Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-01
GREAr Usios DEMONSTRATION IN

NEw YoEk.-Tbe New York papers
publish lengthy accounts OF he ire
mspdous Union demonstration in
New .ork CT y on The evening Of The
, 29d. From he IIerald's report we
extract he following
The Minute and The Union Men
turned oul 10 immense numbers last
night. On he 81 October the Wide
Awakes had ther procession, so long
talked OF. aud introduced, ike Stage
display, with . blast and flourish Of
trumpeis. The process on was large,
though no, so large rs The Republ.-
cans claimed. aud YVES compo ed, for
grea part, youths able o ca Y
torches, but unable TO vie. ether ut
the approaching election in Noven.
Der, or. from appearance, At several
subsequent elections. The ranks were
swelled by clubs from the back couu.
try, cities an villages-from Albany,
Troy, Hartford, f'aubury. Boston, aud
even nom more distant points. This
conglomelatiou of clubs, metropolitan
sud urban. passed through The streets
IN solemn array, like midnight par
AIDE OF he Sons of Malta, unenlbusi-
as.ic and awakened no enthusiasm
A party Of cowled monks, bearing
ligbtencd tapes, returning from a
funeral, would have been quite az
provocative Of any political excite
ment rs those Wide Avs kes, who
were so called, as a vii happily OBJ
served because they had no place to
sleep" The crowd which gathered
70 see them appreciated, as all New
York crowds do, this lack Of enthusl-
asm. and before all Of the dull pro.
cession had passed, The Wide Awakes
were popularity ohristepsd "somnam-
buIists," or 'sIeep-waIkers."
Capt. Isaiah Rynders saw the pro-
cession, aud determined to surpass il.
With the aid Of the Union men Of ail
parties he has succeeded in doing
more than he intended /; he has Civ
en- us a genuine torcbli gbt procession,
the greatest New York eve, saw-in
numbers and general appearance un.
surpassed-s procession seven miles
/
in length, and which was over three
hours in passing any given point or,
gsnized upon p iucip'e directly OPP.
posite to that Of the Wide Awakes.
the procession of last night was com.
posed, with the exception Of few in
vited clubs, entirely Of our own
men who can and will vote here
in the city and State. In numbers
IL more than doubled the Wide
! Awake procession. there being,
upon the lowest estimate, from
twenty-five to thirty thousand men
in line, in clan, vim and entbu-
siasm. IL was unequsled. Cheer
ing and cheered. it swept through
the streets mass of lights, men.
; music, cannon flags. transparencies,
/ tablcau, fireworks and banners, in
describably imposing and tho shouts
which everywhere responded to
the cheers of tho clubs from tho
thousands who lined the streets
showed that the Union mon outside
the procession were 80 numerous
that the thousands in limo were
hardly missed. Tho crowds upon
the sidewalks were upequaled even
at the Prince of Wales reception.
and so overlooked the streets that
the procession could hardly pass,
the men cheering and the ladies'
waving their bandkerchiefs. As
The various companies passed the
Herald Office on their return, they
cbeered tremendously. IF tho light
from those countless torches could
illumiuo all minds; If all would
keep step to the music Of the
Union; If all our voters would
come forth, like tho minute men Of
nc, at the signal of danger to the
Union, Black Republican fanati-
cism would DO rebuked, the Wide
Awake torches qucnched, national
conservatism once more rule the
land, and none need fear for the
safety Of our country and our
whole country.