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Phillips, Sidney Smith, Charles Phillips and Jones Watson. Thereupon 

 the Resolutions were passed unanimously. 



Upon motion of S. F. Phillips, the persons present went in procession 

 to the residence of Dr. Mitchell, in order to present in person to his fami- 

 y, the resolutions that had been adopted. This having been done, the 

 meeting adjourned. 



All the stores and other places of business of our town were closed and 

 ^11 business suspended, during the meeting. 



MEETING AT FATETTEYILT.E. 



rrom the Argus, July 18. 



DEATH OF PROF. MITCHELL, 



This great man is no more. By his death the cause of science has sus- 

 tained an irreparable loss — Chapel Hill one of its strong pillars — and 

 North Carolina one of her noblest sons. 



As will be seen below, he came to his death among those mountains 

 which had so long been the subject of his investigation — a martyr to sci- 

 -ence. 



Prof. Mitchell has occupied the position of Professor in our University 

 for thirty years or more, and has during that period, established his repu- 

 tation as one of the very first scholars in the country. 



We learn from the Standard that a peak of the Black Mountain has 

 been selected for the burial of Dr. Mitchell. This we are rejoiced to know. 

 No place could be more fitting for the last renting place of the illustrious 

 dead, than those grand and magnificent Mountains that were so long the 

 object of his study. No more suitable monument could be reared to his 

 memory which must endure as long as Mountains stand. 



We append the following Resolutions which were passed in this town, 

 •by the resident graduates of the University of North Carolina. 



A meeting of graduates of the University of North Carolina residing in 

 .and near Fayetteville was held on Tuesday, July 14, 1857, W. J. Ander- 

 son, Esq., presiding, and Mr. Geo. H. Haigh acting as Secretary. 



The Chairman having announced the melancholy intelligence on account 

 of which they had been called together, 



Messrs. W. B. Wright, John Winslow, W. A. Huske, W. II. Haigh, J. 

 €. Huske, R. P. Buxton, P. M. Hale, R. H. Sandford, and B. Fuller, rep- 

 resenting difierent classes, were appointed a Committee to prepare resolu- 

 tions suitable for the occasion. 



Whekeas, Almighty God, by a painful and most melancholy act of his 



