New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-27
WASHINGTON BORING FOR WATER

the one GREAT mistake Of the Father Of his Country
True. he never projected any such Washington
City a, we now haye-a city living By Politics,
ard deriving ts rourishment from Treasury suction
alone: be contemplated great Metropolis oi
Commerce, Manufactures and the Fine Arts
another Constsntnople or St. Petersburg. How
n ot calculation has been bsed, is here painfully
evident; uhy it has been, no one acquainted with
the rs,ure and influences of Slavery need be told.
Suffice it that to-day Washington has no commerce
hp. thar which ministers to her own immediate
wants: no manufactures, but the manufacture OIL
claims on the Treasury; no arts but the at OF
boring eimlet holes into the public chest, and en-
l.rcius them 70 auger holes as rapidly as possible
7 think Madison. Wisconsin, or even Rockford,
Illinois sells more fabrics to the country surround-
ire il than does this Metropolis OF the Model he
publc. Food. lodging and labor are so dear here
that M work is doue in Washington that can be
done elsewhere; the Government is employer and
1ayuaster not only of the swarms OF CLERKS and
other NJ sminal public servants, but OF the great
body of the mechanics and artisans as well; and
if Uncle Sam were to suspend payment tor month
half the children in Washington must go supper
less to bed If a bridge is TO be built or repaired
here. Congress is expected TO pay; should the
weather be severe, some one moves IN Congress an
appropriation from the Treasury for the rehei Oh
hep,or Pennsylvania avenue is paved, where
paved at all, with money taken from the Treasury;
Snd suspect the reason why the streets remain
ANONYMOUS, and are only distinguished by letters,
a. A. B. G.. d, &C., or by numbers, as First,
Second. Third. Fourth, &c, is 10 be found IN the
failure of Congress TO appropriate say SlO,VVo,
10 procure for them an assortment OF names.
Washington is inadeqaately supplied with Wa
ter, not Liquor and is conscious OF the dehcien'
cy. OF courte, Congress is expected to meet 1t. 10
Is;2. s., 600 was applied for and obtained to de-
fray the cost Of surveys; three plans were report
ed, oil the most costly of these (as usua select
ed-that OF taking the water from the Potomac st
the Great Falr, DC to lS miles distant) and
bringing is in by g brick aqneduct, which would
give cad of li5 feet The cost OF doing this was
officially estma,ed at 80 3oO, coo, and would probs'
bly, lot much exceed Ten Millions Of Dollars, un-
less some expensive alterations should be devised
and adopted. In furtherance of this project,
$3.50, Geo have already been drawn from the Treas
u1y and spent and the Senate has inserted $500 900
NJ, re in the Deficiency bill which bad already
passed the House.
protest against this item as having no righ. to
a place in the deficiency bill and protest against
the voting from the Treasury Of money TO con
tnue aud complete this costly undertaking. Ii
WASHINGTON wants Water-works, Gas doubt not
she does) let her pay for them, as New-fofk,
Philadelphia and Boston have done. She has no
more right to be supplied with water than with
bread at the cost of the whole American people
The Globe, urging the House TO sustain and even
increase the Senstes appropriations, says:
The expenditure Of money for the construction OF
the Aqu.duct " III not be without return. It vii be
the property of tie country. It will supply to the cap
ital necessary Of life, and will protect from destuc-
ton by fire the public records and the public property
in the Offices ard Departments, and the Navy-fard
and Arsenals.
don't know about " the country having "prop-
erty" from which it is TO derive no income, but to
maintain which it will be charged and taxed
from year to year. Such properly is like self
riQhteousness-the more you have of it the greater
your poverty.
But the public records, public buildings, &C.,
will be protected from fire by supply Of water.
Very good: then let the Government pay its part
toward introducing the water. Ifit owns third
of the property in the District let it pay third oil
the cos. of the aqueduct-no more. Or, better
still: let the water be introduced by q company,
and let the Government, with other proprietors OF
buildings in Washington and Georgetown, pay its
fair quota for ts u.e but no iaddling all upod'the
Treasury.
But It is said that the interests OF Washington
City demand the energetic prosecution OF this work
BY Congress- and that to oppose it is to evnce hos
tty to her. Well, if the twenty or thirty persons
who own real esta:e here are Washington City,
this assertion is correct: if not, not On this
point will relate an authentic snecdOte:
An appropriation Of $3.50, ,0cO was carried forthi'
work by desperate exertiOns at the close OF the
la.t Session. Ny friend Major II. was among it,
mo-t enthusiastic champions, AMI sat up all night
TO electioneer for it. BY eOaxiDg some TO vote
contrary 10 their own convictions, and waking up
others who were asleep, it was finally carried BY
seren majority. In the gray Of the morning ne
went home, tired and sleepy, bit glorious. lie
had hardly eaten his breakfast, however, when MS
landlord called. ~ thought it but fair to notify
ycu." said the latter that if you stay another
year in my house, j must add so to your rent
How is this " interpoated the Major what
:, ,ba occasion7" "Oh, The rasT-iroTks al.
,en;ro." reoined the landlord, 'snd ell peal
estate in Washington must be higher in eonse-
ounce" NJ friend took his hat, and went wea.
rily in quest of fresh lodgings; and now il he SIS