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State rights democrat. j Frota tho Albany (IS". Y.) Atlas and Argue. EfTeet or Negro NnflVnso nl tlie Sontli The t'oloretl l-opulation to Control Thrw States. The isstie of forcing ncjrrnuffrago up on the South at the point of Federal bay onets, has been made by the Republicans of iMassaehusctLs. Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa, ami other States, ami Chief Jus tice Chase is perambulating the country lu advocacy of the new doctrine. In imita tion of the minor apostles of this new faith he intrudes this new question upon assem blages, nt college commencements, and in dinner table speeches. In view of the issue that has been made by the agitators let us look at the effect negro suffrage at the South will have' upon the character of the representation in Congress and the United States Senate. 1 Taking the census of 1860 as a basis, it will be found that in twelve of the slave States, embracing eight hundred and eighty-six counties, there, is in two hund red and forty-four of them an excess of negro population. Alabama contains fifty-two counties, in twent- of which there is an excess of ne gro population. Arkansas has fifty-five counties, with an excess of -negro- population in six. Florida has twenty-one counties, with an excess of negro population in six. ueorgia has one hundred and thirty- two counties, with an excess population in forty-three. ot negro Louisiana has fortv-eight counties, with an excess of negro population in thirty- three. Maryland has twentv-two counties, with U excess of negro population in five. Mississippi lxas sixty counties, with an excess of negro population hi thirty -one. .North Carolina has eighty-seven coun ties, with an excess of negro population in twenty. ' - t South Carolina has thirty-five counties, with an excess of negro population in twenty. Tennessee has seventy-five counties. with an excess of negro population in throe. ."Texas has one. hundred and fifty-one counties, with an excess of negro popula tion in thirteen. Virginia has one hundred and forty eight eounties. with an excess of negro population in fortr-four. This would give the negroes a majority in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. In these three States they could elect negroes enough to con trol the Legislatures, ami elect six negroes to the United States Senate, and three or four times that number of Representatives td Congress. In all the Southern States they could send negroes to the State Leg iglatureSj and in two hundred and forty four counties control the local offices. These figures present the universal negro suffrage question in a social aspect. Carry out th6 scheme of the agitatoi-s, and what -ah "prevent "i he sending of colored Rep resentatives to the Hails of Congress ? ; These are "deductions from the figures of, the census of I860, and the probability is: that the excess of black population is greater at the present time than it was I five years ago. The war has doubtless swept off a larger number of whites than blacks. Besides, it must be remem'oei-ed that, to start with, the negroes will have another decided advantage from the fact that a large class of the whites are exclud ed froni the right of suffrage by the ex ceptions iu President Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation, while with the negroes there are no exceptions whatever. .New England has led off in favor of universal negro suffrage, and Chief Jus ,titfe Chase is stamping the country in its , advocaey I It has now become one of the cardinal doctrines of the party, and we expect to see the Republican State Con vention of New York toe the mark, and give it an unqualified endorsement. -.iNoyel Judicial Test. A curious inci dent lately occurred in a French criminal court. A young woman, carrying a child less than a year old in her arms, was arraigned Tor having stolen three gold ten-franc pieces from the house of a lady whers she had call ed oh business. The prisoner stated in her defense that her bahy snatched the coins ifrom a table without heir knowledge, she had just discovered them there, and was pre paring to go back with the money when she was arrested. -The defense was thought most improbable, owing to the child's age ; hut the president, in order to test the possi- bility, ordered one of the ushers to lay three !gold pidees on the lelge of the dock, within the baby's reach. The moment the1 little thing eaw the money, it clutched the pieces firmly, and attempted to put them in its mouth. This, experiment satisnea tne trio unal that the woman had told the truth, and ehe was in consequence acquitted of the charge. - --- - X' Pceitt or Character. Over the beauty of the plum and the apricot there grows a bloom and beauty more exquisite than the fruit itself a soft, delicate flush spreads its blushing cheek. Now, if you strike your hand over that, it is gone. The flower "that hangs in the morning impearled with dew, arrayed as no queenly woman ever was ar-raj-ed with jewels once shake it so that the . beads roll off, and you may sprinkle