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NEW SERIES—YOt. 1. NO. 35.
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Professional Cards.
Vi B. N. PA^NBr
REAL ESTATE AGENT &
f!i , CONVEYANCER.
OFFlCE—Stotefffey TtoW, opposite the Court
House, Towaoutown. April 29.—1 y
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. CHANCERY, , . |
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attormev at LAM,!
TOWSOXOX)Wk,MD.
April - 7 t -a
PR. J, PIPBR, f
Office—Residejiee.oC John M. IV heeler. Esq.,
adjoining Mr. Lewis Yogle*s Store.
and ft o’elock P. M. tf. ;
09 "isAAC McCURIEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ffjj ST. PA UB SPREE F, 3
BALTIMORE-
gjtfay 6.— , '3 l! ** " ' pS !
•J! 0 lL M. PRICE, ■-.
MMSmi
'Office—No. 1 Smedley Towsontown.
.•i-fTIEL td aJI.IAw aflfti
\V chancery business entrusted td his earej
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
No. 3T ? wf LSXpmTON STREET, £
' • StMiinorle, Md: : L - :r O, 1
-frpril 15, 1865-ndy,, *j£l j
Amos E. Musseiman, ,<r ,
. ■ attorney. 2-1
■QRAQTIGES ia -the Qour|f of Baltimorel
Jt county. * —,af! V }
r^ra^rjj
ATTOM fijLAffi A A W,
V. No. 71 Eay^V?Charles, , j
Baßipwe*,^ 4 -
April 1.1365. TV? I*'™ 1 *'™ . , r1 , n
- v '“- GloVker, A7rT^
A T i d VJ A w
and iu-i xyjJ- (l !
SOLICITOR CHANCERY, )[
,MT Nos 4.tSL Paul street, Baltimore, Md.
PARTICULAR attention giren to Chancery
and Orphans’ Oofcrt 1 bn'sln>&, in the Courts
Baltimore city and county
All communications or buSiiess left with Mr.
JOHN R. D, BEDFORD,Conveyancer,Towson-
to wn, *lll be promptly attenfbd *6.
March 12, t,f7. ; [ y -
O. C. Warfield,
; ATTORNEY (iffllSf®
Towrortowj.
T) REPAVES applications lor
bounty,
BACK PAY ar 1
io J, •
Feb. 20.—tf h T r „ . .
Jos. P. Merrvinan.
ATTORNEY a".’ ia Vf ,
DR .ISAAC McCto RLEY,
■AMI- iO &>*■
S. W. COR. Sts.
■• ■ -j.,.. :
0. MERRYMAX. • P ’ EEECH > D * D ‘ 8
KEECH,
.7.* T7‘i;jt - PENTISTB, i 0 BYX)V:'
Nort^^jlYe^9tree^Baltimore.
' i- DR. J. H. JABRETT,'
(Forukrlt Surgbor 7ih Md., Y 015.,)
TTAVING purchased tflflato jeaidcnco. of
fl Df. E. R. Tidings, offers his
Protessitmal SarWiccs 1 to Ahe puhlie. Hasrthg
had an experience df ten jeara in private pris
tine und two jneafs and a*ialf in the army, he
hopes to be able to give satisfaetiori to all those
who may favor hint 7 #lth a calL
Juae 17, lißßaf,—ly.
R. R. Bojxman,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AN^
f SOLICITOR EKj CHANCERY. v
’dley Row, opposite- Court House,
1 ' ■ TOWSCNtPWS.
;ipfcly ; attend to all hjasitiees en-
W trusted to his -
j£2xi!Li!L_
LEWIS H. WHKELER. '"}*■ VM 8. KSBCB
v- . o Wheeler & ‘ |
ATTORNEY & AT: 1W
a*d 7 Oja ll! no ’•
SOLICTPORS IN CHANCI Y,
Office No. 1 and 2 Smedley Row,T sontown-
HAVING, formed a EARTNBRfe' P for the
pradtffos of Law, will give |)<Mi pt atten
tion to the collection of cljms aud P ttness in
general in the Orphans’Court and Cir&ii\Court
for county.
HaWi T**TtHMA. ij Chas. J.*PnSi*tiToa
Wa. H. Shiplet.
Agent^., for sale of Maryland Lands
Office (upnairt) No. ibl/e&ngitn st., Baltimore.
R. W. Templeman, & Co.,
OFFER* their services to the public fot tte
Sale-of Fax ms, and Real Estate generallfr,
as Snrveyor*. a general knowledge
the lands of parts of the State, and unusual
transaction of such*
Akesa. Pd its and descriptions (if allprop
they -may have for sale, will be kept in
ok form. Parties wiahi ng to sellor purehaae
will please communicate by letter as above.
H.~*afer-,Ty , ' . J—hl2—
L STORE.
WM. S. WONDERLY & CO.,
jrT'AV’fc oh hand a complete stock of
75 BaltimoreNretf, 8 ifcow went & ® a y
COAL OIL, of the very beat quality, by the
barrel or gallon, and a ootnpttte assortment of
LAMPS and WlCKf&rMPTittig it. ,
The manufacture of STONE and EARTHEN
WARE Will Continued.
All goods for the;, country packed m a scien
tific manner, and will be sold wholesale and
retail ei to suit the tunes.
TAKE MOTIGE.
SPRING STYLES OF HATS, 1565.
WS *rc now prepared to
If nish our friends and
pubiiio -with the Spring Styles
OF HATS, for Gentlemen's wear,
which will compare favorably with any sold
ALSO, RQFT.JELT HATS,
Latest patterns, Youths and
Childr.., . vrj j /
' PtNßsWdePtf A
frto m4‘ lfie “ijnilimnri County Advocate, either
I uVV Church, or Church A Haverstick,
are iequestea fo call > th* 17ito
office and settle their bills. >
rob.
m iiniim.
