THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 18G7. 3. BOZ IN THE UNITED STATES. Charles Dickens' "American Wotcs." THE LATEST EDITION. What the Great Novelist Thought or Phi ladelphia, New York, Boston, Pitts burg, Washington, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, Twenty, flvo Years Ago. JCtc, Bto.t Ktc, Kto., Hta., Eta, CONTINUKO. Washington The Legislature And tha President's House. Wc left Philadelphia by steamboat at 6 o'clock one very cold morning, aud turned our facus towards Washington. In the coarse ot this clay's journov, as on sub sequent occasions, we eLcountcrcd tome Ener lisb men (small fanners, perhaps, or country publicans at home), who were settled in Ame rica, and were travelling on their own allair.-i. Ot all grades and k iuels ot men that jostle one In the public conveyances of the ytttte., these are otten the mot intolerable aud tue mo-t iusufler able companions. United to every disagreeable characteristic that the worst kind of Ameri can travellers possess, these countrymen of ours display an amount of inolent conceit and cool assumption of superiority quite monstrous to behold. In the coarse familiarity of their ap proach, and the ellrontery of their inquisitive ness (which they arc in great haste to assert, as if they panted to revenge themselves upon tho decent old restraints of home), they surpass any native specimens that came within my range of observation; and 1 often grew so patri otic when I heard them, that I would cheer fully have submitted to a reasonable tfhe if I could have given any other country in the whole world tho honor of claiming them lor its children. As Washington may ba called the head quarters of tobacco tinctured saliva, the time is come when I must confesj, without any disguise, that tbe prevalence of thoie two odious practices of chewing and expecto rating began about this time to be auvtumg but agreeable, and soon became most offensive and sickening. In all the public places ot America this filthy custom is recognized. In the courts of law the judge has his spittoon, the crior his, the witness his, aud tbe prisoner his; while the jurymen and spectators are provided for, as so many men who in the course of nature must desire to spit incessantly. In the hospitaU the indents ot meuicine are requested, by notices upon the wall, to eject their tobacco juice into the boxes provided lor that purpose, and not to discolor the stairs. In public buildings, visitors are implored, through the same agency, to squirt the essence of their quids, or "plugs," as I have leard them called by gentlemen learned in this kind of sweetmeat, into, the national spit toons, and not about the bases of the mar ble columns. But In some parts this custom is inseparably mixed up with every meal and morning call, and with all tho transactions of social life. The stranger who follows in the track I took myselt will and it in its full bloom andlory, luxuriant in all its alarming reckless ness, at Washington. And let him not persuade himself (as I once did, to my shame), that pre vious tourists have exaggerated its extent. The thing itself is an exaggeration onastiness which cannot be outdone. On board this steamboat there were two young gentlemen, with shirt-collars reversed m usual, and armed with very big walking sticks, who planted two seats in the middle of the deck, at a distance of some four paces apart, took out their tobacco boxes, aud sat down opposite each other to chew. In less than a quarter of an hour'a time, these hopeful youth a bad stied about tnem on the clean boards a copious shower of yellow rain; clear ine. by that means, a kind of magic circle, within whose limits.no intruders dare to come, and which Obey never failed to refresh and re refresh before a soot was dry. This, being before breakfast, rather disposed me, 1 confess, to nausea; but looking attentively at one of the expectorators, I plainly saw that he was young in chewiosr, and filt inwardly uneasy in hi ni ne If. A glow ot delight came over me at this discovery; and as I marked his face turn paler and paler, and saw the ball of tobacco In his left cheek quiver with his suppressed agony, "while yet he t-pat and chewed and spat again, in emulation of his older friend, I could have fallen on his neck, and implored him to go on for hours. We all sat down to a comfortable breakfast in the oabin below, where there was no more hurry or confusion than at such a meal in Eng land, and whfre there was certainly greater politeness exhibited than at most of our stage coach banquet. At about nine o'clock we arrived at tbe railroad station, and went on by the car. At noon we turned out again to cross a wide river in another steamboat; landed at a continuation of tbe railroad on the opposite ehore, aud went on by other cars; in which, in the course of-tbe next hour or so, we crossed .by wooden bridges, each a mile In length, two creeks called respectively Great and Little Gun powder. Tbe water in both was blackened with flights of canvas-backed ducks, which are most delicious eatintr, and abound hereabouts at that season of the year. These bridges are of wood, have no parapet, and are only just wide enough for the passage of the traits, which, .in the event of the smallest accident, would inevil ably be plunged Into the river. They are startling contrivances, and are most agreeable when pasted. We stopped to dine at Baltimore, and, being now in Maryland, were waited on for the first time by slaves. The sensation of exacting any service from human creatures who are bought and cold, and beir.g, for the time, a party as it were to their con liiion, is not an enviable one. Tbe Institution exist, perhaps, in its least re pulsive aud most mitigated form in such a town as this; but it is slavery; and though I was, with respect to it, an innocent man, its presence tilled me with a sense of shame and self-reproach. Alter dinner we wont down to the railroad apain, aud took our seats