Croquis historique à Washington : contenant un enregistrement complet de l'origine et au début de l'histoire de la ville de Washington et ses fondateurs, ainsi qu'un compte rendu détaillé de sa croissance, ses bâtiments publics, le style et l'extravagance de la vie là, et une description de l'intérieur le fonctionnement du lobby, et les divers ministères du gouvernement . f Brus-sels de couleur fauve, tapis, blueand avec jaune rouge profond bor-ders ; trois grands cut-glasschandeliers giltbrackets et nombreux ; rideaux de lightblue moreen avec led jaune-peries, un aigle doré le holdingup acornice ; draperie de chaque sta doré

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Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . f Brus-sels carpet, colored fawn, blueand yellow with deep red bor-ders ; three great cut-glasschandeliers and numerous giltbrackets; curtains of lightblue moreen with yellow dra-peries, a gilded eagle holdingup the drapery of each; acornice of gilded stars allaround the room; sofas andchairs of blue damask satin; interior east room. under every chandelier a rich round table of black and goldslabs, and in all the piers a table corresponding, with splendidlamps above each ; rare French China vases, etc. Here, you have the White House pretty much as it stands, barring the leaky roof that nobody can mend; a huge hotel, full of the ghosts of dead men and the echoes of political gab-ble ; ringing of nights with the oaths of Jackson, the fiddle ofJefferson, the cooing of John Tyler, the dirges over the corpsesof Harrison, Taylor, and Lincoln. If you come to live in it, you know nothing of who else is visitor. Marry a man whokeeps a hotel, and you have about all that a Presidents ladypossesses.. 142 WHITE HOUSE AND ITS OCCUPANTS. John Quincy Adams was arraigned in the campaign of 1828for having put up a billiard table in the White House. Thishad been bought by his son and secretary, Charles FrancisAdams, out of the latters private allowance. It was the firstbilliard table ever set up in the White House. During his ad-ministration, the East room, in which his mother had hungclothes to dry, was so gorgeously furnished, that the Jacksonpeople abused him for it on the stump, and in the party news-papers. He was the most perfect host, except Millard Fillmore, and possibly Frank Pierce, that the North ever gave to theWhite House. Modest, bold,

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