s. t.1860x. CENTRAL PAEF Its Picturesque Malls, its Imiting Lawns, Crystal IWi*tains, Lakes, Music, Menagerie, &c. Thomson, in his beautiful poem, " The Land That We Live in," has admirably expressed that mulium inparvo, which animates the hearts of aU really true Americans : "The Land that we live inthe Land that we live in. Oh I where is the heart does not think it more fair Than the brightest of scenes to which nature has given Her clearest of sun and her purest of air ?" But, if Americans are prone to be proud and boastful of the greatness, grandeur and glory of their country, Kew Yorkers may justly feel that in their magnificent Centbal Pabk, they certainly have an object worthy of their highest taste and admiration, as well aa that of strangers from every point of the compass throughout the civilized globe. No description that we can give in our limited space will do it justice ; it must be seen to be appreciated. Its spacious shady malls afford some of the most inviting panoramic drives, gallops, or promenades for husband, wife, parent, child or lover, within the comprehension of all tnat is to be desired or deserved by earthly mortals. In area it embraces nearly 1200 acres, containing all the natural elevations and depressions of surface, peculiar to a landscape in the wilds of the Adirondacks. From its highest elevation a view of the great city with its teeming millions of men and money may be had^while on either side roll the majestic rivers, East and North, on to New York Bay, and thence to the sea. Steamships and sailships and floating palaces, are seen gliding hither and thither over the glimmering, shimmering waters, where the eyes take in, as it y ^re, with one glance, the united flags and commerce of a world. By our side, in the disiance, up the slope, down the lawn, on the rock, or, in brief, wherever we cast the eye, a nobie tree, clinging vine, tender flower or rare exotic arrests our attention and demands and receives willing admiration and love in bounty bestowed. The emerald grass plots and carpets of nature's charming lawns, literally covered with the prettiest of girls and boys ail attired in their Saturday or Sunday go-to-meeting clothes present a picture fit for an earthly paradise. Here the rich and poor meet together, with bright eyes and clean shining facesand even the humblest of Gotham's citizens have the exalted consciousness of feeling freeand if good and virtuous, of being on a level with the learned, the opulent and the great. *n Large sums have been expended in erecting crystal fountains and constructing picturesque lakes, and splendid statuary, all of which, when viewed and mirrored 'neath Heaven's bright sky above, with the fresh bracing airs which fill and expand the lungs, while the ears are delighted by dulcet strains of sweetest music from the pavilion, must ever have a most beautiful softening, chastening and christianizing influence over the heart. The instantaneous effect of these delighful scenes is beheld at once in the thousands of happy, cheerful countenances around. At the Menagerie, which is as free to the poor as the rich, a golden opportunity is offered all to contemplate and study natural history from a practical standpoint. Here is the sly Fox with his Yankee cunning; the beautiful ''Bird of Paradise," the eweet-songed Canary, Baltimore Oriole, Mocking Bird and richly plumed Goldfinch and Tomtit, besides many other varieties of birds and beasts, too numerous to mention in our limited space. Truly may we exclaimCentral Park is our earthly Eden! It is the lungs and life of Gotham. It has cost many millions, and will cost many more before our lovers of good taste and refined elegance will cease to take pleasure in its improvement and adornment. Its magnificent proportions and artistic ornamentations are intended to eclipse anything which London, Pans, St. Petersburg!!, Vienna, Brussels, Borne or Madrid can boast of, or, for that matter, any city in the Old or New World. When the Central Park Commissioners can pronounce their work completed, we shall behold terraced hillsides surmounted with antique and quaint rustic summer-houses and miniat elms, avenue, aroma of flowers and cooled by the mo^tuie of evaporating fountains, rilis and artificial lakes. Birds of every variety known to our latitude will warble their sweetest notes of praise from every tree &nd shrub* whilo man, the pride and glory of the Maker, will rule over and enjoy ail. _