water over it as you please, yet it can never be .gain what it was when the dew fell silently on itufroni icaven. On a frosty morning you may see panes of glass covered with land scape, mountains, lakes, trees, blended in a beautiful picture. Now lay your hand up on 'the glass, and by the scratch of yoar fin- ferj or by the warmth of your palm, that ejicate tracery wild be obliterated. So there is in youth a beauty and purity of character, which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored. -- - " HeaIth atd Sttdt. -If, by gainin g knowl edge , we destroy our health, we labor for a thing that will be useless in our hands ; and if, hy harrassing our bodies, though with a design 'to render ourselves of the abilities and opportunities of doing that good which we might have done with a meaner talent, which God thought sufficient for us, by hav Jng denied us the strength to improve it to that pitch which men cf stronger constitu tion can attain to, we rob God cf such ser--vice, and our neighbors of all that help which, in a state of health, with moderate . knowledge, we might have been able' to per form, lle that sinks his vessel by overload ing it, though it be with cold and silver and . precious stcjnos will give his owner but an s awwif" v1 "is voyage.. .he member for Cranbury Center deliver---ed himseli' thus on a Hifiinnrniilo - Mr. Sspaaker, 1 think sheep- it paramou at to. ' dogs, and our laws hadn't oughter be so thnt' , dS8..can commit ravages on slieeii (laughter , and cries of That's so.f) : Up where f live! sheep is more account than docs, and 1- - though you may tell me that dogs is useful, -sheep is nsofulfer ; and show me the man that represent dogs are more important than .sbeepY and I will show yon - a man that is 'tantamount to know nothing.', Mr. Sneaker,' I am thro'j , ';' '-' i- , UADH AI, PLATFORM ! TUt Alliance Between the Puritan? ami the Xcsi'ocs :?Isssn'luieti I issues Her I itinmtiiin lVrleel i:l unlit) Kr the Xejrro in Every thing;.' It is a noteworthy fact that the Aboli tion organs of Oregon do not lay before their readers the real doctrines, views and measures, promulgated by their foremost and most potential party. managers at the Kast. and particularly in the .New Lug land States, with reference to the great issues now before the people. That there is a sinister reason for this marked si lence on the part of the Abolitimi press of Oregon, must be obvious to all. They are well aware that not one-half of their awn party brethren in this State will ac cept or support the doctrines or policy promulgated by the Radicals of the East ern States, who actually and quite abso lutely control the whole Abolition organ ization ol the country, ana tv unuinsr to keep their readers in igimrance of the Radical platform, they hope to save them selves from the impending certain defeat in the next State election, in June. lSlKS. To foil them in this desitrn. and to afford our Democratic patrons an opportunity t show to their benighted, errimr, but well disposed Abolition neighbors, just what the radicals of their party demand and will if able, practically carry out, we shall from time to time give publication to the doc trines and sentiments contended f r and proimilgaied by the great high priests of Abolitionism. And with this view, we now give the following "Address of the Massachusetts Republican State Commit tee," as officially printed. We ;:k every reader to peruse it carefully, and note its hideous features. Perfect equality for the Negro is the leading idea which per vades the whole thing. Xero suffrage is made an indispensable condition. And indeed, Xegro superiority in the Soutl: 1 ISi also demanded. Iiead and peruse it, lcr 1 ' . T j 1 11. it is .uassactiusett mat treats, ana uer dlefa is now the law and sole rule iu the Abolition party : Headquarters, No. 8. ) BnoMriELivsT., July 18, 1SG5. j' .'To the IWftfe of yLtzmclkUtcttz : In is suing their annual invitation to the sup porters, of the national and State Admin istrations to meet iu convention for the purpose of completing their organization and presenting candidates for the various 0gees aje e!eetive by the whole people, the Republican State Committee deem it proper to call attention to the present condition ef public ahairsras one which requires that a more than ordinary decree of regard shtmld now be paid by every voter to his rights and obligations ! as a citizen. He uesire to speak, to tue inequalities, w neu mey nave not einian people as citizens and patriots; but if we go red the loyalty of the States where they shall address them also as members of a exist and where they do not threaten political organization we shall deem no hereafter to put in peril the public peace. apoluiiy necessary. Duringtue contest which the loyal peo- pie of the country made against ail its dis loyal elements, from the breaking out of the war ua to the day oi the i'residential election inlS64, it was found indispensa ble to uiatitaiu and strengthen the power of our org-iiizatiou as the only hope of the country against the triumph of the rebel Confederates