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Show Death. Abraham Lincoln' OF THE WAIT WHITMAN'S ACCOUNT WKSE AT FORD'S TIIEATltE. the anniversary of PresIf he had ident Lincoln's birth. To-da- y i's CtJ lived till now lie would have been The following descripyears old. tion of the scours at Ford's Theatre f'om at the time of his assassination, Whit-maa forthcoming book by Wait has never before been published : n, The day, April 14, 1805, seems to have been a pleasant one throughout the whole land the coral" atmostoo the long storm, phere pleasant, blood so dark, so fratricidal, full of and doubt aud gloeui, over and cuded abat last by the sunrise of such an solute national victory, and utter ism we breaking down of secession ! Lee senses own almost doubted our had capitulated beneath the apple tree of Appomattox. The other armies, the Hangers of the revolt, swittly followed. And could it really be, then ? Out of all the affiirs of this world of woe and nation, uf failure and disorder and dismay, was there really come the confirmed, unerring sign of plan, like a shaft of pure light of right ful rule of God '( Uut I must not dwell on accessories. The deed hastens. Tile popular afternoon paper, the little hlTcn-inStar, had spattered all over its third page, divided amoug the advertisements in a sensational manner in a hundred different places: "The President aud his lady will be at the theatre this evening." Lincoln was fond of the theatre. I have myself found him there several times. I remember thinking how funny it was that Le, in some respects, the leading actor iu the neatest and stormiest drama known to real history's stage, through centuries, should sit there and Le so completely interested and absorbed ia those human jackstraws, moving about with their silly little gestures, foreign spirit, and flatulent text. So the day, as I say, was propitious. Early herbage, early flowers, were out. (I remember where I was Etopping at the time, the seasou br ing advanced there were lilacs in full bloom. By one of those caprices that cater and give tinga to eYcnts without being at all a part of them, 1 find myself always reminded of the great tragedy of tlut day by thd sight aud odor of these' blossoms. It never fails.) On this occasion the theatre was crowded, many ladies in rich aud gay costumes, officers iu their uuifrms, g inaaj well kuowu citizen, young folks, the usual cluster of gaslights, the usnal uiagDetisui of so many people, cLccrlul, with perfumes, mutic of violins and flutes (and over all, and saturating all, that vast vatrue wwdcr, Vfttory, the Nation's Victory, the triumph of the Uuion, the air, the thought, the sense, with cxhilarutiuu inoie than all perfilJ-io- g fumes.) The President came betimes, aid. with his wife, witnessed the play, from the large stage boxes of the second tier, wo thrown into one, and with the national profusely draped The acts and scenes of the flag. piece one of those singularly witless compositions which have at least the merit of giving entire relief to an engaged in mental notion or business excitements and cares during the day, as it makes not the slightest call cn either the moral, emotional, eMhetic, or spiritual nature a piece C;Our American Cousin") in which aong other characters, so called, a linkec, certainly such a one us was never seen, or the least like it erer wn in America, is. introduced ia England, with a varied of tolk, plot, scenery, aodsuch phantas-migori- a as goes to make up a modern I'pular drama had progressed through perhaps a couple of acts, when in the midst of this comedy, or tngedy, or nou such, or whatever it is to be called, and to offset it or to 11 out, as if in nature's and the great muse's mockery of thes poor mimes, comes interpolated that scene nt really or exactly to be described all (for on the many hundred who there U seems to vbu hour to uu-dien- ful-de-r- ol passing blur, a filled with frenzy, ready to seize any dream, a blotch) and yet partially outlet for it, came near committing to be described as I uow proceed to murder several times on innocent individuals. One such case was espe give it. The infuriated There is a seene .in the play repre- cially exciting. some iu which modern a chance, crowd, got through parlor, senting two unprecedented English ladies started against one man, either for are informed by the unprecedented words he uttered, or perhaps without an. I impossible Yankee that he is any cause at ill, and were proceeding FKKSII not a man of fortune, and therefore at once to actually hang Inin on a undesirable for marriage-catchinneighboring lamp post, whea he was (j purposes; after which, tha comments rescued by a tew heroic policemen, being finished, the dramatic trio make who placed him iu their, midst aud fought their way slowly and amjd exit, Laving the stage clear for a There was a pause, a hush great peril toward the station house. as it were. At this period came the It was a fitting episode of the whole A GENEPJ murder of Abraham Lincoln. (Jreat affair. The crowd rushing and edas that was, with all its manifold dying to and fro the night, the train circling round it, and stretch- yells, the pale faces, many frightened ing into the future for many a cen- people trying in vain to extrioste At the M tury, in the politics, history, art &c , themselves the attacked