(A Consolidation of the American and
o
Advocate,)
I PUBLISHED Y’EEKLY BY
HAVERSTICK j LONGNECKERS,
(h. M. BAVKRSTICIv, H. C. A J.ll. LONGNECKER,)
I ' n ?.mb v ;!•:••>’:o :A,t; .• : -mil ■>■■■> !
$2.00 PER ANNUM, In Advance.
tea- No paper discontinued until all arrear
ages are paid, unless at the option of the Pub
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will be considered a renewal or subscription.
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One square, (of li linos, or less,) one insert .ion,
50 cents, and for every subsequent insertion,
25 cents
rvio*. ft Wtfs. J 2 mos..
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Ono Dollar. ( ( ’i 1 ( f
Deaths inserted free 5/'
charge, except when accompanied by quotations
or remarks, for which the usual price of adver
tising will be charged.
By consolidating the two Baltimore co'untv
payers,HUß V IfJgJF Blgg*l Wf?pr f c7FrufatißWff
any cotuity papor thvUie-l3\Atiß, and thus offers
superiirT'advantages to*advertiser's.
JOB WORK: ,
Our office, besides one of line’s best
Presses, is furnished with,* goodj-J.ob Press and
all the iiecessary materials for executing plain
and fancy Job Priattofi ?p*b n ea t' lesß and dis
patch.
HANDBILLS
Of all Alien and stylet printed, at short notice ,
and on good terms.
MagllstrateVand Collector’s Blqnks, Jlee.ds.
and all kinds of Public Papers always on hand
at tb^T.vo r TC r GIMMI ga - T .
County ’A j ]
■ -' - 11 i; ' ffWJ JIM. r-'/y 7
REMOVAL. [
GEORGE! STEIBER,
, :
HEREBY informs "the aitizens of Towson- q
to*wii and vicinity, that, he Las removed ;
his Boot artd Shoe establishment ironi
cent place of business, to the-building adjoin
ing the post office and storew&Mr. Nelson Coop- j
er, where he wilfin iheTuture to see
friends and Customers. - 1 J 1
I keep con stantly on hand a varied assoi4-
inewtuf Roots; Shoes,-Ghfters, Ac., for either
-Ldi*A T -Gentlemeir or Ghildren,
ALL OF MY OWN MANUFACTURE,
which will bo found as dnrablej and
than can tie procured in the city of Baltimore.
I return my thanks for the very- liberal pa
tronage 1 have heretofore received, and I will
endeavor,%jrn.ttehiioh to business, a*nd moder
ate charges, to merit a continuance of the saUte.
. GEORGE ST El lit it. :
L' > i--'n ‘
History of the Rebellion.
HEADLESS HISTORY OF THE WAR.
THE undersigned having procured an agen
cy fpr this valuable work for .a portion of
Baltimore and Harford counties will in a very
short time visit the people of the county solic
iting subscriptions inpefor. Ijrwill be a true
and faithful history of‘events a# they have trans
pired Since April 1861, until nearly to the pres
ent time. * 7 ' -* ",
It will be published Tn two vols. at $3.50 each
the first of which, wijl soon be delivered, and
the second imtnediately after the close of the
war. .Each volume will contain many pages of
illustrations of Battle scenes', ahd over forty por
traits of officers promifient in the war, both
North and South.
Volume <f; containing 506 pages, is already
prepared, and be delivered by the Agents
after finishing the canvass'in’’their several lo- -
cajitifts. . Volbtnellwßl he issued as.sooh as
practicable after the close of the war, and will
Contain about 700 pages, or more, if necessary
to complete the History.
EDWARD N. TYRRELL:
June 3,1865. —ly.
FRANK. L, MORLLVG,
FLORIST, SEEDSMAN AND
NURSERYMAN,
Store No. 2 N. Eutaw Street, Baltimore,
Nurseries ou the Hookstown Road Adjoin-,
t lug 1 Druid Hill Park,
WOULD invite the attention of thecitiidns
of the Countv, to his Stock of
* GARDEN SEEDS,
FLOWER SEEDS.R&MGW&fe
PE VINES, and all SMALL FRdTtS.
EVERGREEN
AND
ORNAMENTAL SHADE. TREES,
Green House, Hot House and Hardy Plants,
Roses and Flowering Shrubs.
- I will be prepared at all times to furnish ov
anything in my line of trade,
diune Sj'i-865.—1y.-/oy/<ii . - •
Ladies’ & Childrens’
SHOES Sc GAITERS.
re
JAMES BRIBPS,
RESPECTFULLY informs -the citizens of
Towsontown and vicinity, that he manu
factures to order at his residence at the new
Toll Gate, on the York road, in Towsontown,
LADIES’ and CHILDRENS’SHOES AND GAI
TERS, of every description, of the best mate
rial, neat, and cheap-as can he procured in the
city. REPAIRING promptly executed. *
1 dteß-l respectfully solicit a share of public
; patronage. JAMES PHIPPS.
Jul 29.—61. . :■ : -
DRUG STORE
1 • i !)•'■ :IN -j. .- =.-•■■ -d'-
TQWSONTOWN.
tTIHE Subscriber respectfully inform
A the residents of Bxltiitaore county,
that he has opened aDRUG AND Da
EG ARTY STORE in TnwsontoWn; wherfe ho in
tends- keeps in g' a-carefully salecteid Stock of
Pure & Genuine Drugsr; Medieines,
and ail. articles usually kept in a well-regulat
ed DRUG STORE, at city prices. Also,
Paints, .Gib* , ,Varnish,, Window
Glats, Stationery, Perfumery, knit
s . .Bytipn* of ev<pU- Bcscriptign. c .
rJ. a*rJL t .1- ‘ffi. RWHMH) VLIr, 1
June 17.—3 m. Towsontown, Md.
