, 1874-01-02
WASHINGTON.
one Of the Nooks Of the Capital.
The Deaf f-Hute College ---Hydrographic Or
Gce.--I -Ieatilaling Aplara:
Rise of S;necure 0iHces---CongTess;on-
al Hulnor.
From Our or1 ror3e1rc71dent.

di tllliVas
From Our 0u71 Cor,tspcndent.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 90, 1873.
When you wonder why our country Is not gov
crned better, you should pack your cafpet'saek
and come on to Washington to see how much OF II
there is in the way Of government. nave oeen
here the better part Of the time since ls62. and,
although doing nothing else to speak OF except
running about, inquiriug. and pry!rg into places,
I presume that fou--6fths Of these Bureaus anu
nooks are yet strange to me- ..-
some time ago, medical friend came to taEe
me riding. and We stopped before beautiful
institution in tte environs, composed OF num-
her of vlilas Offices, and Of one great Gothic hail.
ornamcuted with mosaics in different colors, and
with line of low arches Of the Venirlan STYLE
s.What is this ?" eald to the Doctor.
"Thia is
ca1LAUDEr5 INSTITUTE FOE DEAF NCTEs.
T1ev coma here from all parts Of the country
CONGRESS appropriat1ng largely for the in6t1su-
tion. and receiving tuition for one mute from
each constituency. Amos Kendall originated
the scheme, upon the discovery that some deaf
and dumb children were baing abused by shoT-
man who brought them to Washington. Young
GaI1audes is the nephew Of the great GallRudet,
OF Hartford, the pioneer Of the education OF
mutes in America, and the pupil Of the Abbo
Sicard. Young Gauaudet has been shroTd As
veil as enthusiastic; his mother is a mute; and,
by inducing large appropriations, he has pur-
chased O very large tract OF valuable land right
here from the Brentwood and Kendall Green es-
ta:cs, worth, probably, s2oo, ,ooo"
We went into this building, and, to my great
sur13rise, I found myself, in about five min
utes, delivering lecture on photography
GalIaudet interpreting it with lis thumbs, and
tho boys applauding at the right places Direct
". ono iipe-looaing fellow walked mp, TOOK the
chalk, and wrote 81 am the Washington corre-
epondent Of newspaper at Aurora, ILL.,, and
rcad your letters every week.
Not long ago newspaper man came to the
city. and asked mo to walk through the Capitol
with lin After while We came to door
Married .--...
HEATING AND v-.SIuAT1So APPARATUS"
Descending series at stairs we found quite
another world i'll the boweiA Of tho earth. as
different from that above as the hold Of ship,
With its coal-bunkers, army d tiremen. furnaces,
hcliere aud engines, is different fion tile
passengers cabins.
Beautiful engines, painted to resemble marble
and stone, were WORKING with uolseiess &C lefity
great fans and hy-wheels we're spinning IN tue
alr enormous exhaustlng vessels we're sucSlhe
shafts opened under the grass s-ter1aces "lthoas
admitted COOL fresh air, which was propelled
1pro the Legislative Halls. Probably bali
million dollars has been spent 1or tue VenEl!at a.
il,y apparatus alone, under the two wings Of the
building. My companion was assonlshed-
..He.yeue he said, IT'S plain where the
money goes, in such . mighty pile as this :"
Another day, was walking in an unfreq1ented
portion Of the city when came to AL Old man
,cn, built prior to the year 1900 by great lir-
J .i.ia Shareholder aaa at Que time made the
Executive Mansion, after the British burnt the
White House.
l hnd often passed fh's noase'-masssi5e' an-
tiaue, aa6umptio1s,-and had noaceo A1s1e sieo
over the front porch, ezyln5:
''uYD1oGRAPHo OFFICE.
Said to my companion:
LOT US go II and face these Bnteau"erats, ano
SEQ what they are up to-"
Within ne found everything polite. distant,
and mysterious, as they do things IN the Navy.
4 sense Of ave crept over us. Ne telt that We
we're barbaric intruders. and in one OK those
great public charities where every negro waiter
seemn tu SHOW some Of the divinity which doth
hedge Iing. We insisted On going through the
7,!ace Our audacitY was met with spcechless
establishment. We found the Admiral, or Com
nodore, or whatever ho was, sitting in aD the
focty circular. and be told liz wnat
it WAS all about. 1t Has chart making estab'
lishmont, presided over by naval clap, with
Any quantity Of colupass-reS ulators, ustru-
p*AAANA4'-
They do not map out our harbots, but make
:hc maps fo- ocea1;-saiiing. and for forei gn
poTte, and waters, and archlpeiagoes,-hold iAe
Il to he below the dignity OF our Government to
q dcs1ee do they carry this assumption that they
will lake foreign chart and have it re-ensraved,
50 as TO patioaaiizo it. confess that hare
lost some of the International Pride which will
EugIslmen, or the Portuguese, hare already
mapped some part of the ocean, should use
his chart aud save the taxpayer something
TUE IMMORTALITY or oFf1cE-HUlDNa.
Nhcu any public oflica becomes once cstab-
1;eLed it refuses to cease to exist long after lts
work is DONE And hence the Government is
ca-r-;iu. at this day q large number OF lus&itu-
tions Hhich OF but little practical Taluc, ano
support . set OF respectable officials who arc
never devoid Of 4 plausible argument for their
,udefi,,ite continuance. II were called upon.
[ could name number Of such concerns, per-
fsctly worthy III themselves, but quite COSTLY
Some time ago, All article was published in the
atlantic Monthly, conceived IN proTlncal sprlt,
es5ail1ue things in general here. found that
the writer was relative OF official in the
Coast-Survey, an institution Of the lingering Or
der; and the opportunity Was good one to e1-
1oke such glass house, the pensioners whereof
throw Stones. From that day to this, the Coast-
Survey people go, like The LeTito, oa tao other
edo. .--
II cell the attention, . second time, of Con-
crcss. to an institution which WAS begun in
1871, 0G0 Has uDW oCeH lEA145 oAAt3 JEaAo Gua
yeying the coast of the United States, which
las housed itself in fino new building, oi
Which a large part is composed Of Kitchens,
bed-chnmbcr:, drswing-roolns, and dormltories
maintained without provision OF law, for the
,enct, OF various individuals.
CoazETu Up LIRE FLOWER
The history Of public ins!itutiols Is email
br..pir;s, perseverance,, audacity, finally re-
spsx;1:biiity, and at last immortality.
Aot nauy years ago. . lobbyist aud printer. by
tho name Of Wendell, built large brick house
here. expecting to control the printing ct la, the
ing. folding snd SO forth, from a Democratic
administration Little by little thai office has
crept along. seizing this perquisite and that
rnt,i it has become vast department, With
ARCHITECTURAL pretensions, c1ammed with presses,
deuBeIy inhabited by men and women
and finally it has p!ucked the debates oI
Congress out OF the time-honorcd establish
mcrt OF the Globe, and, in order to ha:e
rc,son for never surrendering those debates
the superintendent bought $4,000 pounds oi