TEN YEARS IN WASHINGTON.

LIFE AND
AND SCENES

IN

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL,

AS A WOMAN SEES THEM.

BY MARY CLEMMER AMES,

Author of "Eirene, or a Woman's Right," "Memorials of Alice and Phoebe Cary." "A Woman's
Letters from Washington," "Outlines of Men, Women and Things," etc.

A. D. WORTHINGTON & CO.

LOUIS LLOYD & CO., CHICAGO; R. A. CAMPBELL, ST. LOUIS.
QUEEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., CINCINNATI.
F. DEWING & CO., SAN FRANCISCO.

1873.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by

A. D. WORTHINGTON & CO.,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

ΤΟ

MRS. HAMILTON FISH,

то

MRS. ROSCOE CONKLING,

OF

NEW YORK,

TWO LADIES, WHO, IN THE WORLD,

ARE YET ABOVE IT,—WHO USE IT AS NOT ABUSING IT,

WHO EMBELLISH LIFE WITH THE PURE GRACES

OF CHRISTIAN WOMANHOOD,

THESE

SKETCHES OF OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL

ARE SINCERELY

Dedicated

BY

MARY CLEMMER AMES.