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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John W. Ellis or search for John W. Ellis in all documents.
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Governor of North Carolina.
--By the death of Governor Ellis, the duties and powers of the office devolve upon Col. Henry T. Clarke, present Speaker of the Senate of North Carolina.
When the painful intelligence of the death of the Governor reached Petersburg, the citizens assembled and adopted the subjoined resolutions, offered by Judge Gholson:
Resolved, That this meeting have heard with deep regret of the death of John W. Ellis, late Governor of North Carolina.
It was known that his health was feeble, but he had borne himself so gallantly during the stirring events of the last few months, and had discharged the duties of his office with such th by a temporary rest from his labors, than exhausted nature sunk.
Resolved. That we tender to North Carolina our sympathies.
The loss of such a man as Governor Ellis, at such a time, is a loss not only to North Carolina, but to all the Confederate States.
Resolved, That the Mayor appoint a committee to meet and receiv
From Petersburg.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Petersburg, July 9th, 1861.
The death of Judge Ellis, late Governor of North Carolina, has cast a gloom over this community.
He died at the Red Sulphur Springs last Sunday, of a pulmonary disease.
His remains reached this city to-day about 1 o'clock, by the South-Side Railroad, when they were received by a large number of citizens, military, Masons, &c. The procession formed, they took up the line of march to St. Paul's Churc of the Southern train for Raleigh, N. C. A detachment of the 6th Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers has just arrived from Raleigh, who will act as an escort to the remains of their late Governor.
The train which conveyed the remains of Gov. Ellis, was draped in mourning from the egine to the end of the last passenger car, and in further respect to the deceased, business was entirely suspended throughout the city.
Several hundred volunteers from Georgia has just arrived in this city