Year: 1870




NKw YORK Crrr, Sept 10Th, 1870,


Editor Of tie Huraiian Gazette: When one


has been spending vacation time delightfully."- il


the country. the first few DAYS after return to


the city, before one thoroughly gets the harness


on again, especially il the mild summer weather


continues. are liable to be clouded by little


tender regret for the joys one has left behind


him- One can bear it quite vel during the


hours of business. when the rush. aud hurry. and


SUR Of the world give no place for pensiveness


but when the hours Of rest aud Stiffness recur
when evening settles over the city and ends the


business Of the day, leaving our hero to bis own


thoughts, though he have all the resources with


which Charles Reade could eudow him, vet the


chances are ten to one, that Of sudden he will


discover that there is something narrow and


oramping. unoanny and unwholesome about the
/ city and the blush of the evening or the sight


of the full moon climbing the heavens will make


him little sad. a little regretfa and briug into
his heart longing for the wood the sea, the viii
deruess, the blessed fields Of the country Your
correspondent pleads guilty of having been slightly
afflicted with this sort of melancholy for the past
few days after his return to the city, which,
though tull ever of people, he found still DESC
late Of the friends whose society is one OF the
chief soaees of city life. They had not yet
finished their summer rest.


Though New York has suffered less from the
drought this Summer than many other parts Of
the country, yet even in this city the effects of
heavens refusal to give drink to the thirsty earth
are plainly visible in the parks and open places
of the city, where the grass is wont to thrust up
its green blades.


If there is one thing for the possession of
which this city should give hearty thanks, it is
tha, noble and benefeent institution. Central
PARK. The stranger who has never visited this
place, or who saw it only years ago, can form
little idea, from description, os the beauty and
variety of landscape offered by this pleasure
ground. Under the fostering care of man is taste
and talent, and especially under the stimulating
energy Of mother Nature. who rests not night or
day, it is yearly becoming more perfect in its
culture. more natural and true in its wildness
This magnificent breathing place = the largest
lung of the ety-is daily thronged with visitors.
The fayorite time for driving or walking there is
in the latter part of the day


1t is hopeful sign for the moral aud aesthetic
culture of the city. that Central Park is becoming
more aud more a place of general resort for la
borers, mechanics clerks and business and profess
sonsl men on Sunday afternoons Here, on
pleasant days. you can see whole families enjoy
ing themselves old men, with their wives and
children young mel. with their sisters or sweet
hearts, keeping Sabbath holy while they bask IN
the sun. or sit in the shade, while they look at
the polar bear or the alligator or laugh at the
monkeys in their cages, while they wander at
will through the hiy region of - The Ram5le'
or saunter on the Mail or ambitiously take long
walks to the remote and more solitary portions
of the Park Central Park is about a mile wide, |
and extends ongitudinalIy from 59th to llOih
street.-a distance OF over two miles aud a half
When you think that this considerable tract of /
land is intersected by numerous roads, drives /
walks and paths. and offers great diversity of /
scenery, - hill. meadow. garden. wood, brook, /
torrent, lake, and grotto,-you can appreciate /
that here is scope and variety enough to test the
powers of the most ambitious pedestrian, OF
satisfy the ordinary appetite of an exeursonist.
The effect Of this charming combination Of art
and nature cap not but be happy and eevating
upon those who visit it, whether those visits are
made after church on Sunday, or after work on



A proposal is now being discussed to try the
experiment Of piseiculture.-whch has attained
such success in Europe-in the waters of Central
Park, which are admirably adapted for the pur-
pose. The uial would he of great scientific
interest and practical value, and if successful the
ish-breeding establishment of Central'Park might
serve as a centre from which other similar estab-
shments throughout the country could be sup
piled ~Itt choice young FISH or spawn, imported
from abroad.


The Union League Club have just erected a
colossal bronze statue of Lincoln. 1t stands
banking Union Square, to the southwest, as the
equestrian bronze Of Washington does to the
Like its neighbor this is also the
iesign of the well known artist, II. K Brown
The martyred President is represented as stand
ng in an easy, unsupported position with his
eft foot advanced, holding in his left hand the
document Of the Emancipation Proclamation to
which the seal Of the United States is attached
His right hand grasps a knot Of the military
,loak which the artist has skiIlfully thrown over
he citizen suit in which the rest Of his form is
'een-to be clad, in such way as to produce the
customary classical effect. The features, while
slightly idealized. are reproduced with almost
accuracy. The height Of the whole
monument is twenty-six feet-that Of the statue
S ten feet. Though hardly more than half a
lecade has passed since the nation mourned for
Lincoln, his memory las already gathered halo
bout it to which each passing year can not but
make an addition.
The arrival Of MadamoiseIIe Christine Nilsson.
he sweet Scandinavian singer, may be announced
5 the most important bit Of musical gossip that I
as occurred in America sir-f Tsnny Lind visited
his country Tickets for l-. ncerts have been
agerly bought up, and her first appearance before
\ American audience is to take place this
vening. On the evening Of her arrival. Miss :
Nilsson, who is a beautiful blonde. was the re- I
ipient Of an enthusiastic ssrenade, given By her
OuntTTmen the Swedes. and the Scandirayians of