Litchfield enquirer., 1865-04-27
WHOLE NO. 2OS4.
THE BOOTH FAMILY

'onn wilkes Boe,h is the third son born in
 Amerlca ef the eminent English Trapedian Junlus Brutus Booth, whose strange career
 abroad and ia the United States, whose alter
 nate eminence and .obscurlty. and whose re- .markab ble gifts as an actor. are fully remem.
 bered at this day by tbe theatrical community, although he has been dead nearly Is years- The quierer part of his life in this country was passed upon his farm in Hartford County, some 50 miles distant from Baltimore, Nary land, and here, we believe, his children. sev- erai sons and daug were born. The old. est daughter died at vn early ags. The first Eson, J 5. Booth, Jr., has been for many years popular acter, recently appeared, in conncc. ''J" "n1 ms brothers. in performance ot
 ''Juilus CRsa at the Winter ytardan Theatre,
 The second son, E Twin Thomas Booth, is the
 diistlnguished aud universally esteemed trags. dtan John Wilkes manned after the British
 Statesman from whom he elder Booths mo.h- CT was lneally descended-is the third and d fourth, Joseph, not associated with lhe the atrical profession, is ct present residing in one of the Southern States Mir. Booth's oldest surving daughteris the wife of the vel .inown comedian, John s. Clarke. His widow, with l other daughters, resides with Mir. Edwin Booth in New York city. 'U....... The life and character of John Wilkes Booth, who is now only twenty six years old, have heen marked by few memorable incidents. He adopted the stage as q profession in 1856, making his first appearance in Philadelphia Since then he has played various ''star" and stock engagements, mostly in South ern and Western cities, with considerable success.- His acting is said to have been mainly charac- terized by extreme impe,iosity, violence md extravaganza, although not wanting at times in the true and elrnes, feeling which is an ate | tribute of the whole family. He has once CT twice appeared before New York audiences, but with moderate success. IL is stated th at he has been personally very popular among bis comrads; a fact which his determined disunion sentiments would not be likely to contradict, the vast majority of actors in this country. North and South, being either avow- ed or covert friends of the rebellion. His habits, we are told, were always extremely ir- regular. and his dissipaions so excessive, as to interfere with his progress in his profession: which. indeed. he virtually abandoned about year ago, having since devoted himself 10 speculations in the oil stocks of Pennsy ylvania.
 Wilkes Booth has always privately appear. ed a courteous. intelligent and decorous young man, reserved and sedate excepting when imuiated by intoxieation or the clash of par. uzan controversy. at .whiclAtime his passion passed all bounds. We are assured that q rupture occurred not long since between him and his brother Edwin, who refused longer to count enapcc Wilkes folly aud madness, and preemptorily forbade his presence Ut tue fam lily home. -. *t,i The incidents of the assassination have al. ready been given in. detail, with sufficient aol | curacy. Up 10 the present moment it is said Wilkes Booth has evaded pursuit. It is not ev il positively known whether he has left Washington all. The best informed authos- ilies are of opinion that if he escaped from mac which he may have crossed, near Iess- burgh. In this event; oEin case ef his having is possible Fthat long delay nmy- intsrsene before his seizure is accomplished.
 We learn from Boston that Edwin Booth, who had just terminated an engagement there, has declared in his grief and amlction that he will abandon his pubic career forever. There will be no occasion for such action. No com nunity wou, be so cruelty unjust as 10 allew the stigma of Wilkes Booths crime 10 tnrnish the fame of so true loyal citizen as Edwin Booth The intended engagement at the Winter Garden, which was to have commented
 in few weeks, will doubtless be relinquisled but Edwin Booths friends will not cousent to his sharing The odium or the disgrace which must be visited upon his wreched aud unTor- thy brother.