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VOL. XIII. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1850. ~ NO.lO.
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THE COWPENS MONUMENT.
Our artist, whoso proficiency in wood
engraving hardly equals the skill display? ?
lluA %11 not a?n truss a to lTomn/u Mtirtn.
VU 111 vuv Iiuiinouv.ia " ? *""5"
sine, ha* prepared for us the following rep- 1
Ireseutntion of -the Monument erected on '
the Cowpens Battle Ground, on Tuesday,!
'22d instant, by llio Washington Light In- '
fantry of Charleston. Unskilful as it is,
it will afford an idea of how this nolrlo tribute
to bravo men looks, and that is all a
bettor could do.
I
) Congressional Burial Ground.
A correspondent of the Pennsylvania Inquirer
lately paid a vi.-it to this city of the
. dead at Washington, and furnishes brief
liinnings of the n?u!>t prominent monuments
erected to perpetuate the memory of public 1
men who have depar ted from aiiKMig the
living. We select from this catalogue the j
following is possessing the most general
interest.
The Congressional Burial Ground at
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> oiiiUgivii 1IUVS MUI I.UI1IJI.IIU litvurauiv
with the eenicteries of nolo in various parts
of the country. It lies near tlio Ki?:ein
Itranch of lliu Potomac, ra'.lior mora than
a mile cast of the Capitol, and contains '
about ten acres of giound. It dates back '
to the year 1807. Its surface is conveni* i
ently at ranged for burial put poses, but it
presents none of that diversity of hill and
dale, and variegate I .scenery, which render
Mount Auburn and Greenwood so atlruc. .
live. Its chief merit is its sequestered Jo
cation, rendering nny futuro disturbance of
its sleeping tenants improbable.
The fit at objects that attract the eyo of a
visitor, are the small plain cenotaphs erected
in memory of thyse members of Congress
who have died at Washington. These
are arranged in double rows, and number
one hundred and twenty eight in all. In
soine instances the graves beneath them
are tenantless, as in the cases of Henry
Clay, John Quincy Adams, and others, but
most of them have not been disturbed since
the remains of the great men of the nation .
wore deposited tlieie. The inscriptions on
these cenotaphs are uniform, aud give simply
the names of the tie.id, the Slates from
which they came, and the dates of their j
deaths.
Klbridge Gerry, formerly Yieo President,
who died in 1814, at the age of 70, while
011 his way to the Capitol, to take his scat
as President of the Senate, has a liehly or
uanmnted monument, in lliu old style,
which was erected by order of Congress.
He realized his own memorable words,
which constitute the epitaph engraved on
his tomb, and were as follows: "it is the
duty of every citizen, though lie may have
but One day to live, to devote that day to
the good of his country."
Near by is another, erected to the memo- j
ry of Georgo Clinton, also once Vice l'resi
dent. It consists of a massive granite pedestal
and obelisk, surmounted by an iron
torch holder, the taste displayed in which
is to be doubted.
Push-ma-ta-ha, a Choctaw chief, who
died at Washington in 1824, has a plain
granite cenotaph, erected by his brother
chiefs.
The celebrated eccentric Lorenzo Dow is
said to have been buried here, but I am una- j
bio to find any clue to his resting place.
The remains of Henry Stephen Fox,
nephew of the colebrated Charles James
Fox, and for many years llrilish Minister
ii.:- i\ '
iv mis vfovurnmum, are enclosed in a plain :
roassivo inarblo sarcophagus, near to the
Congressional cenotaphs.
Tbe monument erected to the memory
of Major General Alexander Macomb consists
of a beautiful marble shaft, with appropriate
military emblems, surmounted by i
a helmet with tho vizor down. The epi- j
taph is from tho General Orders of tho War j
Department, and is most expressive. It
reads as follows: "It were but a small tri- i
buto to his memory to say, that in youth j
and manhood he served his country in tho
professsion in which he died, during a pe- j
riod of more than forty years, without stain
or blemish upon his escutcheon."
A plain b it graceful giauite shaft marks |
The cup of life just to lii? lip* he pres*e<l,
Found the <lr;iUj;ltt hitler and declined the rest."
This is certainly a strange and weird record,
but of what, and whom? 1 could
have mused (or hours beside this singular
sepulchre, and fancy would have recreated
many a romantic history, but speculation*
were in vain, and the shades of evening
warned me that I must leave the quiet and
peaceful habitations of the dead.
Homc-Lcavlngs.
