Year: 1861

was ont Of the question. We wondered at the
long delay Of the first company, for the advance
Of which the Colonel had sent back before ap-
preaching the hotel, but We subsequently, learn.
ed that they had mistaken strset. and gone q
little out of their way. Before they arrived we
had removed some Of the unsightly stains from
the Colonels features, and composed bis limbs.
His expression In death was beautifully nstu-
raj. The Colonel was q singularly handsome
man, and, excepting the pallor, there was moth.
Ing different Ia his countenance now from what
all bis friends had 40 lately been accustomed To
gladly recognize, The detachment was heard
approaching st last,a reinforcement was easily
called up, and the surgeon was sent for
His arrival, not long after, Of course sealed
our own unhappy belief. A sufficient guard
was presently distributed over the the house, but
meanwhile had rene % bered the Colonel earn
estness about the telegraph seizure, and obtain
ed permission to guide squad Of ZJuayes to
the Office, which was found 20 be entirely open,
with all the doors sjlr, yet apparently deserted.
IL looked a little like another chance OF sur
prise. The men remained In charge. pre-
sumo It was not wholly 10 order for me. q
civilian, to start upon this mission, but was
the only person who knew the whereabouts OF
the Office, and the Colonel had been very positive
about the matter. When Ireiurped 10 the Ho
u
woman had run from tie lower room to the
stairway where the body Of the defender Of the
Secession Gag lay, and recognizing IL. cried
aloud with an agony 90 beart-fending that no
person could witness IL without emotion. She
flung her arms 10 the air, struck her GROW mad
ly, ard seemed 10 every way utterly abandoned to
desolatlon and frenzy She offered no reproach-
es-appeared indeed almost regardless Of our
presence, aud yielded only to her own frantic
despair. II was ber husband that had been shot.
He was the proprietor Of the hotel. His name
was james T. Jackson. Winser was confident
il was the same man who met us at the door
when we entered, and told US be was o boarder.
His wife, as said, was wild almost to insanity.
Yet she listened when spoken to, and although
no consolation could be offered her by US for
what she had lost she seemed sensible 70 the
assurance that the safety Of her children, for
whom che expressed fears, could not possibly be
endangered.


Il is not from any wish to fasten obloquy upon
the slayer of Col. Ellsworth, but simply because
Il struck me as frightful faot, that say the
face of the dead man wore the most revolving
expression Of rage and hatred that ever saw.
Perhaps the nature of his wound added TO this
effect, and the wound was something 60 appall'
ing that shall not attempt TO describe it, as
il impressed me. II Is probable that such re-
suit from Sullet-wound could not ensue once
In thousand times. Either of Brownell's on
slsughts would have been instantan eously fatal.
The saber wound was not less effective than
that Of the ball. The gun which Jackson had
fred lay beneath him, clasped In his arms, and
as we did not at fret all know that both barrels
had been discharged, It was thought necessary
to remove it lest 1t should be suddenly seized
and made use Of from below. In doing this,
his countenance was revealed.