The crime for which this gentleman was out-voted by his own particular friends and admirers was, that he had given his vote for a grant of public money for the purpose of draining a most lamentable and unhealthy district, called "_the dismal swamp!_" One great boast of the country is, that they have no national debt, or that they shall have none in two years.

This seems not very wonderful, considering their productive tariff, and that the income paid to their president is 6,000_L.

per annum_; other government salaries being in proportion, and all internal improvements, at the expense of the government treasury, being voted unconstitutional.
The Senate-chamber is, like the Hall of Congress, a semicircle, but of very much smaller dimensions.

It is most elegantly fitted up, and what is better still, the senators, generally speaking, look like gentlemen.

They do not wear their hats, and the activity of youth being happily past, they do not toss their heels above their heads.