Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21
WILMINGTON,3N c., FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 2f 1870

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I'D a1f CIR - 4 II MEMPHIS, Oct. l3.
The annoaneement. OF GENERAL I4EE's death
was received with profonnd SORROW. Bells will be
tolled, and public expressions OF sorrow BIZ the
citizens win be made.c Tao 10
zl-. : 16ELsEA, Ala. Oct. 49,
The city has bt en in mourning all day, in honor
OF Gen LEE. All business houses closed, the
church bells tollea and public address was de-
ivered at the Opera House TO tremendous
crowd. by Generat John T. Morgan The grief
of the people is deep and universal The death
or Gen. LEE is reg arded Is national calamity.
- = 1s-@.--ss = ATLANTA, Oct. 13.
Both Houses of the Legislature adopted q resoIu-
ton to adjourn TO NOR row until Monday. to at
tend the obsequies of Gen. LEE, on Saturday. The
citizens are arranging for imposing ceremonies.
Gen. J. B. Gordon is expected to, deliver the
eulogy On Gen. Ike. -9a---sssss =
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 3
The death of General LEE has cast gloom
over the entire community. Flags throughout
the city were at half mast, and many were draped
in mourning.
The Board of Bro1ere adjourned | st evening
in respec: to General LEE and Judge Dibble of
the 9Th District Court, adjourned his court this
morning, tribute of respect to deceased
The Judge in remarks said his purpose was to
honor heroic and noble citizen, who, by his
bearing, had won the admiration and affection
of every heart in the land. The motion 10 ad
journ was made by John II. Law. who delivered
a touching tribute to his memory.
Tho following card has been signed by many
of the business firms in the city:
"We, the undersigned, merchants, suggest to
our fellow citi2ens that all business be suspend
ed tomorrow, Friday. out of respect to the mem
Ory of General L. Z. LEE.
[sPECIAL TO THE JoURNAL.l
TARBoRo, n. O., Oct. II.
Stores c,oaed, and al business was Eus-
pended on receipt OF intelligence of the death of
General Lee Appropriate services were held in
the churches. The Offices of the Farmer and
Cdrolin1an are draped in mourning.
LEXINGTON, Va, Oct. Il.
Everything about Lexington indicates it
honse of mourning .o-day. All business houses
are closed and deep gloom perVades the
whole community.
The memorial servioes held yesterday and this
morning in the College were largely attended.
The remains were conveyed from his residence
to the College Chapel. The following was the
order or procession:
Escort of Honor, consisting of officers and
soldiers Of the late Confederate army. Chaplain
and other Clergy. Pail bearers with body. Old
Gray War Horse that carried the General through
all Lis campaigns in the late war. Trustees and
Faculty of Washington College. Students.
Visitors and Faculty Officers and Cadets. Mas.
ons and Odd Fellows. Citizens.
The pail bearers were Judge Anderson, David
E. Moore, Sr., Trustees of Washington College,
Ex-Gov. John Fletcher, Commander +. Maury
for Virginia Military Institute, Col W. Preston
Johnston. Hon. Randolph Tucker, Professors of
Washington College, VIM. L. Prather, Edward
P. Clark, Students of Washington College, Capt.
J. O. Bonde, Capt. J. P. Meore, Soldiers OF the
Confederate States Army, VIM G. White, Joseph
g. Steele, Citizens of Lexington.
The remains will lie in state in the College
Chapel until interment tomorrow at IL NJ. and
sre there visited by thousands of grief-stricken
people. white and colored, old and young.
The ladies OF Lexington claimed it as their
privilege to drape in mourning, with their OWL
hands, the College Chapel which Gen. LEE built,
and bene ath which he is to be buried, and the
Episcopal Church, of which he was a devout
member. Meetings have been held by tho Fac
ulty of the College, in the Military Institute, by
the students of the College and the several Lite
rary Societies, officers and soldiers of the late
Confederate army resident at Lexington, and the
citizens of Lexington en- nedsse, and touching
resolutions adopted, to give expression to a uni
versal sense of sorrow.
The Faculty of Washington College, after an
appropriate preamble, adopted the following res
olutions:
Rosotced, That in the midst of the deep
calamity which has befallen US in the death Of
our beloved President, we, the Faculty of Wash
ington College, experience profound pleasure
and pride in recognizing the fact that the fame
OF General LEE, while it belongs to the whole
country, is, in especial sense, the heritage of
Washington College, and tn at it is duty, IS
it is our privilege. to provide here suitable me-
MOI a1a nd who
shall be acknowledged and his name publicly
held in grateful remembrance by this College
for all future time,
ReSokued, That a committee be appointed to
confer with like committee of the Board of
Visitors, and report measures and plans for the
erection OF a suitable monunen Mt to General LEE
in the room in which his remains to be
intorred, and further, to consider and recon-
mend such other monuments memorials as
may be deemed appropriate in the College.
ResolUed. That said committee be requested
Jointly to mako arrangements for the delivery of
an eulogy on the life and character of General
LEE. in the College Chapel, the 10th day of
January, 1871, that being the date Of the ami
versary of his birthday, aud we also express the
wish that this anniversary, like the birthday of
WASHINGTON, shall be hereafter always celebrated
N Washington College.
to confer with and report to their RESPECTIVE g
bodies on the subject of so amending the pre-
sent charter of Washington College that the
name Of this Institution may hereafter express,
in fit conjunction, the immortal names OF Wash
ington and LEE, whose names were so similar
in their perfect renown, and with both of whom
equally, by good fortune, it is entitled TO be
associated in it's future history.
General LEE remarked two years ago to Gen.
Pendieton that he did not expect to live more
than two years. The evening he was taken sick
he was unusually bright and cheerful. The re-
| mote reason OF Gen. LEES death was long
continuance Of depressing M cral causes, com
mencing with weighty responsibilities and anxi-
cites during the last year Of the war, and the
effect which the the overthrow of ths cause he
loved, and the condition of the South since the
war, has had upon him. He bore all with q
cam exterior and devoted himself to the duty
OF the hour, but the fbres of his great heart
vera at hroka0 The urOximata causa of his