llions of dollars, have occurred. Tell him of the alarming
decline in the value of all property. Tell him of the tears of
helpless widows, no longer able to earn their bread, and of unclad
and unfed orphans who have been driven by his policy out of the
busy pursuits in which but yesterday they were gaining an honest
livelihood."

The centennial birthday of George Washington was duly honored in
the city which he had founded and which bore his name. Divine
services were performed at the Capitol, and there was a dinner at
Brown's Hotel, at which Daniel Webster prefaced the first toast in
honor of the Father of his Country by an eloquent speech of an hour
in length. In the evening there were two public balls--"one for
the gentry at Carusi's saloon, and the other for mechanics and
tradesmen at the Masonic Temple."

Congress had proposed to pay signal homage to the memory of Washington
on the centennial anniversary of his birth by removing his remains
to the crypt beneath the dome of the Capitol. Mr. Custis, the
grandson of Mrs. Washington, had given his assent, but John A.
Washington, then the owner of Mount Vernon, declined to permit the
removal of the remains.

Congress purchased Rembrandt Peale's portrait of Washington, and
the House ordered a full length picture of him from Vanderlyn, a
celebrated New York artist. A commission was also given to Horatio
Greenough for a colossal statue of Washington in a sitting posture,
to be placed on a high pedestal in the centre of the rotunda of
the Capitol. The Washington National Monument Association, after
consultation with men of acknowledged artistic taste, selected from
among the numerous designs submitted a simple obelisk, five hundred
feet in height, for the erection of which the American people began
at once to contribute.

When "the solid men of Boston" ascertained that General Jackson
had actually signed the order for the removal of the deposits from
the Bank of the United States while enjoying their hospitalities
they were very angry. Not long afterward they learned that the
United States frigate Constitution, a Boston-built vessel, which
was being repaired at the Charlestown Navy Yard, was to be ornamented
with a full-length figure of General Jackson as a figure-head.
This was regarded as an insult, and the carver who was at work on
the figure was requested to stop working on it. This he declined
to do, and had his half-carved block of wood taken to the Nav