The structure is of white alabaster, faced with a pale yellow semi-transparent stone, which glistened most gorgeously.  The form of the building is unlike any order of architecture with which I had been acquainted.  The avenue by which it was approached was decorated alternately with statues of representative Americans, and a peculiar flowering tree, whose green leaves and yellow blossoms, of gossamer texture, resembled the fine mist of a summer morning.  Terminating, this avenue was the main entrance, surmounted by the grand dome of the edifice.  In the rear of this rotunda, extending on either side, appeared the main building, rising, turret on turret, like a stupendous mountain of alabaster beaming as with soft moonlight in the clear summer air.

We entered by ascending a staircase composed of twelve broad steps.  And here let me pause, before recounting my interview with the celebrated statesman, to describe the main hall, whose magnificence I, upon entering, hastily surveyed, but which I afterward studied more completely.  The floor of this hall was formed of delicate cerulean blue gems.  From its centre sprang, like a fountain, a most wonderful representation of a flowering plant resembling the lotus, composed of precious and brilliant stones.  The green leaves forming the base were of transparent emerald, and the white lily which surmounted the stem blossomed out clearer than any crystal.  The yellow centre, corresponding to the pistils, formed a divan.  This beautiful ornament was intended for the desk of the orator.  The dome, which was several hundred feet high, was open to the summer sky, and arranged in tiers graduated one above the other.  The lower tier was filled with paintings indicating the progress of the United States of America.  Surmounting this was a gallery of small compartments, each hung with silver and gold gauze drapery, and similar in construction to the boxes of a theatre; these opened into halls or alleys leading to private apartments connecting with the main building.  Above these boxes were placed artistically-carved animals, representing the native beasts of America.  Above these again, appeared groups in marble of the fruits of the country.

No sooner had I entered the building which I have been describing, than a peculiar rushing sound like distant music reached my ear; on lifting my eyes in the direction of the sound, I beheld descending through the air the majestic form of Henry Clay.  He approached with extended hand and fascinating smile to receive me.  How like and yet how unlike the famous man I had known on earth!  The gray hair of age had given place to the abundant glossy locks of youth.  The intellectual eye beamed with a new life and his whole person sent forth an effulgence most attractive.  Those of my readers who knew him on earth will well remember the peculiar fascination of his sphere, but they can form from the remembrance but a slight idea of the attractive aura he sheds forth in this existence.