New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-16
THE GREAT PANORAMA. Nv.
THE CENTRAL PARK.

plctOn OF The tentrd! Park a. one Of those remote
events which, ike the Last Day, il good deal too
far Of to take much trouble about. They have very
little idea really Of the progress which has been made
IN that great campus. walked the other day all over
IT, and considerably surprised to wha, vast
deal has been accomplished mean that solid work
which lies at the bottom Of ornamental gardening
and which, to the instructed eye seems nothing
II is true that Laura Matilda will find no green sunny
lawns there, or velvet slopes, or banks Illuminated
with fowers. But there are huge embshkments and
long carriage roads, and many acres OF eveed ground
which, however red and to the eye at present, ore
the real difficulties which the landscape gardener has
TO contend with. Gras and flowers grow quickly, bat
il takes time TO make huge lake and to reduce
place which four years since mass of rock, sand
and Irish equatters, to something like order and
beauty
Standing in the betower close 10 the main reser-
voir one command a good prospect OF the Park,
and form toerably accurate idea of its plan. 1t is
busy scene Far away on the west swarm Of men,
whore white shirt sleeves shine in the sun, busy
with barrow and spade and pick, scooping out the
great irregular BASIN which is to serve at the same
time as ornamental water and the main reservoir.
Nearer stll are patches of men working avenues,
leveing patches of ground pruning weeds, and clear
ing away underground The whole plain il dotted oil
over with animated spots which move to and fro
ceaseessly like the red sparks which creep the
black ash of sheet of paper which has been just
consumed. Every now and then an oninous shout
peals up from behind some cump of brushwood or
knoll and a few men run little distance and then
stand still. few Of the pade uborers near by rest
on their spades and watch. Presently it comes
plume of white smoke, dull report and jet of huge
of rock leap into the air as If some giant were
playing chuck stones under the shadow Of hill.
Then another and another. Then three four to-
gether u perfect salvo of blasts when the smoke
rolls slowly away, the men lnger moment, and then
so sy return and in few moments after the monoto-
nous clang Of the hammer on the boring iron is heard
once more.
The Central Park IL respectfully provided with rocks.
There is gigantic one beneath which the workmen
have discovered what they pleased to term cave.
If the Parsians had such rock in their Bos de
Boulogne, we should never hear the end Of it, AS it
is they have stone there not very much bigger than
those that athletic country boys put from the
shoulder, which, by means of an artfuly con-
cealed syringe cascade of an inch in diameter oams
mady. The stranger, on his arrival in Paris is
soemnly and anxiousy asked if he has seen the i'm
provements in the Bcis de Bouogne. IL he replies in
the negative grave enthusiast conducts him to the
stone, and, pointing to it with air of restrained
pride, introduces it as The Mountain am inclined
to think that the Partisan bourgeois would regard the
Central Park, if he SAW it, as land little inferior in
terrible submity to that range OF Alpine peaks which
the great Napoleon surmounted.
When you and are very old men, Mr.. TRiBuNri
when the young ltterateurs and newspaper men of the
day look at with compassion, laugh at our criti-
csns, and call poor old fogies behind our backs
when books in their twentieth editions have slipped
gradually into standard sercs;' when newspapers
aude TO US with certain reverence, as having been
mixed up with journalism at time when fifty thou
sand was thought handsome circulation for daily,
and call us venerable authors, &C.. when we have
published our little volume of twaddle, which we
fondly call literary "reminiscences, then, perhaps,
WE will sit in the by the margin of that now un-
fl led lake with the trees waving and the birds sing
ing over our head, feeding the gold fish, or, while
leaning on our canes, telling the youngsters round
us with all the pride of antiquity, how We saw that
fair water hollow of red earth traversed by flat
nosed Irshmen and shaded by a forest of spades.
POET FOR THE PEOPLE.
You will be pleased to remark that the stock in
trade of poet for the people is always contempt
for law and order Mr.. Gerald Massey burns to pull
all constitutional forms about poor old Engands ears
The British nobeman, as painted by that fervd bard
is startling parsonage. To look at that quiet, re-
spectacle Lord Snooks with his gray pantaloons gray
waistcoat and gray whiskers riding his quiet cab
quietly along Rotten Row, you never perhaps would
imagine that he was the seducer of the wives and
daughters of all the peasants in England, and that he
daily fed upon the bleeding hearts of persons in un
easy circumstances. But il is The British Peer
according TO the poet Of the people, is combination
of the Dragon of Wantey and the Minotaur with a
cross of the worst breed of Roman Emperor.
have been pleased to find that we are not without
our popular poets in this country The noble fire
of rebellion burns in their bosoms. The contempt
for the effete forms of constitutional law. Foremost
among these bards of independence is Mr. John Costin
Eanes, who is well known by the many spirited effu-
sons which have fallen from his gifted pen. | am
glad to observe that Mr.. Eamess publisher, Mr.. An
drews, has issued that gentlemans last and perhaps
best work. in style Of elegance commensurate with
its merits The title of this production runs as fol-
lows: "The Fate Of False Lover; or, The Success
" ful Triumph of Margaret Garrty, who was tried for
" stabbing her seducer with a carving knife at New
ark, New.Jersey. BY John Costin Eames.' The
air to which is pleasing poem is SET is, We are in
formed, Caroline of Edinboro' Town." The work
can be purchased at any of the stores which surround
the City Hall Park The price is one cent, but if you
take the authors other works, some reduction will
be made, and five copies will be given for three cents.
After a feeling invocation to that portion OF the
public which feels for innocence" " to learn what
"he shall say concerning acts OF violence that took
"place the other day" Mr.. Eames punges in med'as
res with dramatic abruptness.
Its Of fend in human shape,
Whose name cannot tel
He played hin tricks some like sn ape.
And then did boast and swell"
Observe the air of mystery which he throws over
the affair by that fine line Whose name / cannot