The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-01-05
New Years Eve In mobile.

New Years Eve. was 'greeted by tho gaIIants Of
this city on Monday, with as much rejoicing as The
New Worlds EVe,was salutsd in Paradise by dear
3ld father Adam, the great ancestor SCow-
belhons, " Strikers, y" Indescribables,' ,'hand sRi,
sing Generations, 3" who made Mobile, on shat coca
sion, the pleasant place of all asvty the rsvel Of
The earth and mesk Of fchivalrfs At zen clock he
GoWbellio took np the line Of march on Dauphih
street, turned INTO Royal, and after salutiRg old
Ihespis, they counte rIarched, and exliiblte their
oriental array the Mansion House andsthe Wa;
verify FAR The costume of this hahd was SO CONF
peteiy Chinese, that 1t appeared as if The cohtem-
plated annexation of Asia, had been, esnsummated.
and that special embassage, with Ching Ching at
It's head, was vending It's way to Washington, Ito
embrace their country cousins, the fhiriysffst Con
gtess. The variegaieds and numerous Hansparen-
Gles that ssrewed Ihspathwayo of the sons of the
fowery land' wiihFed and ros light, were 'beauti.
full exceedingly The mighty emperor, seated On
his magnificent couch,s was borne by his faithfuii
servants, and surro,inded by the household troops
aud the councillors Of State. Here were grave Old;
politicians, with mustachios thathang dpWhtotheir
girdes, and faces that might have played the bat
iIedore tothe shuttlecueks of Boreas. There wefe;
prime ministers and ministers of state with their
robesaud caps, and if these caps contained heads
equally large, We should at once proheunce these
grave Old staiesnep to be the serise-carfers OF his
imperial and august highness, the emperor of all
The China cups in creation Here y6n sawTneii of.
letters and men of elegant leislfe, keeping at a,
respectable distance from the men ofwar, who cut,
up nations with theiHswords, aud the. men OF state
who ent up empires, withlbeir tongues In worh
we were delighted, asd amused, and much inter:
ested by this iadmirable representation of John Chi
naman, and we could not but imagine, as the beau,
tiful procession passedus, that we sawineur minds
eye the famous excursidnof Lalah, h,Ruok; -,
ha 5 U YIN:
But; alas, just in the moment Of fancy, the band
struck up the merry tune of y !. Spsannah,' and
then the dowery land, and the sup;bright palaces
and the Orauge groves, and, the perfumeds bree2e
stealing through lfe mist ef slabaster lamps, van
ished like the baseess fabric Of vision, and We
turned 70 the distant music that came softly stealing
on the breeze thai gently feated down ST Francis
street and as The rCuWbelliohs disappeared under
the inspiration of Susannah, the. Strikers struck
mp Miss Lucy Neal, and came down nppn. The.
town. They could be seen far away in aie dis;
lance, moving forward shy the light oftorehessg On
they came, like iriumpIal procession of old Rome.
This band represented the Elements in accoriapea
With the opinion of the ancient philosophers, who
resolved all things ipto u, Earth, Freand Water.
A.r was fepfesensed by oberonafm his psogepy in
cars drawn BY birds and butterflies. sEdth was
represented BY Pan, and attendant Fawns and Sa-
tyrs, in ,charios drawn by animals. Wafer was
Represented by Neptune and Frtons in shell drawn
by fishes. Fire was representeasby Vulcan. and
hls attendant Cyeleps, IN earlois, and dIaRn by
grfiins; They snffsreda a liaIe from The occasional
extinction Of their, fambeeux and the accidental
stumbling Of The ddt4egs who represented the birds
and beasts, like DaSEiRshe paseboard elephani;''
and after marching and conptemafehing up and
down Royal street, they Gnaly retired 10 The Man
sion House 10 roll the, banquet bah and greet the
rising sun Of $780, - y Z. - ,-.s
This displsy was the most splendid that we have
ever witnessed, and we have seldom seen larger
eoncourse. of people, allhenghs the night was ex-
tremely cold. The great Taylor serenade in New
Orleans. in November, 1913, was nothing to it, and
we doubt If any exhibition comparable to It has
been witnessed since the days of ohjvalry.-Df
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