The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1856, Page 2

, 10 superintending the execution of this F, . the Declaration of indepen? ere and and the fou" der of the (‘and cheers.) AP 4 Tam proud bas yet another artist wl. promises to Ape geen own—a Jeffery on in marble— de no inferior counter statue of tha? of th» great Hou. meaning don. (Cheers.) Let him conceive the father of demo- Wexpediency cracy as a reformer, his time that of a revolution, ty a8 opponed w cOUrsry, with @ primeval geetume, if he de‘ore the improvements of @e was hinted sm yn the costume of a plain Boudon. He ur e a ‘the hage stem of a gi by Mr. West, was received with applause, and | the body of w! has t been cut aown; strit extensively. This, douttiess, mainly decided ‘eed ume, Cho great etalon of American settleme! senor of On cutee, ehink has been so badly eller of the forest, into the stamp eriticived by a fatsw taste. had soon Washing- @ surveyor's com| on @ Jacob’ bn, “cactus nerd proper’’ wore bin ideas of the mode. ‘wide, @s an embicm of mental survey and of ‘West bad conversed Houdoa. Two genuine Ameri- ‘py the staxesman and phil “@ans, of pure, patriotic uste—-Jefforvon and were } sinwte ‘design as this will present to Superintendents of the work. These circumstances, and | American idea of Monticelio’s sage, and it will be the be- ‘Whe Fact that wasa trae master, determmed the genio ‘of « Virginia school of art upon Gress, thre andthe embtems. ‘The figure is pre- | \ Sls tor aaneeton by @ great master. @ervet hy the tight M of tee dress, 80 as to display the } poetical of Galt to make something stall ‘euttmes of the bedy and of every limb. The Stata re- and beautiful for the rotuuda of the University. Solves were loeimei to, andthe Gevernor, itis sece, was by Crawford, has not yet ordered Yo proemre a statue of General Washingtoy, and |) arrived ard the monument tm the order to Mr. Peate, he was ‘to take a copg of the | Like all mopument: it, will be Dut siegorical. Mt will not, og age nar smmmander-in-Chief to be tramsmitted | like this statue, perpetwate the exact ‘Mr. Jefferson. The “General,” the “Commeaderie- | The human form cf Wesbtngten was ali ‘Chief,’ was to be represented; the costume, ther es ‘There was, therefore, neod of a statne ‘Gat othe military man. He is in the regivwhtalsof | which should preserve bis manly likeness. But moun ‘General Washington. ‘But-hewas more than — | ments there Was wo eed of for bim. They are erected ‘he was acitizen, too—a citizen, soltlier, Genes! and Gum- | for memories which may be ost, for the fame which muy ‘mander-in:Chief. ‘He therefore has pot they word brited forgottem. Wastmngton’s tame is higher than any pin- ‘on; but, ‘though in military coat and epauttites—though | nacle which oan ever be buik of grantteer marble. (Loud Waspat- ond epceved sad qfevet Ser oevis: ho haseaciti- | cheers.) We may vile monements to'tue clouds and'they pen’s'cane in Lis right , aud the ambelted sword | will net reach the heighth of bis granceur. (Loud cheers. } And every stone shall moskier away. or like the Rema ‘hangs in view, bat not oa bis person. Peace wasthe end ‘of bw wartare—the couquest of right bic aim—the sword war irksome to him, and be laid it eede wheurver and wherever be could rett for a momert on the stage of s@tvil Wife. (Loud cheers.) ‘The costume is “decent and proper,’’ and the emblems vere as significant aschey are simple. They tet, their own ‘meaping. | have w% been ab! w Ond any record of weir @exigy by Houdon Himself, or by Jeiferson, or any other and I therefore am left @ give my ewa interpre- of them. Washington staeis on the mother earth, the ploughsbare Paced vn the lett vy his foot. These signify ‘he Kies of “country,’’ that endearing and precious word of patriotiom. “ They imy also, the favorite Cin- @tmmatus-like occupation of the man, agricultural ullage, arts of husbandry and bembie industry and labor; foundations of prosperity, of plenty and providence, ndependence tor a people; and they point higher up @ God, reminding us of Ure source whence we came, and s@t our jot in life, and to what we must return; man’s on- his duties, his dependemce and his end. Upright en plougbsbare, rest the baggage roli of a tent or mar- qquee in a Duudle of fasces, bound around by broad can- wass straps, forming a pillar, denotiug union and strength —the idea of the “# pluribus unum.’ Ou that pider Bangs the sword at rest. Over itis thrown Washington's miltary mantle, and over all he leans upon that pillar swith bi: iett arm. God, man, mother earth, country, de- derma, de Tordken in the very word derna betore the the fame of Washington shal! ever fete or begin vw be dion. (Loud amdcontinued-chcers.) Fe liveth inthe heerts, net onty ef bis fellow ettzens, bet of al! mankind. (Cheers.) The monunrent may be ea ideal of the colo- ‘etal State m a Lewis ; of Revolution in @ Henry ; of a qwrit- ton constitution in a Bill of Rights ¢n a Ma-on ;-of {nde- dendence m u Jéttersen ;of'the Weys and meavsard ac- tion of the Revolution in a Nelson ; of the adjustmentof the ‘times by a judiciary ina Wythe ‘aad Marshall; ard the whole may be-surmounted by ‘the head of all the crown. ing glory-of all, ina Washington, It may beveny grand very and beautiful. but still nomonument can rive to a Washington in stature. His grandeur towers over all ; cheers), it rizes not from carth—it bows down rather ones the heavens. (Loud-cheers.) ‘When the Creative Spirit breoded on the deepits first spirit was light; then heaven, ‘theearth and the seas, and the grass and herbs and fruit trees; then the sumend the ‘moon, and the stars also; thep'tie morning, the moving creature that hath life, and ther “man in our itage, af ter our likenegs.”? This ast sixth eifgst fin'amed the heavens and the earth aud all the host O& them. Intel- lect, reason, will, the moral »ense to have domimien over a)l, finished all. The first impress of this image which Tivinity stamped must have been very beaasitul—we are wld it was very good. A lence upon industry, labor and union: these are the Silerdhapeseretent wit, eyed to me by these embiems. Godlike, ereet; for in therrdsoks divine of the person is that of a mood of ugh The masge of r glorious Maker shone— thorgh.. © but elate, and roused to attention, taking @ har seeing survey of a distance and expause before bim. SMe expression is grave. but serene; composed, but ear- bat prepared tor action; wasing, He is in standing repose, and sewobn gy hs bare front, with no chapeau ) but-with sword within reach. Wisdom and pro e are in his look, and a consciousness of collected Strength in bic Whole posture and presence. Firmness “et upon his lip and chin fortitude on his cheek; Ueaght ew bir brow: and yeta surpassing sweetness pervades the-whole ‘ace, which makes us fee! How awful goodness is, and see ‘Virtue iz her shave how lovely. Be 1783 Congress resolved upon a Washington satae, @quecrtrian, in bronze. This M. Houdoa expected go be @mployed to execute. In bis letter of July 12, 1763, w Gee Virginia delegates in Congress, Mr. Jetferser pre- eeuted Mr. Houdon, with the assurance that be weuld pot Rave undertaken the voyage for the pedestrain suatue, feed he not been assured of Lis recommendations fer the @rester work. The equestrian has never been begun. sApother-which Congress ordered w be erected on the spot Truth, wisdom, sanctitude,-cevere and pure. . . * * . . * For eontemplation be ‘Hie tir large trout and ‘Absoitte rule. * Funphieity and spotless innocence. Sach was Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, ‘His sous, the fairestor herdeaghicrs Eve. Since creation’s dawn but one other perfect, imcarnate form to earth descenced— Altogether lovely among ter thonsand. Beyoud compare the Son of God was seen ‘Mort elorions; in him all hve Father shone, Substantially expressed,and in bis face Devise compassion visibly aopegred— Love without ent, aud vat measure grace. But since the first disobedience and the fruit, ob, aan— Thon resemblest naw thy sin. And yet of this son of fallen man, whose image we this day place upon a pedestal, we may, without