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SAVANNAH DAJI.V HERALD. VOL. I—NO. 95. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) IS FCULISHED liH> O. W. MASON «& CO., At til Bay Stkekt, Savannah, Georgia, terms: Per Copy Five Cents. Per Hundred ...; $3 60. Per Year sio 00, ADVERTISING: Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in sertion ; One Dollar for each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted in the morning, will, if desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOB PKINTING, In every style, neatly and promptly done. The assassination. The history of despotic countries, in which the will of a single' man is paramount, occa sionally records the atrocious crime of as sassination. Governments that reflect the popular opinion rarely exhibit an example of this crime, as it is supposed there is entire sympathy between the rulers and the ruled, which quickly expels from power those who flagrantly abuse their trusts. The«ssassina tion of President Lincoln presents an almost singular exception in the. history of free States. The matter admits of explanation on no other theory than that of individual fanaticism under a mental delusion that good can come of evil—that the end sanctifies the means—that the assassin is the chosen in strument of a work that will redeem him in the eyes of posterity. - # Ravaillac assassinated Henry the Fourth of France, in the persuasion that being the ene my of the Roman Catholic faith it would be an act acceptable in the eyes of Heaven to put him to death. William of Orange was basely murdered by that sanguinary and fanatical bigot, Philip the Second, by the hand of a hired assassin. Charlotte Corday assassinated Marat, because she conceived him to be the enemy of France, and Booth usssinated Mr. Lincoln, imagining, we sup pose, such to have been his mission. In all these instances it was fanaticism that led to the deed. It is impossible to suppose that fanaticism is not the source of the crime. The mental hallucination that loses all sense of moral obligation, that only can be compared with the insane ferocity that arras itself with the weapon of destruction, when a friend or pa rent is put to death, under an unconscious delusion, such as that which possessed the sister of Lamb, the author of Ezia, when she put her father to death. In the case of Booth he is not entitled to the benefit of this plea. His crime was aggravated by having no personal wrong or injury to avenge. It was done with the deliberation of a pre conceived and matured purpose. It was, in all its stages, calculation and not impulse. In most assassinations there is some pro cess of enthusiasm py which the balance of the mind is lost, but Booth measured every step of his progress—removed all obstacles to success. The idea that he conceived that he was earning for himsef a title to im mortality—like he who fired the temple of Ephesus—is preposterous. Booth had too much rationality for this, which would be the conception of mental imbecility. This description may apply to other parties be sides Booth who may be supposed to have been concerned in the deeply laid plot or conspiracy. Some of the plotters, as well as those entrusted with the execution, may have been governed by a sense of supposed personal wrong, and others again by merce nary motives—by a pecuniary consideration, but there could have been but a very limited number influenced by fanatical feel ings, of which Booth, no doubt, was the most conspicuous example. We doubt not that the enemies of Repub lican government will allege the act as a pregnant illustration of the violence inherent in a Democracy. With the same propriety it might be affirmed that when Percival, the British minister, was assassinated by Belling ham, and that when George the Third was fired at on his way to Parliament, the Brit ish rule had reached its acme of despotism and that it was absolutely necessary to put the sovereign to death at oue time and his minister at another. There is no possibility of bringing such occurrences within any rule of zational human conduct. They are to be interpreted in conformity with the idiosyn crasies of the individual. Assassination will form a singular chapter in American history. The Asiatic despotisms in almost every age may be said to have been tempeied by the dagger, as the Italian Re publics of the middle ages by the poisoned ( 'Up. let it would appear that in our era of civilization aud improvement in government, the arm of the assassin has not been with held. The life of Louis Napoleon has been twice attempted, while his uncle narrowly escaped death from the explosion of-an iu 1< in.il machine. It does not make the wonder the less that the life of a man clothed with only delegated authority, devoid of ambition and free of all sinister purposes, should have been thus sacrificed. The