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iOrms OF the atac1es tn the embassies and the Ar
my and Navy. gave brilhancy to the scene and re-.
liefto the eye, and showed to better advan age
dress.


AT the other end Of the room was to be seen eve.
ry conceivable kind OF dress-while the company
appeared from its aspect to have been raked up our
OF every hole and corner, and road and lane, and
ditch OF Washington, and its neighborhood, and
even far beyond; the dresses were equally, il moi
more diversified. Beauty, in all Its orders, was to
be seen'here-for that is not confined to the fash.
lonable, or rich, or dlstiDguished-but beauty ar.
rayed In such variety OF fashion, was perhaps
aever seen but at the democratic assembly on the
Atn March, lo4o Dresses of the present and Of pasl
fashions-those which were fashionable with the
mothers and grandmother OF the present genera
tion-and with beauties Of hundred years ago
were all here. And while there were dresses o
others to which neither Of these titles could apply
they were neither OF past fashions, nor OF present
fashions, and they must be set down az amongs
the fashions OF future time, and which, perhaps,
may be fashionable with our children or grand
children at some prospective time, which none bu
a" MI can see at present.


Inc PRESIDENT was attended, or followed to thii
ball, BY the Don Giovanni, who devoted all hil
time to attending upon him. Shortly after the Pre-
sidcnts arrival, supper was served, and. Of course
hrst served TO the more distinguished Of the com.
pany, with the President, that he might have some
chance OF obtaining morsel for himself. When
ne haa "a retired, , then came the grand democratic


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Of frasmens." Such .crowdng, contending, ur
slng. sqseezirs, and all but fighting, to obtain
portion IL 70 indescribable, and can only be
compared 70 the rush and scramble which is now
made to obtain the loavcs and fishes of Office,
which will assuredly prove insufficient to satisfy
the hungry crew, who evince the rapacity OF the
snark. az well a. that creatures well known capa-
ci.y tor sorsas. and yet never appearing to be sa-
usned These men gorge everything which comes
across them they won't refuse anything, how.
eve ever small and yet, however large is the morse
they Obtain, they are continually crying for more


but the cIowning scene Of this magnificent, in.
consruous, heterogeneous and infernai.resemblns
congregation, was the closing one, when the
company were about to dspcrse to their homes,
ana went In quest o. their hats and cloaks to ena
sle them 30 to do. Then was scene Of coniusion
rarely witnessed, and the dismsy and confusion o.
those who found that some kind friend had re
ieved them OF the trouble and anxiety of carving
home their 80 hat er $40 new cloak, or $40 gold
headed cane, and left in exchange s'shockIng bad
hat" or "a seedy cloak which had "seen Better
days" or "young hickory stick" was incon.
ceivable. II seemed az if every loafeY who could.
had spponted "committee Of ways and means, .
and having raised ~ had bought a ticket for the
purpose ofsupplying themselves with goods oloaks,,
&C., to supply ~ AZ the next Inauguration Ball