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The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-05-04

The House and Room in Which PresI-
dent Lincoln Dled--The Death-bcd
Scene.
Correspondence of the Ney York Times.l
THE HOUSE.
Is quito plain, but very neat one, on
Te Ith street, directly opposite the
thcater. 1t Is three-story brick, of
rather dingy hne, like most of the
Washington brick houses, and has
sandstone eappings to the door and
windows, 1t is approached by fight
Of six or eight steps, which run up
sideways, bordered by q black iron
railing. The front door opens into q
hall, at the end of which is q staircase
on the Philadelphia style-tho hall be-
ing continued on past the stairs at
about half its former width, until it is
met by the door of the bedroom in
which the President died, and which
is, consequently, on the first or ground
floor.
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ATTACHMENT

D. D. Leonard, Plaintiff Before Theo stover J. p.
John HanSshe s pert ed EdSs1y Soay,T Township Fair
~ the 10Th day OF April, A. d. 1866, said Justice,
ENIissuea an order Of Attachment in The above NJ.
cents $40 3i) q. n IEONhPh our
Basil, o, May 2d,'o5-3a
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OmeiaI 'BuIietin.
WAR DEPT, WASHINGTON, !
April 27.
Major General Dir:

April 27. I
Major General DiG:
]. Wilkes Booth and Harold were
chased from the swamp in st. Mary's
county, Md, to Carrots farm near
Port Royal, on the Rappahannock,
by Col. Bakers force. The barn in
which they took refuge was fred
Booth, in making his escape, was shot
through the head and killed, linger-
ing about three hours, and Harold
was captured. Booths body and
Harold are now here.
L. NJ. STANTON,
Secretary Of War.
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ESTATE Of j. A. soLInAx.

u otlce is hereby given that the undersigned has
l y Deen appointed and qualified as Administrator
3 p tne estate of j. A. S0DlDAY, deceased, late Of
Lancaster, NAV 5-3wn 80 AH"'
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shermsn's Order Announcing tho A Hsas-
yIna lion.

Tho enemies of Sherman aro using
against him the story which went tn,
rounds Of tho press, that ho know OF
tho assassination of the President two
days before ho announced it to his
army. The fact is, us stated by n cor
respondent who accompanied Sherman
to tho place Of conference, that the
General received tho intelligence while
on his way to meet Johnston. lie in.
formed Johnston Of the assassination
and requested him to notify his army
o!the ev mt, AMI disclaim all sympathy
with the decd, otherwise he, (Sherman)
would not answer for tho torbeavance
OF his own command. The same cvc-
ming, alter the termination of tho con
icrenco and his return to Raleigh,
Sherman published the dispatch from
Secretary Stanton announcing the hor,
riblc deed, and issued tho following
order:
llrApquAurrRi MtL. DIV. or rus MrswssIrrl,
iN ruE FiErp, RALgIGu, April II.
GENERAL ORDER No. 30.
Tho General Commanding announ.
ccs, with pain and sorrow, that on the
evening OF tho lIth inst, ut tho Thea.
ter, in Washington City, his Excellen.
cy, the President OF the United States,
Mr.. Lincoln, was assassinated by ono
who uttered tho State motto of Virgi.
mia. AT the Same time, tho Secretary
OF State, Mr. Seward, while suffering
from IL broken arm, was also stabbed
by another murderer in his own house,
but still survives, and his son was
wounded, supposed fatally.
1t is believed, by persons capable of
that other high officers were
designed to share tho samo fate. Thus
1t seems that our enemy, dispairing of
meeting us in manly warfare, begins
to resort to the assassins tools. Your
General docs not wish you to infer
that this is universal, for no knows
that the great mass of tho confederate
army would scorn to sanction such
acts; but bo believes it the legitimate
consequence of rebellion against right.
ful authority, We have met every
phase which this war has assumed,
and must now be prepared for it in its
last and worst shapo-thnt of assasslns
and guerrillas; but woo unto the peo.
pie who seek TO expcnd their wild pas.
sions In such a manner. for thcro is
but one dread result. BY order of
Naj Gen. w. 7. SHERMAN.
Il; d. DBrroS, Major and .A,A.G,
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IA OGHCe

flNHE undersigned has TWO BOYS which he do
sires to apprentice, one aged nine wears, and
sIe other six: Both are stout, healthy boys. Per-
IONS wishing to hire either or both, wifi apply to the
Undersigned residlngon Mill Street, near Columbus
street, Lancaster, Ohio or to Gotleb Darling.
Lancaster. May3-3wa JUSTiJS WSMAN ~
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Narrative OF Lieut.. Doughcrty's Opera
tions---i'oOth's HOdy ut tho WASH
inston Navy Yard.
WASHINGTON, April 81.

