18 HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. ployed by the House to manage them and keep them in order, will always bo found ready and obliging in giving any information or explana tion in regard to them. The decoration of the Hall is yet far from complete. Panels on the gallery fronts have been provided, which it is expected will be filled with pictures of American History, under the orders to bo given by Congress; and the upper part of the walls is filled with niches, empty as yet, but which will, at some future day, be ten anted by the effigies in marble of our worthiest citizens. The walls and coiling of the Hall have been richly colored, and, when the panels are filled with paintings, and the niches with statues, the room will have a much more finished appearance At present, the design of the architect being incomplete, the effect he arrived at can scarcely be appreciated.