Reverdy Johnson

Baltimore, Feb. 10. - Reverdy Johnson, the distinguished statesman aud mist, was found dead this evening at 1:10 in the grounds surrounding the Sxecutive Mansion at Annapolis. Mr iohnson was the guest of Gov. Carroll, and dined this afternoon with other gentlemen at the Kxecutive Mansión. 3e was found dead in the yard by a servant. Mr. Johnson came here last night to argue the case of Baker vs. Frick, ar;ued in the Court of Appeals to-day. 3y invitation of Gov. Carroll he becaine his guest at the Kxecutive Mansión. To-day the Governor invited Chief Justice Bartol, of this State, and several other gentlemen to meet Mr. lohnson at dinner at the mansion. Fhoy dioed at 5 P. M. At dinner Mr. fohnson appeared iu excellent spirits and his usual good healtb, and enterained the company by his oonversation and relating anecdotes. At diuner he ook one glass of Madeira and refused o take any more. After dinner he uddenly asked the Governor to take lim intothe parlor. He took the Governor's artn and walking in there nut lown on a sofa. At the request of Mr. Johnson the Jovernor rejoined his guests at the tale. Shortly after a servant appeared at the door and beckoning the Governor out told him Mr. J. was lying in the 'ard on the stones. Gov. Carroll went mmediately tothe place and found Mr. '. lying on the cobble stone carriage way that passes under the poroh of the mansion, close np to the wall and near a door leading into the basement. He had evidently gone down the front steps and aronnd to the Ride of the house, and fallen where was found. This was about 8:15 p. M., and the impression is that he had been there at least half an honr. He was then dead, and was bloeding profusely from wounds on the right sido of his head and face. lis body was at once removed into a basement room and physicirns suramoned. Dr. William G. Tucker was the first to arrive, and examining the body pronounced life extinct. Drs. Rediot and Cloude arrived afterwards. There are large wound on the right side of the forehead, two fractures of ;he skull from the upper portion of the brehead to the eyebrows, dislocation of he fingere of the left hand and outs on he hands and legs, and bruises. Phyicians are examining the body to deermine the cause of death. Mr. Johnon would have been eighty years old next May. Baltimore, Feb. 11. - Dr. Lewis H, Heener, State Senator from Frederick County, a distinguished physician and chief inspector of the Sanitary Commission in the Army of the Potomac during the war, examined the body hortly after found, and gave the folowing as his theory of the cause of eath : " Mr. Johnson either stuinbled Ter a piece of coa], or, being geized with vértigo or incipient symptoms of apoplexy, and endeavoring to save himelf, moved towardg the west, staggerng along by the northerly side of the Cxecutive Mansion, at each step his ody gained additional momentuin, so bat having reached the door leading to the basement he swayed around to the south and feil, his head striking against a sharp corner of the granite base of the house, which gave the wound on the head. Keaching the puvement of rough cobble itones a second wound was received in front of the iirst. At this instant probably the bonen of the nose were fractured, and one joint of the second finger of the ight hand was dislooated. Whether his ubsequent struggles may account for he abrasions on the kneus and finger of the left hand cannot be positively asserted. The wounds in the scalp are accompanied with fractures of the exernal bonos of the cranium (the base of the skull), also with a possible rupure of some of the arteries at the base. )eiitli must have resulted instan tly. Mr. Gwynne, Attorney-General of the itate, and son-in-law of Mr. Johnson, s of the opinión that he nad a similar attack, lasting three honrs, while atending a trial in South Carolina sevral years ago.