The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-14
T. u. Measher,s Narrative Of CentraI Amerlca.

very seiec. and apprecatiye audience, among whom
many habts o the Opera, attended at Noo's ga
loon Thursday night Mr. Moagher second series or
his narrative Of Central America The pictures illustrating
this portion OF tho entertainment entirely new and
still beautiful than the first series both ef which are
executed the highest style by eminent scenic
artist, Mr. Joseph Kyle, from sketches by Don Ramon
Paez, who accompanied Mr. Meagher IN his late visit TO
Central America The narrative Of tho most interest
ing and delightful character, and evidently impressed the
audience favoraoy AT tho present tme everything
connected with Central America Is important, and nothing
could have been more interesting that regard than the
brilliant discourse Of tho narrator Among the pictures
presented were, first, 'The Valley Of Carriage" which
Mr. spoke of surprising in RIGHTEOUSNESS and gran
deur the fabulous Valley OF Rasselas. The Spanards
Of the Conquest, no said called Nicaragua the Pa
radise of hahomet; this, the Valley Of Cartago,
should be called the Arcadia OF the poets. Tho
second scene the "Marketplace Of Cartago,
with s picturesque groupings Of muleeers, padres pea
sant girls s0ldsrs &c. the dismanted towers Of the
parochial the background the majestic voca
lh HAnniain cf Erazor Mr. heagher spoke glowngly o.
s wems. o. Costa ca and % nsn eS 81 Us up WHO @ Siss ses
soons was No crater and the sapphire peaks OF the An
dean range Of mountains The audience were next pre-
sented with the valley o. Orosi and suspension bridge
Saiis BY The hdans This scene lusiraicd by
nteang facts aboat the Indians ofCosta Rcathe sala
ed the w % Suro
OF WAise ske 100 feet in heighta volcano which no
foot a. yet has scaled-was ono Of the most sub
NJ NJ seasher, in Concluding bis narrative, said:
has volcano il terror 70 the people the burning agony
Ae and the poor indian, with his clouded brain
si0Wt1g darker and stormer With the belief tells you
At s 9reat snd dwell tnsrs. and that they are lost
who venture 70 ascend Tho dense prmeva forests the
ravnso and chasms The vast fields Of lava and the per
pendicur bare smooth rock, springing up several feet
om them 70 the Lips Of the surgng crater all which are
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have rendered fearful and inscruable But day wiz
when murialba shall be scaled and It's ghtnings
and thunder pcas shall be 10 the PRONUNCIATION OF new
law and covenant, and the birth Of new nation what
those Il Sinai were the revelation Of the true God and
smoke by day. in that pillar Of fame by night read the
sublime promise Of confirmed liberty TO the land wealth
and power instead Of comparative nsignidcance and hum
BILE fortunes the wilderness garden; and Tor mankind,
going the ends ofhe earth to the high places there
Of apurer happiness staeler attitude, and Brighter as
pect Yes when the wastes between the Mississippi
and the Northern Andes them again the blue
frontier Of the Pacific shall have been peoped and the
cities multiplying at this hour between the Atlantic and
the Mississippi shall have become 70 the cities OF the
prairie what Antwerp, and Genoa and London, with their
ved walls and centuries OF renown are To your Guy IN
this the day OF its fresh and sumptuous youth and the
whitest palace, the foundations OF which were iad bn
yesterday where merchants buster and Weather than
those Of the Rato most do congregate shall nave grown
defced and dark with then and even So there
shall be another empire Of democracy free a. TINS OF
which the soaring eagle the symbol opnent and nvinc
BILE planted with its and its ensigns upon that stu
pendous rampant which ntcrccpts the Inwardly
10 behold this vision and boldly 10 disclose it, g
prophecy hazardous philosophy deducng lis predc
from the laws OF science and the analysis oi human
progress not that spirit OF poetry which sometimes
gves the terate the wisdom nf the philosopher, and
10 profane the nfabiy Of the prophet, h wanting
From the great book OF nature which open 10 all which
all read and from which the humblcst mind seldom
fails to derive lessons OF high usefulness and expan
sive forethought, | speak this night, aud FOR
the land Of the vanished Aztec predict an unex
ampled renovation. permanent barrier 70 the en-
croachments OF the two great seas, and gradually
rising from their level in series OF ample terraces,
each exhibiting its peculiar forms Of animal and
table e each its peculiar soil and climate, each It's
adaptabiny for special physical conditlon-thus,
by STEP developing the whole phenomena Of creation
until Costa Rca At height varying from three -
four and six thousand feet II rolls OF into extensive pa
teams table lands, divided by parallel and ntersectng
chains Of mountains crowned with fortresses Ike that o
Turaba and pouring down upon their errands Of health
and frufuness waters that ialCcntral America
presents the language Of Senor Asaburaga, TO th'
lover OF nature 10 the man Of science 10 the agrcuurs
20 those who prefer pastoral 10 those who coye the
precious metals 20 the merchandise the most ambitious
and nsaiiableas indeed % the industrious and adven
turous Of every denomination, field Of incompatible
novelty and exhaustc-s wealth. In word, ths forests
- sivo ,the Mines u vaHcy1 ut>h uhch abounds
all tesming and OVERLOOKING whh tho essnres a. nnesr,
constitute II In itself world, which, In the partial OBJ
security that encompasses H. seems 10 have been reserved
for exhibition Of happiness and glory which shall
transcend the fortunes and achievements Of this day Just
~ prized and appauded as they are.
Loud applause followed tho conclusion OF this most
terestiDg narrative. To-day Mr. Mcaghcr will give
exhibitions Of these splendid illustrations OF Central
Amerca-one in the afternoon at two O'Clock, and the
other eight clock the afternoon exhibition being given
only 2b cents accommodate the pupils and teachers
of the several schools OF city and all those who do
not or cannot 90 out at night.