The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-12-31

JNhNO"Ns
What a volume of recollectiOns come mp,
and into how deep reverie the visitor may
fall "UabnOWn y'-and yet no elaborate
marble mausoleum ever marked the resting
place of nobler hero
While nothing ever offered a more prolific
subject for O journalists pencil, space for
bids that should write any further of this.
I will only repeat verse Of O'Hara's cele-
brated poem, a verse of which appears in
the headlines, and verses Of which, cast on
iron tablets, are found in various parts of
the cemetery:
''The muffled drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few"
A few weeks ago I took advantage of a
day spent at Lexington, Ky, to visit
THE TOMB OF HENRY CLAY.
Few men in their time held frmer grasp
on the affections of the people than did
this, the greatest of American statesmen.
A few minutes ride by street car took my
self and friend to within a few rods of The
entrance of the Lexington cemetery. En-
tering its portals and following a winding
drive we were soon under the shadow Of
the towering monument, which is ap.
preached by four graveled paths diverging
from the main drive It is situated on a
rise of land, and the tall shaft can be seen
from all parts of the city and from miles
around.
Including the base and the statue which
surmounts the whole the monument is 1856
feetin height. The statue is Of colossal pro.
portions, being abou thirty feet high, though
at its immense heigat it does not appear to
be half that size. The base forms q huge
vault, in which rest the remains Of the
great commoner and his consort, which
may be seen through an iron gateway.
The remains were embalmed and placed in
caskets, and these in turn are encased in
marble sarcophagi, bearing their names
On the side of the sarcophagus containing
the remains of Mr.. Clay is the familiar
quotation from one of his speeches begin
uing II can with unshaken confidence
appeal to the divine arbiter, " etc. The sar
cophagi were strewn with fresh wreaths O.
flowers and evergreens. The remains ar,
said to be in an excellent state of preserva
ton OF Clay it is said, he
Would not fatter Neptune for his trident,
Nor Jove for his power to thunder.
In this cemetery are also TO be found tn
graves of other noted personages. Among
them those of Hon. John O. Breckenridge
Vice President with Buchanan, and Con
federate general during the war; Gen. Johl
Morgan, the raider, by the side of thre
brothers; Lieut. Hugh Mckee, Of the U
s. Navy, the first to scale the walls of wha
r is now Ft. Mckee, Corea during the battl
there some years ago, and who perished il
tho hour of victoryi Gen. Gordon Granger
U. S. A., who died at Santa Fe, N. NJ,
j few years ago.
Inside of the Lexington cemetery ar
I two plats set aside for the burial ground
of soldiers of the two armies The Fed,
raj portion is kept after the manner Of tn
o National cemeteries. It's boundaries al
d marked by six large marble shafts.
j. contains the graves Of 1900 unknown
e soldiers and twice that number who's
d names were known, about 4,5OO in al
d The Confederate plat is much smaller, au
70 contains the bones of about 200 bra,
10 Americans who followed the fortunes Of Il
De- lost cause. In the center is a marble mo
t. lment of unique and beautiful design, re-
DE- resentiug a rustic cross, upon which han
Id a broken flagstaff and a broken sword.
ID Fraukforts beautiful cemetery is situate
IN on picturesque hill overlooking the oi
ne and a pretty bend of the Kentucky liv,
5u From the Capitol Hotel the tourist pass
3 by the State Arsenal and takes an Alp-li
th footpath, which leads around under ov,
of hanging cliffs and through vines al
e, tangled shrubbery. Less than half a M
up we ascend a flight Of natural stone ste
lk and enter the cemetery. first visited {
he plat containing the bones Of the Mo1ic
he War veterans and their monument
he this plat lie Col. Barbour Lieut. Her