In addition to the extract given last
week from the sermon of l)r. (Julhrie, of
Scotland, we piesciit the following touching
description of llio departure of our tiist pa
rents from Paradise in connection with the
departure of the Israelites from Jtldea:
"If our bosom hums with an v patriotic
tire, if we have the common alleclions of
men for family ami friend*, it is impossible
to lo >k with insensibility at that bleeding
fragment of a nation gathered for the
march to Babylon, amid the blackened and
blood stained ruins of their capital. What
a in. uriiful company! The sick, the bedrid,
the blind, old men tottering forth ou
I.., .,e ? -i-.-i-*- ->
uiw .n.m iigr, anu piucKing uieir gray
boards with grief; tlio skeleton infant
hanging on a breast that famine ami sorrow
have dried; mothers with teiror-striekon
children clinging to their sides, or, worse
still, with gentle daughters imploring their
protection from there Hide and radian soldiers;
a fow gallant men, the survivors of
the fiight, wasted by famine, bleeding from
unbandaged wounds, their arms bound, and
burning tears streaming down their checks,
as they looked on wives and daughters
shrieking and helpless in the arms of brutal
passion; how they strain at their bonds,
and bitterly envy their more fortunate
companions who lay in the bloody breach,
nor had survived to seo the horrors of that
day! The piety that abhors tlio sins of
this people is not incompatible with the
pity that sympathizes with their sorrows;
and we could sit down and weep with Jo
remiali, as seated on a broken pillar of the
temple, desolation around him, and no
sound in his car but the long wild wail of
the captive band, lie wrung bis hands,
raised them to heaven, ami cried, 'Oh that
my head were waters, and mine eyes a
fountain of tears, that 1 might weep < lay
and night for the slain of the daughter of
my people!'
"There was a home leaving, however, in
which ".'o feel a nearer interest. I do not
refer to that eventful morning when some
of lis left a father's house; and the gates of
that sanctuary opened, amid tears and fears
and many a kind farewell?and when
w atched by a father's eye, and followed by
a mother's prayers, wo pushed out our
bark on the swell of life's treacherous sea.
The turning tiuio of manv a young man's
history?the crisis of his destiny?that day
may have exerted an iutluenco as |>crmanent
on our fate as its impression remains
indelible on our memory. I refer to a
luniie-ieaving of fur older date; to one, not
of personal, nor of national, but of universal
interest. My eye is turned back on tlie
day when our lirat parents, who had fallen
into sin and forfeited their inheritance,
were expelled from man's first hoiue. And,
recollecting tho reluctance with which I
have seen a heart broken mother make up
her mind to disown the prodigal, and drive
him from her door?knowing, when with
slow ami trembling hand rIio had barred
him out, how it seemed to her as if in that
horrid sound sho had heard the door of
heaven holted against him, and feeling
how much provocation wo ourselves could
suffer, ere a bleeding heart would consent
to turn a child out upon tho open streets,
nnd believing also that our Father in
heaveu is kinder than the kindest, and bet
tlx; mating place ot Abel i'arker, Upshur,
formerly Secretary of the Navy, and afterwards
of Stale, and also of Capt. Beverly
Kennon, of the Navy, who were killed on
the 28th of February, 1844, by the bursting
of the great cannon on board tho Priucoton.
They were warm friends in life, and
were buried together.
Major General Jacob Brown, who died
in 1828, lies under a massive broken marble
column, erected by order of Congress.
One of tho tinost, perhaps tho most attractive,
monument hem is the one erected
to William Wirt. It is constructed of white
mar\>le, and has a door of entrance in tho
massive base, with a graceful shaft above.
Thero is very little ornamental work about
it, and but few inscriptions.
fliMntii.vlnrA PIIOVIAJ W f.iintAAu ?u1?sv
died in Mexico in 1847, has h light and
graceful marble shaf', with appropiate emblems
and inscriptions.
One of the handsomest in tho ground is
a tall spire of white marble, slender and
tapering, like Cleopatra's needle, rising
over tho grnvo of tho lato John W. Maury,
of this District, who died only about a year
ago. Tho inscription is as follows: "llis
character was blended with all that can elovatc
or ndorn, and his life was a bright
example of the nobility and power of vir
tue."
One of the prettiest designs is an inverted
cannon, in marble, standing on three
cannon balls, (also of marble) erected to the
memory of Lieut. John T. McLaughlin,
late of the U. 8. Navy. Another to the
memory of Lieut. George Mitllin Bache, of
the Const Survey, and the officers and crow
who perished with him in the brig Washington,
which was lost in tiie Gulf stream
iu 1840, represents the broken mast of a
vessel, and tho sculptor has beautifully imi
tated the splintering of the limber.
In a retired spot a small space is entirely
surrounded by a high brick wall, tnuch dilapidated,
and showing that tio care has
been bestowed upon it for years. Thero is
no mound inside, and a few rose bushes
have been suffered to grow wild and untriinmcd
in either corner. Just against one
side of the wall, as if carelessly thrown
down leans a small square slab of marble,
on the upper portion ?>f which is engraved,
in capital letters, the singlo word "Gentle."