and their sympathizers. And now that the strife of arms is ever and that of opinion begins, it is certainly no time for relinquishing those advantages which have heretofore proved so vital to our success. "Those. who think alike must act together." In this familiar maxim is found ample excuse for parties in a Government like this, and especially in times of public danger ; and we appre hend it will be found that in the discus sion and settlement of the great question which will arise between this time and the next Presidential election, the same mon, substantially, who acted in 18G4 against the party whose success there is good rea son to fear would have given the victory in the. field of arms to the rebel Confede racy will be again found acting together against the same party, marshalled tor the dangerous purpose of depriving the peo ple of the fruits of their hardly won and glorious victory. . This is no time for partisanship, or for appeals to party prejudices or traditionary attachments ; least of all for any attempt to limit the boundaries of a party which we hope to see more and more widely ex tended until it shall embrace all friends of the country, by whatever party name they have heretofore been known. But while an organizod political force exists hostile to the principles which have tri umphed in - the nation, and watching for opportunities to recover its forfeited pew- er. ;we acem it oi vital importance to strengthen and enlarge that organization' which ha3 followed the patriotic instinct, and systematized and made effective the sound political opinion oi the loyal States while the gallant armies of the Union were contending for its existence on the field of battle. , It is true that our organization has taken no public position, for it has had no op portunity to take a public position, on the new questions which have arisen since the surrender of -Lee's army, and which arc daily arising. It is doubtless true, also, thatthere are, and will be, shades of difference of opinion, on these topics among the supporters of the Administration in the various sections of the country. It is not indispensable that, for the present at least, these shades of opinion should be obliterated. We do not forget thata vcry large number of the supporters of Presi dent Lincoln s Administration, like the President himself, were slow to se the necessity of the Emancipation policy. But when they saw it, the party became a unit on. that subject. ..pei.ng tile party of the country, au aiaerence ot theory, all pre conceived nptions, all personal prejudices 11 1 m n . 1 T mm - within the party, which were finally found to impede the harminous and effective handling of this power, were made t;o give way. . ' ' : The party of the country will not be less patriotic now ; and when it shall be made clear that the safety of the Rerml.n nr. the financial and industrial prosperity of wvX GYen tne continued existence oi tne uovernment with any sort of security- against new wars and periodical con vulsionsdepend upon a wise and cau tious policy of reorganization, which shall be satisfied with nothing less than absolute guarantees fur the extinction of that spirit of caste and proscription which is the. root of slavery and the parent of civil strife, then the people will be as unanimous for such a policy as they was last year in fol lowing J resident Lincoln to the abolition of that gross and hideous form in which slavery then presented itself to their view. Hie people ot the r ree States do not intend to enter upon any crusade against the ancient ri-xlit of the State to fix the jualitications of voters. Whether .such itialilications be 'of property or education. or of age and sex alone, is a matter of State concern with which no one desires to in termeddle. Rut .when the late rebel com munities, denuded by their own acts of Mate liovcrntnents, without Legislative or Judicial Departments, without ecn a justice or a constable who can legally ex ercise the tunctions ot civil office, come forward as suppliants for pardon, and for restoration into the family ol' States, it is an exercise on our part of the sinndiest instinct of elf-defence if we require that all constitutional and statute provisions, all "customs, and tuages, and tradition, solely based upon that institution of slav ery, which was the origin and mainspring of the rebellion, j-liall h; made to give way. Laws and ordinances made for the govern ment of chattels must not be perpetuated for the government of men. We do not nsk the President or Con gress to make use of any doubtful powers ; but the power to preserve what the valor of our soldiers and sailors has won is not doubtful; the power to keep the country from again falling into the possesion of an aristocracy of caste -the po wer to pre serve us from another quarter of a centu ry of slavery agitation, to be followed, perhaps, by new rebellions and more de vastating wars, is a rower which the r.oo- ple will iiot relinquish, and which their servants, we cannot r.ou!;t. win sooner or later I e obliged to use. Loyalty. a every body admits, must be ini-isted on as the indispensable qualifications of all voters, no inatfrr ichftttr the Constitution ur ,'mrs Rut a dark fc-ktn, or a trace more or less j (distinct - of African descent, is no evidence 1" disloyalty. 