ells, the pale faces, many
frightened people trying in vain to extricate themselves, the attacked
man, not yet freed from the jaws of death, looking like a corpse; the
silent, resolute half-dozen policemen, with no weapons but their little
clubs, yet stern and steady through all those eddying swarms, made,
indeed, a fitting side scene to the grand tragedy of the murder. They
gained the station-house with the protected man, whom they placed in
security for the night, and discharged in the morning.

"And in the midst of that night pandemonium of senseless hate,
infuriated soldiers, the audience and the crowd--the stage, and all
its actors and actresses, its paint pots, spangles, gas-light--the
life-blood from those veins, the best and sweetest of the land, drips
slowly down, and death's ooze already begins its little bubbles on the
lips.

"Such, hurriedly sketched, were the accompaniments of the death of
President Lincoln. So suddenly, and in murder and horror unsurpassed, he
was taken from us. But his death was painless."

The assassin's bullet did not produce instant death, but the President
never again became conscious. He was carried to a house opposite the
theatre, where he died the next morning. In the meantime the authorities
had become aware of the wide-reaching conspiracy, and the capital was in
a state of terror.

On the night of the President's assassination, Mr. Seward, Secretary
of State, was attacked while in bed with a broken arm, by Booth's
fellow-conspirators, and badly wounded.

The conspirators had also planned to take the lives of Vice-President
Johnson and Secretary Stanton. Booth had called on Vice-President
Johnson the day before, and, not finding him in, left a card.

Secretary Stanton acted with his usual promptness and courage. During
the period of excitement he acted as President, and directed the plans
for the capture of Booth.

Among other things, he issued the following reward:

REWARD OFFERED BY SECRETARY STANTON. War Department, Washington, April
20, 1865. Major-General John A. Dix, New York:

The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at
large. Fifty thousand dollars reward will be paid by this Department
for his apprehension, in addition to any reward offered by municipal
authorities or State Executives.

Twenty-five thousand dollars reward will be paid for the apprehension
of G. W. Atzerodt, sometimes called "Port Tobacco," one of Booth's
accomplic