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Ten Years in Washington. Life and Scenes in the National Capital, As a Woman Sees Them Library of Congress Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them Mary Clemmer Ames TEN YEARS IN WASHINGTON. LIFE AND SCENES IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, AS A WOMAN SEES THEM. 486 642 BY MARY CLEMMER AMES, Author of “Eirene, or a Woman's Right,” “Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary,” “A Woman's Letters from Washington,” “Outlines of Men, Women and Things,” etc. FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTY FINE ENGRAVINGS, AND A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR ON STEEL. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON COPYRIGHT 1873 No 57802 HARTFORD, CONN.: A. D. WORTHINGTON & CO. M. A. PARKER & CO., Chicago, Ills. F. DEWING & CO., San Francisco, Cal. 1873. no. 2 F1?8 ?51 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873, by A. D. WORTHINGTON & CO., In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. Case Lockwood & Brainard, PRINTERS AND BINDERS, Cor. Pearl and Trumbull Sts., Hartford, Conn. Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.28043 Library of Congress I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness, in gathering the materials of this book, to Mr. A. R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress; to Col. F. Howe; to the Chiefs of the several Government Bureaus herein described; to Mr. Colbert Lanston of the Bureau of Pensions; to Mr. Phillips, of the Bureau of Patents; and to Miss Austine Snead. M. C. A. TO Mrs. HAMILTON FISH, TO Mrs. ROSCOE CONKLING, OF NEW YORK, TWO LADIES, WHO, IN THE WORLD, ARE YET ABOVE IT,—WHO USE IT AS NOT ABUSING IT, WHO EMBELLISH LIFE WITH THE PURE GRACES OF CHRISTIAN WOMANHOOD, THESE SKETCHES OF OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL ARE SINCERELY Dedicated BY MARY CLEMMER AMES. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VIEW OF THE CAPITOL. Engraved Expressly for this Work. PAGE. 1. Fine Stee-Plate Portrait of the Author. Engraved by George E. Perine, [ Frontispiece] 2. View of the Capitol, Men of Mark in Washington, 31 3. Hon. W. A. Richardson, Secretary of the Treasury, 31 4. Gen. Albert J. Myer, “Old Probabilities,” 31 5. J. H. Baxter, M. D., Chief Medical Purveyor, 31 Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.28043 Library of Congress 6. Charles Lyman, Chief of Dead-letter Office, 31 7. United States Treasury—Washington, 104 Inside the White House—Washington, 167 8. The Great East Room, 167 9. The Green Room, 167 10. View of the “City of the Slain”—Arlington, 237 The remains of over 8,000 soldiers, killed during the war, lie buried in this Cemetery — name regiment, and date of death of each is painted on a wooden head-board. 11. Making Money—The Room in the Treasury Building Where the Greenbacks are Printed, 284 12. Among the Greenbacks—The Cutting and Separating Room in the Treasury Building, 317 vii 13. Burnt to Ashes—The End of Uncle Sam's Greenbacks, 326 The above is a graphic sketch of the destruction of the worn and defaced currency constantly being redeemed by the Government, which is here burned every day at 12 o'clock. On one occasion considerably more than one hundred million dollars' worth of bonds and greenbacks were destroyed in this furnace, and the burning of from fifty to seventy-five millions at a time is a matter of ordinary occurrence. 14. The New Marble Cash-Room, United States Treasury, 339 Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.28043 Library of Congress The most costly and magnificent room of its kind in the world. 15. Counting Worn and Defaced Greenbacks and Detecting Counterfeits, 369 This room is in the Redemption Bureau, Treasury-Building. Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars' worth of Fractional Currency alone is here daily received for redemption; out of which about Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars' worth of counterfeit money is detected, stamped, and returned. 16. Dead-Letter Office, U. S. General Post-Office—Washington, 388 17. The Model-Room—Patent-Office, Washington, 436 This room contains the fruits of the inventive genius of the whole nation. More than 160,000 model are here deposited. 18. Blood-Stained Confederate Battle-flags, Captured During the War 463 Sketched by permission of the Government from the large collection in possession of the War Department, at Washington. 1. Black Flag. 2. Alabama Flag. 3. Palmetto Flag. 4. State and Regiment unknown. [Captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, by the 60th Regiment of New York Volunteers.] 5. State Colors of North Carolina. 