5or is it any test of it:. 1 :., o-,-,. 1.- 1-..., !..-, ,.f l,.,t j- , j,,,,,,, . u;,.,.,! vitude which ve have heen obliged to 1.... - - ! a ,0 ,h in order ta rrescrvc the national ona m e-ruer ie mi-m-ou mc ii.nivn.ii , istence. Shall we consent to the rfisto- .1 . I-' ex IS ration of the rebel communities under thejl7.V leaving a wife, the daughter of Sir two-filth constitutional provision, which William Fairfax, of Relvoir, and one greatly enlarges the political power of j child a daughter ; and on the demise of their voting population, and under a sys tetn which excludes from the polls a loya people quite as intelligent as the great body of the whites, whose good wilt to wards our Government has helped to save it from destruction, and whose continued friendliness will be uo less indispensable iu, the future. It is no answer to this to say that some of the loyal States do not allow colored men to vote, aud that we may as well un dertake to exclude Ohio from the Union as to keep ' uth I arohna from coming back with full c Njrressional powers. Such 1 may oe safely felt to the reviving spirit ol justice in tne Northern people, stimulated to friendliness towards a race which has performed for us a useful national service. At any rate we possess and claim no right: to interfere with the electoral laws of loy al States. But the rebel States, as every body admit, are iu a condition which re quires reconstruction or restoration, and which justifies guardianship and the strict est watchfulness on the part of our Gov ernment and people. Whatever safe guards may be found necessary for the permanent pacification of the country, and for the fulfillment of the national pledge of freedom, in spirit as well as in letter, to the enfranchised blacks, must be insisted upon. e would not lay undue stress upon the mere question of suffrage as a matter ot right, or seem to insist upon giving to the freedmen new powers which, however valuable to them, might not be deemed to be imperatively demanded by-public con siderations affecting the whole country. We are awareoo, that there are other questions of administration, the solution of which is in the hands of the President and Congress, and which, if rightly set tled, as wis believe they will be, will go far to ensura to us tranquility and safety. We note with great satisfaction that many inevitable abuses, which have been brought to light since the close of hostilities, have been promptly corrected by the civil aud military power. - And we aro confident that a wise and humane policy will do what cau be done in the future to protect the colored loyal ists from the spirit of hatred and oppres sion. But it will be found that the secret of our peace policy is precisely what was found to bo the secret of our war policy, that-i3, the necessity of doing justice-to this peopie, and oi placing in their hands the power to protect themselves, to secure their own rights, and redress their own wrongs. To this complexion must it come at last. And the great industrial interests ot tne nation, its unanciai staomty anu honor, the progress of the new civilization which is to make this continent the peace ful abode df a hundred million self-sup porting citizens, all demand that the work of statesmanship shall be wisely commenc ed aud thoroughly carried on. Wv Claflin, Chairman LOTAITV IN THE FULPIT. It 18 HOW thought that there will le no serious oppo sition by clergymen in Missouri to the put ting in operation of that clause of the new Constitution of that State requiring them to take an oath of loyalty as a prerequisite to the exercise oi tneir ministerial iuueuons. The Missouri Republican copies this, and adds We find the above in the Chicago Journal, into which it seems to have crept from some other paper. It contains a misrepresenta tion wlueh ought to be corrected, it is no simply an oath of loyalty that is demanded of clergymen, A clergyman hero may be entirely loyal and yet not bo able to take the iniquitous oath prescribed by our infamous Constitution. Salem, Mass., has decreased eleven hun dred since 18G0. The missing ones are off fillinff armv contracts or holding offices un der Government, Salem is loyal; loyalty pays best. '. '."'." : ' '; The Washington corresDondent of the Chi cago Times say that two sons of Senator Douglas, who are growing up to be fine young men, are both students at Ueorgctown college, near that city. -;' -' li nn the National 1 ut( Higemvr. 3it .T yi:k.ox. Hititorj', Its Proprietors, Its Itelics, lis Iteminiseenees, niul Its Ir-scnl Condition. Thorp bus probably never been so great a thron of visitors to the national shrine in the history of the country as at the present time. The fine steamer running regular!