Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-21
CONFEDERATE PICNIC.
Grand AssembIage of the Beauty
and GaIiantry of Memphis.

we DeneVe IL was SancDO IdHLd WIN
invoked a blessing on the man who in
vented sleep, ana We think all our young
folks ought to bless the man who in
vented picnics, for without them we
should indeed wonder how melting hui
mainly could exist or how the hot hours
of summer could be pleasantly passed
away Poor Phillips, in one of his happy
moods, wrote.
Enjoy the present smiling hour.
And put il out of Fortunes pow'r;
The tide of business, like arunning stream.
IL sometimes high and sometimes low,
And always in extreme.
Now we wish our merchants for the
present 10 take no notice of the tide
of business, but precisely at three
O'Clock to close their stores and al
low their young men breath
of fresh air and smiling hour in
JAMES PARK,
where are congregated such vast mum
hers Of lovely ladies as have never been
seen in the place before. The scene is
delightful, and reminds one of Spenser' S
bower of bliss:
There the most dainty paradise on ground
Itself doth offer TO his sober eye,
In which all pleasures plente0usly abound,
And none does Others happiness envy:
The painted flowers. the trees upshooting
high,
The dales for shade, the hills for breathing
space,
The trembling groves. the crystal running by /:
And that which all fair works doth most
Thcart. which all that wrought. appeared in
no place.
One would have thought $50 cunningly the
rude
And seorned parts were mingled with the fnej
That nature had for wantonness ensued
Art. and that art at nature did repne;
So striving each tn other 10 undermine.
Each did the other work more beautify;
SO differing both in wills. agreed in fine;
So all agreed through sweet diversity.
This garden to adorn with all variety.
There sure enough is a variety of all
that sweet and elegant, of taste and re-
fnement; and very pretty feature Of
the whole affair is that the young and
handsome ladies have for the first time
appeared in their picnic hats, which look
overwhelmingly pretty trimmed with white
and red ribands Nothing except a
scene in fairy land can be compared to
the sprightliness Of such q group in the
mazes Of the merry dance
With ante Sport and blue-eyod Pleasures.
Frisking light in frolic measures;
Now pursuing, nov retreating:
Now in eircling groups they meet;
To brisk notes in cadence beating
Glance their many-twinkling feet.
The Floor Managers are DIR. r. W.
Mitchell, A. j Black. Cotton Green, r.
P. Duncan, W g. Parker, W. P. Gray.
]. J. DuBose, Raphael semmes, jr., DIR.
John Erskine, N. b. Thurmond and ]
R. Flippin; aud they are performing
their duty strictly, but al the same tim,
with the utmost grace and suaYity.
AT Ak EARLY HOUR
the streets on the line Of road leading t.
the Park were well sprinkled so that tn
crowds of fair ones who went out on ID.
cars we're kept from the annoyance o
dust and had the pleasure Of pleasan
ride. On the ground they welcomeS
by the Reception cOmsiitee, consisting
OF Hon. Isham G. Harris, Hon. Jsfer
son Davis n J. Wieks, J. J. Murphy
". K. Hunt, Judge H. o. Smith, Amos
Woodruff Col NJ Aagevney. jr,, Judgs
H. T. Ellet. Judge George Dixon. CD
Robert Snowden. Newton Ford. Loaf.
Hanauer. I'd. Warb1rg, Mrs. Walter
Goodman. Nrs- " N. Harrington, Mrs
d. ID. Saunders. Mrs. N. c. Galloway
Mrs. Flora c. TURKEY. Mrs. J. J. Busbee
Mrs. Thomas H. Allen, Mrs. J. NJ Greg