New York Times, The (Newspaper) - April 16, 1865, New York, New York NEW-YORK SUNDAY APRIL 1C 1865 VOL 4230 OUR GREAT FOUR CENTS Death of Lincoln The Songs or Victory in Sorrow as before the deplorable event that hadj tho head ot the government All business In tho departments the day The surgeons report that tho condition of remains unchanged He ie doing well No improvement In Mr The murderer hare not been apprehended J EDWIN II Secretary of War THE ASSASSINATION CLOSING SCENES OF A NOBLE LIFE Great Sorrow oC the April 15 Th of President LINCOLN left behind bis a spur The Vat wa picked up in ibe President's box been Identified by parties to whom it hns I een as the tne to the aad accurately descried ae the one belong ling to Ike man I allowed lo see H before sc Party F la Public The spur wms dropped upc n the si age and has been identified ae thn one procured at sj where the same wan Two gentlemen who BEWARD Booth Uie I met at the residence of IBC a man I'm a cloak when by them j II had been Mr intention to to the theatre and occupy thel box but the pres ot business It therefore seems evident thai trio eim of thai False 45 respiration 17 lo 39 42 48 and full 11.45 45 respiration M 12 48 respiration 32 48 both eyes 45 12.32 AO 12.35 eye much aad Pulse 70 80 struggling motion of 1 68 respiration 30 1.30 85 appearing easier quiet respiration Ir- Mrs Lincoln retired with lo an adjoining room 26 30 3 again Mrs 3 S ock 24 antl regular 3 35 by Dr 4 nnd 25 5 50 0 28 6 30 k lulling and 7 ol o'clock tlie of the Secretary Welles Mr ly other parties it hired a horse In of tta Ida OFFICIAL DISPATCHES I plotters Mas to paralyse iho country by 1 down tho the heart And the the country As soon as the I vent were the street Superintendent and stanI s were at work to discover a momenta the telegraph s police force of the city Msj and saveral member of the mml were ooi on the pot and every tion waa taken to preserve order and the city Every street in Washington wa patrolled request of Mr Gem sent to mount tne police Every road leading out of Washington picketed every possible avenue of was BieDiuboats about to depart down the stopped The Chronicle Ai it is d thai conspiracy In tho telegraph flashed jmournful to Baltimore ami all iho cavalry Jwaa put upon duly Every was picketed ami every taken 10 the escape of the assassin A was made by RICHARDS and persona were called lo and aa elicited before an il and not under oath was Conclusive 1 The murderer ol President His found in hoi and identified by several him within the last days which he dropped by accident after Mumped to the stage was identified as one which he had obtained from the he hired hia horse This man BOOTH hae played more than Ford's Theatre and la of course acquainted with its exits anil entrances and facility One of twm has evidently made way he escaped the scenes is well WAS A M i Da The President continues insensible Secretary SIWARD without change skull is fractured inj two places besides a severe cut upon the head The la but Maj wound i not dangerous It now ascertained with reasonable tainty that two assassins were engaged in horrible crime BOOTH being the one that thot the President and the companion ot bin whose name Ie A but la so clear that he can hardly cape appears from a letter found BOOTH'S that the murder was before Ite of March but fell through because the accomplice backed out untill B Field Assistant Secretary ot the Treasury i Judge Otto Assistant Secretary of tho iGen Halleck Gen Senator Rumner II Fi of New-York Gen Todd of Ilay Private Secretary Gov Gen Farusworth Mrs and Miss Capt Robt rt Lincoln son of ami Doctors E H K Stone D Gatch Neat and Mr Lieberman Bee remained with about 5 o'clock and laflar several hours attendance during the early this morning Immediately after the President's death a Inet meeting was called by Secretary land held in tho room in which the corpse and and were The of the fence are as yet unknown the mine not yet being ready to The Extra From tta HI rendered highly probable that Ibe sons ii JOHN of Prince Maryland Tbe he rode was hired at stable on Is a man hair and goalee lather Is said lo of Prince Counly About 11 o'clock last night two men Bridge one of whom bli nam asB I and ih other as SMITH Tb latter Is to be Last a horse wa found which Identified by Ibe proprietor ol on of th stables mentioned aa having been from Establishment ar conflicting as to whether BOOTH noised the bridge on horseback or on foot but as U that be across II U la Ibat had exchanged bli bone From Information In the of U Is that scope of the plot was fended to be much more The and prominent members Lof the were lor impeded parties aad their Du In l heir casei e A boat wis at down the Polemic to no- fv on the of awful crime in Border all means should be taken nf Tne moit hive bren taken and not the will long succeed In overrating aim ol ol tne n Star slys Col of the ol the P Is In taking trill THE SUCCESSION ITHE NATIONAL Mr Johnson Feeling in New-York aod as President Tbe Oath Administered bj IX Chase tf Meo He Will His in Cod of be City Council and Oilier Public Bodies April A If ANDREW JOUNSON was Into office i OHM of Supreme Court of the District of j and MILLIE are also i IDa Police on the of a larie number of it of Col ilaff last 10 the Hotel where BOOTH biol of handcuffs two boxes ol and of letters all of which are I the of ib military authorities thai letters beating th dale of President of the United by at eleven o'clock Secretary and were present Hn remarked The are mine I will perform In God DISPATCH April IS At an early hour this morning Hon EDWIN PANTON Secretary of War an com lo Hon ANDREW Vice I of the United Blairs lint In of tho sudden and ol be Chief Magistrate hi should take place as sunn ae possible and him to slate the place and hour at which the cer emony should be Mr immediately replied it to to have the proceedings at hia rooma in the Kirkwood House asj la the arrangements could be perfected Chief Justice CHABB wa ol fact Country Sympathy of the Nova Parliament A Fine to bp IIV Enci TUS HIM win A LI AHT ADM 5 The fearful ai an ol OM r i i ni into one ol filling that irl si a