WBEEIiwiIIGHTIixG
l ' ’ -Lit
TOWSONTOWN.
fp'H 1 E under-
A signed hat- x
. kRgpSDw ing taken
shop adjoining that of Mr. Alex. Parlet.t, would
most respectfully inform the public that he is
prepared to execute all work in his, line as
> cheap ab it can be’done eiSewhele.
j UtteiHion given to repairing of
all kinds. PHILIP EDLER.
*. May 20.—tf/ *
J House, Big.', and Fancy Painting.
\ H§l IY t.‘BOWEN
C .WSOMTOWN,
IS prepared to exe(aite all york in hig Imp
such as ' , >j a
r GLAZING. COINING, QIJxEING, y
IMITATION OF WOOD AND MARBLE, Ac.;
n .All of which will bt done promptly, and on
the most reasonable tmns.
April 7, IB6o.—tf
. TOWSONTOWN, MX) , SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1865.
County Advertisements. f I
WARREN STORE,
In the Thriving Little Village pf
WARREN.
GREAT REDUCTION OF PRICES IN ALL
KINDS OF GOODS.
rruiE proprietors of the “Warren Store” are
JL offering great inducements to the citisens
of this neighborhood, that is worthy of their
attention. Afe offer to the public the best se
lection of goods that can be found in anyßtoro
in the country, and will guafantee to sell thorn
at less than city retail prices. All goods sold
here warranted as represented or the money
refunded, Our stock consists in part of
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, •, •
HARDWARE,
CHINA WARE,
CROCKEEYWARE,
earthenware,
STONEWARE,
GLASSWARE,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS, CAl^,
JDRIiGSw.DKE STUFFS. OIL AND,PAINTS,
MEDfcINES, GLASS, PIJTTY, WHITE
LEAD, LINSEED & NEATS FOOT
oil, paraPhine Oil, ker
osene OIL, MACHINE y •
oil, mackerel,
herrings, ba
con, HAMS,
BREAST TIECES, SHOULDERS, G. A. SALT,
Fine Suit, Flour, Corn .Meal, Mill Feed, Hom
ony Buck Wheat;
TIN AND WOODEN WARES* .
Rroojns, Roses, Plow Lines, Shoe Findings,
Wrot Nails, Cut Nails, Spikes, Rivets, and eve
ry article that may be lound in a well regulat
ed country store.
COUNTRY PRODUCE
of all kinds taken in exchange for goods at
city prices. • u:u ;
H. P. THOMAS,
For Warren Manufacturing Company,
niftfe IS '- 1 - V " :
SUMMER BOARDING HOUSE!
SMEDLEY HOTEL
AT
TOWSONTOWN, MO.
CHRIS. SHAW, 1
WARION I,ANGDOie,} Pr °P rietorS, ‘ !
MllfS jarge and popular Hotel, having pass-
Jl ed into new hands, has received various'
repairs ffjidimprovemtitits and is now open for.
'the entertainment of guests. It is the deter
mination of the Proprietors' to ihai'rithin its,
past reputation as a SUMMER BOARDING
HOUSE, as well as a House for the accomtno-,
datiori of all transient patronage. The rooms
are large and well furnished, with bath rooms
eonvcuidntptiie Table and Bar are well Sup
plied good: Stabling is provided, and the sur
rounding grounds are beautiful.
Mr. Shaw is well known for years past as the
proprietor of the popular “Cottage Saloon” on
High. Street, Baltimore.
May 20.—5 m. .
SWEET AIK STAGE.
Change of Time- *.
msm
FOR the Summer season the Stage will run
daily, (Sundays excepted,) as follows,cbm
meneing Monday, May22d: ** ■
Leaves SWEET AIR every morning at
6 o’clodt, arriving at Towsontown in time to
connect with the 9 o’clock Car. On Mail days,
(Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.) will
leave TOWSONTOWN at 9 o'clock, arriving at
Sweet Air about 12o’clock. On Mondays, Wed
nesdays nd : FridaVß will leave TOWSON
TOWN.at 5 o’clock P.M., arriving atSweet.Air
about 74 o’clock P. M.
EDWARD G- PEARCE.
May 20.—tf_
Catonsville Railway.
Spring and Summer Arrangement.
ON and after Monday, May Ist, 18ft5, cars
will run HOURLY
FROM 7 A. M. TO 7 PM., and at 9 P. M. daily*
SUNDAY'S excepted. On Sunday’s
HOURLY FROM 7 A. M., to 9 P. M.
PASSENGERS TO AND FROM ELLICOTT’S
MILLS will leave daily, Sundays included, at
7, 9 ami 11 A. M., and 2, 4 and 6 P. M.
Office west end of Baltimore street.
WM. W. ORNDORFF, Secretary.
April 29.—tf
MERCHiNT TAILORING
TOWSONTOWN.
f pHE Subscriber respectfully to n< l erß h' B ac '
J. kriowledgtneftts to the citizfens of Towson
town and vicinity, for the very generous sup
port he has heretofore received in his business,
and would inform his friends and customers
that he has considerably enlarged his stock,
and will constantly keep on hand a well se
lected stock of *
Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestiugs,
which he is prepared to make into garments of
tt*e latest styles, and at prices that will be.sat
isfactory to all.
I, ask an examination of my stock.
AUGUST LOOSE,
Towsontown, Opposite Ady’s Hotel.
March 4, 1865.—tf.
COACHMAKING
AND
UNDERTAKING,
THE subscriber respectfully informs his
friends, and the publie generally, that he
is’prepared to execute at hjs Bhop
Towsontown, at the intersec
(S tion of the York Turnpike and Jop
pa Road, every description of
Wheelwrightilig* Coachmaking, Ac.
