Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-11-09

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betore II O'Clock m; othervise they may not sppeal
until the next day. .t- F. 7t
ENGLISH VIEW OF wAsHINGTON AND
MOUNT VERNON. -7. gz.5-
The special correspondent Of the London
Times sees this country as We cannot it may
help us to borrow his spectacles. He thinks
that the favorable impression which the Prince
received in his three days visit 10 the national
capitol would have been diminished in direct
ratio to his longer stay. The marble palsces
Of the Government" among the "shabby, little
dilapidated houses seem like jewels badly set. y
Nothing is finished except these shabby, little,
old houses, which ought TO be Immediately
pulled down. eH
when you have visited the Capitol and
Mount Vernon, admired the Treasury, Patent
and Post Offices, called at the White House,
fu1ered under q bad hotel, and continually
tsken the Washington Monument for light
house, all of which, especially the two latter,
you do easily in three days, you may quit the
administrative capital Of America with perfect
ease Of mind as TO your having seen as much
Of the place as If you had lived there all your
lfe." -
The Capitol receives honorable and admiring
mention go Its site is unusually fine, its pro-
portions are massive and noble, and its severe,
grand simplicity of architecture well becomes
the administrative halls of great republic so
young and primitive as this"
of course, like everything else, II is unfn-
ished, and the writer adds his private opinion
that 1t, and everything else, ever will be The
worksof art, however, failed to attract great
admiration-especially the @ poor, clumsy and
badly executed figure Of Columbus" though
the Indian group ut the top Of the main steps
is pronounced very fine. The spittoons COM
manded an appreciatiye notice:
Nothing more forcibly repudiates the vul-
oar notiOn In he eYneetnrafinO acouracv of
Americans than the appearance Of the marble
arouDd these noisome receptacles. These spit
tOons are the first thing you see on entering
and from this moment you never lose sight of
them rs long as you remain in the building
No matter where you wauder-into the Senate
chamber, the House of Representatives, the
Speakers room, the gorgeous room Of the Pres
ident-the yawning, dirty nuisance haunts you
everywhere. You tumble over them in quiet
corners Of rich frescoed halls; they flank the
tribune and the Speakers chair, like quaint
supporters, and stand in hideous rows and semi.
circles round the halls-recogniIed institutions
of the place; the little affairs on which every
one asserts his nauseous liberty Of splitting, no
matter who is present or what tho occasion. A
long and, for the proportions Of the building a
very low and narrow corridor leads to the Hall
of Representatives, large and very low
square chamber, with the Speakers seat and
tribune facing the entrance, and a large semi
circle Of seats and desks leach with the never
absent sPittoon, of course ranged around the
floor"
The Hall Of Representatives is described as
"a chamber like a disused show room, which
has all the windows in the ceiling, and yet
has no light; which is large without being
spacious, low in hight without looking com.
Portable, covered with gilt and scarlet with
out being decorated, gaudy without effect,
costly yet mean and even dirty in its appear
ance, with tawdy vulgarity ofsplendor that
disgusts every man of taste, and with its en-
ormities Of gilt and paint sufficiently dark
ling and obscure to fail to impress the masses.
There is q kind Of mixture Of . grand Califor-
mia bar-room and q second-rate Paris cafe-an
air of rather well-wOrn half-business place
of entertainment," dc.
Mount Vernon, in all its gloomy forlornity,
receives an ample description. 'sThe most
bigot:d Stranger" says the writer with hon.
orable feeling "that ever trod within these
sacred precincts cannot look around without
emotion, cannot free his mind from feeling
of sorrow that this touching relic of one OF
earth's noblest dead should be now in such a
state and left to such decay. Those who wish
to see the interior of the house mnst search to
the left, where, down in q cellar, a negro wo-
man and her family almost urk-a slave her
self, though the only cieer0xe to the deserted
mansion of the man who gave freedom and in
dependence 70 this continent Oh, canttaS
ranttoriHmt dirty negress shows the homo
lin pity ON its sad and forlorn neglect
The unvenerating neglect with which the
few rusty mouldy relics Of the Father of Amer
lea are treated, is censured with Just and
mournful Indignation. The fossils which he
gathered, the Bastile Key, Lafayette's sithoas-
fashioned yellow harpsicord, are all reveren-
tislly noticed. H.f -.sI eo
SIN one corner is a dirty heap Of leather
and odd rags. What do they here? Has not
this building fallen low enough but it must be
astorehouse for old lumber Lumber - says
dle-bags and holsters And such, indeed,
these mouldy fragments turn out to be; the
old embroidered holsters, full Of holes, and
shreds Of ruin; the saddle-bags, moth eaten
and falling to pieces, streuing the floor,
mere unsightly litter" - .,--5' T,
shown. The writer conjectured that il was 90
much decayed as to be unsafe for visitors
Let the dust settle again, exclaims he,
upon the rooms In which Washington lived
aud thought and worked for his country They
echo with . hollow, feeble effort, as il, sicken-
ing to their decay, unwonted noises panied
them-1 Close the blinds, and let them wither
IN silsnees This house will not cumber the
earth for long. How true 10 that eternal moral,
The evil that men do, lives after them tho
good is oft inferred with their bones. ., The
keytof the Bastiie will survive as the type of a
tioWonuous uespottsru, When the sanctuary of
liberty in which it nov hangs shall have passed
away like q tale that 10 told.n ~ OF ~
Down rough, broken and encumbered foot
path, hks,Au abandoned cattle track" they
took thar way 70 the tomb, Hith its red brick
wah aad rusty rsilisgs, scrawled on every
available inch With names df vulgar traselers
- Theirs a no ponp Of woe about the spot
well remarks the Observer; .Ero''.f ts's
"QEsE the bricks creep wild and tangled
sSrubs--veeds, rubbish and mortar are Uttered
10 nfront, while ell around it is dirty, thrift
less waste, IKE the remains Of shrubbety in
which n building once stood. No pious care
seems 90 have ever teaded this fnsglscted
grave none by TO shield il from the dssecrs.
tions Of idle profanity. II is here alone in In
glory, unesssd for, uaviSissd, enw.tshsd MA
the night wind for its only uoufnsf,, ashipf
through the waste of trees, and strewipa the
des6 efosn lssyss liks sshss before the lpmH
sQsh n the grsre Of wsshingtone !. E ss.oIIs el.sly
= Sefors thb humble tomb The Primes, Tho
,Presidsat, and ell the party stsod q apcoysrsd.
TIN easy nnorsfising on fhfs yisft for fhs.e "a