The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-30


completed to be noble edi6ce The hotel soon came /
nanasome large house then just covered n built
Recommendations Tor the members of Congress: tb
money Tor II was raised BY public auction Still feen;n, a.
r e seomn, az the distance Of mile from III
,Ap We passed the President intended house; and ax
eept nan dozen houses that were covering in and ~
81 Sil more level with the ground there rea
forming street. "Pp0"'A"o o
al oeogelown which is close adjoining the city of Wash
we were set down at large inn, built ON specu
a,on Tor the purpose Of entertaining ysiters and other
sotsg 70 view the new city We stopped here few day
peige We passed The Patowmac into Virginia and me
Win more attention from the landlord of this house thar
Any o;her during the whole journey and he hi
some particular object did regard difficulties but viii
sr Wn , sopanlon as tour of pleasure, it different
that was to be of Washington city containing little he
des open neds and large woods with cut through
.hem Oh miles IN length, to show where the streets were a.
The situation is pleasant, and conceive healthy The
atownac between two branches of which the intended
city Is situated, is certainly grand river having
clear inland ship navigation of hundred miles from The
doubt whether they have not AZ
ane wong emu place that is first established by trade and
but doubt how far the building city to force
cen Two eiesabished powerful rivals free
land nor Alexandria, Virginia seems to apprehend H.
smallest dinution of their trade but building and in
,ah eyer lille respecting this intended city,
per OF houses built 10 ente TO the name of great cit y
+ tIue the public buildings erecting grand scale
hence should the Union Of the states continns So o th
these remarks were made on the sno IL in %
The Presidents House $50 feet in front and "a deem
built Of ireestone Of excellent quality MOI more than
fourth part Is built but when finished promises TO be an
elegant building The Capitol building with the same mate
a $50 feet IN front by l2o in depth of which one wing
only just raised high enough for the first scaodng But
few mea were at work either at the public private build
g and several Of them told they could get more work
han money matchmaking the principal business going
and Tor this the whole body earth that
eSahed where they had dug for cellars, well adapt
any part of the whole might be said to have the APP
pearance OF town. rather village is at the eastern
Law and Mr. Duncason, gentlemen Of fortune from In
dia were the only individuals actually engaged in building
We're the only people who ey depend on for money
one or two Others shat had begun having left off Here,
OF nglshmen fear these gentlemen wi find To their cost
that they have calculated on English ideas unnecessarily
magnified by eastern habits.
In this part the city there are four or five proup,
houses of four ak in group, at no great distance from
inhabited and reckoning mn nh The fonscs conld o
hear of belonging To the new CITY Of Washington thew
marking this from he extra false accounts that had
been to- published in The London paner, w hoor
might passed. would not have answered their bur
pose as was these lots to bud bouses ON that ba
making, ~ ~ '
Bad y Apprehend H. aud will turn out TO be, to the
th ia S y nas proved OF great advantage to
mined re- ba;Id fsJerai c;, c WunSiass nrss ae'eI
sired to fix the eligible SPOT He chose the present
the land OF which not then worth than pounds
an acre. money treating with the propretors, it
Far nnbl;c ~ ny eu.s, asS~eS, s9aSre' GROUNDS
tyve pounds an acre The rema;naer az she,r r,;
lands be divided into equal lots one half To bo soA
benefit Of the public BY commissioners the ,icr AT the dis
On an average, acre OF ground is now estimated at
Ai,ooo ana Mr. B., whose estate of nearly 500
S no mor,n more .nan I3ooo more than which he was
Haying seen and an;a rop.,:N VI Iov'ovo ~
the information could concerning this somucb
city, sat down between the prcdents House and the Cap
ito ana entered the following IN minutebook my
i Z. "Ss IL ~ h,,, h.,,.,
prising individnas rial cons;derahI -; any sn'ci
should the Union of the States continue
Congress assemble for number of years. until the National
anu oner puoue oces necessarily draw the moneyed
.antur,. nav fr e. ~ Asnius =. 'ne course o.
trading people sufficient 10 make IL heau,f,l n;
MANY hazards as to be most anwinn 10 vcntur an ~
my property in the undertaking.
TX
~ ~ asl.n from Snort excursion IN Virginia back
that Tongress had o,ar.n,;oa LIS w. .h 10.
with the public buildings which renovated the homes q the
spectators. But did then and do still recommend e,n
snrsS hroed S'oo"nts 'a' lot many years VIII De