The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22
CITY TOPICS.

II ever there was an item that fell uaaer the
head of city topics il Is certainly the bah given
| by the Boston Club on Wednesday evening. The
town had been ringing with prepsratons for It for
some days previous. and during all the early part
of the week many were the hearts made 70 beat
faster by the receipt of a bit of rpastebOari con-
veying the Boston's compliments; and, alas, many
lass and many lsddie, were rendered sad by
I the continued absence of the AT Home" Il was
well known that the club composed as it is of our
Oldest and most substantial citizens, being deter
mined to give ball worthy of themselves, had
spared neither pains nor expense in their prepar-
atoms for the entertainment. The expectations Of
those bouored with invitations were raised very
high that their snticipstions of the evenings
pleasure were bright, is shown by the fact that
but three regrets were chronicled all invited hav-
ing made II point TO be present. Nor did their
hopes fail of realization, for il ever there was
ball which combined every element of pleasure,
that OF the Boston Club was certainly the one.
The rooms devoted to dancing. four in number,
were all elegantly decorated with flowers, while
they were of course earpeted with that best Of
materials to dance upon, grey linen; of the other
rooms thrown open to the guests, two had been
erected expressly for the occasion, one being the
Of cloth, carpeted and decorated with flowers aud
mirrors and vases, until IT seemed grotto of
fairy-land; the other being built over the yard,
having arisen, as if by the hands of gsn in a
single night. By eleven O'Clock the carriages,
which had for the last two hours been rolling in
rapid succession to the door, had deposited all
their precious freight and the parlOrs were filed
% their utmost capacity. To describe the be-
wlderiDg scene were beyond the power Of our
feeble pen. The rooms were crowded with the
very elite of the Crescent City young ladies and
their chaperons brides and grandmothers, beaux
aud bellies, rUstliDg silks and glistening satins,
heavy brocades and light, airy taretan, feathers
and flowers. dancers and promenaders, altogether
formed melsnge strangely beautiful while ever
and anon could be seen the dignifed form of some
ole of the Bostonians," doing the hOnors of his
club with an easy grace that made evey one feel
al home, and that demonstrated that though " old
folks" low, the members of the Boston Club
were themselves once dancing besux.
The dressing was superb, its general character
may be imagined when we state that the beau
monde and the wealth of the city were there,
and each lady seemed, in the magnifcence and
usefulness of her apparel to endeavor TO excel
ever we would state for the benefit of our lady
friends who were not present, that quite num-
Der Of the costumes were very similar to those
cur great grandmothers wore. Powdered hair,
piled up in ma ses on the head. looped skirts,
high heels, made many OF the ladies look if
they had just walked out Of a picture represent
ing the court of Marie Antonette. Well, fashions,
We suppose, Ike history, repeat themselves. The
Only effect, however. we would STATE, ca PEASANT,
that the change seems to have on our New
Orleans beauties is to make them more bewitch-
ing than ever.
To the n usic of a superb banl the ladies' AMI
their cavaliers beat q beautiful rhythm upon the
floors until the midnight hour approached,
when the door Of the room down stairs
was thrown open, and another beautiful scene was
revealed. Col. DumOnten had received a carte
blanche from the club to furnish the supper; aud
when we say that the result of his labors even ex
ceeded expectation, we give it the highes. praise.
Pyramids of nuge, baskets Of grapes, cakes and
fruits, and jeles, and bon bons IN rich profusior,
SALADS and meats, game and we can enumerate
no further crowded tie board while in the center
of the liable, as if to stimulate the thirsty. played
a champagne fountain. But cur recollections of
the pleasures of the ball have carried Us beyond
what we had intended to say, which was simply
to record the enjoyment OF the occasion and the
expression of that enjoyment yesterday. That
the bali was success is to say too little. IL
a triumph, and triumph worthy Of the club who
created it and the guests who adorned it.
The bill submitted by Mortimer, whose surname
is Carr, and who is the very pink and essence of
carpetbsg efirontery and scalawag audacity. (as
witness his impotence in introducing the bill we
are about TO notice. which abolishes the present
city government in toto, and orders Warmoth, the
unstained, to appoint men TO run the government
tai machine, was yesterday reported back to the
lower house by the special committee to which it
had been referred, with Recommendation that it
pass. But Mr.. Jos. Fl. DeGrange, of the Second
Ward, Democrat, presented minority report
agaist the measure, contending that it was too
much Of concentration of power in few hands,
and deprivation of the people Of their rights.
Both reports were ordered printed in extenso and
the bill postponed until today, when it again
comes up. As like the proposed city charter, it is
befTiended by Radicals, it will probably pass.
few days ago, Sheriff Maxwell had sale of
large and popular drug store. Previously TO the
able" had been transported to the sheriff s ware.
house. The day for the warehouse sale came up
lot long after. Among other cumbrous articles
put up at auction was the case in question. No
body would bid without seeing the contents. A
negro was called, who used his hammer and chisel,
and the lid was laid open. The case contained
human skeletop-one Of very unusual size. II
was perfect in all its bones and admirably strung
together; there was not tooth missing, nor one
decayed. But the very crowd that had collected
around, when the ghastly bones were exposed,
stood back rebuked at their unreasonIng cupidity.
panic or dumbness seemed to possess them,
ard the splendid posthumous remains were bid of
for fifty cents. o, Yorick, to such base uses must
we come at last!
We have been requested to publish the follow
ing card OF thanks, which we do cheerfully, and
congratulate the ladies of Les Enfants de Marie
upon the success which has attended their efforts
to relieve the Turgis Asylum from its pecuniary
endorsements;