Beneath this are the following lines:
f tcr than tlio best of us, and that tho fond!
est, fullest heart is to his but as the rocky
pool?the lodge of some tiny creature?to
the great ocean which has tilled it with a
wavej no demonstration of (.rod's abhorrence
of sin (always excepting the cross of
Calvary) comes so impressively to our
hearts as his expulsion of our unhappy
parents from his cwn blissful presence and
their sweet homo in Eden. When with
slow and lingering steps Adaui and Eve
came weeping forth from Paradise, and the
gato was locked behind thorn, that was the
bitterest home-leaving tho world ever saw.
Adam, tho federal head of his family?
they came not alone, but aro followed by a >
longer and sadder procession than went .
weeping on the way to Babylon; they aro j
followed by a world in tears. Cast out in ,
them?in them condemned and expatriated 1
?wo all defiled tho land wherein we dwelt.
In this senso tho world sinned in Adam,
and defiled the happy bowers of Eden; and
the universality of sin stands firm on the
universality of tho sentence, 'Death has :
passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned."' I
The Treaty of Peace.
Ou the 30th March, at 1 o'clock, the
treaty of pcaco was signed by the plonipo- j
tentiaiies at Paris.
The Condon Post Paris correspondent !
writes: "If we make up accounts, perhaps !
the contract is iu favor of Russia, to whom '
more has been given up than she has re- !
nounccd. Such a result is naturally the
case, because it was never the intention of j
England and Franco to punish Muscovite i
aggression with conquest involving loss of
territory, or permanet occupation."
In the British Parliament, iu answer to
Mr. French, who desired information of the
terms of the treaty Lord Paltnorston said:
The house is perfectly aware from the
(iazetle that yesterday, at 2 o'clock, a treaty
of peace was signed at Paris. The House |
will have seen by the announcement in the |
(.iazetle that it was determined by the Con- !
gross that the particular conditions of the
treaty should not be made public until the j
ratifications hail been exchanged. And ]
that, indeed, is the usual course, for it is a
mark of obvious deference to the powers
who are parties to the treaty. At the same
time, without going into the details of the
conditions, the main substance of which is
already known to all the world, because it .
has been embodied in protocols and pub i
lished iu every country of Europe, I may 1
say at least that my conviction is, that that
treaty of peace will ho deemed satisfactory
by this country and by Europe. Sir, it
will be found that the objects for which I
the war was undertaken have been fully
accomplished. It will lie found that by j
the stipulations of that treaty the integrity :
and independence of the Turkish Kmpire will
be secured, as far as human arrangement
can effect that purpose. It will be found
tbut that treaty is honorable to alt the
powers who ate contracting parties to it,
and I trust that while on the one hand it
has put an end to a war which every fiiond
to humanity must naturally have wished
to see concluded, 011 the other hand it w ill
lay the foundations of a peace which 1
tiust, 60 far at least as rcgaids the circuit!*
| stances out of which the war began, will be
j lasting and enduring. Kir, during the tic1
golialious which have lead to iln^ 1
hin happy to say lliat the same cordiality
which has prevailed among the allies in
carrying on ihe war, has also mainly contributed
to the conclusion of peace; and
that we shall leave oil at the conclusion of
this war in a stricter atul closer alliance
with tlicm, and in a more extended alliance
than existed duriwj the continuance of the
tear; and that, therefore, the future permanence,
not only of a good understanding,
hut of an intimate connection of the great
powers of Knrope, w ill have been cemented
and strengthened by the communications j
that have taken place during the tn-gotia
lions. The ratifications are to be exchang '
ed as soon as they can bo received at Con-1
slanlinople and St. l'elersburg. The limitation
of lime has been four weeks; but 1
should hope that within three weeks the
ratifications w ill be exchanged at Paris.
Tiie Counsel ok A of..?The following,
I which wo cut from a Tennessee paper, is a
portion of a letter from a clergyman in |
: Louisville, Kentucky, whoso name is not
given, written to otic of his Hock:
' 1 am now in my 78th year, and have
' been in the ministerial office a little upward
j of a half century. During the long course j
[ of my ministry, ten years occupying the
i old homestead, and upward of forty in my
present location, and under different pha:
ses of the political atmosphere, I never saw
! it my duly or felt the slightest inclination
j to preach what is generally called a political
sermon. And if hv mi* *v?.r.i <->i
, # - -v "I
inclination from (lie pulpit, 1 ever disturbi
ed or interrupted tlie feelings of a political
bearer, I never knew it. J never entered
j the electioneering canvass for any man,
even my most favorite political friend*..
