VOLUME I. WASHINGTON MARCH rMBER

For The Capital. For.The Capital. of your father, .Tim MacNair, eighteen years calmly looking out, expressed also a more and asked him what lie thought of her as an stances, but to go whithersoever the stars de- For The-Capital The Louisiana state capitol, at Baton Rouge, THE LADV OF THE TREASURY. ago this May. Bear! dear!" > emotional and more sympathetic bias. A pure REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD ACTOR. actress. THE STRIKER. is a queer, turretcd, tall edifice, resembling an Far up within that dungeon strong creed? So I said to my friend, "Give me a The Honorable Perkiomen Trappe, catching and strong woman, whose life had ripened "Where Crresus doth his hoard inclose, "Notmuch,"liereplied; "youngand pretty; letter to Mr. Jackson, and I will ride over to Slouched, and snrly, and sallow-faced, arsenel. a part of this remark; observed that .Tabel amongst the families and circles' of the best She counts the hank-notes all day long, BY DONN PIATT. got a ratherish sweet voice; no idea of acting the Hermitage and see what I can see." With a look as if something were sore misplaced. North Carolina lias a fair state capitol in a The young man Striker seep to stride And keeps the tolly as she goes; Blake, judging by his appearance, shouldn't in condition and influence, she had never though. Compare her to Mrs. Duff! By Jove! The general ordered a horse and wrote me pretty town. Her hand upon a sponge she wets, tip the Capitol stairs at high noontide, • have buried MacNair's father, but devoured crossed to the meaner side of necessity nor to see Duff come on the stage as Isabelle in the letter desired, and in a short half hour I The state capitol of Alabama, atr Montgom- To turn the precious paper freer, My early life was made pleasant by avretired And as though at tho head of a viewless mob— him. Jabel's unfeeling remark gave MacNair appreciated the fact, scarcely palpable, even And all the statesmen's grim vignettes the Fatal Marriage!' She'd just sweep in and was on the way to the Cumberland ferry. Who could look in his eye and mistrust it ?— ery, is a classical structure, with a dome, well to her father, that he wras poor. An entire actor. He was an old fellow who had fallen Grow amorous as they seem to see her. no apparent pain ; but he said: occupy all the stage. Her voice was thunder It was a beautiful morning, and the splendid lie quoth: "They must let me into that joh. adapted to its purposes and pleasing to the eye life spent in the public service had allowed heir to a small income, and, having pure Eng- Or Til bust it!" ] No nymph nor maid that Barley drew "Jabel, don't speak to Elk about father. set to , and lier eyes chain lightning. gray hunter I rode was young like myself, and at a distance. This town became the capitol neither time nor suggestion for improving his lish blood in his veins, retired on it and the lias form more flowing, nobler mien, He is not as patient as he should lie, and per- Then for pathos; hear her in Mrs. Haller! we had followed the hounds too often together What it was that troubled him so site as early as 1817. private fortune; and as his salary continued best of ale. He found in me a splendid list- How shall we innocent visitors know ' Eyes of a softer, rarer lute, haps in Washington they disguise some of the When she said she too 'had a Henry,' the pit to make a long journey out of a ten miles ride, The state capitol of Ohio, at Columbus, is Or face so conscions yet serene; over the war-era at the same modest standard, ener. I looked up to him as the most wonder- Perhaps a scheme of subsidy great, matters which we treat bluntly and openly. raised umbrellas to keep dry from the tears and therefore noon found me at the table of 304 feet long, 184 feet wide, and to1he summit Though won and won; she once has been. which had barely sufficed for cheaper'years, ful of men. With my youthful imagination Or perhaps a mightier project of state; There's Kitty Dunlevy, you know, and she is tliat.rained from the boxes." Andrew Jackson, jr., and. under ap engage- A plot, perhiips, some widow to rob— of its dome 157 feet high. It is built of hard And widow's colors yet attire her, he had been making annual inroads upon his filled with the, poetic scenes the stage creates, HIT virgin blush returns again a little proud."; '1 Julia Dean is not up to that ?" ment to make the Hermitage my abiding place Whatever, whoever discussed it— limestone, resembling a shade of white marble. little estate, which was now quite exhausted. I spoke face to facp witli one who had been To see a tine, bold man admire her. The glazed, whitish eye of Jabel bore the "Devil a bit; she'.s young and pretty; that's for at least a year to come. Unless Mr. Striker was "let in the fob,'' In architecture it might be called the classical His daughter might, have ended his heartache on familiar terms with kings and queens, the He would "bust;it." Not. often does her mind return similitude of a of satisfaction. all. The fellows run after her and the critics provincial. A demure false pediment, rises in and crowned his wishes by availing herself of tragic lovers and the beautiful beloved, and THE HERMITAGE. Along the path of comforts fled. 