New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-11-04
NUMBER 2O6.
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| MASS MEETING OF rrE INDEPENDENTS AT E.sa.
( ISGTos SQrARE.-The s. Independent Americana ).
had another blowout lest night at Washington
Square, Third District Platform flag, turpentine
and rockets were there in the usual quantity> the
few Independent American Clubs were there with
few members each, but any quantity of banner
and lantern.
The Independents on and are1nd the stand did
not number three hundred at the outside some
TWO OF three hundred Americans attended to look
on ana listen, and two or three hundred members
OF the foreign population, with ladies living in the
neighborhood, boys, children and darkeys, aided
In swelling the crowd to about thousand. It was
slim meeting but the speakers made the most of
IT. as nearly all of them expressed their pride and
gratication at being called upon to address such
large, vast, intelligent and respectable assem-
piage The quiet and decorum of the American
majority present was such that the speakers took
or pretended to take the whole crowd for Inde-
| pendent Americans
Judge Augustin presided.
Mr.. Joseph Horner led off the oratory Theme
same as at previous meeting, but discourse more
| Pohte and dlgmtied; having in it brass knuckles
etc., etc., only once. At the Democratic meeting
on Canal street, Joe spoke of 5000 Democratic ma
1ofity on Monday; on this occasion he spoke of
zooo Independent majority. Total, 1000 majority
in the city, over the American tcket.l Americans.
where are you now
| Judge Cotton spoke. He also was much more
mild than on previous occasions He expressed
his great personal esteem for Tom Parker and all
the gentlemen on the American ticket; he only OBJ.
lected to them on account of the men who SUP.
ported them. He was not half so furious as be.
fore about brass knuckles etc., and omitted his
previous catalogue of persons whom the Ipde.
pendents ought to catch and hang to lamp-posts
de did, however, tell one unmitigated not-so y
when, addressing the foreigners present. he said
that no member of the American party was per-
mtted to hire or employ anybody of foreign birth
ihere was no foreigner on the ground, we are
happy to state, green enough to swallow this
monstrous and most stupid falsehood.
Mr. Michael Hahn spoke. He was witty and
agreeable, at the expense of truth. He said the
meeting at the Lyceum Hall to nominate delegates
to an Opposition Convention was composed of Col.
Field and Recorder Summers. [We saw Mr. Hahn
at that very meeting; so there were more persons
present than the two named by himl He said
that the appointment of himself as one of the Oppo
sltlon delegates was made without his knowledge
OF consent. I'VE are cOgnizant of the fact tfatnhe
offered no objection to the same at that OPPOSITION
preliminary meeting, at which he was presentl
Mr. ii. said lie was no Independent, but a Ma
tional Democrat; still he approved of the Inde-
pendent ticket, and would vote it straight out for
the parish offices, and the straight Democratic
ticket in the country. He said that whatever
| Of {1,a al
might have been the differences in the Democratic
party he was now bound to support the ticket
that ne would sooner be in pure and patriotic
minority than in thugging majority. Mr. Hahn's
public confession of his return to the fatherly EN-.
brace OF Sldell was hailed with all the rapturous
enthusiasm that the inner circle of the crowd could
afford.
Charley Dreux spoke He said good many
things, but we did not stop to hear him out. He
and all the others spoke of the present time as a
crisis, and stated that everybody ought to vote on
Monday, to vote early, and to vote the Independent
ticket
procession about two squares long headed by
Charley Dreux on horseback and Recorder Adams
on foot appeared up town towards IL o'clock
The meeting and march of the Independent
Americans so far as we could hear was harmo.
y QUARTERLY INSPECTION AND REVIEW - The quar-
terly inspection and review of the citizen soldiery
took place yesterday afternoon, at the Place
dArmes.
The turnout was not large, most of the compa.
mes having out but few members. The Washing.
ton Artillery, Capt Walton, and the new company
the Chasseurs--Pied Capt. st. Paul, turned out by
Tar the largest, these two companies being about
equal in number. The Continental Guards. the
City Guards, the Louisiana Grays, and the South
ern Rifles. were all represented in the uptown
brigade, but not as largely as the Washington Ar
tillerists.
The Chasseurs-a-Pied, or Louisiana Foot Rifles,
were, as a matter Of course, the cynos1re of the
occasion. Their picturesque French dress and the
other new features of their company were fairly
looked at and criticised by multtudinous public
Their drill did not compare very favorably with
that OF some OF the older companies, though the
display they made in this respect was very credit
able for the short time they have been organized
and in practice. As for their uniform having
examined it well and studied its advantages, what.
ever they might be, we cannot express our ap-
proval OF it as an American military dress. 1t is
really very pretty and somewhat taking, but there
is nothing of American nationality about it, and
nothing of the military fitness propriety which
is visible in the uniforms of such companies as the
Washington Artillerists or Louisiana Grays OF the
taste or inclination which prompted the young
gentlemen of the Louisiana Foot Rifles to select
French military dress, we have nothing to saw.
That is their own affair.
The inspection and review passed oft in the
usual form; MajorGenera Lewis, Inspector Cen
eral Forstal, BrigadierG Tracy and Palfrey
and their staff officers all being present. The
weather being pleasant, great crowds of people
collected at the Place d'Armes and along the
different streets through which the companies
marched ~
The FIRE EPIDEMIc.-In orr yesterdays report,
we did not mention all the fires that took place on
Wednesday. The one we failed to report was on
The afternoon of that day, at the corner of Chip
pewa and Pleasant streets, near the upper line of
the Fourth District. The residence, stable and
of W. Bosat, butcher, were de-
stroyed; also the residence of Mr.. Donet, by.
Loss, between two and three thousand dollars.
ANOTHER Destructive CoNFLAGRATIoS IN THE
FOURTH DIsTRICT-Yesterday afternoon, at about
2 o'clock, fire started in the stables of Mr.. John
B. Fitch, street contractor, on Chippewa street,
just above the corner of Washington avenue, or
Fifth street, in the Fourth District
The brisk prevailing wind, and total absence
of water in the neighborhood enabled the fire to