Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-01-30

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they were on that day when Christ
was crucifed. In 1861 the hill was
purchased by Louis Napoleon for $4,000.
for the purpose of making excavations.
Since then the work has gone on at his
expense. The excavations have brought
to view the house of Hiberius the palace
of Caligula, and the palace Of yespasian.
h Itwould require much much space to
/give a description of these ruins-much
more than can command-but it is in
tercsting to walk through them, to look
at the massive masonry, as strong to-day
as it ever was, to notice the mosaic floors
the fiescoes on the walls, the beautiful
marbles of every hue carved and wrought
with wonderfuful skill. There are water
/ jars Of earthen, lamps and tapcrs, vases
and urns, here and there a statue, god
dess. satyr. In one of the courts is
| NymphGm--a fountain with nymphs
and forms. Roman art and Roman poetry
delighted in the legendcry lore of the dim
and misty past, of monsters, half human.
We may imagine the court life of those
days of Imperial Rome the Emperor,
With cares enough of state at the capital,
of wars on hand, campaigns to be- conduc-
ted, conspiracies to be suppressed, ambi-
tions men. with power and influence, to
be watched, parties to be concilicted, en-
cmics to be crushed and al the multifar.
ious things to be done if he would retain
the throne We can see Caligula in his
y palace, slipping his wine, attended by his
servants, issuing imperious orders. Per.
chance these very inosaies beneath our
feet were troddou by him. He stood by
this fountain. Here minstrels sang to
him the tabled songs OF ancient Rome
those which the Fauns played upon their
4 pipes in the Wales of the Alban hill.
Here he issued His orders for the assassi-
nation of his victims. Here he plotted
how to be cruel how to give vent to his
innate wickcdness. He looked out from
these windows and behold day unaccoun-
tably dark and gloomy. wondering, per-
haps. at the strange phenomenon of pre-
ternatural darkness at midday. A few
months later he read letter here, sent
from Governor Plate OF Jerusalem, or
King Herod of Galilee, of the wonderful
events at tending the crucifxion of a re-
. markable man, who had been crucifed to
please the Jews, on Mount Calvary, Lit
: tie did Caliguia. or Herod, or Plate COM
prehend that around that upraised cross
, would rcvolve the cycles of all the future
. centuries Caligula the great and
then obeyed by all the worlds detcsted
now Nero, Vespasian, Titus-all gone
: nothing left of them Or their houses ex-
cept the crumbling walls. Goths and
Vandals have had it all their own way in
these once magnificent piles. There has
: been rapine, riot, murder. blood.--Their
: pomp and glory has all faded. Even
:, their very tombs are unknown.
! Thus we may sit down and see the pan.
Drama of 25O00 years unfold-behold the
pageantry, and ruin at the end of all.
+ Turmoil and uproar on earth, but calm
ness in heavon--Justicc waiting his APP
pointed time.
) | sat not long since at the foot of the
JIer dc Glace Of Chamounix-that river
= of ice a century on its way from the sum-
NIT of the Alys to the base of the moup-
. tains, plowing mighty burrows, bearing
/, boulders of Eve hundred tons weight on
its frozen waves as if they were bits Of
straw read its euternal testimony that
God is in no hurry. Sitting here, or
walking their silent chambers--once the
c scene Of revelry. riot, debauchery, crime.
usurpation, british power, wickedness
and sin, learn that other eternal truth,
+ that Justice is sure !
c Ground to finest powder is that once
IS Al