American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-04-04

| again dug out, straps fastened to her tetlocks
and the company assisting, she was rolled over
and over literally some twenty or thirty times
to place of safety. She was then got up,
dizzy from the effects of the rolling, and the
now delighted cab driver reharnessed her to
the vehicle, AS he drove off he was heard to
exclaim, that it would be a ''long time before
they caught him in them diggins again, any
how they could fix it,"
THE CONGRESSI ONAL BURIAL GROUND AT
WASHINGTON.
The Washington correspondent Of the Bos-
ton Journal thus descants of a recent visit to
this sepulchre of the dead, where sleep many
ofthose who participated in the political ex-
elements and contentious of by-gone years.
| wandered the other day to the Congress
sional Burial Ground, one of the lions Of this
famous city, OF which propose to give you
some account. 1t is situated about mile and
a half East Of the Capitol, and consists of a.
bout ten or twelve acres of land, surrounded
by brick wall, with three handsome gate
ways. Great judgment was shown in the Sc
lection of the site of this place--lt commands
an excellent view of the surrounding country,
and the Anacosta, which flows at a short dis
tance below 1t.
The grave yard is laid out in avenues and
smaller walks, ornamented with trees and
shrubs, somewhat after the manner of Mount
| Auburn On one of the man avenues stands
spacious and tastefully constructed receiving
vault. 1t was erected by Congress for the re-
ception of the dead for whom graves might
not have been prepared. 1t is surrounded by
a neat iron railing, its front built of ffeestone,
the door of iron, and the area within the
railing ornamented with beautiful shrubs
In this vault, bodies may be kept for two
months, after which they must be removed for
nterment
When Writ, the author of the British Spy,
died his body remained in this vault for up
wards of ten months, in the expectation that
tomb or monument would be erected by his
friends, under which the remains were to be
deposited. A number Of his friends and the
members ofthe Bar, had promised to cause a
monument to be erected If his family would
consent to his interment in this cemetery. The
| pledge, however, was not redeemed, and the
remains of this distinguished citizen were fl
nally thrown into an obscure grave, to mould
er with the dead around him.
There are few, if any, monuments in this
grave yard OF sufficient beauty to attract par
tlcular regard. 1t Isl III fact, rather meagre of
ornament, and presents an appearance as unin-
wiling as possible. In one corner the eve rests
upon broken marble shaft, which indicates
the spot where the remains of the brave Brown
repose. In the opposite corner stand two neat
marble monuments, erected to the memory of
men who once filled large space in the public
eye, George Clinton and EIbridge Gerry, who
died here, while in the discharge of their Off
cial duties as Vice Presidents of the United
States.
Almost in a line with these, and ranging
from north to south, are tombs of such mem
bers of Congress who have died at the seat of
government and been buried at the public ex-
pense They are built of free or sand stone,
painted white, nave each four panels, on one
of which are engraved in black letters, the
name, age, &C., of the deceased-each one is
surmounted by small pyramid. At the bot
tom of each grave brick wall is formed, in
which the splendid mahogany coffin, decorated
with plated escutcheons and containing the
corpse of the deceased member, is deposited;
brick arch is cast over this, and the whole Is
surrounded with very plain monument.
In the course of forty years, during which
Congress has assembled in this city, there have
been some forty nterments of its Members
! Two of these were buried in a rural church,
yard few miles from Washington, having
died in the infancy of the city, when no public
burial ground existed. Their remains were a
few years ago transferred, by order of Congress,
to this cemetery. After this lapse oftime, but
little could be found of what once composed
their bodies. All had mouldered away except
a few bones, which were collected together and
deposited amongst those who had subsequently
sunk into the long sleep of death, and been
honored with public funeral, and all the
"sable mockery of woe"
Among the inhabitants of this cold tenament,
are a few, who with daring hand, snapped
asunder the thread OF life, and sought for quiet
and repose in the grave. Here, too, side by
side with the once eloquent and refined and
great, rests the body of the Indian warrior,
whose last wish was that his death might be
honored with the parade of military funeral
and that the big guns of the white man might
be fired over HIM. Pushmatahas wish was
gratfied, and a tomb is here erected over his
body, 10 indicate that he was the friend of the
white man.
There is little more worth noticing in the
place, and to one who has visited Mount Au-
burn, it has no attractions. What few monu-
ments there are, are of miserable description,
and those erected at the public expense, are
certainly in the least expensive style of art
Avenues and walks have been laid out, gravell-
ed and ornamented with appropriate trees and
Towering shrubs. The tree of Heaven, Baby
lonian willow, the elm, cedar, &C., are inter
spersed with more DELICATE shrubs.
ISLANDER. 1t is a poor soul that cannot bear
SANDER. No decent man can get along with
out tat least none who are engaged in the
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