The daily union., 1856-01-29


Tar PRESENT AND NATIONAL CAPITAL
II been fashionable Of late years to speak devey
Washington city Of magnificent distances" that but
few strangers and not many OF citizens willing
10 admit the imposing plans Of its founder In admra
BILE keeping with the growing importance and future destiny
Of the federal capital In late number OF the Phadepbis
Bulletin find long and sblywritten article this sub
ject from which we make the following extract.
"The plan Of Washington has been ridcued for It's
ness and may have seemed ridiculous to have few thou
sand people scattered place that would lodge million,
and call city But the designers OF had cacu
lated for futury and already beginning to show that
will be large enough for i plan Within the past fifteen
present generation win live 20 see IL compact we
elegant city Of perhaps several hundred thousand inhahi
ants The PLAN besides being vast perhaps the finest ever
ards its Rue de Rvo and Its Champs Ely
be made as superb city Washington must become in the
Of centuries The universally wide, straight Streets
and the grand radisng from the Capitol and the
Presidents House give an advantage in variety and cir
cuaton that European capital and OF which
We rectangular but beautiful Philadelphia must forever bO
deprived"
Speaking Of tho public grounds and buildings the same
writer says
"Tbe grounds Of the Capitol are already extremely beau
u and those surrounding the Presidents House, which
have always been admired worthy Of 1t than
Lafayette Square attractive appendage to these
and open The Intersections OF the various
and streets viii at future day be planted and embel
hed as TO make abundance Of gardens and shady
promenades all the city There grand palaces
such make splendid attraction in foreign capitals but the
Presidents House elegant and appropriate and fully salts.
es all our republican ideas this point But the Capitol,
when II is finished, will be grand government building
be found in the world and besides it's vastness and
elegance has OF situation above those Of all the
European palaces. The Patent ohce or, properly
speaking the building Of the Interior Department. Ia noble
structure and the Post Office when nshed will be scarcely
inferior 10 IT, The colonnade Of the Treasury oeservedy
admired, and the proposed buildings for the State, War
and Navy Departments viii doubtless be made correspond
ingy handsome"
The writer has some severe but not ~ tempered structures
the paintings and atuary which sdon the Capitol but
pass over them for the present for the purpose Of intro
duong and endorsing the suggestions contained in the close
Of the suboined ertracti
"The catalogue OF Wsshington's artistic embellishments
through but for the infant metropolis OF
ton In its homage II does very we'll Congress- too a
ford TO be liberal for the sake Of improving the attractions Of
city that resored toby the people Of every State and in
which every State has certain interest The residents Of
Washington, however, should depend TOO exclusively
upon government support. There IL why
srce and manufactures should not flourish In Washington
well as in baltimore; and individual enterprise should 20
band In hand with that Of In ensrgng the
Of the place and increasing the inducements for
pie to reside there. The vast expenditure Of late years upon