Lynchburg Virginian

Mother of Washington.—The mother of Washington had been buried so long, that the spot where she reposes had become almost unknown, when a few patriotic citizens of Fredericksburg proposed to remove her remains, and to erect a suitable monument over them. No sooner had this movement been made, than "the filial reverence" of some of her descendants became strangely excited from its long and deathlike slumber, & they "went to work to thwart the scheme, by proposing another, to wit, to erect the monument over the grave where her ashes lie. We have no particular partiality for either scheme ourselves, so that one of them succeeds: but it strikes us that the "filial reverence" of the objectors to the first proposition should long since have admonished them of the propriety of designating the spot of that venerated matron's interment, by placing upon it a monument at their own expense. And it seems to us that, even now, as they have defeated the proposition to remove her body, they should erect the monument without appealing to public liberality to aid them. We have not room at present for the proceedings of a late meeting of some of the citizens of Fredericksburg, in relation to it. They concluded, by passing Resolutions expressing their disapprobation of the intention to remove Mrs. W's. remains and approving of the plan to erect a Monument "in or near the spot where her unhonored ashes now repose'—declare that this ought to be a national measure, and that they will pursue it as such—that the citizens of the United States be invited to co-operate with them—and that a Committee, to be called "the Monumental Committee" be appointed, to receive subscriptions, and to do whatever else may be necessary to further the contemplated object.—Messrs. Yeaman Smith of Spotsylvania, John H. Wallace, George W. Bassett, George Hamilton and Basil Gordon and James W. Ford of Falmouth, and John Moncure of Stafford, were appointed the Committee.