Janesville Weekly Gazette (Newspaper) - June 15, 1865, Janesville, Wisconsin in U I Il I ronH ni t r t T MURRAY r It BAT J Martin i A IHO Martin 1 m entitled ic ion o tho uor of tho above It tho In to thu bii I OFJ UNE T n of that duj at 11 Bank in tho city of U j 1 cd lots of land I M'S addition to I of by VY Mm in May THOMAn hi 11 IT ot Hoik Comity I1 oi Kock Courtly David tition of tor D that Bradlord in IP JliU ot that i oi tho of i int said be heard I i oi tho ou tho J k A M And u is It lit 1 ij o this foi i SM k pi iur i V tl a in Mud Dated May 11 1 oiu 01 Rock County t ito Younf tt 1 n t 1 j i n th it he i xte I i L u its du d on m 1 ii iy t SHI I dll l I -.111 II 11 ll ud u th s Ci t in tl i i ot i Uy ot hino at 1 i uli tut I1 it b n liy put u i k one i in i in J n I in put I i 1 i 1 1 C iio Hus l County r Iho pit ito 1 I i i u i Akf T i n i in nt of If ry It it i I in i i t u liall soil Pk it I t th Ii nt door I i I I1 t it bltU ii u iM oi JUx k mid Sill I I Oil S I n i in I t n Hi liny I L i 1 1 Mi riff tl f ui i ot tho I IS l i in j i I oi n this nil Ji hi h i ul iht turn hunted t r illos a mo 1 n diy th thin Com t in this bounty on n f oiu U no clock M i l no and adjust II raons nt do Count i f L SHINGLES T QUALITY V II t uk i V p TOV D f- V U CI I ip nu ai ut r t null 1 a m bo a i %s 1 bo to Grinding OJM ml ill a or e olo Agent CO Kock Co on tbe Ctn ht color suppos d m uks anJ loft is m poor haul pay I THOMAS It AUSTIN 1 1805 inst m town ot s old about 14 hum s i a in tlie tor right eye and ft owner IH requested to i d take hoi i i Gt THOMSON DAILY THURSDAY JUNE 15 1865 NUMBER 43 APRIL Punih 3 Lincoln a 1011 ro pencil wont to trace sneer I Ins unkempt hair 11 at MSP nto w to please mil t pen backed up the laugh I ft though tho way plain L j tn TI P i ie that bourn or winding sheet ho lived to rear anow his head and feet 1 jester if thore room for you to shame me from my sneer Jj pencil ami confute my C thH of a true born lung of man 1 i I huil learnt to rue I M height he rose 1 home truth moie true grew bj blows u ut hoss he could be nnd in ill tho banie nor he cold noi tor ui hn work aa fi v id l ou mid henrt and a task to do Ihou i hi s ill with tlie 1 to Mill I HI c in an ivi to nth tin ot und ill Bit itli t on tho el ltd a sv nil sand iti unit 11 s hood ho plied ltd i suth o a th waiting I f rut tin unl loken sou d I uk tl it tin ni t lie lumbi i ci a uit j tl it t in tho boatman H toil i h I iu in ti u 1 In mi u id the plow ling tlu In Hi it 1 his youth to it i h In lar hint may tli t 11 i I M 1 t u tli anil pi sin Ml ill 1 1 SVOlk tO ill IT t I it I ui 1 i itiL i H n n t Us id h 11 1 t o In- i s Ii to t- I i tlu I mo to JM t i th j s itno is nine mood u u I fiom il u it t n th tin il Ii u 11 in tood issi n On il i In n n 1 ilund d and p itii nt 13 H s m o dim I jn 1 il 11 n s AVI le 1 ucl to TL it K S in upon Ins hn hi ui t ind on hi pi n II ct 1 lit Ht i i ul on t u th good t n 11 in 1 tin Ness fiom sen to i soi t t ss and n it at last buit high t t it as its ti iu m ph canie Sti 1 tue biou before a hand hereof mon doubt n or bore hko Cain's stands out tint I nn lost minder on a strife udd stoutly and nobly striven lull d i town a lite In i Ii to little to be forgiven I OF THE ASSASSINS duplicity of Davis in the tier of of Conspiracy Testimony ford er testified is of New York have resided da since October last was con- uito the confederate army and de- in the war department of it under A Redden Secretary of War n was intimately t V Sanders Jacob Thompson Tucker Wm C Cleary astleraany Mr Cameron and others I Clement C Clay and Gen I knew Mr Suratt W Booth and visited these Canada Saw Suratt there on April in Mr room also in company i N Bunders and rebels about live feet nine a tail complexioned t'i u ir I yaw him about i ch ul vith Thompson m I Until At that time he in his room in my IK s Richmond to i mi and fiom v litter a cipher i ct was s i s u in 11 t if it i tli me i i mat t of which af tho in Inbune paper for pon led I had been i fo p in that 1 i delivered those IT is laid his H aid said 1 i i ind the ol the makes the thing 1 Ii T of the i Lincoln u tai v ol War the 1 In 1 and I homp jn said on that n that 1 ol the a head that in tho Constitution iv thoy could Ii ni Welles 1 it un ho was of no uh Tho in on in In 4 n-f in I homp 11 i l lul I O I P n t p I rn i ji LI I 10 l T oiu 3 1 1 s If I th CO 1 i 1 i uly to do l Ml a I H ilc 1 to play a and ho his words wore re- move them from office and he said that the killing of a tyrant was not murder that fie for this from the rebel authorities and conferred one on Booth or would confer one that everybody engaged in this enterprise would be commissioned and if they caped to Canada they could not be fully claimed under the Extradition ty I know that Thompson