And when 1 thought proper to olfer my
i sullrage nt tbc polls, it was always done by
a silent vote, in an unobtrusive manner. 1
do not know tliui I ever gained a vote so
cretly or indirectly for any man. Indeed
1 always thought it unbecoming the gntvi!
ty, tho dignity and sacredness of tlio pul- >
I pit, as well as detrimental to tho spiiilual
edification of tlio people, for tho ambassador
of lloaven to turn aside from bis master's
work to ininglo with the excited tnultitudc,
where little else is to bo board but
| wrangling and jangling about men and
measures, without anv addition to. but
most certainly detracting from, the credit
and inilucnco of his clerical character. Of,
all the office* ever held hy man, thai of an
ambassador of Christ is the most dignified
and responsible.
"No oilier p??i nllords a plwoo
Of cijual honor or disgrace."
' IIavk yoti read my last speach I" said
a proay member of Congress to a friend.
I "I hope so," was the satisfactory reply.
[From tlte Pennsylvania Inquirer.] ?
Mount Vernon Association of the Union. li
Mu. Editor : Will you permit us, |r
through tlio columns of your intlueutial (j
paper, to endeavor to remove what we can : jr
hut regard as mistaken impressions arising |
from the publication of a letter addressed i f
by the proprietor of Mount Vernon to a
lady in $omh Carolina, statiug that "Mount! '
Vernon was not for sale." Mr. Washing- i ,j
ton might have reason to bo gratified by q(
an "incident" which so plainly enriuces jn
how deeply tho public heart is now throb- cj
bing at tho bare mention of Washington,
and tho "sacred spot" where he reposes, I nj
hut for tho very personal nature of many 1
editoiial strictures upon liimsJf.
You aro aware, Mr. Editor, that in com- ^
mon parlance, tho announcement that nny
thing is for salo, conveys the idea at once 1 ^
that it is ollbred for saic; i. e., placed in tho ; ^
market by its possessor. It is well known |n
that Mr. Washington has never done this. Gj
i cl no is uoouca wiiii icuer- 01 every i 0(
description, from tho personally insulting [ t^
to the idly curious, who make the inquiry t,.]
in refereuce to Mount Vernon; and it does { ?
not seem to us, therefore, so very surpri- f
sing that ho should have adopted the form ! y
of replying by a curt statement of a fact,
which, if it does no more, will at least pre- yj
vent a repetition of tho "favor!" Wo say |
a statement of a fact, for Mount Vernon I ^
has never been put up for sale! Mr. W. is ;
but the recipient of otTeis to purchase. It | g,
was to tho conditional consideration of ] ^
one of these "offers" that the Mount Ver- j w
non Association of tho Union owes its ex- j R|
istence! As wo have been so intimately |
connected with tho origin of this enterprise, . r)
we lake this occasion to exjrress our sincere jy
regret, if any action of ours?einana- n.
ling from deep appreciation of, nnd revcr '
enco for, the character and memory of his ' rj|
illustrious ancestor?should have led to any M
public defamation or private annoyance to
Mr. Washington himself.
As tho "Ladies' Mount Vernon Associa- '
lion of the Union" is now exciting so much jj
interest, from the fact of having recently
been granted an act of incorporation by tho U|
General Assembly of Virginia, and recoiv- j C|
ing tlio warm and generous advocacy of an !
Everett?the great and good patriot, who
is emphatically tho Washington of our > |((
day?wc feel it due to the public, as well as yj
the Association, to correct any misappre- ni
hensions in reference to its past and pros- j l|<
ent position, to Mr. Washington and to the ! jj
country. j J
As Mr. \\ ., when lie declined?because 1
not willing to accept tho sacrifices of his
patriotic countrywomen, to accede to a
proposition mode by the Association, in |(|
September, 1854, to purchase Mount Ver- )(|
non?vol expressed a willingness to dispose ol
of it to Congress or Virginia, in order to j(
secure it in future from llie contingencies
I ? f. . ? I l>
?rt,.u ?c:hj
were confident that iiuliviihi.il generosity t|
could procure for it :i future inure gratify- i lc
ing to patriotic pride and a fleet ion i ?
than any which could result from the use f(|
of public funds in our Kepttblican Govern- fc
inent. t.We
appealed to Virginia to purchase jy
from Mr. W., and hy accepting herseK the tj
"sacrifices"'?no! the "heart offerings" which ' jt]
the 1 laughters of Washington would feel a(
it a privilege to be allowed to bestow?cna- tt
hie them yet to accomplish all that love ,)(
for his memory had suggested.
This appeal has beon responded to nohlv?with
a promptness and a patriotism Ul
which should enshrine tire Virginia Gener- lc
al Assembly of '.">0 in the heart of woman!
It lias been responded to in a manner which, ,r|
while there is no departuic from Mr. Wash- jj
ington's expressed condition, viz., convey- M
ing the property in "trn-.t" deed to the j|(
State, yet gives tho Association nil a Slate p.
Constitution permits, with this restriction!
