New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-19
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THE BALI AT BARNSTABLE.

OF course, you would ike to hear from me about
the Ball before its pleasant impressions shall have
faded as FADE the photograph Of tho lovely from the
depths OF The albums in which friendship tries to
hold them fast-vainly, al, vainly! This sum
shadow Of Theodore Parker seemed like bis living
self two years ago. So looked he, 20 smiled be, 30
peered the keen eyes out from the shade of the over
banging forehead seeing go much, and thinking SO
much more. But il Las been slowly losing ts actual
ity ever SINCE and looks now like the ghost Of the
great man, gazing Tanly through the long vista
which separates him from his wonted works and
WAYS This John Brown that matches him on the
other side promises TO be persistent as if sudden
death had stamped hin with its surprise forever.
The Horace Mann that hangs between the Hero
of thought and the Hero Of action has mlder brow
than either. There is a gentle mediation in his
countenance, if he fully appreciated the merits OF
both. This is a group of men TO thank God for;
and VIC thank Him no less that there are few of
the same sort left. But IT ia pity that photographs
will fade, and it is good to have more enduring
record of all things worth preserving. When the
dinner and speeches were over the Governor aud
partv returned to the hospitabe Majors, where ex-
tensiye preparations were now making to give the
Cadets collation.. That august body Of troops soon
appeared in front of the house, where 1t executed,
with great elaboration, dress parade, upon which
the Chief Magistrate was pleased to look with be-
nignant and fathery approval. The Cadets are said
TO march and vancouver better than any troop IN
BogtOn and think must be true; for they dressed,
presented grounded, and bayone;ed, With such pre-
cision a. to suggest the idea Of a huge row Of
Mari0nEtitlJ, set in motion by the one hand and the
one will Of ther commanding officer. And this, you
know, Is the iueal Of military life. An army Is
properly a body d headless men, the difficulty being
TO end General with head enough 10 command it.
For his one brain should represent tie aggregate of
all the brains that would regulate these bodies but
for their formal abstraction, and al least little over
and such brains are not met with every day. Well:
we enjoyed the dress parade and its musici and
when Il was over the Cadets were invited to come
in and parake Of the collation., which they did with
creditabe readiness. And there was music, and
eating and drinking, and merrment a. of hundred
or more young ,asn in great health and spirits.
Ard the 'sndvieh did hop.
AAa nobody cried: stop!
You ne dey0ulins bcp.'
ana IN me lAlltt OF W tl7i VIC h'rtlt'u u'' h'0f'
into the neighbors, where we had been promised a
cup Of genuine black tea. And We found the ten;
and found moreover another collation. more sumptu-
Gus than any we had seen yet. How we were sup
ported through all these things, know not; but we
will hope that some Lenten penances followed, ar
they ought, the mzuries Of this Barnstablo Easter.
Is it rot lucky for the human ree that undereeding
ie more easily borne than oyerfeedngl 0fthe two,
spare die l. certainly more conducive 10 health than
full diet, of the tuue-soup description. AL the Dye
peptics know are oh people, and have gone through
long cuirse Of excellen Cooks whose services come
in time % be more valuable to the simpler people
they invite than 10 themselves. Heaven forbid that
our Barpetable brethren should continue to feast
Themselves 20 they feasted us But viii not en-
terrain a supposiion 30 unreasonable. by and by
came the hour for the Ball. and the daughters Of
Lonsss began 20 steal down stains in the ganly Coz
tunes co suggestive Of human fatty, and 40 appro-
uriate 10 the madness Of the hour. Returning to the
Majors we found tho young ladies in au advanced
stage Of PREPAREDNESS, wreahed and robed like VIC
tins, or rather like prieslesses the victims OF those
soemnies being usually selected from the other SEX
II a always relief when Girls get OF TO Ban with
on. settng Themselves on fire. and when the usual
Remember, my dear, tina. with hoops nothing can
cave yo. turns out TO be a mere idle predicate,
founded on a suppositihous catastrophe. When We
were all in our very best, and when the uniforms Of
the military under our roof had been FURNISHED til
epsuett.s shone ike solar lampe, then theneXhausti
Die horses we're had up again. and rolled ourselves
in woolsns from head to foot, and prepared to face
the music.
OF course you would ike to have me tell you that
The Barnstable girls dreEs Ike Guys ard 10 hear from
me an entertaining List Of all the adornaory 66vues
that the widest female imagination, untuiored by
fashion or the French, could devise. am sorry TO
cay that cannot afford You this amusement, unless
You are willing to stand an action for Islander, which
would Immediately. and very justly, be brought
against The respectable sheet which we have the
honor 20 administer in common The Ballroom was
really very pretty spectacle, and abounded in
handsome and well-dressed women. There was a
pleasant variety in costume, less fatiguiDg than
the endless uniformity of Boston toilette.
in which one idea, one color, and one pattern,
always prevail This year, black is worm
hi. other grays or green's, browns are universal.
As IL the rainbow did not give US yearly dispensl-
ton Of color aluing and encouraging us to pTesen,
something Ike series of effects in our gregarions
displays. Have you not seen pink Ballroom, or a
green onel Have you not seen spotted fever
prevalent in dresses succeeded by typhoid OF plain,
sicLly huosl The Barnstable partero was really
pretty bec,nse it was bright and parti-coored, ard
the uniforms fitting TO and fro were delightful to be-
hold. When the august party the Governor and
saiie) entered, the Band played HAL to the Chief
who in triumph aivancesp and a good deal of sensa-
ton was experienced generally, which cannot well
describes after which, the dancing was resumed.
The Band wa powerful, and occupied one whole end