. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . — Lightup! — Setting Fire to the Capitol — Dickens Sarcastic Descriptionof the Capital—Such as It Is, It Is Likely to Remain—Whenthe Civil War Opened — Dreary, Desolate, and Dirty — The CapitalDuring the War — Days of Anguish and Bloodshed. !N going through Washingtons correspondenceon
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . — Lightup! — Setting Fire to the Capitol — Dickens Sarcastic Descriptionof the Capital—Such as It Is, It Is Likely to Remain—Whenthe Civil War Opened — Dreary, Desolate, and Dirty — The CapitalDuring the War — Days of Anguish and Bloodshed. !N going through Washingtons correspondenceone finds that there is scarcely anything in thepast, present, or future of its Capital, for whichthe Father of his Country has not left on recordwise, far-reaching reason. His letters are full ofallusions to the annoyance and difficulty attendingthe raising of sufficient money to make the Capitol andother public buildings tenantable by the time specified,1800. He seemed to regard the prompt completion of theCapitol as an event identical with the perpetual establish-ment of the government at Washington. Virginia hadmade a donation of $120,000, and Maryland one of $72,000;these were now exhausted. After various efforts to raisemoney by the forced sales of public lots, and after abortive (58). 54 FEDERAL LOTTERIES. attempts to borrow money, at home and abroad, on thecredit of these lots, amidst general embarrassments, whileCongress withheld any aid whatever, the urgency appearedto the President so great as to induce him to make a per-sonal application to the State of Maryland for a loan of$100,000, which was successful. The deplorable conditionof the government credit at that time is exhibited in thefact that the State called upon the personal credit of theCommissioners as an additional guarantee for the re-pay-ment of the amount. When in 1792 financial distress was very acute, thegovernment asked Samuel Blodget of Philadelphia to pro-mote the citys growth by a lott
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