'I It's nothing agin you boys," he said, "that puff her. I know Julia. I know the whole Wonderful youth! such power to keep the middle over the flat, Chimneyed roof. The any of several offers of marriage which had all the people of the magic $tage. And if somotimos her lone heart yearn .Tim MncNair, your father, didn't do well. He family. Her mother was a Drake, and a dev- Tlie Hermitage is a dozen miles from Nash- In a land where Justice ne'er is asleep; rotunda is depressed, and resembles a boy's For that first , her soldier dead, been made to her; but the soldierly bearing, To stagger the councils of state with fear, wronged nobody but himself, as I made the I liad a suspicion, since confirmed, that old ville, on the same side of the river, and fronts cap, and the fine columns and pilasters which Life is too ripe for long, lament; lisli pretty duck of a Drake sllc was. Young Or stop the growth of a hemisphere; radiant face, and tine intellect of Elk MacNair Buncastle liad never held a very high position upon a country road a little off from the Leba- No ghosts reproachful o'er her hover: stone-cutter say over his grave. Thai cost me Fosdick, a liigli-flyer. in fashionable life, fell The .time-piece of law tp crush in the fob, surround tlie edifice only make these mean- had conqnered competition when first he in his profession. He had a way of borrow- The strong, benignant Government . upwards of eleven dollars, so I did my duty in love with and married her. Lots of English non pike. The approach is through a grove Or by violence readjust it, nesses conspicuous. It cost about. $4,000,000, sought, through her father's influence, a li.cn- ing all my spare change and a singular habit She feels about her like a lover. by him. You boys don't seem to have his j nobs do that sort of thing. Young Fosdick of trees, and the drive from the park to the And, lest he be " let" into this or that job. and was once likened by the celebrated Wm. tenantcy in the army. of forgetting the little transaction. When pos- He can "bust it." No mother's hands will toil demean appetite for liquor. You are a member of took his wife off the stage, and himself off the house is bordered with cedars. This drive is Corry to a tea-cup standing on a brick. He sessed of 'my means through a loan lie would Who gives her orphon boys support; Congress, and Elk was one of the bravest gen- His career liad been brilliant and fortunate, scene of life soon after through too much high- in the form of a guitar, and was made from a Striker I in tliec no species rare made (his ocular illustration in a speech, pro- Iler window looks down on the green change from ale to whisky, or brandy, and We see ascending the Capitol stair. erals in the war, and I don't see, if he saves and When he was brought, in from the field flying. And then the widow married old Dean, design of Colonel Earl, an artist protege of ducing the cup and the brick. A pleasant Grass, growing in an inner court, then, passing to the spirited influence, let out All the ages and States of eld dangerously wounded, her womanly ministra- the actor. The first husband used up most of Jackson, who made his home vwith the gene- grass park incloses the capitol, which is cer- And there upon one lonesome tree his money and his health, hut. he is good Some similar hound or highwayman held; more than lie wished touching the facts of his ral for a number of years, and whose grave .'• A mother-bird sings fast as can it— enough even for .Tudge^Dunlevy's girl." tions at the hospital had helped to set him the beauty, and the last husband all that was Some Herod, who 'ere Heaven's babe might, throb. tainly a, colossal pile. former life. At one time, under these circum- upon his horse aeain, with life made better left of health. I've seen 'em many times play- can be seen by the side of the family tomb. In tlie cradle would strangle or thrust it. So does her heart sing cheerily Judge Dunlevy was the beau ideal of Jabel The Kentucky state capitol is a white mar- Within these gloomy bars'of granite. stances, I learned, for example, that liisi real And unless he were "let in" the holiest "job" worth preserving for the promise of her hand, ing third-rate parts; and while Dean was on Jackson liad a number of sentimental at- ble building with a gable portico of six Ionic Blake, as the one eminent local statesman of name was Bun—James Bun—and that lié had He would "bnst it." T. No prude is she, to seek and pry surrendered with her father's free "consent.. It the stage'in property tights, she was at the tachments of this kind, which were almost as columns, and a cupola in resembling the the region round Ross Valley,—the county added the Castle for euphony and grandeur. If each one round "her be a saint; was a love-matcli, without reservations or in- patching his old pantaloons and nursing romantic as that of Damon and Pythias, but judge when Jabel was a child, tho supreme For The Capital. average Virginia court-house. Some monu- She knows her own soul pure and high, The manner of pronouncing it, however, quiries, the rapport and wish of two equal the children." tlie subjects of them have all passed away, ments are appendages of this edifice. * "d nothing else can do her taint; justice of the State, and.now a district justice robbed the name of much of its dignity. He OUR STATE CAPITOL BUILDINGS. beings, kindred in youth, sympathy, and "Julia Dean?" except Major Lewis, who, I believe, still lives slid Ivuowh what dear temptations vex of the United States in a distant field. His jammed it into "Bunkasle," with the stress, At the present time nó less than three of our The Indiana state capitol was completed in This weak mid craving patilre human, career, earnest to dwell together and absorbed in the neighborhood of Nashville, and who reputation for purity, dignity, original social .on the first syllable, very much as seafaring "None other, me boy, and the only sur- States are constructing new capítol edifices. 