The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-05-17

stuffed with down from under the
wing of the partridge.
! It took $4,000 a year to keep uI
the dignity of a Roman Senator, anC
some Of them spent five million &
year.
Cicero and Pompey dropped i'm
Zone day on Ducullus-nobody at
home but the family-and that fami-
ly dinner cost $4,000.
But we talk of population. We
boast of London and New York.
Rome had population of between
three and four millions. The wood
en- theatre of Scarurus contained
| eighty thousands seats, the Colise-
um, built of stone, would seat eigh-
ty-seven thousand, and afforded
standing room for twenty-five thous-
and more. The Circus Maximus
(think of it, Old John Robinson?)
would hold three hundred and eigh-
ty-fVe thousand spectators. There
was in the city 5000 public baths,
those of Diocletian alone aceommo-
dating three thousand two hundred
bathers. Even in the sixth centu-
ry, after Rome had been sacked and
plundered by the Goths and Van
dals, Zacarish, a traveller, asserts
that there were three hundred and
eighty-one spacious streets, eighty
golden statues of the gods, 46,097
palaces, 1902 fountains, 3,7S5
bronze statues of the emperors and
generals, twenty-five great horses
in bronze, two collozzi, two spiral
columns, thirty-one theaters, IL
amphitheaters, 9,O26 bath, 1900
shops of perfume, 2,09I prisons.
AS set off to Mr.. Sprague's
monumental tombstone" we may
merely mention the mausoleum OF
Augustus in the northern part of the
Campus Martius, consisting of q
large tumulus of earth raised on a
lofty basement of white marble, and
covered on the summit with ever
greens, as in the manner of a hang
ing garden, the whole surmounted
by bronze figure of Augustus. AT
the entrance were two Egyptian obe-
lisks, fifty feet high, and all around
was an extensive grove divided into
walks and terraces.
We have not space to speak of the
Forum Romanum, the Forum Julium,
the Theater Of Pompey, the Temple
of Apollo, the TheateF of Marcellus,
the Pantheon, the Palace of Nero,
entirely oVerlaid with Jewels and
mother Of-pearl) the Claudian Aque-
duct, the Flavin Amphitheater, the
Coliseum, the Arch of Titus, the
Villa of Hsdrian, the Baths of Car
calo, nor the Great Roman Roads,
straight as an arrow and paved like
the streets of a city, divided by mile
stones, and houses for travellers
every five or six miles, afording
uninterrupted communication from
theWalls of Antonius through York,
London, Sandwich, BOulogne,
Rheims, Lyoos, Milan, Rome
Brundsdusium, Dysrachium, Byzan-
tium, Ancyra, Tarus, Antioch, Lyre
and Jerusalem-a distance of 3,47C
miles.
| Nor have we space to refer tC
Thebes in Egypt (which had pop
ulation Of $2,50000O, and that no
BILE palace with its ground columns
whose cornices were inlain with
ivory mountings, or sheathed with
beaten gold-nor Alexandria, whose
annual port dues were $6,000,000
and library, in an age when books
were rare, contained 100000 vol
lumes-nor the Capua, the second
city in Italy, nor to Rhodes and it's
5000 statutes, and 106 collossi-one
of the seven wonders of the world,
costing $3,000,000-nor to Antioch,
with street four miles long, perfect
lly level, and double colonades
through its entire length-nor to
Athens, and the Parthenon and the
Theater of Bacehus, the most beau
tiful in the world, which seated 3d.
900 persons-nor to Syracuse and
its fortress one mile long by half a
mile in breadth, nor to Tyre, and
Carthage, and Babylon, and Bagdan,
/ and Memphis, and Ephesus, and
Byzantium and a hundred more.