On a long rough table was a repast, just as little in keeping with the refined cuisines of Paris, as the room was with its architecture. It consisted of a large dish of meat, uncouth-looking pastry, and wine in decanters and bottles, accompanied by glasses and silver mxigs, such as indicated other habits and tastes than those of modern Paris. ' ' Do you know where we now are ?" said Marbois to Lafayette and his American
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companions. They paused in surprise for a few minutes. They had seen something like it before, but when ? and where ? " Ah ! the seven doors and one window," exdaimed Lafayette, "and the silver camp-goblets, such as the Marshals of France used in my youth ! "We are at "Washington's Head-quarters, on the Hudson, fifty years ago ! "
Upon the lawn, a little eastward of the Head-quarters, is a tall flagstaff, and near it a chaste monument, iu the form of a mausoleum, made of brown sandstone, and erected early in the summer of 1860, over the grave of the latest survivor of "Washington's life-guard. The monument
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was dedicated on the 1 8th of June, with appropriate services in connection with a large civic and military pai'ade. It is about six feet in height, and is surmounted by a large recumbent wreath. On the river-front are the words : -- " The last of the Life Guards. TJzal Knapp, boen, 1759; DIED, 1856. Monmouth, Yalley Forge, Toektown." On the opposite side: -- "Erected by the Newburgh Guards, Company F., 19th Regiment, IS". Y. S. M., June, 1860." It is surrounded by a chain supported by granite posts, and is flanked by two pieces of heavy cannon. The monument was designed by H. K. Brown, the sculptor.