Des Arc citizen., 1866-05-12
TERITAS OMNIPOTENS."
DIES ARC. ARK, MA AYs12, 1S66.H

was satisfied that tic man it happened to pur- sue was the denticalBooth But as only one
 party brought back dead man. only one had chance to claim the credit of having followed the right trail.
 Booth was frst-rate actor, had plenty of
 money, and an intimate acquaintance with l the locality in which the crime was committed. 1 It would have been easy for him to have dis guised himself so as to have remainnd several days in Washington, and have left it unmo- tested in one ofthc usual ways. His profess
 sional skill in disguise would have enabled
 him to deceive even his accomplices. Lee s army had surrendered. There wsre no Con
 federate forces any where near Washington,
 and there is no reasonto suppose that Booth I could have expected welcome from the Con- l federates, even if he had reached them for all the efforts of Stanton, Holt, and a hundred 1 other very slightly less infamous and unscru- \ pulous enemies of the Confederates had failed
 to find an iota of evidence to prove that they
 had the least share i'll, or knowledge of, the
 conspiracy.
 A man on horseback could hope to escape J only bysreaehing the Confederate lines; and as we have shown the impossibilty of this, we F.eonclude, for ourselves of course, that Booth never committed the folly of attempting to escape on horseback, and that the man for his l charitable assistance 10 whom Dr. Mudd is lsnow suffering torment at Fort Jefferson, and I the man whom Corbctt foclishly shot, and Ba- kcr secretly inferred, without permifiny the t body to be identified, was not Booth I About month or two ago WIG read letter E(published) in which the writer stated that he l had met Booth in one of the West India Is 'lands-had recognised him, and talked with I him. He says that Booth told him that he had escaped first to Canada and thence to Cut l ba. The letter we; speak of was written on t1, fl T
 country. Recently q man named King was l arrested in tile West for some crime. He de- manded to sec Gen. Jeff. c. Davis, and con- fessed to him that he was the real murderer l of Mr. Lincoln and the person who attempted Ito kill Seward and that Booth was only an l aceomplce Furthermore. that the man shot [. in the barn was not Booth, and that Booth had escaped first to Canada. and afterwards to Gu
 ba. 1ylis adds to the probability of truth ill < the letter writer's story.
 l Of course this man King will be declared
 crazy, for it will not do for the men who tried d4(?) the conspirators. who hung Payne for the l attempted assassination of Seward and who l pride themselves on the terrible vengeance l inflicted on Bootl, by consigning his corpse to I an unknown grave. to admit that they were mistaken. But great many people will be- lievc that whoever the real assassin was, John i Wilkes Booth is still alive. There is another reason for doubting his death. If Bakers sto- I ry be true, no man knows it better than stan ] ton does. We wish to sec stanton driven 1 rrost tlrv Cabinet TOT tlrc country's sake, and 1 because we believe that as soon as lie becomes 1 q private individual lie will begin to suffer some of the consequences of his official
 crimes; but not the least among our reasons l for desiiing his removal is our curiosity to learn some of the secrets of the U. $. A. Spy 1 Corps, and to find out who wasthe man whom 1 Boston Corbett killed, and Stanton's familiar, Baker, annihilated as John Wilkes Booth. f
 WnY SWEET NIusIc PRopucEs SApNEss.- Sweet music, says Leigh Huht-that is 10 say sweet ill the sense in which it is evidently used in the. following passage-something not 1 oft mirthful character, but yet not of melaa- ! choly one--does not always produce sadness; but it does often, even when the words, if 1t ] be vocal music. are cheerful. We do not pre- sume to take for granted that the reason we are about to differ wi.h or perhaps rather to extend, is Shakespeare $ own, or that he would ] have stopped thus short if speaking in his own 1 person, though he has given it the air of an abstract remark; but Lorenzo, in the '.Mer- chant of Venice,' says that it is because our ssspirits are attentive" sf
 .I'm never merry when hear sweet music, ] says pretty Jessica. .The reason is, your | spirits are attentive" says; her lover:
 Y 2 . ..For do but note wild and wanton herd,
 Orrace of youthful and unlIandled colts, 5.y Fetching mad bounds, believing and nejghing
 loud, as8s9d a ss 1 Which is the hot condition of tlcif blood
 If they but hear percance a trumpet sound; i Or any air of music touch their ears,
 You shall perceive them makea mutual stand, Their sage eyes turned to modest gaze,
 By the sweet power of music
 How beautiful! But with the leave ofthis young and most elegant logician, his reason
 is, at least, not sufficient For how does it ac- count for our being moved even to tears. by music which is not otherwise melancholy :! Al. attention, tits true, implies certain de- gree of earnestness, and all earnestness has q mixture of seriousness: yet seriousness IS not the prevailing character of attention in all in- stances; for we are attentive to fine music, whatever it's cllaractec; and sometimes it makes us cheerful, and even mirtliful, The gidtlier portion of Rossinis music do not make us sad. Figaro does not make us sad, nor is sadness the general consequence of hearing, dances or even marches. 3tif s3f'Ef' I And yet, again, on the other hand, in the midst of any of this music, even of the most 1 light and joyous, our eye shall sometimes fill with tears. How is this?
 The reason surely is, that we have an in stinctive sense of the fugitive and perishing nature of allswcet things -ofbcauty, of youth, of life; of all these fair shows of the world of which music seems to be the voice, and of whose transitory nature it reminds us most, because 1t is then we most rcgrct our morali- l ty. " # sg slsea aa
 We do not, it is true, say this to ourselves. 1 We are not conscious of the reason, that is to say, we do not feel it with knowingness but we do feel it, for the tears are moved. And how many exquisite criticism of tears and laughter do not whole audiences make at plays, though not one man in fifty shall be able to put down his reasons for it on paper
 The wife of ex-Govcrnor Harris, of Tennessee, was in NeS@ Orleans on the 17th instant, on her way to join her husband in Mexico Several steamers are advertised to leave New Orleans for Vera Cruz, and emi- grants to Mexico are said to be quite numerous. We cannot doubt the love the Southern peo-