The daily union., 1856-10-29


RRtSG or THE PEOPLE EVER WITNESSED IN
THE SOUTHERN sTATEs.-THIRTY THOUsANn
.FREEMEN IN COUNOIL.-UNBoUNDED RNTBuSI
ASM OF THE DEMOCRACY.
The great event Of the campaign far the southwest
portion of the Union is concerned took place at Nash
VILE Tennessee the 2lst instant We of course alud.
the meeting with all its imposing accom-
panimens which was held 10 that city on that day in
pursuance of the call of the Democratic State Central Com
ee large space in three consecutive issues Of ho
Nashville Union is devoted to a description of this re-
popular demonstration perusal of which wa
think will satisfy the skeptcal that Tennessee il
democratic to the core aud that she will roll up on
Tuesday such majority for Buchanan and Breckin
ridge will be perfectly astounding to the bewdered
senses of know-nothingsm From the reports in the Nash
vile Union make up the following condensed account
Of this overwhelming evidence Of the union strength and
enthusiasm of the now fully aroused democracy of Teunes
see;
EVENING or THE TWENTIETH.
The city was full Of people already The Murlreesboro
had brought down during the day fifteen hundred
stout democrats and than double that number had
arrived during the day from the remote counties Ths
stand for speaking had been erected ut the Cherry
and Spring streets the opposite office Il
surmounted by beautiful areh the design of III NJ
Aykroyd, which brilliantly illuminated with gas
and handsomely decorated with flags and notices AT
this stand eloquent speeches delivered by Hon w
Walker, of Alabama Governor Mathews, OF Mississippi
and Hon Andrew Ewing of this CITY, Dufng the epoch
OF Mr. Walker it was found that but small part the
dense people could approach the stand enough
to hear and the steps OF Office constituted
second stand, from which short and animated speeches
were made by Messrs Whitthorne of Maury; Weather
ford of Robertson Este OF Franklin; Murray of White;
and Wagner, OF Williamson We attempt sketch Of
these speeches They pointed and nspiriting and
reused the enthusiasm OF the great to the highest
pitch. .... a..n 1.s
NUMBER PRESENT.
OF the number present the ground the Union says
We are not disposed to over-estate numbers as is too
much the habit Of editors Others their partisan zeal
We said yesterday that there were the lowest
able calculation, 10000 assembled the grounds We
found no Of friends who placed their figures
so low A gentleman the stand, with every opporu
nifty of seeing the vast hrong and the extent of ground
that covered professor and teacher of mathematics
and with every disposition to be accurate made es
mate by figures which suppose TO be the reabe
opinion expressed OF the number present His estimate
As 600 Ii beyond question the largest assembly Of
Tennesseans that met in the State The whg conven
ton of 1910 may have been as laget may have been
large in 1884, though think not but there were on
those much greater proportion Of the crowd
from other States. ss...a ...#rs.. H.Nsa....
MORNING THE TwESTY-FRsT.-THE PROCESSION
On Tuesday morning the city was alive with people
from early hour They in carriages on horseback
foot and by railroad The procession commenced mo-
wing 10 o'clock under direction of Gen. Harding Most
of the carriages decorated with appropriate embems
and devices and carried notices favorite emblem was
the bucks horns Of which large number carried and
worn in the procession A grayeooking o,ci mourning
the death of Sam attracted much and laughter
The military from this and the adjoining counties
in full force, and made fine display. There were about
eight hundred in uniforms in the line
The ladies' however, did most to render the procession
brilliant and beautiful. car magnifcently decorated
and ornamented contained thirty three young ladies beau
tuy dressed aud with appropriate banners representing
the different States and Territories Another contained
the same number Of beautiful young girls At another
point in the procession thiriyone ladies' horseback
dressed uniform, wearing badges with the names Of tho
States, and each accompanied with cavalier attracted
great admiration.
THE CAR STATES.
The car alluded to above is thus particularly de-
scribed:
The car was in the shape of diamond twenty-five feet
long fifteen feet wide and fifteen feet high and beau
tituly decorated with evergreens wreaths and boucue
The seats of the arranged in such manner to
present four sides and being Deep the seat be-
ing elevated above the front one so as 10 present full
view of each lady In the centre Of the car was erected
pole fifteen feet high with the flag OF the United States
hoaung from IL The escorted by tbrtyone young
gentlemen on horseback abreast each wearing sash
with the of the State il which he represented
Immediately in the OF this open carriage
drawn by two gray horses with Miss Whitfield daughter
OF General hitheld OF Kans in it as the
OF that Territory, with large banner with the name OF
Kansas In the centre Above the word Kansas written
and below IT. aLet the people deter
mine ther own domestic institutions Ct
the banner was star half sen representing Territoy
just rising 10 the position Of State Miss W
ed by Mr. Felix Smith, the grandson Of the late Duncs
Robertson the founder OF Nashville wearing badge with
the name OF Kansas on il.
soME oF THE ATTRACTIVE FEATURES or rHr PROCESSION
Among the most attractive features Of the procession tho
following may be enumerated
Citizens foot-ci,izens on horsebaccitizens In cr-
riages came next and occupied very large space In
procession Every private aud public conveyance In the
city was In requisoD The private carriages were prn-
cipally hd with ladies' and handsomely decorated
with appropriate flags and banners suited 10 the occasion
many OF them elegantly wrought and inscribed with AZ
propriate notices.
Another beautiful car handsomely designed festoottd
with eyergreens and flowers filed with thrty-one besu
iul little girls, dressed in white with rbands badge
and banners, appropriately inscribed formed most
tracuye and pleasing spectacle in the gorgeous pagean
Among other things that attracted our attention, b5t
which unable to locate in their precise positions
the procession, the following:
buggy, most handsomely decorated, containing Mr.
Hooper and two little girls with badges and banner Over
spreading tie horse was pair of bucks horns Of remark
be dimensions with thirteen propg the main prongs Of
which foot inches in circumference three
ee two inches length, four two inches in Width,
and about three feet six inches In height as
formed by Mr.. Hooper From its different prougs hung
~ stars, with uoands denoting the different States with
the letters and b. lutersPersed the following devices
hung from its prominent points Indiana has faced Ito
music "Pennsyvania always true7 "0ur country II
is,p with other devices
We also observed long wagon supporting hickory
ousn, polk stalk and pair OF bucks horns with ban
inscribed First we Polked them. next We P,erce
them we'll Buck ther The face OF the wheels COZ.
Ired with cloth, had painted them aDemocracy rolls
on and buchanan and Breckenridge up TO the hub"
Amongst the innumerabe banners that were generally
admired for their beauty and nlsh desev