- thither from this city is largely putronia'd, while multitudes are daily ro ing there by land conveyances. Tbe throng fof soldiers thither is especially very uuiuerous. The distance from Wash ington is some fifteen miles, about nine below .llexandria. At the death of (lencral Washington, in 1 7W, the Mount Vernon estate com prised several thousaud acres in a solid bod-, extending many miles on the Poto mac river, A large part of it was under tillage. : It was divided into five farms, each cultivated by its own negroes with an overgi-er. and the whole under a gen eral superintendent, and all under the careful inspection of the great chief him self. II is own negroes numbered one 1 , , , . t numired ana twenty ins wile s were as many more. Wheat, corn and tobacco were the chief products of the estate, to bacco behi' however, much less "Culti vated in the latter years of his life than in earlier times. I'pon the estate there was"a fine two-story corn and flour mill the remnants of which are still visible on Uogue Creek, up which llatboats came alonirvide the mill. The water to carry the mill was brought in a race some mile and a half from a ' tumbling dam " ui lVon.e Uun. The old mill house is still in good condition, and is occupied by a colored I'nnilv. Near this mill was also his distillery. There was also a brick yarl. a carpenter establishment, blaek- saittn suop, tne estate tortmng, in tact, sort ef a village. (Irigmany tuc .Mount ernon estate consisted ef one-half of five thousand acres a'siirned to Washington's ; uTi t. ranuiu'Iier. who. in coin unction with h-tlas Spencer, patented it from Lord peneer. Cul ! I pper in h70. Tsi the division of his estate the father of Washington as tract to his elder brother Law- jfdgned tlii- intel-i!cl!ee. who came here and erected the : .. . t-i. t . t- i i - i i i Admiral crnon. under whom he served ;., i Unf.dn in vl:l wi i.. tl. . ... lS vaptaiu in a colonial regiment, in the West Indies, in 1740. Lawrence 'died in this daughter without issue, as soon hap pened, the estate fell to (Jeorgc. who had been r.-.ueh an inmate of the family. In 17f'b General Washington married Marihn Custis. (mv I'audridge). then re siding on her estate at the White House, with lier two children, and after remain ing at that place some three months, took up his residence at Mount Vernon. She. brought him in her own right more than a hundred thousand dollars. They were the ?.ijue age. 27 years, at their marriage. Iu his will. Washington divided the estate into thn-e parts, The mansion, with f tur thousand acres, was left to his nephew. Bush rod Washington, an Asso ciate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. At the death of Mrs. Y ashiugton. in lSOl , 'Judge Washington became the proprietor of Mount Vernon, and contin ued there till his death m 1SU. iwo ot the old servants still on the estate came there with him, belonging to his wife nna, daughter of Thomas Llaekburn. Twd of General Washington's servants till survive, also, residing some three miles from Mount Vernon. Judge Wash ington, having no children, left the es tate to his nephew, John A. Washington. from whom the Ladies Mount ernon Association purchased the two hundred acres, upon which are the mansion and tomb, for $200,000. Two thousand acres were willed by Washington to two other members of the Washington family, and the residue, upwards of 2,000 acres, in cluding the fine Wood lawn estate, was given to Maj. Lawrence Lewis, a favorite nephew, whose wife was the beautiful and cultivated Xelly Custis, granchild to Mrs. W ashmgton, and the adopted daugh ter of General Washington. Major Lewis erected a splendid man sion at Woodlawn, in 1805, at a cost of 24.000. Major Lewis, whose mother, Betty Washington, was the sister of the groat chief, died at Arlington in 1841, uid his wife died in 1852. The remains of both, with those of a daughter, the wife of Charles M. Conrad, Fillmore's War Secretary, being deposited in the Mount ernon vault. Soon alter the death of Major Lewis, the Woodlawn es tate was sold by his only son, Lorenzo, to a colony of Quakers from New Jersey, who still retain much of it, divided into tarins. The oodlawn mansion, with a splendid farm of 500 acres surrounding it, belongs to John . Mason, iisq., who came mere irom j.cw iiampsime m jo. .i i - -xt ir i ic:n The mausion is of brick, with slate roof, and lofty pillars fronting the river on a commanding site looking down upon the wholo Mount Vernon estate. ; Lorenzo Lewis died, some years ago in Clark coun tv, and the other daughter, the wife of Mr. Butler, is living in Mississippi. John A. Washington went to Fauquier county with his family in 18o0, and pur chased a farm known as Wareland. Ilis wife died suddenly soon after, and. it is well known that he fell, as Colonel of a rebel regiment, early iu 18G1, leaving a family of seven children, the youngest . .... i 1- two beinsr little boys, and the only niaic children ever born at tho Mount V ernon mausion. There are soiuo one thousand acres of the Mount Vernon estate, be longing to these orphan children, lying in close proximity to the Mount v ernon mansion. The Mount Vernon estate was proba bly never under a finer state of cultiva tion thn if is