The Carolina Spartan. (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, May 01, 1856, Image 2
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~THE COWPENS MONUMENT.
Our artist, whoso proficiency iu wood
engraving hardly equals the skill displayed
in the illustrations in Harper's Magazine,
has prepared for us the following repL
reseotation of dhe Monument erected on '
I the Cowpens Battle Ground, on Tuesday, I
I '22d instant, by llio Washington Light In- f
fantry of Charleston. Lmskilful us it is,
it will afford an idea of how this nohlo tribute
to bravo men looks, and that is all a
bettor could do.
m Congressional Burial Ground.
r A. correspondent of the Pennsylvania Inquirer
lately paid a visit to this city of the
. dead at Washington, and furnishes brief
liinniiigs of the most prominent monuments
erected to perpetuate the memory of public
incn w ho have depar ted from among the I
living. We select from this catalogue the ,
following as possessing the most general
interest.
The Congressional Burial Ground at
Washington does not compare favorably
with the cemeteries of note in various parts
of the country. It lies near the Eastern
Brandt of the Potomac* rather more than
a mile east of the Capitol, and contains
about ten acres of giouud. It dates back
to the year 1807. Its surface is conveniently
arranged for burial purposes, but it
presents none of that diversity of hill and
dale, and variegate I scenery, which render
Mount Auburn and Greenwood so attrac.
tive. Its chief merit is its sequestered location,
reudering any future disturbance of
its sleeping tenants improbable.
The fitst objects that attract the eyo of a
Tisilor, are lire small plain cenotaphs erected
in memory of those members of Congress
who have died at Washington. These
are arranged in double rows, and number
one hundred and twenty eight in all. In
some instances the graves beneath lltcui
are teuautluss, as in the cases of llenry
I Clay, John Quincy Adams, and others, but
^ most of them have not been disturbed since
the remains of the great men of the nation
were deposited thoie. The inscriptions on
these cenotaphs are uniform, and give simply
the names of the dead, lite Stales from
k which they came, and the dates of their
, deaths.
p El bridge Gerry, formerly Vice President,
who died in 1814, til the aire of 70. while
on Iiia way to llie Capitol, to take hi* scat
as President of the Senate, has a lickly or
namenLed mouuinent, in the old stylo,
which was erected by order of Congress.
Ho realized his own memorable words,
which constituto the epitaph engraved on
his tomb, and were as follows: "it is the
duty of every citizen, though ho may huvo
but flue day to live, to devote that day to
the good of his country."
Near by is another, erected to the memory
of Georgo Clinton, also once Vice President.
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-ina-tadia, a Choctaw chief, who
died at Washington in 1824, has a plain
granite cenotaph, erected by bis brother
chiefs.
The celebrated occentric Lorenzo How is
aid to have been buried here, hut I am unable
to find any clue to his resting place.
The remains of Ilenry Stophen Fox,
nephew of the celebrated Charles James
Fox, and for tnany years liritish Minister
to this Government, are enclosed in a plain
massive marble sarcophagus, near to the
Congressional cenotaphs.
The monument erected to the memory
of Maior General Alnxmulur Mnmiml. hhh.
siats of a beautiful marble shaft, with appropriate
military emblems, surmounted by
a helmet with tho vizor down. The epitaph
is from tho General Orders of the War
Department, and is most expressive. It
reads as follows: "It were but a small tribute
to his memory to say, that in youth
and manhood he served his country in tho
profoKsaiun in which he died, during a period
of more than forty years, without stain
or blemish upon his escutcheon."
A plain L it gtivcciu! giuuno rutin. iiiais.s
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the rosting place of Abel Parkor, Upshur,
formerly Secretary of the Navy, and afterwards
of State, and also of Capt. Beverly
Kcnnon, of the Navy, who wero killed on
the 28lh of February, 1844, by the bursting
of thogreat cannon on board tho Princeton.
Thoy were warm friends in lifo, and
wero 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 tinest, perhaps tho most attractive,
monument here is the ono erected
to William Wirt. It is constructed of white
inntlde, and has a door of entrance in tho
massive base, with a graceful shaft above.
Tkero is very little ornamental work about
it, and but few inscriptions.
Commodore Charles W. Cauncey, who
died in Mexico in 1847, has a light and
graceful marble shaf', with appropiato emblems
aud inscriptions.
One of the handsomest in tho ground is
a tall spiro of white marble, slender nnj
tapering, like Cleopatra's needle, rising
over tho gravo of tho Into John W. Maury,
of this District, who died only about n year
ago. Tho inscription is as follows: "llis
character was blended with kll that can elovale
or adorn, and his lifo was a bright
example of the nobility and power of vir
tue."
