The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-04

and no soidlers-not 80 much a. . corporate
guard Its chief strength lay In the German
population and the Irish; but they have all de-
serted 1t, particularly the Hibernians, who
never can be brought to swallow abolition
The music Of the "sweet Irish brogue" u.s.
therefore, no longer heard in the Old wigwam
since 1t has become aboIitionized.
Tho harp that once through Tammany's halls
The soul OF music shed,
Now hangs mute on Tsmmany's walls
Az II that soul were fled.
The wealthy citizens of native birth who for
merly belonged to Tammany when it was the
rendezvous Of nationality in this city, have also
abandoned it-men who are able and willing to
spend one hundred thousand dollars on this
election, rather than let the fatal announcement
go forth to the world on the wings of the press
that New York has fallen into the hands of the
antislavery party. All classes are flying from
Tsmmany; even rats desert sinking ship.
Those who remain on board must go with it to
the bottom. 1t is evident, therefore, that Tam
many cannot save Havemeyer from his fate,
and his chief reliance is on the black republi-
can boat but even that will fail to rescue him
IoM WdtCiy SiuNO. AHO otA VI DcCcMOcT
will be the last of Havemeyer.
REPUBLICS THE TRUE PATRONS OF ART-THE
CENTRAL PARx.-We have always steadily set
our faces against the legislative encroachmcnts
by which, under one pretence or another, the
black republicans have contrived to rob us of
our municipal rights. When the projects of the
various commissions by which the powers of
the city government have been usurped were
started, we raised our voices in warning against
the corrupt objects that they concealed. The
deprivation of the right of selfgovernment
was we felt, but a preliminary to wholesale
system of spoliation and robbery, to be carried
out through the instrumentality of these COM
missions. How these anticipations have been
realized it is scarcely necessary for us to re-
peat With municipal organization which
renders the election for Mayor contemptble
farce so far as the real wants and interests of
the city are concerned, we have, as the inevita-
BILE result of that officers helplessness, an ag-
gregate Of taxation which is more than double
what it was when the black republicans came
into power
In the deplorable retrospect presented by
the doings of the political gamblers and trick
sters composing this party there is but one
consolatory reflection. Their system has not
worked out all the mischief that was intended,
nor defeated entirely the efforts Of honest men
to correct its evil tendencies. Thus, though
their commissions have for the most part been
blisters, hard to bear, and productive of a vast
amount of annoyance, suffering and irritation,
there is one that with all their good will they
have not been able to convert into an instru-
ment of rascality. We alludc to that of the
Central Park, which, it must be admitted, has
done its work entirely to the satisfaction of the
public. The gentlemen composing this COM
mission have, fortunately for our interests, been
anir.ated by conscientious spirit, and full
sense of the responsibility which they had in
Cured, not merely towards the present, but
towards future generations. The consequence
is that they are already exhibiting results the
merit of which no eulogiums that we can use
can be said to exaggerate. AS the Park is
being developed under their auspices, it pro-
misses to be one of the grandest works that has
been attempted by modern enterprise. There
is not one of the great European
Parks-not even the far famed Bots
de Boulogne, with all its recent improve
ments-that can for moment compare in gran
deur and picturesque beauty with the natural
and artificial features that will he embraced
within its limits Commanding view of two
rivers, with surface diversified, as it were,
expressly to suit its present application, the
prodigality with which art is lavishing its re-
sources upon 1t cannot fail to render it one of
the most enchanting and delightful spots in
the world. In no public garden or park
that we have seen abroad have taste and mo-
the natural beauties and resources of the site.
In this respect our people yield to none in the
liberality of their expenditure and in their ap-
probation of the really beautiful. 1t is a fact
worthy OF note that no class of persons are
more passionately fond of landscape garden.
ing, Or spend larger sums of money in that
way, than our rich merchants and capitalists
who have sprung from nothing 1t was the
same in the early Greek and Roman communi-
ties which owed their rise to commerce, and in
the Middle Ages we know that there were no
more munifcent patrons of decorative art than
the merchant princes of Florence, Venice and
Genoa. Judging by the partial results already
achieved, we are justified in saying that the
Central Park will in time be rendered one of
the noblest works that has ever borne evidence
to the genius and taste of people.
The TRIANGULAR FIGHT FOR THE MAYoRAI-
TY.-The pending Mayoralty election is about
the most perplexing affair that ever took place
in this city. 1t is almost impossible to specu-
late upon its issue, upon any safe basis, from
darr Ia al N IL.