The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-29
BALTIMORE.
MONDAY, MARCH %, 1858.

Fashionable New York is in a flutter of expecto-
ton. Clever Mr.. Ullman, so popularity known rs
successful manager of concerts and oneros is
about TO import new sensation. Fanny Ellsler
mas long since won her golden cstanets and retired
from iiie scene OF her triuml his. The ovation to
Dickens has been cancelled by his d" American
Notes for General Circulation" Jenny Lind has
become Jenny Lind Goldsmith, and no longer con-
SCENTS to exhibit her marvellous vocal powers ut the
bidding of 2. 7. Barnum. The skill and charlat-
ansm OF Leopold de Meyer are already half forgot
ten. Ole Bull has returned TO his fatherland, a
sadder and wiser man. Rachel, who played her
tragic role TO the fluterng leaves of play-hooks.
done into execrable English for the information of
wealthy parrenus whose early education had been
neglected. has breathed her latest sigh and all is
dust and cold grey ashes now within the spent
volcano of her heart. Thalbergs 'taminecs'' have
become FLAT stale and Improbable" and even
the violin of Vieux Temps has lost, in measure,
lis power to charm.
&c Alalibran's dead, Duvernay's fed,
Tagoni has not yet returned in her stead
Tiger Tim, now tell me true,
W hat can gentleman find to do?"
| Mr.. ullman has undertaken TO respond to this
important question. After Il careful survey of the
whole European field of amusemcnts, he has de
cided TO introduce as an attractive novelty the
'bat maSq"e." Not the vulgar masqucrade-cari-
catures have already rendered That ridiculons-but
something Of far higher artistic grade far more
pqant and refined in some of its phases far more
intellectual, and-shall we make the acknowledp-
mcnt FAR Witter and more sensuous In what
It's attractions really consist may be gathered from
a description Of a "Bat OD0u," to he found in
another column
However, Mr.. UlIman has announced his inten-
lion to introduce into New York the s>bal ,oosoue ~
and the Hrald welcomes the insidious novelty
with a flourish of trumpets. Musard the great
Nlusard the Incompatible Partisan Musard, is TO
preside over the arrangements, and everything is
10 be puryeyed on a scale commensurate with the
Importance Of the occasion.
Moreover we are gravely assured that ono I'M
proper persons will he admtted'-a feat which
we apprehend, will be found on trial remarkably
difficult to accomplish Mr.. Ullman seems to i'm
agine he can niuse into the 'JaL 1aasoue, the
gravity and decorum of a Presidential reception.
L HtLSEUf
a refined sort of saturnalia. Its very essence is
license loosely subjected to certain conventional
regulations. And besides, how is Mr.. Ullman to
discriminate between proper and mpropcr persons ?
VIII he be governed by typographical considera-
tonS and exclude all who live below Twelfth
street? or will he measure responsibility by the
rent roll OF the applicants, or their commercial
standing on Change? Do the 'proprietes' in
variably attach themselves 10 wealth and social
position? Is not ''ginger hot in the mouth" at
the West end rs well as elsewhere? Grant. how
ever that decorum is preserved, what would be
the effect upon the ''Jdl mdsgue? ?" Would not lis
spirit evaporatc in the process, and like cham
payne exposed for twcnty-four hours to the air,
leave but vapid and disagreeable residuum? If
Il "bm n'asque' is restricted to an observance of
'Ihe properties, > it is stripped of all that renders
it ralatable 10 that class upon whose patronage its
| success could alone depend
| We regard the Introduction of this FASCINATING,
but demoralizing species of amusement as serious
ly 10 be deprecated. We have no faith in the
ability of Mr.. Ullman, or any one else TO purge it
OF its most dangerous elements He may So WIN
now the company that their social standin" may
be placed beyond dispute; but, behind the mask
and domino, men and women are Governed by I'M
pulses far different from those that control them
under circumstances and conditions more open 10
public observation. And so, in spite of Musard
and his admirable corps of musical assistants we
earnestly hope that the whole scheme will prove a
signal failure. We have among us already too
many allnrements to vice without importing ad-
ditional incentives from abroad