in the cars for Wash ington. Being rather early, those men and boys who happened to have nothing particular to do, and were curious in foreigners, came (according to custom) around the carriage in which I sat; let down all the windows; thrust in their heads and shoulders; hooked themselves on conveni ently by their elbows; and fell to compariug notes on the subject of my personal appear ance, with as much indifference as if I were a ttufled figure. I never gained so much uncom promising information with reference to my own none and eyes, tho various impressions wrought ' oy my mouth and chin on different mlDds, and how my head looks when it is viewed from be hind, as on these occasions. Some gentlemen were only satit-fled by exercising their sense of touch; and the boys (who are burprlslnuly precocious in America), were seldom satisfied even by that, but would return to the charge over-and over q rflin Ti'anv & hnrtiim? President has walked into my room, with hi cap on his head and his bands in his pockets, and stared at me for two whole hours; occasionally refreshing himself with a tweak at bis nose, or a draught from me water-liur: or bv walking to the windows and inviting other boys in the street below to como up aud do likewite; crjluer, "Here be is!" ' Come on!" "Bring all your brothers 1" with i hpr TbOf-Ditable entreaties of that nature. Wa reached Washington at about half ...t 1t that evening, aud had uoon the wav a beautiful view of the Canltol, wblch .. hnildins- ol the Corinthian order. rilac-d upon a uoble and commanding emi nence Arrived at tbe hotel, I saw no more ot the place that nisbt, being very tired, aud gliid to gel to neu. Ill eak fast over rext mornln. I walk bout the ftrects for nn hour or two, and, coming hon throw up the window In the front and lia ;k, aud kiok oui. nere is Washington, fresh In my mind und under my eye. Take the woist parts of the City rod anl rentonville, or the sfraeglmg outskirts of Pari, where the boners are smallest, preserving all their oddities, but especially the small shops ano a wcinngp, occupied in 1'entouville (but not in Washington) by furniture-brokers, keepers of poor eating houces, and fancicis of birds. Burn iho whole down; build it up agaiu In wood and plaster; widen It a little; throw In l att of St. John's Wood; put green blinds outside all the private boupes, with a red cur taiu and a white oue in every window; p;oii'ih up ail tho loads; plant a great deal of coarse turf in every place where it ought not to be; ciect three handsome buildings in stoae and marble anywhere, but tho more entirely out of everybody's way the better; call one the 1'ost (iflice, one the Patent Olllce, and one the Trea sury; make it rcorching hot in the morning, aud freezing cold In the atternoon, with an occa sional toruado of wind and dust; leave a brick field without the bricks, in all central pitoes where street may naturally bo expected; and that's Washington. Tho hotel in which we live Is a long row of small houses lrontiug on (he street, and opening at the back upon a common yard, in which nanus a great trinncle. When ever a servant is wanted, somebody beats on this trianele from one stroke up to seven, according to the number of the house In which his presence is required; and as all the servants are always being wanted, aud none of thorn ever come, this enlivening engine is in full perform ance the whole day throucb. Clothes are dry ing in this same yard; female slaves, with cot ton handkerchiefs twisted round their heads, are running to and fro on the hotel business; black waiters cross and recross with dishes in their hands; two great dogs are playing upon a mound ol loose bricks in the centre of the little squate: a pig is turnlne up his stomach to the sun, and grunting, "That's comfortable !'' and neither the men nor the women nor tlie dotr.i nor the-pig nor any created creature takes the smallest notice of the triangle, which is tingling madly all the time. I walk to tbe front window, and look across the road upon a lone, straggling row of houses, one story high, terminating nearly opposite, but a little to the left, in a melancholy piece of waste grouud with frowzy grass, which looks like a small piece of country that has taken to drinking, aud has quite lost itself. Standing tiny bow aud all wrong, upon this open space, like something meteoric that has fallen down from the moon, is an odd, lop-sided, one-eyed kind of wooden building, (hat looks like a church, with a flagstaff as long as itself, sticking out of a bteeple something larger than a tea-chest. Under the window is a small stand of coaches, whose slave-drivers are sunning themselves on the steps of our door, and talking idly together. Th.j three most obtrusive houses near at hand are the three meanest. On one a shop, which never has anything iu the window, aud never has the door open is painted, in large charic ters, "The City Lunch." At another, which looks like the back way to somewhere else, but is an independent building in iteelf, oysters are procurable in every style. At the third, which is a verj, very little tailor's shop, pants are fixed to order; or, in other words, pantaloons are made to measuie. And that is our street in Washington. It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety oe termed the City of Magnificent Intentions; for it is only on taking a bird's-eye view of it from tbe top of the Capitol that one cm at all comprehend the vast designs of Its projector, an aspiring Frenchman, Spacious avenues, (hat be gin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile long, that only want houses, roads, and Inhabi tants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete; and ornaments of great thoroughfares, which only lack great thorough fares to ornament, are Us leading features. One miht fancy the season over, and most of tbe houses cone out of town forever wlih their mas ters. To the admirers ol cities it is a Barmecide Feaut; a pleasant