Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-03-26

| Correspondence of To. Nashville Patriot.
WASHINGTON CITY, AND HOW THINGS ARE
DONE THERE.
WASHINGTON, March lltb, 1891.
To the Editors of The Daily Patriot;
As you will perceive, am still tabernacing in this
humiatng attempt at a great city. am extremely
disguised with Washington. l would like to meet, at
social gathering of four, the ministers of England,
France and Russia, fresh from the finished spendors OF
London of Paris and of ST. Petersburg, and get them
to tell me candidy what they think of the Capital OF
this great nation think shall do it before leave
here. Everything in Washington is unfnished-e1cept
the contents of the Federal Treasury the late Admins.
tration managed to finish" them before they quit
Piles of brick mortar lumber &c are scattered every
where but the workmen be perpetually gone to
dinner. There's the dome on the Capitol. They
have been hammerng away it for number Of years,
and is not flushed yet. If they had been employed
by the lob they would have had it done in twelve
eighteen months; but they employed on heavy saa-
res and by the day, aud don't how long takes
them-the longer the better They climb to the dome
occasionally pull off their coats, take one tug at bar
of iron pu, their coats again, and 60 Off and stay
week. The whole thing is regular ndle, and tue
Government seems 10 like it-perhaps because 1t is so
much ike the Government. This dome, when COM
plet d. will have about million OF dollars ard
will have been four, FIVE SIX years in building
can 90 to Nashville and have just like 1t put up in
twelve months Tor hall the money alu clear large ior
| tune by the job.
If all the money that has been appropriated for public
buildings and other improvements in Washington had
been udciously and honestly expended this would be
to-day one Of the finest cities in the world. As il 49, con-
sdelng all things is next to city at all II the Go
vernment should have occasion to build pig pen feet
SQUARE it couldn't possibly be done for less than fifty
thousand doara exclusive of the sllaries of the super
iatendent the dra and the engineer which would
be abou. three thousand dollars each private enter
Il. a. m moi
remarkably fast public ones 90 here, you couldn't get
your boots BACKED without mourning an expense oil
| hundred dollars 10 save your life.
The way the Government gets is work done is Gu
rous. As an illustration you aud your family meet IN
convention of the WHOLE and adopt resolution auhoT-
ling the construction O. hen-coop in your back yard
You appoint superintendent Mt OF the work. put
ting thousand or two OF dollars in bank Tor me TO
check on. get you to appoint my brother-ln law chei
engineer appoint of my brothers assistant super
iptendents and my brother-inaw appoints two OF his
brothers assistant engneers-sll at your expense We
buy US each fast horse and buggy, and ride around
town. drink cocktails and play billiards. until the bank
deposit gives out when make out printed report oil
seveuty-three pages furnishing you complete topo-
graphical survey Of your back yard, and vast amount
of statistical information with regard TO the number OF
hens you likely to have for the next forty years we
wind up the report with the announcement that the cite
of the hen COOP has been selected and call for another
appropriation prosecute the work, which we assure
Won will be done with "vigor" You place her thou
sand in bank, and employ two hundred hands,
at three dollars day to transport seventyhve cents
worth oflumber, (Which costs you under our manage
men ten times that many dollars to the place OF opera
tons which requires about three months In the mean
time we drive around and 60 vigorously with the
ouor and the billiards. We then come up with another
report and demand for another appropriation. Win
this we get the walls OF the structure up aud with one or
two more appropriations ard a great many more cock
tails and billiards we get the thing covered in and at
the end of twelve mouths which we very appropriately
style cur fiscal year." put you in formal possession
OF tenthousanddolar hen.coop that any negro carpen-
ter would have been glad 10 knock some Saturday al
ternoon for suit of your old clothes.
meant write you long letter to night, but unhap-
pity fad myself placed in snguarly untavorable po-
s,on for wiring with nay accustomed force and persp'
Guilty n room j. situated in wing OF the bulldog.
