Daily American organ., 1856-04-12
WHOLE NO. AS.
Present ArrsY

1i Ata9 Present Arms! ~
We see, by one of our exchange papers. that the
books most sought for in the Astor Library are
works that treat Of Hsratdry. This argues fine
spirit on the part of our New York aristocracy-
They are determined not to be behndhand in OBJ
tanning arms. They no sooner build fine house
In the Avenue, than they pine to plant genoa.
logical tree In the garden At the worst, IL they
can't find pedigree, they can at least get suite
with coat of arms. There can be no sight fair,
in nature than TO behold the fat wife of some but
ter merchant, who has just migrated from Green
wich street, perspring over peerage in pursuit Of
heraldic knowledge. How bewildered the poor
woman gets about gules and " azure ~" en-,
grailing" and fess and wavy.n Lions cou-
chant, rampant, and passant, attack her at every
turn. Grifins, and other fabulous animals terrify
her. She totters on the parapets Of mural crowns.
At length, in despair, she applies to some obgipg
engrayer TO save her from all further difficulty and
choose for her handsome coat of arms. The en-
grayer, wth an eye to business, chooses one with
many quafseriDgs, as being the most expensive 10
get up, and the relieved butter merchants wife
gladly gives him an order. Hence the singular
HeTaldry on the carriage panels of our best soce-
.ty We see the bar sinister defliDg the shield of
Tmpkins, who certainly is honestly born, IL his
father and mother did sell ready-made bonnets in
Division street.
Smoker, who began life by hawking baskets, has
the royal lion of England and the fer de hs of the
French Kings quartered on his panels. Who can
help laughing to see the little using all these
arms and crests, each one of which has meaning
and history that he is profoundly ignorant of
To save our citizens from the laughter which
they will inevitably bring on themselves from for
eigners by this wholesale robbery of arms, we beg
to suggest most respectfully, that they get up
heraldry Of their own. That Jones, who was
cheesemonger, and founded the family of that
name, should bear on his shield Stilton, into
which a mouse is just entering, with the motto
Anicei That Solomons, who is Of Hebraic origin.
and once kept gaming table down South, should
have as a crest dice-box on table rest with the
motto ju dice We hope our aristocratically in
clined friends will take our hint The thing is
easily carried out. And we would gladly see this
"pannel game" by which people commit thefts on
the English peerage stopped Young Aneica.
A HIGH CoMpLMENT.-Th Boston Daily Adver-
tser, in notice Of new volume from the pen of
Rev. DR.. Gilman, of South Carolina, thus alludes
to the style of that distinguished gentleman:
Everybody recognises DR.. Gilman as one of the
very few people who have complete command of
the English language. We do not know dozen
living authors whom, in this regard, we would
place at his side. Whether It is union of South
ern elegance with New England scholarship, or
whether it is the result of his having somewhat
choicely kept himself out of print or whether the
cause be undefnable, the fact is quite certain. As
to what he has to say--the body which Is to be
clothed in this finished dress-ths is also certain
that he says it, because he wants to say it, either
with fathery love of the idea he would convey,
or q delicate notion Of humor, which he would
share with his reader, or solemn sense of tho
Importance Of the truth he announces. There ia
not syllable put in to fill up. There is not a
sentence written either for elegance of language,
or by way of talking against time.
rom the correspondence of the Newark Advertiser.
American Artists in Dusseldorf.
But what Of DusseldorfY Nothing beyond this
social life except the Academy. Coleridge cele-
brates the sixand-thirty stemches Of Cologne, and
the invention of eau-de-Coogne to cover them.
He might have included Dusseldorf, especially
since the railway has made it suburb. But the
Academy is sa-generis, and deserves word or
two, though have already held you by the exf
too long. In spite of the hot-bed culture and all
the innumerable debitating effects of Art Unions
and Academies, it has produced some noble fruits;
and there are now some three hundred artists and
pupils laborng with more or less success. AT the
head OF these am authorized by the common con-
semitic place our countryman Leutze, who is set
tied here in a charming residence, surrounded by
a lovely family, where good cheer and kindly hos
pitality mugle with the graces-who all speak our
mother tongue. He has just finished character
istc reduced copy of his great celebration of Mil
ton, and is engaged in studies for picture of
the battle of Bunker Hill. Then we have Mr.
Washington, grandson of brother of the Pater
Patrie; Mr. Irving, of North Carolina; Mr. Phil
lipe, of Brooklyn Mr.. Whtridge, eruvss success
ful landscape painter from Cncipnah nrolifc in
artists, and th-an E,rrr ntners ...o
Among the most promising pupils in sculpture
ia a step7son of the Hon. Willis Hau. 1t is only
fair to mention that Tieolman, aSwede, enjoys the
first distinction among the European artists. lie
received one of the highest rewards ior ceieofa
= svfiu at a
The professors Of the Academy are paid by the
Prussian government, and are held in high esteem.
The artists live together on the most friendly terms,
and their club house, with its news, music, and re-
freshment rooms, is one of the most agreeable re-
sorts in Germany. ~
IxrrpSAr1osAL CoMEDY-Mr. Buchanan lately
had the pleasure of making speech, and DIM
ner at the Mansion House, with the Lord Mayor
of London and sundry others of the notabhtes,
on which occasion, no doubt meaning TO be COM
plimentary, he fMr. b. said, "he had met no one
in England who had not treated hsm as honghhe
,cds a country,ndr,."
Young America is not posted in the English
manner Of treating countryman, but If they are
treated in anything like the style in which they are
treated In New York, Mr.. B. must have bad hard
time. as Peter Funks, Thimble Riggers, Proprie.
tors Of the Patent Safes, Pocketbook Stuners ana
Droppers Steamboat Runners, Purchasers OF Golo
Dust, Sellers of Bogus California ana otner llck
cts, and Confidence men and women IN genera
can testify. - Young An'er1ca
Tscrprsr AT A BALL AT ABYrH, IN FITrsHrRs.-
A rather unusual occurrence took place at the
commencement of ball here lately. 1t appears
tbat beauty had received an invitation from two
Young men. One of the sparks being aware OF this
and fearing his opponent might be before him and
seize the prize dressed himself without shifting hrs
striped shirt His mother, shortly after bis leay-