The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-01-07
xIIth NIGHT JEWELLERS
THE MARCH OF AGES.


By dark last night every available
foot of space along st. Charles, Camp,
Julia. Carondelet and other streets an
nounced as on the line OF the process
sion, weg crowded with q dense mass OF
eager humanity, waiting for the prom
ised spectacle. Suddenly, down st.
Charles street, "a glare OF light" pre-
ceded by "blare Of martial music, "
announced the near approach Of the
T. N. r.
Preceding the procession a huge
transparency, in the form OF world,
announced to the eager spectators the
subject chosen for the occasion to be
"s THE MARCH op ACES.
Preceding all things was Chaos, a
dark, formless mass, but existing OF all
eternity:
U,,us ernt toto Nnt,yr pm1tms II, Oybe.
Quem dirG'c chaos ru,tis bdigestaq,tc Motes.
BIRTH OF TIME.
Float Looms up and we behold
Chaos. From the dark yet lurid masses
OF molten elements, amid flames and
lightning, Time, beautiful and ethereal,
emerges, forcing her way through the
dark and convulsed masses Of Chaos to
regions above. A scythe held aloft In
her left hand forces light out the sur
rounding darkness.
Float 2-Closcly following the Birth
Of Time, and as If it had with it forced
It's way from the flaming entrails OF
Chaos, q strange and furious horseman,
with f1rebrands held aloft in his right
hand, dashes madly onward, riding
over seas Of fire inaugurating
THE AGE OF FIRE.
Float 3-Deep In the flaming caves OF
Hitna, among the rumbling OF volca-
noes and the deafening uproar OF the
bellows, sit Rhea Vesta, Goddess OF
Fire, and Vulcan, Son Of Jupiter. and
Juno, surrounded by Cyclops forging
on huge anvils, Achilles shield and
Jove's thundcrbolts
There the lame architect
Obscure In smoke his forges flaming round.
While bathed In sweat. his forges flaming round
And pulling loud the roaring bellows blew.
AGE OF WATER.
Float 4-From Fire to Water the
scene shifts, and Neptune, Lord OF the
Mighty Deep, his chariot drawn by
four sea horses, trident in hand, drives
rapidly past, his horses plunging madly
forward.
Float 5-Immediately following Nep-
tune is Amphithrite, his wife, her cha
riot, drawn by sea horses, whittier than
snow. and by dolphins, passes rapidly
by, leaving in the ocean q deep and lu-
minous wake. Her chariot, shell OF
marvellous form and dazzling whiteness,
with wheels Of gold, glides upon the
placid waters, while nymphs with gar
lands Of flowers and tritons blowing
on their shells, swim around.
NEBULK.
Aud God said, that there be light In
the armament Of the Heaven to divide
the day from the night and God made
two great lights to rule the day, and the
lesser to rule the night. He made the
stars also, and God set them In the fir
mament of heaven to give light upon
earth.
Float Amid luminous clouds
emerges radiant winged figure OF a
female. From her head, wings and
breast, surrounded by u halo OF clouds,
irradiate innumerable rays Of light,
and her right hand, holding staff
surmounted by star and pointed hea-
venward, seems to give the welcomed
command Of 60 Let there be light " in
scribed in golden letters in the mass OF
clouds below.
Float 7~Suddenly the sun, moon and
planets, emerging from blank space, in
stantly suffuse with the rosy tints Of a
morning sun the hitherto colorless
clouds.
CREATION.
Float 8-A hideous titanic figure
bursts forth from inchoate matter and,
perching itself upon projecting rock,
hurls with q mighty effort into the
boundless void Of eternity, large rock
emblematic Of Chaos.
Float 9-Born OF Chaos, Creation in
it's inception now advances. A Dar-
winian being, holding a serpent, first
strikes our view his feet belong to man
whilst the head, still that Of monkey,
shows the period Of transition
eternally tending onward to per-
fection. Around him are heaths,
ferns, cactus, tillandsias and CEN
tury plant, the fora OF primeval
times in full bloom; further on, flow
ing from the newly formed rocks, the
condensed vapors Of heaven fall in
cascades, forming pool OF crystal
water wherein polypusses, that con-
Meeting link between vegetal and ami
NAL creation, affecting various forms OF
flowers and animals, greet the eye,
whilst gigantic serpent OF vivid hues,
creeps slowly up the rock to the nest
Of a web winged and web-footed, bat.
like, primeval bird.
PRIMEvAL AGE.
Float 10 - Closely following upon
Creation in it's initial stages, Man, Lord
Of Creation, now makes his appearance
Not Man civilized and refined, but rude
and primitive, scarcely superior to the
wild beasts OF the forests, and solely
dependent upon the fruits OF the chase
for sustenance and raiment. Clad with
IL j. a.~n;I, - ,r;1J hoo etc he comes he.