at the nresent time. The v. w j vmiiu - -" r- farmers have been shipping manure m large quantities from the city this season, and nilinsr it at their landings on the river for future use. At the present time there are SLOOO government mules grazing upon different farms in that sec tion. These mules are separated into souads of five hundred, with fifteen mount ed men to control them, are put into a heavy grass field, kept closely. together, and compelled to e'at clean as they go. A squad thus eats some more than two acres of tho heaviest crass in a day, for which they pay five cents a head, or $25 a day for hc squad. The ground behind them looks as though no grass had grown there this season. Tie ground immediately around the mansion and tomb bear evidence of care and taste. 1 he approach to the tomb mil the mansion from the river is highly picturesque and delightful, lhe appear ance ot both the tomb and the mansion has been familiar to all Americans in il lustrated books from the childhood of the most of those who nv read the daily .11'! , 1 ' I . press. e nave seen uu.s sacrci spot many times in the last thirty years, and never saw it looking hotter than now. It may be interesting to many who are now a isititnr tin; place for the first time to know that the remains of Wai-hingtoii were originally deposited ill the -old vault which is pointed out to all visitors, and in a. mahogany coffin lined with lead. flic vault was damp and the wood was three times renewed before being placed in the receptacle where they now repose. In PvjI the new vault was erected and the remains transferred. A Philadelphia marble worker proposed to furnish a mar ble sarcophagus, but on visiting the tomb declined to do so if it was to be put in so damp a vault. An ante chamber was therefore erected in front of the vault. some dozen feet high, with an arched rate- way and gate tonne; I ot iron rods. Jn this ante-chamber on the rmht is the sar- to formed of iron rods. In cophagus containing the remains of Wash-jdid ington, and en the left another precisely like it c-.iitaining the remains of Mrs Washington, and it may be added that her remains have been moved as often as those of the exeat chief. The sarcopha gus is excavated from a Solid block of pure white marble, and was placed there in 17 Within the vault proper are the bodies of many members of the fam ily. On either side a you come near the vault sta-nds a marble obelisk, inscribed with names of the leading members of the Wa.-hihgtou family. The design upon Washington's sarcophagus covers the most of the top or lid. and consists of a shield, divided into thirteen perpendic ular stripes, resting on the national flag, and attached by cords to a spear embel lished with fast'fds farming a background to the shield. The cre't is an eagle with open wings perching upon the superior bar of the bar and clutching the arrow. and olive branch. Relow the armorial liA-iflM'- !; fllj' Ti-llM-- ll , , , of Washington. . . I ,.; hoar, mid the same privilege is accorded On the idatii l.'i titj, ,.1 . ,., 1 -,, ' , . to (. lenient (,. (.lav. Keeentlv, m ef-use- the other !-arc phagus are the words, in j larcre letters. Martha V ashMigton. j .. ..!.:,:. .. . i j i . r it , ,. .. . . . , , , , ' 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, wa mueii eniargea nvueuerai viasir;ugion, a section being added to each end, mak-i ing it, as it now stands. J0 feet in length j' north and south, with a portico, fronting the river, extending from end to end. This portico having decayed, has been re placed by an exact copy of the old. The mansion is two stores high, of wood, fin ished in imitation of free-stone, and paint ed white. Fourteen small windows, with the old-fashioned diminutive panes of glass, look out upon beautifully tlopiug lawns, and deswn 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 ejst to west. The north room is the large dining hall, in which is the extjuisite marble mantlepiece. wrought in Italy, shipped on an English vessel during the French Revolution, captured by the French, and promptly forwarded 14- the t rench (lovernment when .Lafay ette wade known that it was a present from au American wine merchant, resi dent in Marseilles, to "Washington. In this room are also the double banked har pischord. shaped like a modern square uano a weddniii present to his adopted daughter, Nelly Custis ; the tripod which served Washington in ail his survey, and the larire set of matched mahoirouy din-r ins tables. The diuinsr hall opens at either end in to 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 hanrs in the class case in the hall, and. iy its side, the silhourjtr, taken from life y a lady in Philadelphia. The library room, m tne south eim is occupied ov Miss Tracy, the accomplished and faithful ajrent of the Mount Vernon Association. A bust of Washington, east in plaster by Iloudon, and another of Lata vet te, facios each other high on the walls, are the only observable relics. The bookcases, built into the wall, with glass doors, fully oe eupy one side of the large room. Over this