Our appeal spoke only of a trust deed ar- t
raiigcment tor tho property. Mr. W. re*
quired it, and therefore Gov. Johnston in j(
presenting the subject for the considera- p,
lion of tho Assembly, confined himself to w
this pri>posnl; but to the honor of tho Old
Dominion be it recorded, that when he afterwards
made an application to Mr. Lang
(lit, the chairman of the Mount Vernon
Committee, appointed to report on this por- j
lion of the Governor's message, to include ^
an "act of incorporation" for tho A-socia- , (j
lion, with an enlarged patriotism which
should endear his name to his countrymen,
it was at once acceded to, mid on the 17.It ^
of March the "Mount Vernon bill" passed
t..ut, 1.1 ? l. i -?
will nvinc^ in iv?^ iiiiiii i% 11 iiuur. mill m0<
most by acclamation! I\v this ncl the Astrembly
authorized the Governor lo contract
with Sir. Washington for Mount Vernon,
in the mannor in which Mr. W. hn<) consented
to dispose of it, i. e. a trust deed to j '
the State. The additional net of charter- ] j
ing the Mount Vernon Association does net
make the latter a party to nuy transaction ^
in wliich Mr. \V. is to be concerned ? it is
purely one between the State of Virginia j
nnd the Association. We place beforo you j.
Mr. Washington's reply to Gov.J., when
addressed on the subject:
"Moi st Vkiinon, June 18, 1855. 0I
"Sit: Vour letter of June 15th has been j?
received, in which you mention your dc \|
sign of again recommending to the Lcgida- (l|
lure of Virginia the piopriely of acquiring 5f
for the Stale that portion of M >unt Ver- '
rron where Gen. Washington formerly re ,
sided, and on which his remains aro now
i n
intorred; and you request to know from me
on what terms the State can obtain the ^
property. I
- , c
"Should the State of \ irginiu desire to Ci
purchase Mount Vernon, she can obtain rc
"200 acres of it, emhiacirg the tomb of
Washington, mansion, garden#, grounds, f,,
dtc., on the following terms, viz: ((
"I. The remains of such members of the j ot
Washington family as now arc, or may bo rc
hereafter, interred in or around the present m
family vault, shall never bo removed nor IV
disturbed; ami for the purposes of a family fa
burying ground, the undersigned, John A. i si
Washington, and his heirs,shall retain the i ti
right of enclosing and improving one linlfl la
aero of land, including the vault at present I cl
sod, with free mid easy access to it at all
mes. In this burying ground, members
F the Waslwngton family, and no one else,
lay bo interred, and the State, asitscustoian,
shall be pledged to preserve it from
ijury or desecration.
"II. The Stalo shall never alienate the
e simple nor any lesser estate in the
hole, nor any part of the property.
"III. Upon receiving a proper title for
.A *1.1 Ui.s. -1 II Aaa/S
i*> iiiu omit; mi.'iii pay me exuu,
90 in cash, or at tlio option of llio Stale
i4Virginf?i six percent, coupon stock, prinpal
and interest to bo paid in the lime
id manner in which such slock has usuly
been made payable by the State of late
aars. ' 1
"It has sometimes been suggested that
19 State might dosire to purchase a lar*
ar tract of laud, in order to establish a
lodel farm nud agricultural school here.
Iiould such be the case, about 500 acres
iorc of adjacent land on this estate can bo
itnined at ? 100,000, to bo paid in cash
Stato stock, as above, at the option of
io Slate.
[ am, sir, with tho utmost respect, your
jedient servant, John A. Washington.
LI is Excellency Jos. Johnson, Governor of
irginia."
We call your attention to the fact that
r. W. does not assume to instruct Virmia
as to the manner in which she shall
ipply her treasury with the funds to pay
r Mount Vernon; for this is a matter
lales usually arrange for themselves,
trough their accredited Representatives, to
hose judgment and discretion such acts
o left. The representatives for Virginia
ive in this case?from sentiment and patotisin?decided
that tho money otiered
oiu love to Washington's memory is more
>propriate to be used in hollowing his
line and grave than any which could bo
lised by taxation! Mr. Washington's per>nal
sentiments havo prevented his taking
lis view of it himself, and he may even
refer that the Mother Slate should have
rincided with him, and have pursued a
liferent course from the one which the Asinbly,
because of the beauty of such triblo
to our Country's Father, and the inllulce
it will exert in endearing his memory
id principles to his children, have chosen,
ut as his action is solely with Virginia in
ar sovereign capacity, and the disposal of
[ount Vernon to her under the roquireleuts
of the reaent act neither involves
apaituic from consistency nor his ow n conlions,
viz: a trust deed of property, Ac.,
0.
