New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-02
q Terrible Officer.
! STORY Or rHE. aUsrnTas PafscIpArsTr1.rEss.

along tne passage Wnen ne c0lne8 home at night
from the hotel or casino. 1T is more oYerWheInl-
ing still to hear him in energetic conversation
Il with his man servant of d morning, He treats
the Wallachian family as IL they were his born
serfs and servants. They keep ont Of his ways
therefore, as much as it is convenient to do
J perhaps more. His foot fall is signal for the
4 prompt flight Of all within hearing of it. When
he clears his throat the maid-serv vant trembIea-
4 II he coughs in the night the whole house is
thrown into q state of alarm.
It is not unnatural under these circumstan-
4 ces that when the pleasant Wallachian family
| gave ball on New Years Eve the terrible of
! Ger is not invited. He is not invited because
there is not q lady who would dance with him
because his presence is insupportable ~ bis
very entry into the room would cause the
n guests TO quake and fear.
I. The Austrian ensign, hoveyeTs doss not ap-
pear to appreciate these reasona ct q sufficient
value He is hnffed at being forgotten on d fes-
tlval day, as most people are who have rendered
themselves disagreeable previously. He makes
these sentiments known to the family on hig
return home between nine and ten o clock, by
sending them an abrupt order to leave of maxi
ing q noise, which is likely to disturb his rest
i The servant who delivers this message ereatey 4
much astonishment, also some laughter He Is
generally supposed to be the harmless agent Of
rather q far-fetcned practical joke. The guests
converse together agreeabty shout him IN little
groups for q few minutes, and then the subject
is forgotten. VI s$ {s#s
4 Forgotten for this night is one Of the great.
est festivals Of the Greek Church, and everT
good Christian is bound 10 be merry accord
Ia gly. Our guests are merry and the ball goes
on. Now, a Wallachian Dali is BY no means
the milk -and-Water affair Of q ball in Eaton
Place West. There are few wall flowers who
sit in stately silence throughout the evening",
looking as unhappy IS possible; there are NO
Hong faced gentlemen who stand about in door
ways, and will not be comforted; there are no
ishy people who won't dance, can't dance The
J, guests assemble at about o'clock in the eve
ming, with fixed determination to enjoy them
selves They dance in the most vigorous man
] ner till midnight. Then they have8a solid
= Blt-doWn supper, seasoned With o. very consider
: able condiment Of Irritation. They then begin
! again, and see each other home in the morning,
h just as you and should like to see home Mics
] Brown and Mrs. Farley. ss g5
t Such is the highly ornamental design for an
evenings entertainment marked out on the pre-
= sent occasion. So the polka succeeds the waltz,
9 and the quadrille is followed by the maznrka,
and all prudent people who love 10 talk to-
y gether IN corners have long ago entered into
it rangements for the cotillion. That fascinating
dance is, indeed, at its height. The performers
are Whirling in many and pretty confusion,
!" picking up chiefs. pulling crackers, pre-
senting bouquets and gay ribbons to each other,
after the fashion Of the thing. Then the door
y opens suddenly and fearful spparition appears
in the midst Of them That apparition is sup
II posed at first to be holiday Joke Of Christmas
1t time. The ladies scream delightedly, and the
m gentlemen laugh, and whisper consoiation.-
a Nothing can be pleasanter for no one has re-
r cogpized in the long figure habited in a scanty
Up dressing gown and dingy drawers, the august
d person Of the Austrian ensign. He soon en-
y lightens them.
e ssWhat is the meaning of all this noise Y he
n thunders, in terrible voice. g Did I not send
e you message to be quiet Is this pot-houae,
&c where you can ask whom you please, or is it my
II quarters' Put out the lights, and send home
d these people. I cannot 60 to sleep for their
: rackety doings.
Z I" Hark ye. sir! Z answers the host, now put
I on his mettle. g and my family have borne a
y good deal from you, but We cannot bear this I
le beg that you will at once retire to your own
1t ROOM y s&575iss 5E
1t s So you will have it, them says the AUS
~ trian ensign. growing much irrisated. 81 I'M
e, derstand, therefore, that / arrest you all es
ne rioters" Then, he disappears, and, summoning
at his soldiers, they surround the house, and he
n absolutely does imprison the New Years party
ne He is q man Of his word, 8Ef4 ;1 ss
ed Now, among the guests is an aid -de-camp Of
the hospodar, or prince of this unhappy coun-
SO try. He is required to be- out on duty at q
US certain hour, and when he sees that the house
~ is surrounded he grows seriously alarmed All
nd the doors are guarded, but there is still win
ae dow through which he might escape. He
g. squeezes through it, and luckily makes good his
exit, leaving the rest Of the company in contine-
be ment. Ia
at He tells the Prince what has happened, and
ina few days there is q rumor that the Aus
re trian ensign has been placed under arrest also;
be but nobody believes it, and all idea Of his seri-
ot GUS punishment for SO strange q freak, is, Of
ly course, out Of the question. It is said, how
ever, to have been sad and singular sight
in enough to see the guests file out in the morning
I1rha fha dS we'd Thay1 IN
". their ball dresses, and their carriages had
If been sent away. They had to wade through
y. the mud, cheerless and Wretched.
SO sAnd So, Colonel, are these things to be CON
e, tinued? The feelings of the Wa1lachians are
u very much exasperated about them" said q
O. while conVersing on this and some singular
ne events. W
OF "What will you have % was the reply II
y is the same in Italy. Scarcely q night passes
IN without some riot or murder. 1t must always
by be the same where there is an army Of occupa-
9. ton. At Clausenberg last year, too, o thing
as occurred precisely similar to that we are now
n discussing. Some of the natives gave an inso-
lent ball. TO which they did not ask our officers
be and the consequence was that we stopped their
ne balls altogether, Why's balls, sir are as bad at
clubs They are often dangerous assemblies ol
lie people disafeoted to the government. If not,
)" why exclude -
ed s'Ah, indeed! Then there are to be no more
d. balls at Bucharest, perhaps 7"
nd And there have been none
he ----
rt KISSING PIG.-John G. Bennett, the mar
et who got up the first hem show in Boston, is NOV
as q fancy agrieulturist in Iowa, and relates til.
as following incident, connected with his first efor
,ot to introduce an improved breed Of hogs ss Th,
To first improved lot Of hogs which brought tt
full Iowa, were of the famous Mackay stock Ths
IT. Maekay hogs of Daniel Webster we're the bes
of of that breed ever imported into America; ani
he Mr.. Webster wrote me at Plymouth, from Wash
.ar ington, to go to Marshfeld aud select from hi
~ best samples to introduce into this State, and
promptly availed myself of his eher. Will
Dr. this stock passed through Van Buren, count,
~ on the day of the State election, and some 0
'D' the ssoyereigns' were rather tight ant
ing they, as well as the sober ones, were attractet
to our wagon on seeing hogs, fowls, ducks
the geese, Maltese cats, etc. all Gagged in the sam
is Conveyance, and as the pigs we're rather extra
s one of the stight' ones pointed to the cage 0
| of the Mackays, and asked Where is that phi
ish from2 That pig said I, SIS from Mr.. Web
9 is sters Marshfell farm sWell,' said he, that
ers as near as I ever expected to come to old Dan
RS SO I'll have kiss and suting the action to th