Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-12-03
MISCELLANEOUS.


Ceiebbratei Buildings. The U. S
Capitol is the largest and most splen
did building in the United States
The length of the front is 362 feet
The whole cost is estimated at tire,
millions o! dollars. 1t is encompasset
by al iron railing which encloses abou
20 acres of ground The Senate aDc
Representative chambers are very ele
Gautly finished and decorated. Tn,
building is Of white free-stone.
The building in the United State:
which ranks next TO the Capitol, is the
New York City Hall, which is of white
marble in front, red free-stone in the
rear. 1t was near ten years in erect
ing and cost $500,00O. It's GIG fee
long and los feet wide, and occupie'
22,S96 square feet of ground. The
U. S. Bark Of Philadelphia is also a
beautiful classic building, and is Justly
admired by all who see il.
But these edifices, splendid as they
are, sink in comparison with the mag
niieent buildings of Europe. Ofthese,
the first perhaps is the Cathedral Of ST.
Peters at Rome. 1t is 720 feet in
length, $40 in breadth, and 500 in
height TO the top of the cross. 1t was
begun in 1906, and finished in 1921
being lis years in pIogress-andl S
successive Popes having been engaged
In its construction--the whole expense
Of this mighty structure has been est-
STATED at upwards Of fifty millions of
dollars. In the interior the spectator
beholds hall 600 feet long. The
dome rises TO the height Of 400 feet,
and presents above, a vast arch, like a
armament. This dome is lighted on
10Th June every year by 5000 lamps.
Around the tomb of St. Peter are liz
lamps constantly burning.
The next building OF note is St.
PauPs church. 1t was begun in 1867,
and finished in l7lO-a period OF
So years; and cost $3.50 600 dollars.
Its length is $40 feet-breadth 2S2
feet, aud $40 feet in height to the top
Of the Gloss. The bali on the top is large
enough to contain eight persons-and
weighs $500 pounds. The DELL of the
clock weighs lI,i74 pounds, and is ten
feet in diameter. The circumference
OF the clock is 81 feet, and the hour
figures are 2 feet inches long.-.Nor-
riSt0,cn Herald
EiOquence.--Not long since, young
man, belonging to college, paid visit
to a pleasant country town in the in.
terror of New England. Thinking the
solitary woods and hills fit places for
exercising his voice and perfectine
himself IN the att of elocution, he &C.
cordingly went to practising upon the
precepts he had learnt, with stentoriar
lungs. Next day all the male inhabitants
of the town, from twelve years and up.
wards, turned out in quest OF wild
beast whose terrible howliugs had beer
heard in the woods on the preceding
day. One declared that he had seen it
another swore that it had chased him
and that it was bigger than a bear, while
they all knew that they had heard it
nnd tina, it was no common kind of a
beast Nor was this all. More thar
tive hundred sheep had been killed b,
1t and their mangled carcasses were ey
cry where found, though no one coulc
designate any particular spot, neither
could any Que tell, to whom the slaugh.
tered animals belonged. Still there
must have been wild beast, aud the
Inhabitants (Student and ally turned ou
to put an end to its existence. But a.
las! they found nothing larger than {
rabbit
A correspondent of the Journal o
Commerce writing from Smyrna On th.
18th September, says:
"Tbis place is daily becoming more
important to American commerce., ant
the American naval character acquiring
new respect in the Leyant. We have
now eight American merchantmen II
port, and two or three others shortl,
expected. The little schooner which
takes this to New York (tbo Lady.
Return,) excltes much interest from It!
dimIDutIveDcss, measuring only about
90 tons, and carrying two guns and
Six men oUtoM. The other daV, wher
the Americans went in body OF fifeer
or sixteen to pay their respects, ir
company with our commissioner Mr.
Rhind, to the Pasha, the latter inqui
red particularly after its master Capt
Richards. understood, too, that the
skill displayed by Capt. Sprague of the
Smyrna, another American Captain, in
b>oting up the Black Sea to Odessa
has very favorabiy impressed the mer-
camille interest with an idea of Amer.
lean seamanship.
The most friendly attentions have
been shewn by the Turkish govern
meDt to our Commissioners on his re-