19. The Main Hall of the Army Medical Museum—Washington, 475 Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.28043 Library of Congress This Museum occcupies the scene of the assassination of President Lincoln, in Ford's Theatre, which after that date became the property of the Government. It contains a collection of upwards of twenty thousand rare, curious and interesting objects, surpassing any similar collection in the world. It is visited annually by upwards of twenty-five thousand persons. 20. Curiosities from the Army Medical Museum, 480 21. A Withered Arm, 480 Skin, flesh and bones complete. Amputated by a cannon-shot on the battle-field of Gettysburg. The shot carried the severed limb up into the high branches of a tree, where it was subsequently found, completely air and sun-dried. 22. Skull of a Man, 480 Who received an arrow-wound in the head, three gun-shot flesh-wounds, one in the arm, another in the breast, and a third in the leg. Seven days afterwards he was admired to the hospital at Fort Concha, Texas, (where he subsequently died,) after having traveled above 160 miles on the barren plains, mostly on foot. 23. Apache Indian Arrow-Head, 480 Of soft hoop-iron. These arrows will perforate a bone without causing the slightest fracture, where a rifle or musket-ball will flatten; and will make a cut as clean as the finest surgical instrument. 24. Skull of Little Bear's Squaw, 480 Perforated by seven bullet-holes. Killed in Wyoming Territory, 25. All that Remains Above Ground of John Wilkes Booth, 480 Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.28043 Library of Congress Being part of the Vertebræ penetrated [A] by the bullet of Boston Corbett. Strange freak of fate that the remains of Booth should find a resting-place under the same roof, and but a few feet from the spot where the fatal shot was fired. 26. Skull of a Soldier, 480 Wounded at Spottsylvania: showing the splitting of a riffle-ball—one portion being buried deep in the brain, and the other between the scalp and the skull. He lived twenty-three days. 27. A Sioux Pappoose, 480 Or Indian infant, found in a tree near Fort Laramie, where It had been buried (?) according to the custom of this tribe. 28. Skull of an Indian, 480 Showing nine distinct sabre wounds. 29. “ Old Probabilities'” Instrument Room, 493 Storm and Weather Signal Service Bureau—Washington. 30. The Tomb of “The Unknown”—Arlington, 586 Erected by the Government to the memory of Unknown Soldiers killed during the War. It bears the following inscription: “Beneath this stone response the bones of Two Thousand One Hundred and Eleven unknown soldiers, gathered after the war, from the fields of Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock. Their remains could not be identified: but their names and deaths are Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.28043 Library of Congress recorded in the archives of their country, and its grateful citizens honor them as of their noble army of Martyrs. May they rest in peace! September, A. D. 1866.” CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. PAGE. The Young Surveyor's Dream—Humboldt's View of Washington—A Vision of the Future Capital—The United States Government on Wheels—Ambitious Offers—The Rival Rivers —Potomac Wins—Battles in Congress—Patriotic Offers of Territory—Temporary Lodgings for Eleven Years—Old-Fashioned Simplicity—He Could n't Afford Furniture—A Great Man's Modesty—Conflicting Claims—Smith Backs Baltimore—A Convincing Fact—The Dreadful Quakers—A Condescending Party—A Slight Amendment—An Old Bill Brought to Light Again—The Indian Place with the Long Name—Secession Threatened—The Future Strangely Foreshadowed—A Dinner of Some Consequence—How it was Done—Really a Stranger—A Nice Proposal—Sweetening the Pill—A “Revulsion of Stomach”—Fixed on the Banks of the Potomac, 21 CHAPTER II. CROSS PURPOSES AND QUEER SPECULATIONS. Born of Much Bother—Long Debates and Pamphlets—Undefined Apprehensions— Debates on the Coming City—Old World Examples—Sir James Expresses an Opinion— A Dream of the Distant West—An Old-time Want—A Curious Statement of Fact—“Going West”—Where is the Center of Population—An Important Proclamation—Original Land Owners—Well-worn Patents—Getting on with Pugnacious Planters—Obstinate David Burns—A “Widow's Mite” of Some Magnitude—How the Scotchman was Subjugated—“If You Hadn't Married the Widow Custis”—A Rather “For cible Argument”—His Excellency “Chooses”—The First Record in Washington—Old Homes and Haunts—Purchase of Land —Extent of the City, 31 CHAPTER III. THE WORK BEGUN IN EARNEST. Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.28043 Library of Congress Washington's Faith in the Future—Mr.
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