The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-10

n her behalf. E,niy to-day she knelt in
The cell at her mothe RS feet, and sobbed
with now and then u pitiful scream, til
the gloomy corridors rang. She endeay
ored to win from Pyne statement that
her mother was not accessory, and, as o.
last resort, lung herself upon the steps
OF the White-house, and made hat por-
tai memorable by her filial tears. About
half-past eight o'clock this morning,
MISS Surratt, accompanied by female
TREND, again visited the White House
ior the purpose ofobtaining an interview
with the President. The latter having
given orders that he would receive no
one to-day, the door-keeper stopped Miss
Surratt at the foot of the steps leading
up to the Presidents office and would not
permit herto proceed further. She then
asked permission to see General Muzzy,
the Presidents military secretary, who
promptly answered the summons, and
came down stairs where Miss Surratt
was standing. AS soon as the general
made his appearance, Miss Surrattthrew
herself upon her knees before him, and
catching him by the coat, with loud sobs
and streaming eyes implored him to
assist her in obtaining a hearing
with the President. General Muzzy, in
90 s~iANCi ~ ilttuhSi as pOoSlUlCy lulOI
ed Miss Surratt that he could not COM
ply with her request, as President John
sons orders were imperative, and he
would receive no one. Upon General
Muzzy returning to his office, Miss Sur
raft threw herself upon the stair steps,
where she remained a considerable
length of time, sobbing aloud in the
greatest anguish, protesting her mothers
innocence, and imploring every one who
came near her to intercede in her mo-
theirs behalf. While thus weeping, she
declared her mother was too good and
kind to be guilty of the enormous crime
of which she was convicted, and asserted
that if her mother was put to death she
wished to die also. She was finally al
lowed to sit in the east room, where she
lay in wait for all who entered hoping
to make them efficacious in her behalf,
all the while uttering her weary heart |
in a woman's touching cries; but at last,
certain of disappointment, she drove
again to the Jail and lay in her mothers |
cell, with the heavy face of one who
brings ill-news, The parting will con-
secrate those gloomy walls. The daugh-
ter saw the mother pinioned and kissed
her wet face as she went shuddering to
he scaffold. The last words of Mrs.
tlS Sll0 WSllt Oul VI lIiO JILL, were |
addressed to gentleman whom she had
known. Tuoa
Goodbye, take care of Annie.n
Tonight there is Grape on the door of
the Surratt's, and a lonely lamp shines
at a single window, where the sad or
phan Is thinking Of her bereavement.
The bodies of the dead have been APP
piled for, but atpresent will not be given |
up. 4 T. 90, fs--
Judge Holt was petitioned all last night
for the lives and liberties of the con-
demned, but ne was memorable. f1
The soldiers who hung the condemn
ed were appointed against their will.
I forbear to give their names as they DO
not wish the repute of executioneis.
They all belonged to the Fourteenth
Veteran Reserve Infantry.
A FINS.
Here endeth the story of this tragedy
npon a tragedy. All are glad that it is
done. I an. glad particularly. IT has
cost me how many journeyingsto Wash
ington, how many hot midnights at the
telegraph office. how many gallops into
wild places, and how much revolving
familiarity with blood,
The end has come. The slain, both
good and evil, are in their graves out Of
the reach Of hangman and assassin.
Only the correspondent never dies. He
is the true Pantheist-going, out OF ma
ture for O week, but bursting forth afresh
i'm a day, and so insinuating himself
into the history of our era that it is be-
ginning to be hard to find out where
the event ends and the writer begins.
On Monday night Ford's Theatre
opens with the ''Octoroon.o The gas
will be pearly as ever; the scenes as
rich. The blood.staiped foot-lights will
flash asof old upon merry and mimick-
inc faces. So the world has Its tragic
but its real career is comedy.
Over the graves of the good and the
scaffolds of the evil, sits the leering
momus across whose face death some
times brings sleep, but never wrinkle
THE HABEAs Co RPUs.--A telegraph
dispatch, in another column, informs us
that Judge Thompson, of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, yesterday order.
ed the release of Mr.. Cozzens, who was
arrested by the military in Philadelphia
some DAYS ago on an order, as is alleged,
from Washington, and the judge has al
SO decided that the right. of the Presi-
dent to suspend the writ of Habeas Cor
pus was only given him by Congress du-
ring the continuance of the war. This
Is a very important decision, and the fact
and principle on which it is based, of the
actual and legal termination of the state
Of war; have direct bearing on other
and measures which are
yoing forward under military authority
It this time. SO
Mr.. Cozzens, it will berecollected, had
,een tried by military commission for
lleged defrauding of the Government
n contract, and when arrested recent
v. the Provost Marshal resisted with
.rmed force the process OF the court, on
writ sued out by Mr.. Cozzens' counsel,
until ordered from Washington to re-
spond according to law, and then there
spouse was that the prisoner was held
by authority from Washington. The
question now is, will the conflict between
the military and civil authorities end,
by a compliance on the part of the form
er with an order of the court, or Will 1t
still 60 on, on the hypothesis, apparent
~, that the war is not over? The perpe-
traitors OF frauds on the government, and
All others charged with crime, should be
duly prosecuted, but as so many of the
verdlcts OF military courts have to be
set aside by pardons, it would seem that
the ENDS OF justice are more likely to be
supserved by the civil tribunals.-Bali-
According. to the Journal of COM