field for the imagination to rove in: a monument raised to a deceased pro ject, with not even a legible inscription to record its departed greatness. Such as it is it is likely to rcmaiu. It was originally chosen for tbe seat of government as a means or averting tue connictiug jealousies ana interests oi me ainerent states; ana very probably, too, as being remote 'rem mobs a consideration not to be slighted, even in America." It has no trade or commerce of its own, having liitle or no population beyond the President and his establishment, the members of the legisla ture who reside there during tbe session, the government clerks and officers employed in the various departments, the keepers of the hotels and boarding houses, and the tradesmen who supply their tables. It u very unhealthy. Few people would live in Washington, I take It, who are not obliged to reside there; and the tides of emigration and speculation, those rapid and re gardless currents, are little likely to flow at any time towards sucn ami ana siutrgisn water. The principal features of the Capitol arc. of course, the two Houses of Assembly. But there is, besides. In the centre of tbe building a tine rotunda, ninety-six feet in diameter, and ninety-sU high, whose circular wail is divweu into compartments, orna mented bv historical pictures. Four of these have for their subjects prominent events in the Revolutionary struggle. They were painted by Colonel Trumbull himself, a member ot Wash ington's staff at the time of their occurrence: from which circumstance they derive a peculiar inteiestef their own. In this same hall Mr. Greenough's large statue of Washington has been lately placed. It has great merits, of course, but it struck us as being rather Btraincd and violent ror its subject, l could wish, how ever, to have seen it in a better light than it can ever be viewed in where it stands. Theie is a very pleasant and commodious library in the Capitol; and from a balcony in front the bird's-eye view of which I have just spoken may be had, together with a beautiful prospect ot the adjacent country, in one oi the ornameutal portions of the building there is a figure of Justice, whereunto the guide-book says, "The artist at nrm contemplated, giving more of nudity, but he was warned that the public sentiment in this country would not admit of it, and in his caution he has gone, perhaps, into the . opposite extreme." Poor Justice! iho has been niiiie to wear much stranger gurmenta In America than Owe she pines in in the Capitol. Let us hope that bhe has changed her drecsmaker since they were fash ioned. Dd that the uublic sentiment of tbe country did not cut out the clothes she b:des her lovely figure in just now. The Houe of Representatives is u beauti ful aud -spacious hall of semicircular shape, supported by handsome pillars. One part of the galleries, is appropriated to the ladies, and theie thoy sit in iroui rows, ami come iu and go out, as at a play or concert. The chsir is canopied, and raited cou-iacraoiy auove toe floor ot the bouse; aud every member has an easy-chair and a writing-desk to himself; which is denounced by tome people out of doors as a most untoituuate aud injudicious arrangement, tending to long sittings and prosaic speeches. It is nn decant chamber to look at, but a singu larly bud che for all purposes ot hearintr. Tbe Senate, which is smaller, is free from this obiec lion, and is exceedingly well adaotmi to the useii for which it is designed. Tbe" sittings, I need hardly add, take place in the dav: aud the pailiamentary forms are modelled ou tho.e ol the old country. I was sometimes asked, in my progresj tbiouth other places, whether I had not heen very much impressed by the heads of the lawmakers at Washington; meaning not ihelr chiefs and leaders, but literally their' In dividual and personal heads, whereon their hair grew, and whereby the phrenological character rf erh leeislator was expressed: and I almost as olten struck my questioner dumb with In dignant consternutiou by answering, "No, that I didn't remember being at all overcome." As 1 musl, at whatever hazard, repeat tho unuiol l.mn i will follow It uo bv relating niv impressions on this subject in as low words as possible. la the first place it may bo from some Imperfect development of 'my organ of vene- rmun i ao not rememner having ever lainted away, or having even been moved to tears of joyful pride, at slplit of anv leiisia Jive body. J have borne the House of Commons like a man, and have yielded to no weakness but slumber in the House ot Lords. I have seen elections for boroueh and county, and have never been Impelled (no mailer which party won) to damnge my bat by throwing it up into the air in tiiumpb, or to crack my voice by Fhouting forth any reference to our glorious Constitution, to the noble purity of oir inde pendent voters, or tbe unimpeachable integrity of our Independent members. Having withstood such sironir attacks upon my fortitude, it Is possible that 1 may be of a cold and insensible temperament, amounting to iciness, iu such matters; and therelore my impressions of the live pillars of the Capitol at Washiuston must e received with such prnlus'ol allowance as this free confession may seem to demand. Did I see in this public body an assemblage ol men bound together in tho sacred names of Liberty and Freedom, aud so asserting the chaste dignity of these twin goddesses, iu all their discussions, us to exalt at ouce the eternal piinciples to which their uames are given, and their own character, and tbe charac ter of their countrymen, in the admiring eye3 of the whole world ? It was but a week slnco an aged, grey-haired man, a lasting honor to tbe land that gave him birlb, who has done good service to bis country, as his foietutbers did, and who will be remem bered scores upon scores of years after the worms bred in its coirupllon ore but so many grains of dust it was but a week since this old man had sfood for days upou his trial before this very body, charged with bavin 'dared to assert the infamy of that traffic which has for its accursed merchandise men and women and their unborn children. Yes. And publicly exhibited in the same city all the while, gilded, liamed. and glazed, hung up for general admi ration, shown to strangers not with shame, but pride, its fiee not turned towards the wall, it!