1834, and is a decrepit edifice 180 l'ect long And how the mighty spell of sex in the worship of each other. Folded in full ought to give us a connected account of tlie consideration, moral , and direct men say "forkasle." ' vivor of the family. Old Dean trained her, New York will attempt to rival the National by 80 feet wide, with a portico of wooden col- O'ercomes a lonely, loving woman. union of soul as perfectly as the leaves of a home history of liis life-long friend. Scotch sagacity had made his name a lower up as an Italian does a monkey, and npw she's Capitol itself by a structure at Albany to cost, umns and a dome. They say that it is mod- Yet does she keep some equal snarri. book, which are in contact at every point Even the public life of Jackson has failed to of strength in his native State.' To Jabel's He retained in private life the manner of making his blarst^d fortune." nominally, five millions, but probably by the eled after the* Parthenon, and, as it cost She knows the woman's power to charm : equally, they felt at this period •the wistful clannish and religious nature Judge Dunlevy walk and speech acquired iu liis* profession, get into history in a shape to do him the jus- $60,000, it is probable that it is modeled after A ribbon fluttering in her hair; "Is he a good actor?" day of its completion it will have consumed tenderness of a marriage near at hand and which was exceedingly stagey, and imposed tice he deserves. Mr. Parton has done the The white revealment of her arm: represented the loftiest possibilities of human '' He knows pretty well how it ought to be twice as much. This capítol is to be a renais- it, at least. A new State capitol is badly their eyes anticipated it-, seeking each other best by far of any who have attempted it, but & The of her slender shoe, character; and that one of the two poor or- on everybody, save the bar tender and land- done; but the old Duffer can't do it himself. sance edifice, with domes, pavilions, and statu- wanted at this point. out. She was cast in the large stature of her he fails to comprehend the spirit of the man. To make the pulse leap of the oldest; phans,—the sons of a wood-cutter and log- lord of our village hotel. These shrewd -ob- Lord, 'how I did laugh, at him one night. He ary. Illinois ventures, after much debate, to The Illinois state capitol is a classical Irofld- The lifted lashes, showing through, father, and lier dark-browu hair and eyes be- The portrait he gives us, like, a shadow on a roller on the Alleghenies, and the victim of servers of human nature did not awe a parti- was playing that funny old king to. Booth's spend four millions upon a classical capítol at. ing with a dome, standing oil a square of three Mischievous eyes to thrill the boldest. tokened the stability of her character, while wall, is doubtless correct as far as it goes, as intemperance at last, — whom Jabel had cle in the presence of old Buncastle, and would Richard, one damnably cold night, in Buffalo. Springfield, and Iowa is ready to spend one acres, and it is said to be badly ventilated. And well she knows not bonds, nor stocks, her graces of movement and speech no less re- call him to his face Old Pon-est, or Julius Cte- a mere outline, but; like a shadow on tlie wall, watched and partly reared, should now be Whcn-Booth stabbed liim, the awkward old million and a half upon a Corinthian structure The Michigan state capitol, at Lansing, was Nor bullion, merely, bring so oft '' vealed her adaptability to the social responsi- betrothed to Catharine MacNair, the judge's sar, or some other nahie indiedting their Con- it has no breath in it. "There is no specula- Sly Mullett, or Comptroller Kuo\, Duffer fell flat on the register of the stage. Some at Des Moines, and to ornament it with a built of wood, in 1847, and cost $15,000. It bilities which she had solely conducted since temptuous derision of liis pretensions. I have: tion in those eyes.". That nameless something Or dinning Boutwoll to her croft. only daughter, affected every remaining senti- devil of an actor, seeing this, ran down and told wrouglit-iron dome, at some future day, to resembles a two-storied school-house. Thish her mother's death. Together, Catharine and seen him stalk up to the bar with the swing ¡¡o which we call individuality,, and without Her intuition teaches that ment in Jabel's heart. the wild Irishman at the furnace that everybody cost half a million moré. the most modest capítol in tlie West. ' . The statesman still is but a sinner, her affianced made a couple equal to the fullest- peculiar to that distinguished Scot ch murderer,' which one man is as another, is wanting. It Was freezing on the stage—to rush up the fires. Some States, .as West Virginia, have no cap- MadiSOn, the capital city of Wisconsin, has And Mammon drops his keys to chnt Absorbed in the contemplation of this lion-' destiny, and they 'won praise without envy Macbeth, and in a deep, solemn voice-demand 1 is this individuality of Jackson—that "lam- As readily as General Spinner. We who were in the secret watched the result . itol-liouse at all; others, as Connecticut, have a superb site upon a commanding isthmus, orable alliance, Jabel took out lias account- from all. a glass of ale, when the irreverent bar-tender bent flame" from on high which is known in First, the dead king broke into a profuse per- two, but the agitation i» rife there for their between lakes.' Tlie state seat was fixed here Oh ! lucre, hasf thou such roniflDre ^'V book and absently'cast up the additions, and wotild seize a well-worn account book and re- the world as genius—which his,biographers "It is a happy fortuity," said