Wo aro convince J, from tlio dignified
nirse Mr. Washington has hitherto purled
in this matter, that when asked to
lace tire "precious spot" it has been his
rivilege to possess under the safe and sol1111
protection of the mother Stn to, ho will
j so with entire confi'denco in her integri
as to the trust?and with too much conderation
for her expressed wishes, as to
io method by w hich she desires and hopes
see it improved with a magnificence
ortliy of its world vride fame?to refuse!
r it is she, not iie, who accepts the "ofrings"
of the children of the common
alher of North, South, East, West?that
uni the remotest borders of our Union
icir children may have the privilege of
ivesling too milch of money and affection
round those "sacred ashes" for them not
? become hereafter a "bond of love and
sace too holy, too powerful, to he sever1?until
liberty is uncared for?justice
rgolten?virtue tsilorcd and gratitude
ufeli! A talisman forever agains tfin:rna!
strife and?aggression !!
It could not but add to Mr Washington's
ratification to find the name ho bears and
re tomb of his ancestor fulfilling so holy,
? gloiioiis a mission!! Woman is the
onorcd agent in this great work; but thy
itriotic men of onr country indicate by
icir acts their conviction of the nppropri
oness of such agency. Surely, when (in
io language of another) Edward Everett
avotes his splendid talents to the cause,
rere is not n man in tlio Union who
ouhl refuse his voice and his learning to
lis enterprise!
As this enterprise commenced, and was
rug confined to the South, editor- in other
iclions, unfamiliar with its past history,
avy been led into mistakes, which wei.iLe
lis opportunity to correct on account of
icir injurious influences, viz: "that there
0 three distinct and independently organed
associations?all laboring zelaotuly,
owover, for tho same end?purchase of
ount Vernon;" also, "that Virginia start1
the Mount Vernon As-ociation of the
nion," which tin- cavilling seize upon to
rrn to her and our disadvantage, by asking
that she called on other States to
-I her in purchasing property to become
>rs in trust!" The "Central Committee"
rving been located in flicbmond (and
>mpo?ed principally of Virginians) and
to "Circular to the Daughters of Washgton,"
issuing from thence, has doubtless
d to this "aspersion;" one from which wo
el it duo to tho Old Dominion, and her
sculiuily delicate position in this matter, to
lieve her! So far from such a "proposal"
natialing from her, or the enterprise"
ing stinted by her, both from regard for
ount Vernon, were done fur her, and forinately
(as it seem*) she only joined it
une months after it* commencement, and
. ing repeatedly called upon to do so!
We will in a few wools sketch "past
cts" for that portion of the public yet
[uoranl of them. An appeal to the "la*
ies ol the South" was issued from South
arolina by t!ie Southern matrons, in Do inhcr,
1853. Isolated interest and action
suited in Alabama, (Georgia and South
arolina. Finding that interest was dying
r want of concerted action, and some one
i direct the movement, failinir to draw out
.hers moro competent to assume auch vast
isponsibilitiea, unwilling tliwt every moveicnt
tv. honor him who is sai<] to he the
rst in the heaits of his countrymen should
,il for lack of self-sncrifici.ig patriotism,
10 camo to tho "rescue," issued "regulnons"
in Apiil, 1854,hv which the "patriotic
ilwrcrs" were united, and became a "nueus"
mound which proselytes could rally!
I Tho "acorn" ha? grown into a tree," whose
branches may, in time, extend from the
; Atlantic to the golden shores of the Pacific!
Tho "enterprise" was at first only designed
to be a Southern one, but overtures from
Northern patriots caused it to bo made national,
in May, iao5, under tho name of
. the "Ladies' Mount Vernon Association of
' tho Union." J Julius of direction becoming
too arduous, a Central Committee was
formed to aid tbe management of jl, under
\Y1111*11 ?ir<? l-Clllt., I **""
( ... V VVIUMHklWO, ^tVMUUinUUIIV
I again under these,) for the |>erfornj.*uicc of
local duties arising from the collection of
| moneys, Arc.
Tlieso threo (8) departments have no
doubt led to the impression, in soinu
places, that there were thrco independent
' Mount Vernon associations. There is but
, one, the Mount Vernon Association of the
, Union, for which a "charier" has been obtained,
which charter will be accepted upon
the completion of certain necessary and legal
arrangements. Members representing
1 other "sections" will be added to the Central
(Jommitlco, as they embrace the cause.
| l'atrons desirous of information, or of giving
their time and labor, as well as means
to this inspiring work, can address Miss M.
I L.Lawson, 634 Spruce street, Philadelphia,
| Corresponding Secretary of S. M., or Mrs.
Win. F. Kitchic, kichmonJ, Va., first Vice
President of Central Committee. All we
need now for the speedy uccomplishmeut of
purposes becoming dear to the American
heart is zealous patriots to ask for gold!
"A grateful nation with its wcultli untvl.l,
Will pour its lavish sums, ;m once j*>tired bl-rod,
To gain our freedom on this jarred soil,
Then, over sacred to the patriot's bier,
We'll hold the Mecca which we all revere."
