The Newtown bee., 1896-05-08

lUg Hl uu1I Etlrs' night urUing of 1'ur Mro', Literary and Social Club of Nrutnwu ~t,rrt. at which time they cu- trrtsin Jh.lr hrv t"rds, took place, at bicI>'s hnlcl on I'u,. day rvyuu ' uf this week. In anticipation of the event every arrangement had been made for char miuglv entertaining the party. It was about o'clock whrn headed by Prr.i- dent aud N54 e. r. liD.lcr, thr gun~ts nadr U.ru way into rhc spacious dining hull uI Jlc h"tct. Ucrr arranged in ' ing ..,.urr, d.. -,u in snu&y white lm- 'n a"d -ulcrWar', with piuk> and smlax f'. nnmD d.rau1jro. Il the center were b.rqu,l -uf ;,.uuutuI ru-rs aud ptuF-, whle s..'0ougd Jt c.hy,mout points were -cvr.s.l Huq qu.t Mnp ps, throwing d rf,h hgh' over .h4 >rrLe. only nrvdcd the p...".yc. .1m. .ut..s n, lhr5ahlr ta com palr th,. .Oc rrr aud as they troh nrIr regr- ,,rn Il. [ uud by her plate u lmnd ou,. ra-c far Lrr coua2r oud hy ". -ot.a -JNcr pm "uh which 'o m ,gu ,p:.n.,nL -5G1ruic to pin u.maty rt tia.,,.l.. For oNr. lv-o hnu-- lh,. cN...a., lu.na D rlo..d by M."" Il,-t l..aa.t5I, ru-tg,d a5'ru'uou, wh.A I.um rf. Ilr.,r Nmt.3 r,rr t.a tables thr s~rc. wu.Ic If thr V. Iu. -kiIfuly Uo- g,rrd rv Prof l.. r.. Npughu of Eri6gr- porr. aerowpHm~u ny tha Piano,aJ which Prof Imrt pr~:4cu, r'r mu-jr v.5 pleasant feature of ,hr evening.
 Seated ut ;ho rlb.r were Key aud Mr. I.rstry, Dr... , Mr. r. NJ. >mioh. DrG T.. Porter, Ky l'I Mr> Barker, Mr and Mr7 V. M. l. ToHd-, Mr and Mrs l.. C. Motrts, A. Smith, Miss Fracrcs C -cuddrr, N, ard N3~ Flank Wright ,1'rof William II. Uny-, N-- C. ~. rM,t, Mr and Ms Ed-ou iJaw.ry, Arthur <. Ilaw- ley. Mj-s Little Fairmpn, MT and Mrs F <. Audrcw-, Mir Mygatt, John J. North rop, Miss IroDlr 9uopard, Ex-S.nator and Miss Katie Uoulhan, W. X. Loou- ard, Mr@ II. A. Hi.ch, Mir and Mrs Edgar F. IIawlry, Mir aud Mrs C. F. E"ard,lcy and Dr and Mrs Ryder,
 For a few moments aftrr chc supper the gue~Js adIpurned to the pHrlor- V nile . the dining hall was being c}so.rG, but soon returned to their place. to li-tpn to the event of the evening, the lecture by Dr George l., Porter of Bu5gpp Tt, who took for his subject The Trag, dy of the Nation" President I.ia-lcy in a few well chosen words bespoke lhe appr, cja- riou and pleasure of the member, of the club that the ladies had graced the occa- sion with their presence. He spoke of the advantages of the club to it's mem- 1. bers and the community aud then intro- duCCd Dr Porter to tue rJmpAnv. DrI Porter prcfaccd his lecture with few happy remarks and b. gan by sketching briefly the condition of ,iIui just before tue tragedy, the asaH 4-iuaJion of PrC-i- f dent Lincoln, the feeling at the South . and among the S-ufheru sympathizars in l. Canada, in what was known as "Davis' i CanadaL Cabinet ard also the feeling at the North and in the Army. He show . ed how at that time both Washington and Baltimore were practically Southern . cities, dominated by Southern ideas and . opposed to the Union cause, which was | in every way hampered and hindcrel. |
 
 the rebels both at the South and in Can ada, and every assistance possible rem dered the Confederate cause. So keen | was this traitorOus work that orders sent to Mcclellan were known in the Confcd- | crate carp before they reached the Un- l ion general. At the Canadian headquar- ters of the Confectionery plots were hatch. | ed to burn New York and other North ern cities, to raid and pillage Northern towns, as was done at St AIbans, Vt., and to devastate the North by the intro . duction of poisoned and infected cloth ing. The desperation of the Confederate plOtters increased as the Confederate | cause waned in the field and 1t was final 1 ly decided that by the simultaneous as- sassnatiOn of President Lincoln, Vice. | President Johnson, Gen Grant and Secre- | tary Seward, the government of the | United States would cease, in effect, to i exist, and the Confectionery would be rec ognized by the world at large. The anti Union elements in Baltimore and Wash l ington furnished the material for carry ing out this plot, and money was fur nished by the Canadian cabaI. Mrs Mary $. Surratt and her son, John H. Surratr, living In Washington and interested in the plot, furnished meeting place for some of the oonspiratora, and there Wilkes Booth and Lewis Payne, an ex- Confederate soldier, George A. Atzerode a low rufIiap, with David A. Herold, Ed Iaw EN.s xl occasionally while they concooted plot and arranged it's details. The particulars of the plot, the parts assigned to each. in,theway which it was carried out and the partial success in the killing of Lin coln, but the failure in the effort to kill Johnson, Grant and Seward, were given with minuteness of detail gained from subsequent testimony of those concerned and from the evidence of witnesses, from documents and from other sources which have never been made public before. The flight cf Booth, who had broken his leg in jumping upon the stage gof Ford'a the ater after the shooting of the president, was described with his sickness suffering and fiual death at the hands of Boston Corbef, the fanatical sergeant. The body of Booth was brought to Washing. ton, where, In the meantime, Mrs Sus- ratt, Payne and others had been arrested, and here the immediate connection of DrI Porter with the ease began, as he was then detailed as medical Inspector to otaRa charge of the prisoners and report Go