Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-11-20

nal diameter of the dome is one hundred and
forty feet. The whole is supported by four
massive square pillars, two hundred and
forty feet in circumference, and one hundred
and seventy-eight feet high. The length of
the nave is GA feet. From the great door
to the tribune, the space is sufficiently large
to admit FIVE such buildings of the depth Of
the new Methodist Church in Charles street
and the Baltimore Cathedral, and leave a
space each side of fifteen feet; the distance
between the roofs of these churches, thus
situated, and the vault of the nave, would
be 100 feet. The length of the Charles st
Church being 90 feet and its height about
40, it would require five such churches piled
on each other, to reach from the floor to the
vault of the nave The pillars which sup
port the dome, four in number, are equal in
height to the Washington Monument; and
by drawing a line around the square at the
intersection of Charles and Market streets,
touching at the corner of Charles, an idea
may be gained of the space or clrcumfer-
ence of each of these four columns, which
is about 240 feet. From the top of these
columns-they being as high as the Wash
mgton Monument-there is space enough,
in the dome, to place the Baltimore Cathe-
dral, with the new German Catholic Church
upon it, and on the top its spire, the Wash
ington Monument, without the statue. Be-
sides the placing of fourteen churches and
d monument in the nave, the transcept and
the dome, there would be left an open space
Or side aisles-of twenty feet. The in
terror of the church is surprisingly grand
and beautiful. The floor is of marble Nu-
merous statues, some of them tWenty-four
feet high; figures and valuable paintings; the
resting place of St. Peter; the chapel or pull
sit; bronze figure OF St. Peter-to which
the devotees kneel and kiss its feet, are a.
mong the inner ornaments. The dome
the wonder of the worlds inlaid with pre-
cious stones, Sc, $668,O00 having been
spent in mere adornments. Up to the year
1894, $50, 100000 had been expended up
on the church. But to realize to the fullest
extent, the overwhelming display Of pompI
and pageantry, is to be present on Easter
Sunday; to listen to the peals of It's deep
toned organs; the chants and chorusses; as
the head of the church, the Pope, who is to1
oficiate, approaches and enters, amid null
titude of beings, devoutly kneeling. Three
centuries and half ago, through the labors
of various Popes, this giant building was
erected; and upon the spot where was buri-
ed one of the greatest despots known to the
world.
He passed in review the Forum; the Tenn
pies Of the Gods; the Rostrum, where Cicero
and others Numbered forth their eloquence.
The Forum-the theatre of Rome's illustri-
Gus men-how changed its aspect now; It's
multitudes gone; its walls blackened with
age, and its pillars tottering. The curious
stranger traveller alone pauses to look upon
it in it's ruined grandeur. The sight of
abandoned temples, the Tarpean rock, the
triumphal arch of Titus, the various arenas
for sports, in ruins, its moss-covered Coli
seums, all present scenes that fill the mind
of the beholder with awe and wonder. The
mutations of time, working mighty changes
in her palaces and people, the productions
Of the genius of fully, Virgil, and others,
must prove the resurrection Of Rome.
THE LIFE OF MAN-The life of every
man is continued chain of incidents, each
link of which hangs upon the former. The
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