Judge Dun- spiration, while Richard was delivering his consolidation at Hartford. Two of the States in 1837 from original convictions of the fitness Oh! happy greenmrJv Worn and old r . long -ie.'fa; HT Baltimore caused no spetad,-" Hold hard, old swallow-tail, tillTsee have failed to sec or delineate. Men of the levy, putting aside his glass; "Catharine's mar- long soliloquy. How the dead king did sweat! only, contain state-houses in present -legisla- of theplaCe.' The capitol is built of limestone, .FeiWttni'f by few'«am»'W l »•-'••. Hal reniKrk a;ul the ¡¡¡¡tiri* tie slipped by until, how we stand." genius of Jackson, or of Patrick Heniy, only riage to a worthy man, native to my own part But, as the fire increased, he began to squirm. tive Uí¡e which date to the revolution—Rhode in tlie center of a park of fifteen acres, and the like the sharp ovai-oi n pwsal egg,! the dome appear now and then in the world of men ; i o»!. v .;.!) •. ¡it is tike thee? of the country; Arthur's induction into na- This dealer in liquid insanity never pennit- The audience was startled to see the body Island and Maryland. TliCnohlest State Cap- streets radiate down hill from this high point. What promise hath so fair imprint ? of the Capitol arose i> ( the vacant lo'ts of and as it requires a man of equal genius to tional life;,- and hard-working Jabel Blake's ted the old fellow to get beyond a certain' al-' quiver and the legs give little post-mortem itol now complete is at Nashville, aud .the It is related that for many years the hogs used What First Lord of the Treasury the suburbs of Washin property paint their portraits, the two'seldom final triumph with his bank. There is no mis- lowance, weli knowing that in such á c^e a ki'--' " ."•."<•!,...: • the text. We most expensive is at Columbus. The follow- to get under the legislative floors and grunt at Is like our Ladv of the Mint? A tall/handsome, maidl •ntleman, in cm- come near enouglitogether to afford a picture giving in the lnind of any of us. Thewayis settlement becaiwo as dim anddistat}t.as tit' day ing data lin,ve been collected front various the orators. zen black, standing ex|' w.érfli.y of ski isfactory contemplation through tly on tho pÜtrt' :i d all smofti'li Perffct content, }iRrfeet ttive; no of judgment He lifid an ©M v»;ivret-nbv.'»»b- I 'Huny up, damn H, IMI T up; I'M, MUII sritiwev, obfeflv from members of Conine*?. At Des Moines, the «Wé of Town Is form of the station, came iij» ¡¿hdl fcmü Ma. 1 £•Fflj^The Capital. .«»Kk.ttfKm '\i!¥Jii.rtio".' • • i>iv.; cTnil"' •« "-' «vMs ¡ --.j.-'i-i-*!...-.* i.ii..-» -... -win . V-ted-.' v ' ''ollfiv ii :- for t.fi!.« "c'a-im. Niilr with the word ii(g. ' , , .Mmtóiíio ' 'gtjKti iilifi»súeeé'ssfiil per- I..TlAjtò,•ì,.'i''Rsoii'j.i it fio' -'ijffl '«1, t'-iriSt"!®!] THE LOBBY BROTHER. "Arthur!" 4iie&4)mpk; family democracies all over the, "But Richard continued rattling out his !i.( in HiOby .fflfei't, Til'e new capHoi formance of lago to the great actofs Othello, self more of the representative forces of our "Elk!" land we vindicate the trutjif nlry^s of our in- heavy thunder as slow and deliberate as if his, Tlie state capitol of Maryland, at Annapo- will be completed in 1875. stitutions, and grow old without desponding of that lie said was acknowledged by" the' best American civilization than any other man who lis, .is a handsome specimen of the brick archi- The state capitol of Missouri, at Jefferson BY OEOBGK AT,FRED TOWN SEND. And the brothers, legislator and'jsoldier, royal highness Was on a bed, of roses. At » our country." critics to have been unsurpassed for excellence has yet appeared, must remain substantially tecture of tlie last century, and it is surmounted City, stands on a bluff almost overhanging the stood contrasted as they clasped hands with the last,, when lie growled out, 'Down, down to The express train going south on the North- " I" feel almost religiously happy," said Ar- and effect. He told me once, 'when some- a myth to his countrymen and to the world by a dome, and spire of staunch timber which river, with its base 80 feet above the water! fondness of orphans of the same blood. They hell, and say I sent thee thither,' liis de- em Central railroad, March 3, 186—, carried thur, the Congressman; "not for myself, par- what excited by liquor, that when that' 'blasted at large, until some historian shall arise with attain the bight of Jwo hundred feet. From This state-house cost $250,000, and is built of had no superficial resemblances, Arthur being parted majesty rose up anil walked off the pe-rhaps a score of newly-elected Congress- ticularly, not for my mere election to Congress, old humbug gave him that- sword lie was so- the powers of Macaulay or of Motley, and this eyrie is afforded the very best view possi- stone in fine style, and looks well as one small, clerical, freckled, and red-liairfid, with | stage rubbing his back, as if he felt ridic- men, prepared j® take their seats ou the first for in our district there-are many abler men to drunk he didn't know himself from a general shall do for Jackson what they have done for ble of the Chesapeake bay. The governor's ascends tlie river toward it. a staid face and dress, and a stunted, ill-fed ulous, to the utter amazement of the audi- day of the term. For every Congressman make representatives of,—I hope none with- muster, and for á week after lie tros a-blowii^' William the Third and William the Silent. room and legislative chambers at Annapolis are look, like the 'growth of an ungracious soil; ence. But Booth was equal to the occasion. The state-house at Jackson, Mississippi, is there were at least five followers, adventurers more steadfast good intentions!