Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-24

| Oil City, aud gave her directions how 10
ct fheEe; also. That one of fiscn, rase Her E
two bills, ten and a five, with which 10
| procure Subsistence for herself and horse on
the route When asked what she did With
the money, she At first did net seem to recol- 1,
lect and at length said she spent it, but
did not say what ior. However, 10 i sup
| posed she lost the money. Is -
| These thieves told her that they would
would meet her and take tharoe of t6A
hoTse; also, that their gang hatl fhesr hss,sl-
| quarters there, and that theT Aaa run or
many horse 70 Oil City. They further
more boasted that they had stolen span In
/ Cleveland worth soc They placed her on
the horse and started OF and that Is the lsst
she saw OF them. Instead OF taking the
prescribed route, Louisa changed the pro-
gsmhe BY taking route Of her own
choosing. SO lrt. 4 = t.4rr.. - 49,.
| She tinally took refuge in the hay stack
where she was found badly frozen"
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The Norfolk Iapst contains the lollowing
singular letter:
MoREHEAD CRY, Jan. 3 1866.
Editor Of the Norfolk Poet: 4
SIR:--i have just arrived in this place
froni --r-, where | saw and talked with
j. Wilkes Booth, the supposed asaesin "a
your late President. That he would be
alive aflsr what had occurred in yonr eapi-
tai, may be strange, bat it is true nefcrthe-
less. % o 81 - L
Z saw him and b Harris, who len Win D
HIM not four weeks ago, and learned sro,n
him all the hardships thai he underwent In
who has the least regard fec truth, viii SAY
that he was in Ford's Theatre ON the l4ih ef
April last, and wonders why no oas present
on that occasion did not pretend to recognize
the man that shot Lincoln until they were
told that il was him BY Larua kecne, his d
bitter enemy. He did not however. % me
deny or admit that he had done the deed,
but stated that no one could trlthfnlIy sav
of their own knowledge that Il was hifa. \
He declares that Mrs. Surratt was limo
cent, and wonders how the man that was
killed in the barn locked. lie learned from
the papers that he had heavy beard, end
had sheared on cut il in such an awkward
manner that his Boothis) most intimate
friends would not recognize him hs Sooth.
He thinks not. He believed, innocoaf or
guilty. that IL found, he would have been
sacrificed to their mad fury, and concluded
TO leave, which he did,. And a. there can
now be no harm in telling, L viii state what Il
he told ne-omitting ilames 1le
He crossed the river at Georgetown,
stopped the next day near Fairfax C1ssrf-
house the next night he was taken near
Middlehnrg, etc, and from there near Gum
Springs, where he remained two days; and
after more than three weeks traveling---
mostly BY night, and suffering seserely--he
reached Florida, where he was detained Cor
some time, while Harris, who was not men-
toned in the affair, and who coald not as,-
pear publicly, procured boat, which they
ventured tc sea in, and made land IN safety.
Booth was Immediately taken sick, and has
been most Of the time since. rs
In October he was much better. so much
20 that he took some exercise IN the 3pen
air, but relapsed and was confined to his
room until about fonr weeks ago. His con-
stitution, in my Judgment. is ruined, aud e
don't believe he viii live long. lie was pre-
pairing for change Of climate, and II no D.
relapse has taken place, is probably now in
another country, where he viii meet with
more OF his own people, or people from the
same country. M ~
MIR. Editor, Iwrite such poor English that
fear you will not be able % make il ont;
but Is is the truth, the whole truth, and II
you wish you may publish il. ] shall not
be in the country 70 read it.
Yours truly, j. y. .
(JosEPH FRIEDHzmGEn.)