Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-17

The lighting the apartments from the kitchen TO pariors
and chambers, is tax indeed, ana the nres we are
obliged to keep to from daily agues - announcer
very cheering comfort To assist US In THIS great casue
and render less attendance necessary bells are Whoy
wanting not one single one being hung through the whole
house. and promises all you can obtain This Is SO
great an inconvenience that know not what to do or
how to do The ladies from Georgetown and in the city
have many of them visited me. Yesterday returned
fifteen visits But such place Georgetown appears
Why our Milton is beautiful But no comparisons; II
they put me up bells and let me have weed enough 10
keep fires design be pleased. But surrounded with
forests can you believe wood is not to be had be-
cause people cannot be found cut and cart it,
We have indeed come into country.
The house made habitable but there is not single
apartment finished, and all within side, except the
plastering, has been done since b. came We have not
the least ttnce yard convenience cou and the great
unfinished audienceroom make drying-r oom of, to
hang up the clothes in y \ If the twelve years
in which this place has been considered the future
seat of government had been improved, they would
been in New England very many of the present in
convenenees would have been removed It's beautiful
spot, capable of any improvement and the more view
it the more am delighted with it."
An old friend near us, who was familiar with the
city as far back as 1900, and for many years be-
FORE tells us that the Pennsylvania avenue, between
the Capitol and the Presidents House, was at that
time perfect quagmire; that this, indeed, was one
of tho principal Inducements of the Engineer l. En-
FAINT to make it the great thoroughfaro, believing
that nothing but dire necessity would prompt the
citizens or the Government to fill it up and improve
it. He assures us that he has seen Mrs. ADAMss
carriage, with four horses in it, laundering for
in he atta m ka yav ph
the deep vscous mud of this road. Pedestrians had
no such difficulty to encounter; for before the
arrival of Congress, path had been constructed on
the south side of the avenue of rough stones raised
about three feet above the mud, and made just wide
enough for two persons to pass each other. Along
this footway President ADAMS was to be seen every
fair day taking his solitary walk, and courteously
saluting every person he met, gentle or simple
Among those whom Mr. WoLcoTT called I" decent
looking people," then residing Greenlcafs Point,
was WILLIAM CRANcH, near relative of Presi-
dent Adams, and of the several Judges appoint
ed at the close of the session. and the only one,
believe, who still holds that appointment, at the end
of fifty-three years. He had been resident of the
" future city" some years before that period, and
had acquired a respect and esteem which passing
years have served to increase and confirm. DR..
FREDERICK MAY, the father of the present Repre-
sentative in Congress from Maryland, resided at
that time in one of handsome row Of brick houses
known as "he TrcRty Buildings" situated at some
distance below the hill south of the Capitol The
whole row was not many years afterwards destroyed
by fire.
In addition to the I" one good tavern about forty
RODS from the Capitol" mentioned by Mr.. Wocott
and then kept by Mr.. Stelle, there was also
modious and excellent boarding house, few rods
further east, in building erected by Mr.. Sewall,
and which was few years afterwards occupied as
private dwelling by Mr.. GALLATIN, while Secretary
Of the Treasury.
An English traveller by the name Of Weld, who
passed through Washington about the time of the
removal Of the scat of government from Philadel-
phia, on his return to England published an ac-
count of his travels through the United States,
containing the following passages touching the Fed
eral City:
"0n the original location Of the ground now allotted
for the seat Of the Federal City, the identical spot
which the Capitol now stands was called Rome. THIS
anecdote is related by many certain prognostc of
the future magnacence Of this city, which be- it
Il
were, second Rome"
ITO be under the necessity of going through deep
wood for two miles in order to next-door
neghbOr aud in the city is curious and believe
a novel circumstance"
| A wcll-known British Bard introduces the first of
these paragraphs in note to the line,
Come let me lead thee DER this modern Romcn
which occurs in his poetic epstle to Mr.. Hume,
dated {" from the city Of Washington" To the of
ten quoted line,
"And what Goose creek once is Tber now"
the poet has the following note:
a little stream that through the city, which,
with atolaL eectaoH, they have styled the Tber. 1t
originally called Goose creek"
Mr. Weld had said very truly that the original
location Of the ground was called Rome His au-
thority for saying was, doubt, an old chart or
plot Of the ground, still extant and Of date long
anterior 10 the first dream Of ai0ttng it for the
scat Of the Federal City" On the same ancient
chart the little stream that runs through the city"
Is very naturally "stylod the Tiber," the two names
being almost iRscparaby associated in the minds Of
those al all acquainted with Roman history or with
Shakespeare. So that, IL there was any "ntolerablc
aicctaiion' inusing these two high.sounding names
il ehargcahle 70 the orginsl granor Of the land
and noi - any individual connected with the Fcde-
raj City The only name changed was that Of
Rome a. the Car greater one or WAsHINuroN The