Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-18
DARK MEAORIES.
A Review of the Scene OF President
LincOlB's Assassination.

Boston Herald.l
Referring again to the National Nh
scum, one whole side of which is filled
with heart-siekeaing "Reminiscences OF
the war; human bones with bullets i'm.
bedded therein, swollen and distorted
limbs preserved in spirits like picked
pork, sections Of every part of the sys.
TEN, bearing every conceivable wound
aud showing every degree of torture; a
piece Of flesh from the neck Of Wlrz, the
keeper oil Andersenyille, mangled by the
rope that hanged him, and other horrors
too numerous 10 mention. From its win
doys one can look down into the shad.
owy alley in the rear, where, on that mo.
mentous night, Booths horse was in
waiting, which he mounted with his
broken leg, having escaped by the pr.
vate door. and gslloped through the city,
across the long bridge" over the Poto.
mac, and away into Virginia. Across
the street stand two dingy, red. brick
houses, just alike, with green shutters
and wooden steps, where the dying Presi-
dent was hurriedly conveyed after the
shooting. Being refused admittance at
the 6rst ~house-having the door shut 10
their faces after carrying their burden
up the s%teps-they took him into the
second one, where be died some hours
after. Both these houses BOW bear the
familiar plscard which appears every.
where here-"Rooms to rent and with
the vicissitudes common 10 boarding.
house keepers, are continually changing
tenants. In a hundred years from now,
with our natiousl passion for landmarks,
this property will be worsh its weight in
gold as q relic, and the only wsnder is
that some %enterprising Yankee does not
bid it 10 o while it ia comparatively
cheap, and thus make a speculation.
Not far away is a gloomy little house,
also for rent and forever changing ten.
ants, standing back in a brier grown
neglected yard, With dead trees and per.
petually beckoning With ghostly branches
as if to indicate a buried resort This is
none other than the home OF Mrs. Sur.
raft. In its shados haunted basement
the conspiracy is said to have been con-
cocted, and here she was torn from the
arms Of her agonized family and con.
veyed to the prison which she lett only
for the scaffold.
A little way down the Potomac one
passes the spot where she and the FIVE
conspirators met an ignominious death
on a common scaffold, which was erected
against a corner OF the arsenal building.
Gay parties Of excursiouisls, sailing up
and down the tranquil river, point out
this place with a shudder, as though il
we're yet haunted by troubled wraiths.
One Of the saddest circumstances con.
nected with this tragedy was the case OF
her daughter, little Annie Surratt, a gen.
tie girl, as innocent OF the alleged Grim,
which brought her mother to q violenI
death as q babe unborn. Yet Annie wsl
imprisoned for Q time in the Old Capita
that dungeon which swallowed up &c
many innocent persons on the meresI
suspicion during the exciting days o
military misrule-and with true daugh
: terly devotion she chung to her mothe.
as closely as was permitted her durinl
the short and a%gonizing period that 10
y tervened before the last act 10 the tragedl
/, which cost so many lives.