Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-12-17
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PusUsaat . psblie astloe, ~ MI
| and csoWeisg oeotioo q ~ co(eaeal
0salue Of Ne 0oddese u eseedem VS.
rasse1 70 IL LOFTY pos'ties % the Deus
a The Ceeitol q saelve o'clock yoD1es-
day. A lsrgs ssnbef sf psssops Nd
assembled 10 he park est u ~ Cap.
tol, end gave sspssssios 70 pairisste q
ullstion wbep the dag OF the sstioo NJ
hoisssl 70 the spcx Of the dons-s sig-
nal ,h.s the ''ctowning" had been soc.
cessfally compIsted. Asd - this signsl
. salste Of shsty-6vs gons sas in
msdiassly given fbom The gsousd ada
cen, TO the Capitol j. hoaof u he States
10 the Upion, which was follos94 II
salvos Of artillery from the different Nh
which ssrround the city. fsssSs
This ststus j. nisetesn feet six iachea
high, and wsiehs sssrsy 6ftess thcussd1
pounds. Il y composed entirely 81
bronze, spd eoDstsueted 10 Eve q csiODs ;
the weight Of The besv,sst # which Il
4,74O pounde. The static has sbssn
washed with ~ acid which causes .
eight oxidation, thus producing . rich
and uniform bronze tint, which will nev
or change. II sas modelled 10 pIa ster
by Crawford, the lamcpted eminent
senIptor, for which model The prSsss Of
three thousand dollars wss pad. and, ~
cast st the foundry Of Clark Mills Elq,
=: BIadsosburg. The entire cost olsbn
great work OF ct il from twenty Eve 70
thirty thousand dollars. ga
During the last two weeks three see>.
tioos OF the statue have been eevatedte
the tho!us Of the dome the fourth oss,
embracing the chest Of the figure. wa
placed in position ON Tuesday, 50 that Il,
tie rems, ned to be done on w edoesJay
thus settling The head on The statue.-
The hight Of tho iron wo,k above the
basemeni floor Of the Capitol, iocIodipg
the browning statue, - 287 feet. y, Y
Ofthe old dome, which ~as hu,lt Of
wood, the outer and inner smells we've
not concsn,ric, and while the inner, wa
in proportions, copy Ct tkat Of the Pan
tbeoD Of Agrippa 1t Rome, through
much inferior 10 size, the outer dome wss
higher IN proportion than that Of the
Pan heon. Its iUfa,Dable nature, aud
its n, rrOw escaoe 1t the time the library
~as burned il 1851, called the attention
OF Congress to it, and was finally resolv-
ed to replace it BY = dome Of IRON, en-
tirely fle proof. Se
The new dome in ito proportions re,
stmbles the modern rather than the An-
t,que structures Of this chars cter. Io@
stead Of the low and fat outlines Of the
Pantheon of Rome and The St. Sopbis
VI Constantinople, the design 10 light
structure, decorated with columns aud
pIss,ers, rich cornices and entablAtures
spri"g,og up toward the sky, aod sup
porting at y hight OF nearly three hun
died feet above the ground Of the wes-
tern gate, the colossal statue Of which
Ne have spoken.
The interior diameter Of the dome is
nine,y-s'x feet. The gallerits afford o
fiLe view of the inler,ot, and OF the OK
terror, the visw st,etcl.ing many miles
down the Potomac. Tho stluc turt y
double, and between the exterior and
the interior shells staircase, winding
spirally around the whole, will afford &C.
cess to the very summit.
The general outline Of this structure
resembles that Of the dome Of St. Peters,
OF Rome st. Paul's Of London !; and
st. Genevieve and of the Inval,dea, Of
Paris /; and OF tho last great work Of the
kind erected in modern times, that Of
the Russian National Church. the Ca
ihedraI, Of St. l.aac's At st. Petersburg,
which il also partly built Of iron. The
exterior diameter Of the perlsby tian cir
cular colorado is 124 feet 9 riches.
The columns Of the peristyIe are p feet
10 height and weigh 10000 pounds each.