Mount Vernon The ladies of the Mount Vernon State Committee of Virginia, and of the Central Committee of the Union, residing in Richmond, desire to draw the attention of the women of Virginia to the efforts that are being made in many other states to raise funds for the purchase of Mount Vernon. ... The sum to be paid for it is two hundred thousand dollars, a portion of which has been already collected in several of the states--and the committee now earnestly ask the co-operation of all the women in Virginia ... Annexed is the constitution of the Virginia Mount Vernon State Committee, which may serve as some guide to the formation of associations auxillary to it. ...