Grand Funeral in New York City. The metropolis in Mourning. OVER ONE MILLION PEOPLE IN TEARS. One Hundred Thousand Citizens in Procession. Fifteen Thousand Military as Escort. SEVENTH REGIMENT AS GUARD OF HONOR. President Lincoln’s Remains Viewed by a Quarter of a Million of People. Full Details from Our Own Correspond dent. New York, April 30, 18C5. As I write, the funeral cortege of our la mented President has nearly reached the last resting place in the valley of the Mississippi. The little town of Springfield, Illinois, from whence Abraham Lincoln was taken rather more than four years since to become the Chief Magistrate of a great nation, is to re ceive in a few days the last remains of the man who in that four years has become the conqueror of a mighty rebellion, has extir pated the curse of slavery from a continent, has become second alone to Washington in the hearts of his countrymen, and whose name has become immortal. New York rendered such homage to the dead as has never been received by living or dead Em peror. Not all the blood of the Ctesars com bined was ever honored, much le&» mourned, as have been the mortal remains of Abraham Lincoln. Accounts of the progress of the immense funeral procession from Washing ton to Springfield, and of the interment of what was but two weeks since President of the United States, will have reached you by lightning long ere this letter can be for warded, and have been read with eagerness by the people ol' California. They have al ready contributed their tears to the ocean shed by the country, and have added their symbols of mourning to those of the States east of the Rocky Mountains. Few among us knew until Abraham Lincoln had ceased to live, had fallen by the hand of an assassin, how great was the love we bore him. Not a tittle of the people of the country had the slightest conception of how the plain and simple yet good and great man who was re moved from us, was esteemed, venerated and loved by all. His virtues were of such a cast, that death was the only thing which could have told to the nation what it had lost. Mr. Lincoln had never paraded his statesmanship, nor his merits as a leader be fore the country, and it is only since his un timely removal that the entire people have estimated him at his true worth, or learned how wise a statesman, how loving a friend, how cautious a leader, or how honest, truth ful and just a man they have to mourn. “His spirit wraps the dusky mountain, His memory sparkles in the fountain ; The meanest rill, the mightiest river, Rolls mingling with hU fame forever." A monument to Abraham Lincoln more enduring than those of Egypt, from which forty centuries looked down upon the sol-, diers of Napoleon, has been erected in the hearts of the American people. His services to the country and to humanity are deeply imbedded iu the breasts of all. Were there naught else to cause his memory to be bless ed, the emancipation proclamation, that sim ple unpretentious document, will be a monu ment, more lasting than stone, and more en during than brass, to the virtue, courage, statesmanship, and wise leadership of Abra ham Lincoln. Peace to his ashes ! The grave at Springfield will in after years be a Mecca sought by pilgrims from all the a shrine as much, if not wider sought than beautiful Mount Vernon. Without mention of the funeral obseqaies elsewhere, I will say something of the honors done byjNew York to the nation’s martyr. On Tuesday last, the people, who four years previously had given Mr. Lincoln, at best, a doubtful welcome, inspired with a common universal sorrow, sadly followed bis body, crow-ned with glorious honors as the nation’s savior. He had conquered the pre judices of all, and the hearts of the people beat with love and veneration for the man. The body arrived on Monday. Ever since the sad news reached us from Washington that the President had fallen by the bullet of an assassin, our city had been draped in mourning. Day by day the symbols of woe increased in numbers, until on Tuesday they reached the acme. From noon of Monday, till noon of Tuesday, the bodv lay in stae in the City Hall, and was visited by probably one hundred and twenty thousand people, while full as many were unable to obtain ad mission to the building. When the coffin was closed the trains of mourners stretched SAVANNAH, GA., SATISWAY, MAY 6, 1865. for blocks in three directio&’anu could have numbered not less than fifty thousand, who had gone sadly away disappointed in their hope to see the face of him whom they had learned to love. Above Chambers street, as far as the eye could reach, were to be seen the gathering cohorts for grand proces sion. Banners and transpsWepcies floated in the breeze; the colors of omrwbuntry draped in black, waved from every ■ousetop; there was the flashing of bright Jrtlel in the clear sunlight, the sound