impiety, ex- chau — —With Aspecthe rose, and ir bie ve 2 seemed 4 Bibir of state: dec on his @rout engravea of the surrender <€ Cornwallis, at Yorktown, w be or- Dem ration cnt nad pale 5s, m amounted -with France and Gpited counsel! in his fase yet shone, cy bergen = oo Majeenc, though in ruin; sage bo mood, ates in alliance, has never been more than resolved The statuc by Canova, for North Carolas, was Duret. Chantrey's, ut Boston, is like that of Canova, aly the ‘eal Washington of the artist. ‘The mewament ry c is but a magnificent pile of marble. The Gviownal, by Greenough, in Washington City, is maked, @ympic, not eartbly—we think not Christian—weuld not done for Rome becat¥e inseribed with bad Latin, F,) and is vat fit for the Capitel of the United States. ibis not American. Its @ monstrous imitation of Wah Atiauvean shoulders ti tavear The weight of mightiest monareies. Such his presence seemed, and the seeming was like the man. But though so godlike, was oar Patriot Father 40 unapproachabdle that his example is beyond the reach <f imitation? Was he #0 monstrous a shape of wisdom aad virtue, that we may not follow in bistooteteps? Was be and is he to be @ mere myth, whem actual, practical, living, movinganen may not emulate? What is the mys- tery of his migity greatness? Is it amy one character. t fl Sastoabic “Smut” Teud-{Uauchter) sve. commence: Or is iteeine wondrous abd wndeinable compound meent of the Latin inscription upon it. Our statuary jn | OF combination of ——— Pas say - vi apie the United States is curious in its history. The ae Swe eon. to-day ma comin = whowrought the far basso relievos of the rotanda #f the a Ld ney eaeery levee a Gaphol wid a story of our settlement, which we wened fe—-to searc! ea spring in —- here eet of, until it was interpreted by an Indian. Over the jaseens, end Se aan — — et i ast duor is the Uld World coming to the New—aa eid | lence—mere humen-excelience—which yeu can attal ee Septing: race & hae ann chores EU ceerhc on tn jf WORWIN Revercnce Ga Sty soomeey be Ban Cdcring bin anear of corn. Over the north deor | Utes of his fume, aii! his example has been so extol fe William Venn treating with Indians under the oaks of <4 pone ee < —. i A ane eer > forest. Gver the west door is Pocahomtss | 7241 mun. He was uo demigod, He was naught in vie} eave Et. Smith. Gver the south door is Danie! Bosse Firtue which you and @and all may not be. She simple, aie: a en samba foot | secret tuth of his geeainess was, that by ¢enining, by red man, ‘there,’ pointing t> the east door, ‘you came, noral discipline, be ery together each aad every eer coat cthere painting to Pean; syn | Particular virtue, and ae 40 many forces, blesced them feet us in-tresty, and chested us of our lands;”’ ‘*there,”” | §2 bimseif, to form ame great whole of maniy strength and beauty, which made dim what he was, ‘ideyond comparison’’ the first of wen. (Loud cheers.) But | Mke not this idea of virtuewelich divides it inte parts. 1 tbat our thoughts and language de not of virtue £¢ @ to Captain Smith, “we saved your life to Boone,’ you take our lives as well as old eloquent map, Tristram Burgess, of Rhode Island, speaking of Ladian reiations in the House of regret uenally convey the true sense iz tatives, alluded to Boone in contest with the two indian chicfs: and. in roterence to the fact that the fallen poem gg a ate —, beg chief i« very crowded in postare for want of room in the of oe The Oh ‘eens’ panel, he said:—“Mr. Speaker, the very statuary of your ‘shows that you have not left the Indian ground pagan rotunda of vietwe te moral goodness, ead imparting efficacy, ‘@pongh to die on.” (Laughter.) Perrico, the sculptor power, force, bravery, valor, is iteel! to act andéo achieve. It lx not prudence, or temperance, or justice, er poe wg eae ane Taeent © ts te te fortitade alone, but it exerts itaclf in every’ act, and wea Ot | plies the name always and everyarbere; virtue is Peshingion oy Houdon. A foreguer, and brought GP | visible. to be virtuous in the true semee, one must al- meretrictous school of Italian art. he was not pre- for the costume and drapery which was thought and proper” (or America. He enteret the ves- ‘the buate Cay ways do that which is according to the dictates of right and right reason. We cannot be prudent and yet be intemperate, unjust or cowardly, ner tomyerate, and yet f of pitol, where the statue stands, and sun Debolding it, turned to a friend, and said ina for- | b¢ impruderst or unjust, nor just and shout bi ign accent, “Ab! that head is sublime, it is prudent and demperate. The man who on one or magnifique; but it does not ' belong two or more particular qualities and to be eae tite ad’ ought) ton be cat of | fF these alone, is mot virtuons in fact, aud may aot be fren that body.” One of the Virgitia Guard, standing | Felied on for thase, if he is indifferent as tw say virtuous near, thought an Malian or Frenchman was saylog Wash- | @Walities or important acts. Ai! qualities are important, fmgron's bead to have been cut off, aud he :mmeri- | 824 Virtue does of does not pervade every act® It is the satly und viclently veined the supposed ‘culprit, and was | #ivine element in our nature and leavens the whole man, Gereing hiss oni door, when an cxulaaction was { OF it does not truly ad porely exist. In this suuse of vir: fale which evinced a bad taste, but po bat motire | te Warbingten yicldad to it bis whole heart, and it went ) So let it forever be with the Virginia Guard; | Ut in full measure inte his every act. He was prudent, iinted in the service or always stanuing senti- | femMperate, just, brave, eruthful, dutiful, fearful, peraevor Rel at the gates of bor honor and renown, jot it never | Ink, because rs Motthese, th fo ki y of hls hi fo. kept i was any ope or all « . This key of his life, kept in “9 inreverent allusion to George Wasuingm 1 iy ou may Yok al bia motives, and wee all the ‘Baten troth, and-wil! | secret #prings of his action, cud you find them so simple, YE parm gente A on Tih sng will | like all truth, that a little elild may learn of him. 4 school. While it is simple in its taste of costume, a glance at his careér will wach u- the power of mo- and emblems, it s most cunningly wrought—it ts goodness in him. He was born in Westmoreland, of Virginia, far from any town, city or institution of learning; of 2 respect- able family of people who could boast of heredi- Hi z rea), not imeginary—it is Christian, not (laughter); is American, aot classical; it is DBeman, not wytholgial. Bech ix Houdon’s Washing. ton—s0 well did tat one among the best of and | ‘ry felf rerpect, and good manners aod good mo- duest eminent of artixts transmit the form of the greatest | *#!8. His father was a geatieman, his mother a lady At eleven years of age he became that precious per fon in the Gospel—a widow's son, and that widow was a remarkable woman. She was rm in her do. mestic rule as mother and mistress of @ planter's home. No such women were ever known before of since as those of colonial times in Virginia and the other planting States (The ladies gazed at rach otLer in utter amazement as these words were uttered.) No other women iike those of Old Engian:! and the United Colonies understood that . magic word, * as they did. They had homes, aud were provident, frugal, self denying, sagacioas, in dustrious, «ystemetic mistresses of homes—bomes of a ople reared to endurance and todvty. (This was tread ing on the ladies’ toee—they eyed the Covernor hard.) Their lords were proud men, and they were proud dames. Such as Mary, the mother of Wachingwn, bad seen court Iife, but they Were not troght in tender schools of fashionable efiepinacy. They were ladies, and yet they Knew their cliel end of womanhood—they were ‘strong minded women"’ in the true sense, and yet were delicate, refined and modest—to know their feminine duties and spheres—tw be helprnates to hasbanda—to be mistresses to bourehoidse—to be guardian jaetructors as well as mothers to children. Pure as Dian, they were absolute in equal dignity with their lords and masters at home; and honosed as they were virtuous