The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-13

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Our readers are aware that there is pro-
position before the LegisIature TO remove the
remain. Of General Lrs from Cumberland
Island, in Georgia, 70 his native State vir.
Sinia. We are not aware OF the shape which
the proposition has assumed but we take 1t
for granted an act Will be passed and sum of
money sppropriand.
General LEE died In the year 1918, at the
house OF Mrs. SHAW. the granddaughter OF
General sNarmASisL GRgxx, on Cumberland
Island He had been TO the West Indies to
recover his health which had been In a low
condition for many wears We believe he
never entirely recovered from the Injuries
which he received from the Baltimore mob in
1914. lie was on his way back, when his i'll
ness became 30 serious that he stopped at
Cumberland Island. Hs was most hospita-
bly, received and entertained nv the grand
daughter of his great commander, and his last
moments We're sooiLed by the attentions OF
devoted friends. Hitherto, little has been
known with regard to tho circumstance OF
his burial. Acciden tally his surviving friends
aud the gentlemen who have most interested
themselves in the matter, discoV cred that toi
NJ. NJ. PAYNE, United States Army, was at
his funeral. We conversed with Col r. on
the subject, who told n all he knew. There
was not indeed, much 10 tell but every thing
| connec ted with the death Of man so well
known il of interest.
Col. PAYNE, then a Captain IN the army,
| commanded the troops stationed on Amelia
/ Island, opposite To Cumberland, from which
! il is separated, We believe, by ST. Mary
/ Sound The otliceYs--he among the resi-tre-
/ quently visited in the neighborhood-at Mrs.
SgAw's among other houses He bad never
| heard that Gen. LEE had been lying il! al bars.
! SEAw's, until one morning he received an in
vitation TO attend his funeral that day. as
/ the distance was ron miles, ali the way by
/ water and as Capt. PAYNE had but single
email boat At his command, he could not, O!
/ course. carry over his company, which he
! otherwise would have done. AT the time'
| however, Capt. HENLEY, of the corvette ohm
! Adams, was lying in the sound lie turnec
| out, with his whole crew. and thus the vete-
| ran was buried in the way, no doubt, that
| would have been most pleasing to him, had
/ he been consulted although by another arm
OF the service than that to which he belonged
/ Col. payne IL under the impression that he
! and Capt lIrNLgY bore the pail but Of THIS
he is not eut irely certain. At any rate, he
was present, and saw the last OF Light Horse
HARRY LEE" so far as this mortal frame is
: EOnCPFHtu. lie was very Iltiic tfFR SAA't 'h'A4
/ he died.
| We hope. since Virginia has begun 10 make
up her Jewels, the Legislature will not let
! this proposition fall through. This man was
| among the most r markable of her sons. He
was not only the most brilliant cavalry ON
Ger of his day, but he did what no Virginian
! had done before his day, and what, we are
! very much afraid, few Virginians have done
! hi a 1arI
can read through. This was prodigious
/ achievement, as we may learn from the inf
| mite number OF attempts, and the multitude
OF failures. Gen. LEES book will continue
to be read as Tong as Il taste for fresh aud
| animated narrative con tinIes TO exist. 1T
has all the interest of romance about it. 1t
| may be put i'll the same catalogue with MEMO
rHox's Anabasis, and NAPIsR's history of the
! peninsular War. Ii possesses the inestima-
bic superiority attributed by HORACE to
| seeing over hearing. II abounds IN vivid
description and animated episodes. Its
! great fault is the somewhat too turgid char
acter Of the style. This, however, was a
fault of the age more than of the man
| He wrote at time when the declamatory
| style of JoBssoS had not ceased TO exercise
| its influence upon English writers, or, we
!
! during that period. Had 1t been formed at a
| later day, 1t might have BEEN simpler, but II
would have lost much of its animation and,
| consequently, much of It's attractveness.-
We are contented 10 take ii as it is, forming,
as il does, the most readable book ever yet
. written by a Eirginian, by any Southern
man, so far as we know. 1t will always be
classed with these narratives Of great events
which have been written by persons who par
| ticipated in them, and which as far transcend
i'll interest the more labored stories of writers
at second hand. AS the tragedy of RIcBAKDIII.
upon the stage surpasses the life of the crook
ed back tyrant read In the closet. When we
bring back the bones OF old HARRY LIE, there
fore, let it be remembered that we bring back
the bones, not only Of the great cavalry Off
Ger, but of the most agreeable and most endur-
ing of all our writers, and while we pay tit
ting tribute to the claims of war, lot us not
forget the higher, though less obtrusiNe,
claims OF literature.