1869 First Edition Book: Washington D. C., Congress etc

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Title: The Sights and Secrets of the National Capital

By Dr. John B. Ellis

Published in 1869 - First Edition

Published in New York: By United States Publishing Company

Printed in New York: By The Trow & Smith Book Manufacturing Company

Pages: xix + 512 + 2, advertisements

Size: 9 x 6 inches

Above:  In the Original Cover

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Above:  Title Page States the 1869 Publication Date

(Copyright Page also states the 1869 Copyright)

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Above:  Complete with the 18 Illustrations of People and Places in Washington D. C.

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Lettterpress Printing at the Currency Bureau

Above:  Complete with the 18 Illustrations of People and Places in Washington D. C.

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Poker in Washington

Above:  Complete with the 18 Illustrations of People and Places in Washington D. C.

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Above:  Includes many Illustrations of Historic Buildings in Washington D.C.

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This book presents a detailed description of Washington D. C., as it was in the 1860s.

Chapters include:

1. Going to Washington: By rail, By steamboat,

2. The City of Washington: The District of Columbia, The federal city, The primitive capitol, The city burned by the British in the War of 1812, Washington before the war, The city during the war, The streets

3. The Capitol: The new capitol, The old building, The law library, The folding rooms of the House, The rotunda, The Dome, Brumidi's allegorical picture, The view from the dome, The Library of Congress, The north wing, The basement, How the Capitol is warmed and ventilated, The second floor, The post office of the Senate, The Ladies' reception room, The president's room, The vice-president's room, The marble room, The marble stairs, The upper corridor, The Senate chamber, The south wing, The old hall of representatives, The bronze door, The north corridor, Post office of the house, Ladies' reception room, The speaker's room, Leutze's great painting, The upper corridor, The library of the house, The hall of the house of representatives, The basement, Member's baths, Downing's restaurant, The central corridor, The committee rooms, The stataue of freedom, Greenough's statue of Washington, The capitol grounds, The commissioner of public buildings, The capitol police.

4. Congress: The Senate, The House of Representatives, The Senate in session, Personal sketches, Senator Wade, Senator Morton, Senator Pomeroy, Reverdy Johnson, Senator Hendricks, Senator Sprague, John Sherman, Roscoe Conkling, Garrett Davis, Senator Fessenden, Lyman Trumbull, Simon Cameron, Scharles Sumner, Senator Morgan, Senator Yates, Senator Doolittle, Choosing senators, The House in session, Disgraceful scenes in the house, party discipline, the Franking swindle, Congressional buncombe, Personal sketches, Speaker Colfax, The boy speaker, General Schenck, Elihu B. Washburne, Ben. Butler, John A. Logan, Sidney Clarke, General Banks, Horace Maynard, Chester D. Hubbard, Ignatius Donnelly, Ex-Governor Boutwell, James M. Ashley, Judge Kelley, General Garfield, James F. Wilson, John A. Griswold, John A. Bingham, James Brooks, Fernando Wood, John Morrissey.

5. The Lobby: Why shrewd men and women are sent to the capital, Congressional lobbying, The lobby at work, The railroad lobby, The result.

6. The Rings:  The whiskey ring, Frauds by gaugers, Frauds by distillers and storekeepers, Frauds through compunding house, How the government aids the ring, Congress and the ring, an honest inspector vs the ring.

7.  The President:  The inauguration, What it costs the president to live, The president's visitors, Cabinet meetings

8.  The White House: The interior of the White House, The east room, The red room, The ladies' parlor, The first mistress of the White House, Old times at the White House, An Old Time levee, Etiquette, The code, The president's reception, Impertinent gossip, Death in the White House, A new White House.

9. The Judiciary: The Supreme Court, The Court Room, The Court in Session, The Chief Justice, Chief Justice Marshall, Chief Justice Taney, Chief Justice Chase, Saleries, The attorney general, Teh court of claims.

10. The Department of State: etc.

11. The Treasury Department: etc.

12. The Currency: etc.

13. Counterfeiting: etc.

14. The War Department: etc.

15. The Navy Department: etc.

16. The Navy Yard: etc.

17. The Department of the Interior: etc.

18. The Patent Office: etc.

19. The Bureau of Agriculture: etc.

20. The Post Office Department: etc.\

21. Officials: etc.

22. Female Clarks: etc.

23. The Smithsonian Institution: etc.

24. Gamblers: etc.

25: The National Observatory: etc.

26: The Old Capitol: etc.

27. Hotels and Boarding Houses: etc.

28.  The Congressional Cemetery: etc.

29. Places of Amusement: etc.

30. Ford's Theatre: etc.

31. The Social Evil: Prostitution, etc.

32. The Arsenal: The grave of John Wilkes Booth, etc.

33. The Washington Monument

34. General Grant

35. The Government Printing Office

36. How the People's Money is Squandered

37. The Fredmen

38. Municipal Affairs

39. Imposters: Bogus congressmen.

Condition:  Very Nice Condition.    No library or institution markings.  Pages are clean, with only a small, quarter-inch stain to the edge of a few pages. Pages and cover are securely attached. Cover's fore-corners and spine ends are lightly worn.

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