The Mountain Sentinel

A Compromise Monument.

We learn from the New Orleans Crescent that Wm. P. Ferrett, an esteemed citizen of that city, projects the construction of a handsome Union monument, at some point in Canal street, New Orleans. The monument is designed to perpetuate the memory of the Compromise series of measures, to typify the solid and noble national harmony they restored, and to foster, by its visible teachings, the love of unbroken and enduring Union. This is a noble and patriotic idea. The Crescent states that as "a whole the monument will be an excellent specimen of the composite style of architecture. From a base of about 46 feet in breadth and 18 feet in height, rises a graceful Corinthian shaft, 42 feet high, upon the beautiful capital of which rests a block of masonry on which will be inscribed the names of Webster, Cass, Cooper, Downs, Phelps, Mangum, Bright, King, Dickinson, &c.; above this again there is a place for a town clock, and above all, standing on a pedestal, will tower a statue of Henry Clay; the large-hearted old statesman, of whom to-day in all human probability, there is left only his memory and his imperishable fame."