He will manufacture to order, Carriages, Bug
gies, Rockaways, Carryalls, Ac. Old Carriages
repaired and painted at short notice.
Also, keeps constantly on hand, (and made
to order at the shortest notice-,) every style and
description of
COFFINS, OS!SI
and having provided himself with a HEARSE,
he is prepared to attend funerals at all times.
All work : warranted to give satisfaction.
GEO. H. HUGHS.
April ls,dSo4.—tf.
IFRJEIISrCLES CLOTHS,
CASSIMERS OF ALL KINDS,
SILK MARSEILLES.
And all kinds of Vest Patterns,
Scarfs, Heck ties and’Collars,
Hand kerchiefs, Travelling Shirts, Linen Bosom
Shirts, Linen Bosoms, (all qualities and
prices,) White Muslins and Linens
For Shirting, Ac., for sale
Wholesale and Retail.
ALL KINDS OF
TAILOKS, TRIMMINGS,
Together with READY-MADE CLOTHING,
As cheap as can be procured in the city.
AUGUST LOOSE,
Merchant Tailbr,
:i Opposite Ady's Hotel, Towsontown.
Fob. 25.—tf- '
NOTICE.:
Omen Clerk or the Circuit Coubt for l
Baltimore Couhtt, V
Towsontown, March 17th, 1865. J
TYERSONS having Deeds, Mortgages, Ac., in
1 r this office for record, left prior to MAY
10th, 1865, arehereby informed that all such are
now ready for delivery, and they are requested
to call and receive them. The large number
of instruments of writing accumulated id this
office, prompts the undersigned to make this
request. JNO. H. LONGNEGKER, I>>>
e May2(l.T-T4jm. u Clerk.
For Sale.
; A very valuable driving HORBE> about 6
a years old. (color, Brown.) For further par*
ticulars apply at this office.
Aug. 26.—tf.
r : For the Union.
#7*The following lines owe their origin to the fact ol
the author’s having discovered a blue-lxird building its
! nest far back in the chamber of one of the twelve-pound
Xapoleon guns of the battery of which he is a member,
| early in the month of March last:'
j <oo!< The Nest in the Gun.
*8" 1 ’
Say, little warbler, frail as a breath,
What seekest thou in that chamber of death ?
1 Dread’st thon not that dark orifice’ gloom,
Which the lightnings of battle did often illume ;
Through which the dread king of terrors oft came,
With cuirass of fire and courser of flame ?
Perchance, thou’rt a prophet with glad tidings blest,
With the secret of Peace in thy tiny blue breast:
Hast thou seen in thy cloud-flight the glorious sun ?
Thou li I tie bird building thy nest in the gun.
Art thou come as a glorious harbinger of peace,
Proclaiming that slaughter and carnage shall cease ?
Bearing a truce to bury the slain,
That fatten the vulture on mountain and plain ;
Thy message was spoken, thy mission was done,
In building thy nest ih that terrible gun.
That thou to the nation, art loyal and true,
I know by thy beautiful garment ofblue i
“’Tis the truest of colors revealed by the sun,”
Sings the little bird building her nest in the gun. •
The Southern armies arectmqucred at last,
And flying like chaff from the Northern blasts
Their haughty pride humbled, their efforts all vain,
Their arrogant lenders surrendered or slain :
The Southern “gentleman,” in plebean panic
Ignobly flies from the Northern “mechanic
While treason defeated, skulks still through the gloom
And traitors grow pale at the sight pf their doom.
Their fate is so plain, they may read as they run—
The bluo-bird is building her nest in the guq.
But now that the carnage and slaughter are o’r,>
T,et us all meet in friendship, like brother? once more,
To rejoice fhat the Union's established at last—
Forgetting the errors and woes of the past.
Each bosom inspired witli national love,
The bickerings of section and party above,
Shall unite w)tli like friendship all over the land,
From the forests of Maine to the Florida strand.
Peep love ih each bosom, shall hatred replace,
Till victors and vanquished like brothers embrace,
And vow that true friendship on earth is beguu,
Since the blue-bird is building her nest in the gun
• Thi musket shall nist where it fell from t(ie slain:
And ti|e sword and thf ucabbsrd shall rest on the plain
Themurd.er.ous cnangp with verdure gfown o’er,
Shall awaken the ‘strife with it's thunders no morp :
In its terrible muzzle, shall bloom the hare hell,
And' the crocus:'tpeep out from the death laden shell,
U’pr the red fields of carnage the daisy shall nod, 1
,And-(hc brown harvest wave where the war horse has
trod.
The rose and the lily in beanty shall bloom,
And mingle their sweets o’er each patriot’s toflib;
No more shall Die sabre rise red from the wound ;
No more the shrill bugle the death-charge-shall sound,
But peaceful instead, on the breath of the morn',
Shall swell the soft notes of the hutd>ahdmhn’s liera.
Peace, Freedom and Friendship, the future shall bring,
And envy will perish, and irate lose its sting ;
All wars and contentions, forever shall end,
And every man hail in his brother a friend.
Then praise ye the Lord! and serve him alwby.
Far the lamp of his love hath brought this glad day.
The nation hath triumphed—the victory is won '
The blue-bird hath builded her nest in the gun.
'"‘hr Gtjnpowbbr Bird.
BainoaroßT, Ata., June 18tl>, 1865.
HiGaUattcotto.
From the National Intelligencer.
MOUNT VERNON.
Its History, its Proprietors, its Relics, its
Hemiiiisceuces, and its Present Condition.
