The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-06

| Shock'd at the sight half died away with fear.
| The transformation was again renewed,
And like the husband changed the wife they
| Both serpents now with fold involved in fold
| TO the next covert amicably rolled.''
AS soon as Cadmus had disappeared the
| gorgeous picture OF
| WAS presented This car was one OF the most
beautiful features OF the procession. Tmolus
seated on an oriental throne reviews his
guests. In front stands the barber who told
the story OF Midas having been adorned with
asses ears, and his finger is pointed In dert-
sion ut the wealthy god. Midas, with his
asinine appendages, lounges beneath the
throne while Pan and Apollo contest with
pipes
For where Tmolus rears bis shady brow,
And from his cliffs surveys the seas below;
In his descent by Sards. bounded here
By the small confines OF Hypata, there
Tuning n 10 hs reeds beneath the checlered Shade
The nymphs are pleased with Boosting sylvan
And speak peak with slight of grest Apollo's lays.
Tmolus was arbiter the boaster still
Accepts the trial with unequal skill,
The venerable Judge was seated high e
On his own hill that seemed to touch the skv.'
After the contest Midas was dissatisfied
with the Judgment OF Tmous, and being
charmed with PANS barbariGnotes, thereupon
THE lyric god, who thought his untuned ear
Deserved but Ill human form to wear.
With some more fit and of an ampler space
Fixed on his noodle an unseemly pair.
FlaRging and large and full OF whitish hair"
Closing the procession, and "a crown to the
brilliant display, came
HscULApIus IN APobLo's TEMPLE.
High on a pedestal Apollo stood, whilst
just in front, attended by priests, stood Hseu-
lapius in the form of o serpent. In the fore
ground, .petitioning the serpent, was the dele.
CATION from Rome, and In the background
stood the gaunt figure OF the Plague.
From affairs burned with lurid light tho
sacred fires, presenting to the scene an effect
i've appearance. AS work of real art this car
was worthy OF more attention than could pos,
sibly be given to it by the masses as it passed
along In panels around the lower part, be-
low the figures, were painted with @ neat
touch groups of satvrs and nymphs repre-
senting scenes from Ovid.
The scene OF the tableau Is taken when q
delegation from pIague-stricken Rome ar
rives at the temple Of Apollo, in order to in
woke the aid Of Eseulapius to rid their city OF
the pest
Scarce their ascending prayers had reached
| To the serpsntine god erected high,
Forerupning hssings his approach confessed.
Bright shone his golden scales and waved his
lofty crest"
THE trembling altar his appearanoe spoke,
The marble floor. the glttering ceiling shook.
The doors were rocked. the statue seemed TO
nod.
AT THE BALL.
New Orleans never sent forth such an array
| of beauty as on last evening. Long before Co
mus had started on his tour the neighborhood
| Of the New Opera House showed manifest evi-
| carriage deposited its freight Of beauty at the
! entrance. Gazee,, eyed brunettes, radiant in
| the excitement of the show, We'd with their RI
! walls, the vfolets Of human nature. Languish-
| ing eyes with dropping lids. coy blue orbs re-
splendent in their wealth of beauty asded
| fhnir rnn In hn la 6f a mo
| Opera House.
All the old habtues of the Opera House agree
crowded as it was last night The semicirele Of
| boxes in the amphtheatre was the realization
OF dream Of beautiful women, and it pained
| ones obliged to stand for lack of sitting room.
| THE FIRST TABLEAU.
| Whilst expectant eyes were anxiously await
ing the rising Of the curtain the first tableau
sented was the transformation of Ovid.
At the apex was shown the contest between
Juno and Venus. whilst below, ranged about,
was on the left. On either side stood the two
sisters of Phaeton, transformed into poplars.
| and below the drowsy god Bacchus reeied in
peared. whilst Ulysses end his swinish com
panions awaited the order from Jovs On the III
| fore them Daphne now Laurel. and Apollo.
| THE SECOND TABLRAu
was the browning work Of the Krewe It was
entitled ovid receiving the sanction of the
gods Phnbus standing in the Palace Of the
sun surmounted The picture. Blow, in the
Fame on his left Comus reclined in front.
wearied with his labors and resting at ease pn
his ud-capped couch. About were grouIed
the figures that had made the night SO jovial,
each In its appropriate place. The scene was
one seldom to be Witnessed In its pictuf-
esuueness and effeotit was one Of. If not the most
! happy of tho Krewe's efforts. At midnight the
bell sounded and mysteriously the Krewe dis
appeared, whilst the merrie dance was kept up
so late In the night that the writer had to leave
so that the paper could go to press.