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Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathies are hereby tendered to the sorrowing 
family of the lamented deceased, with the expression of the fervent hope that 
He who in His inscrutable dispensations has permitted this great bereavement, 
will assuage the anguish of their stricken hearts. 
Resolved, That as an additional testimonial of our admiration of the virtues 
and respect for the memory of our departed friend, we will attend his funeral in 
a body. ' 
Resolved, That the newspapers of the District of Columbia and of the States 
of Pennsylvania and New Jersey be requested to publish the proceedings of 
this meeting, and that a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions be trans- 
mitted by its officers to the bereaved family of the venerable deceased. 
The following gentlemen representing the various departments of the govern- 
ment were appointed to act as pall-bearers to the railroad depot: Colonel John 
H. Stewart, State Agent; General James A. Ekin, War Department; Dr. 
Thomas L. Catheart, Treasury Department; Joseph M. Wilson, Interior De- 
partment; A. D. Hazen, Post Office Department; John D. Hyer, Navy De- 
partment; A. B.Grosh and Colonel James Gleason, Department of Agriculture. 
REPORT OF AN AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF THE SOUTH. 
WASHINGTON, June 1, 1867. 
Sir: The undersigned, commissioned by you as an agent of the department 
to travel in the suuthern States and make arrangements for the distribution of 
seeds to the destitute in the south, in order to carry out the intentions of Con- 
gress in an act entitled “A resolution for the relief of the destitute in the south 
and southwestern States,’ approved March 30, 1867, begs leave to submit the 
following report : 
I left this city on the 12th of April; proceeded to Richmond, in Virginia; 
thence to Petersburg, and via Weldon and Wilmington, North Carolina, to 
Charleston, South Carolina; thence I proceeded to Augusta and to Savannah, 
Georgia; thence to Macon and Atlanta; thence to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to 
Tuscumbia, Alabama, and to Memphis, Tennessee; at that point, by the Mis- 
sissippi river to Vicksburg, Mississippi; thence to Jackson, and thence to New 
Orleans, in Louisiana; thence to Mobile and Montgomery, in Alabama; thence, 
via Columbus, to Macon and Atlanta; and thence to Dalton, Georgia, and from 
there, via Knoxville, Tennessee, and Lynchburg, Virginia, back to this city, 
where I arrived on the 31st ultimo. 
I had previously visited, during February and March, part of the section 
traversed, by different routes, having visited Raleigh, North Carolina, and 
Charlotte and Columbia, South Carolina, thus traversing in the past four months 
a large portion of the southern States east of the Mississippi river. 
Through the kindness of General Grant I was put in friendly communication 
with the several district commanders of the southern States, who furnished val- 
uable aid in organizing agencies in the several registering and voting districts 
throughout their several departments, In Virginia only has the plan been com- 
pleted. Thanks are due to General Schofield for having so early carried out 
the views of the department in his district. 
You requested me at parting too keep “ my eyes and ears open,” and to be 
able to report what I might see and learn in regard to the general condition of 
the agriculture of the South which might be useful and interesting. I have, in 
part, endeavored to give you a brief sketch of what I have learned in my short 
visit to the South, and which I am sensible is only a summary; still, I trust 
there may be much that will interest the public in reading, as there was cer- 
tainly much that was exceedingly interesting to me in seeing. 
