New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-11
fHf COMPLETELY OF MRS. SURRA1T
HOW THE PRISONERS LOOK
eecretary Stanton to Give Reports Of the
Evidence to the Public.
Cur Special Dispatch.
WAsnMeToN. "Wednesday. VI.

ASIlsrloNi htNhteud1 Nay ~ iCNe'
The sanguine expectations of some otcaptur-
iDg Jcf Davis are not ndulgod in to any very great
extent by Intelligent army siicors. The Government
is making every effort possible for his capture and may
succeed Int it is thought viii be the result o.
accident and the fidelity of she oontraband rather than
any assistance which viii be rendered by the native
white population.
The action of tho Government in ordering seoroi
ie Of the asssssinators receives the severest eou
6emnaon from oil quarters The most steadfast friends
Of the Administration deem it most elaye mistake,
Which, ii is felt great and powerful nation, IN the f
flush Of It's triumph cannot afford 10 commit None but
the most cogent for its necessity will satisfy
the popular an1ieties on this POINT.
TIE Trial Of the assassins ard oonspira'ors re
sumed TO-DAY III Ae large adjoining tie Old reni-
trtary in which the prisoners confined, assembling
al II o'clock and remaining in session until O'Clock.
HaToid arraned, and considerable testimony was
taken in tie case and gratifying progress was made.
Testimony has been or viii be offered showing that
Harold went to Canada and conferred with the Rebels
Gtout the assassination OF Mr.. Lincoln since Booths
return from there. Mrs SurFett. who TO have
been one Of the chief insneators and participants is
Kept closely Guarded. but is very defiant and uHre-
Ielting
Her daughters do not seem to have been implicated
and viii be kept and called as witnesses One of them
is very SICK and is reported TO have poisoned herself
a new sensation was pr. nced here this evening by
story IN The Rppbliesa Sat young Surrat was cap
tared out near Fort Lincoln to-day sneakiDg around
ana trying TO keep away nom soldiers ald trusting
himself only 20 negroes. Re arrested aud brought
in The material is fhat the prisoner Is not Sur
raft bat a doserter from our own army.
It's positively known that Snrrat is in Canad, and
there is little doubt that re wiz be tai soon.
The Commission sits with closed JFs. bat it is te-
eyed that the Secretary Of War viii send an abstract
Of the trial Gen. Dix after Of his
ports.
TIE commission for the trial Of lie eonspiratoTs il
constituted follows; Major.Gen Hunter Malor-Gen
Lew wallace, BIig-Gon. Comstock, Col. Mccall and
Major H. +. Smith. AlojoT-Gen. HMtranft Is in com
n.aad Of the jaii.
Frederick Stone hos undertaken the defense Of DR..
Mndd who set Booths leg. Cox, who is charged with
entertaining and concealng Booth and Harold, and
Jones charged with ferrying them ecross the river.
The Star describes the principal prisoners at the Ar
senal as follows:
Prominent among them IS Mrs suuat q stout buxom
looking dame with gray hair and clean cold gray eyes
which reveals a crafty, impircabe spirit She has I'M
questOnably nuised the plot with malignant care
although II would rather appear tfa she sent Ter OWL
out Of tie way when the time Tor action came
Payne is bat "a animal ferOcious brutal and evi
dainty possessing little mind heart. Harold is bnt
the condiIg boy that his relatives here would repre-
sent, although be was evidently chosen by Booth as
only a companion and gu.de--no ar friend. Atzerott
is "a swartby "Dugald Dalgeite' sort of person Of
TeatOnic descent, who was bI1ed TO strike but whose
heart tailed lin.
There are those who were accomplces at the tbestrc
pices IL Maryland. and accOmpiices IN Virginia
There may be about 20 prisoners IN all Ford and two
euQ.oyes are still IA confinement.