The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-03-08

~ NV us TOOTH 10 see the g9oo tnlngs ret
that cannot b., tor there anything but courtesy
dhplayed Rude orders to stand back salute the
ear on every side, and the genteme with rosettes
are pushing about as vigorously as any one. Such
crowd.snch tanning! The stairs running up
What Rnmbug THEE s' c sSs .n.l laay
hurra hnrra!n .Ten dollars ticket, and almost
starved % :" Ha! ha ha J! "For Gods sake,
give way. gentlemen; here's lady tainted p
ten thousand pa,dons, madam but the fact is
Hello you, BIZ. that's my cont You re tugging atp
Very sorry, indeed" "Three cheers Tor the
us where we can get something to eat!' "Ul
stairs lots OF progv' Up we went, friend tug
eng at our arm through the crowd, to get mouth
full with us. We rushed into the room: can,
Iherep' We rushed forward to the place lndi
Gated, and saw-what, think you 1.-THE skele,
ton of some kind Of fowl, with not as much
meat lett on as would furnish lunch for 9
chameleon, and at feast fifty hungry looking
noras tueglng at 1t Don't laugh at our predl
eament, good friends II ye love us-for, seri
Ously, we assure you 1t was no laughing matter
In vain we proceeded on voyages of discovery to
the different tables; the skeleton was the only
TODD in the room, ard even i was rapidly disap-
but moment beiure, had been. in expectation,
raised to the ninth heaven, utterly Frustrated by
the blow We and our Canadian friend, III b W.,
were IN most perllous condition. In the midst
OF Christian community we were literally starry
ing 10 death, and nothing wherewih to sustain
sinking human nature but champagne and cigars.
Bui why dwell upon our sufirrings why harrow
up your gentle feelings with the recital? We de-
scended 10 the ball room, and endeavored, with
Spartan fOrtitude, to forget We were hungry
The room had, by this time, somewhat thinned,
although II was still very much crowded., and the
heat was noerabe. One of the foreign minis
ters or attaches, we could not learn which, tainted
in going up the stairs from the ball room He tell
saved from being hart.
Dancing was kept up with great spirit till late
or rather early hour.
Some adventurous spirits made their way into
the supper room about two o'clock. From their
report there little lost by being excluded there
from There was then nothing 10 eat but some
stew ed oysters, about as palatable sole leather;
bad ice cream and still worse attendance. Mr.
Miller has reaped undylng fame by the occas' on.
The ladies' and the gfn,ltmen's cOaking rooms
were The scenes OF the greatest disorder. In the
fOImtr not thing could be found in Its place.
Closks, shawls, bonnets, DC. were promiscuously
thrown in heaps by the attendants, and hours
were spe mt IN trultless attempts to recover them.
Many ladies, indeed, gave up the search as fruit
less, ard went home without single thing but
their ball dresses. Here again the management
was shameful: The genlemen's room, If possible,
was worse. No outstanding that so much time
had been spent in tcketlng the articles, nothing
could be found. The f. lows who had TAX en-
cbsree Of the things were completely bewlldered.
When we got there, all the COED coats, hats, and
umbrellas, had been gone at least an hour, and
the attempt to get the proper articles gwen up
as useless. Hats were tried Oh, and If they fitted
1t was all right; coat was coat, and seized
accordingly; umbrellas, proverbially public pro
perry, wee picked up without even looking al
them. As to overshoes, they were abandoned tt
tker fate.
Thus ended the grand national Inauguration
Ball. 1t Is pity the arrangements were not bet
TER carried Oui but still allowances must be made
There were at least five thousand persons pres nj
an the managers, PERHAPS not very aS taat, unde
crowd From all that we could see, there was moi
accommodation for five hundred guests, much
less five thousand. It's all over now, however, and
there is Ut in being too critical. II there had
been better arrangements, even in the CLOAK rooms,
il would have been OF great advantage. Every
hing passed eff pleasantly, and if there was no
great et gance In the detail, there was plenty OF
fun j.