He could not speak

espy the incendiary and shoot him dead. could talk in a whisper so as to be intelliHis eyes were lustrous like fever, and gibly understood. swelled and rolled in terrible anxiety, above a whisper. He wanted water; I while his teeth were fixed, and he wore gave it to him. He wanted to turn on the expression of one in the calmness be- his face; I said he could'nt lie on his face. fore frenzy. In vain he peered with ven- He wanted to be turned on his side; we geance in his look; the blaze that made turned him on his side three times, but he him visible concealed his enemy. A could not lie with any comfort, and asked second he turned glaring at the fire, as if immediately to be turned back. He asked to leap upon and extinguish it, but the me to put my hand on his throat, and flames had made such

headway that this was a futile impulse, and he dismissed it. As calmly as upon the battle-field a veteran stands amidst the hail of ball and shell and plunging iron, Booth turned at a man's stride, and pushed for the door, carbine in poise, and the last resolve of death-despair-set on his high,

bloodless forehead.

At this instant, Sergeant Boston Cor- press down, which I did. He said bett fired through a crevice and shot Booth" Harder"; I pressed as hard as I thought in the neck. They then took him up and necessary. He made a very strong exercarried him out on the grass, a little way tion to cough, but was unable to do so. I from the door, beneath a locust tree. suppose he thought there was blood in his Conger went back to the barn, to see if throat. I asked him to put out his tongue, the fire could be put out, but found it which he did. I said, "There is no blood could not, and returned to where Booth in your throat." He repeated several was lying. Before this (says Lieutenant-times-two or three times at least-" Kill Colonel Conger) I supposed him to be me! kill me!" I replied, "I do not want dead; he had all the appearance of a dead to kill you. I want you to get well." man; but when I came back his eyes and mouth were moving. I called immediately for water and put some on his face. He seemed to revive, and attempted to speak. I put my ear down to his mouth, and heard him say, "Tell my mother I died for my country." I repeated the words to him and said, "Is that what you would say?" He said "Yes." They carried him to the porch of Garrett's house, and laid him on a straw bed or tick. At that time he revived considerably, and

When the doctor, whom Conger had sent for, arrived, Booth asked to have his hands raised and shown him. When this was done, he muttered "Useless, useless!" These were his last words. He died about four hours after he was shot.

Booth and Harold were dressed in rebel gray uniform. Booth's mustache had been cut off, apparently with scissors, and his beard allowed to grow, thus changing his appearance considerably. His hair had been cut somewhat shorter than he usually

wore it. Being taken to Washington, a | and, observing that the President looked post-mortem examination of the remains weary, Mr. Fessenden remarked

"Mr. President, the people of the the body being laid out on a carpenter's United States are praying that God bench between the stern and turret. The

Senator Fessenden states that one day he was standing with Mr. Lincoln on the steps of the Secretary of State's office, claim."

"We are loyal, Sir."

"Yes, Sir, and so are the men who stand up in front of Richmond, to be shot at, but they don't come here to plague me."

"We don't wish to worry you, Mr. President."

"No, I know what you want-you are turning, or trying to turn me into a justice of the peace, to put your claims through. There are a hundred thousand men in the country, every one of them as

could. Abraham the Just was right. Anybody could go and tell his story, but he had to look to it that he made out a good case, especially if he was after go ernment money.

Contrast Between the Two.

Mr. William C. Bryant's paper, the Evening Post, says,-An officer of the United States Army, whose authority in such a case we can not question, gives leave to publish the following account of what he heard Jefferson Davis say just before the breaking out of the war:

I heard Mr. Davis utter the following words in a southern town where he delivered an address in November, 1860. I did not hear the whole speech, only the words quoted, as I passed by the crowd of listeners:

"What! coerce a sovereign State! attempt to deprive us of our most inestimable rights! Let Mr. Lincoln try it, or Mr. Douglas either, and we will hang them higher than Haman, and the only difference I should make would be that [humorously] as Mr. Lincoln is considerably taller than Mr. Douglas, we should have to build his gibbet [standing on his toes and reaching up his hand] a leetle higher than that for Douglas."

During the trial of the assassins of good as you are, who have just such bills President Lincoln, one of the witnesses as you present; and you care nothing of was Mr. Lewis F. Bates, for several years what becomes of them, so you get your residing in Charlotte, N. C., and agent of money." the Adams Express Company, in that "We think our claim just, Mr. Presi- place. He testified that Jeff. Davis

dent."

"Yes, but you know you can't prove what is in this paper by all the people in the United States, and you want me to prove it for you by writing my name on the back of it: yes, in plain words you wish me to lie for you that you may get your money. I shall not do it."

stopped at his house on the 19th of April, and made a speech from the steps. Davis received and read a dispatch from General Breckinridge, dated Greensborough, April 19th, as follows:

"President Lincoln was assassinated in the theatre on the night of the 14th. Secretary Seward's house was entered

The visitor stood a moment, as if dizzy the same night, and he was repeatedly and undecided; but gathering up slowly, stabbed, and is probably mortally woundretired to digest his repulse as best he ed."

