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tivedestroy ed. wei _ . » —- • Us)—1 right pleasant party just oom fort ably tha’ filled SylvesUV* Hall last night. The ocoa- and aion waa the. masqnemde of the Progress n Oiub, an asioeiation of young gentlemen, | den xpostly Jaws. Their balls are alif^yj noted 4or the splendor of oostamo, elegance of deportment, and skill in the danoe. It was I lt;jer our fortune to pommand no more than a half | fce hour, and that before the unmasking, in 1 jE' which to parsoe oar pleasing investigation of | lt;jyg the incognita, the result of whieh was simply eXp •nil. We entered without knowing a aingle I me,masked lady, and retired in the same state or I 0f 4delightful uncertainty. Major Plumly, in bis I pr0 younger days, wrote for tbe-Atlantio Monthly I Ton oriental a poem, entitled/'Ab Del Hasaan, the object of whioh was to show that there is no evil without a corresponding good-—a poem, of the truth of whieh we were | ’*last night delightfully impressed. Itwasoer- I * tainly an evil not to reoogni*) the ladies pros- I ■cot, it is certainly good to be able to speak of I « them without the suspicion of partiality or ; I fsvor. When we entered, a wall* wai the I programme, sad we are anre that more oddly Imatched pairs never whirled before an ob- 1moipleatheserving local. There was the Highland Mo- I Jf8* Gregor in all the splendor of Tartan plaid, I “JJParies PT6!tolling round with the most delightfulof Paries 'that ever bonnd ribbons sronnd her trim I PJr •ankles. Albeit, one set of the pretty ligatures *hsd broken and was lost Then came a Lcourtly gentleman, who earried his sword uin his band, that it might not get tangled 1 . — with hjs legs and throw him down. We I r?1*theshrewdly suspeot that this gentleman 1 '“X,and wore stuffed calves, for we I .. xCbnflwas a fraud and wore stuffed calves, for we noticed a strange undulation beneath his stockings. It was suggestive of bran or hemp seed. After these came a “Night” and a hor- t*0Drid Indian, who yelled like that Ohriatian oomaoalper Spotted TaiL We thought this the beat gentlemen's mask in the room. The char- uacter was ezoeUently sustained, and the cos- 52?tame exact, save that an Indian has bow legs*The ie were straight and oomely, hut we oan-not- pfcuse to partioularice Hamlets, Ghtrles iiutthe Fifth's, Honks, Nuns, Friar's Flower Igirls, Military men, and 8ambo, with a Dinah Ttand several mytbiological characters sac- pap*cesded esob other In delightful confusion. MteiAnd we ooald not, if we woald, tell half the feelipretty dresses we saw. As we write before the taolc•ward, for the best character has been tare;made, we may suggest that the best notwa notioed was a costume which mostwss almost like that Xenophon describes as {Jrbibeing worn by the Median women, a loose, nfsflawing robe of scarlet, covered below the wsswaist with a tunic of white, and armlets of f ridgilt above the elbow. We believe this to have withbeen the most biatorioal eostnme in the room. fonnAmong the most gorgeously arrayed of those | ©thenotioed a daughter, ox a New Yorkpresent, we notioed a daughter, of a New York I whoIsrael, now the bride of a leading commission I of ttmerchant, she was not eit masque. No sooner we ehad Mr. Looal entered thau he was honored boonwith a serenade from a voiceless band organ, rolleand a tuneless tamborino. We tender oar pecathanks to the great unknown. Then we were easil,gocosted by a devil, with long daws, who nn- the iwound his tail, and asked us to vote for TheWheeler. We said “No,” when he said he varndid, and left Thus the merry round went on - had 1till our half hour was np, and we left the say Imerry maskers to themselves, satisfied that oondthe Progress folks know all about enjoyment. Tt0 look inPausing in our downward maroh to look in on seve:the sapper-room, where a table, spread by a havelady whose name has passed from pur memo* succtt, was ladun with alt that is tempting to the theif thatlisappetite, and decorated with all thatlis de- afterlightful to the sight eatic—The splendid testimonial given by the UrbiGincinnati Gasette to the safes made by Mao- worknealeA Urban is reonblished in another col- the
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Galveston Flakes Daily Bulletin
Galveston, Texas, US
Sat, Dec 04, 1869
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