The Republican journal., 1874-01-29
Warrington City.


| any VI uS. IL StcltlS W become more III
teresting the ottener we visit it. Perhaps
the reader has never been there? Very
well. You arrive either ut night rather
too late to DO anything on see anything
until morning, or you arrive 50 early in
the morning that YOU consider it best to
go to your hotel and sleep an hour OF two
while the sun bothers along over the At
lantc You cannot we'll arrive at pleas
ant intermediate hour, because the rail
way corporation that keeps the KEYS of
| the only door that leads into the town or
out Of it takes care Of that You arrive
in tolerably good spirits, because it is
only thirty-eight miles from Baltimore to
| the capital, and YOU have only been in
suited three times (provided You are not
III a sleeplng-car-the average il higher
there) once when You renewed your
ticket after stopping over in Baltimore,
once when YOU We're about to enter Il la
dies car without knowing it lca& a ladies'
ear, and once when YOU asked the con-
ductor at what hour YOU would each
Washington.
You are assailed by long rank Of hack
men who shake their whips in your face
as You step out upon the sidewalk YOU
then enter what they regard as Il car
riage," in the capital, and you wonder
why they DO not take il out Of service and
put it into the museum we have few
enough antiquities and it is little to our
credit that we make scarcely any effort to
preserve the few we have. You reach
your hotel. presently and here let us
| draw the curtain of charity of
course, you have gone to the wrong one.
on being 4 strange how could YOU do
otherwise? There are one hundred and
eighteen bad hotels and only one good
one. The most renowned and popular
hotel OF them all is perhaps the worst one
k@0Wn to history.
1t is winter and night. When you al
rived ii was showing. When You reached
the hotel it was sleeting When YOU went
to bed it was raining. During the night
it lroze hard and the wind blew some
chimneys down When you got up in the
morning it was ioggy When you finished
| your breakfast ut ten O'CLOCK and went
out the sunshine was brilliant, the wealth
er balmy an delicious, and the mud and
slu,h deep and aII-powading. GU will
like the climate when You get used to it.
You naturally wish to view the clty; 50
| YOU take an umbrella. an uNelcOay 1ud Il
fan, and 20 forth lhe prominent feat
lures YOU soon locate and get familiar
Will; first you glimpse the ornamental
upper works Of \ long, snowy palace pro
jccting above Il grove Of trees and Il tall
graceful, white dome with i statue Oil it
surmountng the palace and pleasantly
contrasting with the back ground OF the
Sky That building is the Capitol; Cos
sips will tell YOU that by the original es-
Inmates it was to cost 81, 900 600. and
tiiat th' ''oNtthi!t!'t ule come "I'hlh
=, 700 '"o OF baIl1lhS 1t lo[ that sum,
l on st'''ia ~ 'ne p"'N ol tnt '"PL'oI u
h"pIT "'ie. U" uli''lNt' 'l'' N"l'iiol
1lan"9 upon 'l.e N''9r ~ - i'!9H Ple1t oi
iaNIc l1nu' IllI'' 'oHi'Ilth'llIS pV1't'oh'
any - lloi'- l-oN "''l oFe' 'til7 hopr II
'1tloH ~ Fi'N ~ y "oii H'p IT, ioi
Iiie reason tn2t NheA 'l'e 'PHoi eA'eh-
SION W''7 '"'I,lF" upon; 'He properly -oN IL
e'I III once ',uN "''tru 'N,'I' Irl'''s I" S'ril
tiH''iil'1il ul'9 '''',' ''V P''P1 Nei'
down anu puul ,t"' ''I> 'I' '"' hl''"oS' 10"
marsh HHt"" lhr I'iiplt ~ H"tIl -"
now the lr@hi '' iHt "uiIuIl'$: "i'h IT.
imposing rolpAi9"e'' IL pt'le'HhS SI'ce-
l'li "IlI - II, picturesque groups u 9l''"-
,n,'H- 'i'i ~ '"HH ''I!.'''' I'ii@eN - Ste'7'
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l49tl5'a
~ 3"u "b5rfFe ihii }"u tlAe yuuf view
from inc bark NJ lhe tApH"L And yet
mot iroh the ;ufl out.o"hs OF the dome,
b} the way because to get there you
must pas through me &1tat fot'ndl; aud
l" go '""t, you "0u"' nave to see the
. lbll-, I-IuTlC.l ltIllitlO~ tIIIi llItr
there. ana the b'a-fr"ela-'!hd what nav e
I,"" Ionr 'h3t 20" should suffer thus :
Ahd G'sloeS' you lAlGhi nAr To pass
through the oId part q 'h@ h'uIding, ana
you rould NOT htlP srrhS M Lincoln. a9
petrllled by young ladI artist 1oF SO
Voo-and ypn might take ms narble.emaA-
c'phtl9n proclamation, winch ne holds out
IN ms hahd ana cohtemplales, tor lolded
Napkin and you might CONCEIVE from his
expression and MS attitude, that he is
nunG lault with the Washing. W hch Is