Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1865-08-17

French government. when Lafayette made known
that it present from an American wine mer-
chant, resident in Marseilles, to Washington. In
thi. room are also the doublebankeJ harpischord,
shaped like a modern square piano--a wedding
present 10 his adopted daughter, Nelly Gusts; the
tripod which served Washington in all his surveys
and the large set of matched mahogany dining
tables. The dining hall opens at either 0nd. into
an cast and west parlor, in one of which is an DID,
dilapidated. large globe, and in the other an old
sota The KEY OF the bastile-a present from La
fayette-stil hangs in the glass case, in the hall,
and, by its side, the stouette taken from life, by
a lady in Philadelphia. The library room in the
son'h end, is occupied by Miss Tracy, the accom-.
pshed and faithful agent of the Mount Vernon
Association. A bust of Washington, cast in plas.
ter by Houdon, and another of Lafayette, facing
each other, high on the walls are the only observ-
able relics. The book cases, built into the wall,
with glass doos, fully occupy one side of the large
room. Oversthis apartment, in small bedroom,
the great and good man died. A bedstead, said to
be an exact copy Of the which he died. ia
the only article in the chamber. The family pic
lures were nearly all at Arlington, and were taken
to Richmond by General Lee. The celebrated
pitcher portrait, upon the back of which was in
sciibed the beautiful eulogy, and left in the man.
sion by an unknown hand was carried away bv
John A. Washington, and is now in possession of
that family
The long OF brick quarter. still stand as they
have for thirty or forty years. since thev were par
tally destroyed by fire. In this row Washington
had his blacksmith and carpenter establishments,
and here now live the two old colored servants, of
whom mention has been made as the servants who
came here sixty wears ago, with Anne Blackburn,
the wife of Bushrod Washington.
The Ladies' Mount Vernon Association" il is
well known. made their purchase in ls5S, and had
mIde their last payment of two thousand dollars on
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expended also twenty thousand dollars in improve
ments, in addition to paving the two hundred
thousand dollars purchase money. Much still
needs to be done, and the large amount of funds
at this time accumIiatinS by the throng OF visitors,
who pay an entrance fee of twenty-five cents, will
do much for putting the national shrine and pre-
serving il in proper condition. The scourge of the
rebellion stayed its desoatng tile at the confines
of these slcred acres The tomb. OF Washington
was held sacred on both sides. Pohick Church.
where Washington worshipped till the close of the
Revolution, has not escaped so well. The las,
discourse in il was tempes.uOus disunion hlr-
anGc by an tiucrant Methodist preacher. n Sab
bath near the opening of the war The ancient
edificc is now shell, not a window, door nor the
smallest fragment of the pews, pulpit, floor
to be seen. Ii was used early ia the war by SOL
ders Tor shelter. and later was turned into stable
The ancient tOmbStones of the abandoned grave
yari are living and leaning around, AMI desolation
is painted in ali its saddest forms upon the scene.
The old Pofick church was erect ed near this some
one hunlled ana Fifty years ago. This erect
eel in l112. ld Washington was the chief contrib
utor in its erection. To this church Washington
for years, reSultrly repaired. some seven miles,
allowing no company to keep him from the ) b.
bath service. The pew doors of Washington an 4
the great George VI M,son hid been carried away as
relics bsfore the war. The brick walls alone now
rem lin.