There has probably never been so great
a throng of visitors to this national shrine
in the history of the country, as at the
present time. The fihe steamer running
regularly thither, from this city, is largely
patro&i-ced, while multitudes are daily go
ing there by land conveyances. The
throng of soldiers thither iaespecially very
numerous. nThe distance from Washington
is some fifteen miles, about nine below
Alexandria. r
At the death of General in
1799, the Mount Vernon estate comprised
several thousand acres of land in a solid
body, extending many miles on the Poto
mac river. A large part of it was under til
lage. It was divided into five farms, each cul
tivated by its own negroes with an overseer,
and the whole under a general superinten
dent, and all under the Careful inspection
of the great s chief himself. His own ne
groes numbered one hundred and twenty ;
his wife’s were as many more. Wheat,
corn and .tobacco were the chief products
of the estate, tobacco being, however, much
loss cultivated in the latter years of his
life than in earlier times. Upon the estate
there was a fine* two story stone corn and
flour mill, the remnants of which are still
visible on Dogue Greek, np which flat-boats
came along side the mill. The water to
carry the rtiitt Was brought in a race, some
mile and a half from a ‘‘tumbling dam ” up
Dogue Kun. * The qid fiill-honsp is still in
good condition, and is occupied byacolor
ed family. Near this mill was also bis ’dis
tillery. There was also a brickyard, a car
penter establishment-, blacksmith shop, the
estate forming, in fact, a sort of village.
Originally, the Mount Vernon estate
consisted of one-half of five thousand
acres, assigned to Washington’s great
grandfather, who in connection with Nicho
las Spencer, patented it from Lord Culpep
per in 1670. In the division of his estate
the father of Washington assigned this
tract to h)s elder brother Lawrence, who
came here and erected the mansion in 1743,
naming it in honor of Admiral Vernon,
under whom he served as Captain in a col
onial regiment, in the West Indies, in 1740.
Lawrence died in 1752, leaving a wife, the
daughter of Sir William Fairfax, of Bel
voir, and one child—a daughter ; and on
the demise of this daughter without issue,
as soon happened, the estate fell to George,
who had been much an inmate of the fami-
In 1759, General Washington married
Martha Custis, (nee Dandridge,) then resi
ding on her estate at the White House,
With her two children, and after remaining
at that place some three months, took up
their residence at Mount Vernon. She
brought him in her own right more than a
hundred thousand dollars. They were of
the same age—27 years—at their marriage.
In his will, Washington divided the es
tate into three parts. The mansion, with
four thousand acres, was left to his nephew,
Busbrod Washington an Associate Justice
of the United States Supreme Court. jAt
the death of Mrs. Washington in 1801,
Judge Washington became the proprietor
of Mount Vernon, and continued there till
his death in 1829. Two of the old servants
still on the estate came there with him be
longing to his wife Anne, daughter of Cod.
Thomas Blackburn. Two of Gen. Wash
ington’s servants still survive, also, resi
ding some three miles from Mount Vernon.
Judge Washington, having no-children,
left the estate to his nephew, John A.
Washington, from whom the ladies’ Mount
Vernon Association purchased the two
hundred acres, upon* which are the mausion
and tomb, for $200,000. Two thousand
acres willed by Washington to two other
members of the Washington family, and
the residue, upwards of 2000 acres, inclu
ding tbo firtid WoOdlawO estate was given to
Major Lawrence, a favorite nephew, whose
wife was the beautiful and cultivated Nel
ly Custis,'grandchild to Mrs. Washington,
and the adopted daughter of Gen. Wash*
ington. , ■ ••
Major Lewis erected a splendid manSiob
J at Woodlawn, in 1805, at a cost of $24,000.
Major Lewis, whose mother Betty Wash
j ington, was the sister of the great chief,
r died at Arlington 1841, and his wife died
i in 1852. The remains of both, with those
s of a daughter, the wife of Charles M. Con
rad, FiHmofre’s War Secretary, being; de
posited in the Mouht Vernon vault. Soon
atyer the death of Major Lewis, the Wood
-6 lawn estate was sold by his only son, Lo
,f renzo, to a colony of-. Quakers from New
Jersey, who still Totain much of it, divided
into farms. The Woodlawn mansion, with
a splendid farm of 500 acres surroundingit,
belongs to John Mason, Esq., who came
there from New Hampshire in 1850. The
; mansion is of brick, with slate roof, and
lofty pillars fronting the river on a com
f manding site looking down upota the whole
3 Mount Vernon estate. Lorenzo Lewis
1 died some years ago in Clark county, and
> the other daughter, the wife of a Mr. Butler
is living in Mississippi. l; ,
John A. Washington went to Fauquier
county with his family in 1850, and purcha
sed a farm known as Wareland. His wife
died suddenly soon after, and it is well
known that he fell*, as colonel of a rebel
regiment, early in 1861, leaving a family of
seven children, the youngest two being
little boys, and the only male children ever
born at the Mount Vernon estate belonging
to these orphan children, lying in close
proximity to the Mount Vernon mansion.
The Verfion estate was probably
never under a finer state of cultivation
than it is at the present time. The farm
ers have been shipping manure in large
quantities from the city this season and pi
ling it at their landings on the river for fu
ture use. At the present' time there are
2,000 Government tnules grazing upon dif
ferent farms in that section. These mules
are separated into squads of 500, and, with
fifteen mounted men to control them, are
put into a heavy grass field, kept closely
together, and compelled to eat clean as
they go. A squad thus eats more, thau
two acres of tpe heaviest grass in a day,
for wliich they pay five cents ahead, or
25 dollars a day for the sqtlad. The ground
behind them looks as though no grass had
grown there this season.
’J’he grounds..immediately around the
mansipn and tomb bear evidence of care
and taste. The approach to the tomb
ahd to the mansion from the fiver js highly
picturCisqiie and delightful. The appear
ance of both the tdnit> and the mansion
has been familiar to all Americans in illus
trated books, from the childhood of the
ropst who now read the daily press. We
have seen this sacred snot many times in
the last thirty years, and never saw it look
better than now.
