any other prisoner, without the leave, be mitigated or suspended by the vi or by the order of an officer; nor ab- siting inspector, at his next weekly sent himself from his work, nor look visitation; or by the Board of Inspecat, or speak to visitors, nor go into tors, at their monthly meeting; and the prison yard, without orders, nor to whom such cases of punishment go into the lodging rooms, after be- shall be regularly reported, by the ing turned out in the morning, till or- Warden, with the nature, particulars, dered, nor leave the hospital, when and aggravation of the offences." unwell, and sent there. THE COLUMBIAN COLLEGE,4th. No convict shall drink any founded by the Baptists, and incorpospirituous, vinous, or fermented li-rated by Congress in 1821, went into quors, unless prescribed by the phy- operation in 1822. It has an elevated sician, when sick in the hospital, nor and pleasant situation to the north of game in any form, or by any device the city, one mile from the President's whatsoever, nor chew or use tobacco. house, and two and a half miles from 5th. No convict shall write or re- the Capitol. Its buildings consist of ceive a letter, to, or from any person a College edifice of 4 stories, 117 feet whatever, nor have intercourse with by 46, having 48 rooms for students, persons without the prison, by any a chapel, &c.; another edifice of the other means. same dimensions is erected, and con

6th. No convict shall burn, or in nected with the first by a building of any other manner waste, destroy, or one story, 80 feet by 40, designed for injure, any raw materials, or manu- a, refrectory; a philosophical hall and factured articles, or other public pro-2 houses for professors. The College perty, nor deface or injure the prison, has a good philosophical apparatus or any of the buildings or fixtures and library of 4000 volumes. The connected with it. only public aid which it has received 7th. No convict shall laugh, dance, was a grant from Congress of $25,whistle, sing, run, jump, or do any 000. thing which will tend to alarm or disturb the prison.

The following is the course of study.
Studies and text-books of the Col-

8th. Convicts shall always conduct lege classes: themselves towards the officers of the Freshman Class.-Græca Majora, institution, with deference and re- vol. I. begun; Livy, first 5 books; spect: and cleanliness in their per- Adams' Roman Antiquities; Camsons, dress, and bedding, is required. bridge Course of Mathematics, com9th. When the convicts go to meals. prising, 1. Lacroix's Arithmetic, 2. or to, or from the shops, they shall Euler's Algebra, 3. Legendre's Ge proceed in regular order, in silence, ometry, begun; Worcester's Geogra marching in the lock step, accompa-phy, Murray's Grammar; Walker's nied by their proper officers. They Rhetorical Grammar; writing transshall eat their meals, till a common lations of select portions of the Latin hall is provided, in their respective and Greek Classics, and declamations cells. weekly; revision of some of the studies required for admission.

Punishments.

1st. For the violation of any of the Sophomore Class.-Græca Majora, foregoing rules and regulations, the vol. i. finished; Irving on Composioffenders shall be punished by the tion; Hedge's Logic; Legendre's Warden, with confinement, in a soli- Geometry, finished; 4. Lacroix's Altary cell, on a diet of bread and wa- gebra; 5. Analytic Geometry, comter, not exceeding twenty days, for prising Plane and Spherical Trigo-. each offence; but subject, however, tonometry, and the Application of Al

gebra to Geometry, particularly to A preparatory school is connected Conic Sections, begun; S. E. Morse's with the College, in which pupils are Geography; Tytler's General Histo- fitted for admission to the Freshman, ry, Horace, Latina Excerpta; compo- or higher classes, studies, reading, sition and declamation weekly. writing, English Grammar, Arithme Junior Class.-Græca- Majora, vol.tic, and Geography. Adams' Latin II. begun; Blair's Lectures on Rhe-Grammar, Historia Sacra, Cæsar's toric; Paley's Natural Theology; Commentaries, Virgil, Sallust and Analytic Geometry, finished; 6. To-Cicero's Select Orations, Valpy's pography, or the Application of Ge- Greek Grammar, the Gospels, and ometry to Projections, Dialling, Men- Jacobs' Greek Reader. For admis suration of heights and distances; sion to the Freshman class, a knowNavigation, Nautical Astronomy, ledge of these studies, or an equivaSurveying, Levelling, &c. Farrar's lent, is required. Geometry, AlegeNatural Philosophy, begun; Cicero bra and other higher studies, are also de Officiis, de Senectute, and de Ami- pursued in this school.