-elf not taken down and burned, is the Uuuni mous Declaration of the Thirteeu United Stales ot America, which solemnly declares that All Men are created Equal, and are endowed by their Creator with the Inalienable Rights of Llle, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness 1 It was not a month since this same bdv had sat calmly by, and heard a mau, one of themselves, with oaths which beggars In their dtlnk reject, threaten to cut auotber's throat from car to ear. There he sat among them; not crushed by the general feeling of tho assembly, but as Rood a man as auy. There was but a week to come, aud another oi that body, for doing his duty to those who sent him there; tor ciaimiug in a republic the liberty aud freedom of expressing their senti ments, and making known their prayer; would be tried, found guilty, and have strange censure passed upon bira by the rest. His was a grave ciiense indeed; lor years before, he had risen up and said, "A gang of male aud female slaves for sale, warranted to breed like cattle, linked to each other by iron fetters, are passing now along the open street beneath the windows ol your Temple of Equality ! Look !" But there are many kinds oi hunters engaged in the pursuit of happiness, and they go variously armed. It is Hie inalienable right of some among them to take the field alter their happiness, equipped with cat and cart-whip, stocks and iron collar, and to shout their view halloa! (alwavs in nra of liberty) to the music of clanking chains and bloody stripes. Where sat the many legislators of coarse threats, of words and blows such as coal-heavers deal upon each other when they forget their breeding? On every side. Every session hal its anecdotes of that kind, and the actors wero all there. Did I recognize in this assembly a bodv of men who, applyiug themselves iu a new world to cortect some of the falsehoods and vices of tbe old, purified the avenues to public life, paved the dirty ways to place aud power, debated and made laws lor the common good, and had. no party but their country ? I saw in tbem the wheels that move the mean est perversion of virtuous political machinery that the wor&t tools ever wrought. Dcsoio&hln trickery at elections; underhanded tampering with public officeTs; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers; snamo tul trucklingsto mercenary knaves, whose claim to be considered is, that every day and week they sow new crops ot ruin witn toeir venal types, which are the dragon's teeth ol yore, in everything but sharpness; aidlngs and abettings ot every bad inclination in the popular mind, and arliul Euppre&sionsof all its good influences; such things as these, and, In a word, Dishonest Faction iu its most depraved and mesi unblush ing form, stared out from every corner of the crowded hall, Did I see among them the intelligence and refinement, the true, honedt, patriotic heart of America? Here and there were drops ot its blood and life, but they scarcely colored the stieam of desperate adventurers wnicn seu that wav for nrofit and for pay. It is the game ol the e men, aud of their profligate organs, to make the Btrife of politics so tierce and brutal, and so destructive oi all seir-respect in worthy men, that sensitive and delicate-minded persons shall be kept aloof, and they, aud such as they, be left to battle out their selfish views unchecked. And thus this lowest of all scram bling fights goes on. and they who in other countries would,' from their intel.igence aud station, most aspire to make the laws, do here recoil the furthest from that degmdation. That there are among the representatives of the people in both Houses, and among all parties, some men oi uigu cua-iacier nnu great abilities, I need not say. The foremost among those politicians who are known in Europe have been already described, and I tee no reason to depart from the rule I have laid down for my guidance, oi abstaining from all mention of individuals. It will be sufficient to add, that to tbe most favorable ac counts that have been written of them I more than fully and most heartily subscribe; aud that peisonal intercourse and lree communication have bred within me, not the result predicted in the very doubtful proverb, but increased admi ration and respect. They are striking men to look at, hard to deceive, prompt to act, lions iu energy, Crightons In varied accomplishments, Indians in tire of eye and gesture, Americans in strong and generous impulse; and they as well represent the nonor ana wisuoin oi ineir couu tiy at home as the distinguished gentleman who is now its minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad. 1 vlrttea botn nouses neariy every nay during my stay in Washington. On my initiatory visit to the House of Representa tives, they uiviueu against a uecision oi tne chair; but the chair won. Tho second time I wenr, the memoer wno was speaking, oeing interiupted by a laugh, mimicked it, as one child would in quarrelling with another, and added, "that be would make honorable gentle men opposite sing out a Utile more on tho other side of their mouths presently." But tuterrup tionB are rare; the speaker being usually heard in eilence. There are more quarrels than with us, and more threatening than gentlemen are accustomed to exchange in any civilized society ot which we nave recoru; but farm-yard imita tions have not as yet been imported from the Parliament of the United Kingdom, The fea lure in oratory which appaars to be the mo.it piacllsed and most relished is the constant repetition of the same idea or bhadow of aa Idea iu