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Wednesday, May * 3,1865.The Northwestern Fair.One o ever oc place net steamer changed home, at her boih entire nlt;are knoilamity I that BO ! oar bra horrors meet degtoc-eh-in10r-lO.B*VCre-ra5.by.utither-A meeting of tbeottixeoa of the city of Marshall was held at Herndon Hall, m Monday1 evening, iifcy 1st, 1865, pursuant to fl call of-the Detroit Sanitary Commis-. sion, oT'“ - • - . . .i .The meeting was Called toTprder by Hon. S- 8* Lacey, and on motion of S. S. Lacey, Hem. Chas. T. Gorlism was ohoaen Chairman, and D. S. Beach, Secretory.A circular issued by the Michigan Branch o( the U.'S. Sanitary Commission at Detroit, was then read by the Chairman, requesting contributions of .monoy, vegota* blesf^fancy^ articles, in _aid of the Northwqgtefo Fair, io bo held at Chicago,May 30th, 18G5.' The Watiti of our soldiers, and our debt of gratitude to them, were ably aelyforth by S.-S. Lacey, Wm. H. Brown, Rev. L. Willard, Geo. Johnson and others.A motion was presented by S. S; Lacey that a committee of fifteen gentleman andand said: 11 This etfit, gentleman, we all deeply regretj I am afraid it will be a good while before Ve shall get a better president than Old Abe has been ” . *•’Tbo day Was a oolgjnti one itt our midst.Teatfbl. eyes bespoke the sorroWlng heart; and compresied lips but illy oonpealed the indignation jffelfc at this of owning act in the rebellion, fefceh one felt as if the blow was aimed at him8ftIf perflontjily, and, for the time, felt more like going on a campaign under the black flag, than like going home,—a privilege we had hoppd soon to enjoy. And .Secretary Seward had been stricken down. Ob\ depth of infamy I Why should we not feel like exterminating every rebel ? Why should we not fcol revengeful ? ' . * .Next day all Naihville was in mourning^Crape* hung Trom every window and flut-j bavo-E tered from every door knob. And on the in vui Wednesday. following what a mighty lawyo throng marched in solemn procession, io Jeai pay their last honor to him to whom, more r than auy other man in the nation, honor TQ^d i was due. The catafalco wasdrawa by Lty-ftin twelve horses, six white uudslx black, fcl: | 8rcat teruating. Around, this fuliy twenty/five thousand souls gathered. Soldiers, .(among I onjy them the 9th Michigan Infantry,) citizens, firemen, employees,, masoncy/fenians—all were there. Governor Browplow/* and Generals Thomas, Rousseau, Miller,’Whipple,.Fowlor and Donaldson also joined in the procession. Rev. Dr. Allen, the loyalSomtiochic*lay a .:juckaaj propoa tawyei was alt; larity,* Pre day, Jmtionfifteen ladies bo appointed by the chair, toact with the Ladies' Soldier s Aid Society. L pas tor of the Presbyterian church, offeredAlso a motion by Rov. L. WHlard, eeo-jan c]0quent. prajer, a poem was read.onded by the Judies, that a separate organ- g0v. Browhlow made a few appropriate | ^ izalion be made to carryout tha re^ncBt 1 aa(j feelings remarks, a salvo of artillery I Maralicontained in said circular—the same to last ^aa /fired, and the vast concourso .of I until the fair,. May.30th. . | mourners' turneckback to'their homes. | ^5^After numerous afgumenU pro and con, 1/ yQl not yet i8 our day of mourning I ofthl:it was finally decided to organize a Society7! pa8t4 Kind, cheerful,-courageous, lenicdtfor the purpose of soliciting, collecting/dpd almo8fc lo a fauifcj reviled, but not reviling, procuring fancy articles, money vegetables, fiatcd, but not cherishing revenge, weary ithu JbtLthc.Great-Nprth western -San ita r yp^'dcT ? woi^’dllie^S vT^of country,111 ba I is toob-asbutmythoflu-gedmhFair at Chicago. - . .