The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-01
More Ancient Treasures Discovered at
Rome.


The new part of the Via NaziOnale
leads from the Via QUattTO FOntane
along the QuirinaI down the hill, where
there will be a view of the column and
forum of Trajan, past the medieval
tower of the COlOnna family, and near
there makes a right-8ngle on its way to
the CorsO. The first part is sixty-six
feet wide. The contract for the new OPP
erations has been given to a private per
son, who is prosecuting them with a
CELEBRITY 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 Termed 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 a column of
| African marble, the diameter of which
was a little more than three feet. I'm
| der the palace of Cardinal AntOnelli, on
| the QuirnaI, which has been partly cut
away to make room for the new street,
| has been found one of the ancient gate
ways of the wall of Servius Tullius,
called the POrta Fontanale. The classic
| writer's mention four city gates on the
| Quirinal, and the arch@OlOgists 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. Tne 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 POTta 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 POrUa
/ 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 Palazzo
| Aldibrandini has also been opened, and
| the hill cut away. On its eastern side
was discovered an entirely unknown ed
ifice of the second century, constructed
in the best manner, which seemed to have
been incorporated by Constantine in the
circuit of his baths. A wall ornamented
| with large inches, which constitutes the
western front of the fabric, seems to have
been added by him when it was included
in 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 Romans 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 CaiCarens, or burners of lime.
Commentators Rosa, as sUperintend-
ent of the excavations of the province,
exCavated the piazza in front of the Pan
theon to a depth of five or six feet, and
found the ancient pavement of large fiat
stones, also two sculptuTed 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 arcB0lO-
gists of the city commission combined
against him and said that the work was
useless. and that he had discovered moth
| Ing WHICH WIS llUb dllEcitAN hllOM IL 4 llt
CITY council, therefore, as the business
in the streets was greatly interrupted
ordered the ancient pavement TO be Gov
cred up again. Ia digging a sewer a 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 street;
surrounding the Pantheon are so full o
old underground walls, forgotten stenC
stair cases, ancient sewers, pavements
SCULPTURES, statues and columns that the
necessary work for sewers, gas and wate
is one of immense labor. The wOrkmeI
labor for hours with their pick axes on
small piece of wall without making per
ceptible progress, as the cement is haTde
: than the rock itself Last week the in
: terror part of the statue of woman wa
found, and a column of red grant
broken in two parts and about eighteel
feet in length and three IN diameter
Rome Cor. n 7. EUerjng Post.
( WHAT STOPPED THE ARGUMENT. -
S Two men, with spare time on tbei
/ | hands, seeing some arm chairs in front @
. ! a furniture store on the sunny side c
e the street, thought they would sit dow
2 n minute or two and smoke and talk u
' specie payment. So they sat down, an
/ the man who was on the negative I'D
carefully fixed his chair legs on two bar