fr"esh words; and the Inquiry out of doors Is not, "What did he sayf but, "How long did he speak?" These, however, are but enlargements ol a principle which prevails else where. , , . , The Senate is a dignified aud decorous body, and its proceedings are conducted with much gravity and order. Both Houue3 are hand somely carpeted; but the stato to which these carpets are reduced oy the universal disregard of the spittoon with which every honorable member is accommodated, and the extraordi nary improvements on tho pattern which are quirted aud dabbled upon it iu every direction, do not admst of being described. I will merely observe, that I strongly recommend all stran geia not to look at tho floor; aud If they hap pen to drop anything, though it be tbelr purse, "not to pick it up with an uugloved band on any account. It is somewhat remarkable, too, at first, to say the least, to see so man; nuuorablu member , wMli swelled faces; and It is scarcely les re markable to dl'cover that this appearance In caused by tho quantity ol tobacco they contrive to stow away within tbe hollow of tbe check, lt.is strange enough, too.to soe an honorable gen tleman leanii'g buck in b-! tilted chair, wiib his lep on the dsk before bim, shaping a convenient "plug" wl'h bis penknife, and wheu i is quite ready lor uso shooting the old one Horn bis mouth as from a popgun, and clapping the new one in Its place. 1 was Burpri-ed to find that even steady old chewers of great experience are not always good markfroen, which lias rather inclined me to doubt that general proficiency with tho rule ot which we have heard ao much in England. Seve rs1 gen'lonien called upon me who, in the course of conversation, frequently mt'sed the spittoon at five pares, and one (but he was certainly short-sighted) mistook the closed sash for tbe open window, at three. Oil auother occasion, when I dined out, and was sitting with two Indies and some gentlemen round a fire beloro dinner, one of the company fell short of the fire place fix distinct times I am disposed to think, however, that this was occasioned by his not aiming at that object, as there wss a white mar ble hearth before tho fender, which was more convenient, and may have suited his purpose better. The Patent Office at Washington furnishes an exliaoidinary example of American enterprise aud ingenuity, for tbe immenso number of models it contains are tbe accumu lated inventions ol only five years, tne whole of the previous collection having been destroyed by file. The elegant structure in which tbpy aro arranged is one of design rather than execution, for there is but one side erected out of four, though the works are stopped. The Post Office is a very compact and very beautiful building. In one of tbe departments, amona a collection of rare and curious articles, are depo sited the presents which have been made from time to time to the American ambassadors at foreign courts by tho various potentates to whom they were the accredited agents of the republic gifts which, by tho law, they are not permitted to ietain. I confe-sthat 1 looked upon this as a very paiulul exhibition, and oue by no means flattering to the national standard cf lioi esty and honor. That can scarcely be a htrh slate of moral feeling which Imagines a gentleman of tepute and station likely to be co.rupted, in tbe discharge of bis duty, by tho present of a snuff-box, or a lichly mounted sword, or an Eastern shawl; and surely the nation who reposes confidence in her appointed servants is likely to be better served than she who makes them the subiect of such very mean and paltry suspicions. At Georgetown, in the suburb!1, there is a Jesuit College delightfully situated, and so far as I had an oppoituulty of seeing, well man aged. Many persons who are not members of the Romish Church avail themselves, 1 believe, of these institutions, and of the advantageous oppoitunities they afford lor the education of their children. The heights tu this neighbor hood, above the Potomac river, are very pictu resque, aud are free, 1 should conceive, from some of the insalubrities of Washington. The nir, at that elevation, was quite cool and rc freshine, when in the city It was burning hot. The President's mansion is more like an Eng lifh club-house, both within and without, than any other kind of establishment with which lean compare it. The ornamental grouud about it bas been laid out in garden walks. They aro pretty, aud agreeable to the eye, though they have that uncomfortable air of baviug been made yesterday which is far from favorable to the display of such beauties. My first visit to this house was on the morn ing after my arrival, when I wa9 carried thither by an official gentleman, who was so kind as to charge himself with my presentation to the Pienidcnt. We eutereel a large hall, and, having twice or thrice rune a bell which nobody unswered, walked without further ceremouy through the rooms on the ground floor, as divers other gentlemen (mostly with their hats on, and their hands in their pockets) were doing very leisurely. Some of these bad ladies w.th them, to whom they were showing the piemises; others were lounging on the cbairs and solas; others, in a vrt'ori. intnnf pvhaua tion 'rr.m listiessuess, were yawning drearily. The greater portion of this assemblage were rather nseerting their supremacy than doing anything else, as they hud no particular busi ress there that anybody knew of. A lew were closely eyeing the movables, as if to make quite sure that the President (who was far from popu lar) bad not made away with any of the furniture, or sold the fixtures for his owu pri vate benefit. After glancing at thee loungers, who were scattered over a pretty drawing-room, opening upon a terrace which commanded a beautiful prospect of the river and the adjacent country, and who were sauntering, too, about a larger state-room called the Eastern Drawing-room, we went up stairs into another chamber, where were certain