Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-21

| tiveness. / forbear to mention shs
amount From the founding ii the
bisnopric to the Reformation, there
/ were thirty six bishops and eight arch
/ bishops, one of whom Was cardinal
One of these was killed by the Danes
one was hung for treason and murder,
one met with a violent death provoked
by the fuilness and ripeness of his
| sins, one IA kings SOM died upon Fiod-
den Field. and few ended their days
in bed In merited peace.
Having brought my history down
past that period OF romantic interest
! which allows SO pleasant scope to the
imagination, l now relinquish the sub
ject To the professed chronieler, and
return To the -burying- ground" from
which set out.
| Taking the ruins In the order of
| their age, / begin with st. Regulus'
/ Tower. for, putting aside monkish ira
dition, there is evidences of its great
antiquity. 1t Is one hundred and eight
feet high, solemn and massive, and
/ bids fair to stand through many an
other century The summit is reached
by a spiral stairway, dark. for the
most part, as midnight. and altogether
| wearisome to u chilled and fatigued
traveller whose wrappings are unduly
heavy with rain. My guide gets far in
! advance as he winds around, onward
and upward, long after the light OF the
last narrow slit In the wall has died
out. Leaning against the rough, thou
sand year old masonry for support,
and listening in the black darkness to
the ascending tread till it becomes a
ghostly football, l drifted back into the
old time, and began pleasantly to feel
myself belonging to the life of those
ages with which these monuments had
| practical connection, when / was sud
denly recalled to prosaic realities by
the kindest OF voices, In the broad
est of accents, calling from the
/ upper darkness to know II was
-gettin' weel on" Mastering anew my
strength, and keeping well to the outer
wall, I In time reached the summit, and
| there IN the rain and the cold, and in
such wind as blows only from the Ger
man Ocean In January, took view
of the good town aud the country round
about, and the coasts of the sea, and
the bay whose history is an account OF
shfpwrecks. Only the night before, a
trading vessel was lost. few miles of.
on the coast, and the wreck was plainly
visible. Three or four miles off Is seen
the wood where Archbishop Sharpe
was murdered on his way home from
London. Below, the town Is spread
out like q map, looking small and COM
pact, the streets showing their every
curve, and their gateways called
| ponds, one of which Is sort of out
growth OF loyalty, having been built to
do honor to visit OF some king or
other. The gray. old college buildings
| and churches, the broken tower of the
castle, the Martyrs monument, and an
exquisitely light and graceful ruin of
chapel In a busy street, are all plainly
recognizable. While traced them out,
the rain never ceased nor the wind, 50
| r kkae H. he,
self to the stairs and the darkness.
When we had almost reached the
ground the guide called attention to a
square hewn beam of oak, fixed above
our heads. not part of the building,
but In harmony with 1t, and this, he
said, was no less interesting a relic
than a piece Of one Of the ships Of the
Spanish Armada. 1t was recovered,
after lying a long time In the water
where the ship was wrecked. and 1t
served as Intel Of one of the gate
ways Of the burying ground, until the
covetous gaze of the Edinburgh Anti
quarian Society became fixed upon 1t,
when the wary people OF st. Andrews
thought 1t time TO place their treasure
under lock and key. Edinburgh has
such an Unsuitable desire for old clothes,
and bits of Wondering sticks, aud
rusty nails, and broken pottery, and
neighbors seem to think it necessary
to look to the security OF even their
graveyard appurtenances.
Near to the square tower are the
much fallen to decay, but still showing
the elegance OF its Gothic architecture
Three of its towers remain, and por-
ton of a Widowed wall, but of the col
umns, nothing is left but the bases, and
Of the altar, only its floor, made of
great slabs OF stone, partly covering
three stone coffins of some old tire
bishops. The cathedral was founded
in 1859, and was $50 years in being
completed, but one day sufficed for its
demolition, and for that OF the adjoin-
ing monastic buildings, under the fury
excited by one of John Knox ser
mons. The remains Of the priory In
dictate that It's grandeur was not over
estimated by writer's who declared 1t
second to none In England. France.
Italy or Germany, either In worldly
wealth or spiritual graces. Indeed,
the completeness w1h which the cell
bate saints made,She glory Of God
harmonize win .Sfse and comfort
OF the morta "a cat marvel and
delight to th red.
The the greatest
historical intefsy.eem,St Andrews, is
the ruin OF the castyeE mich was epis-
copal palace as well as state prison.
1t was four ded in 1900, and during the
first few hundred years, 1t was taken
by the English and retaken several
times, and was once demolished by the
Scots, lest 1t fall into the enemy's
hands. Late In the l4th century 1t
was rebuilt, and for the next $50 years
it figured greatly both In church and
state. 1t was duly pillaged by the
Douglases, and was, for a time, the
prison of the Duke OF Rothesay.
James the I. was partly educated here,
and James II. was taught here. by the
good Bishop Kennedy, how to break
the power of the Douglases. That val
liable instruction seems to have been
to break their necks as well as their
power, by throwing them out of q win
dow. James Ill. was born here, to
that inglorious career, which was to
end so osscurely In the little mill at
Chaiatpas and new ng. These walls,
~ffcn reesa7cef-ttFsA SO weighty and
tragical events, have mostly disap-
peared, but enough remains to show
the plan of the building. It stood on
the verge of the shore, whose vast
rock formed, on two sides, its natural
foundation At the seaward angle.
under q strong tower, Is an inhumanly
constructed prison, monstrous beer
bottle, eighteen feet deep, cut out of
the solid rock; prisoners we're lowered
into it, and taken out of 1t by q wind
lass Their bed was bunch Of straw
and their food barley bread and water.
The woman who has charge there,
lowered q lighted candle into it, and
swung it to and fro, by q rope, that 1
might see the damp floor and the damp
wall on every side. and the utter pitt
lessness of its construction, for. there
is no outlet or inlet, or crevice
for the air, or single jutting
stone ON which to fasten q hope.
Though not faint of heart. / felt that
to be shut in this place, would to me