Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-08-06
Our Correspondence.

MN EDITOR FREEMAN dear Friend -
Ana you will he much surprised, sure. to have
'e'ier IRON yer old acquaintance, it has been
so long since we have seen or hea rd piyera word
from each other, but after | went to bed last
nIghl' coaldn't get scarce wee-b bit of sleep
at all at all, till | gotup in the morning. an
1t no matter either, that the good man laid be-
SIDE me all the while, for ye know that's him
That could bate all the relation in the old coun-
Try a-snoring from The time he begins shaping a,
ght I'LL after breakfast next morning, Tor
4hiRing Of Sd many things shat J.,..ss. our
youngest son, had been teln of what he saw
to Washington.
And 50 thought it would be plasng and
do nobody no hurt, if some of the things was
put into The Freeman, but you know didn't
have much of chance at an edication when |
was young so | told James to write, but he said
he didn't want TO, you had got so big since you
had got to be an Editor 50 told him would
tell him the words, an he might write Just as if
ii was me myself that did the writing an so he
dld 1t but you must not expect anything great
yer know, an you may publish it or not, just
as ye are mind TO.
WE'LL the boy got ticket at Randolph De
pot to York for $500; staid at " Crook Eu-
ropean Hotel, where they do things in Yankee
style, over night; got ticket for $3.50 next
morning for Washington an went on to the cas
at O'clock got to Philadelphia about noon;
rode in an omnibus with thirty, one Others about
three miles to the Baltimore Depot, expecting
chance there to get thing TO cat-but cars was
ready, an so was off with bad sense of gone
ness at the stomach, which he almost always
feels when he goes over dinner time without his
potatoes; but the cars wouldn't stop for him
they are just so accommodating an he got
to Washington 7 o'clock in the evening. Now
you needn't laugh, but he kinder didn t want 10
put up at any Of them big taverns, for fear of
the Hotel disease or money puss disease, an so
he wanted to look up an old acquaintance who
was having good salary from the government,
TO stay with him. But when he ca led into a
Huh'oe' vi s'oi'S an 'dNerhS 10 look al clty
directory, 10 fnd whr'e he lived they had all
misaid or lent Ihem so he thought he would
buy one. an called into bookstore for it. bu,
they told him there b. lru, been one published
for six years TtaUks 10 hia bringing up and
schooling, thai boy Of Guns don't give up for
trfes, 81 he aakr lhr maa if he knew Mr..
aynI4 ErX245-. ~ Y . h" l}rs s2fs2 rs s4k bvH
lhen he asked another, ,.anolhcr, an another, till
finally the last man went ha f a mile with him
to the house, and &iGn't charge him cent
said he was happy to show him. Well. James
stald thu re week-saw all the bic things in the
city, an some few ,hings that he thought were
not so big
The streets are all very big-from four to ten
rods wide-crossing each other at square corn
ers-bul the avenues go slanling all ways from
the Capitol, an all the parks except them round
the public buildings, are liule skew -cornered
patches the avenues cut off from the squares,---
lhe avenues are named after the States an
Pennsylvania avenue, where the big taverns are,
goes right from the capitol to the White House
where the President siays,-I can't hardly
think he hrsS, as he never g. wife
James says the old Capitol is good enough,
an big enough for anybody covers an acre an
a half Of land--bul it ant nothing to what the
new one will be. He says they've got more
than thousand men at work on it--coyers four
and one fourth acres of ground there is going
to be more than one hundred and fifty columns
or pillars to it; made ont of solid white marble
that grew way to Italy ; the middle part of the
pillar is round an it takes one man three months
to turn ii N great turning lathe that goes by
steam, an it takes one man nine months to ch is
ell out a little part of the top of it an every
one OF them COSTS over two thousand dol ars ofour
tax money,when they are DONE an sure think
that is a bigger shame than that that O'Conne
sought to have been hung for. The RoWthunder
is round, an ,iney six feet through the middle
Of 1t, an it had a dome on top one hundred and
forty five feet high from the ground ; but as
that want loud enough, they took it off, an are
putting on another over three hundred feet high
| The Vermont State House isn't a pop-gun to it,
The new Senate Chamber an tia Il of Repre-
sentatives are lighted from above, so hope
, there will be no more such bad laws made. an
VENT ated, as they call it, from beneath great
cellar-ke hole lhirtysiX feet in the ground, an
cool air is drove up by machinery, to cool them
off, spose, when they get excited--a right
good idea, if they don't go so deep for the wind
, that it wi smell Of birthstone, an sure it is
an suoh gliding an fresco painting as is there lis
enough to make a man stand with his arms
akimbo, an his hands hold of his money puss
+ and sigh like blast furnace
4 Bat, dear me shan have time to tell you
about half the things he saw and heard how
d Presidents, (there's one every Saturday nigh,
n there an every Wednesday light at the Cap
It al through the year, an saw all the hansOmes1
;. women-so hansome that they must have bust
It but for being hooped so strong. an it wouldn't
It have hurt any body if they had, as nobody
h could get near enough TO feel the shock how
= the Marine Band, that has regular salary oil
about $50 900 year, performed their best mu-
sic, while the ladies' an gentlemen to the
r number of some thousands, promenated, an
/, some had an introduction to &" Old Buck" who
is real clever looking, white headed old bach
g elder large size, STOPPING a little, an his head
It little canted to the right-hope his heart is
more so yet; how the boy called upon him another
e day with a friend, and had an introduction, an
the President said he was very happy to make
Il h,s nn,unintnncn hui dnn,t hnlinun ho ;s olnI