A Sootukbn Matron,
Pres't of M. V. Asso'n of the Union.
Philadelphia, April 10, 1856.
Incident at llie Execution of Louis XVI.
In that charming book, "The Irish Abroad
and at Home," wo tind the following
I interesting and novel circumstance related
; "respecting the execution of the unhappy
' Louis XVI.":
"1 spoke to the Abbe Kearney more
tbau once, llis replies were brief, and
, were accompanied by evidence that the
subject caused hiiu much pain. The following
simple narrative is all that I could
obtain from him; 1 arrived, said be, iu
the Place do la Revolution before the King,
: and managed to reach the scntfold just as
tbe carriage in which he sat, with the
' Abbe Bdgewortli and two gendarmes, appoached
trom the Kuo Koyale. The scaffold
was so situated as to provide for the
, royal sutlcrer a pang to which less distinguished
victims were insensible. It stood
between the pedestal, on which had been
erected the statue of Louis XV., and the
issue from the garden of tbe Tuileries,
called the Point Tournaut. Midway between
these two |H>iuta a hideous toi dis
ant statue of Liberty raised her Gorgon
head. This situation was chosen in or,U?
to realize a conception characteristic of the
epoch, and the fraulic heads who figured
! in it. It insured that the unhappy persons,
: on being placed on tho bascule of tire
i guillotine, should, in their descent from
tho perpendicular to the horizontal, when
pushed home to receive the fatal stroke,
make an obeisance to the goddess. For
the King this position of the guillotine was
therefore peculiarly painful. The I'ulace
. of the Tuileries was in full view, nnd upon
it his last glance in this world must have
' rested.
| '-Scarcely had the King descended from
his coach, when Camson, the executioner,
and his aids, approached him to make his
'toilette,' as the preparation of th victim
for death was termed. Ho had a large
head of hair confined by a ribbon, as Was
I the fashion of the day: Upon this Samson
seized with one hand, brandishing a pair
ot huge scissors in tho other. The King,
whose hands were yet free, op|>osed the
attempt of Samson to cut oil' Ids hair: a
precaution necessary, however, to insure the
operation of the axe. Tho executioner's as
siatants rushed upon him. Ho struggled
with them violently and long, but was at
length overcome and bound llis hair was
cut oft in a mass and thrown upon the
ground. It was picked up by an English*
| man, w ho was in front of the scaffold, nnd
who put it in his pocket, to the scandal of
1 the sum culottes, who like him were in the
front rank. As we never heard more aabout
it, we suppose 'he unfortunate Any
litis was murdered. When the hustle
occasioned by this incident was over, the
King ascended the scaffold. Is it not true,
said I, that the Abbe Edgcworth uttered,
as tho King was mounting the short flight
{ of steps leading to the scaffold, those sublime
words of encouragement: 'Fils Je
Saint Louis, tnonlez au del* No, he rei
plied; but while the King was struggling
with tho executioner nnd his men, ns 1
have just described, the Abbe Edgeworth
recommended resignation to bim, ashling
(and these words suggested possibly the
phrase nsciibed to him) : 'Vou have only
one sacrifice more to mako in this iifo before
\ou enjoy life eternal?submit toil.'''
All the world in Texas knows Old King,
as he is called, a sort of Onnicl Lambert of
a man, weighing bis 360 lbs., full of jokes
and hospitality, lenowned for his "Seditions"
in his new house, and whose only trouble
in tho money line is his "costive" gals, as
he terms them. He onco owed a man a
just debt which ho refused to pay, when
due, in silver, hut he had made his credi
lor a tender of a hank bill, which was refused?suit
bronchi, judgment obtained,
and property levied on. llcar him in his
own "GoverentiaC' langua<jt: "Now, Squire,
; !?pose you owed a man a jist debt, and was
to make him a tender of a blank bill, which
he refuses to accept, and ho fetches suit and
gits n judgment, and the Sheriff was to level
a writ of execration on your truck, what
would you do in skh a ease?'' "Don't
know, colonel," said tho squire, "it would
depend on eircumstances." "Well," replies
; old King, "I'll tell you what I'll do if thai
varmiut sells my truck: d n me if 1 don't
I make a sacrament of him."
A Case for General Sympathy.
In llie House of Representatives the following
affecting subject was brought forward.
Wo copy from the condensed report
of the Washington Union.
Mr. Oliver, of New York, from the Committee
on Iuvalid Pensions, reported a bill
! for the relief of Mary ?. Tillman; which
was rend twice.