* I stricken dawn of his country, stricken‘‘-The following officers were then chosen: down ;Q lhe Tery hour 0f triu^ph, wePrenxdmt—O. T. GORHAI^ . ' •- long/Shall mounPthe .nation's loaS^our. ViceVtesidtnl—GKO RGL JOHNSON. ’ \tt p ' — /')*. c ’Secretary—J. B. GREENOUGIL * ; T“ second VV ashing ton. . ,Treasurer—GEORGE lNGEItriOLL. j Where now are the champions'of clom-On motion, an executive committee of ency? .' Where are those who clamored for thirty ladies and gentlemen was pppoinlcd j mercy when there Was no penitence? aa follows/ihe number being increased so4Who still cries conciliation? Let tho -as to secure a full cominittee, in case some stern hand of Justice fall upon those whobig til if■'£as2llt-‘ the jeety atHidvere nan nan IllS ord. i an has ack-mostgreBshould bo unable to act*:S. S. Lacby, chairman.Wm. Hammond,J. M. Parsons, 1 If. E; Phelps,Prank Bkacu, ' Lemuel Downs,T. J. O’Brian,E. F IJksdkkson,WtLLiAM Woonnurr, J. T. Downs,Levi Mosukr,Taos. Campdell,II. K. Dunuaii,N. p. Frink; Mrs. C. T. Gouuam;— V rMrs. D. 8. Bkacu,41 J. il. GnKENouan, Lxvi Mosukr,J. T. Doitns,Abapii Rayuonh,P. S. ScilUYi.BR,G. S. Wrioht,S., n. Bckkkr,Geo. Bouguton, 441 J.- B. Frink,11 C. U- Eggleston, 44 II. E. Peklpb,44 G. H. White,B, A ; Con vis,B. A, Tyler.have desolated tho land, and sent grief to ^ • • every household. . v B. B. B.At:AbAlAtBnHaBeIIIBlI)xHiBe• *iClCiCic c. c c /D D . D I tiitinit4141ItWhere Booth Lies.Kit— The meeting then-adjourned to Friday evening, at same time and place.D. S. BEACH, Secretary.State Bounties.fail--of a--udto-Lee» bad the ira in Isle, erers|ilaiure so the tidier‘We have been furnished with the following Laws referring, to Soldier's Slqte-Bounties-:---—______-A41-M icirigan*^rolirhTeers enllili’og or re-v r .Thursday tho Secretary of War, without iustructious of any kind, committed to CJol • Lafayette 0. Baker, of-the secret service, the.stark corpse of J'. Wilkes Booth. The secret service never fulfilled its violation more sqoretively. u What have you doae with the body f^-said-T-to—Col.--Baker. u That is knuwu,p ha answered,44 to only ope man Jiving beside myself. It is gone; I will iiot tell jou where. The only man who knows it is sworn to silence. Never, till tho great trumpeter oonm,, shall the grave of Booth be discovered.11 And this is true.--Last nigbfcj—the 27th of April/a small row-boat received the carcaBS of the murdered ; two men were in it; they oar* ried the body off into the darkuess, and out out of. that darkness it will never return.JjLthft jjyrkness, like his great criiqe, JDgJLit remain Tor ever, implacable, invisible,enlisting after Feb. 5tb, 1864, who were credited to their place of enrollment or. residence, on auy call made by the President after Jan. 1st, 1864, are by law, entitled to a State bounty of $1U0. Those who enlisted after May 14th, 1864, cannotget their bounty until an appropriation is made by the Legislature for that purpose.Veteran volunteers re-enlisting before Feb. 5th, 1864, with their regiment, after lT fn I two years service, are entitled to a Slate ^ | b.o.ty °f «5°All Michigan volunteers.foliating after March 6th, 1853, and before Nov. 10th, vhicnJ 'n any organized regiment, company t ^ or battery in the field/are entitled to a ' J | State bounty of $50.nondescript, condemned to that worse than damnation, annihilation.v -jtQGGGIItIIiIJ31pBAmBl—1The Mabon A Hamlik Oabinet 0.b-qan.