The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-12-23
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A correspondent writing to the Nashville
PairiOt thus Fades into the ptstehslonb oI
our national cspital: 81 "a &.-zsss
Washington city, the capital of the nation,
the home, during term time, oflhe President
(also the residence Of Eve hundred and ten
meR who confidently expect to be President,
and the seat Of the United States Gas Works,
technically called Congress,) is situated in
the District Of Columbia, territory cover.
ing the horizontal surface often miles square
and peFpendic1laTly all the way through
As every place In The city is from three
querteIs OF a mile 10 a mile and three. guar.
teFs from everywhere else, washington is
called, in GOuTth 'bf 5uly ofGiions and that
style Of ltersiuteIg generality tthe city OF
magnificent distances.st II derives its name
Of Washington from celebrated contiien.
tai officer who built the pihe huts, and fotO.
ed his wsy through very hard winter at
Valley Forge, and nude CORVALLIS &C.
knowledge the corn. at Yorktown. The
principal public buildings Of the city are the
Patent Office, whefe the Yankees are grant.
! ed the exclusive right to manufacture and
sell India.rubber baby jumpers, double. gear.
sd rat traps, Railways Ready Relief, which
is warranted to relieve you of your money,
ifnothing else, and other valuable inventions
OF the age the General Post Office. where
they superintend the management OF The diff.
ferent mail routes OF the country; the Ma.
tional Treasury, an institution of lesrnina
which has graduated more men In the art of
swindling the government than anv other
similar or tissimilar institutions in the world:
and the City Jail, which is the only pnhlic
building in Washington which is really de-.
voted TO honest purposes, and that is devoted
to no purpose at all, both the permanent and
temptrary residents of the city being too
deeply engaged in their own rusca lities TO
think of punishing other people for theirs.
There are two monuments in WASHINGTON.
one OF red granite, erected to the memory of
Mi. Smilhson, at his own expense and
monument to the folly, penuriousness and
ingrotitude OF the American people. The
latter is about sixty feet high, with Upward
(though hopeless) expectations Of FIVE or six
hundred feet. it is commonly called the
Washington or National Monument. Cen
eral Tay lor caught his death in 1850 at the
laying OF the corner stone of this structure.
u Is hardly probable that any Of his succes.
sors will perish at the laying Of the cap stone.
1t IS much more probable that Presidents
vii! be done with at least six weeks before
that event arrives. a... l......s
Inc imports Of Washington consist prin.
cipaly OF Office seekers and pickpockets
(both of which are frequently combined in
one,) )s"nd fast women who Indirectly make
the laws that are put through Congress. It's
exports are disappointed politicians and
whisky. The latter is generally bottled, or
rather unbottled, in members of Congress
fortra1sportutio!1.
Taking it altogether, Washington ia an
exceedingly hard place. The public men
there are always very honest and upright,
however, that is, until they 60 home and turn
against The administration, when, of course,
they become, like Stephan A.. Douglas and
John w. Forney, the most consutnmate
scoundTels unbunQ. We. have the authori.
~ OF number Of administration papers for
saying so. = '.~...'
During The sitting Of Congress, though,
lnnumerable murders and robberics are com.
mltted in the city E; but as everybody there
10 ABOVE suspicion, and wouldn't hurt hair
your head, nor take the sma Hest coin from
The treasury, the perpetrators invariably es-
cape detection. Under these benign ausp.
ce', it is no wonder that it cannot, or has
not, been said Of Washington as was recent
y sald Of one-horSe town in Kentucky,
that If, at the last d'y, Gabriel should hop
pen. to light there first, the resurrection
would be indefinitely postponed, for some Of
tne inhabitants would swindle him out OF his
horn before he could make single toot.