"Jefferson Davis deserves our reverence because he has stood for a quarter of a century in our place. He endured a cruel captivity for two years, and for the residue of that time has been the vicarious victim of obloquy and reproach due to us all, and heaped upon him alone by the press and people of the North. His fortitude and devotion to truth never failed. He endured not in silence, but with a protest which history has recorded, and will preserve as an emphatic yindication of the Confederacy which had perished, from malign aspersions on the motives of its friends, on the origin and causes of its formation, and on the purposes of justice and liberty, which inspired those who died in its defence, or who survived to illustrate its principles in doing the duties public and private which God in his providence assigned them to perform. He died a citizen of Mississippi and of the United States, and under disability to hold office under the government of the United States. He desired no place; why should he? He had filled his place in the temple of fame and in the domain of history. In personal dignity, and in the peace of God he lived and died. What artificial disability could taint his real nature? Why seek to remove it? He had made an heroic and honest effort to give freedom and independence to the South and had failed. God's will be done! He chose the sacred retirement of home, its charms of family and friends, of calin and philosophical reflection and study, and waited with firm reliance on divine goodness for the last summons, which comes to him who has humbly, but bravely, conscientiously, and with undaunted courage and patience done his duty, as he saw it, to truth, to his country, and to God!

'Whether on cross uplifted high,

Or in the battle's van;

The fittest place for man to die,

It where he dies for man!'

"Virginia! Rockbridge! Lexington! ever keeping guard over the holy dust of Lee and Jackson, turn aside to-day with millions of your countrymen, with mournful reverence and tender hearts, to twine a wreath of martial glory and weave a chaplet of civic fame to rest upon the tomb of Jefferson Davis! In a peculiar sense, the fate of our Confederacy is recalled to-day. On its grave-finally closed this hour-will be inscribed in imperishable characters the immortal name of the martial civilian who was its first, its only President. We plant flowers about it and water them with our tears, not hoping for, or as emblems of its anticipated resurrection, but to embalm it in our fragrant memories and in our most precious affections. And then, turning from the ashes of our dead past to the active duty dictated by the example and counsels of our departed leaders, Albert Sidney Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, we will labor with a fidelity wrought by the stern but noble discipline of our past experience, for the maintenance of the constitutional liberty they imperilled their lives to save, and for the promotion of the true prosperity, progress and glory of our common country."

In Danville "Cabell-Graves Camp" Confederate Veterans, the authorities, the ministers of all denominations, and the citizens generally of Danville and North Danville united in a crowded mass-meeting at the Academy of Music, where there were earnest, appropriate and effective speeches by Rev. Dr. P. A. Peterson, of the Methodist Church; Col. E. B. Withers, Judge Berryman Green, Hon. George C. Cabell, and Rev. T. B. Thames, of the First Baptist Church.

But if we continue even these brief details, we will fill the volume with Virginia's tribute, and leave no room for the loving offerings of other States. We can, therefore, barely mention other points.

At Fredericksburg Maury Camp and the citizens generally fittingly observed the day.

At historic old Williamsburg there were appropriate services and addresses by Rev. Dr. L. B. Wharton, C. P. Armistead, Esq., and Hon. Lyon G. Tyler (son of the late President John Tyler), the president of old William and Mary College.

At Franklin there were united services, a large crowd, and addresses by Rev. M. L. Hurley, Capt, L. II. Webb, and others.

At Leesburg and at Suffolk there was proper observance of the day.

In Charlottesville the Confederate Veterans and local military joined the citizens generally in a meeting, at which Rev. Dr. L. Hanckle, rector of the Episcopal Church, made a notable address, which we regret that we cannot print in full.

We condense the following from special telegrams to the Richmond Dis patch. At all the points named the ceremonies were solemn, impressive, and appropriate :

At the Pulaski meeting eloquent addresses were delivered by Judge R. M. Brown, Hon. J. Early Moore, and William M., Boykin, and resolutions offered by R. L. Gardner were passed. Prayer by the Rev. G. G. Snead, of the Episcopal Church.

The Abingdon services were held in the Methodist church, all the ministers of the place participating. Addresses were made and the bells of the town tolled.

The day was observed at Blackstone by the military firing a salute and by services.

Onancock fitly honored the dead hero by services in the churches and addresses.

Memorial services at Harrisonburg were held at night. Rev. Dr. Cox and Rev. Mr. Johnston were the principal speakers.

At Culpeper the services were held in the Episcopal Church. The military attended in a body, and afterwards fired a salute on the church green. There were other features, including addresses.

Touching addresses were delivered at Eastville by Dr. William A. Thomas, late surgeon in the Confederate army, and Rev. George W. Scott, who was a chaplain in the Confederate army. Business was suspended.

One of the most eloquent addresses of the occasion was delivered at Farmville by Rev. W. E. Evans, of the Methodist Church. The meeting-an immense one-was held in the Baptist church.

Lynchburg's service was at night and in the Opera-House, Dr. John E. Edwards being the principal speaker. The veterans of the "Lost Cause" and the military of the city were in attendance with colors draped in mourning. At noon the bells were tolled for an hour.

ORANGE.-Memorial services were held here to-day at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. The bells were tolled at the churches and all the business houses closed from 11 to 3 o'clock.

At Alexandria among the speakers were Gen. W. H. F. Lee, Senator John W. Daniel, and Senator John H. Reagan.

Berryville, Warrenton, Abingdon, Winchester, Staunton, University of Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Hampden-Sidney College, Heathsville, Westmoreland, Richmond, Lancaster, New Kent, and other counties-in fact, the whole State, from Alleghany to Chesapeake, from the Potomac to the North Carolina line-paid appropriate tributes to the great leader, whom the people honored and loved.

ALABAMA'S TRIBUTE.

No State was more devoted to Mr. Davis than the one which had the first capital of the Confederacy, and nowhere have the tributes to his memory

been warmer or more sincere.