Arizona citizen., 1872-04-06
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

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 able to Visitors Generally -- The
 Territorial Syndicate -- ArizOna's
 Representative -- Personal Gen.
 erally, and the Weather Finally.
 WASHINGTON CITY, Territory of Columbia, March 2.-The noise set up about the removal of the Capital from this place, caused an emphatic rattling of dry bones in this part of the valley of the Potomac. Wash ington had always been sort of petrifed excrescence off here, @ "dead end" of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the head center of mag gotty boarding houses gone to seed. The half dozen public buildings, alone respectable in the architecture, constituted the chief monuments in this lop sided grave yard. The "Cache Creek" Californian three years ago, said of the hotels, that the only good thing on the tables was the salt; the salt was good, he admit ted, but everything else was sour ex- cept the vinegar! You know the plan of the city-a grand cobweb on paper, and mostly on paper yet. Its dreamy IL irt0 standing quotation. The mile-and- ahalf length of Pennsylvania avenue, is distinctly defined by the Capitol being built at one end and the Treas ury and White House at the other. The lawmakers meet and make ap- propriations, and than make for the other end of the avenue to rake in the spells. To a. be sure, there are the graceful Post and Patent Office struc- lures about midway and to one side far enough to cause fair outline of one more street. There you have it except that altogether there is going on one hundred thousand population ill what was the District of Colun- bia; and this is scattered round in such easy negligence of plan that when Gabriel calls, he will have to wait day or two for returns. Ord mary people require @ month to do anything at Washington, and are lucky then. Yes, the proposition to take away the seat of Government walked up old money-bags, and l have been most agreebly astonished on every hand since here the past few days. The new Territorial Govern ment of which Henry Cooke, of the celebrated finance family, is the chef executive-has been doing much good and notable work in the way of grad ing and paving the streets. No mat ter where the money comes from, or whether it is all in scrip, give the devil his due The main avenue Is no longer disgrace, but would be a credit to any city. There are other improvements made and under way for the permanent good of the place, but enough of that. There remains much to do. If they can get manu- factures turned this way, the greater difficulty would be passed; but to make Washington an independent, thriving city, it needs railroads. What c. P Huntington's Chesapeake and Ohio road, coming in from the rear as 1t were, and the markets on the Cincinnati line, may effect in her favor, remains to be seen. Maryland and Delaware are the New Jerseys between Philadelphia and the Capital they live by selling the right of way, but are so stupid that they make a poor live of it. Baltimore fingers along even, while Washington must do the best she can and wait for some thing to turn up.
 Much is said about the Capital be- ing at the commercial centre of the country. I conclude that 1t is best where 1t is. The dear honest people can single 1t out now, and go through it and see it sort of for themselves, you know. But cover it up with New York, and Tammany, and the Custom House, would forever do the business for us all. The best way IS to divide and conquer. Moreover, in travelling about and observing little, you will see that there is so much honesty among the voting masses, that these marble indicators off to one side are almost a necessity. Every man out