The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-02
More Ancient Treasures Discovered at
Rome.

The new part of the Via Nazionale
leads from the Via QuattrG Fontane
along the Quirinal down the hill, where
! there will be view of the column and
forum of Trajan, past the medieval
tower of the Colonna family, and near
| there makes right-angle on its way to
the Cor5o. The first part is siXty-siX
| feet wide. The contract for the new op-
erations has been given to private per
| son, who is prosecuting them with a
ceierity unprecedented here. Old pal
aces are cut away; time hOnored gardens,
hitherto guarded by jealous walls, ex-
posed to the gaze of all; and under
ground treasures discovered, with an
expedition which is marvellous to the
Romans.
On the eastern side OF the Rospigliosi
garden several rooms and corridors were
found which formed part Of the center
of the baths of Constantine. They had
been greatly injured by various fires.
One Of the rooms had a pavement of
colored marbles, which has been removed
to the Capiloline museum. Upon this
pavement lay the trunk of column of
African marble, the diameter of which
was little more than three feet. I'm
der the palace of Cardinal Antonelli, on
away to make room for the new street,
has been found one of the ancient gate
wavs of the wall of Servius Tullius,
called the Porta Fontanale. The classic
writer's mention four city gates on the
Quirinal, and the archHologists Of the
CITY think this is one of them. A part
of the ancient city wall has also been
discovered in connection with the gate
way. The massive stones of the wall of
Servius Tullius may be seen at various
points in the city, as at the railway sta
tions near the POrta SAHARA, under the
church of St. Clement, etc. There is
some difference of opinion among archie
ologists, as there always is at first, as
to whether or not this is the real Porta
Fontinale, but those persons who doubted
are now gradually yielding to the opin-
ion that it is the ancient gateway Of the
city at last returned to the light of
day.
The beautiful garden Of the PaIazzo
AIdibrandini has also been opened, and
the hill cut away. On its eastern side
was discovered an entirely unknown ed
ifce of the second century, constructed
i'm the best manner, which seemed to have
been incorporated by Constantine in the
circuit of his baths A wall ornamented |
with large niches which constitutes the !
western front of the fabric, seems to have |
been added by him when it was included |
i'm his baths. Here was found lime |
furnace eighteen feet in diameter, full of |
fragments of sculptured marble entirely |
spoiled by the fire. 1t was thus that the !
descendants of the ancient ROmars dis |
posed of the extraordinary quantity of
marble with which their ancestors had |
embellished the "Imperial City," and |
made it the wonder and glory of the |
world They made lime Of it, and so |
common was the practice that it became |
regular business, and some took the |
name of Calcarens, or burners of lime. |
Commentators Rosa, as superintend- |
ent of the excavations of the province, |
excavated the piazza in front Of the Pam
theon to a depth of five or six feet, and |
found the ancient pavement of large fat |
stones, also two sculptured tablets which |
were discovered to be the originals of two |
others which form part of the front OF
the building. He proposed to reduce the |
piazza to its original level, and show the |
Pantheon in its primitive form with |
steps before it. But the four arcRolo- |
gists of the city commission combined !
against him and said that the work was |
ing which was not already known. The |
city council, therefore, as the business |
in the streets was greatly interrupted, |
ordered the ancient pavement 10 be COW
cred up again. Ia digging a sewer few |
weeks ago this pavement was laid open |
again, but the stones, which were laid in |
a particular manner, were replaced with |
the same design as before. The streets |
surrounding the Pantheon are so Iull of
old underground walls, forgotten stone
stair-cases, ancient sewers, pavements,
sculptures, statues and columns that the
necessary work for sewers, gas and water
is one of immense labor. The workmen
labor for hours with their pick axes on a
small piece of wall without making per-
ceptible progress, as the cement is harder
than the rock itself Last week the in
terror part of the statue of a woman was
found, and a column of red granite
broken in two parts and about eighteen
feet in length and three III diameter
Rome Cor. ~ y E0eEiRg Post.
SwINBURNE, the salacious British YER
sifer, has been expelled from the London
arts club for piling thirty of the MEM