| Show gil dij kappll s r new yori york 17 I 1 it appears by the boral Horal heralds ds account account that major rathburne was not aawar of the presence of tile the assassin gassin in the presidents box until he heard the report of the pistol when he immediately turned and seized the man who at the same time made a thrust with his knife at the majors breast the latter received the bior biot blow biow on jils his left loft arm near the shoulder the major only seized the clothing of the assassin which was partly torn away avay as lie he sprang from the box thinking it impossible that the man could escape from the crowd be low lowthe the major turned his attention to the president the whole time consumed by the assassin sin from his entering the box and disappearing behind tile the scenes was kyas not over 30 seconds major rathburne has suffered eon considerably sider ably from loss of blood but is re recovering g rapidly by t the tho e germania from southampton Sout hamp don aon oth richard cobden died on the ad of bf april arll A bill for the abandonment of san domingo was adopt adopted edby by the spanish cartez news from brazil states that villalba had surrendered Mount avido to flores who had assumed the presidency the B brazilian ra forces now occupy it and peace is established new york 17 the heralds army of the potomac corre correspondent par pat ident details the working of parol paroling 1 ng the rebel prisoners if it appears that lee surrendered about men including officers privates and teamsters the artillery numbers 17 0 i vienes and the 7 A flag ortrude of truce truee came in from imboden on saturday tile the object as understood being the surrender of his forces as part of lees army the rebel gen rosser bosser however refused to comply with the terms of lees surrender but ills his troops deserted him en masse and he went to join johnston many of lees paroled men have reached their homes in the valley joe johnston has surrendered his entire army to sherman thus virtually I 1 closing the war the rebel i Generals a rais rals exi ex exl Ss s t hel hei d sire to submit 1 t ro the A stat ja ties 11 washingto n 1 geo goo F robinson R the er ild iid nurse who was in attendance on secretary tar seward has related circumstantially tile the proceedings iii in the tild chamber from which it lt appears ap lOhrs that atas it was wag through his brava brave and determined endeavors de avoris that the coll of belthe the murderous designs of were i s y rs frustrated according to Robin robinsons sonis narrative fred seward major seward and mr hansell were all wounded on the stairway As robinson opened the door to learn the cause of the disturbance outside a man struck tit at his breast in ills his hand lie held a large knife the blade of which appeared to be about a foot in length and an inch wide robinson determined aeter mined to oppose his progress and raised ills his arm to parry the blow the consequence was that a wound was wis inflicted ili in the centre of his forehead close to the hair the knife glanced lanced lancel and the clenched ha hand nd in which the hian inan held the dagger came down upon robinsons face and felled him to the floor miss seward at thi this juncture escaped from the room and ran to the front window screaming murder the assassin leaped to tile the bet where mr seward lay apparently ina lna in a helpless condition an and gave a tremendous blow at his face he missed his mark however and alta almost fell across mr body by this tinie time Robinson recovered jumped on the bed and caught hold of the assassins arili arm while he was thus attempting to hold hoid the assassin the latter struck mr yin seward sewald on the left side of the face and alid then on the right side the assassin then raised up and lie he and robinson came to the floor together they both got on their feet robinson still keep ing firm hold of liim hini the assassin reached ill ili lil his left arm over Robinson li shoulder and endeavored to force him to the floon floors but finding that he could not handle robinson in that position po I 1 I 1 he dropped ills hia position and with tile the hand which was around his neck caught hold of robinsons right arm and an d struck behind Robin soli with the knife they still continued td struggle for a few moments md ments robinson forcing him towards the tile door which was open with the intention of throwing him overl tile the bannis when they had nearly reached the door major seward entered the room and robinson called galled on him to take the tho th e ilife out of the assassins hand seward immediately clutched the assassin the latter then struck Ro robinson binon s inthe stomach knocking him down broke away from seward and rushed down stairs during the scuffle but when he cannot say robinson received a wound quite serious some two inches in breadth on the upper part of the right shoulder blade another a little lower down on the same side and a slight one on the the tho left shoulder while struggling glin with the man near the bedside lie he M had seized first of his ills right hand in which was the dagger and did not release his hold until knocked down by the assassin near the door door and after major seward had come t to his assistance he returned to the room after he found that the assassin had escaped and