Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-03-04
MOUND Vernon.

the American Of the 25th, the return from
one Town only has been received. The name
ct that Town and Agent, and the amount
contributed will APPEAR when the full returns
Of the County are published in the Ellsworth
American.
An acknowledgement has been received
from the Regent Of the Association dated at
Philadelphia. on the 10Th inst, of three hun
dred and eighty nine dollars % 100, RENTED
on the 10th; evincing her prompt tention
to business, and afording to us the assurance
that the amount was on hand, to meet the
full payment for the Estate on the q inst.
TINS done the interest amounting to about
nine thousand dollars, which had ACQUIRED
since the purchase, would not be exacteI -
No advice of the deed having been obtained,
Is yet has te receive but as it was,published
by authority in the n. Y. Evening Post of
the 10th, that one hundred thousand doll. RS
had been paid, and that sixty thousand dol
lars was ON hand to pay the remaining one
hundred thousand, there can be no doubt
that the full amount was realized in season:
and we may have the satisfaction of knowing
that the contribution from Hancock consti-
tuted portion Of the amount required to
perfect the title to the Estate,
In the letters adressed to the Agents Of
Towns. the time limited for the returos. was
prior to the 18th of February, this was do, e
with view to the remittance Of the amount
In time to meet the payment contemplated
on the birth day of him; First IN ,car, first
IN peace, first in the hearts of has countrvnca.
Through inadvertency or some other cause
unknown, twenty Towns and Islands, the
names Of which were given in the American
OF the 18th, as not having been heard from.
HID neglected to send in their returns
Since then two OF these Towns have renortcd
the names will be withheld, until the pub
llcation Of the full returns of the Countv.-
Under these circumstances it is deemed es-
PedleRt to give public notice, that the time
for making the returns, is now extended to
the 18th of March the SD anniversary of the
memorable day when, by the consummate
skill and prudence of Washington the Brit
ish Army was compelled to eyacuate Bost
without any injury inflicted on the inhabi-
tants ola Town which had been thought
doomed to destruction. On that day then
the Agents of Towns will return their Sub
scription Lists with the amount collected -
In the meantime as near two weeks will elarse
after the receipt of this communication before
the time now designated, the following briel
staten mt of the facts, so far as they have
come to my knowledge, relating to the origin
motive and object of the Association which
months ago ought to have been fully explain
Ell to the public, will, it is trusted, thou II
late, not even now be deemed irrelevant.
John A. Washington was in occupation
Of the homestead of the great departed, 70
his lineal descendant. He had not the mea,is.
or he thought he had not the means, to keep
the Estate in the repair which the high
standing of the former possessor, and the
honor of our County alike demanded Toe
grounds, the house, the Tomb, were open to
the inspect ton of strangers from every quar-
ter of the Union, and of Foreigners fr IN
every civilize ed Nation OF the Earth who were
nuUuaUva 10y motives Uf IQIe curiosity, or
heartfelt yeneration, TO visit ev.ry spJt
which had been hallowed by his presence.
'For he was Freedoms champion one OF those,
The few in humber, who had not o'erstept
The charter to eaastise which she bestpws
On such as WELD her weapons he had kept
The whituess Of his soul, and thus men Ger him
Nept.
Mt. Vernon was in the occupation of the
public, it was no home, no place, for the resi-
idence OF a private family, the continued an
noyance may be Imagined, but cannot be
overated; access to the house, to the Tomb
could not be denied to any one DESTROYS Of
visiting them; the house, the grounds, liver
not for him, or his family, but for the public
such as is congregated at the seat of Govern,
ment. John A. Washington was compelled
to sell his patrimony by continued and in
cessant invasion, worse than that of the
Goths and Vandals. Knowing his situa ion
probably from having witnessed or participa-
ted in the annoyance to which he was sub
jected, band of Spectators, roeking from
the Capitol applied to him to purchase the
Estate, their object undoubtedly to erect a
splendid Hotel with IT'S unavoidable con-
comitants, Bowling Alleys, Billiard Ia bles,
Gambling Saloons, and what not the once
residence of him who stands foremost in the
world as the embodiment Of the great and
good, dehled and proaned by a congrega-
ton of Sharpers and Black-legs. 1t is said
that much larger sum than that for which
he has since sold was offered to John \.
Washington, goaded irritated, as he had been
and as he knew he would be, he spurned
the profered brio.; he would sell to the
State of Virginia, or to the United States to
be held forever as public property, but he
would never sell, subject to the management
Of private individuals.
The state of Virginia. would not purchase
The United States under the limitations i'm
POSED by the Constitution, had no power to
purchase, and the tender made to them re-
spectively was declined. Still he held on
the grounds. the house, the Tomb, were open
- inspection, stranger visitants felt indig.
nant, Woman denounced it a scandal to the