It may be interesting to marijUVi’ho are
now visiting the place for the first time to
know that the remains of Washington were
originally deposited in the old vault which j
is pointed out to all visitors, aud in a ma
hogany coffin lined with lead. The vault
was damp and the wood wa's three times
‘renewed before being placed in ‘the recep
tacle where they now repose. Iti 1831 the
new vault was erected and the remains
; transferrgd, A Philadelphia marble wor
ker proposed to furnish a marble sarcopha
gus, but pn visiting the tomb declined to
do so if it was to be putin so damp a vault.
An anti-chamber was therefore erected in
front of the' vault, some dozen feet high
with an arched gateway and gate formed
of iron rods. In this anti-chamber on the
right iSs the sarcophagus containing the
remains of Washington, and on the left
another precisely like it containing the re
mains of Mrs. Washington ; and it may be
added, that the remains have been moved
as often as those of the great chief. The
sarcophagus is excavated from a solid block
of pure white marble, and was placed there
in 1837. Whithin the vault proper are the
bodies of many members of the family.—
On either side, as you come near the vault
stands a marble obelisk, inscribed with fhe
names of leading members of the Wash
ington family. The design upon Washing
ton’s sarcophagus covers the most of the
top or lid, and consists of a shield, divided
iuto thirteen perpendicular stripes, resting
ou the national flag, and attached by cords
to a spear embellished with tassels, form
ing a background to the shield. The crest
is an eagle with open wings perching upou
the superior bar of the shield and clutch:
ing the arrows and olive branch. Below
the armorial bearing is the name, deeply
sculptured, of “Washington.” On the
plaine lid of the other sarcophagus are the
words, ip large letters, “Martha Washing
ton.’*
An addition erected at one end of the
mansion after time, has been
torn away, and the structure is now in the
exact form as when left by the Father of
his Country. It is well known that the
mansion, as originally erected and left by
Lawrence Washington, was much enlarged
by General Washington, a section being
added to each end, making it, as it now
stands, 96 feet in length, north ahd south,
with a portico, fronting the river, extend
ing from end to end. This portico having
decayed, has been replaced by an exact
copy of the old. The mansion is two sto
ries high, of wood, finished in imitation of
freestone, and painted white. Fourteen
small windows, with the old-fashioned di
minutive panes of glass, T look out upon
beautifully sloping lawns, and down upon
the river from an elevation of two hundred
feet above the river level. There are six
rooms on the floor, with a spacious hall
running through the centre, from east to
west. The north room is the large dming
hall, in which is the exquisite marble man
telpiece, wrought in Italy, shipped on an
English vessel during the French revolu
tion, captured by the French Government
when Lafayette made known that it was a
present from an American wine merchant,
residing in Marseilles, to Washington. In
this room are also the double banked
harpsichord, shaped like a modern square
piano—a wedding present to his adopted
daughter, Nelly Custis ; the tripod which
served Washington in all his surveys, and
the large set of matched mahogany dining
tables. The dining hall opens at either
end into an east and' west parlor, in one of
which is an old dilapidated, large globe,
and in the other an old sofa. The key of
the Bastile—a present from Lafayette—
Still hangs in the glass case in the hall, and
by its side, the silhouette taken from life by
a lady in Philadelphia. The library room,
in the south end, is occupied by Miss Tra
cy, the accomplished aud faithful agent of
the Mount Vernon Association. A bust
of Washington, cast in plaster by Houdon,
and another of Lafayette, facing each Oth
er high on the walls, are the only observa
ble relics. i( ,.
The bookcases, bnill iuto the wall, with
glass doors, fully occupy one side of the
large room. Over this apartment, in a
small bed-room, the great and good man
died, i A bedstead, said to be an exact co
py of that on which he died, is the only ar
ticle iu the chamber. The family pictures
were nearly or quite all at Arlington, and
were taken to Bichmond by General Lee.
The celebrated pitcher portrait , upon the
back of which was inscribed the beautiful
eulogy, and left in the mansion by an un
known hand, was carried away by John A.
Washington, and is in the possession of
, that family.
The long, low row of brick quarters still
, stand as they have for.thirty or forty years,
i since they were partially destroyed by fire.
In this row Washington had his black
, Smith and carpentering establishments, and
here now live the two old colored servants
. of whom mention has been made as the
servants that came here sixty years ago
j with Anne Blackburn, the wify of Busbrod
, Washington.
* The “Ladies’ Mount Vernon Associa
• tion,” it is well known, made their par:
i chase in 1858, and Kaif made the last pay
- ment of $2,000 upon the eve of the rebell
f ion. The association had expended also
t $20,000 in improvements, ip addition to
1 paying the $200,000 money. Much still
i needs to bo done, and the large amount of
OLD SERIES-YOL. 15. NO. 814.
- i M ' " t
, funds at this time accumulating from the
) throngs of visitors, who pay an entrance
> fee each of twenty-five cents, will do much
I for putting the national shrine andpreserv
■ ing it in proper condition.
i The scourge Of the rebellion stayed its
i desolating tide at the confines of these sa
-1 cred acres. The tomb of Washington was
■ held sacred on both sides.
Pohick Church, where Washington wor
• shipped till the close of the Revolution,
. has riot escaped so well. The last dis
i course in it was a tempestuous disunion
harangue by an itinerant methodist preacher
ou a Sabbath near the opening of the war
’ The ancient edifice is now a shell ; not a
window, door, nor the smallest fragment of
the pews, pulpit nor floor are to be seen.
It was used early in the war by soldiers for
shelter, and later was turned into a stable.
The ancient tombstones of the abandoned
graveyard are lying and leaning around, and
desolation is painted in all its saddest
forms upon the scene. The old Pobick
Church was erected near this some one
hundred and fiity years ago. Th(s was
erected in 1772, and Washington was the
chief contributor in its erection. To this
church Washington for years regularly re
paired, some seven miles, allowing no com
pany to keep him from the Sabbath ser
vice. The pew door of Washington and
the great George Mason, had been carried
away as relics before the war. The trick
Wallß alone now remain.
