East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-04-22
A La Mode.

A In Mode.
The force of the saying, " You may
as we'll be GU. of the world as out Of the
fashion" is GENERALLY acknowledged and
its modest requirements as fully com
piled with, we warrant, all things con-
sidered, here as in any place of its size
and age extant; and in the grand pro
gramme enacted the elements take no
small share of the performance, though
the humans do their role to perfection
when their " little hour" comes on
Floods are in fashion elsewhere, and
here we have three weeks flood, with
prospect for "worso coming" which
drives the musk rats out of their hou ses
into the wide, vide world of waters
the ancient habitanS of Indian and French
extraction into their canoes after the
rats, the basement and bayou dwellers
into their first floors and attics, the side
walks and fences, well-curbs, lumber
piles, institutes, and floating capital
generally, into the bayous, and the
bayous into a wilderness Of localities
where their cool presence is byno means
thankfully received and gratefully &C
knowledged"-as they say in advertise.
ments. Tornados are popular out
West, and directly the feasibility Of the
arrangement is here recognized. Chin.
neys, houses, fences, are blown down,
trees uprooted, and such i" fantastic
tricks played with sidewalks, lumber
piles, and loose property generally, as
do greatly shock the sense of propriety
of even the "oldest inhabitants" "Cas-
ties in the air" become recognized insti.
buttons, and "topsy turvy" is for time
accepted as the proper order of things.
In human affairs our progress is " on
ward and upward" also, and nearly the
came power and eccentricity is manifest
at times as we have noted "amid the
war of clements" The railroad, and the
resolutions accompanying, were the
first innovations upon the staid and set.
tied policy of the fathers ;" then fol.
lowed the 4" Old Folks Concert and
| last comes what we can best notice IN.
der the caption OF
A NIGHT AMONG THE MASKS,
Time, Wednesday evening, April 10
place, A. Strasburg's W Washington Hall,
East Saginaw. To our friend Strasburg
belongs the credit of introducing the
Masquerade in this city, and certainly
on the occasion to which we alude
there was enough of excitement and
novelty to make the affair decidedly en-.
pertaining. Outside, the weather was
not propitious.
The evening was hidoous, and fierce through the
Drove the lightning, tho rain-drops, the slcot and
tho breeze,
While the landscape outstretching in ugliness lay
On the lap Of the earth in the fury of-April.
-CampbeH imProred.
The attendance in the early part OF
the evening was not large, but betimes
the guests came: gay cavaliers, +" Draw
Scotehmen," )" Micks," fierce brigands,
bold soldier boys, hardy mariners, in
describable characters in calico, /" fuss
and feathers" with gentle danes and
ladyes faire." A proper amount of
twisting and screaming brought the
fiddle up to time, Jo., the Harper,
wheeled methodically into line, the
claron.ette notes of our Bohemian friend
sounded the rally, and
--"whon music arose with its voluptuous Swell,
Soft eyes looked love 10 eyes that spoke again,
And all went merry as marriage bell"
The ball was open. Of the perform.
ance a Ia TopsichOrs, individually or col
llectively, we shall not speak, save to