The New York herald., 1871-02-15
The Ccn,scg CarEivaI ut Wcshiuaton.

The Ccu,scg CerEivaI at Wcshinston.
We published yesterday Washington letter
containing u lively description OF the scenes
which two carnival days and nights promise to
exhibit next week at the national capital. The
hotel keepers and boarding house Keepers and
shcpkeepers Of ''ahc City Of Magnificent Dis
tances" are already In fever;sh state of
excitement about the coming event. Although,
II order to prctoct strangers from exorbitant
charges, record has been made by the car
Eiyal committee Of the accommodations and
prices at each Of tbe principal hotels and
boarding houses, yet their proprietors natu-
rally anticipate a share In the expected profits
Spon the forty thousand dollar investment in
en enterprise that may largely swell the usual
throng Of visitors during the session of Con-
Eress.
Conspicuous among the attractions offered
10 "all the world anl the rest Of mankind is
hnnounced "a chance of seeing the legislative
bodies in session." The President of the
United States viii also be visible on the bal
cony of Pennsylvania avenue hotel, which
was lucky enough to secure his preference,
iuVltdbiOuS cAttuQsu tO
him to accept free seat az several rival win
dows, among them the window of BARRIERS
shop, with free shave besides. IF the men,
bers Of the foreign legations turn out In their
court costumes they will make as brilliant
display of gilt buttons and embroidery as the
officers of the army and navy In full uniform
Neither the Cercle de PHarmonie nor the
Liederkra1z, in New York, can surpass the
motley show Of The three thousand and more
costumes hired and manufactured and ''sure
TO be worn" in the masquerade procession and
ut the masquerade ball In Washington, A
main feature of the procession is to be pro-
Tbetc representation OF the inauguration Of
tho female President in 1878. ''There will
be, says our correspondent, so guard Of
honor, consisting of infantry, cavalry ana
artillery. all attired in female costume,
and the President supposed, Of course,
80 be the ambitious Mrs. Woodruff, will be
mounted in triumphal car, surrounded by
any number of counterfeit sixteenth amend
ments." But wishou. borrowing any further
details from the programme announced 10y our
Washington correspondent, who WAKES elo-
qnent over the vsioa which it unfolds of the
carnival procession, preceded by battalion
Of amateur police, composed Of q hundred
boys from tea to f.teen years old, Of trnttng
matches and Virginia tournaments, Of the
coronation Of the Queen of Love and Beauty,
OF foot races and billy goat races and mule
races, of two great balls and of grand mill
tary review, at which oil the crack regiments
OF the country are invited to compete, coming
on to Washington at an expense of fifty or
sixty thousand dollars for each regi-
ment, in order to win stand Of colors
estimated at one thousand dollars. Let us
shut our ears TO the roaring cannon, the in
spring gong and the rolling drum, aud open
our eyes to the gorgeous illumination which
is To fill Washington with blaze of glory on
the nights of the 20th aud Dist of February
Chinese lanterns to be strung along the dis
lance from the Capitol to the Treasury build
ings, in addition to calcium lights and
electric lights, we are told that the Car
nival Committee propose to illuminate
Pennsylvania avenue with ia brunch burner
with seven jets which they have had made for
each Of the lamps on the avenue" Behold
how great fire little spark kindleth
Barnam himself could not have conceived q
brighter device than to create so splendid an
occasion for advertising on national scale,
anl for only forty thousand dollars, newly
patented branch burner with seven jets.
Longinus was right in eulogizing as sublime
the old Bible texS--'Les there be light"