The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-13
Mardi-Gras in Mobile.

Mardi-GraS in Mobile.
From the account of the celebration @
the Mardi- Gras revelry in the local column
of tile Mobile Register, of Wednesday, tn
Sd inst, we are led to believe that the goo,
people of that dignifed and staid city o
the Gulf must have had the carnival feve
very strong upon them that day. 1t ap
pears that during the day, the number o
maskers, single and, in groups, on til.
streets was much greater than has bee,
usual hitherto, while from the number anG
brilliancy of the evening professions
Mardi Gras in Mobile bids fair to rival he,
New Years Eve.
Judging from the elevated and magnilo.
quent style in which he prcludes his de-
scription of the festivities of that evening,
it would seem as if the eloquent Local was
still suffering from the effects of the fever,
at the time he wrote. Nevertheless ,he has
given his readers very handsome history
of the revelry, in style peculiarly appro-
pirate to the subject.
Instead Of one society of maskers, Mobile,
we find, has now three-two new ones
having started into existence this year.
The first and oldest is the Order of Myths,
the second the Knights of Comos, the
third is called the II. S. S., without any
explanation of the initials.
The Order of Myths, Judging from the
glowing description of the historian, must
have made a magnificent procession. After
the nner-transparency of the society
and the music car, came ten groups of
maskers, all mounted, except the fifth,
seventh and eighth, which were on cars. The
procession was lighted up with more than
five hundred torches, besides the lights
borne by the maskers, so that the air around
them must have looked red with the blaze
of light. The dresses were magnificent in
their style and quality, and gorgeous, not
only for the brilliancy, but also by the
tasteful blending and contrasting of the
various colors. They gave their tableaux
at the theatre; any other place in Mobile
would have been too small to admit of their
doing justice to their representation, or to
themselves. The tableaux were four: No
l. Combat behind the Luxembourg; Noe.
Court Scene; No. 3. Assassination of the
Duke of Buckingham; No. 4. The Execu-
ton of Lady de Winter. The whole was O
representation of the principal scenes and
characters in one of Dumas earliest and
best novels, "Les Mousquetairs.' The
members in the procession and tableaux
numbered ninety.
The knights of Cosmos represented King
Hippodrome, his court, his foresters, his
serfs, aud his what is it They ended their
procession at the Odd Fellows Hall, where
they gave five tdbleaur mouuants before
their crowd of invited guests. The mem
bers numbered about seventy five.
The II. S. S. made their procession on
platform cars. They represented "Queen
Nictoria's visit to Balmoral." The dresses
were all of Scotch tartan, and in the High
land garb. They wound up their process
Sion with reception at the Battle House,
which resulted in dance.
We are pleased to have it in our power
to add that the entire carnival closed before
IL o'clock. That was right. Those engaged
in what is called the celebration of Mardi
Gras should not encroach upon the holy |
season the near approach of which is looked |
upon as an excuse for their revelry. w.