The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-28
DIXIE'S DEAD PRESIDENT.
The Remains Taken From The Tomb
at New Orleans.

Twelve Ex-Confederate Cavalrymen
Act as a Guard of Home-The Ar
rangements for the Trip to Rich
mond.
Now Orleans, sday 2z-Gov. Foster has
ordered his personal and general staff to
assemble in this city on Sunday, May 2S,
in full Uniform, for the purpose of escort
ing the governor with the Davis funeral
train as far as Mobile, Ala Gen f. p.
Cottraux, j. B. Vinita, Allen Barksdale,
Coils. S. J. Utz, f. T. Ober, Mai w. w.
Watson and Lieut.. Col. Fremaux are
ordered to be present to proceed to Rich
mond on the funeral train and participate
in all the funeral ceremonies as an escort
representing the state of Louisiana.
Mayor Ellyson of Richmond and Miss
Winnie Davis arrived here to-day.
Gen. Stephen d. Lee will be in charge
of the escort from Mississippi removing
the remains of jefferson Davis from this
city to Richmond. The funeral car,
handsome Richmond and Danville OBJ
servation car, with catafalque erected in
the center, arrived yesterday. The
remains will be removed tomorrow from
New Orleans to Richmond, Va, for rein
terment on Wednesday next.
TAKEN FROM THE TOMB.
With dignified simplicity that was
insepara BILE from his life, with none of the
fuss and ostentatiOn of military or civic
display, the remains of the late eX-presi-
dent of the southern confederacy were
removed this evening from the vault
where they have had temporary resting
place for three years and moved to the
hall where they are to lie in state until
their transfer to the funeral train that is
to bear them to the beautiful and quiet
precincts of Hollywood cemetery. A
stranger here to-day may have felt that
the city was lacking in respect due the
memory of him who was the leader of the
cause for which it poured out so much
of its precious blood more than
quarter of a century ago. The crowds
that watched the little cOrtege with its
gray attendants moving slowly through
the streets of the city were made up only
of those who stopped in their walks and
gathered on the sidewalks TO watch it go
by. There was no booming of cannon, no
glistening of bayOnets in the parade, no
brass buttons save those of a handful of
veterans that formed the escort from the
grave to the hall, no dirgeful music,
no display of any kind. But
the absence of an imposing procession
and moving multitude was the mute
respect of a patriotic people, restrained
from outward show by the simple request
old of the soldiers who had the arrange
mentS in charge.
Three years and half ago tens of thou
sands of people turned to follow the dead
chieftain to his grave. They came from
all over the south. Tattered veterans
and leaders Of states, all the accessories
Of grand funeral pageant The contrast
to-day was striking, but it was in order
for tomorrow is reserved for the civic
and military honors that are to be paid to
the memory of the dead.
TRANSFER OF THE REMAINS
The transfer of the remains from the
old to the new casket wat made this
morning before the city was yet at labor
Only small gathering was present to
witness the simple and solemn ceremony
Comrades Smith, Thomas and Higgins
and L. A. Adams were present to repre-
sent the Army of Northern Virginia, to
whose charge the remains were intrusted
and who have guarded them ever since
the afternoon upon which the
remains were taken from the grave.
+. IL Farrer, who is related by marriage
TO Mrs Davis, was on hand to rep
resent the family. Beyond these there
We're no others, save the sexton and the
undertaken and his assistants Mr.. Davis
was Inferred in cedar casket richly
covered with black silk plush. The body
was laid in metal casket inside of the
cedar covering. This morning when
Sexton Sholz took from the vault the
black marble plate the old casket was re-
moved and the metallic casket lifted out
IN the handsome new casket in which the
body will be borne to Richmond. The
new receptacle is what is known as a
state casket, and is used only on special
occasions. 1t is made of antique oak,
richly polished, beautifully carved and is
massive in size. The handles are made of
heavy brass and on the corner is a simple
brass plate identical with tho plate on the
old casket bearing the unOstentatious in
scr1ptiOn, Jefferson Davis, ut rest, Dec.
b, 1889" The old casket was replaced in
the vault, where it will remain
as long as the tomb of the Army of North
ern Virginia stands, marked with black
tablet that contains across its face in gilt
recessed letters "a fac Simile of the auto
graph of MIR. Davis and the dates of his
birth and death. Frank johnson, who
mad charge of the funeral arrangements
before, supervised the transfer of the
body to-day, and he will make the long
Journey to Richmond, transferring the
corpse into the keeping of Virginia.
A GUARD OF HONOR.
The new casket stood in the chamber
Of the tomb nearly all day. Early in the
morning J. Y Gilmore, first vice presi-
dent of the Army of Northern Virginia,
and Charles Smith, second vice president
and chairman of the executive committee,
IN bright new gray confederate uniforms,
with gray slouch hats, took their posts on
the mound of the grave as a special guard
Of honor. They had few visitors to dis
turb them during the day and the iron
doors of the vault were opened but once,
and that was when Mayor EllXson and
Gen. Glynn came to pay their re-
spects Shortly after 3 O'Clock a
guard of sixteen veterans, in uni
forms of confederate gray mounted,
slowly rode up the shaded avenue leading
to the tomb of the Army of Northern
virginia, and turning their horses loose
10 Craze beneath the oaks that temper
the summers sun, slowly ascended the
grassy mound that leads 10 the entrance
OF the subterranean vaults OF the tomb.
With not more than dozen worBmcn
and reporters. and half that many ladies
and few urchins standing by heads
were reycrently uncovered and the casltet
was borne up from the vault 70 tho wait
ing hcarse, in which il was carefully
placed. u was simply an ordinary hearse,
severely plain, in keeping with the gen
eral order of the ceremony, ANA drawn bY
black horses. When the doors had been
closed the guards rcmOunted, and, flank
ing the hearse the procession slowly
"a Int. All