had been busy in decorating the hall suitable for the memorable occasion, In front of the Speaker's stand was a large table with a satin cover; hang. ing from the stand was the Confederate coat of arms, draped with black satin, with streamers of red, white, and blue; back of the Speaker's stand was a life-size portrait of Mr. Davis, heavily draped; on one side of the stand hung a Confederate flag at half mast, furled and draped; on the other side was seen the flag of Mississippi; by the side of the Confederate flag was pendent the sword Mr. Davis had worn through the Mexican war; by the flag of Mississippi a large pen; United States flags were hung in different parts of the hall. Many of the decorations were from the home of Mr. Davis.

"The House was called to order at 7 o'clock, when the roll was called.

"Mr. Barber, chairman of the House committee appointed to wait upon Mrs. Davis and invite her to attend the memorial exercises, made the following report, which was unanimously adopted:

"Mr. Speaker:

"Your committee appointed to visit Mrs. Varina Howell Davis and invite her to be present at the memorial services to be held by the Legisla ture of the State of Mississippi on Wednesday, the 22d of January, 1890, in honor of Hon. Jefferson Davis, beg leave to report—

"That in compliance with your concurrent resolution they visited Mrs. Varina Davis at her home, in Beauvoir, Miss., and that they invited her and family to be present with us on that occasion, and that she was deeply touched with this mark of your regard for her deceased husband, and begged us to assure you of her love and esteem for the State that honored her husband in life, which State he loved so well, but that physical inability would prevent her from complying with your request.

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Respectfully submitted.-E. M. Barber, J. M. Pelham, R. F. Abbay, W. G. Evans, Jr., committee on part of House.

"The Speaker appointed Messrs. Gunn, Vardeman and Gillespie a committee to invite the Senate to meet with the House in joint session.

The committee reported, and in a few moments the Senate appeared; Lieutenant-Governor Evans presiding.

"The band rendered a dirge.

"The Governor, and staff, and committee and escort, orators of the evening, and Judges of the Supreme Court came in.

"Then thirteen young ladies representing the thirteen States of the Confederacy, entered the hall bearing a pyramid of flowers on a silver litter, the thirteenth lady walking behind, bearing the bonny Blue Flag, in the following order:

"Mississippi, Miss Lilla Chiles; Florida, Miss Ola Mason; North Carolina, Miss Virgie Cameron; South Carolina, Miss Nannie Calhoun; Kentucky, Miss Elise Govan; Tennessee, Miss Annie Stone; Louisiana, Miss Kate

Chambers; Georgia, Miss Mary Evans; Texas, Miss Lula Harrington; Alabama, Miss Willie Atkinson; Maryland, Miss Alexander; Missouri, Miss Ida Mitchell; Virginia, Miss Kate Power.

"Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson then read 3rd chapter, 1-10 verses of the Wisdom of Solomon, followed by an earnest prayer.

"Miss Lilla Chiles recited the 'Conquered Banner' in a highly dramatic manner, bringing tears to the eyes of many of the audience.

"The 'Bonny Blue Flag' by the band was received by loud applause. "Senator Cameron read the following resolutions, which had been adopted by the Memorial Committee:

"The Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi assembled in joint Convention in memory of Jefferson Davis, her most illustrious citizen and public servant resolve to record of him:

"That he gave to the public service the greater part of a life made brilliant and memorable by the display of high endowments of mind and spirit, and was never tempted by popularity or success to deviate from the line of duty.

"That in the several promotions through which he reached the highest grade of public employment he regarded each added honor not as a personal reward, but as a demand by his country for greater zeal and greater effort to meet greater responsibilities.

"That as a soldier and commander he gave renown to the State troops, and in the civil service of the State and the United States his achievements reflected honor upon Mississippi and imparted lustre and influence to her position.

"That he loved his State, and gave to her behests absolute obedience.

"That the confidence, admiration and affection given to him in such full measure by the people of the South did not arise out of any mistake or misconception of character, but were founded upon positive knowledge of his excellence, as shown both in public and private life, during periods of common peril and temptations, and throughout a long, varied, and illustrious

career.

"That his patriotism, courage, constancy, and fidelity were of that high class of public virtues which makes the true glory of States and nations, and commends his name to future generations as an example of all that is elevated in human conduct.

"Mr. Barbour moved that the resolutions be spread upon the journals of both houses, which was seconded by Mr. Abbay and adopted.

"Dirge by the band.

"Mr. Watson moved to amend the resolutions by suitably enrolling and sending to the family of Mrs. Davis a copy of the same.

