The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-04-29


Intelligence the most painful has flashed
along the telegraphic wires to us this morn
|ing--news that is SO fraught with horror
that we can scarcely persuade ourselves
but that we are the victims of some hideous|
dream. President Lincoln and Secretary
Seward have been assassinated, and the|
|son OF the Secretary is supposed to he NOR
tally wounded. The details, which we pre- !
sent to our readers in this extra, CONSTITUTED
a chapter of horrors that neither history
nor fiction can parallel. The murder oil
Caesar by Brutus, the assassination of
Henry the Fourth by Ravaignac sink into
|lnsignifcance when compared with the ter
Irible daring and fearful GOODNESS which
1characterizes the preparation of these
deeds.
At the very moment when the chalice of
victory was being placed to his lips, cruel
hand has dashed it away. At the very
time when he was apparently about to en-
1jey the full fruition of those hopes for
which he had so desperately and deter.
minedly labored during the last four years,
the murderer's weapon has snapped his
thread of life.
All feeling of party dissension, all senti-
ments of political difference, must be swal-
6lowed up and lost in the CONSERVATION and
9grief that this news will produce through.
out the civilized world.
{ Never before was deed of death 80 dar-
Singly and deliberately perpetrated. Never
before was such a deed done at so critical
"a crisis of nations history, and never be-
fore, we sadly fear, was political assassi.
of,np attended, h1yo ono1 ,1te
as we dread will follow upon this. In what
ever way these deeds may be regarded, they
must, we think, be considered among the
= greatest calamIties that could possibly
occur.
Washington, April Ia, IL O'Clock.
3 To Dix: This evening about 9 p. M,
Hat Ford's Theatre, the President, while sit
Sting in his private box, with Mrs. Lincoln.
Mrs. Harris, and Major Rathburne, was
= shot by an assassin, who suddenly entered
9the box and approached behind the Presi-
fadent. The assassin then leaped upon the
3stage, brandishing large dagger and made
4his escape in the rear Of the Theatre.
4pistol ball entered the back of the Presi
dent's head, and penetrated nearly through
the head. The wound is mortal. The
XfrcSlQent mas Deeu lnsenSlDle ever slnce
Twas inflicted and is now about dying.
n About the same hour, an assassin, wheth
Her the same or not, entered MIR. Seward
and under pretence of having
aa prescription, was shown to the Secretary
Ssick chamber. The assassin immediatel,
Brushed to the bed and inflicted two or thre,
S stabs on the throat and face. 1t is hopeC
: that the wounds may not be mortal. NJ,
apprehension is that they will prove fatal
The nurse alarmed Mr.. Fred. Seward
F. who was in an adjoining room. He has
y tened to the door of his fathers room
where he met the assassin who inflicted up
E on him one or more dangerous wounds
f His recovery is doubtful.
1t is not probable that the President vii
T. live throug the night.
Gen. Grant and wife were advertised t
be at the theatre this evening, but he starte
Hto Burlington at O'Clock.
This evening, at q Cabinet meeting, a
which Grant was present, the subject of tn
E state of the country and the prospect of
speedy peace was discussed. The Presi
dent was very cheerful and hopeful, an
E spoke very kindly of Gen. Lee and other
of the Confederacy, and Of the establish
ment of government in Virginia.
n All the members of the Cabinet, excer
&Seward, are now in attendance upon tn
HPresident. l have seen MIR. Seward, bu
he and Frederick were both unconscious.
(Signed) STANTON.