apartment, m a small tearoom the iireat and good man died. A bedstead. said to be an exact copy of that on which he died, is the only article in the cham ber. The family pictures were nearly or quite all at Arlington, und were taken to Iliehmond by lien. Lee. lhe celebrated " pitcher portrait," upon the back of which was inscribed the beautilul eulogy, and left in tho mansion by an unknown hand, was carried away by J ohn A. YY ash ingtou, and is in the possession of that family. The long row of brrck quarters still stand as they have for thirty or forty years. since they were partially destroyed by fire. In this row Washington had hfs blacksmith and carpentering establish mentd, and here now live the two old col ored servants ot whom mention has been made as the servants who came here sixty years ago with Anna Blackburn, the wife oi Bushrod ashington. The " Ladies' Mount Vernon Associa tion," it is well known, made their pur chase- in I808, and had made the last pay ment of 2,000 upon the eve of tho 're bellion. The association had expended also $20,000 in improvements, m addition to paying the $200,000 purchase money Much still needs to be done, and the large amount of funds at thi8 time accu mulating from the throngs of visitors, who pay an entrance ice each of twenty five cents, will do much for putting the national shrine and preserving it in proper condition. The scourge of the rebellion stayed its desolating tide at the confines of these sacred acres. The tomb of Washington was held sacred on both sides ' Pohiek Church, where Washington worshipped till the close of the Revolu tion, has not escaped so well. The last discourse in it was a. tempestuous politi cal harangue by au itinerant Methodist preacher, on a Sabbath near the opening ot the war, ane ancieni eamee is now a shell ; not a window, door, nor the small; est fragment of the ptws, pulpit nor floor are to he seen. . It was used early iu tho war by soldiers tor shelter, and la- ter was turned into a stable. The an cient tombstones af the abandoned grave yard are lying and leaning around, and desolation is painted in all its saddest forms upon the .-cene. The old Pohiek Church was erected near this some one hundred and fifty years ago. This was erected in 1772, and Washington was the chief contributor in its erection. To this church Washington for years regularly repaired, some seven miles, allowing no company to keep him from the Sabbath service. The pew doors of Washiugtou and the great (icorge Mason had been carried away as relics before the war. The brick walls alone now remain. Pi; it i tax Intoi.kuanck. The Puri tan settlers of New Knglarid did not change their nature by coming to Ameri ca ; but their fierce and stern notions of religion were rather intensified by findintr themselves not only the Church, but the State! ;- possessing all power in the Colony, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, with nothing above them, and no power to whom appeals could be made from their uecjsioti. v on-equemiy mey were very ill-disposed to see colonists come in who not worship at their ahars. and bow 'down to their gods. The Quakers came in lfj.jO and l''). i.nd they pa.etl laws by whie.h the (Quakers were imprisoned, whipped at life cart's tail, .set in the stock. ertte'!. branded, and rmt to death nj'n the L'allow. All this wa done iu Boston, and Uoston Common has witnessed (Quaker men and women swing ing ujiDii a gallows. Later the Iapti:ts came, and anotlier commotion arose. The Baptists were driven out with cruelties and h:irh Yrocecd;iigs which would have been pu-hed t the same extremities as they were in the ease of the Quakers, had not the leader of the Baptists funnel a ha ven and a shelter ir his p.eople in the neisrhhorins colony of Khode Island. Jeff. Davis ani C. C. Clat. A Fortress Monrt H correpornlent says in a recent letter : Jeff, is permitted to promenade the iraniiiarta of tue lort everv day at a stated juenec of a temporary change in Jeff" s hour of recreation, the two rebels ac-ci- jtiently met face to face Lut thev were not allowed to ston an instant to exchange wonts, though in passing they managed to clap hand.-. This is the first time that ilavis an d Clay have seen each oth- snt'-e tne day on which thev r -.1-.,, fV,.,- TM,! -. aud brought u . - In the future, the ol f'refgi) eserfise of the prisoners will he so timed as to prevent tfct? po?S5&Ulty OI their seeing each other asrain. Duriner his absence in the army, the wife of a s'd Jier named Cunningham made his house at Fort Wayne. Indiana, a den of in iquity and shame. On arriving at home on .Saturday of lat week, two lewd fellows called ami attempted to force entrance, when Cunningham shot and killed them both. A returned soldier in Ilandorph county, Wis., t'k a woman to the circus. leaviiig his lawful wife'ttUking at home. lie s;on after died of rsenie, of which his wife pro cured a supply at a drug or and administ ered to him. Alms-giving Dever makes any man poor. AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER. 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