The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-02-25
WASHINGTON.

Extract Of It letter to the Editor Of the Detroit
Gazette, from a rheumatic friend, IN Wash
ington.
:" fig for their capitol and public build
ings, and my most particular malediction
upon their public annsements, which are
execrable beyond any thing you can see in
our western villages. They have no thea
tire, hut circus, in building not half so
convenient as our livery stables AT the west
The quadrupe,ls who inhabit it have some
wit, and the bipeds would not be "slow,"
had they cleanly place to perform in.
Still they contrive to make you pay three
prices for every thing you have here, and
the boarding houses have the grace to
charge you nine dollars for caabash full
of catlap as unsettled as the South Ameri-
can republics, and piece of mutton that
defies your masticatory energies, and re-
sists dismembermen: with as much irmness
as the best friend of the American System
or you may get fish that requires no mas
tication at all, provided yon eschew the
bones Go to Washington to spend win
ter, forsooth There is nothing to interest
a man here, except the people, who appear
to he altogether clever and agreeable.
do not think, however, that all the clever
fellows in the nation have been sent 20 Con-
gress. Some very respectable men have
been left at home.
have walked twice round the palaver-
house. It is an excellent place to play
hide-and- go-seek, and the lower part is
laid off into stalls with doors to them, ex-
cept large round room, that would he ex-
cellent to thresh grain in. There is stone
enough in it to fence good farm, and iron
raruA ~ Eoon pail 1cfn
going for twelve months. They have had
some outlandsh man, from Europe, fancy,
at work making three stone old women and
an owl, all four of which are perehed over
the door that fronts the turnpike, as you 90
down from Baltimore to the tavern. One
of the old ladies has pair of scales in her
hands, and seems to be weighing out sausa-
gees, while the other holds IL dripping pan
the owl looks as if he would like to take
@link" and fly away with it, and the princi-
pal old lady keeps a sharp eye on him.
This matter excites the admiration of the
people hugely, and they pronounce it the
perfection of art. 1t is so, no doubt.
They have ploughed up the fields in the
neighborhood, but what crops they have
got in don't know, as make no inquiries;
probably clover, for it is a wretched soil.
so next year the members VIII live IN clover
whilst attending to their duties. There is
good deal of underbrush in these fields,
which has not yet been cleared away, par
ticularly scrub cedar. One of our farmers
would smooth it over in week-while
here fellow goes to work at one of these
bushes with jack-knife, and commences
at the top by cutting away an inch or two
of the foliage at time. 'sThe more days
the more dollars" So it is with all men
who are paid by the government; they will
not take things by the roots-they will not
be radicals. hope your agricultural ope-
rations will be conducted ON different prin-
ciples.
lean tell you nothing about the fashions
people dress MS well as they can-the ladies
and doves wear great many feathers, and
the young gentlemen and sPaniels wear
brass chains round their necks."