citia; Paley's Moral Philosophy; There are also connected with this Natural History; Chemistry, Camp establishment a medical department, bell's Philosophy of Rhetoric; de- which was organized in 1824, and a clamation and composition. large and commodious building has

Senior Class-Græca Majora, Vol. been erected for the use of the InstituII. finished; Cicero de Oratore; se-tion, on 10th st. about equi-distant lect portions of Homer's Iliad; 7. from the Capitol and the President's Differential and Integral Calculus; house. This building is large and Farrar's Natural Philosophy, finish- commodious, consisting of 3 elevated ed; Stewart's Philosophy of the stories, with a roof peculiarly conMind; Paley's Evidences; Butler's structed for the admission of light inAnalogy; Vattel's Law of Nations; to all the apartments appropriated to Constitution of the United States; anatomical purposes.

Kent's Commentaries, Vol. I. decla- On the ground floor is the Lecture mation and composition. Room, Laboratory, &e. of the Profes

The higher Classes are admitted to sor of Chemistry. courses of Lectures on Natural Phi- The second story contains the losophy, Anatomy and Physiology, rooms, public and private, of the ProChemistry, Botany Moral and Intel- fessors of the Theory and Practice of lectual Philosophy. Medicine and of Materia Medica, and The College year is divided into of the Institutes of Medicine and Medtwo sessions, of about five months ical Jurisprudence.

each; the first, from the second Wed- In the third is the Anatomical nesday of January, to the first Wed- Theatre, together with rooms occu nesday of June, when the summer pied by the Professors of Anatomy, vacation of two months occurs: the Surgery and Obstetries. second, from the first Wednesday of The theatre is designed from the August, to the third Wednesday of most approved plans, and is conve December, when the annual com-niently connected with the rooms sitmencement takes place, and the win- uated in the superior part of the buildter vacation of one month begins. ing, which are intended for the purOn occasions of great interest, the pose of Practical Anatomy. In relastudents are permitted to hear the ar- tion to this particular department of guments in the Supreme Court of the the school, care has been taken to United States, and the debates in provide space, light and security, to-Congress. gether with every other specific con

venience that may afford to the stu- 1818. It consists of 5 Classes, viz. dent facility in prosecuting to advan- Mathematical Science, Physical Scitage this necessary part of his colle- ence, Moral and Political Science, giate studies. General Literature and the fine arts. The Professor of Anatomy has fur- The annual meetings are held on the nished himself with all the Anatomi- last Saturday in each year. cal preparations which are necessary There are 3 Banks,-the Bank of to his course, and with a large col- Washington,-capital $479,120,— lection of valuable drawings, by which The Bank of the Metropolis,-cathe structure, of those minute parts pital $500,000, and the Patriotic which cannot be fully displayed with- Bank,-capital $250,000. There are in the recent or proposed subject, are 19 houses of public worship, 3 Cathexhibited to view on a magnified olic, 4 Episcopalian, 3 Methodist, 4 scale. Baptist, 1 Unitarian and 1 Friends', The Professor of Chemistry is in also 2 public free schools, and a great possession of an extensive apparatus, many other well conducted schools, by the aid of which, all the important, where the usual branches of education experimental illustrations, belonging are taught, as well as the dead Lanto his department, are presented to the guages and Mathematics. Schools for class. young ladies, are also established in

The ticket of each Professor is $15; various parts of the city; and there is and all persons who have attended 1 orphan asylum, constituted in 1815, two full Courses, at this School, are a colonization society (the mother) inentitled to attend succeeding Courses stituted in 1817; 6 well organized free of expense. fire companies and a Masonic Lodge.