mail, uot of the New World, iu point ef fact yet freed from the jaws of death, the main thing, the actual murder, looking like a corpse the sileut, retranspired with the quiet aud sim- solute half dozen policemen, wiih no weapons but their little clubs, yet plicity of any commonest occurrence Daily arriral of the latest sty all those and stern in of a bud or the the burstiug steady through pod Xotious, Hoots and Shoes, Men's a made indeed for instance. Goods aud ( of eddying swamps vegetation, growth the to scene followhum the tragedy grand general Through ing th stage pause, with the change of the murder. They gained the staof positions, &c., came the muffled tion house with the protected man, souudof a pistol shot, which not ote whom they placed in security for the HOSIERY, Cheaper hundredth ' part of the audience night, and discharged him in' the d72tf heard at the time and yet a mo- moruing. Aud in the midst of that night ment's hush somehow, surely a instartled thrill and vague and then, pandemonium of senseless hate, DO through the ornaraeuted, draperied, furiated soldiers, the audience, and starred and striped space-wa- y of the the crowd the stage, and all its acPresident's box, a sudden figure, a tors and actresses, its paint pots, man raises himself with hands aud spangles, and gas lights the life feet, stauds a moment on the railiuir, blood from those veius, the best and LONDON' ASSURAN leaps below to the stage (a distance sweetest of the land, drips slowly of perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet), down, and death's ooze already begius OrLoiult on the lips. falls out of position, catching his boot-hee- l its Suen, hurriedly sketched, were the Assets, in the copious drapery (the American flag), falls on one knee, accompaniments of the death of IMPERIAL INSU quickly recovers himself, rics as if President Lincoln. So suddenly, uothing had happened (he really and iu murder and horror unsurpassOf Loudd ed, he was takeu from us. But his sprains his aukle, but unfelt then) Y. Sun. X. was death aud so the figure, Booth the murderpainless. in dressed black er, plain broadcloth, Assets, with a full head of glosMr. Johnson is of an economical sy, raven hair, and his eyes, like QUEER'S INSU1 turn of mind and "borrows" his wood some mad animal's, flashing with of a neighbor. Mr. Johnson's stove , OfXiverp resolution, yet with a certain strange blew up the other day. lie had borcalmness, lwjlds aloft in one baud a rowed one stick that had powder in it. Assets, .j a large knife walks along not much back from the footlights turns fully AMAZON INSUR toward the audience his face of staOl'Cimii tuesque beauty, lit by those basilisk eyes, flashing with desperation, perAssets,.. haps insanity launches out in a firm and steady voice the words, Sic FIREMANS FUND GENERAL AGENT IN temper itrannis and then walks with neither sloy nor very rapid Asset,. pace diagonally across to the hack of Utah, Montana and Idaho, the stae, aud disappears. (Had not Xevada for Save left little but a Main Street, NEW RAISINS, g ana urn mo-incu- CANDY ANlk t. CHOICE Fami BEST IPXuk de J. E. Insurance Agenc little-bubbie- s bare-heade- GEO. A. LOWE this terrible scene all mimic ones preposterous all been rehearsed, iu the had it not making; blank, "by Booth, beforehand?) A moment's hush, incrcdnlous a the cry of murder Mrs. scream Lincoln leaning out of the box, with ashy cheeks and lips, with involuntary cry, pointing- to the retreating figure, "He has killed the President." And still a moment's strange, incredulous suspense and then the de then that mixture of horror, luge! noises, uucertainry (the sound, somewhere back, of a horse's hoofs clattering with speed) the people burst through chairs and railings, and break them up that noise adds to the quecrucss of the scene there is inextricable confusion aud terror women faint quite feeble persons fall, aud are trampled on many cries of agony are heard the broad stage suddenly fills to suffocation with a deuse aud motley crowd, like some horrible carnival the audience rush generally upon it at least the strong ineu do the actors and actresses are all there in their play costumes and painted faces,with mortal fright shoeing through the rouge, some trembling some in tears the screams aud calls, confused talk redoubled, trebled two or three manage to pass up wnter from the stage to the President's box others try to elamber up &c., &o'., kc. Iu the midst ot all this the soldiers of the President's Guard, with others, suddenly drawn to. the scene, burst in some 200 altogether they storm the house, through all the tiers, especially tho upper ones, inflamed with fury, literally charg. ing the audience with fixed bayonets, muskets and pistols, shouting 'Clear out! clear out! you song of b l" Such the wild scene, or- a suggestion of it rather, inside the playhouse that uight. Outside, too, in the atmosphere of shock aud erne, crowds ot people. PETER SOHUTTLER'S CELEBRATED - , -- - BUCKEYE KE1PKIIS AND MOWEKS, SWEEPSTAKES THRESHERS Furst JJ Bradley Hay Italics, A Full Stock of y.v; , Wagon Woods, ' AN5 , WAGON MATERIAL, - Iron, Steel, and ni iniroiiimiK DMUAD 15 TOOK till 110 Always on hand . offices: Salt Lake City & Corinne, TJTA.il, ' JL D. JIAJIJIONB, Agent for tie above ia OGDEN and LQQAN Losses pal il Kin te it org doa tr J |