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The committee propose by this circular simply to make known what ia 

 intended, feeling confident, that to the good people of the State and the 

 vast number of old pupils and personal friends of the deceased, nothing 

 more need be said. The plan of the monument will be discussed when 

 sufficient funds are' secured for its completion. They invite the co-opera- 

 tion of the county committees, and of single individuals throughout the 

 State. Contributions can be transmitted to the committee or any one of 

 them, by any means most convenient, who will deposit all such sums in 

 the Bank of Cape Fear at this place to await the making up of the requi- 

 site amount. All papers friendly to this project are requested to copy this 

 circular. 



Z. B. VANCE, 

 JAS. A. PATTON, 

 JOHN A. DICKSON, 

 A. S. MERRIMON, 

 D. COLEMAN, 

 W. M. SHIPP. 



V Com. 



THE EE-INTEEMENT OF DE. MITCHELL'S EEMAINS. 



BY RICHARD H. BATTLE, ESQ. 



From the Raleigh Register, July 10, 1858. 



On the evening of Monday, the 14th of June, the body of Dr. Mitchell, 

 after having rested for nearly a year in the pretty little grave-yard of the 

 Presbyterian Church in Asheville was exhumed for re-burial on the top of 

 the highest peak of the Black Mountain. Encased in coffins of wood and 

 metal it was laid at the foot of a large Oak tree, preparatory to its removal 

 the following morning. It was entrusted to the care of several energetic, 

 able-bodied mountaineers, whose zeal in performing the laborious task as- 

 signed them is worthy of high commendation. From the dawn of day on 

 the 15th, till a full hour after darkness had settled down on the sides of 

 the Black, and from a very early hour till near midday on the 16th, they 

 were at work with scarcely a minute of rest or relaxation. 



From the nature of the road, by which the top of Mt. Mitchell was to be 

 reached, it was hardly practicable that a regular procession should attend 

 the body ; but many citizens of the town and visitors from a distance — 

 among the latter, the venerable Bishop of the diocese of Tennessee, the dis- 

 tinguished President of the.- University, and Messrs. Ashe and Mitchell, the 