Witness said that after reading the dis-ident replied calmly, in the words which patch to the crowd, Davis stated, "If it he had adopted in his last Inaugural Adwere to be done, it were better it were dress, "Judge not that ye be not judged." well done." The day after, Breckinridge And when pressed again, by the remark and Davis conversed in the house of wit- that the sight of Libby Prison made it ness on the subject of the assassination. impossible to pardon him, the President Breckinridge remarked to Davis that he repeated twice over those same words, revealing unmistakably the generous sentiments of his heart. Indeed, so disposed was the amiable President to extenuate, or forget, the crimes of even the most active conspirators, civil and military, against the life of the nation, that, on this point, a breach seemed imminent between him and many of his best friends, if not the majority, who elevated him to office. But now that he is dead, the spirit of mercy that actuated him, gives fragrance to his memory. In the words of another -his great Exemplar-Mr. Lincoln might well say of his enemies, "They hated me without a cause."

Jefferson Davis.

regretted it very much-it was unfortunate for the people of the South, at that time. Davis replied, "Well, General, I don't know that if it were to be done at all it were better it were well done, and if the same were done to Andy Johnson, the beast, and Secretary Stanton, the job would then be complete."

Mr. J. Courtney, telegraph operator, testified that the dispatch in question passed over the wires; and Mr. Bates's testimony was unimpeached.

In contrast with the above, it is refreshing to cite the animus of clemency and good will which ever characterized the acts and declarations of the murdered President.

Disappointed Expectations.

In the year 1854, a conversation took place at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, between Jefferson Davis and Professor Jewett, in the course of which Davis predicted that the Union would soon be divided into two republics.

"Where will the division or boundary line be?" interrogated Prof. Jewett. "The line separating the slave and free states," answered Mr. Davis.

"Then," said the professor, "you expect to claim the national capital."

"Of course," was the reply, "and this very Smithsonian Institute will be within the southern republic."

"But," asked Prof. J., "how will you bring about such a division of the country? Do you think the free states will agree to it without a resort to arms?"

It is well known that, at the very moment of his assassination, he was occupied by thoughts and plans of both lenity and pardon. He was never harsh, even in speaking of Jefferson Davis; and, only a few days before his end, when one who was privileged to speak to him in that way, said, "Do not allow him to escape the law-he must be hanged," the Pres- will secede, and become a distinct nation

"Sir," said Jefferson Davis, in his sententious manner, "the North will never fight us on that occasion. There will be no bloodshed. When the South says she

ality, the North will be glad to let us go, manner. He then addressed the audience and that peaceably. It will be a bloodless in terms as follows: revolution." Alas!

Comment on Mr. Sloanaker's "Beautiful

Portrait."

The genial spirit of the lamented President, which relieved him amidst the toils and anxieties of his dangerous and difficult station, will linger long, in many characteristic anecdotes, to soften in a measure the horror of his death, and mingle light with the dark mourning for his loss to the country he preserved. A significant incident, in illustration of this, is related by a friend of the late President, who happened to be present at the White House the day after the renomination of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency. Various political organizations called to pay their respects to him. Among the rest was the Philadelphia delegation. The chairman of that body, in presenting one of the members, said

"Mr. President, this is Mr. A. B. Sloanaker, of the second district of our State; a most active and earnest friend of yours and of the cause. He has, among other things, been good enough to paint and present to our league rooms a most beautiful portrait of yourself."

Mr. Lincoln took Mr. Sloanaker's hand in his, and with an earnest cordiality, shook it kindly, saying with a merry

voice

"Fellow citizens: It is proper when freemen assemble for the discussion of important public interests, that everything should be done decently and in order. I have been informed that part of the business to be transacted on the present occasion is the assassination of the individual who now has the honor of addressing you.

Here he paused, with his right hand on "I presume, Sir, in painting your beauhis pistol and the other holding open his tiful portrait, you took your idea of me from my principles, and not from my per-veyed the assembly. After a pause of half coat, while with his eyes he blandly sur

son."

Attending to Business in Regular Order. Andrew Johnson was once announced to speak in Nashville, on one of the exciting questions of the day; and loud threats

a minute, he resumed :

"Gentlemen, it appears that I have been misinformed. I will now proceed to address you on the subject that has called us together."

its Delivery.

were uttered that, if he dared to appear, Reward of a Speech after Fifteen Years from he should not leave the hall alive. At the appointed hour he ascended the platform, and, advancing to the desk, laid his pistol upon it, with the most quiet unconcern of tock-as given in a public address by the

In an interesting conversation between President Lincoln and Rev. Dr. M'Clin