The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-14


an6 France, under the contract of Mr.. Preston.
Buy il; try it. Very true, the line has failed
between New York and Liverpool-tws ports
possessing some commercial resources; but stiil
the ships have failed from the withdrawal Of
the government supplies. Perhaps the govern
ment may be more liberal to this line trans
ferred to the South. If not, the beet plau. per
hsps, would be to get each of the Southern
States concerned in the enterprise to put in .
subscription of eight or ten thousand year.
say for five years for the first agreement, to
give the scheme good start. Thus it may be
made to pay in the course Of fifteen OF twenty
years Who knows: What say our philosophers
of the Southern Commercial Convention Nov
ia your time.
Fancy Balls ard Society at Wasningteu-
Grand Lobby Convention In Dlsgulse-
Public attention has been directed to the nA-
tiOnal capital during the past winter by . &c
ries of occurrences more exciting than credita-
BILE. There have been fights ON the floor of Con-
gress knock downs In the rotunda battles in
the streets, rencontres in barr0oms and incipi-
ent duels by the dozen. These latter affairs,
! however. owing TO the commemorate discretion
of our Legislators, remained in the bud. The
time has thus been passed in those light and
cheerful entertainments so much in keeping
with the dignity of the Senator, and which have
| afforded the attaches Of the legations 80 many
piq,sdnt paragraphs for their private let
| teIs But the best of entertainments sometimes
| pail upon the appetite. Washington society at
| last became bored with fights. Whist if one hs-
norable member did pull another honorsb
members nose, OF kick him down stairs, were
| not the honorable members continually doing
so! What if party of "swipers'-that is the
elegant rame Of the Baltimore rulians
come into the District and break each others
head under the shadow OF the Capitci2 Had
not that sort of amusement become stale by Gus
! tom! 1t is not coed to have always partridge
! for dinner; so we Hnst get up something new.
and that new thing il u grand fancy bah, to which
everybody shall COME, and where under the in
! Buence of punch, champagne segars, crinoliue
and Strasbourg pies, we shall arrange all the
lobby business for the balance OF the session.
Thus satin the log rollers the axe grinders, the
private bill engineers, the patent extenders, and
all the lobby, great and small, big and little.
! Well, the ball came of The editors were in
vited to the number Of seventy, but only seven
accepted. Whether these mysterious seven re-
presented the seven saeraments, the seven goldea
candlestcks the seven churches the seven
| wonders Of the world, or the seven deadly sins,
we cannot say-more likely the latter than the
former. They seem 10 have been drawn chiefly
from the class Of oicgcniers who conduct the
penny papers at Washington, and whs
eagerly seized upon this splendid oppor-
tunity to fill themselves to the brim
with oysters and champagne, ana to pick up
a few pennies by reporting the next day the full
names Of ladies who presumed they were at
tending private party. The seven rag pick
ing Jenkinses, however, don't stand upon small
points of etiquette and so their seventy nine
inch sheets are full of the BALL and the dresses,
and the punch, ana the supper-particulariy
| the latter
! We have before us the accounts of three Jen.
kinscs, an embarrassment Of riches in that way
They combine, as Jerrold says, the kecnncs
of the razor with the brillisncy Of The door.
plate One starts or with the assertion tina,
this ball is the greatest affair OF the kind sine.
that at which Gustsvus of Sweden met with
fatal accident. AZ the Washington affair ws
bal costume. and the other Lnl r.asgae e
domino ball. and therefore not at all SIM
| lar, and as Jenkins cannot be supposcl
TO have attended all the balls for the Lax
century, there might be q little doubt about tn
| propricty Of this neat figure However, it.
pretty, and let II pass 1t next appears tina
the givers Of the ball have Family dctons
| ry." In which there's no such word IA fall
and 70, on account Of the mission the ball suo
ceeded. Jenkins after ''treasuring in his hear
some recollee.ions," repairs to the punch rooa
where 1.-TWO gigantic bowls were kept suppilet
with the most delectable beyerages--onc spirit
uous, the other vinous" All the Jenkins.s
| speak enthusiastically Of this punch. hf.s
punch jenkins Frustrated himself at The shrir.
! Of the ladies that received, who "da
| look magniGcently.' Ono was a narchioocs.
above the usual sEe'-(what Is tn
usual size y; the other was a Greek girl-sons
distance off that-with silver boots ard CO.
which must have had u curious effect. Bcc. alb,
WIS stationed the official reporter of the affair
and OF the penny lobby organ, and nfler Dim Se
bear Of the President. several members Of he
Cabinet, Senators. &c, who. being gsntlemn.
were dressed as gentlemen Gad got out as s'oo
as possible. The TaIkish Admiral came. andwe
are not surprised 10 hear that he was much
amused He was much amused with the
! New York CouDeilmen. Jenkins further els
US that Lord Napier, in coart costume. was aine
representative Of British diplomacy We
are not aware that ais loriship has ocns
anything TO deserve this puff. and bp
| be will go to work nj once. Sir W. u
ouseley ceuae "a Knight Of the Bath, 's
whether he means to throw cold water on III
Nicaragua treaty we are not Informed. BoT
we have the usual lists 81 Pompsdours, Frenci
Kiags, flower girls, Spanish and Italian pee