The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-05-10
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.


ing as if in "maiden meditation fancy
Free" and will devote little while in
chronicling what may be of interest to the
readers of The Wig.
Washington is rapidly lapsing into its
usual summer vocation scenery. Those
who live in luxury and ease, reveling from
one season into another, are beginning to
leave, seeking fresh fields and pastures
new In this respect, this city of "mag
nificent distances " is not unlike other cit
les, because fashion has decreed the going
away somewhere, notwithstanding its many
advantages for recuperation and rusticat-
ing.
The adjournment of Congress, and the
dispersement of our national legislators to
their homes, makes difference in the
crowded thoroughfares and hotels of this
city about as great as that which is noticea-
BILE in Elkton after the adjournment of a
long and busy term of court.
The members of both Houses have nearly
all left us to face and explain to their
growing constituents their connection (if
any with the Credit Mobilier, salary
grab, and other kindred schemes, and the
sink slingers" of newspaper row" are
now following the more congenial occupa-
ton Of hunting up the saints, and giving
to each faithful Government official the
praise due his virtues and labors.
| Although "wipter fingered in the lap of
spring." it has left us, and we are now
enjoying some salubrious weather, and the
numerous parks of the city are presenting
their wonted appearance Of emerald lowell
ness, and are daily thronged with ladies
and gentlemen, and large number of
nurses hauling around the dear little
"squallers :" that they may catch the fresh
odor Of the trees, plants, shrubs, &c, of
various kinds so essential to their vigorous
growth. All nature seems to have sud-
denly awakened, and is anxious to give
every bud, flower, and blossom thrill,
and it is sufficient to make one feel happy,
whether he wants to or not
We shall soon have the open air concerts
at the Presidents house and the Capitol
by the Marine Band at the close of the long
sweltering summer days, to find repose for
our worn energies p, zone of the luxur-
les peculiar to life in Washington,) where
we can, on the green lawn, listen to dulcet
strains from able musicians, view the
White House, eminent for its republican
e., Oft f1o NJ ho ful
statuary about it, the United States treas
ury, with it's long colonnades of beautiful
granite, and the grand structure intended
for the new State, War, and Navy build
ing.
BY peep through the interstices of the
trees can be seen the mansion at Arlington
Heights looming up, around which cluster
so many fond recollections Of the great
soldier and statesman, and now made
sacred to the memory of over Is, 900 of our
nations dead heroes, who lie there sleep
ing until they shall be called to their final
reward, and upon whose graves will soon
be strewn bright flowers and green gar
lands, that as yet lie imperceptible within
their crimson folds, all of which, when
mingled until the memory of "sturdy
manhood in the past, now gone forever,
but leaving latent individuality stamped
upon the less transtory objects which SUI
round it." renders it at once the pride and
interest Of every American citizen.
You may call me an enthusiast, but l
have often thought, in my lonely strolls
around this gay capitol, that providence
must have interposed in the establishment
of this locality as the seat of Government,
for nature certainly could not have done
more for beautiful city, which is but
just begun. The capital movers might as
we'll retire from the field, for the march of
improvements strongly indicates Washing
| ton as the appropriate and permanent GEN.
| ter from which must radiate the laws and
| principles which are to continue to govern
the people of this Republic. One very
which the improved condition of the city
is held by people outside of it, is found in
the numerous purchases of residences and
real estate by members of Congress and
others. In some parts of the city property
has more than doubled its value within the
| past year. The buildings on the squares
to be added to the capitol grounds are being
rapidly demolished, and the swarding and
terraces of the park and its extensions on
the west will be completed during the sum
mer. With about one season more of work
after this the Capitol building will begin to
have quite a settled appearance, instead of
looking new and unfinished, as in the past.
Some changes and improvements are going
on within the building, among them an
elevator in the Senate wing, to be used
promiscuously for Senators with weak
knees, wood, coal, and Pub Does
have not had my say yet, but the Eve
sma' hours have arrived, and as one of
the rules of this house is, "Gas burned
after 10 aci1 be charged ertra," will have
to stop for the present. More Anon.
Respectfully, &C., G. F. w.
Medical Blunirse.
From the period when surgeons applied their salv,s
to weapons instead the present widoawake
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