, 1861-05-29

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WAsuINGToN, May "a, 1861.
All last evening the very air was laden with
IN apprehension that some great movement
WIS making but only the initiated knew
what It would be. saw battalion hurrying
away about Q O'Clock, but could get not Q
word Ct their destination. This morning ut
9 o'clock there were tidings! Some eight
regiments had been thrown into Virgtnia in
tho night; Alexandria Was taken but Col.
Ellsworth vas killed, and that, too, By dcs-
perate bully, well known, and a dread to al1
the police. At first 1t could not be credited
that the brave aid almost idoliEcd leader Of
the Zouavcs could be dead, and that he vas
then lying, as reported, In the navy yard,
"marred, as We might sec, by traflora." But
soon it was TOO true. Men shook their heads
md sighed as they said "he Ind been shot
through the heart BY one Jackson, hotel
had hauled down his secession flag" But the
same persons who told this, added with q
heartfelt gratitude, that Jackson was shot by
one Of EusWorth's men, and bayoneted and
cut into strings by the regiment
It YVES added that there were some thirty
less joy than the fact that the murderer Of
Ellsworth was killed on the spot. By 10
O'Clock the fire bells Of the city were toliing;
The engine houses were drapcd in mourning:
every military officer We met Was wearing
c1ape the aage Of The c1ty I've were at halEmast,
sadness. About the time the bells we're done
tollirg, people thought they could hear can
norad'ug and vol1eys of mueketry over ut
Alexaudria, nine miles from the Capitol; and
mnny feared the Federal troops had been sur
prised by some ambush, and that the gin WIS
being sp:ung on them, which Rives suggested,
when be said, "let them come, they will find
that Alexandria is trap" As I was passing
the street could hear no guns, and conclud-
cd, what Afterwards was found to be the case,
' {1,o r,,,5- Ak11 A41,% %not -Jo
after o'clock, when Ellsworth and Jackson
fell. Soon a[ler this met crowd Of dozen
District Zouaves, leading young mnn with
the Fireman Zouaves dress. They were rush
ing him along the streets and entered their
quarters with him. Some said th ey had one
Of the seceseionists who was taken with arms
in his hands, In the support Of Jackson the as-
Eassin. But followed On up the steps to see.
There he stood, the dust Of battle on him !;
the sweat on his youthful and Intelligent facc;
tired, and yet excited With the story he was
telling, and the grea: deed he had been doing:
| Iheard his story aud took him by the hand, and
he gave me his name, which wrote down be-
fore his eyes, telling him I wanted
It for the papers and here 1t Is,
FRAEc1a f; BaoTaEIL, Of Troy, New York
As A. Ellsworth vas native New-Yorker, 1t was
fitting that NeW-Yorker, from the very next
county, should revenge his death His story
was this As the Colonel was landed, he
pc,ecd up the streets, end seeing large Sc.
cession flag flying from the Marshall House,
r. Gaid "Boye, that must ,et,7l eo%e down" aad
up and demanded Of Jackson that he take it
| down. "By what authority?" asked he.
"By the authority Of the United States" said
the Colonel The landlord refusing to take
it down, the Colonel, brave even to fault,
eprang up md seized i, his fonr men follow:
down he eaid, stDon't tear it, boys, till we
get down-then we'll cut it up" Just then
the landlord put double -barrellcd gun to
bis breast and fired: ".M God!" said
the Colonel, and fell dead with his
seeing the gun still pointing, knocked 1t aside
and shot Jackson in the face, at the same time
running him through with his bayonet; aud
as he stopped to do this the second barrel Of
Jackson's gun ". ut of, passing the charge,
which was buckshot and slugs, right over lis
head. There was no other violence done to
his body, the wife appearing and begging the
men not to disfgure it. The story that his
hands and his head were cut of, Was not true,
though the Zouagea Were with difficulty re-
strained from cutting him all to pieces. As
the crowd gathered around the young hero,
who told his story with becoming modesty,
devoid Of all anger, hut with fearful eye and
trembling voice, one after another seized his
hand, TIL he had aAked them, as fayor, not to
shake bis hand, as It was already lame With
the hearty shakes IT had got That hand i
| UEkau1t1 W NC HuAhG1l "G4t II ua5 41E, AQQ LUE
| name Of FRANCIS E. BRoWNEn to be blazon
ed In every place where his Colonel Was ad
mfred.
Your correspondent, knowing that Chicago
claimed EllsW orth as her citizen, determined
to see him, If possible, and make as mtnute
allow. had some difficulty to find IN omni
bus which had not already two loads aboard
bound for the 1ayy yard to See the body Of
the Colonel By going far back On the avenue
found seal, hat before we arrived at the
Capitol t9e dial struck eyeF the 18th passsn
extensive, Of which I may hereafter w1ite ~
My pass ran thus: " Headquarters American
Guard list Regiment Light Infantry, New
neto5, eda si5s s. 3o?R e. h &aS NsSy f FL T7R
late Col Ellsworth. Geo. A. Backineham m
Major list Regiment, and acting Command
ant list Regiment N. 7. 8. r" As camo u
70 the Engine House, which was painted
door, and SIX flags over the windows within
almost started back and Wis half sorry
: had undertaken the task. There were guards
Tithont, and as I entered, guards met M
| eye within. But there WAS q sight there which
cannot write, and 1sha1l never forget. There
! lay the body had lately secn at the head o
l300 troops. There he lay On two doors II
the middle Of the house, his thce b1ackened b.
death, h1s dark hair hanging in disturbed
mass, bis dress the came he fell In, with the
: exception that his cost lay near with the hole
, through it near and Just above the lremnn'k
7 badge, which he wore over his heart One o.
} his hose FAB Oh wrong side out, Indicating
the haste with which be sprang to duty In th3
night; and, saddest Of all an opening wa
made through which two surgeons were In
jecting his heart, once SO noble and fearless
by Holiness embalming process. Nj. Holmes
: the inventor, WAS taking the charge, Whilt
. close By wes the undertaken with s sp1endie
: metallic coffin with silver mountings, making
: itready for the slight and hushed form. Near b
stood the chaplain of the Reg't, Rev. .Mr. Dodge
who Tas also near him when he fell, and II
fact stood next to Ellsworth after B1ownell
The Rev. Dr.. Butler was also present, and the
|. ca1ringe Of Mrs. Lincoln stood at the side O
, The engine house, where abe was listening t(
the recital Of his death BY the one who 2veng
ed it. Not being able to see the body there
she returned. and came again m hour aftel
with Mr.. lincoln, who it viii be remembered
had Ellsworth IN bis party when he came tt
, Washington. Mrs, Lincoln furnished oui
very large bouquet, md one smaller ons for th,
obeequies. ne!er saw sWeeter flowers, q
those which might better be termed God
smiles." =.
On beard the steamer Baltimore, I saw til,
thirty.six prisoners taken 1t Alc1and1i&, Q,
their horses. They were! surrounded be
:" fore they knew It, and hare they we're
J The Captain, u. b. Ball., aud Lo1tena
Gtigsby were On deck. Tho rest ver'
, IN the cabin below, many OF them pl1yinI
cards, md al snaxt, but hard looking youth