Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-11-30
LEES TRIBUTE TO PEABODY,
WITH A VIRGINIA COMMENT
THEREON.

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Lexington Correspondents Of the Richmond Dis
patch.
We send you the following noble trib-
ute to George Peabody which Gen.
Lee, on hearing of his death, wrote to
Mr. Peabody Russell, the nearest living
relative of the deceased:
LEXINGTON, VA, Nov. 10, lSG9.-My
Dear Mr.. Russell: The announcement
of the death of your uncle, Mr.. George
Peabody, has been received with the
deepest regret wherever his name and be-
nevolence are known; and nowhere have
his generous deeds-resTicted to no cOun-
try, section or sect-elicited more heart
felt admiration than at the South. He
stands alone in history for the benevolent
and iudicious distribution of his great
wealth, and his memory has become en-
twined in the affections of millions of his
fellow-citizens in both hemispheres.
] beg, in my own behalf, and in behalf
of the Trustees and Faculty of Washing
ton College, Virginia, which was not for
gotten by him in his acts of generosity, to
tender the tribute of our unfeigned sorrow
at his death.
With great respect, your obedient ser
want, r. Z. LES.
The great philanthrOpist has received
the plaudits of the great and good of
| every land, but there is not one which he
himself, could he be conscious of them,
would prize more highly than this simple
letter of the President of Washington
| College. Mr.. Peabody seemed very anX-
iOus TO meet Gen. Lee at the White Sui
/ phur last summer, and on the arrival eff
the great Chieftain the warmest friend
ship sprang up between them.
This tribute of greatness to beneyolence,
then, is not mere form.
HTSTNESS DULLIN NEW YORK.
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger writes;
Getty trade of all descriptions continues
very dull, and from presept appearances
the prospect of improvement is not very
fiattering. The steady decline in the gold
premium has the effect to persuade buyers
To defer purchases, in the expectation that
still lower rates will he attained, while
the corresponding shrinkage of every de
sciptiOn of merchandise that has been i'm
ported on a gold basis, without any bust
ness even with the shrinkage, causes s
feeling of almost universal depression
among the merchants. But few of then
are making any money, and il is not put
ting the case too strongly to say that {
majority of them will be satisfied if they
| can hat hold their own at the close of tn,
year.
at is more than probable that, if golC
continues to run down much farther
some of the large dry goods houses il
Broadway will 'let go at gold prices, IA
Their than hold on any longer IN eXpecta
ton of a reaction that may never come
In that event the smaller houses viii hav
10 follow suit
MONUMENT To THR CONFEDERATE DEAD
The Richmond Enquirer says:
: The monument Just completed in tn
county of King George, Va, to the mem
DRY of the Confederate dead of that cOun
, ~, is an obelisk Of granite about "a fee
in height. The base is about four fee
square-one of smaller size su1nount
this, upon which is a large block. wher
$ there is a brief inscription; with the name
S of the hundred gallant men of Kin
l George who fell in the conflicts of tn
5 war Above this rises the Obelisk. TIL
: granite is of dark hue, and the spectacle
is not impressed with the beauty of tn
monument until he secs its proportions
This imposing pile thus reared to tn
memory of the brave of this histor
county is the work of its devoted womeI
who not only conceived The project b.
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4 ton. Maj. Julian Mason, of Kin
4 George; John T. GOolrick, of Frederick
a burg, and Others, delivered appropriar
s addresses on the occasion of its dedici
ton. -