Identifier: picturesquewashi00moor (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, and its ownerreceived the stake of $5,000, and in addition made a considerablefortune from his wagers. Another odd scrap of history is worthy of mention. In March,1823, a great excitement was created in. the city by the absconding ofthe manager of the Grand National Lottery, after refusing to paythe principal prize of $100,000, and several smaller ones. The citycorporation, under whose auspices the lottery was carried on, claimednot to be responsible for the default, and those who held the ticketsfor the prizes had to go without their money. An article in the Na-tional Intelligencer about the affair was headed in large letters : SoWe Go! During the administration of John Quincy Adams, from 1825 to1829, Washington had a population of nearly twenty thousand, but itwas a slow-going, uninteresting city, with very few signs of promise.Its social life, however, was very agreeable. Society at that timewas said to have all the hues of many colored life from the highest GROWTH OF THE CITY 45
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THE HOUSE IN WHICH PRESIDENT LINCOLN DIED. polish of polite France to the rude dignity of untutored nature. Par-ties were numerous in the winter months, and were well attended byall who were or wished to be thought fashionable. The popular hotelwas the Indian Queen, on Pennsylvania Avenue, and its. greatswinging sign, with a highly-colored picture of Pocahontas, was aconspicuous object. The hotel was noted for its good living, and , PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. many members of Congress resided in it. A large part of the citywas occupied by market gardens and brick kilns, plentifully inter-spersed with ponds and marshes. There were no public schools;what were known as Gadsbys Row and the Seven Buildingswere the architectural palaces, and stray cows and pigs the stat-uary that adorned the squares and parks. In the sandstone Capitolwith a wooden dome, great statesmen were invoking the Goddess ofLiberty ; and at the slave-pen in the centre of the city, unfeeling auc-tioneers were selling men,

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