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Republics not Ungrateful.

--The year in which Mount Vernon Became the property of the Union by the efforts of American women, consummated the purchase of the Grill by the school children of Switzerland, at a cost of $11,000. The Grill, near Aldorf, and the birthplace of Tell, is the spot where, in the fourteenth century, three brave men entered into a secret combination to rid the country of its oppressors — a movement which soon extended to the other cantons. The sale of this place, dear to every Swiss, was concluded on the one hundredth birthday of Schiller.

The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 10, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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