and others held these commissions in blank They commissioned Bennett Young the St bans raider It was a blank commission filled up and conferred by Mr Clay As it came to them from Richmond it was on- ly signed James A Seddon of War Mr Thompson called me to ex- amine these blanks so that I might testify to the genuineness of Seddon's signature in the case of Bennett Young before Judge Smith The signature was genu ine In a subsequent conversation after the first referred to in February son told me that Booth had been sioned and every man who would engage in it would be I had a conversation with Wm C Cleary on the day before or the day of the assassination at St Lawrence Hall We were speaking of the rejoicing in the States over the surrender of Lee and the capture of Richmond Cleary said they would have the laugh on the other side of the mouth in a day or TWO I think this was the day belore the lie knew I was in the secret of the conspiracy It was to that he referred The assassination teas spoken of among us as the Before that Sanders asked me if 1 knew Booth very well and expressed that Booth would a fizzle oj it that he was desperate and reckless and be was afraid the whole thing would be a failure I communicated to the Iri bit ne the intended raid on St Albans and the proposed assassination of the dent but they refused to publish the b ter I did this in March last as to the assassination also in ry 1 think certainly before the Ith of March Surratt the dispatches in Thompson's room four or five days be- fore the assassination The sation showed that was one of tho conspirators to take the Th it was the substance of the It was also undei stood that thore plenty oi money whon there was thing to be done The conversation maced that had a very few days before left Richmond that he wis just from Richmond When I waj in Canada I was a pondent for the Tribune and received no compensation except from the Ti I have not received one cent from our own Government nor the promise They never supposed I was the pondent for any paper I only said I was seeking items They supposed I was a rebel and I was in their confidence The proposed Ogdensburg raid was printed in the Tribune I did not communicate this matter directly to the Government for the reasen that I supposed the communication in the Tribune would be seen by the officials and I did not choose to have the information go to the Government directly from me I requested Mr Gay of the Tribune to give the information to the Government and I believe he did so I saw Surratt in Canada three or four days in succession in April last I had con- versation with him personally about mond I was introduced to him by ders 1 was expected to participate with these rebels in the raid on Ogdensburg I never received any pay from them for any services I heard the capture of the dent talked oi in February When Mr Thompson first suggested the assassination to me I asked him if it would meet the probation of the government at Richmond he said he thought it would but he would know in n few days This was early in February Thompson did not say in April when these dispatches were delivered that this was the first approval they had received of this plot from Richmond but I know I only inferred that that was the first approval Thompson said in his conversation with me that killing a tyrant in such a was no murder and asked me if I had read a letter called addressed by tus to Oliver Cromwell This was in ruary Mr was also named in as one oi the victims of this scheme In April the persons before were mentioned but Mr was and Johnson put in his place I ran the blockade from Richmond These commissions were all blank but the signature they were to be given as a cover that in case of tion the parties employed could claim that they were rebel soldiers and would therefore claim to bo treated as prisoners of war It was understood that they wo aid be protected as such Thompson if the men who were engaged in this enterprise weie detected and executed the government would ate that it was no murder only killing think was specially commissioned this purpose 1 saw Booth in Canada in the Litter of October with Sanders at Mi Thompson's at tho St Lawrence Hall where strutting about pating and playing billiards I have heaid these men talk of the burning of Toik and other enterprises which they hrve under consideration now was a before the of those in Canada to oy tin the City New is a It was it would not only damage Ii oi i d by a bvl tl mi oss the people that there w u ind the would bo de- i find lit oi this they as intimate with Thompson in Canada I saw in company with him G N Sanders Louis Sanders Wm C Cleary Porterfield Captain Magruder and a ber of other rebels of less note burn was recognized there as au agent of the confederate