WASHINGTON, April 81.
Late yesterday afternoon intelli
gence was received here that j. w
Booth, tho murderer of President Lin
coin, had been overtakcn by a party
sent out by Col. j.. G. Baker, Specia
Detective of tho War Department
and mortally wounded in an attempt
to capture him. The restriction or
der Of tho War Department, which
prohibits anything in regard to ar
rests or investigations concerning the
conspiracy from being sent by tele
graph, prevented the transmission o.
this news last night. The prohibition
is this morning removed, as far as the
case of Booth and his accomplice, Da
vid G, Harold, arc concerned. The
following are the facts in regard to the
affair, derived from those who partici
pated in it, Information having been
obtained that on tho morning of the
Saturday after the murder, DR.. Mott
living in Maryland, about twenty
miles below Washington, had dressed
an injured leg for Booth, DR.. Mott, al
that time not having heard of the as.
sassination of Mr.. Lincoln, detectives
were put on the trail, and it was as
certained that Booth and Harold had
crossed tho river at a. point in the
neighborhood of Swan Point on Mon.
day last, Lieut.. Il. p. Dougherty, 10th
New York Cavalry, with a detaeh.
ment of 25 cavalrymen of tho regi,
ment, and accompanied by some Of
Col. Bakers detectives, proceeded by
steamer to Belle Plain. Liout. Dough.
erty, on Tuesday afternoon, arrested
n man named Tell, by whom Booth
and Harold had been ferried across
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BOOTH KILLED
His Body at washington.
FULL PARTICULARS.

AN AoComPL1on CAP ruRrD.
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TIE BED CHAMBER,

floor.
THE BED CHAMBER,
Which, must forever remain historic, is
small room, some nine feet wide by
fifteen in length, and its walls are CO.
vered with rather gloomy paper
being brown scroll work upon white
back ground-and are adorned with
numerous Photographic copies of eele-
brated paintings and some eDgraviDgs.
The room runs cast and west, and its
furniture, though plain, is substantial.
1t consisted on the fatal night of the
murder, of Il small table, covered with
articles of rertu, and upon which rests
a fine bronze box; a bureau, covered
with white knit tidy ; a smaller table;
an antique bottom rocking chair;
and the bedstead upon which the most
beloved ofour Presidents, since Wash
ington, gave up his lifo's breath. This
last is black walnut frame bedstead,
with low head and foot'boards, (if they
can be so called, y composed of turned
uprights and open. 1t had been mov-
ed from its original position, in the east
corner Of the room, to its present po-
sitlon, opposite q window and q gas
bracket, so as to give the illustrious
sufferer both light and air. Thc small
ness of the room, and the number Of
personal frionds present mado this
every way desirable, and tho window
was consequently kept open most of
the time.
Directly over the bed hung fine
engraving of Haydens Village Black
smith, some three feet by four in size,
and framed in black walnut, edged
with \ narrow gilt moulding. To the
right and loft of this hung small pho
tographic copies Of French engravings
of a rural characteristic one present
ing barn yard scene, the other an
interior. Tho bed stood at the right
hand side of tho room as one entered,
and near tho west end of the room, and
moved out from tho wall having, as
we have said, been changed from its
original position so as to be opposite
the window, By this arrangement
there was left space by the side of
the bed but somc three or four feet in
width, the room being very narrow.
To the left of the loot of the bed is o
glazed door, leading into smaller
room. and covered with a lace curtain.
The remainder of tho same floor was
occupied by tho two parlors, which
opeAed out into the hall. In the front
ono, toward tho last, was Mrs. Lincoln.
completely worn out by agony and
sorrow, with some few personal friends,
A correspondent describing the
death bed scene says:
AT about 1;30 o'clock ! gained en-
trance to the room at the end Of the
hall whero tho President was placed.
Mr.. Lincoln was lying diagonally
across the bed, showing no signs of
consciousness, Hisfeatnres were fixed
in that calm, stony solemnity which
only tho hand Of death can mold.
From that time until he died, I was
absent from his room but an hour
Mrs. Lincoln was led in many times
during the night. She seemed almost
frantic, and her exclamations of woo
We're truly hcartronding. At ono timo
whilc sitting by his bedside, sho kept
saying, skill me kill me kill mo, too!
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ATTEMPTS TO SCREEN BOOTH.

