A PEEP AT AN INAUGURATION BALL.
How Sixty Thousand Dollars were Spent—Something Wrong: “Twas Ever
Thus”—A Fine Opportunity for a Few Naughty Words—Lost
Jewels—The Colored Folks in a Fix—Six Thousand People Clamoring
for Their Clothes!—A Magnificent “Grab”—Weeping on
Window-ledges—Left Desolate—Walking under Difficulties—The
Exploit of Two Old Gentlemen—Horace Greeley Loses his Old White
Hat—He says Naughty Words of Washington—A Little Too Cold—Gay
Decorations—Modesty in Scanty Garments—The President
Frozen—Ladies of Distinction—Half-frozen Beauties—Why and
Wherefore?—A Stolid Tanner Who Fought his Way, 278