States and so represented himself In January last Dr Blackburn employed a person named Came ron to company him for the purpose of ing yellow fever into the Northern cities to wit the cities of New York phia and Washington He went from Montreal to Bermuda about a year ago last fall for the purpose of getting the clothing infected with yellow fever I saw him after his return in Canada and heard Jacob Thompson and Wm C Cleary say that they his scheme and were much interested in it This was last January About the same time ic was proposed to destroy the Croton Dam Dr Blackburn proposed to poison the reservoirs and made a calculation of the amount of poisonous matter it would require to impregnate the water so as to make an ordinary draught poisonous and deadly He had the ity of the reservoirs and the amount of water generally kept in them Strychnine arsenic prussic acid and a number of er things I do not remember of were ed Mr Thompson feared it would be impossible to collect so large a quantity of poisonous matter without suspicion and leading to detection Thompson ted the enterprise and discussed it freely Mr Cleary did the same it was also ken of by a Mr Montrose A Pallen of Mississippi and by a person who had been a medical purveyor in the rebel army John Cameron who lived in Montreal told that he was offered large sation I think Mr Thompson was the money agent for all the other agents I think all drew on him for all the money they required I know some of them did When Thompson said ic would be u collect so much poison out detection Pallen and others thought it be managed in Europe Pallen is a physician think I have heaid liana also mentioned in connection with the I think he lived n Toronto There were other tics in Montreal that Blackburn employed or endeavored to employ but I do not re- their names I saw Dr Stewart Robinson doctor of divinity residing in Toronto he edited a paper in Kentucky I have seen him with Thompson and and he was present when some of the schemes were discussed he approved them lie said any thing that could be done under heaven would justify them under the He appeared upon very mate terms with Blackburn and son Three or four days after the of the President I saw John II Surratt in Canada with a Southern rebel now declared a British subject by the Canadian Parliament I learned immediately afterward that ratt was suspected was pursued and had decamped I had a knowledge that Jeff Davis was the head of the so-called con- federate states was called its President and had control of its civil administration Gen Carroll was present when Surratt brought the dispatches from Richmond and when they were read by Thompson I believe there were one or two others Gen Carroll of Tennessee ihen said ke was more anxious that Mr Johnson should be killed than any one else He said If the damned was not killed by somebody ke would hill him himself He referred to Vice President Johnson His expression was a word of contempt for a tailor it means a tailor's louse Booth was known in Canada by the name of Pet I think I have heard Thompson so name him certainly Cleary Kennedy who fired the city of New York and was executed was spoken of as ing performed that deed by authority of the rebel government under the direction of Thompson This was communicated to me by Thompson himself or in conversation in his presence Thompson said dy deserved to be hanged and he was ilish glad he was hanged for he was a stupid fellow and had managed things very badly James K Merritt testified I am a and have been in Canada about a year in October and November last was in rues George Young there a rebel from Kentucky Young said to me We have something of much more tant than any raids Ilc told me it v as determined that Old Abe should never be inaugurated that they had plenty of Friends in Washington and called Mr Lincoln a damned old 1 after- ward saw George N Sanders and Colonel Steele together Col Steele said the damned old tyrant never will serve term if he is elected Sanders said at the time he would keep himself mighty close if he did seive another term.