The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-05-22


THE CR0wD--STREET-CARs.
The number OF visitors to Hollywood was
very large. IL was one OF the biggest turn
outs OF recent years: but the people gene
rally only went to the cemetery a little in
advance OF the military and left when the
ceremonies were over. For several years
Immediately after the war hundreds spent
the whole day and thousands spent the
whole afternoon there.
The street-cars could have reaped a rich
or harvest yesterday had they been running
| to Hollywood. There were manv strang-
ers present, who were astonished that no
line OF street-cars reached the place. In
this respect we are worse off than we we're
fifteen years ago. Then the cars ran to the
western gate OF the cemetery. Subsequent
| ly they ran to point within two squares
OF the eastern gate. Now they go no near
er than Main street.
THE MILITARY.
| The parade was the prettiest We have had
for years. The veterans and military made
a nice display. The line was formed at the
Armory in the following order:
Mounted Police.
Lee Camp, c. ", and Phil Kearney Post,
G.. A. r., together in fours.
The Car-Accountants' Association, by in
vitation.
Band OF Music.
| The Richmond Howitzer Company-dis.
mounted.
Il. l.. Blues, with drum corps and flfer.
Stuart Horse Guard.
Members OF the Ladies' Hollywood Memo
rial Association.
The last took their place in the pro-
] 81, Il Il
Second streets.
! The procession entered the cemetery at
| the main entrance and Immediately march,
ed to Gettysburg Hill Except the ca
valry, who remained in line outside
the north gate), where the speakers stand
| had been erected, and about which the
veterans and military were drawn up in
line. A rope had been stretched .Out,
enclosing a large space about the stand.
| 1t put the people of at such distance
that they finally, and pardonably, broke
/ 1t down and got within hearing distance.
A BOYS GRAVE.
! The Confederate soldiers whose bodies
| (about thirty in number) were recently
| taken up from Seven Pines battle field had
| been buried near the north gate beside
! their comrades who were similarly re-
! inferred last year, and not far from the
grave OF General Pickett. The spot was
marked by a Confederate battle-flag flying
from n staff some fifteen feet high. A pa-
card on the staff said that the flag (Which
was OF silk was presented to Company d.,
Fifteenth Virginia regiment, by Captain
| L. II. Dance, and was borne by the COM
pany at the burning OF Hampton.
In the Seven-Pincs group OF graves was
a neatly-turfed mound of about four feet
long. Beneath it was buried boy found
at Seven Pines. \ rife-shot had struck
him in the breast and shattered the bone
and killed him. In his pocket was found a
knife, a pocket. book, and marble. In the
pocket-book was n fiye-cent piece. Here
was a whole volume OF pathetic interest.
1t is thought the little fellow was drum
mer. His name and history are unknown.
These Seven-Pines graves were by the
fence on the north side OF the cemetery
! (Gettysburg Hill, but for convenience sake
the speakers stand was placed 100 feet
nearer the monument.
TIE Address.
About hali.past ) O'Clock Rev. Mr.. Lam
drum, pastor OF the Second Baptist church,
read the opening hymn:
From which none ever wake to weep;
calm and undsturbed repOse,
! Unbroken by the last OF foes.
This popular favorite in the hymnolOgy-
the comfort Of many bcreaved homes-Was
sung by Captain +. W. Cunningham, Mr..
w. II. Grant. and a choir OF other young
men gotten up ut short notice out OF the
companies.
The singing was accompanied by cornet
and other pieces from the band.
After this Mr.. Landrum read Scrip
lures appropriate to such occasion, and
said:
Few and simple are the words required
Of me during this brief but significant
service. Here in this beautiful city Of the
dead, fragrant with the breath OF spring
flowers, the beauty and the chlvary OF
the old Confederate capital meet to hallOw
the dust OF departed heroes. 1t is a holy
hour. The heavens arch themselves bright
Iy above our heads. Speech may be silver,
but Silence is gold. We come to RENTER,
with the offices OF religion and with emo
tions OF pious pilgrims, under the shadow
OF this commemorative pyramid, all that is
mortal Of those who immortaliZed them
selves, their name and fame and country.
In honoring them we honor ourselves.
Twenty years, nearly, have elapsed since
they moved with incarnate fearlessness
amid the lurid flames Of battle-calm in
the rectitude OF their cause, in the
grandeur and genius Of their commander,
and in the devotion OF their countrYmen.
! Men say they were defeated in the
end. Yes, they were defeated. And is
defeat Il crime? Then it is a crime which
sinks Napoleon below Wellington,
! Lee below Washington, and Emmett below
Tell. They tell us these men are dead.
Some would have us believe they are n
ghostly memory lowering o'er pathetic
dust. But are they dead! Though there
has vanished forever the flash which lit up
their faces in the onset and struck terror
| to the heart of the foe; though their lips
are silent, their throbhing hearts smoothed
into stiffness, their limbs mOtionless, their
! imperishable spirit reanimates the land
which gave them birth. They live. How
can those perish from the earth whose
memory pulses nigh in the faithful breasts
of seven millions OF adorIng compatriots;
whose illustrious example stimulates the
patriotic and peaceful endeayors OF their
sons and reproduces its potency in the ad-
mirable fortitude OF their daughters;
whose unsullied and pusSant daring eX-
cited while they lived, and will fascinate
and foster for all ages the admiration of
the civilized world? Their mortality has
been swallowed up in terrestrial immor-
tality.
We live in new South. Changes have
taken place since these warriors laid them
selves upon the altar OF their country for
service or for sacrifice. What changes,
social, political, moral, financial, wide
sweeping, revolutionary changes-changes
unprecedented i'm the history OF this or
any other republic, ancient or modern
The South is conservative. Amid all
these changes the South, in her devotion