—but Elk here up liis property man for losing the toasting Jackson himself expected that F. T. Blair, 34 by 40 feet each, and, like all the edifice, Elk straight and tall, with the breeding and Striking an attitude, he roared out, a tliree-storied affair with a dome. Or clients,' some distinguished by their tighter- always had so much health, blood, wayward fork.'' ' sr., would write the history of his public life, they are light, quaint, and substantially built. clothing of a metropolitan man, with black " ' Can such things he, The Tennessee state-house cost a million of jStting faces, signifying that they were men of will, and brilliancy that I sometimes feared he and:for that purpose put him in possession of An appropriation of seven thousand pounds eyes and black hair, and a small " imperial" This .sword the old fellow sometimes put in, Aiid overcome lis like a summer's cloud. dolljirs, and stands 175 feet above the river on commerce; others by their unflagging and miglit-abandon the safe highways of labor and Without our special wonder the necessary materials for such a work. Why sterling was passed in 1709, for this edifice, goatee upon liis nether lip; with an adventur- pawn, and he never rested until it was re- the highest ground in Nashville. It is an "somewhat over-strained amiability, not to say self-denial and try some dangerous short cut Mr. Blairhas made no attempt to fulfil those, and its foundation stone was laid in 1772. ous natiirc and experience giving intonation deemed. It was the ambition of jny early life Deqn got a l^afk eye and broken nose while Ionic edifice, with a cupola, prominent ¡is the [.sycophancy, signifying that out of the afore- to fortune. To see him survive the battlefield, expectations I do not,know. - The state capitol of Delaware is a comfort- to his regular face, and the lights and contrasts to possess myself of this sacred reiic. I be- attempting to kick the Irishman."- Acropolis, and the best, state edifice in Amer- isnid Congressmen they expected something and begin the longer campaigns of peace with able .brick edifice, somewhat dilapidated, and of youth, command, valor, sentiment and lieve I could have murdered old Bun to* get it, TITE HERMITAGE MANSION. ica. "fat." Of the former class the hardest type a profession, a reputation, no entanglements, For The Capital. perhaps tlie most exclusive little building for professional associations adding such distinc- but for the' fact that his death would have put The mansion house was rather an imposing Little Rock was selected for the capitol site unquestionably Jabel Blake, and the busi- and such a wife, makes me a religious man. its purpose^ in the country, its senate chamber tion that every lady passenger going by looked an end to my nightly entertainments. On on'e THREE YEARS AT THE HER- structure, with fluted columns running to the of Arkansas in 1817. The capitol is a crude I russ which he had in hand with the freshly God bless you, brother Elk!" being little bigger than a jury-box. A series at him, even in the din of a depot, with admir- occasion I, with a deal of effort, had collected roof, both in front and rear, and wide veran- affair. t Honorable Arthur MacNair; who sat at his side MITAGE. of green parks, inclosed by wooden fences, ation. General MacNair said, in a jesting way, that five dollars. Some of this had been given me; dahs above and below. To the left of the hall The capitol of Texas, at Austin, is 145 feet reidhig the Pittsburg Oommerrutl, was the stand in front of this building, and (lie whip- Arthur was the truest, most old-fashioned, and some of it I had borrowed from an old, unsus- General .Jnohson's Homo. as you enter are the parlors, and beyond, in a by 90, with a dome reaching an altitude of 101 i tshblishmcnt of a national bank at the town To Jabel Blake, who came up lugging an ping-post is in an adjoining lot. The capital most ridiculously scrupulous brother that ever pecting maiden aunt, and a part, I am ashamed one-story wing, the dining-room. To the right feet. Tlie building is of an oolite, of a soft, of Boss Valley, Pennsylvania. ancient and large carpet-bag, and who re- town, Dover, stands upon a flat plain, and is. grew up amongst the daisies, but he was af- to confess, had been intrusted to me to make T.Y GEN. It. BRTNKEKIIOFF. of the hall were two rooms, the first of wliich white color, and cost $150,000. It is Ionic in pelled every urchin who wanted the job of uninteresting beyond description. • abel Blake had ns. little the look of a bank fected as were they all. the final payment on a pair of checkered pants was occupied by the general, and in which , and ornamented by a cupola. Texas carrying it, Elk MacNair spoke cordially but an ingenuous tailor liad designed. If it were prisident as had his representative the bearing "Elk MacNair," asked Jabel Blake, in his You ask for "Reminiscences of my life at he died. In the rear of this, across a narrow The Rhode Island ¡itate-hou.se, at Newport, has very good state buildings. without enthusiasm. possible for a pair of checkered pants to of i politician. .MacNair was a thin, almost hard, incisivc, positive, business voice, "what the Hermitage," "Anecdotesof Old Hickory," bali; was the room of Andrew Jackson, jr., is built of brick with freestone trimmings, and In nearly all tin» states the capitol site has ".Tabel," lie said, " if I hear you growl about become the shirt of Nessus, those pants bid frigile young person, with light-red hair and do you mean to do after you are married?" "How I got there," &c., &c. and