The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-18

cneSb ana III erect carriage. no was
always dressed with scrupulous reat-
ness, wearing dark frock-coat, light
colJred vest and trousers, with CATERS
buttoned over his shoes. His nose was
large and prominent, his eyes of
blush-gray hue, surmounted 10y heavy
dark auburn eyebrows, his side whiskers
curled closely, and his hair ran down
with sharp point into the middle of
his broad, bald forehead where il rose
in curl. His language was elegant,
and when he spoke on the floor every
word was clearly enumerated, while
slow and deliberate gestures lent effect
to what he said.
The assassination of Lincoln created
a profound sensation at the South,
where the people believed that it
would bring upon them weight OF
condemnation and severity of punish
ment they would Lot have otherwise
been compelled to bear. ON the fifth
day after the assassination, while Jeff'er-
sou Davis was addressing a crowd of
curious and panicky people from the
steps of the house of Mr.. Bates, In
Charlotte, N. c., the following dis
patch was handed him:
GREENSBORO, April 10, 1865.
His Excellency President Davis
president Lincoln was assass mated
in the theater, in Washington, on the
night OF the lith inst. Stewards house
was entered on the same night, and he
was repeatedly stabbed, and is prob
ably MORALLY wounded.
"JoHN G. BRECKENRIDGE"
Mr.. Bates, whose guest Davis was,
testified that Davis, after reading the
dispatch to the people, said: If it
were to be done, it were better it were
we'll done" Soon after, Breckenridge,
having come to see Davis at the same
place, expressed regret that Lincoln
had been killed, as he thought it un-
fortunate for the Southern people.
Davis replied: well, General, don't
know; if it were to be done at all, it
were better that it were we'll done; and
if the same had been done to Andy
Johnson, the beast, and to Stanton, the
JOB woIld then be complete.
President Johnson suffered 10y his
kindness to pardon-brokers, prom nent
among whom was good-looking young
woman named Mrs Cobb. She was a
and boosted that she could obtain par
dons in six hours for a proper pc
cuniary consideration. Detective Baker
worked up fictitious case for the pur-
pose of entrapping her. She agreed,
IN writing, for $500 to obtain the par
don of Captain Hine, receiving 800
cash down, the rest to be paid when
the pardon was delivered. After the
pardon was sign d by President John
son, Detective Baker laid the papers
before him, upon which the President
grew very angry, and finally ordered
Detective Baker from the White
House Mrs. Cobb and her friends in
sisted that it was "put-up" job, and
the grand jury indicted Detective
Baker, but the case was never brought
to trial.
Gen. Grant went to Richmond in
May, 1867, TO visit the battlefield of
Cold Harbor He rode out of the city
on Sunday morning in four-horse car
riage, and passed several hours in Wis.,
iting the scene OF one of the most san
culinary and stubborn battles of the
war. The battle lasted during three
days, after which Gen. Grant changed
his base to James River. The appear
ance of the battlefield when he re-
visited it was but little changed. Rows
of earth-works on either side still re-
NAMED. There was no part of the
ground under cultivation, the soil beng
very poor, but many small trees had
sprung up. That portion of the field
known as the fronts of the center lines.
where the contest ragged hottest, showed
the unmistakable marks of q fight
Many of the trees were thoroughly
pitted with musket and ride bal S, VIII lie
others of them were shattered and bent
over to the ground by the combined
firing of the massed artillery on either
side. Gen. Grant was unable to find
the exact location of his headquarters
upon the Cold Harbor battlefield, but
the positions held 10y Gems. Hancock,
Badly Smith, Wright, and Gibbons
were pointed out. The bodies of 800
Federal soldiers, hastily buried after
the battle was over, had been disin-
TERED and buried in Government
cemete on the White House road.
ieces OF clothing, parts of shoes and
equipments could be distinguished here
and there amid the dirt and gravel.
The whole scene was one of desolatiou.
Lac Newton, of Pennsylvania, was
placed at the he I'd of the Agricultural
Bureau of the Patent Office by Presi-
dent Lincoln, and in due time he be-
came the head of the newly created
Department of Agriculture. He was an
Ignorant, credulous old gentleman, very
large about the walstband with snow
white hair and mild blue eye. Edu-
Gated a Quaker, he had amassed some
property by keeping an ice-cream sa-
loon in Philadelphia, and he then es-
tabl shed n farm, from hich he obtained
his supplies OF cream. At Washington
he was known as Sir Isaac, and some OF
the following ane dotes will illustrate
h S chara ter and capacity: One day
some wag p cked up a common duck in
the street and carried it to Sir Isaac,
telling him it was q rare species. Sir
Isaac had it Gagged. and took great de-
light in exhib ting it to his visitors.
One day, when showing it as usual to q
lady visitor, he stroked it on the back
and said: "See, madam, has it not the
most beautiful foliage of any bird
you ever SAW" At another time the
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