One of the prettiest designs is an inverted
cannon, in marble, stauding on three
cannon balls, (also of marble) erected to the
memory of Lieut. John T. McLaughlin,
late of the U. S. Navy. Another to tho
memory of Lieut. George Mifflin Bache, of
the Coast Survey, and the officers and crow
who perished with him in the brig Washington,
which was lost in the Gulf stream
in 1840, represents the broken mast of a
vessel, and tho sculptor has beautifully itni
tated the splintering of the timber.
lu a retired spot a small space is entirely
surrounded by a high brick wall, tnucli dilapidated,
and showing that no care lias
been bestowed upon it for years. Tliero is
no mound inside, and a few rose bushes
have been suffered to grow wild and untrimined
in either comer. Just against one
side of the wall, as if carelessly thrown
down leans a small square slab of marble,
on the upper portion of which is engraved,
in capital letters, the single word "Gentle."
Beneath this are the following lines:
"Tile cup of life just t<> lii? li|?s lie pressed ^
Found the draught hitler and declined the rest."
This is certainly a strange and weird record,
but of what, and whom? 1 could
have mused for hours besids this singular
sepulchre, and fancy would have recreated
many a romantic history, but speculation*
wore in vain, and the shades of evening
warned me that I must leave the quiet and
peaceful habitations of the dead.
Home-Leavings.
In addition to the extract given last
I week from the sermon of Dr. liullirie, of
Scotland, wo pioscnt the following touching
I description of the departure of our tiist pa
| tents from Paradise ill connection with the
, departure of the Israelites from JuJca:
"If our bosom burns with any patriotic
i lire, if we have the common aUcclions of
' men for family and friends, it is impossible
to look with insensibility at that bleeding
fragment of a nation gathered for the
I march to Babylon, amid the blackened and
i blood stained ruins of their capital. What
! a on uriiful company! The sick, the bed1
rid, the blind, old men tottering forth on
| the stall' of age, and plucking their gray
, beards with grief; the skeleton infant
! hanging 011 a breast that famine and sorrow
have dried; mothers with torror-stiick[
cn children clinging to their sides, or, worse
still, with gentle daughters imploring their
protection from those inde and rutliaii soldiers;
a few gallant men, the survivors of
the flight, wasted by famine, bleedingfraiii
i uuhaiidaged wounds, their arms bound, and
; burning tears streaming down their cheeks,
! as they looked on wives and daughters
j shrieking and helpless in the arms of bru;
tal passion; how they strain at their bonds,
j and bitterly envy their more fortunate
j companions who lay in the bloody breach,
I nor had survived to seo the horrors of that
! day! The piety that abhors the sins of
this people is not incompatible with the
pity that sympathizes with their sorrows;
and we could sit down and weep with Jo
remiah, as soatcd 011 a broken pillar of the
temple, desolation around him, and 110
sound in his ear but the long wild wail of
the captive band, he wrung his hands,
raised them to heaven, and cried, 4Oh that
my head were waters, and mine eyes a
fountain of tears, that I might weep day
and night for the slain of the daughter of
my people!'
1 11 riiarrt wna fi
.. ..V/..V.C, III
I which wo feel a nearer intorc. t. I do nu;,
refer to that eventful morning when some
of as left a father's house; ami the gates of
that sanctuary opened, amid tears and fears
and many a kind farewell?and when
watched by a father's eye, and followed by
j a mother's prayers, we pushed out our
bark on the swell of life's treacherous sea.
The turning time of many a young man's
history?the crisis of his destiny?that day
may have exerted an influence us |>ermaj
nent on our fate as its impression remains
indelible 011 our memory. I refer to a
| home leaving of far older date; to one, not
of personal, nor of national, but of universal
interest. My eye is turned back 011 the
day when our first parents, who hud fallen
| into sin and forfeited their inheritance,
were expelled from man's fust home. And,
recollecting tho reluctance with which I
have seen a heart hrokeu mother make up
j her mind to disown the prodigal, and drive
him from her door?knowing, when with
i slow and trembling hand nho had barred
' him out, how it seemed to her as if in that
1 horrid sound she had heard the door of
j heaven bolted against him, nnd feeling
I how much provocation wo ourselves could
I ... IT.. _ I I 1: 1 ' 1 '
i auiiQi, cic i\ weening neari vyouiu consent
, to turn n child out upon tho open street*,
I and believing also that our Father in
i heaven is kinder than the kindest, and bet
iRQI
to Southern
SPARTANBUl
tcr tlinii ihe best of us, ntul that the fondoat,
fullest heart is to his but ns the rocky
pool?the lodge of some tiny croature?to
the great ocean which has tilled it with a
wave,- no demonstration of (tod's abhor
rence of sin (always excepting the cross of .
