Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-10-03
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JUBMEEi
We need not tell the world that last Satur-
day was the dav for the Great Democratic
Jubilee ~ in Nashville. All the world knows
il. Or If all the world don't, it is all The
worlds own fault. Ali the world should pay
more attention to the newspapers aud bed
blanket posters.
Til" Great Democratic Jubilee " was
printed in the Union and Aueriean for at least
six weeks. Ii was printed in all the Drrn"
cratic paprs OF the State for at least six
week. But it was not :, good JOB. 1t was
10 printed ia fast colnrS. Al the first dash
of cold water. tn. Great Democratic Jubi-
lee" like the figures on Il sample of cheap
calico was washed out. Ii the thug was war
r,ntrd not to fade. somebody ousi.t /" bring
suit against the manufacturers for damage.
Another action might lie successfully brought
against them for obtaining visitors to the
city uud..r false pretcnc
When Democracy JIG :, remtikS an OI-
p ,sijiun philosopher, The Ia avem> weep Ii
rain-d Friday night dSco"ragingiy- SaInr-
ay morning il rainrh like putting out fire
:, few irops ON the =. eat ID III cratlc il,
bilee " and PIT that out
Tho programme inform Us that The orier
of proc sSion would lac SOMEHOW so: "MU-Ic---
Bass BAND.-Fpa Section. - Williamson
County ID .legati"n, on hnrS' b 'ck, will form
on 5 nth Mark t.right resting an tie Sqnar
iSrcond Sect;oa.-Carriag-s with Gov. lIARKIS
e.. -. Iof.I r 'i,x-
Hnte! was lhrrr.l Trrd Seotion.-Ciiizcns
from Robertson and Snmnrr counties will
form aa Front street, right rt>tins on the
Square. THE "a rare Wa r'ady to he rested
or.l Section FoarGh--The citizens 81 Y iSl-
vile and Davidson county will form at the
Market Hous,.. THE Markat House did not
shirk the responsibility. but was promptly o.
the ground] Fifth SectioH.--A!l carriages for
the procession will join the pr crssian in
rear OF citiz ms on foot. Carriages for pr
cession otherwise engaged.l At 10y o'cl'ck
the procession will form, and move around
the Square to College street, down College
to Union, &c"
Tn O'Clock came, but tn procession, with
its five Sections did not l. has not C ,me
vet. 1t is not expected to Come at all. At
about III o'clock the Sumner ID leg Itipn ar
rived We saw him. lie was the wetiest
man we ever saw. He rode switch tail
three year old. with a sheep skin srldlc- liz
his rght hand he held a ropc-hriile, ami III
his left a blue staff, topped with Il tin spear,
from which dropped scrap of pink and wet
r hbon, inscrit,d with ih- word ''Sumncr." in
black ink I'VE have since learned that This
gentleman was from Willlamsnr.)
Time wore on. Th- sidewalks were
thronged with d mp aud cxpcctant people.
The dropping cloud had a%cd to sh,d
their silent tears: aud yet the note of pre-
Jaration was uaheard. The Mnrshals were
O arce. The ouly blue sash to he = en- was u
couple OF yards of deeply Injured rilon
worn by IA gentleman from the hill, whose
brogans were busted, whose coat had gene
into ~ rapid d cay and whose shirt was Thea
evidently wet for the first time ia six months.
ILL.,. was one of the Mar,h tl~ of the day; but
a nohndy knew il but himself il is pre-
lumrd tina, he lnh ritcd the app 'inrmcut.
Eleven o'clock came, and with IL the an
Jubilee " had come into the world still-horr.
a suspc on OF which fact having already
obtained Throughout the city. The h-~v.ns
still ;rowned 30 did the ultririied (but
not unwashed), and the STREETS were lost
in mud. The dripping crowds oi wne-l e
gone Democracy who were 10 have formed
the Five Grand ctians Of the Proc =
Q OF. scatter d in disgust, aud took ~
drink-a great many drinks, in fact. The
gods themselves, says the Greek proverb.
do not fight against Necessity. Ii is moi To lie
expected that the ID mocracy would attempt
what the gods d clue to do. (tbough some of
them do good many things the gods would
not attempt); aud SO. they distributed Oh ir
b q and hominy 10 whoever ielt hungry, aud
giving up the Great Jubilee as a humLug,
they went in out of the wet leaving
ether spears all unified, ,heir trumpets unbiown.
Our reporter left the scene of this melan-
sholy disaster some dme before noon. As
he turaed into D,adcrick street from the
Public Square, the band twhose baSs-drum
had got one of it, heads knocked inn, struck
ND that well known derge:
Hark from the crowd doleful sound
My ears, attentive be;
Ye grinning Wings come view the ground
Where Jailed the Jubilee !
Just after dinner, (Which was, we fear, a
long time before dinner e. many poor fellow
who had ridden twenty miles to dine ut the ex-
pense of his party here. but lost his last
chance when the barbecue Knocked under to
the rain), quite a number of the Democracy
went up into the third story Of the Court !
House, where they had several speeches,
which, from the way the boys who filled up |
The loose space among the legs Of the crowd |
.holIered hoorsyl" must have been much more
cheerful than could have been expected un-
der the circumstances. They wrr. made by |
;ol. 10. G. GuLD, Gov. HARRIS. Hon. JAS III.
THOMAS, Hon. w. T. AVERY, and JOHN Fiss,
9 a., Of Kentucky. The big guns who were
expected from abroad. failed 10 make the con-
lecfion- - y
A Magnificent Display Of Fireworks was