The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-07

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| 1t is thus with Senator Wilson.
Verdict or the Washington Military
| Neutrality-suspicious. or the Conspfra tors
| to be Hanged.
| The Military Commission which has been in
session in Washington for nearly two months,
alton conspirators, has analysed the testi-
mony and rendered its verdict. The find.
ings of the Commission have been sub
mitted to the President and approved by
him, and Lewis Payne, David E. Harold,
Mrs. Mary E'Surratt and George A. Atzerott
arc to be hanged to-day by the military
authorities. DR.. Mudd, Samuel Arnold and
Michael O'Laughlln are to be imprisoned for
life, and Edward Spangler six years imprison-
ment and hard labor in the Albany Peniten-
tiary. Thus have the deeds Of these conspira-
tors, their participation in, or assistance ren-
dered in carrying out the assassination of Mr..
Lincoln and the attempt upon the lives Of other
government officials, been brought home to
them with all their fearful consequences.
Booth, the leader of this band, long since
ended his career His last hours were attended
with the most circulating suffering. He thus
paid the penalty of his crime in numbering the
Chief Magistrate of the nation. David e.
Harold, whose name heads the list in the find
ings Of the Commission, was the companion of
Booth in his fight from Washington after the
execution of the tragical deed and his pilot
through the byways, marshes and swamps on
the Maryland side of the Potomac He had
also been for sometime assisting Booth, and
was captured with him. Lewis Payne, as our
readers are already well aware, Is the des-
perado who entered the residence of Secretary
Seward, and there fought his way to the bed
where lay the PROSTATE form Of the Secretary Of
State. Having administered severe blows to
Frederick Seward, and laid him PROSTATE at
the door of the bedchamber, he rushed to the
bedside, and with dagger cut several horrible
gashes in the cheeks and neck of Secretary
Seward, who lay there helpless, suffering from
recent severe injuries. Nor did his work Of
destruction stop here. The attendants, who
rushed to the Secretary's assistance, and an
other son, received severe wounds through the
application of the same instrument which had
been applied 10 the master Of the house. For
tunately, the wounds, although of the most
dangerous character, did not prove fatal, and
all the others injured are fast recovering. But
the escape of Mr.. Seward and his son Frederick
has been miraculous. As penalty for these
atIocious deeds, Lewis Payne, like Harold, has
been sentenced to be hanged to-day.
George A. Atzerott was assigned the duty Of
johnson. He engaged room at the same
hotel where Mr.. johnson was stopping, that he
might the better perform his part Of the tragedy.
All the necessary preparations were made, but
for some cause he never executed his part Of
the plot. The connection Of Mrs. Mary e, Sur
raft was that Of harboring the conspirators and
in the assassins making her house their rendez-
vous, where all their schemes were planned and
matured. In addition to this, it was proven by
the evidence that she notified the occupants Of
her house in Surrattsville to have certain
weapons in readiness on the very night of the
assassination, stating that two men would be
there for them on that night Booth and Harold
called as predicted. It will also be remem-
bered that it was at her house In Washington
that Payne was arrested, having sought refuge
there after midnight in the disguise of COM
mon laborer. This concludes the list of those
who are to suffer the penalty Of death upon
the scaffold. Before the sun sets to-day, un-
less they are reprieved, they will oil meet
their doom.
OF those who are sentenced to be imprisoned
for life DR.. Mudd has been the most conspicu-
GUS In the trial He seems to have been on
friendly relations with Booth, and in fact
know more or less Of his villanous designs. 1t
was to him that Booth rushed for medical as
sistance to relieve his sufferings arising from
the injury to his leg; thus becoming an &C.
ccssory before and after the fact of the assassi.
nation. Samuel Arnold was one of the origi-
nal parties In the plot for abducting the Presi-
dent, but appears to have backed out and left
Washington for Fortress Monroe before the
execution of the assassination programme. To
Michael O'Laughlin was charged the work of
assassinating General Grant; but the latter
leaving Washington that evening, OTaugh-
lin was unable to carry his part of the tragedy
into execution. Like DR.. Mudd and Arnold, he
is sentenced to close imprisonment for life.
Edward Spangler, who is let of with six years.
confinement in the Penitentiary, was one of the
carpenters employed at the theatre, and as
sisted the escape of Booth from the stage
through the back door. This includes all of
those conspiratGs who have been arraigned
before the military commission. The evidence
upon which these sentences are based has been
from time to time spread before the public,
and we presume the DEGREES of the court mar
tial create no surprise.
Word OF Advice 20 Louis Napoleon.
We have q word of advice to Louis Napoleon,
the Emperor Of the French. We have always