Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-01
MIS- ELL A n EO y S.

THE STEEPLE OF TRINITY CHURCH.
The Home Journal furnishes the follow
ing interesting description of a vis. to the
s,eeple of Trinity Church, in New York
city, the highest s,eeple, we believe, in this
country:
By the time one has painted up snd run
down the three hundred and seven steps
that lead to the top of Trinity, he will know
precisely how much harder it is to 60 up,
in this world, than TO 60 down. With pain
full steps and slow, with many a halt for
rest and breath, you ascend; bat the down.
wsrd path is alas! mere sport. The sexton
opens the ponderous sleeple-door with sus-
picious civilty, and when he softly closes
it, you feel that you are Gagged, and that be-
fore you get out, another interview with the
bland funclionarv will be necessary; and
you are right. Having had experience in
s,eeples, we did not begin to mount with
the ho. haste of some ardent country youths
that were jus. before US, youths with brown
faces and glazed shoes. But, like an old
traveller beginning to ascend Mont Blanc,
we wound about the upward path with stu
dious deliberasion. Eighty-(our steps
long ones, too-brought US to the top Of
the church, where the steeple begins. Al
that height there is resting place, with
benches, and an aperture in the wall, by
which beautiful view of the interior of the
church may be enjoyed. 1t lies there be-
low you, like Saltler's Cosmorama. That
magnificent painted window is directly op.
posite, and, if the sun is shining, its brilliant
colors are cast upon the pavement of the
church like a gorgeous carpet. On Sun.
days, when the church is filled with we'll
dressed people, and the chancel is occupied
by several surpliced clergymen, and the
choir IS singing and the organ ,hunderously
murmuring below you, the view through
that aperture is sirikingly picturesque. You
look at the crowd of worshipers from above
as the angels are said to look down upon
them from beaven-though you are unable
TO pick out the repenting sinners to rejoice
over. But probably there is always one
such among the rainbow ,hrong; if not ir
the costly pews, yet kneeling unseen, ercep
by angels, among the oaken benches in the
alsles. few steps upward, and we reach
the room where the bell-ringers take exercise
on days of festivily; and little above that
we discover the nine musical bells nesting
among huge beams, and "united in a com
mon element of dust" In the bell-ringers
room, we observe row Of pals filled witt
water, in case those joy-inspiring mer
should become prey to extreme excite
ment and set the machinery on fire, by mer'
friction. The clock-room is locked, ant
we pass it by in disappointment. As WI
ascend, The steeple becomes narrower, tho
the walls, even at distance of hundred
feet from the ground, are three fee. thick
That steeple seems built to point forty gen
era,ions TO heaven and, doubtless, if th
stone was we'll selected, and commerce doe
not crowd it out, or an earthquake swallow
it up, it will stand till the year three thou
sand. Many hundreds of aspiring person
have already sought to defer the oblivion o
their names by writing them, with diamond
chisel, penknife, pencil or paint brush, o,
the windows, wells or wooden stairs. Ant