The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-27
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Legislatures Of the free States:
VASHINGTON'S MANTELPIECE AT MOUNT
VERNAN

" ADlllNN lON - MAN IELHlECE Al MOUNT
VERNON.
The visit of the Prince of Wales to Mount YER
non induced the publication of the statement that
1t was the gift of Lafayette. The suboined letter
to the London Times corrects this statement, and
gives honor to whom honor is DUE
LONDON, Nov. 9Th, 1860
To The Editor Of tie Morning Chronicle
SHIN the letter of the especial Correspop-
dent of the Times, dated % Washington, Oct g.
describing the visit of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales to Mount Vernon, the home Of
Washington, it is stated
"ln this room is the beautiful marble manteI-
piece, presented to Washington by his devoted
friend and admirer, Lafayette rich and eabor-
ate structure, the only object in the whole house
which retains its pristine cleanliness and FORM shin
ing out like flower in a ruin
Now there is pair of such mantels at Mount
Vernon bearing beautiful bas-reliefs embematic of
agriculture This incorrect story about these beau.
ttul works of art-that they were presented to
ashlngton by Lafayette--has been repeated at
Mount Vernon and put into print so often that it
has come to be received historical. | take the
liberty to offer you a true account of them in the
nope that, through your columns, lust tribute be
rendered to the memory of a good and patriotic
hhghshman, who spent time and money for the
cause OF America, and than whom no one sin the
times which tried mems sous,'' held WASHINGTON
IN greater reverence. or was more devoted friend
TO the cause he represented. That man was Lon.
Goh merchant, and numbered among his friends
John j
Robert Morris, DR.. Joseph Priestey, and host Of
other great men of those times
Plain Mr." Samuel Vaughan, of Dunster court,
Mlncng lane, fenchurch street, London, merchant,
was the man who presented to George Washington
those two beautiful Italian marble mantels still at
Mount Vernon have often seen and read the cor
respondence between General Washington and Mr..
Vaughan on this subject, and possess copy thereof
IN America. These original letters, with much else
OF great historical value, long in the posses.
SION OF Mr. VIM. Vaughan, of 70 Fenchurch street.
London (the son of Samuel Vaughan, and at his
death they passed to his nephew, Mr.. Petty Waugh
an VINO died IN London in 1854, about which time
these valuable original letters, &C., passed | be-
lieve, into the hands of Mr.. George Peabody
benjamin Vaughan-who was the eldest son of
Samuel Vaughan, and was the father of Petty
Naughan-was very intimate with DR.. Franklin
as also with Lord Shelburne, the Marouis Lans-
downe; and when DIR. Franklin, as one of the Anne
rican Commissioners, and Lord Sheburne, as the
BRITISH Commissioner, were at Paris negotiating
ABOUT peace IN 1888, Mr.. Benz. Vaughan from the
relations he thus stood in respectively to the Ameri
can and British Commissioner was mainly instru-
mental, if indeed he was not actually the author
Jas some original documents in nv possession tend
to prove) of the Treaty of Peace of 1888 between
Great Britain and the United States of America.
The Vaughans played a valuable part in the
events which secured to America her independence.
that has never vet been recorded in history
am, sir, very respectfully, your Obedent servant
JACOB SNYDER, Jr., of Pennsylvania.
EACH STATE SHARE IN DIFFERING THE NAVY
We subloin a correct statement of the share each
State has borne in offering the United States
Navy, as the matter has been pretty well discussed
of late. The additions made to the personal roll of
the service IN 1860 in way affect the figures,
which comprehend no name below the rank of act
ing mldshlpman. Every year witnesses vast in
crease of the proportion of the Northern to South
ern officers. The Chaplains, it must be remarked,
were all born at this side of Mason and Dixon's
line; the Professors of Mathematics, too, with one