The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-12

down by the heat out Of which number eight have
proved fatal. There are no doubt great many
other eases OF coup de soeR, which at present have
not come under the cogn OF the public aataorf
ties and may not for day two as 1t Is freqnsnty
the THAT persons struck by the rays on the sum-
lnger time before congestion Of the hrain iuiy
sets in, thereby terminating in death.
large amount of business was transacted by
the Beard of Assistant Aldermen last evening,
nearly sixty papers being disposed OIL Ihe report
of the election districts, which was read by the
clerk, passed by a vote of fifteen to one. One
thousand copies were ordered to be printed The
Beard adjourned to the first Monday in September.
The steamboat A. C. Price on her return trip from
Shrewsbury last evening a large ship striking
Oh the Romer Shoa about half-past five o'clock, but
could not discover any further particulars being too
far from her.
To-days inside pages contain the closing proceed
ings of the National Scientific Convention Letters
from Pennsy lvania and Down East Cooling-oH
Place poetry the celebrated trotter, Lady SUI
folk, and much other entertaining reading, to which
we have no room to refer particularly.
sale Of Mount Vernon stations Of Pub
lie Opln ion-Plans OF Palcnase f0f the PeO-
pi~-Dusy Of Congress.
The articles of this Journal and of others, re
Gently published, deprecating the reported
| transfer of Mount Vernon to company of
| SPECTATORS, have had the good effect of
elicitipg, in every quarter of the Union the in
dignation of the American people against this
| alleged outrage upon public opinion, national
I rights. and national honor.
We presume that we have heretofore fairly
stated the case of Mr.. John A. Washington. the
present proprietor of Mount Vernon. and grand
nephew of the Father of his Country. This
| nephew inherits the estate through the will OF
his uncle In this character and in the position
of trustee of the place, sacred evermore to lib
erty, to law and order we doubt not that Mr.
| Washington properly appreciates the full extent
OF his private and public responsibility. Res
pect for the sacred name of Washington
respect for the obligations to the dead and
the living of the y-selfrespect-and a
sense of duty to the public sentiment of the
country. and the general opinion of mankind
of all nations civilized or savage, we be-
leve the present estimable proprietor of
Mount Vernon entertains. We believe
in fact from some personal observations and
knowledge in the premises. we know-that Mr..
Washington feels the alternative which has
been forced upon him of parting with Mount Yer
non as be should feel it; that is, he feels it to
be painful and humliating necessity.
But so it is. The estate, financially, does not
pay. 1t has, in ameasure. impoverished its pos
SCISSOR Reduced, by partitions, from the fruitful
and beautifully cultivated domain of George
Washington, numbering its thousands of acres,
hills and valleys, uplands and lowlands, fields
and forests. to some two OF three hundred acres
more or less. of the exhausted land among the
poor highlands of the Potomac, and with dis
proportionate colony of slaves attached to it.
the place of course, cannot pay expenses. The
constant throngs of visiters from all parts of
the Union, and all parts of the world, however
constitute, perhaps. the most serious drawback
to the proprietor; and considering all the cir
cumstances Of his situation, we may find a rea-
| sonable justification for the conditional sale to
| private company of spectators, to which he
| has been driven. The condition Of the transfer
which retains to Congress the refusal of the es
tate, is. at all events, saving clause to the
credit Of Mr.. Washington.
Notwithstanding this, we are gratifed at the
recently developed concerning the classic and
consecrated acres of Mount Vernon. We think
they afford a guaranty that the mansion where
| dwelt and died, the first in war the first ia
peace, and the first in the hearts of his country
men," shall not be desecrated to the purposes
| Of a common drinking establishment; but that
| Mount Vernon. when it ceases to be under the
protection Of the Washington family, shall be-
come the property of the American people for
| all time; The spectators who have taken the
initiative. we are thus assured, will be super
seeded, under the reservation in their contract
of refusal upon the same terms to Congress.
which, it is reported, cover but the paltry sum
Of two hundred thousand dollars.
Among the recent plans for the public ac-
QUESTION Of Mount Vernon, there are two which
we are induced to notice, from their being inn
medatey before u.s. The first is by gentle
man of Oho-Gn a letter to the National In
teHgencer)-a tgentleman of Ohio, and yet
bgoted, hide-bound Native American, who
would excite spirit of rancor and hostility
among the masses of the people in narrow
minded and wicked monopoly of the home and
the grave Of Washington. He proposes to be
49, One Of two hundred that will
pledge themselves to raise thousand dollars each
(no to give more or ess), one half to be paid
OIL the tenth day of January, 1854, and the balance
TO be paid in as the parties NAV agree Oh; the pro
perty and it, sacred remains 10 be secured by deed
10 the people OF the United States, and TO be under
the control Of the government Of the United states
so long the government shall remain republi Eau
goverImentx He adds" And now pledge my
self as oe Itbeawo hundred to one thousand
dollars 1or Ne above sacred purpose bat on con.
dition t1at the remaining one hsndrs4 aalk ninety
nine sbl9 be American born and truSk on6 he Arr
that 10 Young America shall h;Ae ps Or II in ~
matter, neither foreign or American ID
That plan will, Of course, be d;SnanEy re-
pudiated by all true native born Americans.
Lafayette, Kosciuski. Montgomery Psll Jones,
and host Of other alien born patriots. giveEo