Calvary) comes so impressively to our
hearts as his expulsion of our unhappy !
parents from his own blissful presence anil
their sweet homo in Eden. When with
slow and lingering steps Adaui and Eve
camo weeping forth from Paradise, and the 1
gate was locked behind thorn, that was tbo j
bitterest homo-leaving tho world ever saw.
Adam, the federal bond of his family?
! they camo not alone, hut aro followed by a !
longer and sadder procession than went
weeping on tho way to ltabylon; they aro (
followed by a world in tears. Cast out in
, them?in them condemned and expatriated 1
| ?wo all defiled tho land wherein we dwelt. 1
In this sense tho world sinned in Adaiu, '
and defiled tho happy bowers of Eden; and 1
the universality of sin stands firm on tho ! '
universality of tho serttence, 'Death has j
passed upon all men, for that all have 1
sinned.'"
The Treaty of Peace. j'
On the 30th March, at 1 o'clock, the ,
treaty of peace was signed by tho plonipo- ! i
tentiaries at Paris. : 1
The Condon Post Paris correspondent j
writes: "If we make up accounts, perhaps !
tho contract is iu favor of Russia, to whom [
more has been given up than sho has rc- j 1
nounccd. Such a result is naturally tho (
case, becnuso it was never tho intention of; !
England and Franco to punish Muscovite i 1
aggression with conquest involving loss of 1
territory, or permanet occupation."
In tho British Parliament, in answer to (
*t_ C I - ?I. ! ?!-< - ?
insinuation iroin (he pulpit, I ever disturbi
ed or interrupted the feelings of a political
bearer, I never knew it. I never entered
tho electioneering cjtnvu&s for any man,
even my most favorite political friends.
And when 1 thought proper to offer my
I suffrage at the polls, it was always done by
a silent vote, in an unobtrusive manner, i
do not know that I ever gained a vote so
j cretly or indirectly for any man. Indeed
1 always thought it unbecoming tho gravi!
ty, tho dignity and sacred nass of the pul- i
pit, as well as detrimental to the spiiilual
' edification of tho people, for tho ambassador
of Heaven to turn aaido front bis master's
work to mingle with tho excited multitude,
where litllo else is to ho heard but
i wrangling and jangling about men nml
measures, without any addiliou to, but
most certainly detracting from, the credit
and inlluonco of his clerical character. Of
all the offices ever held by man, that of an
ambassador of Christ is the most dignified
and responsible.
"No other p<>st a fiords .1 place
Of C(|uni honor or ding rare."
"IIavk ymt read my last spcach?" said
a proay member of Congress to a friend.
1 *1 nope so,' was U10 satisfactory reply. i
?ur. i roiK-u, wuouesireu liiiorinaitou oi llio <
terms of tlio treaty Lord Palmorston !?aid: i
The house is perfectly aware from tiro 1
Gazette that yesterday, at 2 o'clock, a treaty j
of peace was signed at Paris. The House |
will have seen by tho announcement in the j !
Gazette that it was determined by tho (Jon- J 1
gross that the particular conditions of tho ; '
treaty should not be made public until the j j
ratifications had been exchanged. And j 1
that, indeed, is the usual course, for it is a ]
mark of obvious deference to the powers 1
who arc parties to the treaty. At the same *
time, without going into tho details of the I '
conditions, the main substance of which is . '
already known to all the world, because it 4
has been embodied in protocols and pub : 4
lished in every country of Europe, I may I
say at least that my conviction is, that that 1
treaty of peace will he deemed satisfactory i 1
bv lit is country and by Europe. Sir, it ' 1
will be found that the objects for which I '
I the war was undertaken have been fully 1
accomplished. It will be found that by | 1
the stipulations of that treaty the integrity |
and independence of the Turkish Empire will 1
be fccured, as far as human arrangement
can effect that purpose. It will bo found '
that that treaty is honorable to all the '
i * i
powers who are contracting parties to it,
and 1 trust that while on the one band it 4
has put nil end to a war which every friend 1
to humanity must naturally have wished
to see concluded, on the other hand it will 1
lay the foundations of a peace which 1
tlllsif CA f-?r of -
....... ww .... ... .1.1.-1 iuj-.uu.i uic circumstances
out of which the war began, w;ll he
lasting and enduring. Sir, during the negotiations
which have lead to this pence, 1 1
hin happy to say that the same cordiality
which has prevailed among the allies in
carrying on ^he war, has also mainly contributed
to the conclusion of peace; and 1
that we shall leave oil at the conclusion of
this war in a stricter and closer alliance
with litem, and in a more ex leaded alliance
than existed during 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 Kurope, will have been cemented
and strengthened by the communications
that have taken place during the negotiations.
The ratifications are to he exchanged
as soon as they can he received at Constantinople
and St. Petersburg, 'l ire limitation
of time lias been four w eeks; hut 1
| should hope that within three weeks the
I ratifications w ill be exchanged at Paris.