—With your eyes ^TtTTou cannot distinguish its soundfrom that of the pipe organ itself; and the advantages that com mend it are: its price— for it can be had for one, two, three, or four„hubdred dot*-J lars, according to tho size you wish; it takes up very little room,'and in by stand in anyart of the church y. it is not affeoted by eat-or cold, or aoy change of temperature;iit remains for a lon^ period in good tune ;serve I LucK,-^Joseph Saunders, Esq., Ed-ice of \ it°T of the.Eaton County Republicanrh*s as lie j been appointed Postmaster at Charlotte.3 wjio Qlad of it. He publishes a readable paper, 3 gen- wide awake, and among the very best of our j^and ^ouotry eAchanges. For his services he well deserves these trifling spoils.asarmyingedeauee dijot ot doves of acces-Majorand lastly, it can oe sent by exptess or otherwise any distance with safety. It is admirably adapted to the performance of I sacred musio, psalm tunes, anthems, chants, etc.,’ end any one who can pluy on the piano cau reajily master the Cabinet Organ.It is a grand aocompanimeni-when thcon.-Lgregation sing, and is just the instrument that ought to bn used in all churches where the people all wish to have the privilege of | bearing a pari in the praise.—JVcio York Observe?.AiFrom the Ninth HegimSnt.major il 4r-se wasIPor reMoaa which onr corMapondent will appreciate, mtcielj, the iwpot.gibility of g.ttlna tea coluwutfof matter io ibe space pf aeveQ coluwo*.Hadi Lave w bisuupby llis (Te 5” ohligwj to abridge hi. letter considerably.]Nautillk, Tepn., April 20, 18*0.f* ■A detailed and inteueely interesting de-1 q script,ion of the ctrauruatanceb attending the -death of the foul assassin Booth will be' foiftd lo ‘bur columns, with the state-ment of Sergeant Boston Corbett,“whodia-putcbed the wretch! His body has been buried pwalely and mysteriously, where it will never again be seeD, but the infamy' of hi# atrocious dead, will be forever linked to bis name, .row it, tatpryThe Ninth Michigan had tufaed put on iubo of that fatal mbrning, [of the President’s ecanse d^th j to join vritK ibrodgt.of eiUseps ipd'ustice 1u^ier8 “ ®eW,r*tiQg the rwoent acbi.Te-1 manta of our arms. Already we were ija* ** ^ * t • w / ...the heart of the oity. Befpre us, reaching down to Jtbe foot pf the street, waa a dense* mass of soldiery, th#o a lprge steamer, the river beyond, and over tb» river p gently rising slope covered with verdure aod b#at)itUWgrofos. To the! left § flag w^sobserved toUJow.fred at half-mast. Whsfr did it mean? Wo waijt and wslit. Whatforf Preaeotly th, eommaoderi df ponrto flrppK ;^|jo tlf^w m*wmheridanstoppeda deci-ing. the a rebels, inrofipgThe official bulletin from the War Do-partrpent bring# intelligence from General Gran| of. Johustou’s surrender to Sherman upon the same terms tb*t I^e received. Gen. Grant, upon reaching Raleigh,notified Johnston thst the armlatiee between .himself and Sheruian was annulled, and.gave bim. twenty'four hours in wji.ioh to aarren* dor,,|pr-fight., Johnston replied that heF®i»ld surrender if Jef Jhtvia and the othwrebel l^dero mightleavo the country. As Geu. Grant had pj^riotnly joforlned hjiw that hia jurisdiction did not extend to pivil matters, of course this oojRditum mas •totoW gratnitoM.The surreoder ombra-oe#,iM the raUl feWs from Raleigh to the CbtUahooehee, or, in .other word*,.the for-Nprfh Garpfiongud. Georgia, as th*tforms the ho.uudary, between Georgia M*m«. ; Rsst.of the Misaumppi the in 'dead,-: TWe yet retndKiL th.lt;»*■Wi!ij»mimifill-1»ijft wh *k l drpenda ......I.- -■a* r r*%ft* irv
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Marshall Statesman
Marshall, Michigan, US
Wed, May 03, 1865
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