[Bro. SMITH: That the readers of the Review may see the pride of our nation, I send you the following article, which I cut from a paper not long since.] Of the way in which the public money has been wasted upon the new Capitol at Washington, our readers have been well posted by our Washington correspondent. But still, we think they will be surprised at a few details. For instance, the two front doors of that remarkable building, with their outside trimmings, cost $47,072. In addition to this, the design and models for these doors cost 12,000. By the original estimate these doors were put down at 600 dollars. One of the bronze doors leading into the representative chamber will cost according to estimate, 14,416 dollars—the design and model having already cost 8000 dollars. It is no wonder the ancients had a high idea of the position of 'a doorkeeper.' Each window has cost about 2000 dollars exclusive of the glass. The spread-eagle hand-rails for the private stairways in both wings cost 12,000 dollars; and yet they are in such dark places that it is proposed to tear away one of the committee rooms in order to let a little light shine upon one of them. So much by way of detail—merely enough to prevent any wonder when we state that the appropriations for the Capitol already reach 5,075,000 dollars, and that it is estimated that the building cannot be completed on the present plans for less than 8,000,000 dollars. The same inordinate expenditure also extends to the furnishing of the various rooms. Thus, the furniture of the speaker's room alone cost 5,500 dollars. Everything is on a grand scale—of expense at least. Mr. Speaker Orr, for instance, withdrawing from the arduous duties of the chair refreshes himself by surveying his portly person in a mirror which cost 1,350 dollars. If the light is not sufficient he arranges the brocatello curtains for which the "dear people" have paid 900 dollars. Should he discover any dust on his brow, he repairs to a washstand worth 85 dollars. He can then select some interesting work from a bookcase which cost 668 dollars; take his choice between a forty-eight and ninety-five dollar chair and a ninety dollar lounge, and thus enjoy himself till a 145 dollar clock tells him it is time either to write a note from a fifty dollar ink-stand on a ninety-five dollar writing-table, or else take his coat and hat from a forty-seven dollar clothes rack, and temporarily absent himself from a room of such "republican simplicity." And so it is throughout the Capitol. The room of the committee of ways and means is furnished at an expense of 2,749 dollars—one of the items being a "fine book-desk and case, 600 dollars." The desks and chairs of the representatives hall cost 45,000 dollars, and merely the cleaning and varnishing of them last fall cost over 1,100 dollars. Carpets, curtains and lounges are on the same scale. The members at the last session even brushed their shrewd financial heads at an expense of four hundred and twenty-five dollars of the people's and combed them (not the people's heads) to the tune of 220 dollars. Now if the people are willing that this general and in the aggregate enormous flow of prodigacy in the national expenditures should continue, and even increase, according to its natural tendency, they should say so. If not they should say that in thunder tones.