The requisites for graduation are Regular lines of steam-boats ply from similar to those required in the most Washington to Alexandria, Baltimore, respectable institutions in the country. Norfolk, &c., and numerous stages run The candidate must have studied 3 to other places,-among which are 8 years under the direction of some re- daily coaches to Baltimore. The gular physician. He must have at- territory now Washington was formtended each Professor two full Cour-erly a part of Prince George Co. ses, or he shall have attended one full Md. and was ceded to the United Course in this School, and one in States in 1790. In 1800 it became some other respectable medical insti- the seat of government, and 1802 was tution. He must have entered his incorporated as a city. In 1812 it pame with the Dean as a candidate was remodelled, and finally chartered for graduation, and delivered to him in 1815. The government is coman inaugural dissertation on some posed of a Mayor, 12 Aldermen, and medical subject, 30 days before the a common Council of 18 members; close of the session. these are elected by the citizens, the latter for 1, and the Mayor and Aldermen for 2 years.

The lectures commences on the 1st Monday in November, and continue till the last of February. The fee for THE NAVY YARD in this city wàs the lectures on each branch, is $15 or established and organized by the act 90 for the whole Course; the ma- of Congress, approved 27th March, triculating fee 85;-graduating fee 1804. It contains within its limits $20. about 28 acres; and is enclosed by

The "Columbian Institute," for the a high brick wall, with an entrance promotion of the Arts and Sciences. from the north, through an arched was formed at Washington in 1816, gateway, on each side of which are and incorporated by Congress in accommodations for the marine officer

and guard, attached to the Yard. The saw gates, each capable of receiving buildings for the officers are commo- and working any number of saws dious, and appropriate, quarters for sufficient for converting a log to any the Commandant, Master Com-dimensions by one passage through mandant, Lieutenant, Sailing Master, the gate. Two hammers for forging Surgeon and Boatswain: for store anchors, &c. 2 large hydraulic belhouses, shops, &c. and a Navy Store, lows, 2 circular saws, 1 turning and with a sail loft in the second story; boring lathe, which when required, iron store, with a rigging loft in the can be converted into a machine for second story; Commandant's, and boring steam engine cylinders; 9 other offices; labratory for the pre- turning lathes, 5 grind stones, 4 drill paration of ordinance fixtures and lathes for boring sheaves, &c. with stores, in the second story of which is other machinery, required to facilitate a beautiful and well arranged armory. the operations of the several departAn armorer's shop for repairing ments in the adjoining buildings. small arms; an iron foundry; a brass There is also, situated in the S. E. and composition foundry; a chain ca- corner of the Yard, a machine for ble, and caboose shop an anchor proving rope and chain cables; the shop, smithery and plumber's shop; a mechanical force of which is so powblock maker's shop, a saw mill, and erful, that two men can part a cable rooms for machinery work, &c. 2 tim- suitable for a ship of the largest size. ber sheds on arched columns, one Considerable as a strain must be, sufwith a joiner's shop, and the other ficient to part a 24 inch cable, (or a with a mould loft in the second story; strain of 100 tons,) such is the accura 2 ship houses over foundations, and cy of the operation of the index; that ways for buildings and launching two ounces thrown into the scale susships of any size. All the buildings pended from the end of the lever, will are large and of substantial construc- sensibly affect the index, thereby af tion, and afford every convenience for ording an opportunity of calculating building and equipping vessels for the strainon the cable with the greatsea There is in the Yard a fresh est precision.

