Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-03-21
THE CARNIVAL AT NEW ORLEANS.

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tFrom the n. o. Crescent, Of Marchel
Mardi-Gras was blessed with bright, beauti-
full weather, and as consequence the city was
| alive with Mardi-Gras making and mummery
| Inc extent and variety of the street masquerad-
ing IN the afternoon exceeding anything of the
Kind we have seen for some years
| All the ''vsgrom" boys were out in all sorts
Of cheap harlequin and clown disguises, with
bags of flour, whitening each other and the ne
| groes, and leaving their f1oury tracks on the
banquetters in all parts Of the city. The grown
| up jolly boys galloped ON horseback up the town
and down, dressed and painted as Bedouin
Arabs, Indians, Turks, Chinese, Venetian cava-
1 lers, and African negroes. Groups of ludicrous
maskers of all descriptions went flying around
In cabs, buggies, furniture wagons and car
| rIages. All the cOurteSans in town appeared TO
| be out; many in male costume of all kinds from
that OF the primp Canal street dandy to the roll
| licking drunken sailor of Gallatin street and
thegreen hatboatman of Perdido street great
| many OF the more prosperous and stylish females
of this class went around in carriages, dressed
In fancy costumes of exceeding richness and
| beauty
Untold thousands of people lined the princi-
pal streets waiting for and laughing at the fly
| ing fooleries. From the lower part of the Third
| District to far up in the Fourth a distance of
| i've good miles, the streets were picturesque
with people in Mardi-Grass disguise; from little
children knee high to the largest sized adults
1t Is fair to estimate that not less than twenty
thousand people (tho great mass of course be-
ing children, negroes and miscellaneous grown
peoplel took part in yesterdays street masque-
rade.
In Gallitanai (the sailor region below Jack
son Square) all the females were out in mems
disguise, and most of the men were out i'm wo-
mans disguise. In the Faubourg Treme the
spectacles were such rs to exceed our powers of
| description. To sum up, New Orleans, in the
ofN r.
elry, at which residents looked and laughed as
OF yore, and which strangers regarded with the
| most perfect wonder and astonishment. Hun
dreds oflaughable collision took place between
different parties of maskerS, and between mas
kers and the admiring crowds. Our face aches
now rs we write, from the constant grin ii had
| to keep up during the spectacles of the after
noon.
The funniest thing we saw was at the corner
| Of Royal and Orleans street A troupe of gal
| Looping Arabs came in collision with furniture
| wagon, loaded with Venetian cOrsairs and
| splendid Circsssian slaves, supposed to have
| been rescued from the bloody Turks. who
were hOrsiDg around through other parts Of the
| city. How the fight started VIC could not dis
cover, but it was short fight, and beautiful
while it lasted
The Arabs dismounted from their horses and
| clambcred into the furniture car. There was a
cracking of whip handles over skulls, a tearing
| on Vi mhSks, jerking around OF halr, SPILL
| ing of Circassian slaves into the street, and
general rough-and-tumb all round, frantic
| interference by the police, and a final separa-
| tion ofthe cOmbatants, leaving IN excited crowd
of spectators admiring the insane furniture
| wagon driver, who remained there for half an
hour, swearing and brandishing his whip-hau-
| die In an 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 un-
| questionably bad. But the staid and sober por-
ton Of the community turned out to see and
laugh at the ludicrOus spectacles; doubtless ac-
ceptlng the merriment of the mummers as a
polite apology for their existence in the city,
and not begrudging them their own fashion of
enjoyment for one day in the year.
|
DIGSIrY OF THE CLOTH.-The Rev. W s.
Burton. pastor of the Universalist church, Day
| ton, Ohio, recently addressed a note to Elder
Jacob Knapp, of the Baptist church, at the
same place, inviting the latter to public dis
| cus5iOn of the point whether the Bible teaches
the final holiness of the human race. Elder
Knapp responds in a long letter, in which he
| eontended that CniyerSalists were all mad
| men, who ought to be sent to some lunatic
asylum. He declines the joint discussion for
several reasons, the fifth and sixth are thus
stated by him
3. have never known Universalist Minis
ister, land have known many of them) who
| would acknowledge or own up when he was
used up; but like goose. when thoroughly
picked" not pin feather left, and thrown
over the fence, would jump up and run after
you Kissing.
8. decline the challenge upon the same
principle that the lion in the fable did, when
met by a skunk and challenged to battle.
The lion declined-the skunk asked, " Are you
afraid ," mo, said the lion, - but, if have
battle with you, you will always have the
honor of fighting with lion; but as for me,
| everybody will know, for months to come, that
l have been in company with a skunk"
Yours, with a sincere desire and prayer to
God that you may cast away your damning he
resy, recover yourself out Of the snare of the
devil, and become as jealous in defending the
truth, as you are in promoting a lie.
| JACOB KNAPP.
A great many persons affect to be Mortified
and disgusted with the harsh language which
occasionally finds its way into newspaper dis
cussiOns, but we venture to say that, as a gene
raj thing. controversies between reverend gen.
tlemen fall quite as low.
| SOMETIMES TOO FAsTIDIOUS.-A very worthy
gentleman at Rouen is at present receiving a
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