Mr; It rooks, of South Carolina, asked
1 the attention of the House to a few remarks
which he wished to make in behalf
of the bill. The bill was the unanimous
report of the committee to which was referred
the petition of Mrs. Tillmen ? w:.i
| ow lady of his district* When a requisij
tion was made upon South Carolina for
services in the Mexican war, she gave to
1 her country every member of her family
capablo of bearing arms, her husband and
threcsotis. All went, but not one returned
to dry a mother's tears, and gladden a
mother's heart with the gallantry of Iter
soldier boys. The bones of one uow lie at
Saltillo, another fell at Jalapa, another lay
buried at the castle walls of Perote, and the
last found the close of his earthly career
and the goal of his ambition at the capital
! of Mexico, By a strange fatality, the only
i remaining sou, a boy too youtig to provide
for the support of the family in the absence of
iiis father and elder brothers, by an acciiie ilal
fall from bis horse Injured his spiue, and
was now a paralytic for life. This lady
was thus left in the decline of her age with
a helpless child and a little daughter, entirely
dependent upon her exertions for
their and her own support, and the bill
proposed to give ber a pension of $8 month;
This was a narrative of hor petition, and
on it sho based the hope that her country
I would remember her sacrifices and reward
j hor services. By the laws of society a pa:
rent was entitled to the services of a child
' while n minor, and they who were tho representatives
of the country, and had been
benefitted by the services of the husband
, and sons of this lady, ought not to forget
what was due to her.
It was his misfortune to be a witness of the
facts be had stated. One of her sons enlisted
in tho Alabama regiment, and the remaining
sons were mustered into the service of
the United States in a company tinder his
own command, and it was but the pure reflection
of the friendship which that father
and those boys bore to him that constrained
liiin to do fdr their mother what she . .
would not do for herself. She appealed
not to their charity, but to their magnanimity;
and he appealed to both. He asked
them to put broad in the mouth of the
widow and the fatherless. She appeared
before them with the. confideuco and the
I dignity of the mother of this modern Grac.
chi, and demanded that her name should
i be recorded on the slntntes of her eounirr?
7 ?/ *
and ho Appealed to the generosity and the
noble instincts of the members to come forward
ill her aid;
Mr. Mace, of Indiann, moved to amend
, the bill by striking out $8 nnd inserting
$20.
Mr. Oidding*,. of Ohio, took occasion td
: condemn the Mexican war generally; although
his feelings would not allow him
to oppose the bill.
The question was taken, and the amendment
was agreed to.
The bill as amended was the read a third
, litnc and passed.
Tiik Kesukrection Flower.?In itsaci
count of the Teceut Spring Exhibition of
the Brooklyn Horticultural Society, the
New York Tribune says:
' We must notice one very remarkable
j curiosity known as the resurrection Flower..
This tlower, or rather plant, resembles in ila
normal state a dried poppy-head, with the
stem attached. Upon being immersed a
moment or two in a glass of water, and set
upright in the neck of a small vial, in ft
few moments the upper petals began td
burst open gradually, yet visibly to the eye;
j they continued to expand until, throwing
: themselves back in equidistant order, there
\ was presented a beautifully radiated starry
flower, somewhat resembling both the passion
tlower and the sun flower, and yet
more ilmn T!.~ ?
g ?t...u w??uvi ? X UO UMl'JHiing
still continue J until tlie (totals l?ent backward
over what might by termed the base,
; of the flower, presenting iir a bold relief
in its centre its rosette of Che in st exquisite
form and ornamentation, and thus assuming
a new charm, entirely eclipsing what,a
moment before, see rated h.s absolute perfection.
After remaining open mr hour or
more, the moisture gradunliy dissipates itself,
and lln> fibres of tire flower contract as
gradually aS they expanded, and it re assumes
its original appearance, ready to bar
unfolded again by the same simple process
I ?tho number of times seeming to be ou!y
limited by the will of the |>osse**or.
Dr. Deck, who brought this speci"teii'
, from I'pper Egypt, suggests that the flow-*
| er i? a native of the llolv Land, and is V
' typo or variety ot the long lost Hose of
Jericho, called also tho "Hose of Sharon/*
and tho "Star of Bethlehem," anj highly
venerated for its rarity and peculiar properties
by the pilgrims nnd Crusader.*; and
eagerly sought afier by them as a pricelesa
emblem of their zeal and-pilgrimage, andworn
on their escotcheoti* in a similar
manner as tho scollop shell and palm,
branch.
St. PauI was dimutivo in stature, and his'
bodv kv 1J:
^ ^ ovimu minuiiora v/l um*
tortion, which may havo provoked the con- tempt
uoux expression of his enemies. His
heard was long and thin, and his head was
buld. The characteristics of his face were
a transparent complexion, which visibly
betrayed the quick changes of his feelings;
a bright gray eye, under thickly overhanging
eyebrows; a cheerful and winning expression
of countenance, which invited the
approach and inspired the confidence of
strangers. It would be natural to infer,
fromnis continued journeys and manual
| labor, that he was possessed of great
strength of constitution; but this is by ao1
roeena certain for man o{ delicate heeitb
1 have gone through the grantcm exertion