New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-18
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iyery correct idea OF what 1t IS to be. The CO.
Iunus that support the arches and the finish Of
| The arches themselves are very beautiful. The
great and almost only objection TO the architec-
] tare of the building, should think, would be
A re narrowness of the side aisles when compared
vito the nave and the shortntss Of the nave CON-
pared to its hight. The scalTolding above may
have deceived US on This last point aud the effect
;, be different when it is removed We doubt it,
hoscysr.
/ But VIC Will pass the interior by tlitis finished
snd ascead to the top. The spiral stair case is
completed to the top Of the church, but from
hence to the peak of the spite tee ascent is made
! hya series of some dozen ladders But ovce
having achieved the perilous ascent, look down
On New-York. There, like deep Channel cut
s!ough the habitations of men, goes o osdway in
straight line to Uncn PAX Like delicate
Hack lines crossing and recrossDg and shooting
on aud down, are the countless omnibusses and
carriages that swarm this great tboroug hfare.
Nearer By, they appear like miniature vehicles
creeping over the pavement. Ycu cannot see
the pavements of Greenwich and Hudson streets,
bu. the black spaces they make in the unbroken
mass of buildings look like two distant columns
Of men standing on wide battle field. Bending
around the Battery upward like horse. shoe,
stand our multitudinous shipping, while far
away, like lover claspiDg his mistress, the
Hudson and East Rivers fling their arms around
tho Island almost j'ining hands at Harlem.
White sails dot The landscape as the distant
soo2s pass and repass over the field of vision,
some lazily dropping down the stream, and others
steadily stemming the tide before fair breeze,
ill, swallowed up in the distance en- the ono side
and the gorge of the Highlands on the other,
they are lost to the view. Thers stand the pai-
,adcs like rampant fro~niDg over the river,
while nearer down The white top of Weehawken
gillers in the bright sunlight. Brooklyn and
Newark lie OH either hand, as you wheel toward
the bay-nay, you can see almost to Princeton
and the outline of land and sky is absorbed in
the distance. Nothing can exceed the beauty of
tho bay from this point of view. It's green
Islands aud curving shores, and quiet bosomover
which vessels arc sluggishy moving, or on which
they are still more sluggishly riding at anchor,
harmonize into scene Of almost perfect bcauty.
We mus. not forget either the little "tugs" or
TOW boats That are f7iog about like so many little
iussy masters Of ceremonies to keep all things IN
order. In The distance the Narrows opens to
tie eternity beyond, whose broad bosom is
heaving malestically against the uncloudcd and
dreamy sky. Yonder goes & stately vessel, NOV
ing off on her perilous journey. Assal after sail
is sheeted home and fills to The rising breeze, she
filings the foam along her flashing sides, and les
sens like expiring hope in the distance Another
is lust riding Into the bay with her long voyage
ended. The storms have battered her canvass
and the sea dashed her sides, and death shrlekcd
though her rigging as the midnight tempest
swept over her, but her movement now is as tran
Gull aud serene as if nothing had ever disturbed
The proud aud "even tenor OF her way
What is il that makes one think less OF the
world the higher he gets above 1t, tie cannot
look down from lofty hight on the habltaeons
Of men without. feeling of pity for bis race
The heavens are quiet above hun, and the far Oft
landscape quiet before him, while the tumulta and
Struggles of men make the only discord III the
scene. And then their petty saltes and am
billions and lealouses look so unworthy or HIM.
Ii the Devil wished to tempt as with the world,
We sbould not advise him to take us on toa high
mountain " where God and nature speak so loud
" and .solemnly to the heart, but IN some such
place as Rall.stTeet, where man comes to the
surface or goes to the bottom just as he happens
to have small or large portion of this worlds
gear.
TIE ocean is slumbering quietly in the dis
lance, but below me is the uproar OF New Y DIX
The rafting of wheels, the sound OF enginery'
and The confused hum Of the multitude struggle
up through The atmosphee with lnotfied sound
The city lies Ike zap beneath IRE, but what
chaos of emotions is sweeping through It, Inc
earth is fairly rocking below, and all set IN
notion by the human heart, that restless thing
There ambition is soaring and pride falling, and
wealth crumbng TO dust, and hearts breaking
There poverty lies crushed under Its load OF us.
and vice writing with its own torture, There
the rich man is rioiing over the gains his Viiiany
robbed from his coniding friend, who is now toll
ing for his daily bread The smoke settles down
over the city prison, fit emblem of the fate that
hangs over its inmates. Heavens how the city
shakes to the fierce action Of human feet and
hands. Combine all the aching heads and
hearts under every root, and multiply The gnei
and yexation of each man by all that are like
him-look through the hovel into the heart OF Its
occupant-watch the struggles OF the tens oil
thousa nds to live, and the thousands more TO I'VE
in the end ,oithous struggling all the dens
Of infsmy and drunkenness, and OH what SICK
and mad city it is. Yet there IS another SIDE to
the ,;cture. How much of that tumu, IS caused
BY The strokes of honest industry. How many
food heads are thinking and good hearts beating
there. There arc innocent hearts and haPpy
homes, and over all go the spires Of the temples
Of God. po;ptipg where the aspirations CT many
tI,., beln New York CITY !.