Tiie Counsel ok Age.?The following,
which we cut from a Tennessee paper, is a
portion of a letter fiom a clergyman in j
Louisville, Kentucky, whoso name is not
given, w ritten to one of his (lock:
' J am now in my 78th year, and have
been in the ministerial olliee a little upward
, of a half century. During the long course 1
. of my ministry, ten years occupying the
i old homestead, and upward of forty in my
, present location, and under different phnl
ses of the political atmosphere, I never saw
| it inv duty or f?-lt the slightest "iclination
; to preach what is generally called a political
sermon. And if by one word, or even
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Ctig!)ts, Politic, 3
RG, S. C., THURg;
[From tlio Pennsylvania Inquirer.]
Mount Vernon Association of the Union.
Mu. Editor : Will you permit uh,
through the columns of your influential
paper, to endeavor to remove what wo can
hut regard as mistaken impressions arising
from tho publication of a letter addressed
by the proprietor of Mount Vernon to a
lady in South Carolina, statiug that "Mount
Vernon was not for sale." Mr. Washington
might have reason to bo gratified by
im "incident" which so plainly envitices
how deeply tho public heart is now throbbing
at tho bare mention of Washington,
!ind the "sacred spot" where he reposes,
but for the very personal nature of many
editorial strictures upon himself.
You are aware, Mr. Editor, that in common
parlance, tho announcement that any
thing is for salo, conveys the idea at once
that it is offered for sale; i. e., placed in tho
market by its possessor. It is well known
that Mr. Washington has never done this.
Yet ho is Hooded with letter-- of every
description, from tho personally insulting
lo the idly curious, who make the inquiry,
in refereuce to Mount Vernon; and it does
not seeui to us, therefore, so very stirpii>ing
that he should have adopted the form
>f replying by a curt statement of a fact,
which, if it does no more, will at least prevent
a repetition of tho "favor!" We say
\ statement of a fact, for Mount Vernon
las never been put up for sale! Mr. W. is
>ut tiic recipient of otFois to purchase. It
was to the conditional consideration of
>uo of these "offers" that the Mount Verioii
Association of the Union owes its exstencc!
As we have been so intimately
ronncctcd with the origin of this enterprise,
we take this occasion to express our sincere
egret, if any action of ours?emanaing
from deep appreciation of, and rever
Mice for, the character and memory of his
llustrious ancestor?should have led to any
tublic defamation or private annoyance to
Mr. Washington himself.
As tho "Ladies' Mount Vernon Associa.ion
of the Union" is now exciting so much
ntercst, from the fact of having recently
>een granted an act of incorporation by tho
General Assembly of Virginia, and recoivng
tho warm and generous advocacy of an
Everett?the great and good patriot, who
s emphatically the Washington of our
Jay?we feel it due lo the public, as well as
:he Association, to correct any misapprehensions
in refereneo to its past and present
Position, to Mr. Washington and to lliu
I - ^ ? |'IV?^II?
:ouiitry.
As .Mr. W., when lie declined?because
not willing to accept the sacrifices of his
patriotic countrywomen, to accede to a
proposition made by the Association, in
September, 1854, to purchase Mount Vernon?yet
expressed a willingness to dispose
jf it to Congress or Virginia, in order to
secure it in future from the contingencies
incident to a private possession?and we
were confident that individual generosity
could procure for it a future more gratifying
to patriotic pride and affection
than any which could result froiu the u-e
jf public funds in our Republican Government.
We appealed to Virginia to purchase
from Mr. \\\, and by accepting liersoK the
"sacrifices''?no! the "heart offerings" which
die 1 laughters of Washington would feel
it a piivilege to be allowed to bestow?enable
them yet to accomplish all that love
for his memory had suggested.
This appeal has been lesponded to nobly?
with a promptness and a patriotism
which should cnsluine the Virginia General
Assembly of'50 in the heart of woman!
It lifts been responded to in a manner which,
while there is no departuie from Mr, Washington'*
expressed condition, viz., conveying
the property in "trust" deed to the
State, yet gives the Association all a State
Gonstiiution permits, with this restiietion!
Our appeal spoke only of a trust deed arrangement
tor the property. Mr. W. required
it, and theieforo Gov. Johnston in
presenting the subject for the consideration
of the Assembly, confined himself to
this proposal; but to the honor of the Old
Dominion l?o it recoidcd, that when he afterwards
niado an application to Mr. hang
fitt, the chairman of the Mount Vernon
Committco, appointed toieporton this portion
of the Governor's message, to include
an "act of incorporation" for the Association,
with an enlarged patriotism which
should endear his name to his countrytuon,
it was at once acceded to, and on the I7di
of March the "Mount Vernon bill" passed
both Houses in less than an hour, and almost
by acclamation! By this act the As
seinl>ly authorised the < ?ov?.i nor to contract
with Mr. Washington for Mount Vernon,
in the manner in which Mr. VV. had consented
to dispose of it, i. e. a trust deed to
the State. The additional act of chartering
the Mount Vernon Association does not
make the latter a party to nny transaction
in which Mr. VV. is to bo concerned?it is
purely one between the State of V irginia
and the Association. We place before you
Mr. Washington's reply to Gov. J., when
addressed on the subject:
"Mount Vkknon, June 18, 1855.