of distant martial music, the muffled tread of ra&ogf feet, the confus ed murmur of myriads o$ subdued human voices. Soon after twelve last look was taken at the kindly face not? stilled in death, the lid of the coffin was silently screwed down, and at one o’clock ILx ot the body guard bore the coffin out ®4he City Hall. In front of the building \ima clear space, flanked on all sides by the Se tenth Regiment (New York's pride) whiclj) lad been the guard of the remains since their arrival, and the metropolitan police. The fune^l. car, drawn |>y sixteen gray horses, covered by black housings, was in readiness and was viewed by all with deep interest. The car itself was magnificent. It was fourteen feet long, eigbl feet wide, and fifteen feet high. On the main platform, five feet from the ground was a dais six inches in height, at the corners of whip were columns holding a canopy of blacß cloth which, curving inwards and upwards towards the centre, was surmounted by-a piniature tem ple of jlibeity. The platfojm was entirely covered with fine black clorn drawn tightly over the body of the car |nd reaching to within a few inches of the! ground, edged with silver bullion. Over tie wing, graceful festoons of the same materitf) spangled with silver stars, and edged alafewith silver bul lion. At the base of ead|, column were three American flags, slightly inclined, fes tooned and covered with crape.. The col. umns were black, covered wfith vines of myr tle and camelias. Down the lower edges of the canophy, depended festoous, caught under small shields and richly trimmed with bullion. At each corner of the canopy was a rich plume of black and rwliite feathers. The temple of liberty was represented as deserted, having no emblems ot any kind in or around it, save a small flag on top at half-mast. The inside of the car was fined with white satin, fluted, and from the centre of the roof was suspended a large gilt eagle with outspread wings, covered with crape, bearing in its latens a laurel wreath. The platform around the coffin was strewn with laurel wreaths and costly flowers. The procession soon moved, the military escort, great in num bers, being the right of the line. First was a troop of mouunted police to clear the streets, and here it may be remembered that they had little to do except to turnoff the carriages into the by-ways ot the city. The people reverently fell back to the sidewalks without remark. Broadway never saw such a sight as the cleared pathway for the pas sage of the procession stretching from .curb to curb, and backed with walk covered, nay crowded, with the populace eager to see, but silent and mournful as the grave. Next came a body of one hundred- dragoons and following them, four Generals with their staffs. The Duncan Light Artill lery, then passed along, and next came the entire Second Division State Mili tia from Brooklin, marching in plattoon of twenty men front, and marching well, si lent and steadily moved the troops, their banners draped and folded, meurning em blems borne by each man and the sidearms car ried by the oilcer9 bound in deep mourning. All were in full dress, their muskets at the shonlder;the troops carried in addition to the usual badge of mourning, (crape on the left arm) miniature likeness of the ip-te President on their breasts. Among them was the gal lant 14th regiment, which has seen three years of hard service in the field, and parti cipated in more than a score of battles.— Their appearance created a sensation, their tattered colors enshrouded in deepest mourn ing. The second division mustered perhaps five thousand men. The first division State Militia (city regi ments) followed, ten thousand strong, and headed by a body of f*oo veterans from the garrison, at start Island. The officers of the 79th in their martial Scottish costumes, though there were but few of them brought back all the battle-fields from Blackburn's Ford to Knoxville. The 55th (French regi ment) with their red caps and pants, recalled historic scenes of the rebellion, the G9th, 71st 37th, 22d, Bth, 12th, sth, Ctli, and in fact all the regiments could not be mistaken, and made everylaxly feel proud of their citizen soldiery. All marched in accordance with the solemnity of the occasion, aud the res pect due to him who was but recently the commander-in-chief of the army and navy. The 4th artillery bore along the guns with which it assisted in driving back the hosts Lee from the soil of Pennsylvania. The whole military pageant was grand. The troops when formed extended in double line from Barclay street to 25th street, a dis- tance of four miles. The Seveuth regiment and a battalion of marines immediately pre ceded the funeral car, together with a large number of officers of the Army and Navy. Then followed Major-general Dix and staff and a detachment of the Seventh regiment two deep, in