Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-24

Vrom the London Times. MAJ s.l
The Europa brings news from America
Which, although somewhat less startling, 10
hardly less Interesting than that which
reached us . fortnight ago. The great event
is the sudden and violent death of Mr.. Lin.
coins murdsrer. The story Of u forms q
dramatic but unsatisfactory sequel TO that
deplorable catastrophe Twelve days after
wards, Wilkes Booth and his aecomplice,
Harold, wore found TO have taken refuge IN
a swamp in that part Of Maryland which luts
out between the mouth Of the Potomac and
Chesapeake Bay, II had already been ascer-
tanned that tho oonspiratorB hnd assembled
In that neighborhood before the fatal hight
Of April II, and Il was copjeetured thai
Booth had fed in that direction. s
Thither how tracked BY q body Of Fed
eral cavalry, and the marvel is that he was
not oyortRken much earlier, for Il IL, posi-
lively stated that his horse fell with him not
far from Washington, causing ffaetere or
Injury Of one Of his logs, and that he had 10
call In the assistance Of 4 surgeon. He is
also said 10 have been hRrborsd, with OF with.
out knowledge Of his identity, In certain
farm house, and he must have obtainsd the
means ofcrossing the river 10 escape capture,
for the next scene Is laid on the other side Of
ID, near Port Royal, on the Rappahannock.
Here Booth and Harold, finding their par-
suors clese upon them, barrioaded themselves
In barn, and were speedily surrounded.
Being summoned, they doggedly refused TO
surrender. The barn was set on hre, and Of
the two assAssins Harold was taken alive, and
Booth was shot through the headin the melee
BY a sergeant. "The wound wac not imme-
diateiy fatal. and he fingered three hours be-
fore he expired. He continued TO curse the
Government to the latest moment; finding an
interval, however, TO send farewell message
TO his mother -
Such an end was too good for such q mis-
ereant and most honest mon will feel. In
common with the American people, that JUS
tiee has been cheated Of victim A stage
desperate like Booth, had he been required
70 choose his own death, would certainly have
preferred a soldiers fate 70 public execn-
ton, and the same fortune which favored his
infamous design seems 10 have attended him
TO tho last. ta
II was by series Of hair breadth chances
that no obtained aeoess 10 tho Presidont's .
box, that he was enabled 10 take q deadly
aim, that he passed unhurt and unehallenRod
through the horror ticken audience, mounted
his horse in safety and reached point some
forty niles distant from Washington, BY a
oircuitous route, In spite Of severe aeoi-
dent, and across q broad euiuary. Hunted
down at length, and brought 10 bay, he dies
like the hero Of tragedy, but with exacra-
tions on his tongue. still dofying the jpdg-
ment Of human tribunal. lnf ~
lFIem 1hA-Io6doa Daily News, Mays
ThaAretehed miaoroant whose hand has
spread mourning over a. continent, and
,tdrned even hostility into sympathy for his
victim, has perished In a manner that Is per-
hapa the nttest penalty for his crime. Other
assassins have invested their deed with .
glow Of heroism, BY setting their own lives
frankly against the life they smote, and das
ring vengeance iu the name Of justice. Bat
Wilkes Booth was a eowardly william who
crept secretly to strike his enemy 10 the
back, and who thought 10 secure his own
safety BY prepaped hight Eoitis best that
he should not even have the dignity Of
dying by the hands Of justice, but. hupted like
vermin 10 his lair, be pat out of Iiie by the
pistol Of a common soldier. His besf for fhs
lrorid thar a. spsediiV a. fs1sslbke 4 sktnid b
ena5lsi 20 cuase fkiHliRs ef q ,iatnrs % De-
Jorm 4, sehieA had drasea % gfss.f notSrisfy
ey . eTtSie-s0 s'hHniaA.