The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-09


AS Whittier wrote the second verse originally
it was much stronger When it first appeared
in print the last two lines of that verse ran thus:
And Romes great altar smokes with gums to sweeteu
Her gift that stinks to heaven"
But the Boston Courier lat that time con-
trolled by George Lunt, the late President Eel
ton, of Harvard and Hillard, the gifted writer,
of Boston,) in criticising the poem, and while
giving it the highest praise, thought that the
word 'stnks" was not elegant enough, and sug-
gested smells" instead Sam Bowles was then
at the head of the Springfield Republican, and.
in a most witty paragraph, quoting the comment
of the Boston Courier, added this line, viz: In
Boston it doesn't stink it only smells"
Some one will ask me, especially if he or she,
is young reader, why did Ferdinand II, the
great grandson of Charles III, get the sobriquet
BombaF l answer that after sixteen years OF
tile most cruel and reactionary reign, expressing
his people, sitting by arms every aspiration of
liberty and constitutional government on the
part This most Observation-Disclosures, and governed
by priests and iesuts pandering to the lowest,
most ignorant and superstitious of his people,
there at last came CLEAN of hope to the lovers
of liberty; for the revolution of 184S in France
and elsewhere made Ferdinand ii, for the first
time, heed the prayers of his hest people He
gave constitution, called in the Liberals to his
government, and it seemed as if he were about
to turn over new leaf. But he was low, willy,
cunning, untruthful, and in the end, periured
man. In less than a twelvemonth he had,
up an apparently Outrageously radical revolu
ton; his own spies were dressed as peasants and
the lower city orders, and they led the rabble
to excuses. On the strength of this, he broke his
oath, imprisoned or banished his own Liberal
ministers, bombarded the people from the fortress
of ST. Elmo, and assumed his old, wonted
and true role of petty despot. st.
Elmo is the huge, picturesque fort, which is on
the highest point of the city of Naples. The
bombardment was most wanton, for there was
olxv os1NrO int a OF he nv-
cept innocent people, and the whole movement
uncalled for and cruel in the extreme. His
name is "Bomba" from that act only one of
many crueltes in the life of a detested king
In 1859 he died In 1860 his heir, whom they
call ''Bombalina," was unceremoniously ousted
Garibaldi and the people.
Charles III was the only true gentleman
amongst the Bourbon kings, whether they were
French Spanish or Italian Bourbons. His son
Charles ~, of Spain, was the big nosey, brain
less fellow on the Spanish coins. He was
driven out of Spain by Napoleon, and ended his
days in Rome. He was a hen pecked husband,
and his MIN, 'er, Godoy, the Prince of Peace "
as he was called controlled the hen pecking
wife. They all had nice time of it.
1t may be asked, what became of the Spanish
coins that were in such plenty in the United
States! When quarters, levies and fps became
so ''sweated' by sharpers and worn out by use
that they did not weigh the worth of 20 cents, 8
cents and cents, it was too bad to take them
for %, 12a and 81 cents. Banks began to refuse
to take them except by weight Then came an
order of the government that after such time
they would not be received at all for custom.
postofiee or other dues; and then, too, the
United States minis turned out any amount of
quarters, dimes and half dimes bright. new and
we'll milled Then it was that the old fractions
of the Spanish dollar travelled towards the West
Indies and Mexico, or were thrust into the re-
fner's pot and came forth in the shape of spoons
and other silverware. Such was the end of their
career J. G. FLETCHER