The New York herald., 1864-10-31

selves to Whatever tncy cau lay haIub On ih tuo
hour of battle; that they do not care how the
battle goes it they Can steal. Is this picture
of mon engaged in a great war for "thelr alsars
and their fires"-for their national freedom
No, it is the picture Of congregation OF
wretches, banded into an army merely because
robbery is safer wbea practised on large
scale by masses OF armed men than in any
other way
And thus we.see the Southern people. who
have been cheated and builied into rebellion.
now finally awakened TO the trne position OF
affairs and eager only to get out Of their M
natural position--engcr only TO leave the quar-
rel in any possible way. but unable to do it
held down and kept quiet by military terror,
ism. by government that does not depend
upon TIE people for its support, but only on
the bayonets of a hundred thousand cut-
throats.
Tac Popular An,u ments or Now
E0rk,
There are perhaps no institutions i'll Paris or
London more attractive to the stranger or
more productive of good 90 the government
than those which arc thrown open to the public;
the parks, pictura galleries aud museums. The
splendid works OF the first artists of the world
collected in the Louvre and other public gal
leries not only serve to cultivate refined
taste in the people, but create vast influx OF
visitors from all portions Of the globe who spend
their wealth lavshly and contribute much to
keep up the endless stream OF life, pleasure
and extravaganza which makes Paris the centre
of all that is brillian! aud magnificent. Tho
forest entertainments of the Bois de Boulogne,
while they attract the tourist, prove sedatye
to tho unsettled spirit proyerbial with the
Parisan masses and thus help to render the
government more popular and more stable.
The same results are evident in the freedom ex :
tended to the people in London OF visiting the
National Gallery, the British Museum, the pri-
vate galleries Of art and the parks, with their
geological gardens aud horticultural varieties
We. too, have in our grand Park 3 place of
popular amusement at all seasons, which is
the best "board of health" VIC could establish,
aud at the same time the most refining agent
we could introduce into our city. Summer,
with all its leafy glories, autumn with its sub
ljrle pictorial beauties, winter with its joyous
carnivals upon the ice and snow, can oil
be revelled in there. 1t is perpetual
landscape, theatre, circus, a concert hall, a
geological garden and promenade all united.
Visitors to the number Of forty or fifty thou
sand enjoy this delightful combination Of plea
surcs every Saturday afternoon, when MUSIC Of
the first order is done up in arabesque in the
baautif, petite Moorish temple from which
the strains OF Dodworth's band float over lake
aud sward and grove and valley The metro
polls here delights to exhibit "its beauty and
its chivalry" In the saddle and in the costly
equipage. Love finds sOlace in its shades,
and labor relief in It's soothing breezes Add
yet tho Park is but in its Infancy. What il
shall be when the dust OF earth is all that is
lett Of those who conceived it none can toll.
1t is almost q miracle now.
Tho Pork, however, b but ono feature anon
the many which this vast city must provide for
the enjoyment OF its people, aud of those who
the love OF travel and variety bring here from
afar. Already there is manifest progressive
movement in this direction. We shall soon
have completed our new Academy Of Design,
whose picturesque exterior gives promise Of
its future interior wealth OF art, to which the
people will be admitted upon terms almost
amounting to perfect freedom The art gale.
ries of some Of our private citizens are being
enriched every day with gems Of nature and
foreign works, both in painting and sculpture.
These galleries are not difficult Of ACCESS upon
proper introduction, and no doubt, as they
grow more ai1luent in their collections the pub-
lic spirit of their owners will sugges. moro
liberal admission. Before many years we ma,
expect that some of these bsnelcent art col
lectors will bequeatb to the people IS a per.
petual legacy-just as Mr.. Vernon did his
superb London gallery in Pall Mall-tbe col
lections upon which they have expended
| prncely fortunes. We have our Opera House,
where the lyric art Of Italy and Germany finds
no ignoble Interpretation; theatres, where the
| English, French and German drama, Of the
| highest as we'll as Of medium order-suited
| to the taste and intelligence OF the masses s-is
represented: and we have perfect army OF
| resident artists who occupy all our concert
halls. almost without intermsson, from ono
| years end to another. We may be assured,
| then, that many years will not elapss before
| we shall combine in the metropolis Of America
al, the destinations Of Paris with the solid
| attractions OF London.
EXPORTS FROM THE REBEL STATEs.-We lind
| in the ondon rebel organ (the Inder) list
which purports to be statement Gin part o!
the imports Of Southern cotton and tobacco
into England from the LIST OF September to the
lst of October. Tho total quantity OF cotton
received during that period is reported to have
been 1854 bales, the value Of which, In round
numbers, is about $1,OO0,0O0. OF the vessels
which carried this twenty Eve cleared from
Matamoros, the quantity brought by them
being ahout fYa thousand Abales. These