New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-19

water. 1t cost $25O,00O, and is built of stone
in fine style, and looks well as one ascends
the river toward II.
The State House at Jackson, Mississippi,
is tlirce-storied affair. with u dome.
The Tennessee State House cost Il million
dollars, and stands Us feet above the river
on the highest ground in Nashville. 1t is an
Ionic tditre, with a cup0la, prominent as
the Acropolis, and the best State cditice in
America.
Little Rock was selected for the capitol
site of Arkansas in 1917. The capitol il "a
crude affair
The capitol of Texas, at Austin, is one
hundred and torty-tiye feet by ninety, with
i, dome reaching an altitude OF one hundred
and one feet. The building is Of an oolite
of " soft white color. and cost Si50,O0O 1t
is Ionic in order. and Ornamented by Il
cupola. Teas has very good State build
ingS.
In nearly all the States the capitol site
has been removed ut least once, and
within the past few years many changes
have taken place. Not every reader is
awar, that the capital Of Georgia is now
Atlanta: of Nebraska. Omaha (now Lin
coln): of Oregon, Salem; of Louisiana,
New Orleans and of Kansas, Topeka. The
State editrcs Of these cities, like those at
Sacramento and Carson City, the capitals
of California and Nevada, are as vet OF
small note. a less number will recognize
in the word Tucson the capital of Arizona.
or in OLYMPIC: the capital of Washington.
The following are the other territorial
capitals Colorado. Denver; Dakota.
Yankton: Idaho Boise City: Montana, Viz
.inia City: New Mexico. Santa Fee t'tah.
Salt Lake City: Wyoming, Cheyenne.
The value of the capitol to a town has no
measure by experience. Several of our
State capitals are virgin as such, and the
most remarkable growth i'll any OF them is
observed at Indianapolis. which stands as
nearly central i'll Indiana as the surveyors
could determine it. and became also :: rail
WY focus. Other towns as Harrisburg
seem to have suffered 10y legislative contact.
and to convey the dingy impression of "A
corrupt atmosphere, rather than be known
for their natural advantages. The growth of
Troy. within S.N miles of Albany. Is i. case
OF commerce overtaking and passing tradi-
ton, society, wealth. and political import
ance. Newport. Rhode Island. illustrates
pleasure powerful to revive IL city when
commerce has long departed and legislation
is lnpotcut to reinSpire.
The capital list is suggestive in its nOmen-
clature, having Il classical touch in Olyn!
pa, Atlanta. and Augusta: sav0ring of adj
venture in Raleigh Columbia. and Column
bus: religions and sentimental in Provi-
dtnce and Concord; proprietary or royal in
Albany: Trenton. and Annapolis; biograph
ical in Jackson, Mont gomery, Madison, JEFF
itrson City, Austin, and Carson City; In
dian in Tallahassee. Topeka. Yankton. and
Omaha; Aztec i'll Tucson: Spanish or
French in Montpelier Baton Rouge
Des MOines. Sacramento. and Santa Fc
On the whole, Washington City is the best
vindicated of all our capitol sites. 1t is
signal instance OF veriticaton of the colnpro-
missing good sense of ollr foreftthcrS being
NJ once popular and placid. the most orderly
city in the nation. developing an architec
tural and social character of its own: and
the South and the East. which disputed
about 1t so long, have ceased to molc>t it
since 1914. That the West should make
som" attack upon IL Is natural i'll view of the
w"ndrouS and unantiri patcd development
there. bnt We may safely trust the better
feelings of the Western peope-those who
take little stock in merely bauetul agitation.
and who know that no greater blow could
be struck al the stability of oar institutions
and the revcrcut elements of uur nature
than TO destroy the monuments of eighty
years and make deSolatc the spot solemnlv
baptized a>hington.