I know yv.i will d < :'-• Thongli i di-tcrniincd never to meddle with the disposition of ulLcors, 1 ca:;:: '■

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>:m rooninmcnding Colonel Daboys and his ofScers, who served in our army to !;..r'.h\varJ List year, to the Couventiou. Should they quit the army by any r*-4'.i<."i. it will be a public loss. They are brave men aud good officers ; at least, fiich of them as have joined our brigade.''*

The head-quarters of Washington, while stationed here, were at a j.iuil farm-house to the north of the village, situated amid a deep soH- tu.!c of woods, surrounded by hills and wild romantic scenery. The folknving account of a visit paid to this spot, is taken from a newspaper j.rinted in New York, in 1845.

"When we entered the little room of Mr. Miller's* farm-house, where that great i-!(l good man had resided, and where he resolved to try the hazard of a battle, with a llu!>hed and successful foe, we could not repress the enthusiasm, which liie place and the moment and the memory inspired. We looked around with t-.-'crnuss at each portion of the room on which his e3-e must have rested, we frx'vd tlirough the small window panes, through which he mu?t have so often and .sj anxiously looked towards the enemy, and at the old-fashioned bullets, where lii.^ table service was deposited for his acommodation. But little change has uken place in the building ; and its amiable and patriotic inmates have shown thi'ir respect for the hero, by placing on tlie walls, his portrait and several repre- .•^.ntations of his last moments at Mount Vernon." ■''