"Sir: Vour letter of June 15th has been
received, in which you mention your design
of again recommending to the Legislature
of Virginia the piopriety of acquiring
for the State that portion of Mount Vernon
where Gen. Washington formerly resided,
and oil which his remains are now
inlorred; and you request to know from me
on w hat terms the Slate can obtain the
property.
"Should the State of Virginia dCairo to
purchase Mount Vernon, she can obtain
200 acres of it, embracing the tomb of
Washington, mansion, gardens, grounds,
dec., on the following terms, viz:
"I. The remains of such members of the
Washington family as now are, or may bo
hereafter, interred in or around the present
family vault, shall never bo removed nor
disturbed; and for the purposes of a family
burying ground, the undersigned, John A.
Washington, ami his heirs,shall retain the
right of enclosing and improving one-half
aero of land, inrliulino th/> vnnlr .if r.rAcm.t
. N1V
Ifjriculture, uiitJ iiti
DAY, MAY 1, 1850.
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muu, wuii ireu ;iuu easy access 10 11 ai an I
times. In this burying ground, members
of tho Washington family, and no one else,
may be interred, and tho Slate, asitscusto|
dian, shall be pledged to preserve it from
i injury or desecration.
"II. The Stale shall never alienate tho
| fee simple nor any lesser estate in the
whole, nor any part of the property.
"III. Upon receiving a proper title for
the property the State shall pay me $200,i
000 in cash, or at tho option of the State
: in4Virginfa six percent, coupou slock, priu- j
| cipal and interest to bo paid in the lime ;
and manner in which such stock has usu- .
i ally been made payable by the State of Into
i years. ' '
"It has sometimes been suggested that
the State might doaire to purchase a Jar- j
! ger tract of land, in order to establish a
: model farm and agricultural school here.
; Should such be tho easo, about 800 acres
< more of adjacent land on this estate can be
j obtained at $100,000, to bo paid in cash
i or Stnto stock, as above, at tho option of
i tho S'.ate.
i "I am, Bir with tho utmost resj>ect, your
! obedient servant, John A. Washington.
| "llis Excellency Jos. Johnson, Governor of ,
j Virginia."
Wo call your attention to the fact that i
i Mr. W. does not assume to instruct Vir'
giuia as to the manner in which she shall
, supply her treasury with the funds to pay 1
' for Mount Vernon; for this is a matter '
i Stales usually arrange f??r themselves, i
i through their accredited Representatives, to j
: whoso judgment and discretion such acts j
i nro left. The representatives for Virginia
j have in this case?from sentiment and patj
riolism?decided that tho money offered ,
I from love to Washington's memory is more
I appropriate to be used in hollowing his
home and grave than any which could be
raised by taxation! Mr. Washington's porj
sonnl sentiments have prevented his taking 1
this view of it himself, and ho may even
I prefer that the Mother .State should have
coincided with him. and have mirsuod a
different course from llie one which the As- J
sembly, because of the beauty of such tribute
to our Country's Father, and the iufluj
ence it will exert in endearing his memory
and principles to his children, have chosen. '
Hut as his action is solely with Virginia in
! her sovereign capacity, and the disposal of 1
Mount Vernon to her under the requireincuts
of the relent act neither involves ,
deparluio from consistency nor his own con- |
dilions, viz: a trust deed of property, Are., |
| Arc.
We arc convinced, from tho dignified
j course Mr. Washington has hitherto pur.
sued in this matter, that when asked to i
place the "precious spot It has been his i
; privilege to possess under the safe and sol- I
emu protection of the mother Slate, he will
do so with entire confidence in her integrity
as to the trust?and with too much con'
sideration for her expressed wishes, as to
the method by which she desires and hopes
to see it improved with a magnificence
worthy of its world wide fame?to refuse!
for it is she, not he, who accepts the "offerings''
of the children of the common
Father of North, South, East, West?that
from the remotest borders of our Union
I their children may have the privilege of
investing too much of money and affection
around those "sacred fishes" for them not
to become hcreutlcr a "bond of love and
j peace too holy, too powerful, to he severed?until
lihcity is uncared for?justice 1
j forgotten?virtue unloved ami gratitude
uufell! A talisman forever again* tfrntenia!
stiife and?aggression !!