"Hon. G. A. Wilson was introduced as the orator representing the Senate, and delivered a most interesting and able address on the life and character of Mr. Davis, commencing with birth and following him through all the vicissitudes of life down to the shades of death,

"Hon. L. W. Magruder, as orator on the part of the House, followed in one of his characteristically beautiful orations, each phrase being a jewel and each word a gem. He referred to the public career of Mr. Davis and held him up as one of the grandest characters known in history.

"Judge J. A. P. Campbell was then introduced, and delivered one of the most forcible, learned, and eloquent addresses ever heard in the Capitol. From first to last he had the wrapt attention of the audience, and his grand flights and beautiful, patriotic sentiments were loudly cheered. He felt every word he spoke, and did great credit to the noble man whose memory he so fondly cherishes and deeply reveres. As an orator Judge Campbell has few equals in this country, and he, above all men, was the proper person to do homage to the deeds of glory and valor of the great Mississippian.

"At the conclusion of Judge Campbell's address Bishop Thompson invoke l the divine blessing, and the joint convention was adjourned."

No State ever loved a son more ardently or honored him more joyfully than Mississippi did Jefferson Davis, and no son ever loved his State with more filial devotion than did Jefferson Davis love Mississippi.

ARKANSAS'S TRIBUTE.

The proclamation of Governor J. P. Eagle, the "Soldier-Governor of Arkansas," and his speech at the grand soldiers' meeting in New Orleans have already been given.

The State followed the lead of her Governor, and at almost every town and hamlet within her borders suitable memorial meetings were held and appropriate action taken.

At Little Rock on Memorial Day there was a monster mass meeting in the State Capitol, at which there were beautiful and appropriate funeral decorations, and a solemn and deeply moved crowd.

The oration delivered on the occasion by Judge U. M. Rose was one of the best we have seen, and we regret that we can only find room for the following extract from his conclusion:

"The events of a man's life may be regarded as the outward trappings and habiliments with which he has been invested by a more or less implacable destiny; and after all categories are exhausted we do not see the man himself, nor perceive the indefinable and subtle elements that go to make up a distinct personality. I think that to most men Mr. Davis would appear, in imagination, like Wolsey.

""Lofty and sour, to them that loved him not;

But, to those men that sought him, as sweet as summer.'"

"Of course, his position during many years must have given him an appearance of isolation; but it is certain that to those who were intimately acquainted with him he gave the impression of kindness of heart, of geniality of disposition, and of a cheerful demeanor. He had peculiarly strong hold on the friends that he made, and he made friends during every period

of his life. The long devotion of his former slaves to him, ending only with death, is a conclusive testimony of the humane tenor of his feelings. Persons whom he had met in his campaigns in the Black-Hawk War, when he was reputed to be the handsomest, the most free-hearted and companionable of all the young officers in the service, remembered him after very many years with the warmest affection, which was not effaced by the hostilities that divided them in interests and in hopes. Some of these visited him in his latest years, and evinced all the tenderness of friendship which time and war could not destroy. As a husband, a father, a neighbor, he displayed the kindest and most affectionate disposition.

"A stormy life was followed by a quiet old age, which he devoted largely to a vindication, less of himself than of the people who had entrusted their fortunes to his keeping. If in the early period of his retirement he sometimes grieved his friends by public expressions that recalled too vividly the bitterness of the past, the feelings of which these were the evidence find no trace in the book in which he recorded his mature judgment of the decisive events in which he played such a prominent part. Reconciled with the irrevocable past, he was able to perceive that our great civil war had worked out many beneficial results, and that the future might open up to the united American people such an immense field of usefulness and prosperity a would dim even the brightness of their own past. For that work we owe him a debt of gratitude; for having been much read abroad, it has had the effect to greatly mitigate the harshness with which our people have often been judged.

"Born on the very day when Napolean had reached the zenith of his power, and in the very month in which it began to decay, and dying in his 82d year, no man of our time ever had so many and such striking vicissitudes as Mr. Davis. From the days of Adams and Jefferson, through the long period that terminated in his death, he was personally acquainted with almost every distinguished man of his country and his time; and he beheld such changes in all the varied affairs of humanity as far transcended the dreams of any generation that had preceded him. Outliving all the chief actors in the great drama in which he had played a principal part, surviving Lincoln, and Seward, and Grant, and Lee, and Jackson, and Stuart, how full of memories must his mind have been, as he trod the shores of that Southern gulf that broke in harmonious sounds by his secluded home! Perhaps to him, as to many others, that complaining sea, extending far beyond the reach of human vision, containing in its sombre depths so many mysteries forever unexplained, presented the emblem of that wide eternity upon whose echoless shore are hushed all the sounds of human strife. Or perhaps when the tempest spread its black wings over the angry waves, it recalled the stormy scenes in which his life had been so largely spent; and it may be that in the succeeding calm that brooded on the quiet waters he perceived the type of that peace that awaits the tired mariner when the