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of the danger and guarded himself against it.  The rain is falling heavily and the bells still toll their melancholy tale.
7 P.M.  The sad day of excitement is over.  The President's body has been embalmed and lies in state at the White House while the frantic grief of Mrs. Lincoln has settled into an apathetic dejection from which it is impossible to arouse her.  The President remained unconscious to the last.  The members of the Cabinet, Mrs. & Miss Kinney and Miss Harris surrounded his bed.  Dr. Gurley was present & afterwards escorted the bereaved widow to her home.  At the request of Mrs. Lincoln he communicated the mournful intelligence to poor little Tad who was wandering from group to group of the sorrowing attendees endeavoring vainly to find out what was the matter.  His cries when he heard he was fatherless were exceedingly touching.  He
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has been the almost constant companion of the President.
Johnson has received the oath of office and seems empressed with the dignity and responsibility of his new office.  The assassins have not yet been arrested. but the evidence is conclusive that Booth--a miserable actor and worthless vagrant, a son of the great tragedian, committed the deed.  That is the murder of the President the stabbing of Mr. Seward was probably done by an accomplice.  Mr. Seward is in a critical position and has not been informed of the death of the President or of the danger of his son who was so much injured by the assassin that very little hope is entertained of his life.  The feeling of resentment at the South as instigating in all probability the murder is deep and I fear will entirely replace the feeling of kindness before
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