visitors waiting for audiences. At sight of my conductor, a black, In plain clothes and yellow slippers, w bo was gliding noiselessly about, and whispering messages in tho ear of the more impatient, made a sign ot recognition, and glided off to announce him. We bad previously looked Into another chamber fitted all round with a great bare wooden desk or couuter, whereon lay files of newspapers, to which sundry gentlemen were relerring. But there were no such means of beguiling the time in this apart ment, which was as unpromising and tiresome as any w a' ting room in one of our public esti blishments, or any physician's dining-room dur ing his hours of consultation at home. There were some niteen or twenty persons in the room. One, tall, wiry, muscular old man from the West, sunburnt and swarthy, with a brown-white bat on his knees, and a giant um brella resting between nis legs, wno sat bolt nnripht. in his chair, frown inn steadily at the carpet, and twitching the hard lines about his mouth, as if he had made up his mind "to fix" the President on wnat ne naa to say, ana wouldn't bate him a grain. Auolher, a Ken tucky larroer, eix feet six iu height, with his hut on, and his bands under his coat-tails, who leaned against the wall and kicked the floor with his heel, as though he had Time's head under his shoe, and were literally "killing" him. A third, an oval-faced, bilious-looking man, with sleek black bair cropped close, and whis kers and beard shaved down to blue dots, wbo sucked tbe head of a thick stick, and from time to time took it out of his mouth to see how it was getting on. A fourth did nothing but whis tle. A tilth did nothing but spit. And indeed all these gentlemen were so very persoverlng and energetic in this latter particular, and be stowed their favors so abundantly upon the carpet, that I take It for granted tho Presiden tial housemaids have high wages, or, to speak more genteelly, an ample amouut of "compen sation," whicli is the American word for salary, in the case of all public servants. We had not waited lu this room many minutes before the black messenger re turned, and conducted us into another of smaller dimensions, where, at a business-like table covered with papers, eat tbe President himself. He looked somewhat worn and anxious aud well he roiht, being at war with everybody but tho expression of hte face was mild aud pleasant, and his manner was remarkably un affected, gentlemanly, and agreeable. I thought that in his whole character and demeanor he became his station remarkably well. Being advised that tho sensible etiquette of tho republican court admitted of a traveller like myself declining, without any impropriety, an invitation to dinner which did not reach me until I had concluded my arrangements for leaving Washington some days before that to which it referred, I only returnod to this house once. It was on the occasion of oue ot those general assemblies which are held on certain nipbts between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock, and aie culled, rather oddly, levees. I went with my wife at about ten. There was a pretty dense crowd of carriages and people in the court-yard, and, so tar as I could make out, there wert no very clear regulations for the taking up or setting down of company. There were ceriainly no policemen to soothe startled horses, either by sawing at their bridles or flourishing truuebeons iu thoir eyes; aud I a in ready to make oath thai uo luoffeuslvb persons were knocked violently on the head, or poked acutely lu their backs or stomachs, or brought to a ktuud-still by any tuch gentle means, and Ihcn taken Into custody for not moving on. But beiowai no confusion or di-ordcr. Our carrlnpo reached the porch In its turn, without any blustering, swearing, shouting, backing, or other disturbance, and ve dismounted wttb as much case and comlort ai though we had been escoited by the whole Metropolitan Forco from A to Z inclusive. The suite of rooms on the ground-floor were lighted up, and a military band vm playing in the hall. In the sn aller drawing room, the centre of a circle of company, were tho Presi dent nnd his daugbU r-lu-iaw, who acted as the lady of the mansion; and a very interesting, graceful, and accomplishes lady, ton. Ono gen tleman who stood among this group appeared to take upon himseli the functions ol a master of the rcren.onte. 1 saw no other officers or attendants, and none were needed. The great drawine-room, wblch I have already mentioned, and tbe other chambers on the ground-floor, weie crowded to ewes?. The company was not, in our sense of the term, select, lor it comprehended persans of ery many grades and clashes; nor was there any preat display of coi-tly attire; indeed, some of tbe costumes may have been, for aught I know, proteequo enough. But the decoium and propriety of beuavior which prevailed were unbroken by any rude or disagreeable incident; and every man, even among the miscellaneous crowd in the ball w bo were admitted, witoout any orders or tickets, to look on, appoarcd to feel that he was a part of the institution, aud was responsible for its preserving a becoming character, and appearing to the best advan tsge. That these visitors, too, whatever their station, were not without some refine ment of taste and appreciation of intel lectual gifts, and gratitude to those men who by the peaceful exercise of great aoili ties shed new charms nd associations upon tho bones of their countrymen, aud elevate their cbaiHcter in other lands, was most earnestly testified by their ree'ep ion of Washington Irving, my dear frieud, who had recently been ap pointed Minister at the Court of Spain, and who was among them that night in his new charac ter for the first and last time before going abroad. I sincerely believe thut, In all the mad nesg of American polities, few public men would have been so earnestly, devotedly, aud affec tionately caressed as this most charming writer; and I have