Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-04-04
Whole Number 1865.

blaekened and Clipped by fire. Next
are seen the eight tall Ionic granite
columns of the Temple of saturn
the ancient god of the Capital. In
front of this temple, Pompey sat lis
tening to the 4;- r 9
! ... ORATIONs OF, CICERO.
Just below the Temple of Saturn is
the site of the Arch of Tiberius. A
few rods off stands the column of
Phocas, called by Byron the s.Name-
less column with a buried base.p
But since his time the earth has been
earted away to the depth of 80 feet,
and the unburied base brought to
light the name of the builder.
W. A few fragments remain of the
Temple of Julius Cesar. It was
placed near the centre of the Forum,
close 70 the Triumphal Arch of Fa-
bins. The Sacred Way ran between
the Forum and the great Basiiica of
Julia and other temples. At the
southwest corner remains have been
discovered of the once famous Tenn
pie of Castor and Pollux. At the
south end of the Forum stands sew
eral beautiful pillars of the Temple
OF Minerva. | will name but one
other structure-the site of the Tri-
bune, III front of which stood the
ROstra to which the head and hand
of Cicero were fixed by Antony. and
where Fulya, the widow of Claudius.
spat in his dead face, and pierced his
inanimate tongue with the pin which
she wore in her hair, in imbecile re-
venge at CieerO's hostility to- her
husband. .'.
Not far from where the PhOcas
Column stands, is the foundation, 8
or 10 feet high, on which stood the
nude statue of POmpey, at the foot
of which Of -7l aag t-a- .u
~ TIE GREAT CESAR FELL. sl Be-.
One is rivited to the spot, and gazes
on that pile of volcanic stone, taking
no note of time. The statue itself IS
OH exhibition at the Spada Palace.
| went to see it, of course. As Dick
ems describes it, it is "a stern,l tre-
mendous figure, full of delicate
touches, losing its distinctness in the
giddy eyes of one whose blood was
ebbing before it, and settling into
some such rigid majesty as this as
Death came creeping over, the up
turned face" There is a blood-col-
ored or red stain on the marble of
one leg and foot, which gave origin
to the Shakesperean report that the
statue ran blood when the great Cse-
sar fell The statue is of colossal
size, being II feet high. 1t stands
in the austerest form of naked maies-
ty. hHr.'rd'
Those who beheldst, mid the assassin's
r din,
At thy bathed base the bloody Caesar lie.
Folding his robe in dying gdigniiy. r.I.
ID 1t is something to be remembered
to have stood on the spot where yu-
lius Caesar fell; before the statue of
Pompey, at whose base he lay in
death; and on the ground where
Mark Antony delivered the immortal
oration put into bis mouth by Shaks-
peare -.... ............... .........-
But 1 must hurry along. 1t is not
possible to mention-much less de-
scribe-in a letter, all the remarka-
BILE places to be seen from the top of
the Capitol tower, which stands at
the dividing line between the dead
and the live city. Spreading out to
to the east, south and west, for whole
square miles of space, is the site of
the greater and better portion of the
ancient city. 1t now contains scarce
ly human habitation. 1t is a mere
GRAVEYARD OF DEAD ROME.
Most of the ruins are covered up by
accumuIations of earth and debris,
many feet deep, as the old bones are
covered over in cemetery. Away
off across the Campagna stretch for
miles the broken arches of the RO-
man aqueducts. No monuments of
ancient Rome are at once more pic
turesque than these arches bestriding
the plain. They are built of brick
on foundations of large volcanic
stone. Some of them are 80 feet
high by 20 feet broad. They con-
veved streams of water from the
mountains, distant 20, 80 ard 40
miles. There were nine lines of these
aqueducts, some of them constructed
$50 wears B. c., others $50 b. c.,
and the last in the days of julius C@-
sar and Augustus. Some of them
are still used to convey water into
the city. ..... ..........--.
Z The App1an Way, for many miles
beyond the walls, was lined on both
sides with .. ...
't.4t.f-.. TOMBS,
once remarkable for their number
and magnifcence. At present, they
are reduced to shapeless piles of rn-
ins, many of them, little distance
off, look like old lime-kilns, or hay
stacks. Formerly they were Orna-
mental structures, incased outside
with marble, and inside they were
decorated with frescoeS, and contain
ed statuary of the deceased. But the
marble has been torn away, and the