The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-11-20
CORRESPOND NOE.
The Crescent tity- BY piscemeal,

Hlg0ts anu the tlDDe pan ROOM Hau
gathered there, the bootg and ehivalry
| from many q hut aud haunt Of vice,
laseiviousless and crime. The mon
| grel group that croud the hall Of that
fat famed spot Of irfany and revalfy.
Is worth a trip across the - Mississippi
at least. Was you ever there friend
Comet 1 You must have been joking
last winter, when voli proposed to move
the Globe UP among the cane fields Of
st. Michael. The Globe ballroom is
one Of the jssiitutions Of the oity--an
Independent feature by itself, sort Of
arelieyo tediutn' that couldn't bespar-
ed. even to 60 up no farther than TO
| the Capital. TIE Globe ID d kind Of
mill, where fun. frolic and furious
dancing hold their high carnival.
1 Rumihy and Ulerlsie and the ''niee
young MN" frequent it, whilst Sarah
and 'aias,' Mary and Jenny, from the
"yelluw doors" Of Royal, Huntbon and
some other streets Ego IT. there with
d perfect irish" aye with q ''geiieral
looseness. for II isa hose place and
loose characters, there eoilgfegate, to
loose themselves for a time III the
round Of loose pleasures But let us
30 iil--4the hall is long, wide and airy,
lighted by d long pendant chandelier
Id the centre, and from several smaller
lights, ranged on each side. On a
raised platform atone end, are several
sleek comfortable hooking individuals,
| whose satisfied air and familiar jokes
Indicate that they are old acquaintance
with the place they are the music
iahs Ia dispepiic old fife, and b brass
drum that sound more like the big
belly Of q ccfpulent alderman, passi-
bic fiddle, and a bass viol that grunts
like cross bear when struck with a
bfiar bush. and two or three other in
struments make up the band. The
company Is mixed multitude Of every
color, from the whitest beauty, to the
blacklist mig. This Is true of both
sexes thatgather there, yet they Seem to
Get on without much trouble or dis
agreement. The femdies are there
for another object besides 81 bit of a
frolir.' It is in the line Of traie.--.
the male portion Of the crowd are there
|
for a iafh, and they not unfrequently
catch otie that stays with them some
time after the dance is over. But the
Music strikes up, Rumtny and Rowdy.
Cash and Clerkie, Bully and Billy So
leet their partners without much cere-
mony by way Of Introduction, and the
dance begins.
There are "bricks" in a geod many
heads on the floor, but on goes the
fin. All goes well for a time. but
bricks get heavy and Rowdy can't
stand It much longer without a fight,
and before you know it, general me-
lee ensties. Then the froite begins,
there is hurrying too and fro, shout
ing and yelling, screaming and scutll-
ing. oursing and swearing. until Pan
demonium filled with lighting devils
is Heaven compared to the "Glohe
BAH Room The police at last quell
the riot, lug off some Of both genders
to the lock up, and the dancing again
commences. II is getting late aud the
word is, give us the Globe dance The
b'hovs grasp the first partner at hand
md away they 90 siding and caebo-
ukaing, as If trying to come the Polka.
Mazurka. Waltz and Hilandtling all
in one movement. It's an appropriate
dance for the place, is the ''Globe
danee.' loan't do it full justice. but
such a whirling and twirling, spinning
round and round, such grotesque, NAT
turahand free motions Of body; and
all parts Of the body, right and left, for
ward and back, first the right foot then
the left ], indeed such phantasmagora
must be seen to be duly appreciated.
| looked on until, at last | could hold
in the yistbfcs no longer, and rs iona
than would say u bastea'--vest and
waist band buttons flew like corn from
a Hobson corn-mill. Lascivious mo-
ton has some poetry in it, and the
poetry of motion can be seen in all
its forms at the Globe.
One after another the company
drops off, leaving the scene of 80 much
confusion, for another of different