John Wilkes Booth

The New York Ectnmg Punt sny : The lateat telegrama froni Washington state positively that the asaas-iu of llie President was John Wilkes Jj.ioth. This youug iuan-for hu is only tliirtythree-years old - is the youugost sou of' thu eider Booth, and ia nest in order óf birth to hs dit-tinguished brötürt Edwin. Ho was boru on nis futher's furm, noar Balüiuore, and is thua a M:iryhtt,dur. Lika hu two brothers, Edwin and Junius Brutus, ho inlu-iitcd ind ouily manifcsted a predilcotion for tho .-Uige., and is vvell kuown to theatre -gners umi the publie generally, as a very line-lookmg younfi man, but na :in autor ol' m r prüiüiso than performance. He is best remembered, purhaps, in Richard, whicli lie playod closely afle.r his futher's coa ception of thut diameter, and by lus admirers, was conBidered superior to the eider Booth. Ho was quite popular in the western and southern cities, and hi lust extended engagement was, we bo lieve, in Cuieago. We have heard ex cellent aotors say - and actors are not over-apt to praise enoh other - ttiat lie bad inlioi-ited some of tho most brilliant (jualities of his fatber'a genius. But of íate an apparently incurable brouchial aüliotion has made almost overy engage:tient a failure. The papera and crilio.s tiave apologizüd for his "hoarseness'1 but it has long been know by his friende that he would be eouipelled to abandon the stage. Last winter he played an engagement ia the St. Charles Theatre, in New Orleans, uuder the disadvuntages of his 1 hoarseness," and the engagement ;eruiinated soouer than was expeeted o.j that account. He had many old frieuds in that city, but this was his ürst appearance there siuee the inception of the rebellion, Ou his arrival he oallcd upon tho editor of one of tlw leading jouruals, and ia the course of conversation he vvarmly expressed his gympathy with se0Q9SÏOD. Indeed, he was woll known as a secessionist, but he was not one of the ■' noisy kind," He has the same quiet, subdued gentlemanly muurier in his n tercourse with others, that tnarks hls whole family. His last appearance in public in this city was on the evoning of November 23," 1864, at Winter Garden, when the play of " Julius Casar" was given for the benefit of the Shakspearo Monu ineut Fund, with a cast inoludirïg the three Booth Edwin as Bruíus, Junius as Cussius, and John Wilkes as Mare Antony. Tbare was a very large and appreoiativo audieuco on that occasion. If it is indeed true that he is tho assassin of the President, the universal indignation which will ooiisign him to lasting infamy, will not prevent the expredsion of the profouudest sympatby and sorrow for those who are aLied to him by blood ; and whose condemuation of the act will not be lesa emphatio than our own ; and all the more eniphatic, because of their outspoken fidelity to the loyal cause, and their heartfelt admiration of the late President. The Ohioago Times says : Two yua'rs aao he was in this city, and, whilc here, was mainly remarkable for hia outspokmi diloyalty, his erratic behavior, and his beastly iutoxication whennver he could escape the guardianship of his friöiida. During a eonversatiem at oue time with Manager McVicker, he asserted that imrnortality awaiteil any man who would kill Mr. Linooln, and indorsed his opiniou with the familiar quotation : '■ The auibitious youtli who fired the Ephebiun dome, OUtlives in fame the pious fooi who reared it." The charactor of his father vascillat ed between ctoontricity and well-defined insanity, and it is probable that young Uooth inherited this peculiarity, the same büiug inteusitied, or driven inore into the latter, by hia vicious hubits, contempltiting the iuirnortality til bo derived froin this great on me, and inoited to it furtiier by his seoosiiiou syinpathiea. It is probable hat he broodud over the idea till it absorbed his whole soul, and he became a uionomaniac. Havingonee decided upou it, he bega to plan itsexeoution. Insanity soareely ever laterferes vvith áhrewdues-1, and uons-qiiently he projeoted his Dofarioua attempt with □ labo 11 os I bkill. He is tüitunilly a iu:iu of great cunnins, and the utmost determiüation, and aided by ihose, he labored on uui.il he cousiniinuiled bis hibus ou Friday evening. lie has sueoeeded bilt too -well. He has prubably guined that iíti:nortulity whioh hu so loug has coveted ; bat t is aa imitioi'tality whose omitoniplatiun and origin thrills tho soul wii.li louthiug. llis imtnortaüiy fa suuply to live furever oxeonited by good men ; it is sucli ati iiumortality as bolougs to the dumtied spirits, whose sufforiiigii go o otorually.