Daily national Democrat., 1860-10-21

its advantages by the luxury of fine har
which discources sweet music in its retreats
on every Saturday afternoon; and it is likely
to become an institution, like the London
Parks and the Paris Gardens. So mote it be.
That art Is on the upward scale in New York
Is evident from several signs of the times
One of them is that genteman-Dr. Ward
well known as musical amateur is going to
erect upon Fifth Avenue a house with front
OF one hundred feet in order to have it con-
tain private theatre, where operate rep
reservations can be given for the benefit OF
the lovers of music who are so fortunate as to
be his friends. 1t is quite princely under
taking for our Metropolis, and speaks of an
improving taste in the musical portion of its
people.
We have not got the Prince yet, though
his ball is appointed for the thirteenth of Oc-
tober. The good natured youth is likely to
have the flesh danced off his bones before he
gets back to England. Going to balls more
than half the nights in the week, and dancing
until four clock in the morning, is rather ex>
hausting amusement, to say nothing of in
augerating bridges making replies to tiresome
addresses, laying corner stones of monuments.
and travelling by railroad between-whiles
at Niagara very pretty reception was given
him by some geniuses who introduced Bengal
lights under and around the Falls, in such
way as to make the mighty cataract seem
to go leaping amongst fire. We fancy he
must have enjoyed that display. And Blon-
din, too, who was performing his curiously
daring freaks of rope walking at our Jones
Woods, hurried off to Niagara to give the
Prince an entertainment. Some of the feats
were so alarming as to meet with the Princes
disapproval, and he is reported to have said
when it was done, Thank God, it is all
over !" but he shook hands with the little
Frenchman and sent him a present of three
hundred dollars.
The Gillian minister to this country, Don
Juan Bello, died on Sunday, the 10th inst at
the Clarendon where he was stopping. His
disease was the asthma and his death quite
unexpected. He had been spending the sum
mer on Dong Island.
The terrible disaster of the sinking of the
steamer Lady Egin, on lake Michiga, has
desolated many homes, and thrown a whole
city into mourning. You probably have had
accounts of the event, and the great number
of lives lost. Much regret is felt at the death
of Mr.. Herbert Ingram, the first inventor of
an illustrated newspaper, and by which he
had made fortune seldom realized by in
ventors.
Accidents, which were suspended for little
while, have commenced their fatal "reign of
terror" A railroad collision in Wisconsin
lately wounded twenty-five and killed five
others instantly. A severe gale in the Gulf
of Mexico, has also occasioned much loss OF
life and property. 1t is not pleasing to think
of this consequence Of high degree of civil
zation-the wholesale slaughterers of human
beings which it occasions. The Juggernaut
of Progress crushes hundreds at once, when
its car of sacrafce chances to make turn of
its cruel wheels little out of time. Steam is
'hdeeu good servant, out very Oad mas
ter; and while we trust our lives to it by
land and sea, we are never very safe. Doubt
less however, the Anglo-Saxon race must be
kept down a little, even if it does have to in
vent its own means of destruction.
The news has just reached us that General
Walker has been shot, with one of his Colo
nels, by the authorities of Honduras The
mills of the Gods grind slowly" and we
might add surely.
The rain continues to pour down, and the
Hudson is very much swollen. Newark has
been submerged in water, in the lowest part
of the city, and the city is getting thorough
washing Yale. ATLANTIC.
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