The New York Loyal Publication
Society.
We require a civil war to make known to
us our energy, and power. Un
like former w.ars, rebellions and revolutions,
our struggle has produced manifold and im
mediate blessings. The angels of bur
households have declared their presence
by beneficient actions. The war ‘has
brought gentle ones together—*-has bound
the strong ones in patriotic wisdonu We
did not know the nuinbep.pf our great and
good men, nor the hopt of self-sacrificiug
wives and daughters that our country, is
blessed with, until war shoots down the
partition walls. We have displayed before
Europe the permanent grandetir of Orir re
public, and themorai beauty of bur relig
ious and social emotions.
-t Sectarianism.h,as worked bravely, during
our troubles; denominations have prayed
sincerely, and have their powder dry F
They have given us men for far off fields of
blood * they have suberibed generously to
Government loans ; they have wept over,
but have not repented, their numerous loss
es. Their ministers have gone forth* rep
resenting small circles, but helping on the
fulfillment of the hopes of all God’s chil
dren. Far from despising, then, the sec
tarian operations, we deem them worthy of
high approval. But the unsectariari
organizations command national attention,
and represent our character before the
wondering gaze of the Old World. They
have drawn a cordon of unflaetuatiug influ
ence around Courts, Cabinets and Parliar
ments, in the service of our triumphant
Union.
Men have emerged from luxurious shades
and lettered ease, to see each other, to fra
ternize with each other, to know each Oth
er’s worth and attainments ; centres of
chepring influence have been formed by the
relfnecT, the intelligent and the wealthy ;
Maminop has been vitalized by sympathy,
and the princely merchant of New York
city has become a ktogly benefactor; the
chivalry of humanity have been summoned
to do deeds of patriotism and mercy, and
not a jarring trumpet-sound has been
beard ; wealth has been scattered as bonn
tifully as God scatters stars in the firma
ment; time has been given by each one as :
though his or her life were an eternity ;
and enthusiasm has been maintained by in- <
spiration from the holy altar of Christian- :
ity. .iJSSiia rni/riaioa
All that we have briefly affirmed of un- :
sectarian organizations, applies with re
markable force to The Loyal Publication
Society of New York. Men of diverse p<y:
litical opinions“ organized under the
name.” The society, resolved to oppose .
disloyalty aud the enemies of the govern
ment with facts, arguments and appeals to i
of our people. No party pol- i
itics intruded, no party passions were, ex
cited, no dishonest designs nestled amid i
eloquent professions. Old democrats, !
yonng republicans, and sturdy radicals i
united to hecome educators of the ignorant,
stimulators of the desponding, and helpers
of the weak. Only one cry, Union —only,
one watchword, Unionr-only one object
Loyalty to the Union.
Silver Mining in Nevada.
The State of Nevada, with a population
of 40,000 inhabitants or less, took oat of
her miaes, in gold and silver bullion, du
ring the year 1864—as is shown by the sta
tistics of exports—more than $30,000,000.
This makes an average of $750 to every
man, woman and child in the State. It is
more than an average of $62 per month to
each inhabitant. All this has been done*
besides accumulating wealth at home, with
out one-eighth part enough of the milling
and mining machinery to make labor pro
ductive.
If a demand of S4O to every inhabitant
of the Atlantic States of her 30,000,000 in
habitants were made, it would amount to
$1,200,000,000, which would exceed the en
tire amount of coin and currency in the
country. If the coin and currency were
obliterated and put 9ut of existence, and
could be reproduced at the same rate in
proportion to their 30,000,000 of popula
tion as the State of Nevada is producing
gold and silver bullion, it would be re
placed in gold and silver in less than twen
1
ty days.
The entire export of the United States
in cotton, tobacco, sugar, breadstuff's, mer
chandise and all other commodities, is less
than $450,000,000 a year, which is only
sls to each inhabitant. The State of Ne
vada exports, in the single article of bull
iou alone, more than fifty times that amount
to each inhabitant, besides accumulating
at homo more real wealth, in proportion
to her population,' than any other state or
country on the face of the globe.
The business of mining in Nevada is just
in its infancy. In many districts where
many mioes are being opened, they have
no machinery to make labor productive ;
but when machinery is supplied equal to
the demand, the product of gold and silver
will far exceed all our present calculations,
as may be shown from the history of all sil
ver mining. There is not in the Reese
River country of Nevada a company, hav
ing its mine open, working its own ores in
its own mill, but takes out more thousands
of dollars each month than it has employers
in its service. v • ’
, - i
A Quaker Woman’s Sermon— My Dear
Friends .‘—There are three things I very
much \vonder at.
The first is, that children should be so
foolish as to throw up stones* cluba and
brickbats into fruit trees, to knock down
fruit; if they would only let it alone it
would fall off itself.
The second is, that men should be so
foolish, and even so wicked, as to go to war
and kill Ohch other ; if let alone they would
die of themselves.
And the third and lha last thing which
I wonder at is, that yonng tnen should be
so unwise as to go after the yonng women ;
if they would stay at home, the yonng wo
men would come after them.
l—c© Cream.
! . Ido not propose to give instructions in
ice creaui making, for I know but little
about it. But I can tell of two ice cream
j that I saw effected not five yards from
our door the other day, when the thermom
" eter stOOcl at 95*and a half in the shade;
Johannes Jaguez, who drives his loco
motive ice cream concern past our way,
right out into Jersey somewhere every day’
' has got a voice like a high pressure steam
boat. If Johannes bad been commander
| of the Army of the Potomac, aud knew
how to do the thing, and could have spoken
ten consecutive words of intelligible Eng
; lisb, ho could have displayed the column
and formed the line of battle of the whole
; army without an aid-de-camp. He could
have made every body heaf'hira easy.
