The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-20
r. CITY CORRESPONDENCE.
II New YORK. Feb. Ia.

THE fierce literary warfare now being
waged between the president and Gen
Grant still occupies the attention of the
pouderous city dailies to the exclusion of
almost every other topic of public interest
Their comments and conclusions as to
who is right or who is at fault, are both
amusing and absurd. Some call on Grant
to resign forthwith This would be the
means of electing him, they say, triumph
antly to the presidency. Others urge the
president to try him for insubordination
and cashier him from the service. The
correspondence alluded to occasions no lit
tie excitement and perturbations of mind
among the rival political organizations,
threatening havoc and destruction to eth
er side were the dogs of war" let loose
Happily for the country at large, the two
heavy weight champions fight only with
paper billets. Among the larger class of
our citizens, however, they look upon this
acrimonious controversy-this undigni6ed
bandying back and forth of unparliamen-
tary epithets--with feelings of genuine
regret and sorrow. No good purpose can
be subserved by it, while the country
meanwhile is placed in most humiliati ne
position in the eye of foreign nations, trade
paralyzed and every industrial interest for
the time being jeopardized. Where will
it end ? -s;
The cold still continues and so do the
trials of those who are exposed to its in
fuence. The condition of the railroads
leading into the city are not much improved
since last week. The mails and expresses
are generally behind their usual schedule
time; trips are irregularly made and cor
rcspondence and letters by either are
greatly delayed in consequence. BY the
the river approaches the ice is almost dense
and firm and seriously retards the progress
Of the ferry boats. The general business
interests Of the city suffers more from an
extremely cold snap, in measure, than it
doessf from hot one, even in the dog
days, when one-half at least of its custom
ers are absent at the watering places. The
oyster trade alone-without which New
York is miserable cnough-has been al.
most broken up, and we are now threaten
ed with an oyster famine.
The present cold temperature can scarce
ly continue much longer, and the anticipa-
ted modification when realized will give
much relief to man and beast.
| New York is gay, very gay, this season,
even to the extreme of folly. Fashionable
society is in constant futter of excite
ment over its dinner parties-routes sat
home," bal Toperas and bal; naasqnes-
pronounced "bull muss by the creme d
la creme. With the sleighing and skating
carnival thrown in, and the fancy dressed
balls on the ice-thc embryo Chesterfelds
and coqucttish Floras, have merry and
rolicksomc time of it. The bal Mosques
are not given at the academy Of music
alone, but also in number CT the private
houses Of the uu''msnde and in the va
rious dancing temples. At the late French
tai d opera gwen at the academy, the
dancers seemed really to go mad in the
celebrated-no, rather the notorious and
lascivious can con-a dance, on account of
its lcwd figures and movements, even pro-
scribed 10 Paris. The dancers on this &C.
cason shrieked they stood in.'every gro
tesque attitude balanced themselves in
some cases in pyramidal tableaux-and
gyrated and swung their feet in every con-
ceivable direction, and when the gdlop in-
.terno took place for the supper room, 'you
ran away from the noise, thei..riot, the
whirl and confusion as if the evil one were
in reality let loose upon them.
Since fashion has permitted the ladies
to have good appetites, the way the solids
and substantials disappear from the sup
per tables at these balls is perfectly ap-
palling. 1t is strongly limited that the
Revolution-the new organ of the wo-
mans rights party-had something to do
with this change. At the private balls
you sec none of the abandon of the pub
lie ones, but the same suspicious costume s
prevail, in which the neck and shoulders
I with all the adjacent scenery, is displayed
to advantage and worn By numbers.
The:most popular name given to these
bal masqaes are spress, and of course to
be made the most Of
Money seems at the present time to be
SO abundant Chat is among a certain class
only, they do not seem to know what to
do with it, if we judge the fact by the law
ish manner in which it is scattered on oil
sides, either in Wholesale extravaganza or