New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-11-02
THE RALLY ON SATURDAY NIGHT.
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messe T6schHgh Procession.
For the short notice given, and the little prepare
ton made, the American demonstration on Saturday
night was altogether tremendous. Large and enthu
siastic as were the American gatherings last year
under the Fillmore banner, the gathering Of satur
day night was in respect inferior to any of them
At an early hour the tide OF life set in toward Odd
Fellows Hall from all quarters of the citythe great
mass coming in loose order, but considerable pro
portion appearing in organized shape, with music
torches and banners Before s o'clock, the hall
was one dense mass of men-eyery corner aisle, and
possible standing place, being damned to its utmost
capacity aside from the multitudes that occupied the
seats The American spirit was high and unmis.
taxable. A brass band in the gallery eniyened the
intervals with patriotic and other popular airs.
We must make particular note Of the different
Clubs, as they entered the Hail. one after another.
each by its manly presence and telling banners and
transparencies arousing the assembled multitude to
the stormiest height of enthusiasm and merriment.
First came the Third Ward Club of the First Dis.
trct with any number of banners and transparences
One banner bore large carcature of the Superin-
tendent of Eections-an individual with gigantic
cockade, epaulettes, and military boots, with big
bowie knives for spurs, astride of scrubby little
donkey with bowie-knife sticking from his fore
head, a la unicorn, and a brass cannon strapped to
his rear. Another contained pictures of man stick.
ing through,a cotton bale, with the motto, "Com-
pressed Cotton !" the Superintendent, genteelly
dressed in black, with bulseye in his middle y
and an extraordinary deputy leaving"--al hand
somely painted. The various mottos were in keep
ing with the pictures and the whole expressed more
keen and genuine contempt and derison for the
e Army bill' and its officers, than we ever saw
brought out at any election.
Afterwards came the Fourth Ward Club of the
Second District. 1t carried number of mottos and
most laughable arrangement, half banner and hall
apparatus. On the banner were the words, f" The
Superintendent bruised arms, hung up for monu-
ments!' Two sides of the frame beneath were made
of rusty old handsaw and rusty old anger, with
two rusty old swords crossed between a rusty old
casque, or wre-helmet, in the upper fork of the
swords with picayune baby-drum and a bunch OF
cotton below, fanked by dozen little wooden sol
diers of the childrens toy kind. The mottos on the
other banners and ransparencies spirited and
telling as those of the Third Ward Club.
Next came the Algiers Club, strong in numbers
with their music and banners, and after them came
the Third District Rough and Ready Club, with the
beautiful banners which they bore astfa and trans
parencies gotten up for the present occasion. A
great many of the notices of all the Clubs were
witty and very much to the point in regard to to-
| days election. We regret that we were unable tC
copy off score or more of them for publication.
| The meeting was organized by the appointment Of
| l. D. Fuller, ESQ.,, to the Chair, with number Of
other respected and influential gentlemen as Vice
Presidents and Secretaries. Mr.. Fuller briefly an
nounced the purposes of the gathering and stating
that as the procession was the prime object he
would have to limit the speakers to ten minutes each
| he introduced the Hon. Glendy Burke as the first
speaker. That gentleman made excellent use of his
time, aud gave way to Hon. George Eustis, Jr. Mr.
Eustis was in excellent trim for the OCCASION and
portrayed the present state Of affairs with almost
Photographic brilancy in the small time allotted tc
him. When he concluded Capt. Charles D. Dreua
appeared as the last speaker. His patriotic elo
quence, humor and sarcasm, which are his telling
points in political speaking, never displayed them
selves more brilliantly, or awoke more boisterous
responses from a multitude. Each of the speakers
had something different to say upon the allpervadine
TOPIC and each was honored in manner that fairly
made the building tremble. So
| When Capt. Dreux concluded, the meeting ad
| journed, and procession was formed-one of those
nterminably long, brilliantly lighted, and vocifer
ously enthusiastic professions, such as no party but
the American was ever able to get up in this city
The night being bright and beautiful, the march was
long and misunderstanding far up and far dowr
| town. with many turns and windngs, before it ad
journed.
Altogether, the display of American spirit the
heartiest and most unmstakable that we have evel
witnessed and the election to-day will show that il
was no vain display.