New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-01

civil VAR, said r. SO disoortis ef-s ,rasr oiss
rps' ITO vhsf has discord broasAt the unhappy peo
pie The posts SOM Of Csto Of riea s,i Al he latter
brusus suymafzsd suicide Until tSes q hosorci mode
Of desfh.
e.n --s.s ~s,r.a alta
Dsrss rssp-r~a. Surs p--<vr, hss~si
lrssnzns ea poverty I'D Aard hhss In The opsn air
radiant serenity Wa dlfased from Mount sorscse
and ran In endless series Of peaceful ,rumpha srehea
bearing The aq1edsct Of blessed water gin from Goa
Everyvhee under the hands Of artists the chiselei
stose took forms - pure - the strophss Of poces
maIvooas language grew up within The porsieo Of oc
tsyiss, language full Of sweetness, ueh lowing -
tAs honey f Hysas and the people ss echo Of their
poets. uttered IN the Forum tAa - harmony
which already heraided the nidnlght ehAn,ed
By angels ovsr the poor manser Of BstkleAsm and
Virgil expressing all the tear, Of his hssrs addressing
some vision Of holy. mysterious maternity ssid
ises> ps,s rs.r. n.s eos.o.e-r- a,ir~a,
lBesn- boy TO recognize Thy mother vita smile
Lveryvhess the OlympAn element VA disappear
ins. and great voice. issess, coming from tbs
vAsarsn Hin passed the TI5cr and announced the
Field Of Man ths, holy thing risiRg on the
Eastern horizon.
Now Ii 70 DO, probable that Rome should have chosen
sach moment TO erect . pie 10 all tae coda The
admirable temple Of the PsntheSa. Virgil trsasiated
IN sublime marble and Virgil believed only In one God;
hs friend Horace already treated Olympus as BY gone
fable, fa5sls MANS, and Horace much less reh
sIoas dreamer than Virgo The architect Of the Pan
theon. an unknown but grand post had undoubtedly
held divine converse with the poet OF the Georges
Fortunate WA the ear thai listened for were
two greater geniuses gwen to earth by heaven, nor
directly from the breath of God and these
two men, these two angels would have associated
their celestial thoughts md mAspines construc,
temple for that horde Of impossible leties that
named Ill the gods"i No IL was not eoad not have
been The Irmisive orrhography of the word Pan
theon has been mutlaied or distorted It the temple
Of the ALLEGED which the Christian arrhiiec, and poet
bul the of the advent of Jesus Christ Il 10 the
temple Of the Sole God Its architecture announces
the sublime unity Of lis destination and the eye Of the
dome by which aone is ghtod suggests no, an ides
OF Olympus but . thought of heaven. Michael An
gcio then not error when that great architect
conceived the baslica Of the Vatican he took the Pan
theOn made Of the crown Of his work and restored
It to God suspending IL four hundred fee: above the
Circus OF Nero.
For the enlightened Of the age of Augustus, the
noblsa age In times snnss their god Pan guardian Of
sheep. esstos 0ris1 Pan. who invented the pipe
Pan v'us. ossH-s eOajuns-r.par-s
Ibn MS e1f sue an OF COMBINING na1y pipes pfsshr
Pan could not be the persouihcaton Of the invisible
being. the soul Of the world creator Of the universe
Virgil Hsrace and Ovid. those three vast and ncom.
parable mir 10 who amused themselves with hbl-s Of
which they did not believe word surely did not
gard ~ the AlGod that hair Drained Pan who chsses
the nymph syrinx through the reeds These great
men bad fifth In q serious divinity. Their real
Pan was be OF whom even proiane historians speak,
end whose name heard that most awful Of
nights which followed the day Of the Passion The
graz Pan IL dead, the lamentable cry which Virgil
seems to have predicted when shuddehns he tells Us
OF that grcs, voice that cncd the soltudss Of the
forest PER Iseos srasd,aa s<nies; the Same voice
which inspired pss,e terror in the most intrepid Ro-
mans for Is was uttered by an unknown mouth AMI
this voice surely not that Of the Afcadian god
Faunus who played the reed, drove raveniny wolves
away from the dock, and wantoncj with the Nsiaiss in
the groves Of Erymsnthus the banks OF the spc
r,Iius.
II l. possible h,wever that the wise Emperor Angus
tue in his character Of sovereign ponf did make the
vulgar t0rrSeois) Of his time the Pref,sHm rHlys'
believe thai the Pantheon consocratcd to all the
gojs even TO thoee " abominable gods a. Roussesn
call. them, who would have been punished on earth
vile criminals" II Is enough for 10 establish the
evident intention which must have presided ID in
thar sublime ides being a.o the expression o. all there
WA. grand in the world, when the Christian woman
va, dancing in Bethlehem. and when Virgil abln Ion
Ing the fi, oliies Of the Scilan muscs. exclaimed.
Let eng grsver things, 10 new order bcyln,"
Ater the spse Of hill century when all the divine
voices o. the poets mute, when that celestial har
mony which flowed from Romaa lips was corrupted Ia
the gross a'mospherc-aere oass0-brought By three
millions OF Barbarian all confined within the Aurean
Wall when the first fathers of the Church bad con
ecaled In the depths OF the crypt the las lame Of bsp
tired vcsa the last echo of Tiber the last leaf Of Viz
gilsn Laurel 8 horcd on the tomb Of Pauslppo God
permitted Pa anism 10 relume eli iis pr.i,ne power
that he might give al the glory thoee poor -h
OF the Lake OF Genesarei. who had come. s,si
in hand with the purpose Of replacing the abe wolf by
the Cross On the Cspioline Mount Then. perhaps,
the Pantheon may have become lodns house for all
the gods, bus always In purely symboesi sense, for
its nkrrow lmi,s not enlarged There were stuI
but eight ncher and ninth god would have been forced
to take furnished lodgings In the neishb6rhood, or at
the village Of the Three Tavern. spoken ofby Horace
Rome moreover 1t this epoch abouDded In temples,
and when Gods. discharged on the mole Of Ostla
arrived a, the humid Capersn gate. harada~9ss Cap
eyss place. could surely be found to lodge them all
comfortably They doubtless bIetsi - soldiers
are now dAys whes the barracks full. Quarters
filling 1t the Pantheon which never built for them
and which could NOS receive them their hosts found
for them on the Field Of ksss and On the Seven Hls
temples basicas and crcuses. where statues Of
sods we're mingled with the obeisks along tho sp'sa
viii cite. from memory only and hurredly the Basil.
leo Of AniosinsA near the Pantheon; the Temple OF
Octayia the Circus Of Titus the Qarinal the Ten
pies OF Minerva Of Juno Lucns the Basilea Of Licin
ius the Temple Of Venue and Rome the Temple Of
Mars Tie Temple Of Concord, the Temples Of the
Cap;iolne Jupiter Of Jupiter ToGans Of Jupier ssasor
and Of Ansninls and Fsusana-a within the precincts
Ct The Forum
Then, Lesveen the Pslstine and the Areu'inc. the
grand cireus eirrss ~aI.sss which contained soOD0
spectators. and vhose long spsA supported twelve OBJ
eh,k, ard two hundred statues Of sods-smonz them