42 HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. around the Mansion are quite beautiful in them selves, but they present a particularly fine appear ance during those summer afternoons when the citizens of Washington assemble there by hundreds and thousands for the purpose of enjoying the music of the Marine Band and the pleasures of a fashionable promenade. In the centre of the small square immediately in front of the President’s House, stands a bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson, executed by whom we know not, hut presented to the Government by Capt. Levy of the United States Navy, the present proprietor of Montieello, the former abode of Mr. Jefferson. It is a handsome piece of statuary, and in its present position has quite a commanding appearance. A resolution of accep tance however, was never passed by Congress, so that this statue may be considered as still the pri vate property of Capt.. Levy. Directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the above mentioned square, is La Payette Square, which, as before intimated, has recently been laid out in fashiona ble style, and planted with new shrubbery. Mills' Equestrian Statue of General Jackson, occupies its centre, and is a work of superior merit. It is in bronze, and was cast from certain cannon captured by General Jackson in some of his military en-