seldom respected a public assembly more than I did this eager throng, when I saw them turning with one mind from noisy orators and officers of state, and flocking with a gene rous and honest impulse round the man of quiet pursuits; proud in his promotion, as reflecting back upon their country, and grateful to him with their whole hearts for the store of graceful fancies he had poured out among them. Long may he dispense such treasures with uusparing hand I 5 The term wo had aligned for the duration of our stay in Washington was now at an end. and we were to begin to travel; for the railroad dis tances we had traversed yet, in journeying among these older towns, ate on that great con tinent looked upon as nothing. I had ut first intended ' going South to Charleston. But when I came to consider the length of time which this jouruey would occupy and the premature heat of the season, which even at Washington has been often very trying, and weighed, morevcr, in my own mind the pain of living in the constant contemplation of slavery, against the more than doubtful chances of my ever seeing it. in tho time I had to spare, stripped of the disguises in which it would cer tainly be dressed, and so adding auy item to the host of acta already heaped together on the subject, I began to listen to old whisperings which had otten been present to me at home in England, when I little thought of ever being here, and to dream apaln of cities growing up, like palaces In fairy tales, among tho wilds and forests of the West. The advice I received in most quarters, when I began to yield to my desire ot travel ling towards that point of the compass, was, according to custom, sufficiently cheerless ; my companion being threatened with more perils, dangers, and discomforts than I can remember or would catalogue If I could; Out ul WUICU H Will lc guffiblculM icmarlr that. blowiags-up in steamboats and breakings-down in coacbes were among the least. But having a Western route sketched out for me by the best and kindest authority to which I could have resorted, and putting no great faith in these dis couragements, I soon determined on my plan of action. This was to travel South only to Richmond in Virginia: aud then to turn, and shape our course for the far Wept, whither I beseech tbe reader's company in a new chapter. To he continued.' FURS. 1867. FALL AND WINTER. 1867.1 FUR HOUSE, (Established In IQI8.) The undersigned Invito the special attention of th Ladles to their large stock of FOBS, consisting of Muffs, Tlpocts, Collars, Etc.. m RUSSIAN BABLK, HUDtSOM'ei BAT 8 ABLE, MINK BABLB ROYAL ERMrtra. CHINCHILLA, FITCH, ETC. All Of tne LATEST STYLES, SUPERIOR FINISH, and at reasonable prices. Ladles In mourning will fiad handsome article PEKSIANNES and SlillAB; the latter a most bean tlfnl tut. CARRIAGE! BORES, SLEIGH ROBES, and FOOT MUFFS, In great variety. A. K. & F. K. WO M RATH, 9 11 4m WO. 417 ARCH MTBEKT. jaywill remove to our new Store, No. 1212 Cbeauut street, about May 1, 1BMI. pAHCY FUR 8. The subscriber having recently returned from Europe with an entirely new stock of FURS Of his own selection, would offer the same to his 90s turners, made up In tbe latest styles, and at reduced prices, at his OLD ESTABLISHED STORE, MO. 1SS 2IOBTU TUIBD MTUEET, 10 23 2mrpl ABOVE ARCH. JAMES IlKISKY. STOVES, RANGES, ETC. NOTICE. THIS UNDERSIGNED would call atteu ilon ot the public to bis NEW tiUJl'JLN iiiAUUtl. i U 14 IN A UK. Tills la an entirely new beater. Illaso'con. siructed as lo at oucecommend Itself to general lavor, being a combination of wrought and cast Iron. It U very sluinle In Its construction, and 1 perfectly air tight; self-cleaning, having no pipes ordrumB to be Ink en out aud cleuued. It Is so arranged with upright Hues aa to produce a larger amount of heat from the same weight of coal than any furnace now In one. The hygrometrlo condition of the air as produced by my new arrangement ot evaporation will at ouce de monstrate that It Is the only Hot Air Furnace that will produce a perfectly healthy atmosphere. Those In want or a complete Healing Apparatus would do well to call and examine the (iolden Eagle, " CHARLES WILLIAMS, Won. 1132 and lia tMARK ET Street, ' Philadelphia. A large assortment or Cooking Rangus, Fire-Board Stoves, Low Down Urates, VeuUlatora, etc, always on hand, N. B. Jobbing of all kinds promptly dona 810 THOMPSON'S LONDON KITCHEN EBi OR EUROPEAN RAN UK, for Families, Ho tels, or Public Institutions, In TWENTY D1F KkhUNT SIZES. AlBO.l'hlladeluhlaRan.n. Hot-Air x uriiftuw, runmt xitMkwn, uuwuuwuonuit, Flreboard Stoves, Rath Rollers. Slewhola Plate. Boilers, Cooking stoves, etc, wholesale and retnU.br tbe manulacturers. SHARPK A THOMSON, 11 27tnm No. gut) N. SECOND Street. PKIVY WELLS OWNERS OF FROPEBTY 1 be only place to get Privy Wells cieautxl and Uninfected at very low prioos. A. PKYSOrT, Manufacturer of Poudreitfl. tlOi 00U HbUAXihUhiiARVUot AUCTION SALES?. M 0 C L R L L A N I A CO. AU01 10NEERS, MARKET Street, SALE OF 1700 CAMK ROOTtJ, SHOES, BRO- On Moudny Morning D(C. i. commercing at Ml o'clock, we will ll h Catalogue, for rash, I Hie rases Men's. RnJs' and Yoiiili2 Poets, Shoes. Urosan.. Balmorals, eio d 0,,Uuf A Iso, ol Women's, Misses', and Children's wear T which the early allentlen of the trade Is called, lli 2 SALE OF 1M0 CASES BOOTH, SnoiS, BROtJANEL ETC. KTO, On Thursday Mornlnr, Dee ember S. commencing at lu o'clock, we will (nil by ntli.li Kiie, lor cash, I sou cases men's, buys', and youth's boots, (.hoes, brogans, halmorals. eio.; also, womei, s, mimes', and children's wear, lo which tha early altennon ol the liade In called. 1 1 10 4t JOHN B. MIRKS A CO., AUCTIONKEIifl Noa.SU and 284 MARKET Street. LARnE PEREMPTORY BAT.R OF FRENCH AND O'lHER KU1UUKAN IK V OOOD.