his wife. Still further to the right, at the a cupola and balustrade ornament the roof. It been removed at least once, and within the money as long as yon arc here, I'll take you fair to be that classical garment. I was pur- j a freckled face, and clear blue eyes, which The general looked at Jabel as if he were a If you knew how large a panorama is rolled end of the narrow hall I have mentioned, in was built prior to the revolution. past few years many changes have taken place. up to the Capitol and lose you amongst, the sued by the tailof, a bitter, heartless, con- narlymadea parson of hi®—a suggestion car- little officious and with large capacities for out in the vista of' twenty years -ago by these another one-story wing, was the library. The state capitol of Maine, at Augusta, Not every reader is aware that the capital of | rip out by his plain guard and silver watch and coal holes." sumptive son • of a goose, as an avenger, and being disagreeable. questions, you would not ask me to comply This library, which was also our school- coit $170,000 and is built of granite, columns Georgia is now Atlanta; of Nebraska, Omaha, lis very sober, settled expression. The Hon- "It took many a grunt to make the money " my earliest financiering talents were developed' "I have arranged to buy a partnership in a with such a- request with any expectation of room, overlooked the garden, in one corner in the center and plain wings. It .stands upon (now Lincoln;) of Oregon, Salem; of Louis- irable Perkiomen Trappe, who had served said Jabel Blake, "and it's natural to growl at in preventing the wronged mail of shears from iana, New Orleans; and of Kansas, Topeka. legal firm having the largest practice in the publication, in any space which could be al- of which embosomed in trees, stood the gen- a green elevation, and near it is the pleasant hree terms from the Apple-butter district, the loss of it." coming to an understanding with my guardian. Tlie state edifices of these cities, like those at Northwest. This is better than beginning lotted in a weekly journal, for a year to come. eral's tomb. ' As the library remained substan- residence of Speaker Blaine. euiarked of him, from the adjoining seat': By this time they had come to the street However, I offered the immense sum to the old Sacramento and Carson City, (he capital-, of alone and waiting to make a business.'" I beg, therefore, to be excused froin such a tially'as Jackson left it, of course it afforded The Pennsylvania State capitol is 180 feet " Made his canvass, I s'pose, by a-colporterin' and there in a livery baronclie were the superb actor for the sword. California and Nevada, are as yet of small "How much will that cost?" persisted Jabel herculean task. indications of his character. So greàt a man front by 80 feet deep, built of brick, with ah Methodist books, and stan's ready to go to his broad shoulders, fringed from above , with note. A less number will recognize in the Blake, not remarking the growing repulsion "Five dollars for the sword once worn by However, I will tell you what carried me reveals himself in tlie books he reads more Jonic portico and an ugly dome. In adjacent hivinly home by way of the Injin Ring!" fleece-white hair, of Judge Dunlevy. Health word Tucson the capital of Arizona, or in with which the general answered, after some the great Kean! Boy, thou dreaniest. The to the Hermitage. It was sentiment. Yes, , surely than in almost any other way which separate edifices are tlie governor's and other wisdom, and hale, honorable age ycre ex- Olympia the capital of Washington. But, in reality, the Congressman belonged untold wqaltli of Indies would not purchase sentiment of the .genuine school-girl pattern. can be named.- pressed attributes of his body and face, and by little embarrassment: state offices. There is no room in this edifice to the same faith with his constituent and that sacred relic. Tt shall be buried'witli me." Don't laugh and turn to tho multiplication his side, the flower of noble womanhood sat "Onehundred and sixty thousand dollars." TlliS collection of books, although quite capable of accommodating Rotheriuel's paint- The following are the other territorial capi- client—both Presbyterians like their great table, or to the United-States tariff schedule, Catharine, his child, worthy of her parentage. "Why!" cried Jabel Blake, "that is nearly My heart sank into, my boots at this. But large, was evidently not the work' of a man ing of Gettysburg battle.- . The view from this tals: Colorado, Denver; Dakota, Yancton; grandfathers, who were Scotch pioneers with the expectation of finding a similar arti- Idaho, Boise City; Montana, Virginia City; Both of them welcomed Arthur MacNair with as much as it takes to start the Ross Valley old Bun ended by borrowing.my money and of high literary culture. There was no method capitol is exquisitely bounded by mountain amongst the spurs of the Alleghenies; and cle. Poetry in pig iron, or Pike's arithmetic, New Mexico, Santa Fe; Utah, Salt Lake City; that respectful warmth which acknowledged bank. Take care! Take care! Beware, Elk loaning me the sword. For nearly a month I in it. ' Some books were evidently selected by and river scenery. Near this point was the »here still lived these twain in.fashion little is " n on cat inventus,'' for they were never young Wyoming, Cheyenne. the nearness of his relationship to (he ap- MacNair, of getting into.debt at your time of was its happy possessor. Retiring to a dim- other members of the family. Many were once mooted place for the National Capitol. i'Sianged, MacNair a lawyer at the court-house I like