hollow square, as a guard of honor, inside of which marched the veteran guard which has accompanied the remains from Washington, and in the centre was the funeral car already described. As it passed, every head was uncovered, conversation was hushed, all eyes were fixed, upon it, many moist with tears. It passed on and the last mortal remains of Abraham Lincoln disap peared lrom sight. The second division followed, embracing’ the Government and State officers, Foreign Consuls, Congressional and State delegation in carriages, the Common Councils of New York, with delegations from Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Brooklyn, Jersey City and other places, city offic ials of all kinds, the employees in the Custom House, Post Office, Internal Re venue Department aud Sub-Treasury—all marching t wenty abreast. Officers of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Army and Volun teers made up the rear of this division.— Every man wore emblems of mourning. The Third Division embraced about forty of the Hawkins Zouaves, carrying their old battle flags draped in mourning; the Clergy, in large numbers on foot; the Byr; the Chamber of Commerce—one of whose old est members, Col. Murray, had walked in the funeral procession of George Washing ton, and who marched the entire route on Tuesday; the Officers of the Associated Banks; the Board of Fire Insurance Com panies ; the Athenaeum Club ; # Union League Club; the delegation of the Union League of America, five thousand strong; the Ger man Central Committee; the Citizens of the Pacific Coast, headed by Seth Kinman in a hunter’ suit; the Cadets of Temperance and the Grand Division Sons of Temperance ; all had some symbol of the grief which is in every heart. The Fourth Division was composed of the Masonic Fraternity, Odd Fellows, Sons of the Covenant, Free Sons of Israel, and other orders, and was at least ten thousand strong. The Masons all wore sprigs of acacia, the emblems of immortality, and were dressed in simble black. The brilliant regalia worn at holiday times was not there, and yet the ap pearance of the order was far more striking to the beholder than if it were present.— Every man exhibited in his countenance his grief at the solemn event which put us all in mourning. The Fifth division was composed of Irish men, whose societies turned out, if possible, even larger numbers than on St. Patrick’s Day. Green and gold mingled unhappily with the solemn badge of the grave, were the devices which each man wore in the rauks. The sons of Erin testified their vene ration for him of whom a great nation is be reft in the moment of victories, and seemed to feel, in the words of the immportal Moore, that “The harp that once through-Tara'e halls, Its soul of music shedt Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that, soul had fled," The Sixth division embraced the Caulker's Association, the Longshoremen’s Protective Union Association, the Sawyers’ Association, the New York Steamboilers’ Association, the Waiters’ Protective Benevolent Association, and the Coopers’ Benevolent Society. All were emblems of mourning, and each so ciety carried appropriate banners in honor of the departed who like them had been in early life a son of toil, and who had risen by the force of his character from flat-boatman to the Chief Magistracy of a nation. The Seventh division also was composed of trades and societies, embracing the Amer ican Protestant Association, three thousand strong; the Workingman’s Union delegation, four thousand in number; the Caledonia Club, the Italian Society, Ceres Union, Na tional Glee Club, several social clubs, and the German Society, several thousand strong. The Eighth division was composed of citizens and societies from Brooklyn, many thousand in number, and the Ninth division was the colored people of New York, bearing a banner inscribed with the words, “ Abraham Lincoln, our Emancipa tor,” and on the reverse side “Two millions I of bondmen he Liberty gave.” The banner was applauded all along the route. Broadway outdid itself on Tuesday, clad throughout its entire length in mourning, vast crowds thronging the sidewalks, windows, tops of houses, and even the very trees were heavy with the weight—people upon their : carts stood ip every side street,, filled with men, women aud children. On the walks all was orderly, there was no rude jostling or : remarks, but all- seemed impressed with the solemnity of the occasion..’ The military ! marched with measured tread to the solemn ' music of the march from Tannliauser, and other appropriate selections. A hnudred i bands with their mournful dirges added addi tional solemnity to the occasion, and the rolling of the muffled drums was truly im-1 PRICE. 