found that thal the secretary had got off tile tiie bed on to the floor dragging with him tile the bed clothes and was lying in h a pool of blood upon going to the secretary lie he found no pulse in the wrist and stated to miss seward who had reentered entered re the room and asked if her fathe father r was dead that he believed he was upon tile the second examination robinson ascertained that ills his heart was still beating the secretary then said 1 1 I I am not dead send for the police and the surgeon and close the house aethen he then placed laced the secretary on the bed telling alim him that he must not talk mr seward did not speak after that mr robinson remained with mr nir seward until 11 next morning when he w wa removed to douglas hospital washington 18 late last night a man disguised as a tt laborer and nd car carrying barring ring a pick on his ills shoulder approaching the house occupied by a family bf the name of survant in jin this thin city hild and was about to enter when he was arrested upon washing the dirt from his face he proved to be quite a diff different erent looking person from what his ills appearance in indicated ierson I 1 he called himself payne and exhibited not a little embarrassment he managed toasa to ask in agitated tones why he was arrested agreste d A colored servant of secretary ta ry S seward e V rd wa was sent hor Jor for when he exclaimed cl immediately m meZa tely I 1 the man I 1 know him by ills his general appearance and it r mouth Hi the ervant e ei vant ant th then en said thode those ii co coties labe be no nii nil nUs siai slat faik falK I 1 0 ft herd hend in vl ere cre r ha sea agthe ohp mile mlle w who h 6 probably bob iob bly nia mia ria leave e a q bal collection tion a of Sur ur valts vaits appearance will be offered an opportunity to reco recognise recognize anise him the man arrested is believed to be Sur Stir valt vait who perpetrated the dreadful acts at secretary ds house y w to sanford banford ord uncle is much better at up for a quarter of hii ali an bourhis hour houk his this morning ardd arid was bright and ehe che e erful to today I 1 day is a marked yesterday I 1 J F rederick frederick is slowly but surely regain 1 ing ills his co consciousness he has hm spoken twice this morning ile he sleeps much of the time and brat breathes lles lies regularly ind nd easily his pulse and appetite are frood I 1 think every avery one olae feels encouraged cou raged with regard to the messenger anid arid nurses both are doing well signed 0 A sevard SEWARD headquarters in the field 1 april oth 9 am J to halleck spanish fort corf dort port and it itse e tendencies cies cles were captured I 1 last t night we have 25 officers and 5 38 e enlisted lis its d men prison prisoners ers have taken 5 in mortars or rp 25 guns the major part of tl the le g garrison arison escaped by water sil sll signed pled pied CANBY casby i headquarters in in the fielda field 9 i to grant I 1 have the Ahonor to report the capture this day of the rebel forts at blakely with 2400 0 prisoners ners nerE and 20 guns signed CANDY JL Len enaire lenaire alre aire tenn 16 an expedition under Stoneman which left knoxville on the loth of llarch march struck the east tennessee and virginia railroad on the last christiansburg christl Christi ansburg and salem between these points 33 bridges were burned and 25 miles mile mlle of track totally destroyed many prisoners were taken and considerable sid Md erable quantities of corn and other othea stores destroyed on the ath stoneman moved via vla I 1 jacksonville danbury and macksville marksville Macks ville arriving at grants creek three miles fro from n salisbury the rebel line for the defense defense defenso of the town at 6 am oh oft the this line was defended by artillery and infantry and was soon forced our forces entered salisbury at 10 am capturing eight stand of colors 19 pieces of artillery 1165 prisoners 1000 stand of arms and accoutrements rounds of small ammunition and af pf fixed ammunition and shell pounds of powder complete suits of clothing army blankets pounds of bacon pounds of salt pounds of sugar 27 pounds of rice pounds of saltpetre salt sait sait satt petre bushels of wheat I 1 loo worth of medical supplies and bales of cotton thirteen pieces of artillery were brought away all the other stores not needed for our immediate command were destroyed the greater part of these supplies had just been received from raleigh Ea leigh 0 our ur large arsenal with machinery complete six depots two engines and trains and and several bridges between greensboro and danville also on either side of salisbury with several miles of the railroad track were destroyed we lost a very few killed and wounded amon among the latter is capt E R morrow A A G staff new hew orleans 13 the times has the following special lake port 13 I 1 have just arrived from mobile the stars and stripes were hoisted on batteries porter and mae Map mackintosh kintosh at 10 am yesterday and on the big church steeple mobile at 2 80 pm grangers brangers Gr angers forces occupy the city the rebels commenced evacuating on the loth and continued until yesterday when eil ell all ali left the tu tug boat allena was blown udby up by a torpedo yesterday r d y I 1 washington abington V 19 the solemn funeral rites and obsequies