you and me twenty years ago. proaching nuptials, and the judge said . life. It makes gray hairs come. It breaks up lit garret, where I had arranged a little .stage, presents from friends or publishers. There The Massachusetts . state-house, was com- The value of the capital to a town has no -vji, and .Tabel Blake, the creator, reviver, I() domestic pleasure. It mortgages tranquil years. I inveigled some playmates to attend as Sentiment is more powerful than logic in, were all kinds of books—some good, and many pleted in 1798, and it is the mpst conspicuous measure by experience. Several of our state aiid capitalist' of the hamlet, of Ross Valley. "Great credit to Jabel Blake as a represent- Neither a borrower nor a lender be! That's actors and audience, tp assist me in a scene th,e "halcyon clays of youth," and even our worthless. They ranged from Barlow's pon- edifice in Boston. Its dome is 130 feet above capitals are virgin as such, and the most, re- ; Jabel wa's hard, large, bony, and dark, with ative citizen, in that his eyes have seen the Bible talk, an4 the Bible is not only the best from Richard the Third. We had- to speak, seniors were not impervious to its effects. derous '•'Columbiad " down to the small edi- tlie ground and 230 feet above the level of the markable. growth in any of them is observed : pinched features and a whitish:grey eye, and glor y of these fine boys, to whom he has been book for the family, but the best business our parts in rather a subdued voice, on ac- When Martin Van Buren was President, and tion of the "Devil on Two Sticks;" from the neighboring sea. This building, though old, is at Indianapolis, which stands as nearly cen- i I keen, thin, krug, voice, high-pitched, every so fast a friend!" book besides." count of my maiden aunt occupying the room I was a boy of nine or ten summers, his ex- "Encyclopedia Britannica "lo "Mrs. Gaston's entirely worthy of our most historical city, tral in Indiana as the surveyors could deter- ^separate accent 01* which betrayed the love of Jabel's glassy eyes shone, and his mouth immediately below us; and she, poor lady, mine it, and became also a railway focu*. '' I don't mean to run in debt," said the gen- cellency visited my native city, in New York, Cook Book." The books read by Jackson, and it is kept in a state of military order and '; v.oiiey. unclosed like ¡i smile in a fossil pair of jmv.s, being' possessed in her portly- body of a per- Other towns, as Harrisburg, seem to have suf- eral, with a look, perhaps surly, "I mean to and my father, who was an old friend and a however, were mainly agricultural,- historical, cleanliness, as if it were really the headquar- "It's the nigliest I ever.come to being paid fect hospital of nervous diseases, quiet was. fered by legislative contact, jmd to convey the "It's an expensive trip,''said Jabel Blake, buy into the firm with cash." Dutchman of tlie bluest kind of Knickerbocker and theological, and more of the latter, I judge, ters of the Commonwealth. statuary for my investment in Arty and Elk," he said necessary to her continued existence. This dingy impression of a corrupt atmosphere', ; "it's a costly trip. Store men tire made poor, "Bosh!" said Jabel Blake, risingup, "where blood, called to pay his respects, and took me than any other. stands on the flights of terraces leading to it, "to get secli a compliment from Judge Dun- did not prevent pur acting our several parts with rather than to be known for their natural ad- Arthur MacNair, by travelin' than by siclc- did you get one hundred.and sixty thousand alqng with him. Mr. Seward, who was then Jackson was essentially a religious man. and in the rotunda are busts of distinguished levy! They are good boys, though they've great vigor; and at the end of a terrific com- vantages. The growth of Troy, within six fness. Twice a year to Pittsburg and twice to dollars, Elk MacNair?" governor of our State, I remember, was pres- From his youth upwards lie believed in God Bostonians. This is the only State capitol | Phildclfy is the whole of my gadding. I stop, cost me a powerful lot, and I hope they'll sav(, bat between the crook-backed tytant and his ent. miles of Albany, is a case of commerce over- "If you were not claiming to its fullest ex- and the future as revealed in the Bible, and which remains in a city of tlie first class. their money, stick to their church, and never stupid Richmond we stumbled and fell from taking and passing tradition, society, wealth, I in Pliildelfy, at the Camel tavern, on Second "My youngest," said my father, as the Pres- in his wildest days nothing offended liim forgit Ross Valley, which claims the honor of tent the privilege of my father's friend, Jabel, The state capitol at Albany stands 130 feet aud political importance. Newport, Rhode f stroet, and a very expensive house—two dol- the piano box, our stage, on a part of the ident took me by the hand and patted me I should tell you .that it was none of your busi- quicker, than skepticism upon these points. above the Hudson river, and cost $120,000, Island, illustrates pleasure powerful to revive lars a day. At Washington they rob eveiy- a-buildin' 'em up." garret where the plastering alone made the ness. ,1 will have made the money by the kindly on the head. At home he attended church, and when in the the city of Albany contributing to build it a city when commerce lias long departed and [ body, I'm told, and I shall be glad to get away "Get up here, Jabel, and ride!" cried Elk. floor, and through this we broke, to our own practice of law in the city of Washington." "Are you a Jackson boy?" said he. " Yes, army