The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-04-19

New York, April l5-12;30 p. ma
dispatch from Washington says: Frcder
;Ick Seward is not dead, bu. in a critical
condition.
Washington, April 10TH The attacks
! both at the theater and at Secretary Sew
ards house, took place at about the samt
I hour, 10 o'clock, thus showing precon
1certed plan to assassinate those gentlemen
When the fatal shot was fired, Mrs Lin
1coln, who was alongside her husband ex
claimed, oh! why didn't they Shoot
]. me T.
/ There is evidence that Secretary Stanton
] was marked for assassination. On the re
sceipt Of the intelligence at the war depart
/ ment Of the attack on the President, tw,
employees of the department were sent t
summon the Secretary just as they ap
sproachcd the house MN man jumped on
sfrom behind tree box in font of tn,
! house and ran away. 1t is well known t,
abe the custom Of the Secretary to 60 from
athe department to his house between min,
sand twelve o'clock in the evening, and usu
Tally unattended.
II Is supposed that the assassin intende.
ato shoot him as he entered the house, bu
sfailed from the fact that Mr.. Stanton re
ma ined at home during the evening
Tie horse Of the man who made the at
stack on Secretary Seward has been loun,
{ near the Lincoln Hospital, hataed in sweat
and with blood upon the saddle cloth.
Washington, April 15--The assassin OF
/ president Lincoln let behind him his Ia
and spur. The hat was picked up in TIA
Presidents box, and has been Identified b,
sparties to whom it has been shown as tn
one belonging to the suspected nan, an,
accurately described by other parties 10
sai!owed TO see it before d-scrtb ny it. Tn
spur was dropped upon the stag, and tha
lal.o has been ident fl ID As the one prOcur,t
] at stable where the same man hired
horse in the evening Two gent men VIII
went to the Secretary of War t, apprs
3him Of the attack on Mr. LiGc, In, met n
i the residence o: the formcr man muffl J.
! in cloak, who, when accosted by them
shistened away. Ii had been Mr.. S;ant,n',
ilntention to accompany Mr.. Lincoln to tn
theater and occupy the same box, butsth,
apress OF business prevented It. 1t there
5iure sc ms evident that the act of the plot
,crs was to para.yze the country by a
sonce striking down the heal, the heart ane
the arm Of the Country.
AS soon as the dreadful events were an
Z IN unced in ths streets, Sup rintenden
Richards and his asst ,tants were at worl
st. discover the assassin. In a few mo
Snents the telegraph had aroused the Who'll,
apoiice force of the city. Mayor Wallace
.and several members IF the city govern
,stnent were soon on the spot, and every pre-
acauion was taken to preserve oidtr ans
s3quiet in the city. Every street in Wash
4 ng,on was patroled at tie request of Mr.
Orchards General Augur sent horses I.
amount the police. Every road leading GU
aof Washington was strongly picketea, AM
every possible avenue OF escape was thor
Roughly guarded. Steamboats, about to de
4part down the Potomac were stopped.
The daily Chronicle says: "As it j
suspected that this conspiracy originate
IN Maryland, the telegraph flashed tn
dmournful news to Baltimore, and all TIA
cavalry was immediately put upon actiy
duty. Every road was picketed, an
every precaution taken 10 prevent the e,
5cape of the assassin.
A preliminary examination was made b
d Mr.. Richards and his assistants Sever;
Spersons were called to testify. and the ev
ience as elected, before an informal trib,
ana9, and mol under oath, was conclusive I
= the pont that the .marderer Of Presider
Lin, DIN was John Wilkes Booth, the acto
: Lis hat was found n the private box an
Identified by several persons who had see
aim within the past two days. ard the spr
which he dropped by accident after i
n jumped to the age was identified as or
= Of those which he had obtained from III
stable where he hired his horse. This ma
Booth has played more than once |