To the very full particulars of the
pursuit and capture already forwarded
it need only bo added that the Gov
ernmcnt was IN constant receipt OF
letters from u dozen different points,
attempting to draw off attention and
mislead tho detectives. Quite a num-
Der of these came from Philadelphia
others wcro from New York. Some
were in ladies handwriting, and near
ly all were believed here to indicate q
desire to confuse the Government and
aid tho escape of the criminal.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-14

A LITTLE PLAIN TALK.-AprOpos Of the COM
plants that have appeared concerning drunkenness
OF officers and soldiers chief cause of defeat and
disaster, we offer the following comments q con-
tnuation Of our remarks on drunkenness Rs Ma
tional SIM" The Mobile Tribune says:
1T liz declared everywhere on the streets that
we have lost something in MSsssip pi from no lack
of valor, but actually from dFunkenness-men re-
solved-ready for and eager to meet any danger
which menaceG-yet these ready and willing men
have, so report says, been whipped, and all owing
to drunkenness. ...r
To speak it not. profanely, the country may AZ
ter awhile 60 to hell drunk 1t cannot go thither
sober. And if there be any power in Congress, or
in the President the Legislature Of the States or
anywhere else, it is now the time to use it. The
man who goes into battle so drunk, that he cannot
escape if retreat were sounded, ought to have no
command. He ought to be put instantly into the
ranks and find time there to repent of lis own dis
grace and the evil that he has done to his country,
1t said that Congress, knowing that this is die.
grace to our army, is afraid to provide the proper
remedy for it We trust that this is not true, for
if it be shall have to bend neck to the yoke
of master-we shall have to abandon all those no.
tions which we have entertained of superior Vaor,
and fall down at the feet of the eneiny-lOst by
drunkeness-drunk like Alexander after his victo-
res but Alexander was too strong in mis- purpose to
be drunk when it required sohriety to win them.
It is shameful, pitiable makes true man hang
bis head in despair when he goes about the streets
and listens to the stories which are told everywhere.
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The Gentleman At Church May be Known by
the Following Marks.

Ine FOLLOWING Marks
/. Comes in good season, so as neither to inter-
rupt the pastor nor the congregation by late ar.
rival.
2. Does not stop upon. the steps nor in the por-
tco, either to gaze at the ladies' salute friends, or
display his colloquial powers.
g. Opens and shuts the door gently, and walks
deliberately and lightly up aisle or gallery stairs,
and gets his seat as quietly, and by making as few
people move as possible.
4. Takes his place either in the back part of the
seat steps out into the aisle when any one wishes
to pass in, and never thinks of such thing ~
making people crowd past him while keeping his
place In his seat
8. Is always attentive to strangers, and gives up
his seat to such seeking another for himself
6. Never thinks of defling the house of God
with tobacco spittle, or annoying those who sit
near him by chewing that nauseous weed in church.
z. Never, unless in the case of illness, gets up
or goes out during the time of service. But if
necessity compels him to do So goes so quietly that
his very manner is an apology for the act.
8. Does not engage in conversation before the
commencement of service.
9. Does not whisper, or laugh or eat fruit in the
house of God, or lounge in that holy place.
10. Does not rush cut of the church like tramp.
liz horse, the moment the benediction is pro-
nounced, but reti,S.s slowly in noiseless, quiet
manner.
II. Does all he can by precept and example, to
promote decorum in others, and is ready to
lend his aid to discountenance all indecorum in the
house of God.
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REHOLUTl0Nq


