The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-18

- From the Neoo Orleans Crescent, March en.l
iHE CARNIVAL AT New ORLEANs.-Mardi- Gras
was blessed with bright, beautiful weather and as
a consequence the city was alive with Mardi- Gras
masking and mummery. The extent and variety of
the street masquerading in the afternoon exceed
ing anything of the kind we have seen for some
years.
All the "vagrom'' bows were out in all sorts of
cheap harlequin and clown DISCUSSES with bags of
nour, whitening each other and the negroes, and
leaving their houry tracks on the banouettes in all
parts OF the CITY, The grown up Jolly boys galop-
ed on horseback up the town and down. dressed |
and painted as Bedouin Arabs, Indians Turks Chi
nese, Venetian cavaliers, and African negroes.
Groups OF ludcrous maskers of all conceivable des-
criptons went lying around in cabs, buggies. fur
niture wagons, and carriages.
Untold thousands of people lined the principal
streets, waiting for and laughing at the flying foole-
ries. From the lower part of the Third District to
FAR up in the Fourth, distance of five good miles
the streets were picturesque with people in Mardi-
Gras disguise; from little children knee-high to the
largest sized adults 1t is fair to estimate that not
less than twenty thousand people (the great mass
OF course being children negroes and miscellane-
Gus grown people) took part in yesterdays street
masquerade.
In Gallitania (the sailor region below Jackson |
square, all the females were out in mems disguise
and most OF the men were out in women's disguise |
In the Faubourg IRENE, the spectacles were such
as TO exceed our powers of description. To sum up
New orleans in the afternoon Pandemonium |
OF fantastic revelry, at which residents looked and
laughed as OF yore, and which strangers regarded
with the most perfect wonder and astonshment-
hundreds of aughabe collisions took place between
different parties of maskers, and between maskers
and the admiring crowds. Our face aches now as
we write, from the constant grin it had to keep up
, during the spectacles of the afternoon.
The funniest thing we was at the corner of
Royal and Orleans streets troop of galloping
Arabs came i'll collision with a furniture wagon |
loaded with Venetian corsars and splendid Crcas-
sian slaves, supposed to have been rescued from
the bloody Turks, who were horsing around
through other parts of the city. How the fight
started, could not discover, but it was short
fight and beautiful while it lasted. The Arabs
dismounted from their horses, and clambered into
the furniture car. There was cracking of whip
handles over skulls, tearing off of masks, jerk
ing around by hair, splitting of Circassian slaves
into the street, general rough-and- tumble all
round, frantic interference by the police, and
final separation of the Notwithstanding an ex-
cited crowd of spectators admiring the insane fur
niture-wagon driver, who remained there for half
an hour swearing and brandishing his handle,
in agony of desire for satisfaction from any one
or all of the Arabs who, to his great grief did not
return.
The morality of the general turnout was unques-
tonably bad. But the stad and sober portion of
the community turned out to see and laugh at the
ludicrous spectacles; doubtless accepting the me-
rment of the mummers polite apology for
their existence in the city, and not begrudging
them their own fashion of enjoyment for one day in
the year.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HoNEsrY--The St. Louis
stance of the honesty prevailing in some sections
of the West:
''Our attention has been called to most remark
able case OF Judicial wrongdoing in Lee county,
Iowa. which is well calculated to bring dishonor on
the bench, and disgrace upon the State that con-
tains such courts. 1t appears that the Legislature
of Iowa, in January, 1853, abolished two terms of
the District Court in Lee county, for that year
This was meant a relief measure, or practically
as stay law against the collection of debts. It
was hard measure to creditors, nevertheless they
submitted with good grace, trusting to get their
dues after while. The stay law expired the first
OF this year. but at the February session of the Lee
county District Court just past, the Judge dismiss
ed the petit jury, and continued the civil cases
(about 1907 on the docket, till the fourth Monday
in June! In the meantime, debtors in Lee county,
who are sued, making way with their property,
by conveyances to fathers, mothers, brothers,
friends, and raising barriers of years of expensive
litigation against those whose money and means
they are In possession of! Many St. Louis credi-
tors, some of them quite poor men, are reduced by
this unjust act to the verge of bankruptcy and
actual distress, whilst their debtors in Keokuk,
sheltered by an 'unjus: judge, mock. at their de-
mandS for pay"
In the same mail by which the above item came
to US, we find, also, the following:
"The treasurer of Dubuque county, Iowa, one
'OBrien,' has turned out to be defaulter to the
amount of one hundred and eight thousand dollars.
One OF his operations may be thus stated: He was
sent to New York to negotiate some Dubuque bonds
and 500 was given him to pay expenses. Having
u
he returned, and affirmed that he had obtained 50
cents on the dollar for them. The difference, which
wentinto his own pocket amounted to SIS, 000."
EFFECT OF THE SICKLES TRAGEDY IN TAMMANY
HALL.-The New York Herald says: The unfortu-
nate tragedy in Washington in which MIR. Sickles
was concerned, begins to produce strange
movements about Tammany Hall. 1t is generally
supposed that the sad affair removes Mr.. Sickles
from all political position for long time to come
1t is well known that for the last or three years
he has been the most efficient man and leader in
defeating Fernando Wood, and ousting him from
Tammany Hall. Now that Sickles is in some
measure out of the way, would not be surprised
to see Wood come back to Tammany, for he was
the ablest man connected with that institution
till Sickles developed genius and talent to cope
with him. If the ex-Mayor could go back to the
old party wigwam, and undertake the regulation
OF the concern, it will be grand stroke against
the Albany Regency and the rogues in that direc-
ti5n.
RAILROAD RESPoNSIBIIITY.-AtCi Cincinnati a iudp
ment has just been affirmed in the General Term of
the Superior Court, which is of interest to travel
lers and railroad companies. A gentleman pur-
chased a ticket in Washington, from general
agent OF all the lines, through to Cincinnati. When
he arrived there his baggage was missing and he
subsequently sued the Little Miami Railroad Com
pany tor its value, and Judgment was recovered
in the Court below. This was affirmed upon the
ground that the ticket was recognized by the de-
PENDANTS, which sufficient evidence of the au-
thority of the agent at Washington. There were
no circumstances to show that there was division
SeparatiOn of contracts In he various nns in