5 CENTS pressive. After the funeral car had passed Chambers street, a large St. Bernard dbg that was with his master, Mr. E. H. Morton, bounded forward and secured a position directly underneath the car. Mr. Morton had * a short time since taken his'dog with him while paying a visit to the President at Washington. Mr. Lincoln bad patted the' dog affectionately on the head, and seemed 4o take a peculiar fancy to him. Passing along Broadway, a great number of appropriate mottoes were seen, the Mono gram of “A. L." finding a place quite often. Among the words were the following, which I transcribe as more striking than others : “ The workman dies, but his work goes on.’’ “ Your cause of sorrow must not be meas ured by his worth; for then there would be no end.” “His deeds have made his name im . mortal.” “Justice to traitors is mercy to the peo ple.” “ With malice towards none, with charity to all.” “ A glorious career of service and devotion is crowned with a martyr's death.” “ Well done, thou good and faithful sefc vant.” The scene along Union Square, the Fffth Avenue, Madison Square, and in fact to the end of the route, and the Hudson River Rail road depot was all the same, mournful dec oration on the horses, melancholy notes by the bands, not a loud voice heard during the passing of the funeral car. The head of the procession reached the depot at three o’clock, the column halted, and through the serried lines of the citizen soldiers of New York and Brooklyn the last remains of the sixteenth President of the United States, passed to the car which was to convey them onward to Springfield. An hour or two later the inspiriting soand of lovely music told ot the return of the military to their armories, and all that was mortal of Abra ham Lincoln had gone from among us. At five o’clock, an immense meeting was held in Union Square, which was opened by Ex Governor King, a prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Tyng, Hon. George Bancroft de. livered an oration, Rev. Dr. Thompson read Mr. Lincoln’s last inaugural, Rev, Dr. Rogers, and Rabbi Isaacs delivered prayers, Rev. Mr. Boole mad the 94th Psalm: and an original ode, and hymn by Wm. C. Bryant were read by Rev. Dr. Osgood. Before dismissing the subject, I would add that probably a million of people reviewed the procession, which contained at a fair cal culation 75,000 men, not a single accident occurred during the day, and not on-s arrest was made for disorderly conduct. During the week of mourning in this city, there were in fact fewer arrests for drunkenness and disorder, than in any week since New York contained over one hundred thousand popu lation. There was an immense jam about the City Hall during the time the remains were exposed, and many ladies fainted from the too great pressure and the confined air to which they were subjected. But every body seemed inclined to make the best of everything, and to allow nothing to interfere with the solemnities of the occasion. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE SHOOT ING OF BOOTH. Headq’rs, ThirteenthN. Y. Cavalry.) Prospect Hill, Va., April 27, 1865. > J. W. Flinn : Dear Sir—Booth, the detested assassin, was shot last night by Sergeant B. Corbettf of Company L, Sixteenth New York caval ry, under command of Lieutenant Docherty, in a barn near Battle Plain, Caroline county, Va., a few miles from Bowling Green. Harold was captured at the same time and place Lieutenant D. was in the act of pulling Har old out of the barn, having scold of his wrists, and Booth was aiming a carbine at the Lieu tenant, when the sergeant, who had been or dered by Lieutenant D. to keep a “bead” on Booth, pulled triggef and shot Booth nearly in the same locality that the execrable mur derer shot his victim, the lamented Lincoln, and thus saved the life of his commander.— Both Harold aud Booth were heavily armed, each having two revolvers and a Spencer (seven-shooter) carbine. I have just shaken hands with the Lieu tenant and sergeant. The Sixteenth ’ and ThirteentlTregiments New York cavalry have been brigaded together for two years. Dr. J. M. Homiston, of Brooklyn, formerly of the Fourteenth, is surgeon of the Sixteenth. Lieutenant D. had fired the bam before capturing Harold. This was done for two reasons —to give light and to compel them to surrender. Captain Hoagland, of Company JL Thir teenth New York cavalry, was the lirst to get on Booth’s track. He followed on the same night of the assassination, Ipto St. Marys county, Md., where Booth crossed the Potomac, and succeeded in capturing one of the primary conspirators, together with thirty other accomplices. Captain H. is a citizen of Brooklyn,, Lieu tenant D. lives at 401 Fourth street, New York. Two of Col. Baker’s detectives were with Lieutenant D.; but the Lieutenant and the sergeant got the glory and the bounty. Brave fellows both. Booth lived about two honrs after he was shot. In haste, yours truly, J. T. Bi roicr, Asst. Surgeon 13th New York Cavalry.