Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-06-13

bowed by high, common place strnc
lures, and choked out of SIGHT hv
narrow, crooked, gloomy streets. In
many places one will see the tall ma
jestic columns of some old temple
filled in between with brick daubed
over with dingy stucco, and so dis
guised that they start out like excres-
cences from mean walls. Neverthe-
less the ruins that still exist and are
visible are enormous in quantity, and
their extent and variety grow on the
visitor and he traces them out day
by day. But what must they have
been before the Renaissance" be-
gan to pray on them?
It does not seem possible that
Rome will ever again become a large
eity-It is questionable if it will
ever double its present population
IN half century. Alreay the ''rush'
is over consequent on the removal
OF the National Capital hither The
speculative rage for corner lots il
past. The high rents exacted for
the first two years, which oppressed
the people very greatly, are declin-
ing in consequence of the multitude
of new buildings which have been
constructed and the Stacking of the
flow of new comers.'
Rome has
NO MANUFACTURES or cOAT1rEpCr
on which to support a great city. 1t
has little on which to subsist save
the memory of its past and gone
grateness. 1t lives on its old repu-
tation, on its ruins, and It's pictured
statuary. 1t is the most interesting
SIsoa0 place in the world. All tastes
and capacities can find here some
thing to admire and comprehend
1t is three-fold CapitallCapital of
the ancient world, Capital of the
Catholic Church, and Capital of It.
ally. In each capacity it attracts
multitudes of visitors. But its res
ident population cannot much ex-
ceed the number of people who can
subsist on the money expended here
by the official classes and visitors.
The Tiber is too swift running
and shallow to ever make Rome
port for vessels of any useful size.
In old times the galleys were propell-
ed by oars of slaves. There is no
practicable water-power near Rome;
and no mines of coal or other useful
minerals are found on the Campag-
ma. The nearest marble-quarries-
those of Carrara-are I2O to $50
miles north of Rome.
The great malarious plains about
Rome, called the Campagha, from
which the ancient city derived
considerable part of its food, are but.
comparatively little cultivated
They are mostly given over to herds
of cattle and sheep-not more than
one eigth-part being devoted to
grain and vegetables, so that Rome
has to look elsewhere for most of
her bread. Rome will continue to
be in the future, as in the last two OF
three centuries,
AKIND OF MECCA,
which will attract the scholar and
lover of art as well as the devotee
of the faith. tbs here the student
and man of letters will always be
best able to follow the stream of
time and the occurrence of hnmane
events, and study history at the TO-
Gus of its springs of action; for here
he will find illustrated and perpetua-
ted each principal action and actor,
in a ruin, a pillar, triumphal arch,
the remains of a Senate-forum, or
palace of an Emperor, or in marble
statues and bas reliefs. Here he be-
gins with the twilight of history;
and then pass in review before him
the period of the Kings; the time of
the decay end extinction of the Gre
clan Republics and the Monarchy of
Egypt; the rise and termination of
the Roman Republic; the establish
ment of the Empire; the commence
ment of Christianity, and the subse-
quent naturalization as the national
religion, replacing the Paganism
throughout the mighty bounds of
the Empire. And then the Empire
dissolves away, and the long night
of the Dark Ages begins to cast its
shadows over the world. And then
suddenly the religion of Mahomet is
thrust before mankind, and, with
fire the sword, in a single century ex-
terminates Christianity from Asia
and Africa, and extirpates it in half
of Europe. Finally the student
reaches the period of the Renais-
sanee and the Reformation, when
the human intellect once more
emerged into the daylight of reason
and science, when the riggt of pri-
vate judgment and self-government
began to be asserted.
Since the days os Sci Africanus
to this moment, Rome has been
THE CENTRAL FIGURE
of European politics and religion,
and its religion has always been a
disturbing element in the. politics of
Europe, and is now, and probably
continue to be for long time to
come, though to less extent from
year to year, until it ceases to inter
fere in political affairs.
Some suppose the Papacy may be
removed from Rome. This is hard7
ly possible. Where else oould it go
to "feel at homer" The Catholic
Church has had it's head quarters, so
to speak, in Rome for upward OF
eighteen centuries, and here they
will stay as long as the ehuroh en-
dures. All its history clusters
around this spot and centres here
Here is the fountain head of the
MIGHTY river which has rolled down
the stream of time these many CEN
turies.
The antagonism between the Ital-
ian Government and the Papaey,
which has been so bitter and threat
ening since the unifcation of Italy,
already exhibits
SYMPTOMS OF AAIELIoRATIoN.
The Government has pursued, on
the whole, a discreet and conciltatO-