MRS. WAsHINGTON's REMAINS.
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 A meeting of the subscribers of the Monument to he erected in memory of Mrs Washington, the Mo ther tle Father off his Country on or contiguous to the spot where her remains now rest and of all other the citizens of Fredericksburg Falmouth and their vicines favorable this view ofthe subject is respectfully invited at the Town Hall on Saturday evening the 2lst of the present month (May) at 4 o'clock, to appoint their committee and make such arrangements shall be thought necessary for the furtherance of their plan. full attendance is ex- pected and requested. MANY SUBSCRIBERS.

 At respectable meeting the citizens of Frede- rcksburg and its vicinity held al the Town Hall, in pursuance the above notice. on Saturday evening (May 21st 1851 1)-THomAs GooDwIN Esq Mayor of the Corporation, called to the Chair, and GEORGE Cox appointed Secretary of the Meeting, and the following Preamble and Resolutions unani- mously adopted:

 The desire of immortality is stamped by nature, as a law, upon humanity. But how shall this wish be gratifedi The evanescent cOlorngs of tradition too frail a record. Accordingly the building of monuments to departed worth has been of imnemo- rial usage. Before the birth of letters of science in the remotest antiquity. the achievements of hero ic valor and the lofty efforts of undaunted patriot ism, found hope of perpetuity in the rude unorna- mented pile, or still ruder sculpture Thus those glorious deeds, which had otherwise perished from human memory, have been given "local habta- ton and served, long after their performance, to animate p0sterity to generous emulation. The cus- tom of erecting monuments to the mighty dead is not matter of mere taste ornament, or useful simply expression of gratitude: it should be cherished by patriots and statesmen based upon the soundest policy The pictures and busts of distinguished