HAND-BOOK OP WASHINGTON. is i loads one back to the days when there were met within these walls the great men of that genera tion who carried the States through the Revolu tion, laid the foundations of the government, and administered it in its purer days. The rooms of the house are spacious, and there is something of elegance in their arrangement; yet the whole is marked by great simplicity. All the regard one could wish, seems to have been shown to the sa credness of these public relics, and all things have been kept very nearly as Washington left them. Money made in the stocks can purchase tho bedi- zenry of our city drawing-rooms; but these ele vating associations, which no gold can buy, no popular favor win, which can only be inherited, these are the heir-looms, the traditionary titles and pensions, inalienable, not conferred,-which a republic allows to the descendants of her great servants.