- Montreal ii February last I heard Sandeis name a number oi persons leady and willing to remove the President Vice President the Cabinet and some of the lending Generals of the United States and he added that re was lots of money to this meaning the of persons He then read a letter which he said he had received from the president of our confederacy meaning Davis and which letter hn any lie o object Theie was j meeting at that time of rebels and a letter was read to them the of which was that if the Southerners tho Canadas and in tho States wore to be bv it'll n t riv it i Lin so In bo did ai ad ive I i many i and o -o liau oc and a LIKIO number of men covco d u Chicago Thi SOU d some eight of tho cis tut P Tho eb with yellow i try is tV m iir 3 nto this Tii of proposition to the leUer not WJ to r that T3 lie Ji n al ami This meeting NHB about iho M of 1 At the meet tomo ot tho persons v l o to accomplish tne assassination and them he named J W n in in nut I1 Caldwell and rold won b by the name of Harrison I also mentioned and Harrold There was a person named whom they called Plug Tobacco I saw Harrold in said Booth was heart and soul in this matter he was a cousin to Beale who was hanged in New York He added that if they could dispose of Lincoln it would be an easy matter to dispose of Mr Johnson in some of his drunken revelries that if they could dispose of the President Vice- President and Cabinet and that if Mr Seward could be disposed of it would satisfy ike people North and that a peace could be obtained that they had ored to bring about a war with England but Mr Seward through his energy and sagacity had thwarted their efforts and for that reason they wanted to get rid of him On the 5th or Gth of April last I met Harper who said that they were going to the States to kick up the damnedest row such as has never been heard he ad ded that if I did not of Old Abe Vice President and of Gen in less than ten days I might put him down as a damned fool That was on the Gth of April lie mentioned the name of Booth as one of their friends there he said they had aplenty of friends in ington and that fifteen or twenty were going He had started to go to ton as early as the 8th together with others I communicated this fact on the 10th of April to a justice of the peace named Davidson who after the tion communicated it to the Government Harper returned to Canada after the I had a conversation with C C Clay in Toronto in February last he spoke of the letter of Davis which ders had exhibited he seemed to under- stand the character of the letter perfectly and said he thought the end the means Surratt was pointed out to me in Toronto last February I think 1 saw Booth there two or three times and sat at table with him once at the St rence with Sandeis Scott and Steele they wae niih Booth and cli wine with him at Sanders 1 saw Harrold in Canada in February Richard Montgomery knew Jacob Thompson Clement C Clay whom I have met in Canada a number oi times since the of to this time also George N Sanders J P Tucker W C Cleary ton Hicks and others under fictitious names Thompson had names one was Cranson Clay was Holt and cy and Tracy Jacob Thompson said he had friends of the confederacy all over the Northern States willing to go any lengths and that he could at any time have the tyrant Lincoln and any of his advisers put out of the that his would not consider it a crime it would be done for the cause of the confederacy In January 1865 Thompson said at al that a proposition had been made to him to rid the world of the tyrants Lincoln Stanton Grant and some others that he knew the men who made it were bold ing men able to execute anything they undertake that he was in favor of the proposition but deferred Jus until he had consulted his government at mond that he was then only waiting their approval He thought it would be a blessing to the people both North and South to have them the tyrants killed In the summer of I repeated what Mr Thompson first told me to C C Clay who said that he was really devoted to our cause and ready to go any lengths to do anything under the sun to have it I have seen Payne the prisoner a number of times in Canada about the Falls in the summer of 64 and also at the Queens Hotel at Toronto Canada West where I conversed with him I had had an inter- view with Mr Thompson several others had sought an interview while I was ed and had been refused On leaving Thompson's room Pagne in the sage way near the dooi with Clement C Clay talking to him Mr Clay stopped me and finished his conversation with this man in an undertone When he left me he said Wait for me I will return He soon came back again and bade me and asked where he could bee me after a time I told him and d a meeting I spoke to this man Payne in Clay's absence and asked him who lie was He said Oh I'm a Canadian which was to say I don't wish you to ask me anything more I mentioned him to Clay when I met him after i time Clav asked What did he say 9 I told him and Clay answered he is a and laughed he added We brust Canadian is for their friends and his conduct was an indication that their intercourse was of a very confidential nature i I have been in Canada since the nation a few days after I met Beverly Tucker at Montreal He said Mr oln deserved his death long ago that it was a pity he did not die long and that it was too bad the boys had not been allowed to go where they wanted to referred to the men were to is nate him I had a conversation with Wm C Cleary and