l: A resolution in regard TO slaves at work on
Notifications near Wilmington. Provides for their
return to their masters
2. resolution concerning the sheriff Of Davis
county. tCorrects q mistake in q former law.
8. resolution in favor e. d. Davis, sheriff o.
jackson county,
4. A resolution in favor of j. M. Towles. ITO
issue duplicate certificate for one lost
3. resolution to pay Drury King for acting as
Doorkeeper.
8. A resolution to allow the Clerks $500 each for
copying their journals.
2. resolution in favor Of the Old Dominion
Trading company
8. A resolution to paw the clerks and door.
keepers
8. Resolutions instructmg joint select commit
tee in regard to abuses by railroad companies.
10. Resolution in favor of the commissioners of
the Sinking Fund and the Secretary to the Board.
Allows the same pay as members of the Legisla
ture ..-
II. Resolutions relating to the suspension of ho.
6eGS corpus.
H. Resolution to allow members Of the Legisla-
ture the same pay allowed at last session. Fifty
dollars per day and fifty cents per mile.
IT, Resolutions in regard to the arrest of DIR.
Henry P. Ritter.
IA Resolution in favor of the sheriff of Irsdell
D. 10 Resolution to pay the Commissioners sent to
16 Resolution in favor of the Doorkeepers to pay
servant hire.
II. Resolution in favor Of the sheriff of Perquim.
| ans.
1s, Resolution in favor of the sheriff of Mont.
gomery. ''-~.
10. Resolutions not to abate preparations for wal
during negotiations for peace.
2O. Resolutions authorizing the Governor to
contract with Stewart, Buchanan & Co., for q sup.
| ply of salt.
IL Resolution to authorize the Governor to fur.
nish blankets &C. to Federal prisoners at Salisbury
IN consideration of the same number furnished
North Carolina prisoners by the Federal govern.
| ment
%. Resolutions against the policy of arming
| slaves
%. Resolutions in favor of Messrs. Calvert and
Rogers, contestants from Northampton county. lAl.
lows pay and mileage to both while the seat was
being contested
"a. Resolution to pay the principal of the Dea
and Dumb Asylum for Calendar book.
70. Resolution instructing the Governor to pro-
cure suitable accommodations medicines, &C., for
| the Junior and Senior Reserves
26. Resolution in favor Of the Principal Clerks
Allows them $500 each for copying journals of the
last session.
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at will not be necessary that l should
inform any one of your readers who was
S. S. Prentiss, as the history of this Won
derful man is-a part of the history of the
country. Many years ago, when he was
engaged in large practice in Mississippi,
he and his friend, Judge c., were on
the circuit in some of the eastern counties
of the State, and stopped for the night at
the village of II. Late at night Prem
tiss discovered that Judge G. and HIM
self were not the only claimants for pos
session of the bed, as he was vigorously
beset by description of vermin who do
not make very comfortable bed-iellows.
Accordingly he awoke Judge G., and
a consultation was had whether they should
beat retreat or make an effort to exter-
inmate their assailants. The latter course
was, however, adopted; and for the pur-
pose they took from their saddle-bags a
brace of pistols, with caps, powder, and
other munitions of warfare. With pistols
in hand, they proceeded to raise the bed
clothing and as one of the creeping rep
tiles would start from his hiding-place
bang-bang would go the pistols. This,
of course, aroused and alarmed the worthy
landlord, who came in hot haste to the
room, and when he learned the facts was
in great rage. Prentiss demanded that he
should leave the room, claiming that he
was only exercising the right of selfde
fense-a right which the law of God and
the law of man had given him. Both the
entreaty and the threats OF the landlord
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all, except certain designated classes, and
it was at the same time made known that
the excepted classes were still within con-
temptation of special clemency. During
the year many avaiIed themselves of the
general provision, and many more would,
only that the signs of bad faith in some led
to such precautionary measures as render
ed the practical process less easy and GER
tain. During the same time also special
pardons have been granted to individuals
of excepted classes, and no voluntary APP
plication has been denied. Thus, practic-
ally, the door has been for full year open
to all except such as were not in condition
to make free choice-that is such as were
in custody or under constraint. 1: is still
so open to all; but the time may. come,
probably will come, when public duty
shall demand that it be closed, and that IN
lieu more rigorous measures than hereto
fore shall be adopted. -.
In presenting the abandonment of arm
ed resistance to the national authority on
the part of the insurgents as the only in
despensable condition to ending the war
on the part of the government, l retract
nothing heretofore said as to slavery. l
repeat the declaration made year ago,
that while remain in my present posi-
ton ] shall abt attempt to retract or mod
ify the Emancipation Proclamation; nor
shall return to slavery any person who
is free by the terms of that proclamation,
or by any of.the acts of Congress. If the
people should, by whatever mode or
means, make it an executive duty to re-
enslave such persons, another, and not l,
must be their instrument to perform it
In stating a single condition of peace, l
mean simply to say that the war will cease
on the part of the government whenever
it shall have ceased on the part of those
who BEGAN it.
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Grand total,

