Southern confidence, and some whose fame
is not confined to this country alone.
Statesmen laid the plan, Bankers endorsed
1t, and Adventures were to carry it into effect.
AS they understood, Mr. Lincoln was to leave
Harrisburph at o'clock this morning by spec
ial train, the idea was if possible, to throw the
the cars from the road at. some point where
| they would rush down a steep embankment
ana destroy in moment the lives of all on
board. In case of the failure of this project,
their plan was to surround the carriage on the
way from depot to depot in Baltimore, ard as
sassinate him with dagger or pistol shot.
80 authentic was the source from which the
information was obtained. that Mr. Lincoln af-
ter counselling with his friends, was compelled
! to make arrangements which would enable him
Greatly to the annoyance of the thousands who
desired to call on him last night, he declined
gvin reception. The final council was held
at s o'clock.
| Mr. Lincoln did not want TO yield, and COL
Sumner actually cried with indignation; but
Mrs Lincoln seconded by Mr. Judd and Mr.
Lincoln's original informant, insisted upon it,
and at nine O'Clock Mr. Lincoln left on a spec
ial train. Accompanied by Superintendent
Lewis and one friend, he started while all the
town, with the exception of Mrs Lincoln, COL
Sumner, Mr. Judd, and two reporters, who
were sworn to secresy, supposed him to be
asleep.
The Telegraph wires were put beyond reach
of any one who might desire to use them
At O'Clock the fact was whispered from
one to another, and it soon became the theme
of most excited conversation. Many thought
it very injudicious move, while others regar-
ded it stroke of great merit.
The Lafayette, Ind. Journal of the 18th inst.
gives the particulars of an attempt to throw
the Presidential train off the track in Indiana,
as follows:
An attempt was made on the 18th to wreck
the train bearing the president elect and suite,
about one mile west of the state line. The
particulars, as given us by Mr. Rich of the
Toledo and Western railroad, are that a short
time before the train was due at the state line,
an engineer found it necessary to run out to
the woodward for fuel. Running at moder-
ate speed, he noticed an obstruction on the
track, and stopping his engine, found that a
machine for putting cars on the track had been
fastened upon the rails in such manner that
if a train at full speed had struck it, the engine
and cars must have been thrown Df and many
persons killed. The matter would have been
made public before, but it was hoped that the
perpetrators of the dastardly outrage could be
detected and brought to justice. The whole
thing was admirably planned-the obstruction
so near a station and on straight track, where
it would not be deemed necessary to exercise
any great degree of caution.