of the late president lincoln were paid today to day ili in ther the capital no greater fealty to the memory of the illustrious dead was ever demonstrated in the i annals of civilization tile the dawn was ushe ushered redin in by a heavy aheady boom of salutes of minute guns from the fortifications surrounding the city at a very early hour the people began to assemble in in the vicinity of the executive mansion which was almost entirely draped in crape crapes as also were the public and private buildings in tile the vicinity all our city public houses and private residences dences donces were closed and the them emblems emblem of mourning appeared from every cornice and fastened from every window the inmates poured forth by thousands into the streets and by 10 the latter were in many places impassable pennsylvania avenue from willards to the white house presented by non noon one dense mass of people while the adjacent streets for half halt a mile in every direction were filled with military companies and elie chic groele procession an S a d distance t ce trains b rill gi I 1 I 1 MR n e d every hour lk A H fib 1 l betwee d I 1 11 briock lo 10 c a escort formed in line onn on pennsylvania 11 avenue the left resting on h street the escort consisted of two regiments of infantry two battalions of cavalry 8 pieces of artillery and one battalion of marines headed by a full armed band and other military companies al alap 9 accompanied compa nied by bands at noon the ceremonies commenced in tho the east room the ceiling was drap draped edwith with CT crape ape app mirrors hung gaithe on the borders with emblems of mourning while drapery gave the room a dim light that added to the solemnity of the mournful Ino scene president johnson stood beside the remains of the lamented President during the funeral oration and gen geil grant sat at the head of the corpse while the members of the cabinet and ex vice president hamlin were grouped about the rev bev dr hall rector of the church of tho the epiphany read portions of the episcopalian philan service for the burial of the dead commencing lord let me know my end and the number of my days that I 1 may be certified I 1 haw ow long I 1 have to live behold thou h hait hast N t made my days daysi as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect fo to thee and verily every man living is altogether vanity bishop simpson of tile the methodist church offered prayer in which he fervently alluded to emancipation and other noted deeds performed by president lincoln rev bev dr gurley then read the funeral oration and paid a high tribute to the memory of the late president I 1 1 at two the remains were taken to the capital by a procession of over three miles iii ia length and were placed in the rotunda where he will lie in state during today to day and tomorrow to morrow will be con eon conveyed eyed under escort to springfield illinois via philadelphia new york buffalo and chicago secretary seward ge is so much better today to day that lie he was able to be assisted from bed and supported at the window where he witnessed the passage of a portion 0 r tion of the funeral procession cpr frederick cederick is also improving all the foreign ministers with their attaches in all 56 were present at the funeral service at the executive mansion today to day their places in the pro gramme came directly after the presidents cabinet this this for the first time in our history was in in accordance with the usage of foreign nations where the diplomatic corps follow the monarch heretofore they have been placed in t the he pro gramme after the ex president justices justices of the supreme court and members ers of congress upon the arrival of the head of the procession at the east front of the capital capitol the coffin was borne to the centre of the rotunda president johnson stood at the foot of the coffin surrounded by a throng of senators high military officers and a small number of Illinois ans as chief mourners dr gurley standing at the head of the coffin uttered a few most impressive m sive remarks chiefly in solemn words wor s of scripture the deep tones of his voice reverberated from the vast walls to the ceiling of the rotunda now for the first time used for such a a solemn occasion and during the thelm in pres pre sive olve give scene many were affected to tears I 1 I 1 new bao blo york r 19 jt atis is estimated that one hundred d r e and twenty five thousand people were in the streets of washington today to day to witness the tha funeral ceremonies chlea chiea chicago 0 19 A national national monument fund funa is is on foot and a plot of ground of six acres in the heart of the city of sprin aprin springfield field illinois has been selected as the tile urial burial place of the lamented president lincoln chlea chica chicago 0 19 di snatches spat ches cheB from halifax st johns montreal and other points in the brt british provinces say there was a general S suspension U s of business dis display play of flags at of deep bym sympathy athy with the people of the united states and respect for fok the character of the deceased president and de from all parts of the east and west stat state ethe the day darwas was universally observed ail all all business suspended 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