As a specimen of some of the big finery in the town, I will name one room in Martin's [Van Buren's] house, 90 ft.

by 42, the furniture of which cost $22,000....

Our Congressmen are some like other folks, they look out first for themselves.

They have spent most of this day in debating whether _they_ shall be paid in _specie_....
There are Black Folks in abundance here, but they don't act as if they were even under the pressure of hard times, much less the cruelties that we hear of slaves having to bear.
From New York he writes his brother: Such times in everything that pertains to business never were known in this land before.

To-day I have passed through Pine street and have not seen one single box or bale of goods of any kind whatever.
Last year at this time a person could scarcely go through the street without clambering over goods of all descriptions.