It could not hut add to Mr Washington's
gratification to find the name he bears and
the tomb of his ancestor fulfilling so holy,
so gloiious a mission!! Woman is the
honored agent in this great work; hut the
patriotic men of our country indicate by
their acts their conviction of the appropn
atones* of such agency. Surely, when (in
the language of another) Edward Everett
I devotes his splendid talents to the cause,
there is not a man in the Union who
would refuse his voice and his learning to
this enterprise!
As this enterprise commenced, and was
long confined to the South, editor-' in other
sections, unfamiliar with its past history,
I t i I - ... ?
iiuvu uoen k>i into mistakes, w li 10i1 we take
this opportunity to correct on account of
I their injurious influences, viz: "that there*
arc three distinct and independently organized
associations?all laboring zclaoiuly,
however, for the same end?purchase of
Mount Vernon;" also, "that Virginia started
the Mount Vernon Association of the
Union," which the cavilling seize upon to
turn to her and our disadvantage, by assorting
that she called on other States to
aid her in purchasing property to become
hers in trust!" The "Central Committee"
having been located in Richmond (and
composed principally of Virginians) and
the "Circular to the Daughters of Washington,"
issuing from thence, has doubtless
led to this "aspersion;" one from which wo
feel it duo t<? the old Dominion, and her
peculiarly delicate position in this matter, to
relieve her! So f ar from such a "proposal"
emanating from her, or the 'enterprise"
being started by her, both from regard for
Mount Vernon, were done for her, and fortunately
(as it seem*) she only joined it
some months after its commencement, and
being repeatedly called upon to do so!
Wo will in a few words sketch "past
' facts" for that portion of the public jet
ignorant of them. An appeal to the "la
dies ol the. South" was issued from South
Carolina by the Southern matrons, in December,
1853. Isolated interest and action
resulted in Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina. Finding that interest was dying
for want of concerted action, and some one
; to direct tho movement, failing to draw out
i others inoro competent to assume such vast
responsibilities, unwilling that every move
mcnt to honor him who is said to be the
first in tlic hearts of his countrymen should
fail for lack of self-sacrificing patriotism,
| slio catno to tho "rescue," issued "regulations"
in A pi il, 1854, by which the "patriotic
laborers" were united, and became a "nuI
eleus" around which proselytes could rally!
vinv
tswlJamj.
I The "acorn" ha? grown into n tree," whose!
brunches rnny, in lime, extend froin the!
Atlantic to the golden shores of the Pacific! i
Tho "enterprise" was nt first only design- '
ed to bo a Southern ono, but overtures from '
Northern patriots caused it to bo inndo tin j
tional, in May, 1855, uuder tlio name of J
tho "Ladies' Mount Vernon Aaso?*iinn of i
llio Union." Duties of direction becoming {
too arduous, a Central Committee waa ,
formed to nid tbe management of Jl, under
which nre Slnte Committees, (associations t
again under these,) for the performance of ,
local duties arising from the collection of; (
moneys, Arc. ! r
Theso three (3) departments have 110 ' f
doubt led to the impression, in soine ' c
places, that there were ihreo independent 1 t
Mount Vernon associations. Thero is but [ 8
one, the Mount Vernon Association of the i j
Union, for which a "charier" lias been ob- c
tained, which charter will be accepted upon t
tho completion of certain necessary and le- t
gal arrangements. Members representing ?
other "sections" will be added to tbo Cen- g
tral Committee, as they embrace the cause, c
Patrons desirous of informstion, or of giv- 1 j
ing their time and labor, as well as means |
to ibis inspiring work, can address Miss M. ?
L. Lawson, 534 Spruce street, Philadelphia, | t
Corresponding Secretary of S. M., or Mrs. j r
Wm. F. Ritchie, Richmond, Vn., first Vice ; j
President of Central Committee. All wo 1 ^
need now for the speedy accomplishment of t
purposes becoming dear to the American . v
heart is zealous patriots to ask for gold! j x
"A grateful nation with its wealth untold,
Will |K>ur its lavish sums, as once |Miar?-?J blood, 1
'l'o gain our freedom on this jarred #od, 1 *
Then. ?>Tcr sacred to the (Mitriot's bier, , t
We'll hold the Mecca which wc all revere.'1 . j.
