The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-04-24

NEW YoRK, April Is, 1858.


NEW YoRK, April IL, 1858.
/ l ought not, perhaps for charity's
sake, to rend in twain the veil Of the tenn
| pie of the Worlds industry, whcreat the
great Charity Ball was given last week.
That association was both = failure and
success. As ball it was the greatest
since "the great globe ITSELF was tossed
into space and wentspinning in the plan
etary dance round the sun; but, unlike
its orbicular antelope, it did not whirl in
the giddy mazes of the dance with the
harmony and regularity of planetary law,
aud soon fell into chaos
At midnight, the time when the great
est number was present and the best or
der prevailed. the scene was one Of une-
quelled splepdor. More than 5000 peo-
pie must have been on the floor and in
the galleries at that hour In the Gen.
ire of the Palace ranged on circular
scatfolding were the band and orchestra,
who alternated in discoursing the music
of the spheres. From the axis this ry.h-
mic rotundity the ball departed from the
curvilinear and took on a rectangular
form. Four double lines Of dancers,
each line more than hundred feet long
and thousand feet strong, extended
from the orchestra as centre to each
point of the compass, forming aperfect
cross, glittering with the twinkle of fif-
teen or twenty thousand eight fantastic
toes" The other spaces on the floor
were crowded with p, omenadcrs and look
ers on. From the front angle of one Of
the galleries, nearly over the orchestra, I
obtained coup d'aH of the whole mass
i've, moving panorama at once, and as
the evolutions Of the dancers produced
at every interval a measured and method
ic change, | seemed for the moment to
be gazing in upon vast and vivid -colored
kaleidoscope Then scattered here and
there stood various groups of statuary in
marble. "The Amazon" on horseback
in deadly conflict with tiger, and espe-
cially the majestic proportions of the
equestrian statue of Washington lowered
up among the crowd like giants among
pigmies Various flags, banners and de-
vices Aoated from the main pillars of the
building, and over all, the glare and and
glitter of 5000 gas jets lighted up a
scene of the rarest splendor and magnif-
icence But it was too brilliant to keep.
The demon of discord was thrown
among the happy throng in this wise ::
Bacchus you know is a very dear and
usually altogether too near a relative of
Terpsichorc. Well, there was temple
within the Temple, consccrated to His
Joliness, and many went in thereat to
worship, some "to smile" and others to
harden their hearts; but al! came out in
turiated and unreasoning devotoes, sing
ing praises to their god, and announcing
in poetic numbers that they "wouldn't
go home TILL morning" Thercupon sew
eral thousand resolved that they would
90 home at once, and then there was
rash for the cloak and dressing rooms,
bully protectors of fainting ladies broke
over all rules and ratings in quest of fem
mime overgear, waiting girls became con-
fused and swooned, shelves came down
with crash, the ticketed bundles tum-
bled into an indiscrminate mass Of mil
lnery and dry goods, from which thieves
now broke through and stole the choicest
and the balance by cart loads was taken
possession of by the police, while the real
owners lid to 90 home bonnet and
shawless, or enveloped in oyereoats of
their companions. The mass Of clothing
occupied the slcepless attention of the
Executive Committee for the balance of
the week to classify, select and return to
the rightful owners.
Such was the breaking up of this, in
several senses, monster ball. The pro-
lection was well managed up to the sale
of the last ticket, and then the reins of
rule and management were dropped. and
the concern was left as if it were huge
brass clock to whizz and whirl and run
itself down as fast rs it liked. The re-
suit, however, to the charitable fund was
a decided success--a clear profit of near
ly 1000, which covers multitude Of
sins, and affords consola,ory reflections
to the myriad of uncovered backs.
Our Catholic friends tried the same
method Of rep'enishing the Orphan As |
sylum on Monday evening this week, at
the same Crystal Palace, and having the |
fr'ghttul example Of their Protestant
bretheren before their eyes, they of |
course danced out the night with less
confusion and-less cash.
The sins of New York are proyerbial
and widely known. Indeed we are now
in sackcloth, to multitude of
sins, both of omission and commission
but the sins CT our Street Commission
are stencil in our own nostrils, The
offence is too rank to "smeil to Heaven -
and eternal justice commends the nause-
atlng efiuvia to our own noses. It is as
if all the offal and garbage, and standing
pools OF the cutters had emptied their
LITERAL drainage into the very Office of the
Street Commissioner, where for years
they have corrupted the records, rust
eaten the treasury and mortified the peo-
pie. All this, however, is not to be won
Tered at, for have we not a Deylin