Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-21

the builders. The columns, walls
aud staireases, are all built of tn,
pure white Pentatic marble, and II,
slabs are used to conceal baSer ma
terial, but everywhere, solid blocks
of enormous dimensions, are used
Joined together by iron clamps. The
size of the block seems to have beer
limited only by the needs of the
architecture. In so simple style Of
architecture, this sincerity of work
aud solidity of material, is the first
requisite. The Parthenon was bull
in five years, and cost about 1900,
600. How will our more expensive
edifices look in their twenty-fourth
century, even without bombardment>
or explosions?
At the foot of the Acropolis, on
one side, are the two great theatres
little beyond are few magnificent
C0rinthian columns of the temple of
Jupiter Olympus, built by Hadrian,
and on the other side, the temple of
Theseus, which, though far older
than the Rarthenon, is still perfect
in exterior, and when seen by moon
light give some idea of the appalling
grandeur of perfect Greek temple.
From the Acropolis, You can look
down on the city, and close at hand
are the lower hills of the Areopagus,
where the courts of justice were
held, and where st. Paul preached
to the Athenians, and the Pnyx,
where the citizens went to listen to
Demosthenes. The cave where So
crates was imprisoned, is also near,
and the mountains bear names We
have read of-Parnassus, Hymettus,
etc. Beyond these hills lie the plains
of Marathon, and Salamis is just off
the entrance to the Piraeus. The
Prince of Wales came here, on his
way to India, and mad the usual
noisy, naval reception, in the har-
Dor. The ships were dressed with
flags, the yards manned, and the
thunder of many cannon, and the
ringing cheers of thousands of sea-
men, welcomed him. lie came in on
the Serapis, great iron troop ship
of 5000 tons, built to carry bri-
gade of soldiers, and now made into
a floating palace for one man. The
entrance would have been a little
finer had she succeeded in anchoring
where she tried to. She had tco
much way on, and lost both anchors,
and for time it seemed certain that
she must go ashore or sink another
vessel; but she finally brought up
without smashing anything except
the job-boom and bow-sprit of. the
King of Greece's steam yacht. The
Prince went on shore, in gorgeous
red uniform, with the King of Greece
and spent two days in Athens.
The King is a thin young man,
with a dark complexion, and ner-
The queen is a daughter
Of the Grand-Duke Constantine of |
Russia, and is a very pleasant look
ing lady. They are both personally |
but the Greeks are hardly |
the race to understand the legal ic-
tions and the complicated construc-
ton of limited monarchy, in the |
English style, and the ministers have |
a hard time, between the people and
the Legislature.
The night after the arrival of the
Prince of Wales, the monuments of |
ancient Athens were illuminated |
with coIored fires. The sight of the
Acropolis, with its ruined temples,
al lighted up by the brilliant flames,
he dark masses of its battlements,
md each column, shining white,
against the clouds, is one to be treas
lred in the memory of all fortunate
enough to have seen it, but it is not
o be pictured or described. C.
Piraeus, Greece, Oct. 20. 1875.