told him what Mr Thompson said in January He said that Booth was one of the parties to whom Thompson had but he said also that it was too bad that the whole work had not been done referring to the assassination Cleary who was a confident of Mr Thompson told me so Thompson said vi as a close mouthed man Cleary also said that they had better lookout we have not done yet lip that rhey would never be conquered would up He also that Booth had Thomson in tne and m the knew tl oy sn of the a few alter and o s to they told mr i as a in and assumed the name 01 Jamey Thompson though it tmt some other My wholo object was to seive the Government I saw thig ciphor found among Booth's in Mr Clay's house at St Arines in the summer of 1804 1 carried from Canada to Gordonsville a reply which I carried back I came through Washington each time and delivered the dispatches to the United States Government received the dispatch at Gordonsville from a man in the rebel state department from their Secretary of State I carried this paper to Thompson All these persons named Thompson Clay Cleary represented themselves in the service of the confederate government Re- this dispatch in October last Clay claimed to represent the war department They the of our ern cities and they represented themselves as having full powers from the rebel to act without referring their projects to and Clay both said so The attempt to burn New York city I know they w ere engaged in and went to Washington days be- fore it happened to communicate it They approved also of the St Albans raid In regard to raiding Mr Clay had the funds he said he had always plenty of money to pay for anything that was worth paying for I know they deposited in different banks Clay said not to tell Sanders what they entrusted to me he said that he was a very good to do dirty work that lie associated with men they could not associate with that he was very ful in that way I inferred from Beverly Tucker's words that they had delayed the assassination waiting the approval from Richmond PETROLEUM NASBY He uv and Visits the President Gen Sherman's Farewell Order MIDDLE DIVISION OF THE Miss IN WASHINGTON May 30 j Special field 70 The General commanding announces to the Armies of the Tennessee and Georgia that the time has come for us to part Our work is done and armed enemies no longer defy us Some of you will be re- in sirvice until further orders And now we are about to seperate to mingle with the civil world it becomes a pleasing duty to recall to mind the situation of tional when but little more than a year ago we were gathered about the twining of Lookout Mountain and all the futin o wag wrapped in doubt and uncertainty Three had come to Aether from distant fields with separate bound by one union of our country and the perpetuation of the government ot our There is no need to recall to your ries Tunnel Hill with its flocky Face Mountain and Gap with the ugly forts of Dalton behind We were in earnest and paused not tor ger but dashed through Snake Creek Gap and fell on then to the Etowah to Dallas and the heat of summer found us on the banks of the far from home and de- pendent on a single road for supplies Again we were not to be held back by any obstacle and crossed over and fought four heavy battles for the possession of the citadel of Atlanta That was the sis of our history A doubt still clouded our future but we solved she problem and destroyed Atlanta struck boldly across the State of Georgia secured all the main of life to our my and Christmas us at vannah Waiting there Jong enough to fill our wagons we again began a march which for peril bor and results v ill compare with any r made with an organised army The loods of the Savannah the swamps of the Combahee and Edisto the high hills and rocks of the Santee the flat quagmires of the Pedee and Cape Fear rivers were all passed in midwinter with its floods and rains in the face of an accumulating my and after the battles of and Bentonville we once more came out of the wilderness to meet our friends at Goldsboro Even then we paused only long enough to get new clothing to reload our wagons and pushed on to leigh and beyond until we met our my suing for peace instead of war and of- fering to submit to the injured laws of liLs and our country As long as thai enemy Mas defiant noi mountains noi swamps nor noi cold had checked us but when lie who had fought us hard and persistently submission your eral thought it wrong to pursue him ther and negotiations followed which re- as you all know in his surrender How far the 01 the army have contributed to the of the to the peace which uow dawns on u- be by not bv us Uut that you h n e ill tnat men could do lias been admitted by in ity and we a light 10 um in the universal joy that tills our land because the war