Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-04-28

received quite a quantity of crout, pick
les and Irish potatoes, for which we
are Indebted to tho Sanitary Commits
sion. S. c. accept our thanks. .' -. % '4''
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From the Caicago Tribune. .,.,. t...,.....f -rr,
| .. The Murderer OF thaTresiient. o. Ut
\ J. Wilkes Booth, the murderer OF /
! President Lincoln, is the son of the ,re-, q
nowned trngedian Junius Brutus Booth.
who was born at London England,
May |, l796. The father came to the
United States in 1921, and made his first t.
appearance at Petersburg, Va, and at
New York in the succeeding year. Du-
ring the latter part of his life he resided
at Baltimore, and died while on hIswny
from New Orleans to Cincinnati, De- .
cembcr, 1852 He left four sous, .tunips
Brutus, Edwin, j. Wilkes and Joseph.
The first three were educated to tho
stage, and entered upon the proiess!OtI,y
succeeding to u wonderful degree. Jo- Z
aeph was educated as a doctor, and sub
scquontly entered the Confederate navy.
J. Wilkes Booth was born in Balti-
more, and is now about twenty-eieht
years of age. Our dispatches describe
his personal appearance very accurate
I y
in height, of spare build but we'll fbrrl-
4 ed His face il pale and thin, eyes and
| hair black, and his moustache very n
! heavy. His mien is very naughty, and
his general appearance Is OF that char
acter which would impress the most
casual passcr-by. At the outbreak of
the rebellion, he was following his pro-
! fcs&ion in Richmond, and entered heart
and soul into the great conspiracy
against the Government. He accepted
us truth the constant assertions of JEFF.
! Davis that MIR. Lincoln was a tyrant,
and its sequence that resistance 10 ty-
rants is the viii Of God. He studiousIy
educated himself into this belief, and
made it the object OF his life to compass
| the assassination of the President. .. p
He il the embodied result of the teach
! ingS of jeff. Davis and his foilowers.-
| Where others had not the courage to
! follow, he followed these teachings ont I
to bloody end. The accurscd iRatitu-
| ton of slavery with all its concomi-
! tants found in him its representative
ard tool. 10. ..4 .E .. l.... ".-" .''
There Is proof positive that the tcrri-
bio decd h" has committed was the cul-
mination Of plan he has cherished
ever since the outbreak of the war. 4
year and and n half a:eo, when he was
playing his last engagement mt McNick-
cr's Theatcr, in this city, he plainly IN
! timatcd his desire to be instrumental in
Kidding The country of the "tyfant 80
but the desire was attributed TO his pas
=! slonate nature and his love of nutofie-
y, rather than To any belief chat lo re
ally sintcnded TO rerrctratc his awful
designs '.H.. i... .uiftH5
Like his fnthcr, he was at tirner GROSS
ly addicted to Che mmudcrate use orin-
tuXicating liquors. But in this failing
he was the creature Of his surround
ings. Wn,lc I'm this city, where he hns
played several engagements, he was
temperate, but in 81. Louis, Louisvillo
and Southern cities, he fell in with his
southern friends, aud plunged into
Wild and rcChI"s course Of destination.
His passions " enc intense, and hc exer-
cised litti" restraint over them, allow
ing them sometimes 10 hurry him al
most to the very verge OF nindness and
the most reckless desperation. These
traits to limited extent were manifest
ed upon the stage. His characters were
invariably those in which were define
atcd the most powerful and concentra-
! ted passions, aud these qualities wero
brought out and developed with a nerv-
/ Gus expression, wonderful subtlety and
close similarity, which ut once would
convince the student OF lirman nature
THAT his representations passion wero
the representations of his own chaYac-
ter, that only man possessing tho
worst passions could 50 closely rcpre-
sent them. study alone could never
inIniiiarlze him 80 Intimately with the
/ de!lneations of crime. Il was in lIim.,
Ii was part Of Lis being, and in por-
traylng RichaTi, Iago ana Ghylock, ha
was portrayinr himself '..."'
That he was the pcrpctrator Of this
dreadful crime HIcro can scarcely be "A
doubt. His ,chafactor, his secession
principles, his o!t-2yoWcd Intentions to
. p2rpctrate II, the lct;eg8 f0und In His
trunk, his identititutton by actors who
knew him we'll alid iutilnatt,iv, ana the
thorough aequainlancerwith the iutri-,
citte passages OF the stage all point to,
MN with uncrring certainty. There
cah be no ralllatt0.!, no III r!gation OF
Inc ierribteIdced. IL was fy2Cned Tia ted,
cold biaodcd, deviiish, witbOat tho
! shadow OF excuse, and pefpctrated With
out the incentive of Oiiensc. History.
ancient or modern, whether in the days
OF Caesar or in The days OF Borpia, fur
nIsiies no parallel to hi- bloody ,Goad.--7
lie has CANNED himself 70 eternal infa-
my, and will live IN history linked witt.
| "the fool who fired the ilphesian fane,j'
| q name To be shQddcFed ut, 10 be mem
toned With horror. Ills death Will ba
no compensation for our loss, but will
carry with It one consolation -that the
world has oAe less monster. E ssa.a
s III. haasew johnson. -.,r ...,g.,
Andrew johnson IL aunhai;,allx, .