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nearly every  member of  the Cabinet killed.  Some [time?] elapsed before authenic data could be ascertained in reguard to the affair.      The President and Mrs. Lincoln were at  Ford's theatre,   listening to the performance of  the American Cousin, occupying a box in the second tier.  At the close of the third act a person entered the box occupied by the President, and shot Mr. Lincoln in the head.   The shot entered the back of his head, and came out above the temple.       The assassin then jumped for the box upon the stage and ran across to the other side, exhibiting a dagger in his hand,   flourishing it a tragical manner, shouting the same words repeated by the desperado  at Mr. Seward's house, adding to it, "The South is revenged," and then escaped from the back entrance to the stage, but in his passage dropped his pistol and his hat.       Mr. Lincoln fell foward from this seat, and Mrs. Lincoln   fainted.       The moment the astonished audience could realize what had happened, the President was taken  and carried to   Mr. Peterson's house, on Tenth street, opposite to the theatre.  Medical aid was immediately sent for, and the wound was at   first [said] to be fatal.   [...] still alive [...] precarions condition.             As the assassin ran across the stage, Colonel J.B.   Stewart, of the city, who was occuping one of the front   seats in the orchestra, on the [?] side of the house as the box occupied by Mr. Lincoln, sprang to the stage and   followed him; but he was obstructed in his passage across  the stage by the flight of the actors, and reached the back door about three [seconds?] after the assassin had passed out.   Colonel Stewart got to the street just in time to see him mount his horse and ride away.        The operation showed  that  the whole thing was a   preconcerted plan.  The person who fired the pistol was a man about thirty years of age, about five feet nine, spare built, fair skin, dark  hair apparently bushy, with a large mustache.   Laura[...]the leader of the orchestra declare that they recognized  him as J. Wilkes Booth the actor and [?] secessionist. Whoever  he was, it is plainly evident that he thoroughly understood the theatre and all the approaches and modes of escape to the stage.  A person not familiar with  the theatre could not have possibly   made his escape [?] quickly.        The alarm was  [?] in [...].  Mr. Stanton was [...]

  

All the other [...] escaped attack.        Cavalrymen were [sent?] out to all directions, and dispatches sent to all the fortifications, and it is thought they will be captured.        About half-past ten o'clock this evening a tall, well dressed man made his appearance at Secertary Sewards's residence and [applied?] for admission. He was refused admssion by the servant when [the desparado?] stated that he had a prescription  from the Surgeon General, and  that he was ordered  to deliver it in person.  He was still refused except upon the written orders of the Physician. This he pretended to show, and pushed by the servant and rushed up to Mr. Seward's room.  He was met at the door by Fred Seward, who notified him that he was master of house and would take charge of the [...] bed,  and struck him in the neck with a dagger, and also in the breast.          It was supposed at first that Mr. Seward was killed [in?]stantly, but it was found afterwards that the wound was not mortal.        Major Wm. B. Seward, Jr., paymaster, was in the room, and rushed to the defence of his father, and was badly cut in the [?] with the assassin, but not fatally.       The desparado managed to escape from the house, and was prepared for escape by having a horse at the door.  He immediately mounted the horse, and sung out the motto of the State of Virginia, "Sic Semper Tyrannis!" and rode off.       Surgean General Barnes was immediatley sent for, and he examined Mr. Seward and pronouned him safe.  His wounds were not fatal.  the jugular vein was not cut, nor the wound to the breast deep enough to be fatal.  Washington, April 15-1 A.M.      The streets in the vicinity of Ford's Theatre are densely crowded by an anxious and excited crowd.  A guard has been placed across Tenth street and F and E streets, and only official persons and particular friends of the President are allowed to pass.         The popular heart is deeply stirred, and the deepest indignation against leading rebels is freely expressed.       The scene at the house where the President lies in extremis is very affecting.  Even Secretary Stanton is affected to tears.       When the news spread throught the city that the President had been shot, the people, with pale faces and compressed lips, crowded every place where there was the slighest chance of obtaining information in requard to the affair.        After the President was shot, Lieutenant Rathbun, caught the assassin by the arm, who immediately struck him with a knife, and jumped from the box, as before stated.       The popular affection for Mr. Lincoln has been shown by this diabolical assassination, which will bring eternal infamy, not only [...] upon the hellish cause which they desired to avenge.       Vice President Johnson arrived at the White House, where the President lies, about one o'clock, and will remain with him to the last.

  

The President's family are in attendance upon him also.       As soon as intelligence could be got to the War Department, the electric telegraph and the Signal corps were put in requisition to endeavor to prevent the escape of the assassins, and all the troops around Washington are under arms.       Popular report points to a somewhat celebrated actor of known secession proclivities as the assassin; but it would be unjust to name him until some further evidence of his guilt is obtained.  It is rumored that the person alluded to is in custody.         The latest advices from Secretary Seward reveals more desperate work there than at first supposed.  Seward's wounds are not in themselves fatal, but in connection with his recent injuries, and the great loss of blood he has sustained, his recovery in questionable.    It was Clarence A. Seward, instead of Wm. H. Seward, Jr., who was wounded.  Fred Seward was also badly cut, as were also three nurses, who were in attendance upon the Secretary, showing that a desperate struggle took place there.  The wounds of the whole party were dressed.  One o'Clock A.M.      The President is perfectly senseless, and there is not the slightest hope of his surviving.  Physicians believe that he will die before morning.  All of his Cabinet, except Secretary Seward are with him.  Speaker Colfax, Senator Farwell, of Maine, and many other gentlemen, are also at the house awaiting the termination.       The scene at the President's bedside is described by

  

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