is over and our eminent stands the by the flint action of the r i the United To such as in the jour need only that successes in the past are due to and discipline and that the same work and discipline aie equally in the To such a- go home he will only thot oui so grand so e so in mate soil and that ery man may surely find a home and occupation suited to his tastes and none should yield to the natural impotence to from our past life of excitement and ture S ou will be invited to seek new ad- ventures abroad but do not yield to the temptation for it will only to and disappointment lour now bids vou all with the full bel-et hat a- in war liave been you malve oil ons and if u nen n-s hould m our c tiy army v JI be the ur t bucklo on old and come o rh to defend ami the our and By order oi W Mijor General L M ION Ass SAINT'S RIOT which is in i Noo May 15 1866 j All the uv the North and the heft uv them recently all the and Churches that ever I heerd uv hev eent for the uv advise 2 son the noo Feelin that Noo Gersey should not be behind in the advise I elected myself a a clene shirt and traveled 2 Washington I wuz es a gashun from Noo and WUK to wunst ushered in 2 the presents Wher is the the President hurry em up fer I've teen more to this afternoon said I ly I represent Noo Gersey a stait that hez jest dun her honor to the President returned he web honor they're dead I resent the with skorn Ez proof that the murder of the lent rung the poplar hart uv Noo Gersey lot me say sir that the Camden and at a meeting called for that pue voted 2 carry the corpse uv the over the road foi honor never to enny livin or ded But let that pars Noo Gersey needn no pleader There she stands Look at hei you hev a I cum a who whatever uther sins he may hev com- mitted never his ticket or ted his whisky In of that I speek been 2 you wunst or a immense responsibility rosts or your The staits strug gled lights but were They fought like heroes but fell numbers agin urn They're down Yoor iion on2 their What will you do Will you gund em 01 will you be magnanimous we u happy and we kin be so with y 30 Voo must the Our North is Wo stand reddy to forgive fer havin fer havir taxt us to support an Vi ar vio 11 stop now Woo oui Suthrin back with jentle words Tha air a high and sensitive race that can never be Take em again 2 yer and don't em by Give em a chance to forgive us fer uv em Restore ther niggers pay ther war det invite Magoffin and Vance and Brown and the rest uv the back 2 thei various Lee and Forist and Boregard ther in the reglar ar- my and the disabled heroes Ther be no hanging ther fell yoor hans he wuz ignorant uv the stile uv lait Linking yuns He mite heve knode that the never seed a woman takin to the woods without chasin her Bat he must not be hung looks upon he matter fer he up thus Yoo cant hang a man agin the arms Ef a few take up arms its only a riot and no hangin matter cept when like Brown do it In puch cases hang ir in order a number of staits do it it's a looshen and them ez yoo must be ex ants and uv war To hang uv war An- droo murder wood satisfy the South At the North less is The Di is Give out of the offisie 2 support em with tho of things us and tho is ore On them terms we'll support your or any other man's and hartily and peas will agin wave her white yuns the land and will 2 wave oni until the Suthern hart is agin fa ed 1 hev dun Noo spoke I lather spect irn words will bare fro Look out fur a change of V NASBY Lait Paster uf the Chun h uf the Voo Ui K bui fur AMERICAN All those who had the fortune to sec the review of tho army of tho Potomac and the army of Sherman in Washington last week were greatly struck with the physical of tho two hundred voung men who then marched past the President Their strength and size their and or their freedom from tat and muscle the of their tread and force of their movement were notable Those Ignorant wii assert that man in America physically degenerated wouW have found their theories completely overthrown by this spectacle Observers on the generally estimated that iho western u- my averaged somewhat more la height about an inch than the army of Potomac but the men of were much taller thA French anj other European troops AH lor Hie ajie of tho en oval t now ai T 4 i th BEN WOOD has lelL the Yoik and John Mitchell lately of Richmond lakes his place As the was always in favor of the rebels this change of editors will not make any ence in its is f i s in uu sf the voung who have Vcr in the y The the fai tho ti no a3 rlei ted favorably Ki- p t bof n fo lonn or i-o t cause ed to die French alter tho Napoleonic It haa not been carried to the point of exhaustion It hag ended with their perfect V Y s THE citizens of St Paul arc ing money for the purpose of establishing a Soldiers Home in that city i- V
