The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-03-10
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New YORK, February l., 1868.
FROM TIE APPEALS REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR

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New YORK, February l., 1868.
New y ork is gay, very gay, this season
even to the extreme Of folly. Fashionable
society is in a constant futter OF excitement
over the dinner partics-routes " at homes,
bal doperas and bal nlasques-pronounced
g bull muss" by the creme de Ia creme
With the sleighing skating carnival thrown
in, and the fancy dressed balls on the ice
the embryo Chesterfelds and coquettish
FloIas, have merry and rollicksome time of
II. The bal mGsqUes are not given at the
Academy of Music alone. but also in a num-
Der Of the private houses of the beau monde
and in the various dancing temples At the
late French bal d'opera given at the Acade-
my, the dancers seemed really to go mad in
the celebrated-no, rather the notorious and
lascisious can can-a dance, on account of
its lewd figures and movements, even pro-
scribed in Paris. The dancers on this coca
sion shrieked ; they stood in every grotesque
attitude; balanced themselves in some cases
in pyramidal tableaux-and gyrated and
swung their feet in every conceivable drec-
tion, and when the Galop Inferno took place
Tor the supper room, you ran away from the
noise. the riot, the whirl and confusion as If
the evil one were in reality let loose among
them.
Since fashion permitted the ladies to have
good appeti,es, the way solids and subs,an-
tials disappear from the supper tables at these
balls is perfectly appalling. 1t is strongly
limited that the " Revolution the new or
gan OF the Woman's Rights party-had
something to do with this change. At the
private balls you see none of the abandon of
the public ones, but the same suspicious cos
|tumes prevail, in which the neck and should
|ers, with all the adjacent scenery, is display
ed to advantage and worn by numbers.
The most popular name given to these bal
|o,1sQues are Sprees, and Of course to be made !
khe most OF.
The members of the Society for the Pre-
MENTION Of Cruelty to Animals are causing
the arrest OF the car-drivers and conductors
|of many of the city railroad cars for cruelty
20 their horses compelling them to draw over
loaded cars. In several instances reported,
over ons hundred persons were found packed
fn one car, and these in turn were dragged
along with only two horses attached. Others
persons, had frequently packed and jammed
in 80 or 80 at time. The suppression of
this evil meets with very general appreciation
The reported defalcations in the American
Exchange Bank turns out to be what a
morning contemporary calls trifing irregu-
larities." The amount taken is 80 small
IS to be of trifing consequence to the Bank"
viz: $4,000. :,
The funeral of Ha-Yah-ta-Kee, the leader q,
If the Japanese acrobatic troupe recently ar =,
lived in this city, took place few days since
rom his residence. 1t was the first Japanese
uneral in New York. During the morning
he monotonous japanese dead song was
lept mp in a small room beside that in which
he corpse lay. Lighted candles were placed
lear the coffin, and document in japanese
Tas hung against the wall. There were three
igilants, one of whom officiated and chanted !,
he dead song, the other two sitting silently p
pposite. The friends and relatives of the d
eceased and the other members of the !. !,
.oupe were in an outer room. The custom &c
providing food, tobacco and opium was m
5served. AS soon as the body was removed a,
ON the house an old Japanese woman COM a,
fenced sweeping the ground with broom, &C
lis custom sisnifying the waiting of the OF
,ul OF the dead to spirit-land. A number ~
carriages followed the hearse to Green in
God, which we're for the most part occupied A
japanese. The body was placed in the in
Receiving Tomb, until the return R,