------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. TEN YEARS IN WASHINGTON: OR, INSIDE LIFE AND SCENES IN OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL =As a Woman Sees Them.= EMBRACING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE MANY MARVELS AND INTERESTING SIGHTS OF WASHINGTON; OF THE DAILY LIFE AT THE WHITE HOUSE, BOTH PAST AND PRESENT; OF THE WONDERS AND INSIDE WORKINGS OF ALL OUR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS; AND DESCRIPTIONS AND REVELATIONS OF EVERY PHASE OF POLITICAL, PUBLIC, AND SOCIAL LIFE AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL. BY MARY CLEMMER, AUTHOR OF “MEMORIALS OF ALICE AND PHŒBE CARY,” “A WOMAN’S LETTERS FROM WASHINGTON,” ETC., ETC. -------------- TO WHICH IS ADDED A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD, BY J. L. SHIPLEY, A. M. -------------- FULLY ILLUSTRATED =With a Portrait of the Author on Steel, and Forty-Eight fine Engravings on Wood.= -------------- [SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY.] -------------- HARTFORD, CONN.: THE HARTFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY. EXCELSIOR PUBLISHING CO., CHICAGO, ILL. OHIO PUBLISHING CO., CLEVELAND, OHIO. 1882. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by THE HARTFORD PUBLISHING CO., In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: List of Illustrations.]