Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08


throughout the South. The remains ar,
lying in State at New Orleans, and many
visitors have viewed them.
RICHMOND, VA, December THE fol.
lowing was presented in the Legislature TO-
day:
The special joint committee appointed tc
prepare suitable and appropriate resolutions
upon the death of the Hon Jefferson Davis
late President of the Confederate States OF
America, would resp pectfully submit the fol
lowing;
Resolved, The House of Delegates concur.
ring, that the people Of this Commonwealth.
having heard with profound sorrow Of the
death of Hon. Jefferson DAVIS ex-President OF
the Confederate States of America. we recog-
nIze in the death of Mr.. Davis the loss of a
distinguished soldier. statesman and patriot.
In every position of life, whether on the field
Of battle-in the Councils OF the nation, or as
chief Of the Southern Confederacy, Mr.. Davis
was distinguished for his fidelity to
principle, lofty patriotism and loyalty to the
trusts imposed upon him. The people of the
Southern States, of whom he was chosen Chief
Magistrate are honored in his past record and
stainless life. HIS name is inseparably en-
twined with the history Of our country, and
historians Of the future, when passion and
strife have cleared away, will assign TO this
hero OF the lost cause a place among the wise
and good men of all the ages
SINCERE SYMPATHY.
Resolved. That we sympathize with his fam
fly in their bereavement and that these resolu-
tons be spread upon the journals Of each
House.
The Chamber of Commerce, at a largely
attended meeting, adopted q lengthy pream-
bic and resolutions highly eulogistic of the
life and character of Mr.. Davis, from which
the following is an extract:
This event calls for unusual notice from the
chief commercial organization of the city
illustrious years of his life. Singled out at the
close of the war as the victim Of malignant
hate and persecution, he bore himself with
such high courage and lofty consciousness
of right as to win in even IN greater degree the
esteem and affection of the people
whom he had in other years so faith
fully served. The vicarious sUfferings for the
deeds of the Southern people doubly endear
him TO our hearts as representatives OF that
section of country. That as a mark of respect
to the memory this chamber requests that the
public and private buildings of the city be
draped in mourning and that our merchants
close their places of business upon the day ap-
pointed for the funeral
The Stuart II. Guards, of this city, will
send delegation to the funeral of Mr.. Davis.
General Thomas L. Rosser has opened sub
scription with S, 900 for q monument to Mr..
Davis memory.
A GOVERNORS PROCLAMATION.
At Montgomery, Ala, Governor Seay to-day
issued the following proclamation:
WHEREAS, The Hon. jefferson Davis, by his
gallant conduct as a soldier on numerous fields
of battle; by his bold, staunch and unselhsh
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stainless private character, has made his fame
the common heritage of the people Of every
Southern State; and whereas his recent death
in New Orleans has carried a sense of profound
bereavement to his fellow-citizens throughout
the South, who once gladly acknowledged him
their chosen leader, now, therefore, !, Thomas
Seay, Governor of Alabama, in conformity TO
the desire Of the people Of this State do hereby
make proclamation and name Wednesday De- 1
cember II, as a proper time for them to meet |
together and show their reverence for the IL |
lustrious dead. THOMAS SEAY.
A dispatch from Mobile saws: A meeting
CT the Confederate survivors association was
held last night to make arrangements for
memorial services on the day of the funeral.
Governor Soay, who has returned to the
city, sent q telegram TO Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, saving: "It is the wish of our peo-
pie that his grave may be made beneath the
monument TO the Confederate dead on the |
Capital Hill at Montgomery, hard by the |
very cradle of the Confederacy."
A LITTLE TROUBLE.
A special telegram from Raleigh, n. c., |
says: Something of a sensation was |
created round about because of the conduct |
on the part Of the negro students of Shaw
University colored school here, at which |
there is large number of students. male and |
female. 1t is stated by several parties who
heard it that while memorial meeting was
being held at City Hall last night in honor
of the decease of Jefferson Davis, a number
of these colored students congregated on the
campus of the institution and engaged in
singing boisterous songs derisive Of the
name of Mr.. Davis.
Among others they sun Chang JEFF Davis
on the Sour Apple Tree" singing was so
loud as to attract the attention of numerous
white people living in the vicinity. Shaw
University is an institution which was
founded here several years ago by a man
named Shaw, from Massachusetts,. who
endowed it for the education of negroes.
There are about 200 students in the uni
versity. The affair has created much talk
and indignation here