Six chambers are made comfortable; two are occupied by the President and Mr.Shaw; two lower rooms, one for a common parlor, and one for a levee room.

Up stairs there is the oval room, which is designed for the drawing-room, and has the crimson furniture in it.

It is a very handsome room now; but when completed, it will be beautiful." The presidential contest in 1800, was urged with a warmth and bitterness, by both parties, which has not been equalled in any election since that period.

It was the first time two candidates ever presented themselves to the people as rival aspirants for the highest honor in their gift.

Both were good men and true--both were worthy of the confidence of the country.
But Mr.Adams, weighed down by the unpopularity of acts adopted during his administration, and suffering under the charge of being an enemy to revolutionary France, and a friend of monarchical England, was distanced and defeated by his competitor.