Just opposite ia another wing with courtyard
between. There must be concert or circus, or some
sort OF show in tonight for at window inirne-
dately opposite mine couple OF very pretty, what
suppose be chamb rmads have been putting on thei7
clothes for the las: hour, as they were hxng up TO go
somewhere. This is very annoying to man or family.
and il. it were far down stairs, would go and
clmpliu TO the landlord. It would require an individual
o. tremendous power of concentrating his thoughts 10
write an able letter under such circum'tinces would
close the blinds and ge: further from the window, bu'
expect 70 pay for staying in this house. and am not to
be driven from pillar to post By such spectacle as is
now before There IS no community OF feeling be-
tween me and the scouudres who write such stuff as
|
doubt. that Mrs. B. would fud il has clipped into my
pocket.book:
with muslin fash ably thin,
What with eyes ud e'rr refuse EN-
Rop casually peping n'
"And wien his arden gszs returning.
The dry goods heaye TO deep Crash s!shs,
To p,ess-his bat down DER his eyes'
But the rs are now putting their bonnsts, and
hope am last TO be left undstubsd. have already
written enough, however and will bid you an affection
ate Good night. BLYSKs.
THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE CONFEDERATE
STATES
From The Montgomery Adcsrtiser.
ARMY APPOINTMENTS
The following appointments have been made in the
Army Of the Confederate States and Confirmed by thu
Co0gress
BGIGADgR GrxERAL-Samuel Cooper Virginia.
ADJUTAET GENERALS DEPARTMENT..
LIyurrYAyr CoLoNEL-Gsorge Dess, Louisiana.
MAJoRs-Davd Il. Jones, Georgia, Hugh lawson Clay
Aabima
OAprASs-Jno Withers, Mississippi, Ro5't. C. Wood,
1'1's''' QUARTERwAsTERS DEPARTMENT.
LIrUTEsANr ColoSgL-Abraham q. Myers, Louisiana.
| MAJOR L4wreucc calhoun, Georgia.
| SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT.
CAprAIxs-John T. Shaaf District OF Columbia, VIM.
+ Howell, Louisiana; John 81. Gauit, Georgia.
CORPS OF ENGINEERS.
MAJoEs-Wiiln L. c. Whiting, Mississippi Danville
\ LeaiOetter, AAOana
| CAPruxs-waer II. Stephens, Texas; William r.
| Blges Georgia; William d. Echols, AlabGms; Samuel
CORPS OF ARTILLERY.
| MAJORs-Samue q French, Mississippi; John e.
| lrnwel South Ca'olina.
| CAPrAiNs-William G Gill; virgins; John II. Forney,
| Alabame; Geo. T. Andrews, South Carolina; John q.
Booth Alabama; John c. Moore, Tennessee johnson
X Duncan Louisiana; Stephen D. Lee, South Carolina;
| John 7. Vipigne, South Caroline; William ID. Pe3der,
North Carolina Alfred 3. Chapman, Alabama; Frederick
l. Chllds South Carolina Philip Stockton, South Caro-
| Ina; Hypoite 0iaGowski, Louisiana.
| FIRST LIEUTEyANTs-Wilha m Butler South Carolina;
| Joseph p Jones, North Carolina Edward +. Bigey,
Alabama; George s. James South Carolina; Charles d.
| Anderson Souh Caroline; Alfred T. A. Torbert Della
ware; Frzhugh Lee Virginia; Thomas j. Berry, Geor-
gs; Moses j. White, Mississippi; James Ii. Hallonquist
| South Carolina; Robert +. Beckham, Vrginis Joseph
Wheeler, Georgia; John r. B. Burtwell, Alabama; Benz
F. Sloan, South Caroline; Francis A. shoup, Florida;
| John Gibbs Bgrnwel South Carolina; James l. Ken
nard Mississippi s. c. Williams Georgis; John Pelham,
Alabama; Thomas Rosser, Texis; Wright Rives, Dis
trict of columbia; Alfred Rlett, South Carolina.
| SECOND DEMONSTRATION U Ben, Texas; Charles T.
Ball Alabama; Lucien D. Sandidgc, louisiana; Felix b.
Robertson Texas; 2. N. B. Young Georgia; John Lane,
| Oregon; John Kelly, Alabama; George N Reynolds,
| South Carolina r. L. Sweeman, Florida.
| INFANTRY.
| CoLoyEI.-Eirl Van Dorm, Mississippi.
MAJORS Lafayette McLaws, Georgia; Alfred Cum
ming Georgia.
CAPTAINS William S. Walker, Florida; John w. Fra
zer Mississippi; John Dunnovant South Carolina Tho
\ nm. u MrConU oil Genroa. Theodore O'Hara Alabama: