Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-31

presSions of MoZis Albums" of the city of Rich
,nond, Va, where he stopped on his way to
Washington. He is now at the seat of govern
ment, and communicates his impressions of the
''city of magnificent distances" and of matters
aud things therein, to his friend Billy Twins
lie thus describes
HIS FIRST LOOK AT WASHINGTON.
s'The steembote skufflin along the buzzum NV
the P'tomuck like snaik-doctor, / stud and
lookt at Washington, and lookt at it, and lookt
at it, Billy, it shines in the distans Nv n wiutry
evenin with a strange sort NV look. Thar it is,
the crate big stty, Stretcht out upon the groun,
with splendid blldins and steeplcs and monyu-
nints, lookin like picktsher which you know
it is real; and how all NV it got thar, you doant
know; and who's thar and what's goin to be-
KUN of you thar you dOant know; and yeT feal
sorry fer yourself, home is so fur away, tho you
left it like yistiddy. How it is with luther pee
pill can't say, but with me goin to big stty is
attended, with cents NV fear and danger, which
is vaeg, and all the verse for bein so. The hon
sis look mitcy fine, but the sky over the sitty
and back Nv it is dark and dStrest But the
bottim part Nv the sky evvrywhar is sad, evin in
the mornin at sun up, eff you look ut it good. l
doant understand it.
"Seein Washington in the ginrul, you doant
know what you sea- unlest thar is somebody
thar to tell yew. were too much ockyupied
lookin, didn't ass no questshinS. What most
ingaged'my atentshun was the marvel bildins,
and II thing that when cum to find it out were
anuther Washington monyumint, the same as
that in Rchmun, bilt in memrY ginrul Wash
ngtun, only this one is a heep higher and diff
trinity shapt y tremendous tall, square post of
white rock, this one is, with the frame hen
hous OH top NV it. II faint itniSht yit by long
shot They tell me its to be 900 feet high, and
were risin wrappidly, untell the den No Nuthins
got holt NV it and stopt it, sense which nobody
and fbo ui1
tree we reed Nv in jografy, which peepil are
afcard to breethe the are in the naberhood NV
it. l declar pintidly, it are a shame for the
Amor"sl,in PecpIl 10 DO IN this way.
Next to the desertid MONUMENT, my mine
was drawd to the Capitul-C apitul NV the hole
United States; supub eddyfis which wont
describe at this item. The reesin why / doant,
it amt fniSht. In fac, Billy nuthin amt finisht
in this toup Except it is raskaty, which thar is
no knead NV emmy further apropriashuns fer the
iXtenshin NV"
AstOnished Mr.. Albums naturally was at
the above birds.eye view of the capitol of his
country, it was nothing to
MS SURPRISE AFTER LANDING.
'When the bote recht the warf, (warf is sum
bodies nailed down on sum stohS, stuck in the
bottum of the river, runnin out from the bank,
whGr you stop and hitch the bote and git oft
at,) thar insood anuther sean, as the him book
says, NV kunfewshin and creechcr cumplaint,
with hax and hac-drivers horin, and hOminy-
buses and peepil gittin off, Sumthin like ut the
deep o in Richmun, but not so bad and terri
fine TO boldly. Now didn't know nuthin
about Washington, and didn't knau vVhar to go
| to GIT to stay al nte SO l stretcht my year and
Skint my eye, and nuvver let on but what war
lnurely SCUM on the COOS, all rite, upside up,
good sag.
"A feIo goin by sails to anuther fello, he sails:
! 'D,yew reckin he'll be at Broun's?' The other
f,llo sails: well, dunno; reckin so. Broun's is
suthen hOus, you know"
"And they went on, and went rite arter, git
TN into Bronp's hominybuSt, fer | liked the
name of Broun, it sounded so naterul But
didn't eXpeck thar was n man NV that common
naim in big sitty like Washington. | lis
shows how fer from the fax NV the kais mans
Idees is which spens his dais at hoam, seein only
his akewaintentsis. Peepi is peepil, Billy, ev-
Verywhar and they amt much bigger nor emmy
6ettern one plais then anuther; Of ennything,
they are wuSS
Way went the hominylust, goin to Broun's
haX iolrin behine, and sum running ahead CRATE
noise inside, and the travellers saying NV nuth-
ing to nuthcr, but looking out the Winders TO
sea what they could sea-
Among the many extraordioary things which
forcibly impressed" Mr.. Albums, none seem to
to have hit him much harder than
THE sHITHsoNrAS INSTITUTE
Thar is housis and peepil, NV cose, but nuth-
III Wuth hehSnln untwll yen git to the Smith |
sonium Institewt which is on yo lef han is YOU
go to BrOun's. This manshin are not geari's
skool, like The Buckinghame Institewt, but what
the meenin NV it is doant appear to be ginrilly
understood. Frum awl Good gether, the obiick
Is to tend to the wcther You've heerd NV the
cluck of the wether well, he lives in this bildin.
sunwhar; it being vary large, nobody doant
very oftin lay eyes on him. In regard NV its |
exturnals, the Institewt remines me NV par NV |
casters Its cutler is wred, and when has
lookt at it freekwently, it looks like hole pas.
sci nv steepIs had got lost, and was kunsnItin |
together how TO git back to the cherchis whar
they belonged. But shill have mo to saw on |
this pint in annther letter. Onuueschinu6bly
it are strange kunsern."
Mr. Addums, being unwilling to pay two dol
lars and half day for board, and fifty cents
moro for fire, "lode arOun to zine wremmy
dy;" and being anxious to obtain the assistance
of some one acquainted with the localities, meets
a Mr.. Argruff, whom he describes as "a man Of
cents with cIur, pale face, without emmy beerd.
and his eyes soft and kunsiderin." With this