ENGLANDs MEEKNESs. The ultra war papers are
endeavoring to show that England will soon take
u.nbrage at some overt act of the North and side
actively with us in our contest To gather conso-
laton and support from such q source, is utterly
useless. England has from the beginning shown
a dread of hostiities with the Federal government
and has not resented open insults in order to avoid
them.
No greater affront has ever been offered England
than the order Of Gen. Dix to march troops into
Canada to arrest raiders Yet the "mother coun-
try" never demonstrated against it Even before the
English knew that this order had been revoked by
the authorities at Washington, they took it with
most exemplary calmness and meekness and made
haste to join in abuse of the Confederate officers who
committed the " unjusti6able outrage" This GER
tainly does not look as if England intended to
help the South" The people cannot be gulled into
believing such stuff longer.
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THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR.

L
"And wherefore do the poor complain !"
The rich man asked of me.
"Come, walk abroad with me" l said,
a. And / will answer thee"
Twas evening, and the frozen streets
Were cheerless to behold,
And we were wFapt and coated well,
And yet we were a-cold.
. We met an old bare headed man,
His locks were few and white;
i asked him what he did abroad
In that cold winters night.
Twas bitter keen, indeed, he said,
But at home no fire had he,
And therefore he had come abroad,
To ask for charity.
We met a Young, bare.footed child,
And she begged loud and bold;
/ asked her what she did abroad
When the wind it blew so cold.
She said her father was at home,
And he lay sick abed;
And therefore was it she was sent
Abroad to beg for bread
We saw a woman sitting down
Upon a stone to rest;
She had a baby at her back.
And another at her breast.
I asked her why she loitered there,
When the night-wind was so chill;
She turned her head and babe the child,
That screamed behind, be still.
She told US that her husband served,
A soldier, far away,
And therefore to her parish she
Was begging back her way.
/ turned me to the rich man then,
For silently stood he;-
You asked me why the poor complain,
And these have answered thee"
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uli-4Deektq @tanaarA.
WITHOUT THE CHILDREN.

. the weary, solemn silence
OF house without the children;
o the strange, oppressive stiffness,
Where the children come no more!
All! the longing of the sleepless
For the soft arms of the children
ALL the longing for the faces
Pressing through the opening door
Faces gone .foreOermore
Strange it is, to wake at midnight,
And not hear the children breathing,
Nothing but the old clock ticking,
Ticking. ticking, by the door,
Strange to see the little dresses
Hanging up there all the while;
And the gaiters-ah their patter,
We will hear it aerer more
On our mirth-forsaken hoorl
What Is home Scithout the children?
IT'S the earth without its yerdure,
And the sky without the sunshine:
life is withered to the corel
So we'll leave this dreary desert,
And wen follow the Good Shepherd
10 the greener pastures, vernal,
Where the lambs have gone before
With the Shepherd ever morei
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When Stoneman reached Bristol, he captured the
telegraph operator, and forced him to give the
"words or "calls for the different Offices along
the entire line. He is said, by this means, to have
teegraphed Gen. Breckenridge and obtained all the
information he desired. His advance on Abingdon
and Glade Spring was complete surprise.