water dock for seasoning timber, &c. About a mile above the Yard is a For the purposes of the Navy there large powder magazine, and a wareare some valuable manufactories es- house for the storage of salt petre, &c. tablished in the Yard; and for it gen- There is generally employed in the erally, are made anchors, cham ca- Yard for the manufactories, and as bles, cabooses, blocks, ordnance fix- laborers, about 200 men; when ships tures, and stores of every kind; brass are building or repairing, the number and composition castings, &c. To is proportionably increased by the facilitate the operations in the manu-employment of carpenters, eaulkers, facture of these articles, much labor- boat-builders, mast makers, gun carsaving machinery has been erected; riage makers, sail makers, coopers, the principal of which is a steam en- &e. The Yard is beautifully situatgine, computed of 14 horse power, by ed on the right bank of the Eastern which there is kept in continual mo- branch; the channel of which affords tion 489 feet of shafts, with their or- an easy navigation for small frigates, dinary wheels, drums, &c. to the sloops of war, &c. weight of 40 tons, 8 cwt., 1 qr. lbs.

THE UNITED STATES' ARSENAL By power derived from the opera- is situated at the southern extremity tion of the above shafts, a requisite of the city, on the point of land formpower and motion is conveyed to two ed by the junction of the Potomac and

Anacostia rivers. This position, be- Captain Frazer, acting Adjutant Gening at the head of ship navigation-eral of the British army.

at the seat of government-and cen- In the autumn of 1814, the work tral in a national point of view, was shops were rebuilt; and the manufac selected in 1804, as a favorable site ture and preparation of army supplies. for an Arsenal, intended for the man- went on as before. In 1816 a large ufacture and depository of Military store house and officers' quarters Stores. For these purposes it was were erected, forming the north front exclusively devoted until 1812; when of the fort. In 1823-24, the garrison immediately after the declaration of was withdrawn-the ramparts re war with England, strong batteries moved, and permanent buildings.exwere erected on the sides, approacha- clusively for Arsenal purposes erected ble by water, both, to protect the Arse- on the same ground, making, with nal and guard the river channels lead- those built in 1816, the four sides of ing to the Navy Yard and other parts a rectangular parallelogram. Acof the city. From this time, the place cording to present arrangements, was known by the name Fort Wash- there are two buildings for the dépo ton; notwithstanding its entire want site of muskets, rifles, pistols, swords of defence on the land side; which and other small arms; 3 for the dwel made it necessary, after the British lings of officers and artificers; and 4 army had entered Washington, for large work shops, besides other the American troops to vacate it. smaller buildings. One of the shops This was done during the night of contains a steam engine which drives the 24th of August, 1814, after burn- various machines, made use of in re ing the work shops and removing as pairing small arms, and in manufac much property as time would permit. turing artillery carriages. Of the The next morning a detachment of latter, a considerable number are an500 British troops marched to the nually made at the place-mostly for fort, and commenced the destruction the use of the militia.

of whatever had been left in a ser- The Arsenal contains many thou viceable state. Among other things, sand arms, consisting of all the usual were a number of 18 pounder guns, varieties. They are neatly arranged left by the garrison in the haste of in open frames, and being kept in perdeparture, mounted in battery and un- fect order, present an imposing apspiked these they attempted to des- pearance. Forty thousand soldiers troy by discharging one against the can be fully armed and equipped at trunnion of another; but, most unfor an hour's notice. On the plain in tunately for the operators, the first front of the Arsenal, are 855 pieces of piece discharged happened to be ordnance, including cannon, howitzers pointed in the direction of a well near and mortars of various calibres. by, into which, some of the wadding Among them are seen trophies of the of the gun was thrown by the dis- late and revolutionary wars,captured at charge; this communicated fire to a Bennington, Saratoga, Yorktown and large quantity of powder, previously Bridgewater.

placed there by the garrison to pre- There is also a cannon, relick of vent its falling into the hands of the the revolutionary contest, made in enemy, and a tremendous explosion Virginia of hammered iron. It bears was the immediate consequence; by the name of "Queen of France which one half of the 500 men, who which was marked upon it at that peentered the place 30 minutes before, riod.

with all the pride and hilarity result- The geological formation of the ing from victory, were killed and Arsenal grounds, does not differ from wounded. Among the killed, was a other parts of the city. From the