abroad, were supreme in the graces of personal attraction and command. By such 8 mother Washington was taught the lessons of virtue— has transmitted Washington, and our own Virginie art fat—Hodar i—has transmitted Houdor. The vrenze copy upoo its plinth is exact, and bit Rule ower io dignity of act than the great i in marble. Time and its mutilation had as the marbiq, pieces lund sireaty been broken off, was hourly threatening to destroy the work o he master’s hand and the ouly exact and authentic form @f the mighty original, when the poetry ax well as piety @nd patricticm of our own artist sought to ensure the per posterity by @ perdurable copy in bronze Hondon's, Holard's was a passiwnate pertormance Re is both « painter and a modeller in statuary, and. artist Uke, is poor, with a wife to cherish and a family of children to nurture and educate. He. too, “ painted for ¥,”" and saw the chance to snatch it im a cast from , a# Houdon had caught it from Washington. The @Moulies were almost insurmountable. No brouze atue bad been cast whole in the United States. He hail Bo furnace like that for the statue of Leuis the Fifteenth. There were no experienced men of Munich in our country fo mix and melt and mould the metal; and t make the Becton Moulds, evel ae the Italiame ase, was Meawif almost fen art. With these obstructions, and but smal! means, daunted, generously he eseayed the pions under- which we this day t it . He eu led the making of the moulds Re, ie cost of Inbur money. andl time, | she taught him truth. When he had committed a ta was but the beginning of his expense. He had to | Went to her, and with uplifted brow wid Daikd = furnace, now uniit for any other operation than | fully. She said, “J forgive you, because you have the that of the fine arts. This was not the end of the begin. | Courage to tell the truth at once, had you skuiked away, |. Fisk and outlay. Ho had tw empicy | 1 fbould have de«pised you." There was no military ia stitute, no university for him. His Yenapte, Mr. Hobby and Mr. Williams, taught him all he came from abroad, and procure materials er, his father The advances took nearly all of bis available means. ‘Bat at last the furnace was heated the miwtal: were mix Knew in the schools; and Adjutant Muse, a militia man, 04 and molten; the moulds were embetied, the glow taught bim th manual exercive and loaned him hie only tng food was poured into them, and the cast was ie on the arte of war; and Monsieur Vao Braam in- ® tilure. ho fret was broken up, and again | Stcted him in fencing. Next tothe trath he was taignt the same was done with a like reeult—a | % love labor, and to be carcful to do well everything ne second failure, This would have stopped the efforts | Ubéertook f do. The purpose of a God is to create, te ef an ordinary man. Not so with Hubard, Ho had | St, todo. We cannot conceive of Deity isolated and inert pent Jom all; his family was made aax. | "8 Uuiverse. From everiasting the creative power was jous and be was embarrased, but the word “fail” | creative. The (id Testament ea: od sald, let there war not written voeabulary. A friend in Richmond | ¥¢ light.”” The New Testament ‘in the beginni —=(I wish | had permission to mention the name of this | Wa the word, and the word was with God, and the word Benefactor of the arte, for all honor as long as the bronze | Wee God.” The word was, “let there be light.” Labor shall last)—a triend in Richinond advanced the means of | # divine, labor ie productive, and labor was worship a third tal. The day, the 234 February, A. D. 1956, | With George Washington. He loved the manly sports and arrived fdr itto be made. The anxiety of the artist was exercise1 the body in all the feats of agiity pructived at fiitense; a few friends were present to mingle their hopes | Mis day. He was very strong and athletic, and developed and fears with bis, and to w ines the opening of the iron | DW muscles by arduous toll and seasoned his bodily foadgate of the furnace. Two failures had tanght the | Beslth to severe endurance, He was systematic and ex fecessary precaution: the mould of Washington lay firm- | St He was particulariy attentiee t> the miautin of By waiting, embedded solid under the lip of the lava | A0ty. A sense of duty ever controlied him. He waa not spout; the vent holes were catefi!ly opered thy the fying | Born to fortune, but derived his means from the devise @ae ond heated air; the pamdcrous lever, ins coke | Of hia brother Lawrence. His condition, however, did Quay the furnace gate, sud the tery cor pot require of him to begin life prematarety. Yet when end rushing in, and the liquid bronze poured stl the | be wae but sixteen years of age, he was employed by gpouid was full and ‘aid boiling lak attering and buh Lord Fairfax as surveyor of his boundless and pathions , Whilst it slowly cooled to a sold sen of brase, with | Wild lands in Virgiaia. The gentieman’s son thought it te Waves fixed. The cast wos raised, and jo} | Sot unbecoming in him to pioneer the wilderness, to prac @here wan the perfoct copy, in bronse, of the Houdon, | tice the science he had learned, to become acquainted which we will coon see ber oF vow Clwers.) Al) | With the Western lands, and thereby lay the foundation @iow ¢riumph of Virgins wrt and patriotic devotion | | Of a fortune; and he went in the green tree of his youth ‘Well mayat thou come out of the third trial a perfect mo- | the woods of Vi "8 Western forests, with his sur. veyor’s compass and J ‘a staf in hand, and performed his work so well that the lands he located woald this day bring millions of dollars; and afterwards he received a commission ax paiic surveyor. EH remained not at home, near the apron strings, And ease, and loxary of the nursery. nor «ported away his time amidst horeea and fox hownds. Manly labor, with a parpose guidet by del of the form of bir for @ hero's mould, A not the stuf! grow cold. ‘Virginia senda thee greeting to her rising generation of gone, with @ mother’s bepe to eee the exanple of thy eatest of Originals give to our country and our nd another, and yet another, as the times arise, nee of dnty, made him follow the | gine | ts Of a be tke unto ber first born hero and # 80 | foble natare, and approach nearer to tie tea » tha 4 she may hereafter exultingly exclaim not only | aniverse by labor and endurance, No o¢ » was Bece homo,”” but, more magnided still in her progeny, | too lowly for him, if it wast at about which ha contd “Bere Movs filive.”’ (Lond cheers.) As yet she has | employ himeolf, His dignity wae not impaired by wor uid big work, wirjev: givon the world but ono Washington, thoug’ she has bad } ib Was, he alwaya deemed worthy NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1856, ‘Thus he was in ate oily it were, in the mortar og as 4 tue. irecatee’ carly fined im his setiled of ‘This it was which him for the to St. fe, whieh eek soldier's eye over Du- querpe, brought bim in covtact with the Indiaus and their localities in life, Weis 1% was which carried him through the wiiderness ateme, seventy-eight days, which bound his watch cowt #sout bim cn a raft overs frown river at Shanopin, This it was which made him uemble only when his modesty was complimented by the Speaker of the Rouse of eases on his return. for the defence of the fron- Braddock 's defeat. ‘his commission a sevond me after he had eutered Fort Pitt in triumph. This which made him ever turn to domestic hfe and marry early. (*miles among the ladies.) Tais, which fitted him for the House ot Burgerse-—that «hoo! for waining so many men to be Councilorsef a nation— this prepared him or the Conventi ms of 1774 and 1775; this made hem a man of experience at forty-three years of age, in applied science, it practical duties, in a Know: lecge of the frontier, in military aitairs, in adversity ant trial, in the business of la ¥ making, and of civil couven- tions, und mace him ready tor the Kevolution. (Loud and jong continued cheers.) This made him deny him- self, when appointed commender-inchie, and declare, “But, lest some unlucky event shouid happen, unfa: vorabl+ to wy repotatien, I