-J.ETa On Monday morning, December J. at lo o'clock on four months' credit, about mm lola of irench, ludia, German, and Brttistt Dry Ooods, ju uu LARGE PERFMPTORV SALE OF BOOTS, 8H0HSI." Bitot) A NX KTU . On Tuesday Morning, smTJ'A1.10 ?'c,oci- " or months' eredl 20O0 packages boots, shoes, brogans. etc, I H S7 4t LAPOE POSITIVE SALE OF BRITISH FRFNOTT O RM A N, AN D DOMESTIU DttY OOODd. On lour luoulhV credit. . On Thursday Morning, December 5 at lu o'clock, embracing about tn Packages aud loin ol staple and fancy arilclesT f 1129 W LARGE POSITIVE BALK OF CARPETIN03. ETCL T, On Friday morning, .1 . . f?b(,T B' 11 o'clock, on lour months' credit, at oul2ij pieces Ingrain. Venetian, llst.hem, cote: and rag carpetlims. 111 iliHt T M. GTMMEY A SONS, AUCTIONEERS. O, No. 60s WALNUT Street. 'Uki Hold Regnlar Sales of REAL ESTATE, STOCKS, AND SECURITIES AT THE PHILADELPHIA EXCHANeJK. X Handbills ol each property Issued separately. louu catalogues published and circulated, contAlnlnc full descriptions ol property to be sold, as also a pajZ tial list of property contained In our Real Estate Ra g Inter, and ullered at private sale. Seles advertised dally In all the dally newspapers. la M THOMAS A BONS. NOS. 139 AND Ut . S. FOURTH Stieet. BALE OF REAL STATE STOCKS, ETC., December 8, at 12 o'clock, Noon, at the Exchange, will Inch de RIVER SCHUYLKILL and 8. W. corner Lorn baid and Chippewa streets Large and valuable V harf property aud large Lot. , bl'Kl'CE, No. Uenieel Dwelling. ABERDEEN, Nos. 8U4 aud ao-T wo Brick Dwell ings. CATHARINE No. 815-Frame Bulldrog. RICHMOND Three Dwellings aud Large Lot, X1 feet front, auu feet dep. WILCOX, Nos. lwo, 1908, 1010-Three Brick Dwell- llFTEENTH AND PINE, N. W. Corner-Two Stores and Dwellings. SECOND. No, 7H ( North) Store and Dwelling. IOCRTH, No. 9 (South)- Elegant Residence. pi N K, No. ils Handsome modem Residence. TOWNSHIP LINE ROAD Hotel, kuown as tha "Abbey." NINTH, No. 242 (South) Btore and Dwelling. MARYLAND, HARTFORD COUNTY 52 acre Qunrry and Slate Lanes. BUTTON WOtlD, No, 711 Genteel Dwelling. SECOND, No. 704 (South) Store and Dwelling. CARPENTER, Wtst of Eighteenth Twe-stOrjr Dwelling. WALNUT, No. 403-HaDdsome Residence, lots) by 120 feet; bss the modern oouvenlenoes, . . BROWN, No. 23l Genteel DwelllDg. GRc UND-RKNTS, ll, 62. 52. 452 a year. BANKAND OTHER STOOKS, LOANS, KTO. I Executors' Sale. , 40 shares Live Oak Copper Mining Company. 10 shares Tuckahoe aud Muut Pleasant Plank Road Company. 2m0 shares Duqnesne Oil Company. - 14U0 shares Mingo Oil Company. lou shares B ughes River aud Island Run Oil Co. UNO shares Hlbberd OU Company. 876 shares Plltslon Coal Company. 1 share Ocean Steam Navigation Company. 1 share Steamship Dock Company. For Other Accounts 150 shares Diamond Coal Company. 10 shares pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company of the United sta'es. - 1 share Philadelphia Library Company, 1 share Mercantile Library Company. til 29 St - 28 shu res i-oumern Transportation Company, sjl 10 1 bares Horticultural Hall. 1 share Baker Stiver Mining Company Of Colorado 2(0 shares Union Canal pr.leried. Iihi shares Morn, i""',, 1"""'' bi mares Continental Hotel Company. Catalogues now ready, STOCK OF VFRY FINK HOUSEKEEPING! OOODS, CHRISTMAS ARTICLES. FUNK UTKD.U SKATES, EiC On Monday, December 2, at the Auction store, by order of the Administrator, the slock of a House turnlshlng Est. bllBhment. LH24t LIPPINCOTT, SON & CO., AUCTIONEERS No. 24(i MARK ET Street. Philadelphia. (Prenil lies formerly occupied by Messrs. Pauooast & Wax nock, Auctioneers.) VERY LARGE POSITIVE SPECIAL AND AT. TRACTIVE WALK OF FANCY GOODS FOR TflJU i HOLIDAY SEASON. On Monday Mornlnr, Dec. 2d. commencing at 10 o'clock, by catalogue, en four months' credit, we will sell. In lots to suit tha city jobbing and retail trade, 860 lots fancy goods for holiday sales. This sale will consist of lull lines of entirely new goods, Just landed, and will be found to comprise the choicest assortment of rloh goods evec ohered at auction In this city, it LARGE POSITIVE SALE OF 750 LOTS OF AME RICAN AND IMPORTED DRY GOODS, EMBROI DERIES. LACK GOODS, HOSIERY GOODS, MIL LINERY GOODS, ETC., by catalogue, on Xoux months' credit, On Wednesday Morning, Deo, 4th, commencing at 10 o'clock, com pi Islng about 750 lots new and desirable seasonable goods, suited! to present sales. u to 3 HOMAS BIRCH ft (SON. AUCTIONEERS r Ht!iANi?TtS5;.lfcllION MERCHANTS, Ne, UK street Btre'i res entrance Ho. UU7 Sanson HOOP SKIRTS. 628. WM. T. HOPKINS, (520. MANUFACTURER OF FIRST QUALITY HOOP SKIRTS, FOR THE TRADE AND AT RETAIL. MO. a ARtH STBE1ET, BELOW TENTH, FIIII.ADEl.rDIA. Also dealer In tall lines of Iow-prloed New York and Eastern made Skirts. All the new and desirable styles and sizes ot Ldlea; Misses', and Children's Hoop-skirts constantly on band and made to order, embracing the largest ami most varied assortment In lull market, at very mode , rate prices. ' I Every lady should try "Our Own Make" of Hood Skirts, as they have no equal. ' Southern, Western, and nei jr Trade bnyexi will find It to their Interest to examine our good. Catalogues of styles, sizes, aud price) sent to any address. t 17 sm FURNISHING GOODS, SHIRTS, M ERINO UNDERWEAR IN GREAT A. riety, tor saie a. , HOFMANN'S HOSIERY STORK. , Merino Underwear for Gents. Merino Underwear for Youths. Merino Underwear for Ini'aula, ' Merino Underwear tor Misses. Merino Underwear for Ladles. Merino Hose for Ladies. Merino Hose for Misses. Me.rluo Hose lor Youths. Merino Hose for Infanta. Merino Hose for Gents. , All-wool Shins, white, for Gents, " All-wool Shirts, scarlet, lor Oeuh All-wool Shirts, grey mixed. . All-wool ShlrUt, blue mixed. All the above, of superler qaalltleVfor ' IIOFBIAKN'H IIOBJIEF 8 6 tilths! No. 9 NnrthQHTH Street, J. w. scot oo.; AKD VJ 4.BBA 1ST HUIHfl OOODI s a ai4 ilf ITSIR, FOUR DOORS TH "CONTINENTAL, A TENT SHOULDER-BEAM L . 0S1IBT MAmjFACTOBT, aDjEriJiMKt EI'UNIMIIISUCTOB pKKrMT FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS oade iroui measurement at Very short nolloa. All other articles ot UENTLjLMJWIi DRXJ&I OOODS la full variety. 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