Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-05-29

I6DeraI Is 10 DC fuIlOWcu DIV Inc leading cOuuSE
for the prisoner, Mr.. Spencer--Nat. Int.
Washington City Forty Years Ago.
The following letter, written by Mrs. Albums
W fe OF the elder President Adams, is taken from
the collection Of her letters recently published in
Boston. |, describes with graphic pen, the dis
comforts and privations of the first settlers Of the
Federal Metropolis:
To Mrs. Smith.--My Dear Child: | arrs cd
here Sunday last, and without meeting any
accident worth noticing, except losing ourselv cs
when we lett Baltimore, aud going eight nine
miles on the Frederick road by hch means we
were obliged to go the other eight through tic
woods, where We wandered two hours without
finding guide, or the path Fortunately strag-
Cling black came up with us, and VIC engaged him,
guide to eXrlcate out of our difficulty; but
woods all you from Baltimore until you
reach tho city, which is only SO 10 name Here
and there Is small cot, without a glass window,
i0terspersed amongst the forests. through which
vou travel miles without seeing any human being.
In the city there buildings enough, If they
were compact and finished, 10 accommodate Con
gress and those attached 10 it; but they are,
and scattered they are, see no great comfort
for them. The river which runs up 10 Alexandria,
is in full WOW of my window, and | see tho yes
sells IS they pass and repass.
The house Is upon n grand and superb scale,
requiring aDOni tnlFtN servants 10 atteUu ana keep
tho apartments IN proper order, and perform the
ordinary business Of the house and stables an cs-
Enlistment very we'll proportoncd TO the Presi-
dents salary. The lighting Of the apartments,
from kitchen to parors and and chambers, is a tax
indeed; and the fires are obliged TO keep TO
secure us from daily agues is another very cheer
ing comfort To assist rs IN this great castle,
and render less assistance necessary, bells are
wholly wanting. not one being hing through the
whole house, and promises IRE all you can obtain.
This Is great an nconv enIence, that know
No, - - & or hoy 20 do.
ne iauies from Georgetown and III the city
have many of them visited me. Yesterday re-
turned fifteen v.s;s--but such place George
town appears! Why our Milton is beautiful.
But no c0mpaFison-If they will put up some
bells, and let me have wood enough TO keep fires.
design to be pleased. | could content myself
almost any where three months: but, surrounded
with forests, can you believe that wood Is not TO
be had. because people cannot be found TO cut and
cart it! Bricslcr entered into Il contract with
a man 10 supply hin with wood. 4 small part,
three cords only, has he been able 10 get. Most
of that was expended 10 dry the walls of the house
before came in, and yesterday the man told
him il was impossible for him 10 procure it to be
cut and carted. lI0 has had recourse to Goals
but we can not get CRATES made and set. We
have indeed camo into country.
You must keep all this to yourself, and when
asked how like il, say that write you the stua-
made habitable bat there is not single apart
ment finished and all within. side, except the pas-
tcrlng. has been done since Briesier cane We
have not the least fence, yard or other convent.
ence without, aud the great unfinished audience
room. make drying room of, to hang up the
clothes in. The principal stairs up, and
will not be this winter. SIX chambers made
comfortable; two are occupied By the President
and MIR. Shaw; two lower rooms, one for a com
mon paror and one levee-room. Up stairs
there is the oval room, which is designed for the
drawing room, and has the crimson furniture in it.
1t is a handsome now, but when completed
will be beautiful. II the twelve years in which
TINS place has been considered as the future seat
OF government had been improved, as they would
have been in New En- gland, very many of the
present inconvenience would have been remov-
ed. Il is beautiful spot, capable of every i'm
provemept, and the more view it, the more
delighted with it.
Since sat down to write have been called
down 10 a servant from Mount Vernon, with a
billet from Major Gusts, and haunch of venison,
and n kind ccngratulatorv letter from Mrs. Lew
is upon my arrival in the city with Mrs. Wash
ington's love, inviting to Mount Vernon.
where, health permitting, will go before leave
this place. A. ADAMS.
MAJ. A. j. Donaldson has written letter TO the
editor Of the Nashville Union, stating that Gen.
Jackson's estate is "worth at least 500 O00t'
above all his liabilities. This, Of course. corrects
the inference drawn from current paragraph
that the General found it inconvenient to pay a
draft Of 500 -Mddisonida.
New DISCOVERIES BY OUR EXPLORING ExpEDI
TIoN.-The New York Herald says:-Capt Law
renee, of the whale ship Champion. Edgar
no !. inst tha toI 81.