HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. 43 gagements. The cost of this statue was $50,000, and a duplicate was ordered to be executed for the city of New Orleans, which commission has been duly executed by the successful artist. THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. Tun number of these is seven, and their official titles are as follows: the Department of State, the Treasury Department, the War Department, the Navy Department, Department of the Interior, the Post Office Department, and the office of the Attorney General. The State Department, which stands north east of the President’s House and within the same enclosure, is a plain brick building, two stories high, 160 feet long and 55 wide, with a broad passage on both floors, and containing in all 32 rooms. It contains a handsome library of books, maps and charts, numbering perhaps some 15,- 000 distinct works, which are indispensable in the performance of the extensive and varied duties of the department. In addition to this collection, the Copyright Bureau contains some 10 or 12,000 volumes published in this country, which are kept with care as part and parcel of the archives of the