New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-06
TWELFTH NIGHT REyEI,FRs.

| I'll NIGHT REVELERS.
The streets are filed with noo,,o
o-ocked up with carriages, whose drivers
are whipping up their horses and hurryinp
h.'ner and thither. Down Canal street the
we" presents vast throng in commotion
"h"er 'he gas lights. Conversation is busy
"ooue the Twelfth Night Revelers, and
| "hat new shapes, like things of life, will
s'a!k through the streets, and eager expec-
'atioh waits on impotence. A stir is per
cepuDle among the crowd, and a rush is
MADE to the curb to look down the street
Nothlng, and the crowd comes back, Hacks
anu every description Of carriages drive by.
rafting over the iron bridges with their loads
Oh people who, like those on the street, are
eager to see the coming sight The club
houses are all lit up. On the balconies and
awnings, looking out from windows and
looking down from galleries, are other
thronSs OF mothers and daughters, fathers
and younger sons.
After many false alarm and stir in the
busy multitude, after many a sensation of
mere they come" when they don't come, a
piaze OF light starts as suddenly as the
dawn, and the Twelfth Night Jewellers are
upon the scene-a maze of figures, ghostlv
white. Down the long line, shut in by
nlckering lights, a gigantic figure, making
us poor jewellers look in the contrast like
plgmles-"Humor and its Gods"
And now pass in review before this con-
gregation of all classes a ghostly process
sion, deadly white, of all the creations we
OF the English tongue SO love. There are
the Chaucer children and the offspring of
all the famous writers, some of whom. in
their present dress, without color, one can
| scarcely recognize. Sam Butler we have all
heard of in Hudibras, and the old knight
himself, attired in tire poets own habili
| ments, creates a litter in his comic leer
john Gay Is brought to mind as his children
are grouped like statutes of what has passed
away. Goldsmith, De Foe, Walter Scott
Irving, Dickens and their children, grouped
| IN motionless rigidity, clothed in the same
| ghostly white. all meet with hearty cheers
and appreciation. CULVER among the Lii
| liputians, Tam O'Shantcr, Rip Van Wrinkle
Dominic Sampson, Micawber, all as they
| filled the minds of their creators, spread far
and wide the waves of laughter.
| The procession was conducted by the
Lord OF Misrule. Throughout its length
| the tableaux were well represented, and
| elected the warmest admra ton of the
people. The last, but by no means the
least, Of all was the Heather Chinee and
almost involuntarily came the words, ''Ah
Sin was his name as he was deserted sit
ting at the table with William Nye, en-
gagged in the same game so frequently
copied and so often quoted.
Wherever CULVER went the children
recognized him, and greeted his appearance
in childish mrth.
The route of the procession having been
through the principal streets below Julia.
finally wound up at the Opera House.
where the large attendance of ladies and
gentlemen, the tasteful arraD gements Of
the interior, and the well executed
tableaux which followed among the cere-
monies, sutficed to give a brilliant ending
to the revels of the Twelfth Night.
The portable gas arrangement which
shone so clear during the march of the
Revelers was due to the skill OF Mr.. Henry
Perry. No. Ill Poydras street. There was
also brilliant blue light which shone out
ike star making the white figures look
still more ghostly. This and the system OF
the Lord OF Misrule, won for that mythical
parsonage a tribute Of admira ZION from the
gratitied public
The calcium lights from galleries on
Canal street added greatly to the beauty
of the procession of the Twelfth Night
Revelers as it came down from Carondelet
street.
The advertising fountain on Canal street
presented an appearance OF oriental maSnl-
fcence. with its illuminated lights and ap
propriate decorations.
The evening was just cool enough for
comfort: there was not a cloud i'll the sky;
the streets and banquettes were dry and
clean, and at least a quarter OF the popu-
lation of New Orleans was crowded into
the streets through which the procession
was to pass.