PUBLIC MEETINGS. 



MEETING AT ASHEVILLE. 



From tilt Asheville News, July 16. 



It having been announced in Asheville, on Wednesday morning, 8th 

 July, instant, that the dead body of Professor Elisha Mitchell, of Chapel 

 Hill, had been discovered in the vicinit}" of the Black Mountain ; pursuant 

 to a short notice, a large meeting of the citizens of Buncombe county and 

 many others from a distance, met in the Court House at 5 o'clock in the 

 afternoon of the same day, when, on motion of Z. B. Vance, Esq., Rev. 

 Jarvis Buxton was appointed Chairman of the meeting. 



Mr. Buxton, on taking the chair, made some feeling and appropriate re- 

 marks, explanatory of the object of the meeting, and upon the services 

 and character of Professor Mitchell in his relations to the University, also 

 as a man in his social and domestic relations, and as a christian gentle- 

 man. He said he knew the deceased well, having been a member of his 

 household while a student at College, and that to know him was to love 

 him. 



On motion, John D. Hyman was appointed Secretary of the meeting. 



W. M. Shipp, Esq., after prefacing with a few remarks, in which he 

 bore testimony to the exalted character of Dr. Mitchell, and his eminent 

 services in his devotion to Science and Education, offered the following 

 resolutions, expressing a desire that they would be adopted : 



1. Resolved, That we have heard, with the most profound regret, the 

 announcement which has just been made, of the sad and melancholy death 

 of the Rev. Dr. Mitchell, of the University of this State. 



2. Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Mitchell, the University has lost 

 one of its most tried friends ; the Faculty one of its most zealous votai-ies ; 

 and the church of God one of its most faithful ministers. 



3. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, it would be highly ap- 

 propriate — should it meet the approbation of his family — that the remains 

 of the deceased be deposited upon some eligible point of the Black Moun- 

 tain ; a place with which his name has been connected for many years, as 

 the first to call public attention to its superiority in height to any point 

 in the United States, East of the Rocky Mountains. 



4. Resolved, That, in our opinion, no more suitable testimonial of re- 

 spect to the memory of the deceased could be given, than the erection of 