beg it to be remembered by very gentleman in the room, that i this day deciare with the utmost sincerity I do not think myself equal to she command fem honored «th. As to pay, sir, I beg eave to assure the Congress that as no pecumary con- sidera’ion coufd have tempted ine to accep this arduous employment at the ex] e of domestic ease and hap- pipess, 1 do net wish to make any profit of it. 1 will keep an ex@ut account of my expenses; not will be diecbarged, ana that 13 all 1 desire,” (Cheers.) Exact im accounts, nice and particutar iu ex- yee, cuinute inevery item of debi; and credit ae were W services wot worth? these, I doubt YS muuiiieomt in hs bounty, and_bis services money and witbeut price. What were his Can the Calculus—caa arabic figures—akcebraic signs tell thetr orice? Yet he gave all to his courtry—ters only bis food and raiment and bis set of looupotion. self denial can arwaj Most gracious. ‘This ten until Watcity was eva -uabed. ntton wo re him through the siege of Bos The same virtue taught bim that de most bberal and This caused him to say to Massachusetts, “I only eeaulate the virtue aud public spirit of the »whole province of Mussachusetts, which, with a firmness and patriotism wrhout exaraple, bas sacci- ficed all the comforts of seca) and political hfe in the support of the rights of mankind and the welfare of our commen country. My highest amvition ts to be the happy instrument of vindicating these rights und to see this devoted province again restored to pence, liberty and safety.”” (Loud cheers, which continued for several minutes.) ‘Oh, that now ‘hat devoted province has en- joyed peace, liberty aud salety for nearly eighty years, her people would chlyereme her protector and de live er & persozml dignity aunt seit res mit himself io be add Esq.” per as * Geor made himprely on his cause and on {Cbee ot 11”? KC., &C. rge Washington, This pod, and save an army of 13 000 against 24,000 alter the disasters of Long Island, ‘This cheered bim in the medet of the gloom which suc- ceeded, and when General Fevd exclaimed, “ My God. General ‘Washington, how loag shall we fly?’ “ Why, sir, We Will retreat, ifpecesmary, over every Liver of our country, aad then over the mountains, where I will make a last stand against the enemies of my country.’’ | This invigorated him to gather strengyh from weakness, and to turm retreat back upos victory tee of the Delaware and thundering at Treutonand light- “by crossing the ning at Priateton, (Loud chesrs.) This taught bim the policy of ra@hness, revived hope againet hape, and rallied acountry’s cause from the very (Cheers.) When Cornwallis said, “He and his Malions are@ow in my power, they cannot escay night,” Sir Wm. Erekine reped, “ My Lord, tatterde- of despair. to- ‘ash- | ington will mat be there at cay break tomorrow.” The latterdemaligns that cay shouted ‘\God save George Warhington,”” and bore down the flag of George. (Loud cheers.) this made him say in tears to Gevernor Brooke—‘‘ My thope is in Ged only. Go back to Massachusetts, and do what you can to raise men and mougy.’’ (Cheers.) Nat 40 rebel against the laws in Kansas, there were then ne Sharpe's rifles for Mastachusett-—-(cheers)—churches to raise, but menand Money were wanting to fight for real, true liberty, for American freedem and independence, dased upon & con- stitution and Umien. (Cheers.) Strange that there was then a Governor Brooks of Massachusets, and a Somner is now ber Senator. (Laughter and cheers, in which L. M. Keitt, Brandywine, aud failed to sub@we beim. in the N rth. ed bis army. This made hiaa a Mars at Mon and gouth, blood. by defeat, or He «was inflexib! the cuutineers of New Jersey. This made him ever vigi lant; to vend Lafayettedo Virginia; to blind Clinton as w his own movements towal euch qasterly activity as to fore reinforcements coud be sent trom New York. tion of satisfaction for the triumph you have gained. clamorous Guzzaing increase Here thanders of Posterity will huzza for us.”” He then went forth froan the assembly. service, thanks and praise to God. Iucomitable eu! ances which raised expectations he could not ing defeat cpon defeat, enough to destroy in him: never ceegairing, sod envious intrigues goney or Success; marching every wa; turning back to figtt and retreat thee ive, and doing nothing could do, ec! eurvived = and courage, and inflexibility, virtue, be fnalty crushed the Invaders, and set an exam uzza forever. (Loud cheers. revolution, t which Patriek riltiaae; what little avd by fortitude, aed continence, and constancy, y bad given the first impulse, at the Old Raleigh, just twel ites distant, st . Well may the eloquence of the Virginia orator be ex od by bis statue, on the monument of Wash prone: ington, holding the blade sword in his rigbt hand the bilt of which he presents to the bands of an oppres people. Strange that the war blast had raged from South to North, from the jowlands to the mountains; had shot like the forked lightning in every direction of devastation, and ot last en: near where began, and both the beginning and the end of its track in Virginia, near her very capital, and oot far from Washington's birthplace and his tons. [At this stage of the address some individual anxious to get a peep at the statue, proceeded to raise the wh veil which covered it. Colonel Smith observing bit from the platform, signalled to him to desiet, which he did. A German who stood in the archway, of main entrance, un derstanding Colonel Smith's motions to indicate a desire to unveil the statue, rushed towards it, and with a zeal which under other ‘circumstances would be commenda ble, proceeded to remove the cover. The Colonel beck ened bim eff, but each signal secmed rather to give the German a new linpulee. He understood the motions to imply greater necessity of despateh "in the unveiling of the statue. It was pot until informed by tho sentinel that he realized the true meaning of the signals. Ord being restored, Governor Wise proceeded.) ‘this was final; but even then his early training and his virtue taugnt bim to remit no exertions. V) made him only more cautious, He said, “My gre fear is, that viewing this stroke ina point of light which may too much magnify its importance, they may think our work wo nearly closed, and fa!) into a state of languor and relaxation.” He went back to the Hudson, stil to prepare for any amd every reverse. His duty and work never ended. The eave virtue had te withetand the in sidjous addresses which were rirculated when his army had to be disbanded. Men and offwers were excited about their pay, and he was tempted by the designs of some few to turn their sword, againret the country they had deiended. But he was incorruptible. The greatest deliverance of his country, perhaps, he ever wrought was from the mutiny whic marched to Philadeiptia, placed sentinels at the deor of Congress and kept the members prisoners some hours, He quelled denounced the soldiers of « day, veterans, who had borne the heat aud burthen of the war, from the disgrace of rebellion, pro. claimed peace, diemiseed his troops from service, ad dreesed to them letters of advice, and to the Governors of the States valedietories, inferior only to his “Farewell Ad dvese’’ at the end of his civil service~ ———Cnmored, werrified, we, his 20a; ample, with bim wronght, To swerve from ruth of change bis constant tind, Though singe. A mab of the deepest otiena, he wat affectionate to. wards bie troops as be loyal to his country, Hie pa scene with bis officers was most tonchingly ten der. On the 4th of December, 1783, at twelve o'clock, he oesembled bis companio arma, raived a glace of ‘Wine, and with a stifea voi ve rail) —“With a heart full of love and gratitude 1 now o lave of you. | most de. youtly wish that your latter dxys may be as proxperous as your former ones have beea glorious and bonorab|¢,’ He added—I cannot rome to each of you to take my leave, but abalt be oblige: if each of you wonld come and take my band.’ He took the hand of each in e- lence and in tears, left the room, followed by the weep ing band of heroes, to a heat which bore him « He stepped into it, turned, waved bis bat without «peaking, received a stent salite in retart, and he wont away Where? Alone, with a email bontie of pape his hand, he went to Philacciphia. That littie bundle con. taingd the vouchers of bis accounts, which he burriet to settle to the utmost farthing. Waa there ever cach a humen example of truth. teiity, cortinence, faith seit denial, batiiity, common bovesty, ¢0 simple, 0 pure, eo unaffectedly natwral as thie? | The regolurity feness with which he had kept his the roar of cannon, the h of arme, the din of war amidet * With his army, alone. an honest man. That was mor rower ibe sagpe virtue hurried bim op to Annapolis, tore to bine taan any jowclied South Carolina, who wae an ¢be platform, heartily joined.) Mbit taught him ta Wear one defeat ab another defeat again at Germantown And this made him G00 cautious sto be dazzied by the success of Gates, an imaidious rival His equanimity was not disturbed, and he en to no deyperate darings. fe bided his time, by rival successes, be and bis cause prudence apd perseverance, and and the exercise ot every magpanimity and piety for which posterity will abere, the ball of the and to perform prodigies of personal valer whilst be stormed above the roar of battle that day of beat and ) This made him indomitable alike (© went of public credit, or by mutiny. apd bung the spy, Amdre, and shot is the siexe of Yorktown, by finish the @iamph be- On the 19th of October, 1781, the whole Britieh army surrendered; and whilst Cornwallis was marching out, with cohes caved and drums beating defeat, Waskdngwn maghanigovsly said>—" My brave fellows, let Bo sensa- induce you w insult a fallee enemy; let no shouting, no their mortification; it is a suffirieut ratisfoction to us that we wish their bumtliation. use divine ing, end on, keeping up a} a tulai: bear. all confidence hting battles against the foc, i# OWN carap; without men, to do any: deem his made from the first, to the Provincial Congress et New York, to resign his commission. Goa ‘ere received him with solemn ceremony. President fttin addressed hm, and he repbed: “Tresign, with ga tistaction, the appointme accepted v Haying now fanicied the work ase me, J retire from great theatre of action; and farewell to this august body 80 Jong acted. I here offer my leave ‘ot all the Geng 4 ments of public life.’” sword was that which he resigned } Other swords were stained with blood—other swords were steel, the edges of which bad been turned on armor, which hacked them to their bilts, or were turned on what they had protected— but the sword Of Michael, from the armory of G ‘Was given him tempered so that neit Nor solid might resist its edge. ‘This entitied him t go home, and the domestic man hurried to Mount Vernon. Here he was patriarchal and provident tor his household. No duties there were below bis greatness, as none elsewhere had been above his ca- pecity and bis care. How mighty different in this from the common herd of public men who, neglect wives, chil- dren (the ladies seemed pleared ‘at this), servants, farms, houses, neighborbood, and all domeshe duties and ties, for the camp, or for the | sd politician’s life in a Con- gress ora Legislature! Idon’t mean anything personal. Addressing himself to the Hon. Messrs. Letcher and Keitt, both of whom seemed to enjoy the allusion. Jost then, in the prime of vigorous manhood, fifty-one ears of age, he was hale, and stromg, and seasoned, He Rad parsed unhurt through the flames of war, and he had ew to prove his virtue pure enough for peace. — His foresight first saw the real wants of his country, State and federal. He gave the first impulse to the internal improvements of Virginia. He looked to her harbors and rivers, apd under his influence the Legislature formed the two first companies to extend the navigation of the Fetemee and James rivers. Forty thousant dollars worth 0” stock, offered to his acceptance, he devoted to education, and partly, I believe, to the college called af ter hin at thi y hality, But, above all, his wisdom saw the federal necessity of a more perfect union of the States. Insurrection agaitet a weak confederation had already bean in Mazsachusetts—a State always among the first in patriotic devotion, and strangely, al in early times, by Sbay’s rebellion, and. im the last wi the Hartford Convention, and now. of ate years, nullification of fugitive slave acts, first in discord and re- r keen first to revdlve the reign of & coastitution. Convention, and as its Presideut, he first signed the ‘the States—a form of, government et futhomed. breadth of which no man has naw sball destroy this worl set's cid no: suffer the infamy. make a wreck of this master mighty dead, aud the glorious work of thetr master minds stitution and the Union shall be cheers.) preserved. the Convention to preside over the country. lean promice, cannot ceprive me.”” he had a pi'grimage of fihal piety to make. In parting, he said, “As soon as Virginia, smother in this world. prepored for a better. ¢f a mother, be with you always!”? thateilial tie—that Virginia woman! She never: the fon she thus sent to his daues, which she taught him. Ah! soldiers, to your honor'd ret ‘valor bearing ; + Your truth e tenderer the daring. The bravest are ‘The loving are ‘Cnanimous); York wasa Over the Ast umpkink, pear Trenton, the matrons threw bridge of-evergreens and flowers, Dec. 26, 1776. danghters.”” (Cheers. husband ano the son of filial piety. He met intoxicate human pr id announced to him b; no guard but.the escort, he #4 military scone afta ral) his enveavors to do good, ‘Bes adamipistr: gave it ite first direction. war Inevery sense problematical. His wisdotn solved the probleen. He wasa judge of men and selected cabinet. Hie Indian pelicy was pacific, humane and pa was as nowel af it was supreme in success. demain of diplomacy embarrassed his directness of ne bations, and he f His treaties with 8 Fmperor of Meroe: and England, and peace with the Urmination of civil service, exceeded all examples, an- have resulted in a progress and prosp-rity which proved bis wisdom by the tests of time and fruition. petitical revelation of troth of the present, and |s a prophecy for the this ¢ . instances tions. Contrary to it, a sectional line was fixed by folly of the Mrouri Compromise; and since thea an en tang ling alliance was formed by what is called the ‘Clay ton Bulwer treat we bave to dread in our present domestic lations, This is more than well worthy of the patrio ism and savermanetin Folding farewell to civil as well af military service. be sgain fondly turned, as Mount Vernon, There was every day sort of a man, unaticeted, simple, domestic. Strict and regwiar in habits, he saw to every minute de tail of plantation operations, When Col. Meade asked Mr. Custia, bia stepson, how he should know General Washington when met him in the flelds, where be was riding out, the answer was, “You will meet, sir, with an old gentlemen riding alone, in plain drab clothes, broad brimmed white bat, a hickory switch in bie hand, and carrying an umbrella with a long staff, which is his saddle bow; that is General Washington,” “Thank you, thank you, young gentleman— I think if | fall in with the General I shall be apt to know him.’ Who would not at once have known bim io the midet of a multitude? Personal neatness was a promi nent virtue in him. But bis prerence, though so very plain at Lome, inspired more awe and reverence than did that of any other man. ». at heme be was, as he had ever been in the field or cabinet, always acting under a controlling purpose, governed by a sense of duty, seru pulovs in its performance, exact in its execution, and matic labor. earnest in © He was a patron of agricul nitted everything. or cabinet, or on the farm, to the guidance of stance, in aid of second causes, which he was careful and industrious to exert, to apply and to improve. Though he bad finished the whole work set before him yet 'o the very laet he was called to the country's ser. vice, and be was ready and loyal to the lat. The eldo+ Adams gave to him the command of the provisional army, and he declined not to ¢erve as @ suborcinate under his rucceesor in the chief command. There is in my maternal family an original letter, a copy of which I now have bere present, to which I would draw the attention of the profereors and cadets of this in- stitute, It is on the subject of relecting characters to officer the twenty four regiments of infantry author ized to be eventually raised by Congress for the Prench War in 1900. He speaks especially of what the per- wnne of army officers should be. It portrays the care with which he cansed the selections for the provirional army to be made, and inculentes the inestimable truth that it is “a delusive hope that men of bad habits, by being transplanted into the army, will become good men and officers.” To you I de- dicate this truth and the publication of this letter, worthy tw be af & monument of , and a mor. sel of Washington's moral phi 8 letter was written on the 17th day of the June be died. Rut with all this perfection and about him, so worthy of the highest admiration and gratitude, jet ue not fail Yo remember that in bie day and time of action and trial be bed bitter enemies, who maligned and enviovsly criticieed both bis conduct ant his motives. There ie agreat lesson in this remembrance to all who would prepare themselves to serve mankind. They must expect ution and ingratitnde, and must not be de- terred by malice and uncharitableness, No man was ever more traduced at home and abroad than George Washington. The minions of deepota derided him, as ) with the satire of Tom Moore. Traitors and tories, rene. ades and refugees at home aspersed him with contempt for his pretensions to ability , and with slanderous impr tutions of a design to become aeurper and autocrat Jeniousies beset kim on every band, in the army and afterwards in the civil adrvinistration. He was too and great not to be the chject of envy, hatror and malice, and he was not eo god-like either, as'to be + ed by the shefte aimed at his repotation and sensibilities, He Was but a mere mon, of like paesions with o- en, His excitability was immense, and his anger was awfal When aroused by pasion he stormed like thaoder amid the Alpe. Paneg) ic as well as detraction has borne false witness shout his character. He is usvally pletured a# fo completely uncer the re straint of self command range as to be like a cold snow capped mountain among his peere—irolated, grand, alone, divily in the upper regions of his exaltation above the ordinary herd of man. No such idea je true of him He was ho Northern iceborg which repetied hy coldness. He wae the very opposite rather, a Mount #inai of a man, who glowed with the fervent, and was gyaried by the thencers and lightnings of the Deity. (Lond cheers.) If rot like Mores alone allowed to take the ¢ low from the very God, he was aliowed t from the very table: an’ his wrath was yeainet Th when rorred moetly people he governed he, 160, Was sometimes weak iu th fre memorable inetances ©; his treme temper. He stormed angthemas low Wigrer ry , by her breiton, (Langhter). Virginia, fed by Washington, was le headed the Vingmia detgathm; he presided over the cred bond-of our Union, the Constitution of the United length and What ef Washington * Sbay bad rebelled against.a confederation, and wassachu- What, aow, i her “higher law’? and ber preachers of Chrisuan politics shalt tremple upon the faith and upen the ouths of organic low and, madly rushing over the xrave at Mount Vernon, work cf wisdom and Virlve— more one Sie eee than of pate pone a and rear¢n—new, original, unprecedented and unequalled in the syrtem of just, equal and free gurerament? ‘What of i” Virginia will remain loyal, like her leader, and will triumpbantly, xavingly detend the holy places of the ‘That 18 all of 1t—it sball not, it cannot be done, wy (loan ‘Wisdom and virtue called him who had presided over Writing to Geners! Knox, he sait;—‘Integrity and firmness are ali These, be the voyage long or short, shali never forsake me, thovgh I be deserted by all men; for of ihe conrolation to be derived from these the world But before he went to New York He visited hic mether, to bid ber farewell and obtain her blessing. the weight of pubjic business which must necessarily attend the outset of a new government, can be disposed of, 1 will return to and’’=*You will see me no more,” said bis “my great age warns me that I shall not be long I trust in God that 1 may be somewhat Go, George; go, my son, and per form your duties; and may the blessing of God, and that Ob, that mother'— in saw 60 well elected President, his progress to New jumpbal provession. The way was tbrouged by crowds throbbing with veneration, love and gratitude. with this inseription ;— “The beso who defended the mothers will protect the ‘Woman could pet Tail 10 bonor him who was the Long w and vanity, but when a guard was he require 1yons of the people.” (Loud cheers.) All this gave him pain, for be dreaded a reversal of this ration lasted from 1789 to 1797. Be it re- Mmemdcred, that be put the pew government ipto action, New, unexampled, its action the best rer tal ; #t opencd fully the wholly new_ operations of the end oreimance of the United States. His foreign policy No legerde- cotiation. No secresy veiled it. His policy was peace, and neutrality wae bis safety valve against all wars of other ned entangling alliances with none. his non intervention in the Freach Revolution snd contert with Genet ; his suppression of the whiskey insurrection, by a prompt application of force -citielent to prevent bloodshed of the rankling of bad » ood; his third resignation and retirement; his example of but two terms ia the Presidency; his whole term and clept or modern, were based wpon no precedents, and ave And he concluded all by a Farewell Addreas, which is a experience of the past, of the futare of Its advice bas been neglected m bat two ‘our bistory, and we are now reaping the crop of dragons’ teeth which was sown by these two viola- the el and the effects of these two arc all ever did, to his home at his haven, There he was the a General Charles 129, nthe eld of Monmouth: gFis- | ADVERTISEMENTS RENEWED EVERY DAY, what has caused this ill-times ——$—————— sed ‘has wi hep, ks DRY GOODS, av. i NT OF EMBI oo sous tht S AM OUR SPLENDID ASSORTME: ROE was the fate of the misera- comewarnet — aaa eomnd | Needieworked collars and sleeves, in sets, jorth as a limb blasted, Virtue hath | Xeedlew cambric breakfast with its moral might, that power silently to seat! without arms, and to trike down its enemy at once. | the store of J. & Co, were so justly celebrated, will be When the news of st Clair’s sad defeat reached bim, pyre Monday and during the week at an 1, to close whilst he wag President, be raged for many minutes withoat stock. restraint, and cajled aloud upon Heaven’s wrath it order of ©. G. HOOK, Assignees, 703 Broadway. By the neglect of a command which was caught in ap Indian % ROBES, TH. Ceniaints W sere. eee President, BAlaa eoeniivieg bed Ere Co de ee scene with the then Mr. John Marshall, at Mount Vernon, y order of C, G, HOOK, Assignees, 703 Broadway, with whom he was trying to prevail to run for a seat in handsome: LL OUR ¢! wound 80 ¥ gt ley ites, that have been selling at as to his request, and the speech on Jay’s treaty and Congress. INCA SUMMER Pep RICH RQgAls evail ip t the eminence of the Chief Justice afterwards were the By order of C. G. HOOK, Assignees, 10 Broadway. fruits of obeying the counsel one wi very anger tod reproach were productive of good to the country, | BpeACH SUK oe awnaue und were turned to proofs of private compliment and con- wi fidence, And later still, during the canvass for that very MANTILLAS, Congress, betweeu General Lee abd Colonel Payton in the At very low prises, to cheno the season, at Fairfax Gistrict, Warbington became so warm that for nie Banzucs Ee ‘ome personal insult he was actually stricken in the face Broadway. Guo, BULPIN. u the market houre a! Alexandria. protected his an- tagonist from the violence of popular resentment; saw the man fale, and then went heme to bis closet, as was In the same canvass LACK THREAD LACES, OF EVERY WIDTH; MAN- tillas, with and without tlounces; capes, collars, barbes, &c. ; point a l’aiguille collars and sleeves, very’ ved, Ps embroidered his wont, to regain bis equanimity. bart o doey Genera} Lee, 10 prove that be was not so exclusive as to received; Paris re » akirts, rebuke a friend for taking a liberty with his person, fa- outer, £2, very cheap: and a, large vay ene saute De tose gaye ahi bes mae UFF, PINK, BLUE AND GREEN shoulder. He receivet a never for a » BLUE AN tbrapk away in confusion, saying, ‘It is the first thme 1 French Cambrics and brilliantes, ever took a liberty with ‘bis person, and it will be the | Of superior quality ‘adios last.’ Noman ever inspired so much reverence and | 4; BEEKMAN & COMPANY'S, colors, we. He commanded bumeelf, but himself was very xi 413 Broadway ptrong and required constant watob and ward, as all truly strong and great natures do, LACK BARAGE ROBES, THAT HAVE BERN oo It is fashionable to admit that he was not a man of ing at $7, $8 and $9, we how offer ut $4, $5 and $6. By genius, What genius is the world is hardly agreed. I order of C. G. DK, Assignees, 703 Broadway. concur with Pascal, who, in his essay on the strange con- trarieties discovered im human nature, distinguishes be: tween the reasoning power and what he calls ‘+ per- ception and a bright and lively act of immediate intelli- gence.”? Perception and consciourness act before reason quicker than and often pass and surpass her on the way. He says:—*' Nor is it less ridiculous for reason to demand ‘of those percepive and intellectual faculties than it would be tor the said faculties to demand of reason a clear per- ception and intuition of all the problems it demonstrates. This defect, therefore, may serve to the humbliag of rea son, which pretend, to be the judge of all,things, but not to wpyalidate vur assurances, as if reason were alone able to inform our judgment. On the contrary, it were to be wisbed that we faa less occasion for rational deduction, and that we knew all things by instinct and immediate view. But pature has denied us this favor, and allows BREAKFAST, DRESGES, ‘that have been selling foarteen yards to the dress. signees, 708 Broadway. EAUTIFUL FRENCH MUSLINS, IN RICH COLORS, ‘that have been selling at 2s., 28. 6d. and 38,, we now offer ior 1s., 18. Gd. and 28. per yard. By order of C. G. HOOK, Assignees, 703 Broadway. IN ,FRENCH JA af deh, we se sae tae y order of C. G. HOOK, As- Bae BARAGES—BY THE YARD, IN styles and rich colors, are now offered at 1s. 6d., 28. 6d., that have been calling it GooD 5a. Gs. Bs ries ot he: 4s., 5a, 91 G. TOOK & CO., 708 Broadw LOSING OUT OF MANTILLAS. The subscriber's stock of Ty cd and BS Have been stil further reduced in price. ‘The alter: us but few notices of so easy a kind, leaving us to work out the rest by laborious consequences, and @ continuous | y¢ Recent mbegy oie eye pignte to be ais 2 series of argument.” With this choicest and best detini- | miadie of July, rendering tt as ‘elear off the whole: tien of genius borne in tind, {challenge all history to | Dr'the sock prior to that date. GWO, BULFIN, show an instance of an actor who required and exorted Paris Mantilla Emporium, 361 5 more the is re mere aa inteligctoal facuities than aa ms aPOOL on George Washington in the American Revolution. The LAR: OOTTON.— wh« le action of the time, at every turn, put the actor to For ite strength, sn.octhnems and elasticity, obtained @ the severr st tests of every power of the human mind. He | Brize medal at the great P ‘arin exposition of 1886, was found celiberate, yet often differmg from his ‘GEO! seury: CLARK, 4 ar council of war; cautious, yet surprisingly prac CLARK'S SPOOL wy. using the Me age of een slow, yet moving at a MEAP LINEN GOODS moment with the celerity of ligbt; minute in detail, yet be, Ccmpr hensive in the laygert sense of survéy and combi. | (J, Ladies. are reminded that the whole of our linen depart: nation; a man of all work and regularly trained to none; | ment has heen reduced fully 2 por o righ with but few elements of knowledge for any, doing all | Ys’ \inen sheeting, 7, 6d., worth 10s, 6d, surparsingly well; im every variety of untried scene, and All linen napkins, &., worth 138. without even ordinary means and instruments of execu- lish longeloths, worth 1s. 6d. tion, always doing the most with the least; never failing 10-4 tablecloths, 9s., worth 128, where means apprvached equality to the end; never losing Marseilles, Brilliants, an advantage for want of forecast, and so quick in per- Swiss, ception tha. he was never surprised; a soldier, yet no Camnbrics, &c:} polytechnic; a civilian of the highest asder, yet no4 At the same rute of prices, scholar, nor lawyer, nor metaphy: |, DOF By order ef C. @. HOOK, Assignees, 703 a ‘ation, yet everything in accomplish. nothing in pr ment. And ine unerr course of cenduct, successful | (YLOSING STORE.—SUFFICE IT TO SAY, OUR STORE alike in mnilitary and eivil life, kept on in its even tenor | rj, ¥o" cited yesterday, to mark, down ens mie for fifty yeers, out of little more than sixty-six of his 7 way, below atzeet. human existence. Reasoning and judgment will not ac- En Rane ee 7 ~ count for it. It was genius and inspiration. works RY GOODS DEALERS, AND MERCHANTS GENE- themeelves inberently show that they were constructed could no doubt ; by nostep by step of mere ratiocination. Instinct and the AMERIC intuition made them pregnant. He was Commander-in- Chief, comets Cael, cnr - of Caggress; reasoning constantly and patiently, and anon Yushing with sudden celerity to seize a moment as it flew. He was pre-eminently gifted in the ‘immediate view, rally, enkauce their sales by ad- vertising in SS WAEKLY PRESS wuss Fead everywhere; also by having Dill, 4e., we. fee—such as ennmot fail to be seen by ‘who eur streets, Terms upon the eash ‘orth’ and weet corner of Fulton and no less with power to work out the rest by laborious BESS GOODS.—THIS DEPARTMENT HAS UNDER- coprequebces ant in continued series of argument.” Let ak Soe reduction ta prices since cer ing aa- others boast. then, of a Cwsar, or a Charlemagne, Rive tok indapess ofa hh scaly Seckamey ior Sedat or a Cromwell, or a Bonaparte. After all heroes | favor us with s call to be couvinced of the fact. 2 ” and sages and their intellects and their acts are C, G. HOOK, 380 Bowery. measured apd summed up w their fullest magnitude of greatness, we +till may claim that Washinton’s MBROIDERIES SELLING OFF. ‘Then moet connie crentnege will appear of figured laces, embrosiered muslin, dotted Swiss, TeetuT thant pronerour df sdverses ™*™* evide, for bce. Also emibrokdored. vets: banday tee” can create: tons, " Turive under evil ‘ad work ease out of pla, Uy BEEKMAN C0. 73 Broadway Aba chsdy the opin of Got GA prefer belore all tom, me rs “ od his upright heart and pure, and instracted him. He Tibetan ar mnie eg ee, mre mala wee? Sar Eigiiecndne ony BALE OF DRY GOODS. 4 pore of it, renders it imperative to have it closed Secrifee. aera yc. G., HOOK, 380 Bowery. Was bis geniue. died as he lived, and whata beautiful there was in bis death! 4 gem Beil ponent CORERETING vite the attention ey Ee ‘then ate Reere omaes 4 © years e was taken a Ree lilbt his example was perfect. fie took cold, slighted fam ang Ty dg fg Sl EO the azote, paying, “ it fi, come.” zm further reduction In prices, in order (o close out that ot 9 4 Called ih his overseer, Mr. Rawlings, to bleed. him, He | =" Poene_ CO NOON, BN Tower was agitated, ad Wa tak ts hee “aon% Ge Lae SHAWLS—LACE POINTS, Sy, «ure ts aoe deigniea | Hh sod eau yin, '~* Masa OO wom tbe payer he meant for his will, then turned to Tobias Lear By BEEKMAN & COMPANY, arabic and said, “I fing Lam ; iY breath cannot centinue : 473 Broadway. long. I believed from the first it would be fatal. Do you = arrange abd record all my mltary letters and papers; | TINEN, FANS, LINEN FANS.