Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-24
Washin gton City Gossip.

of John II Surratt is just made public as officially
reported before that Committee, and con aims the
testimony, embracing partial confession from
Surratt as to his completely in the assassination
plot and of his much disputed whereabouts on
the day the assassination took place. 1t appears
from the evidence of L. ]. Mcmillan, surgeon of
the steamer Peruvian, plying between Montreal
and Liverpool, that Surratt came board i'll
September, 1855, booked for Liverpool and that
becoming intimate he confessed to Mcmillan who
he was. The supplemental evidence, together
with the official correspondence of the State De-
par,ment with our Foreign Ministers and Con-
suls, show that the Confession of identity 10 Me-
MILAN was the original and sole cause which
eventually led to Surratts arrest. This corrob-
Grafton leaves no room to doubt the evidence. DR..
Mcmillan testifes that Surratt came board the
Peruvian at Montreal. on September 1Ith, 1865,
and was introduced to him under the of
Mccarthy; that becoming we'll acquainted in
few days, Surratt confessed to him that he had
been from the beginning in the Confederate States
service carrying dispatches between Washington
and Rich mond, and also as far as Montreal that
he and booth had planned at first the abduction
of President Lincoln that, however, they thought
they could not succeed in that way, and they
After this, before the assassination, Surratt was
in Montreal, when he received letter from Booth
ordering him Immediately to Washington; that
it was necessary to act and act promptly. and he
was to leave Montreal imm ediately for Washing-
ton He did not tell me he to Washington,
but be told he came far as Elmira, in the
State of New York, and from that place telegraph
ed to New York to ind out whether Booth had al
ready left for Washington and he was answered
that he had. He did not tell me whether he had
gone further than Elmira. The next place he
spoke of to st Albans, Vermont, where
he said he arrived early one morning at breakfast
time, and went to a hotel there for breakfast
While he sitting there he heard several men
talking about assassination, and he inquired
What up 1'' They asked him if he didn' t
know that President Lincoln had been assassina-
ted. He said, II did not believe it because the
story was too good to be true" On that gentle
man pulled out paper and handed it to him. lie
opened it and his name of the
sassins He said it upnerved him so much thai the
paper fell out of his hands, and he imm edately
left the room and walked out and he was going
out through the house he heard another party
say that Surratt must have been at the
time in st Albans, because such person (men-
tioning the persons name) had found pocket
handkerchief on the street with Surratt's name
it. He told me that he looked in his pocket
| and found he had lost his pocket t-hand kerchief.
From that place he then went TO Canad a. and was
concealed there from April to September. When
ne was aboard the ship he called aside and
again commenced to talk about the assassination, D,
and one thing or the other 1t was in the even
ing and we we're alone together; he took out is
revolve- which he kept in his pocket all the time
and pointing it to the heavens, said, II hope and
wish to live just few years more; two years will
do IN e, and then L shall GO back to the United
States and shall serve Andrew johnson as Abra-
ham Lincoln has been served" L asked him why,
and he answered because he has been the cause
of my mother being hung - DIR. Mcmillan fur
ther testified that he arrived in Liverpool, Sep
tember 27, 1855. and went before the American
Consul Mr.. Wild, and made affidavit to the above
facts. An official letter from Consul Wild shows
that the affidavit caused tn commencem ent of the
pursuit of Surratt which resulted in his capture
in little more than year from that time.
The Commissioner Of the General Land Office
has received returns from the local Office at Jack
son. Mississippi. showing that during the month
of March 81 farms, comprising in the aggregate
5,2l5 acres, were added to the productive force of
that State.
The Secretary of the Treasury received a tele
gram that the First National Bank of Selma Ala
bama Government depository, was robbed on
Monday night of sl6O.es0.
Attorney General Stanberry is reported to have
remarked recently to the District Attorney of
Virginia, that Jefferson Davis case must be dis
posed of at the next term of the United States
Circuit Court, which commences at Richmond on
the first Monday in May.
The rumor still prevails in Washington tn at
negotiations are pending for the purchase of
British America by the United States Secretary
Seward proposing to give the Alabama claims in
part payment
An expedition, to be organized by the State
Department, will start about the first of May to
explore Russian Amertca, the object being to ac-
quaint the people of the United States of the
value of the acquisition.
The RESULT IN CoNNECTICUT.-The N.
Y. Tribune says: On the morning of the