Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-07-17

W DO not know now Deter 20 Introduce Il
this melancholy event, than by copying the
following from the State Journal:
"sorrow has cast her dripping mantle over
our community. A State mourns the loss
Of one Of her best and purest sons. An in
corr uptible patriot has been snatched from
our midst while yet in the vigOr Of manhood,
and ere he had scarcely reached the meridi-
an Of his useful and honorab BILE career. His
Excellency, John w. Ellis, Governor of
North Carolina, Is no more. That great and
good man is dead. At Red Sulphur Springs,
Monroe COUNTY, Virginia, he breathed his
last on Sunday the 9TH inst. The particulars
Of his death or the mournful incidents Of his
last sad moments, we have not heard nor, if
we had heard them, would our deeply af1ic-
ted readers consent to listen to them now
The news of his melancholy death was tele-
graphed TO the Military Department in this
City, on Monday morning about 10 o'clock,
while yet many ardent frieRds were indu!-
cling hopes Of his ultimate recovery. Slow
~ and Reluctantly did it spread over the
City, each in his turn unwilling to become
the unwelcome messenger of the soIrowful
tidings. Friend and friend met and passed,
UNDECIDED and unkeeding, each to the other
unwilling to impart his tale eff woe and
still trying to hope the news would prove
untrue. But still it spread from lip to lip
in accents barely uttered, and in signs by
manly hearts but half suppressed, which
plainly told the grief they felt was not
affected. Each guaFed his bitter cup of az
onizing sorrow and passed it to ais neigh
Dor who drained it to the dregs and rub
bing his forehead turned away to hide the
unbidden tear. 1t was a m~Surnful day and
as the certainty Of the sad tidings began to
dispel the last lingering doubt on which, till
then, his tottering hopes had leaned, mourn
fully and sadly did friend his friend accost
and bitterly bewail his own bereavement
and the public loss. Long ere night the
melancholy fact began to be realized and the
private virtues and public worth of their
late lamented friend, whom they should see
no more, was the mournful theme Of every
lip.
In the death Of Governor Ellis, North Car
olina is not left alone in her sorrow. known
and esteemed throughout the Southern Con-
tederacy, his worth has been acknowledged
and his death will be lamented by all the
States composing it. To the Southern Con-
federacy his death is truly a national calami.
ty for none more ardently and few earlier
than he espoused the Southern cause. The
labors which it imposed upon him were faith
fully performed, and the tolls which thos
labors engendered were endured without
murmur; but they proved too much for
constitution, moulded as his was, in a delicat
frame, and he sank beneath their accumula
ting weight.
On the sAnctty Of the domestic sorrov
which his premature death has produced il
one Of the tenderest and noblest Of fema1
minds, we dare not at present intrude. ]
the anguish Of his last moments, that love
form was beside him ministering to his wan
and pierced and panied by every pang tn
wrung the aching heart from which the Grin
son tide was ebbing fast. A brother too, WI
with him, and other manly hearts who for
dying heart could feel a pang of deepe
sympathy, but none could stay the shaft
death. And here the reader must be IL
to his own sad thoughts"
The body Of Gov. Ellis reached this CT
on Wednesday, about Q o'clock, and W
conveyed TO the Capitol, and thence to t
Executive Mansion, accompanied by a lar
Military, Masonic and Civic Procession. I
Rev. DIR. Mason read the Funeral Ceremo
over the remains, and the body placed
charge Of the Masonic fraternity, of viii
Gov. Ellis, while living was a member.
On Thursday morning the imposing I
neral PageantO Of the day previous was form
and the body conveyed to the cars and C
Eisd to the Ellis Family Burying Ground,
Davidson County, where on that afternoon
was inferred with Masonic hOnors, by Full
Lodge, of Salisbury, Of which Gov. L.
been a member, and by Hiram Lodge of
eigh, who bad charge sf and escorted
body to its last final resting place.
An immense concourse Of persons "
present from the vicinity, and indeed Fl
various parts Of the State; and the heav
bosom and tear bedewedcheeks Of the frie
Of his youth and manhood told most aft;
ingly how sincerely he was enshrined in
hearts and affections Of the community
whose midst his mortal remains had b
brought to rest In the quiet slumber Of
grave.
We will not profane the grief of the str
en-, aged Mother by bringing it before
public gaze. But in the sacredness of
crushing sorrow we leave her to the rea
ton Of the christians faith and hope, W
has borne her through many trying Der
mems May God comfort and staunc