—CItY RADE sur. . wo hu ariange my eccounts and settle my books, as you know more about them than any ove else, and let Mr. Rawlings ‘Snieh recording my other letters which he has begun.” Between 5 and 6 o'clock, he said t hie physician, Dr. pl style of brown and evi sale by F. Cis P. y FRANCIS Craik, ‘I teel myself going: you had take ANTEA\ os eae [on-| me, but me go off quietly; 1 omen M sca voues jas oo ir, im he said, * Doctor, TRAVELLING CLOAK. ard, Dut 1 am, hot afta to gor belcved ‘trom | 4 fell assortment my first attack J should not survive it; my breath cannot lant ** About 10 o'clock he made several attempts to spesk to Mr. Lear, and at last said, “Il am jast going. ARIS.—LADIES COMING TO PARIS WILL FIND Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put 2 Mine. NG, aneienne maison Guerin, Fan- into the vault in lees than two days after Tam dead.” St. Honore, 1i8 Champs ieee the neweat Lear says, “1 bowed assent.” He looked ag me againand | {°F on the most ressonable xpelidon said: “To you understand met I replied “Yes, sir.” a Tis well,” said he. And these were his last words, and ICH GUIPURE tie well his last words were "Tis well.”” Just before ‘anp F Lace he expired he felt his own hand fell from MANTLES, TALMAS, his wrist, and George Washington was no more, at reduced prices. Washington no moret Never! Ho yet liveth! Fis Paria Mantills Beipertan, Sel Broadway. name ts @ talisman—bis home a country’s haven of affec- Gop: —bis tomb is en altar for patriotism’s eacrifices—his exemple of trae glory is immortal, Jobu Marshal wrote the words, “The man Grst in war, first in peace, and first in the bearts of bia fellow citizens."’ Here in our bosoms be yet liveth and reigneth, His love of country shall still inepire us, bis wisdom shall still guide us, and his paternal spirit eball still protect 1s—w free, independent, EDUCTION IN THE PRICES OF MICH ps poy 5 *'Y. RPRWART & C0. Broadway, Chambera and Keade sircete, LK ROVES VERY CHEAP. equal apd united Tell me not that the virtuous balance socks man is hot immar i of him there ie more; he is nover Of silk robes Bicetym pice be more wil ever be thou uth, ite ‘out very cheap,. expire with hie breath? ‘Take up bis “Parnding Inet.”? | 70 MaKe room for fall silks. BERKM. cour. His thoughts etill exist—not in the and printing— Aa 3 Brondeh pot in the signs of thought—never; he mined ie iene eet the and will live when types ehall be no more. And so Wisdom, and virtue, and nections, and examples, and genius and goodness of Washington live, live on, and will live ever whilst his example ; is diffused by Lp a divinity throughout the universe. now presides over by ed = — Us, More potent than ever to prevail with Providence, the 2 Gucegein the United Sates of North America. | (RAVELLING CLOAKS. je guards Virgins, and Virginia guards the Union. We JAMES A. HEARN, may yet look to him—we follow bis example—we aoe e'Rinth aacet. may may imitate bis pure and simple lite, and his plaia, mani, virloce-—bis pious patriotiem and disinterested dovenes to liberty are pot beyond our reach: and if we do but beed bim as our father and best friend, we too may qven say tn te ond ot test, 08 ant to. A pect, | RLOOMERS, BONNETS AND LADT cote well! ‘Tie well!” "Bis lage Is placed. Bere tO | wwe esine Pie carert chon afi ohooh aaa teach you, military youths, a lesson, and— here. neurpamed for ben ‘and Gnlsh, a now belng oot Om tend: Gusteeritones mete tet. Faine iu (be market shold avail emsrives of i cppervantey ‘That thou continuest such, owe to thyecif— without delay. Clean! and ablering in the [alan method. That in to thy obedience, therein stand. Gentlemen of the Board of Visiters, (vurning tothe mem- HOUSES, ROOMS, &©., WANTED. bers ef the Board who were on the m,) it remains | “Gcontry STORE WANTED.cANY PERSON HAVING ay tay to yen ak te part me by the JOUNTRY STORE, WANTED.—ANY PERSON HAVING General Assembly, to ece this statue placed upon its pe- | York, (any kind of Lee ~—ry business will answer) with destal here, is performed. The bronze and the residence attached, av ite “ ole Sen 0 Set acnemn, can mae we ¢ are placed erect, and they stand on the everlasting customer by addressing ore prand and beautiful Rockbridge, business, to George, Herald office. now a 7 — by Lh} eeu pubomtes bedong RUG STORE WANTED TO PURCHASE, A BRTAIL Leeting bills’ eo monument of Virgiala’s gratitude to | in Second pany J Lt George Washington, of ber munificence to fine arts, | gage. Any having and of her mother like affection foe this noble institute of can meet wi eat heaven the ea “ia pit do lene thai eto Governor Wise took his sent amid thunders of ap- ANTED TO HIRR—IN SOUTH BROOKLYN, office, stating terms, great yorks "Roowaots we at Mat et ovat | Westmeath eet, , but never ” = ode Eteat origin by Houde the only true like. and terms reasonable. Address A. G., Broadway Fost oftces eought, witl ANTED—WITHIN A ARTER 01 MILE painful anxiety, a favorable opport to examine the Sixth avenue and $uct corenb fro the ri ression of the great hero and patriot. The B ~ byt Ly LS JAmeriean family of four per- rush was imunense. In fact, everything was for the time Address, stating rent, which must be moderate, ibe anxiety ta sew he as pa mas, 44 Sixth avenue. «of some or twenty minutes, bat ‘ANTED—A RE, QUIT. AVE. talion of cadets forrued within the square, and conducted nies, Derwese ak and Teena ween i cultapte tor o the with bis aids and the Board of Visiters, to | jewelry business. Address K., box 906 Post office, stating bis q t Colonel Smith's residence. ermes, Ae. ¢ aliitnni of the inetitute are entertaining the Gover. | yu+aNrei—A BMALL HOUSE, OR PART OF A LARGE nor, aids and Doard of Visiters toa dinner Ina spacious lg Vy py RQ Of YE the Lexington Rotel, and in rather too close p-oxi tity to where | am now engaged beh ted vol leye of are which are painfully audibie at the point where Iam seated, indicate a happy state of affairs below. It is but jost to the alumni to state, however, New Yor! Jocation must be health: Ie mod be obtained, Uy addi » with full ex 8 Post otto, Nek TS 7 ANTED IMMEDIATELY—IN THE NUL GTEROR MOOD that they extended to me a cordial invitation, which, from of Yorkville, and convenient to the cos, & cottage, with the preseure of business on hand, and the necessity of ; *bout eight rooms, rent not to execed $20. Apply by leter,. or personally at 4°3 Broadway, in ‘he segar store. making neces'ary preparations to meet the morning mail, I was compeiied to decline, To morrow, the Fourth, the battalion will escort the HOTELS. Governor epi Ponrd of Visiters tw eburch, after which maeoaed “ r —FOo .AL fan acdyess will be delivered before the literary socictios | (}O%L 8 (fs Ga ma GR MT Rs] Of the inetitute by the Hon. L. M. Keitt. ‘. henge is most plencantly located for 0 fine view This will be followed by the readiag of the Declaration | hsrter and whe liwiwn river, nt mast censeal for basiaoen, of inceper dence by one of the cadete. Fe milies ean be acconmodated with suites of vooum; trans! Arational oration will then be delivered by Catet A. | oF Permanent boarders on most reasonaole t ras. the tad M. Fauntleroy. These qill be followed by a salutatory |" River Ratiread station is Gireet!y opposite, aad the daily address by Cadet P. B. Bteinard, an oration by Cadet ¢, | A/Dany Donte Jnnd their passengers within one block; the Erie Rotlrond ig within five minutes’ walk, making the house in all hotel for travellers visiting the ib & KOMINSON, Proprietors. P. C. Rembangh, and a valodictory address by Cadet C. M. Bdgar. Governor Wise will then deliver an address and con. which will be followed by a display of fre » Governor will review the Corps of Cadets, fer degr at six o'clock, P. M., Which Will close the exercises of EXTRACTED WITHOUT PATN, WY MRANS .. ‘of a henumbing application to the game, by I! WILSON, \ ependid ball will come off at tho inetitate tom 7 Hond street. ‘Thin application ts perieely harm ree Wo have ladies enovgh here to entiy ess im ite effets; ft simply si¢ the circuiation of blood: ent it Ore reasonable to infer that the and the temh to be extracted for abot half a,minute, dirpley at the ball will be peg eminently attragtive. Curing which thme the fence of feeling ta the 4 eng cd.” Relprences furnished tahini 4