rold started with his pistol to surrender. Booth, with terrible oaths, denounced his cowardice. Harrold, in return, implored Booth to give up, dropped his arms and rushed out of the barn. Booth then proposed to fight each man singly, at thirty paces, and declared that the first man who came near he would shoot.

At this moment-fifteen minutes past 4 o'clock-Sergeant Boston Corbett, Company I, 16th New York Cavalry, had a sight of him through a crack, and drawing his cavalry six-shooter, fired, and Booth fell over, holding in each hand a six-barreled revolver. Detectives Conger and Baker, and Lieutenant Dougherty and Sergeant Corbett rushed into the barn and brought Booth out. The ball had entered the back part of his neck and passed entirely through his head.

Booth did

He was still conscious. Detective Baker laid Booth on the ground and held his head in his lap. "It's all up now, I am gone," he pensively articulated. not deny killing the President, but showed no signs of repentance or humility. To Lieutenant Dougherty he said, "Tell my mother I died in defense of my country."

His death was not easy; at three minutes past 7 o'clock, April 26, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln breathed his last in a country barn-yard. The body was taken to Washington, identified, and secretly buried. Harrold was lodged in old Capitol Prison.

THE NATION IN MOURNING.

When on the morning of April 15th, by telegrams to the newspapers, and by official dispatches from the Secretary of War, the news, that the President had been murdered, and that a plot to murder other prominent Government officers had been frustrated only by accident, was communicated to the people, the nation's joy was turned

to mourning. Flags which had been hung out as tokens of rejoicing were draped in mourning-business was suspended-emblems of sorrow were displayed on nearly every dwelling-house in the loyal States, and public meetings-spontaneous gatherings of the people-expressive of unfeigned regret and intense indignation, were held in a large majority of their cities, towns and villages. A meeting of Congressmen and others was convened at the Capitol on Monday, April 17, 1865, at noon. The Hon. Lafayette S. Foster, of Connecticut, President pro tem. of the Senate, was called to the Chair, and Hon. Schuyler Colfax was chosen Secretary.

On motion of Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts, a Committee of five members from each house was ordered to report at four o'clock in the afternoon, what action was fitting for a meeting relative to arrangements for the funeral of the deceased President.

The Chairman appointed Senators Sumner, Harris, Johnson, Ramsey and Conness, and Representatives Washburn, Smith, Schenck, Pike and Coffroth; and, on motion of Mr. Schenck, the Chairman and Secretary of the meeting were added to the Committee.

The meeting then adjourned until 4 P. M.

The meeting again convened, pursuant to adjournment. Mr. Sumner, from the Committee heretofore appointed, reported that they had selected as pall-bearers, on the part of the Senate, Messrs. Foster, Morgan, Johnson, Yates, Wade and Conness; on the part of the House, Messrs. Dawes, Coffroth, Smith, Colfax, Worthington, and Washburne.

They recommended the appointment of one member of Congress, from each State and Territory, to act as Congressional Committee, to accompany the remains of the late President to Illinois; and presented the following

names as the Committee, the Chairman of the meeting to have authority to appoint, hereafter, for States and Territories, not represented to-day, from which members may be present at the Capitol by the day of the funeral:

Maine, Mr. Pike; New Hampshire, Mr. Rollins; Massachusetts, Mr. Sumner; Vermont, Mr. Foote; Rhode Island, Mr. Anthony; Connecticut, Mr. Dixon; New York, Mr. Harris; Pennsylvania, Mr. Cowan; Ohio, Mr. Schenck; Kentucky, Mr. Smith; Indiana, Mr. Julian; Illinois, Delegation; Michigan, Mr. Chandler; Wisconsin, -; California, Mr. Shannon; Minnesota, Mr. Ramsey; Oregon, Mr. Williams; Kansas, Mr. Clarke; West Virginia, Mr. Willey; Nevada, Mr. Nye; Nebraska, Mr. Hitchcock; Colorado, Mr. Bradford; Dakota, Mr. Tweed; Idaho, Mr. Wallace.

The Committee recommended that the following resolution be adopted:

Resolved, That the Sergeants-at-Arms of the Senate and House, with their respective assistants, be requested to attend the Committee accompanying the remains of our late President, and make all necessary arrangements. All of which was concurred in unanimously.

Mr. Sumner, from the Committee, also reported the following, which was agreed to:

The members of the Senate and House now assembled in Washington, humbly confessing their dependence upon Almighty God, who rules all that is done for human good, make haste, at this informal meeting, to express the emotions with which they have been filled by the appalling tragedy, which has deprived the nation of its head, and covered the land with mourning; and in further declaration of their sentiments, unanimously

Resolved, That in testimony of their veneration and affection for the illustrious dead, who has been permitted,

under Providence, to do so much for his country and for liberty, they will attend his funeral services, and by an appropriate committee will accompany his remains to their place of burial, in the State for which he was taken for national service.

THE BODY IN STATE AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

On the 18th of April arrangements were completed which permitted the people of the District of Columbia to pay their last personal tokens of respect and affection to the martyred President. The body, which had been embalmed, lay then in state at the White House. It had been publicly announced that the doors would not be opened till 10 o'clock that morning, but the crowd began to gather at the gates by 8:30, and by 9:30 the line, four and six persons deep, was nearly a quarter of a mile long. The arrangements at the house for entrance and exit were: entrance at the main door, thence to the Green Room, thence to the East Room, and out at the window by the customary steps. It was estimated that 25,000 persons passed through the rooms, and that half as many more, seeing the immense throng, left without trying to get in. The approaches were guarded by a battalion of Veteran Reserves. The East Room, in which the remains were laid, was decorated in mourning, under the supervision of Mr. John Alexander. The windows at either end of the room were draped with black barege, the frames of the mirrors between the windows, as well as those over the marble mantles, being heavily draped with the same material. The heavy gildings of the frames were entirely enshrouded, while the plates of the mirrors were covered with white crape. The chandeliers at the western and southern ends of the room were also draped with mourning the central chandelier having been removed to make

room for the catafalque. This was very handsome; the dais or platform, on which the coffin rested, was raised three feet from the floor, and covered with evergreens and japonicas.

The corpse was in charge of army and navy officers. A limited number of persons were admitted to the house at a time, and these were required to pass through as rapidly as was consistent with decency and propriety. The expressions and appearance of the people, as they looked for the last time on the face of the honored dead, were conclusive, as a reporter for the New York Time: declared that the great majority regarded the President's death as a personal and individual loss, as well as a na tional calamity. Hundreds addressed words of farewell to the cold and inanimate body; and thousands passed from the platform with weeping eyes. Every class, race and condition of society was represented in the throng of mourners, and the sad tears and farewells of whites and blacks were mingled by the coffin of him to whom human ity was everywhere the same. The most touching exhibitions of sorrow were made by many whose dress marked! them as of the poorer classes of society. "He was th poor man's friend," was a very common remark.

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The vast throng outside, as well as inside, was quiet, orderly and reverent, all day, though two to three hour was the average period of waiting for admission, and many waited even five and six hours.

The clerks of each of the public departments were marshalled at 11 o'clock, under their respective heads of bureaus, and marched in grand and solemn procession into the White House and past the body in the east room. The features of Mr. Lincoln retained their sweet, placic, natural expression, and the discoloration caused by the wound was so slight as not to amount to a disfiguremen“.