Well, Johannes was dragging out through
the sand at high scorching noon,- roaring
with all his monstrous might of lungs—
“lscream / I scream!"
“Wal i’ll be dod dingged if I don’t think
you do scream., mister,” soliloquized a rural
ja.mpje pf. Jersey from away in yonder, who
was resting his panting nag under one of
the maples in front of our house.
Along came Johannes, bellowing bis “I—
scream” twice at every revolution of his
wagon-wheel. I brought the Teuton to a
halt, and purchased a quart of the frozen
fluid. Jersey got a view of it, and opened
his eyes very wide—
‘l say—what d’ye call that aro yaller
white stuff ?’
‘ I—scream /’ went off Dutchman, with a
roar that started Jersy half out of his boots.
‘Thunder and hoop-snakes ? I know you
scream like all possessed. But I wanted
to know the name of that are stuff!’
I explained—‘lce Cream.’
‘Thank, ye, marm.’ Is it good ter eat
'raw ? !
‘Ob, yes—nice. Try a spoonful, sir.’
Jersey opened his mouth like a four
horse cornsheller, and I dabbed into the
,chasm a heaped up ; spoonful of cream.—
His eyes snapped, he humped up his back
like, and then after swallowing two orthree
times, he sung Oat— ; ‘
‘Oh, Jeminy ! but that are is good !
How d’ye sell her, mister ?’
‘Dree quarder dollars a quard,’ Dutch
man said.
‘I sfligs, that are's pretty steep up—but
I reckon I must have some for ther old
woman and gals. They never seed no sech
stuff. Will it keep, mister ?’
‘Yes it keeps goot a9h never was.’
‘Well, give us two quarts.” Jersey got
a basket out of his wagon. 'Will it keep
in this?’ n
‘Oh, yes, it gceps blentee.’
So Jersey got his two quarts of ice cream
in his basket which he hung up under the
black cover of his wagon where it was sev
eral degrees hotter than an oven ought to
be. ' t.: * -
Johannes took his $1.50, and went on
roaring away—‘l—scream !’ while Jersey
—well—if the ‘ old woman,’ or gals either,
sees any of that basket of ic§ cream, more
than the basket, I shall purchase Jersey’s
secret for keeping the material.
Governor Brownlow’s Platform.
Governor Brownlow having been ques
tioned as to his platform, replies through
tho columns of his paper, the Knoxville
Whig, as follows :
“We are for the Union as it is, and the
enforcement of the laws as they are, both
State and national, until every rebel lays
down his arms, is killed off in battle, or
in private, or is hung—until this wicked re
bellion is crushed ont, and men cease to
abuse the Federal authorities, or talk trea
son even in private life. We are for no
compromise with rebels who have been in
arms against the Federal Government three
or four years, and have only laid down their
arms because' they were whipped ; we are
for no truce with rebels, no pardofi for-pi
rates, no complicity with thieves, and no
parley with murderers. We are for the
political party which will stand by the
country, sustain the United States Govern
ment, and not think of withholding men or
means from the President until the nation
has asserted its independence of organized
niobs at the South and in the North, and
until the whole world shall see and ac
knowledge our power to crush out the great
conspiracy.
“We hold that no man, in any section
of the country, North or South, should be
permitted to hold office until he has taken
an oath that he has never done, written, or
said anything against the authority of the
Government of the United States, or in
any way given aid, comfort, or encourage
ment, to its enemies, or to the men waging
war against the Government. Being gross
ly deceived by men in the South, who went
into the rebellion, we will never support
any man for any office of honor or profit,
who was a secessionist, or who aided in the
uuholy work of oppressing the Union peo
ple in the South, or who persistently advo
cated the prosecution of the war brought
on at the South.
j-t “Denying the right of secession, we hold
that no State has ever been out of tho
Union, and consequently we deny to Con
gress the right to regulate the franchise
question, holding that each State, after
having elected a loyal Legislature, shall
say who are loyal voters and who are not;
provided that no State shall enact a law on
i this subject at war with the provisions of
the National Constitution.”
Tho Former Home and Family of
Henry Clay.
Kentucky correspondent of the Cin
cinjtfafj&CQtnmercial tells the following story
of Ashland, lire late homestead of Henry
Clay, and the history of his decendants :
‘The homestead of Henry Clay is now
occupied by the family of Hon. Thomas
Clay, one of his sons and present Minister
to one of the South Americangovernments.
It is owned by the heirs of James B. Clay,
a degenerate son of tho great statesman j
who, it will be remembered, died in Cana
da, about a year ago. The house in which
Mr. Clay lived when at home, was torn
down, some years since by James, and a
magniGcent structure erected on its site,
and there is nothing now about the place
to remind one of him who once owned and
honored it except the family buggy in
which the old man and his wife used to
drive about, and the oak trees in front of
the house, beneath which he used to sit
and talk with his family and friends.
‘Mr. Clay had five sons. Four of them
survived him. One, who bore his father’s
name, was killed in the Mexican war.—
Thomas, as I have said, is uow a govern
ment minister. John is living in one half
of tho old homestead (uow divided into
two farms.) James died a fugitive in a
foreign land, and Theodore (the oldest of
the family) is, and has been for twenty-five
years, an inmate of an insane asylnm, still
avowing to every one that he is the original
George Washington, and refusing to re
spond to a call by any other name. Mr.
Clay had no possessions of any kind at the
time of bis death, with the exception
of Ashland, which was, of course, worth a
considerable sum ; but even that was very
heavily mortgaged, and he thought at one
time be would be compelled to abandon it
to his creditors, nntil one day when be en
tered the bank to pay one his notes he way
told that he did not owe a cent}