he would halt his men in the face of tlie more than one-fourth of that amount. It is legislation is impotent to reinspire. I •with my clothes." "Remember that coal hole, old man!" horror and the consternation of the-little au- "Dear me, Elk," said his brother quietly, , I am." "Stick to that, my boy, as long enemy to hold religious services upon the Sab- made of stone, and has an Ionic portico built "No! no!" cried Jabel, "I can walk. These dience. Fortunately for us—unfortunately for "Tut! Jabel," said MacNair," brother Elk "I don't presume to be worth five thousand as you live," was the reply, "and you will be bath day. In his Indian campaigns, Parson against tho side of the building, surmounted .The capital list is suggestive in its nomen- fine carriages is expensive luxuries. They'll my poor old nervous aunt—we entered the | has taken rooms for me at Willards', and for dollars, all told. But I suppose you have on the right track." Blackburn, his chaplain, was always an indis- with urns; a balustrade runs along tlie roof, clature, haying a classical touch in Olympia, do for politicians, I s'pose, but not for busi- sacred privacy of lier, vestal apartment imme- I the Jittle time you stay at the capital, you can genius and opportunity, and the times are Ten years later, in the early autumn of 1847, pensable member of his military family, and and an effigy of Justice surmounts the cupola. Atlanta, and Augusta; savoring of adventure ness men with limited means." diately above the bed on whichslie was repos- t- Iodic with us. A man who lias elected a Con- wondrous for men of acquaintance and enter- I was sitting on the verandah of a Tennessee received special honor, for Jackson considered This small but pleasing structure is directly in Raleigh, Columbia, and Columbus; reli- ing, thinking as little of our coming as She did I gressman in spite of the Pennsylvania railroad The judge made Jabel Blake sit facing him prise." farm-house with my friend General Douelson, the theological part of his staff' as much a beside the excavation for the new capitol. gious and sentimental in Providence and Con- of the Angel Gabriel.' Tliicmgh the rotten cord; proprietary or royal in Albany, Tren- | sluntldn't grudge one visit in his lifetiiiic to however, and they rattled off to the hotel, Jabel Blake stared at Elk MacNair a long (old West-Pointers will remember him as No. necessity as the commissariat. The New Jersey state-house, at Trenton, is plaster, down upon the slender canopy, with ton, and Annapolis^ biographical iu Jackson, Washington." where Elk McNair had secured a parlor and while without speaking. 5 in the class of 1821-, and a noble man he During his later years Jackson was a con- a building with an ugly body but with a neat a chorus of shrieks and yells and a crackin" Montgomery, MadisoiM^k'fferson City, Austin, 'Oh!" said Jabel, "I don't know as I be- suite for his brother in the retired end of the (Concluded next week.) was, too, notwithstanding he died a rebel ma- sistent member of tjie Presbyterian church, dome, and within very agreeably, lighted and of sticks, we tumbled onto, in, and over the and Carson City; Indbfn in Tallahassee, To- structure, commanding a view of Newspaper I ¡wB£ — jor general,) and as we smoked our morning grudge that, though your election, Arty, cost _ •. ' i f i, rp Gnsrllsh Commercial Statesmen. poor old lady, who would have screamed a and died full o^ the hopes and consolations arranged. Row upon one side and of the Treasury ... . , , ffi „, S peka, Yancton, and Omaha; Aztec in Tucson; lnMfour hundred and seven dollars and—— cigars lie unfolded a double proposition. One and triumphs of the Christian faith. A man The Vermont state-house, at Montpelier, is 1 ' A foreign correspondent, writes that abroad, as terrific scream but from the fact that we had Spanish or French in Montpelier, Baton I'«s got it here in a book." was, that I should lake the charge of an acad- freer from cant and hypocrisy, or . one more ! facade on the other. The long.tarnished mir-1 iu'Ajnerica, the merchants arc taking to politics, knocked the last bit of wind out of her fleshy 150 by 100 feet, and 100 feet high, built of Rouge, Des Moines, Sacramento, and Sania "I know that," said MacNair quietly; aftur emy at , with a salary of a thousand dol"- triumphantly earnest and sincere, never lived. rors, th. e fade. d. tapestry. , anjd thTe i heavyi -Di, isoiled ^Marshal' the-modl 0. Robertse of Zaeh, Chas. Chandler. V. Karwell, Tims., Murphyand Mr, . but feeble body. ¡ dark Barre granite, with a copper roof, in the Fe. On the whole, Washington City is the damask curtains, impressed Jabel Blake as | (Jiggäj! He snvs don't read it again, .label. You behaved lars a year; and the other, to go as tutor to His life was as open as tlie day. Nothing was Doric style. It cost $132,000, the people of best vindicated of all our capitol sites. It is a parts of the wild extravagance of official so-1 il liave observed in the Reformed Parliament a My aunt never recovered. She made it a like a sturdy, indignant man, paid all my ex- the boys of the Hermitage, with a salary of concealed. the town contributing $15,000. A statue of signal instance of verification of the compro- point never to recover. She went into a penses, (hough you protested against an clec- ciety, and gave him many misgivings as to the | i^M^f» three hundred dollars a year and a home wel- His vices were those wliich the society Ethan Allen, by Larkin Meade, is one of its mising good sense of our forefathers, being at sive pictures, but they neither resemble the pale decline, and declined for twenty years before