A Soutukun Matron, ;
IVes't of M. V. Asso'n of tho Union. 1 c
Philadelphia, April 10, 185G. v
Incident at tbe Execution of Louis XVI. 1
In that charming book, "The Irish Abroad ! *
and at Home," wo tiud the following r
interesting and novel circumstance related , I
"respecting the execution of the unhappy *
Louis XVI.": "jt
"I spoko to the Abbe Kearney more ,
til.'U1 (?1R*4>. 1 I 1 roitlina urnsA 1 ^
?w . v|miw ?viu u? ?vi| mm j 1
were accompanied by evidence that the i
subject caused him much pain. The fo!- >
lowing simple narrative is all that I could t
obtain from him: 1 arrived, said he, in e
the l'lace de la Revolution before the King, f
and managed to reach the scaffold just as i
the carriage in which ho sat, with the c
Abbo Knlgeworth and two gendarmes, ap- '
poached iroin the Rue Roy ale. The scaf- r
fold was so situated as to provide for the *
royal suitercr a pang to which less dislin- <
guished victims were insensible. It stood '
between the pedestal, on which had been 1
erected the statue of Louis XV., and tbo j <
issue from the garden of the Tuilories, t <
called the Point TournauL Midway he- ; 1
twecu these two jHiiuU a hideous soi dit i ?
ant statue of Liberty raised her Gorgon j ?
head. This situation was chosen in order j '
to realize a conception characteristic of the i
epoch, and the frantic iiciids who figured t
in it. It insured that the unhappy persons, i i
on being placed on the bascule of the I
! guillotine, should, in their descent from <
the perpendicular to the horizontal, when '
pushed home to receive the fatal stroke, i '
make an obeisance to the goddess. For :
the King this position of the guillotine was : i
therefore peculiarly painful. The Palace j
of the Tuileries was in full view, and upon '
it his last glance in this woild must have i
rested. (
' Scarcely had the King descended from ^
his coach, when Samson, the executioner, ' <
and his aids, approached him to make his
'toilette,'' as the preparation of th victim
for death was termed, lie had a large <
head of hair confined by a ribbon, as was
the fashion of the day. Upon this Samson
seized with one hand, brandishing a pair | (
ol huge scissors in tho other. The King, (
whose hands were yet free, opjajsed the |
attempt of Samson to cut oil' his hair: a |
precaution necessary, however, to insure the | (
opcralionoftheaxe. Tho executioner's as ; (
sislants rushed upon him. lie struggled i ,
with them violently and long, but whs at ', (
length overcome and bound His hair was ; (
cut oil in a mass and thrown upon the j (
giound. It was picked up by an English- ; ,
. man, who was in front of tlic scaffold, and ! ,
who put it in his pocket, to (lie scandal of (
the hum cutottm, wlio like linn were in the j
front rank. As we never heard moro a j
about it, wo suppose the unfortuunto Ang ]
In Li was murdered. When the bustle
occasioned by this incident was over, the |
King ascended the scath?hl. Is it not true, I ,
said I, that lite Abbe Kdgcworth uttered, ,
as the King was mounting the short flight
1 of steps leading to the scaffold, those sub- !
lime words of encouragement: '/'ih de .
Saint /,1'uis, vionlez au eitl.' No, lie replied;
but while the King was struggling
with the executioner ami his men, as I
have just described, the Abbe Kdgoworth ,
recommeiidetl resignation to him, adding
(and these words suggested possibly the
phrase ascribed to him) : 'You have only
one sacrifice more to make in this life bo- I
fore sou enjoy life eternal?submit toil.'*'
All tbc world in Texas knows Old King,
as be is called, a sort of Daniel Lambert of
a man, weighing his 060 lb*., full of jokes I
and hospitality, renowned for his "Seditions"
in his new house, and whose only trouble
in tho money line is his "costive" gals, as
he terms them. lie once owed a man a
just debt which ho refused to pay, when
j due, in silver, but he had made his creditor
a tender of a hank bill, which was refused?suit
brought, judgment obtained,
and property levied on. Hear him in Ins
ow n "(inferential"'languai/e: "Now, Squire,
| spose you owed a man a jist debt, and was
to make him a tender of a blank bill, which
he refuse.*, to accept, and he fetches suit and (
gits a judgment, and the ShcriflF was to lev- '
el a writ of execration on your truck, what
would you do in stch a case!" "Don't
j know, colonel," said tho squire, "it would
dejrend on circumstances." "Well," replies
old King, "I'll tell you what I'll do if that
vnnniiu sens my uuck: ti n me if I don t
' mftko j* sacrament of him." '
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NO. 10.
A Case for General Sympathy.
In the House of Representatives the fob
owing affecting subject was brought forvarJ.
We oopj from the condensed re
K>rt of the Washington Union.
Mr. Oliver, of New York, from the Com*
nitlee on Iuvalid Pensions, reported a bill
or the relief of Mary E. Tillman; which
VMS read twice.
Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, asked
he attention of the House to a few re*
narks which he wished to make in behalf
if the bill. The bill was the unanimous
eport of the committee to which was reerred
the petition of Mrs. Tillman, a widiw
lady of his district When a requisiion
was made upon South Carolina for
crviees in the Mexican war, she gave to
ler country every member of her family
npablo of bearing arms, ber husband and
hrecsons. All weitt, but not one returned
0 dry a mother's tears, and gladden a
nother's heart with the gallantry of lief
oldier boys. The bones of one now lie at
laltillo, another fell at Jalapn, another lay
mried at the castle walls of Poroto, and the
ast found the close of his earthly career
ind the goal of his ambition at the capital
if Mexico. By a strange f.itality, the only
emaining son, a boy loo youug to provide
urtlie support of the family in the absence of
lis father and elder brothers, by afi accitle ial
fall from his horse Injured his spiuo, and
vas now a paralytic for life. This lady
ras thus left in the decline of her age with
1 helpless child and a little daughter, euirely
dependent upon her exertions for
heir and her own support, and the bill
imposed to give her a pension of $8 month.
This was a narrative of hor petition, and
in it sho based the hope that her country
vould remember her sacrifices and reward
icr services. By the laws of society a paent
was entitled to the services of a child
vhilo a minor, and they who were tho repesentatives
of the countr}*, and had beeu
lenefittcd by the services of the husband
md sons of this lady, ought not to forget
vhat was due to her.
It was his misfortune to be a witness of lh*
acts be had stated. One of her sons enlisted
u tho Alabama regiment, and the remain*
ng sons were mustered into the service of
lie United States in a company under his
itvn ^Atnm??ul or*?1 * *? ? ? ?
- .. .. ?viMiUHU?f mm i v ntw UUV H'V J/UIC
lection of the friendship which that father
md those boys boro to him that constrained
him to. do lor their mother what she . .
voiiUl not do for herself. She appealed
lot to their charity, but to their magnalimily;
and he appeated to both, lie ask:d
them to put bread iu the mouth of the
vidow and the fatherless. She appeared
>efore them with the. confideuco and the
lignily of the mother of this modern Gractill,
and demanded that her name should
>e recorded on the statutes of her country;
ind he appealed to the generosity and the
loble instincts of the members tocomeforvard
iff her aid;
Mr. Mace, of Indiana, moved to amend
lie bill by striking out $8 and inserting
^20.
Mr. (lidding*, of Ohio, took occasion td
totulemn the Mexican war generally; al.
bough his feelings would not allow him
:o oppose the bill;
The question was taken, and the amendnent
was agreed to.
The bill as amended was the read a third
.iino and passed.
Tiik Kesuhhection Flower.?In its actotmt
of the tcccut Spring Exhibition of
.he lirookiyn Horticultural Society, the
Sew York Tribune says:
' \Yo must notice one very remarkable
curiosity known as the resurrection Flower.,
'"his flower, or rather plant, resembles in its
normal stale a dried poppj*head, with tho
item attached. Upon being immersed a
ooment or two in a glass of water, and set
tpright in the neck of a small vial, in a
"ew moments the upper petals began tot
:>ursl open gradually, yet visibly to the eye;
hey continued to expand until, throwing
Jiomsclves back in equidistant order, there
was presented a beautifully rndialcd starry
flower, somewhat resembling both the paa<ion
flower and the sun flower, and yet
more splendid than either. Tho ttnfohling
still continued until tho petals hent backward
over what might by termed the base
jf the llowor, presenting irr a bold relief
in its centre its rosette of Che m 6t exquisite
form and ornamentation, and thus assuniing
a new charm, entirely eclrj>sing what,a
moment before, scem'cd hs absolute perfection.
After remaining open j?n hour or
more, tho moisture gradually dissipates itself,
and tho fibres of lire flower contract as
gradually a* they CXpandeJ, and it re assumes
its original appearance, ready to ber
unfolded again by the same simple process
?the number of times seeming to be only
limited by the will of the possessor.
l>r. Deck, who brought this specitv.eii'
from I'pper Egypt, suggests that the flow-*
f?r is a native of tho Ilolv Land, and is atypo
or variety ot the long lost Rose of
Jericho, called also tho "Rose of Sharon,"
and tho "Star of Rethlchem," and highly
venerated for its rnrity and peculiar properties
by tho pilgrims and Crusaders; and
eagerly sought after by them as a priceless
emblem of their zeal and pilgrimage, and
worn on their escutcheon* rn a similar
manner as the scollop shell and palmbranch.
St. Paul was dimutive in stature, and his'
body disfigured by soino lameness or distortion,
which mny have provoked the con
lemptuous expression of his enemies. His'
heard was long and thin, and his head was
bald. The characteristic* of his face were
a transparent complexion, which visibly
betrayed the quick change* of his feelings;
a bright grsy eye, under thickly overhanging
eyebrow*; a cheerful and winning expression
of countenance, which invited the
approach and inspired the confidence of
strangers. It would be natural to infer,
from his continued journoys and manuwt
labor, that he was possessed of great
strength of constitution; but this is by no
mean* certain for men of K^ivtrK
have gone through the gren%c?t exertion