The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-30
The Colcred People Marching by Hun
dreds and Cheering Everywhere.
The Most Brilliant Display Ever
Known In America.
One Hundred Thousand People on the
streets.
EVERYTHING PASSES OFF QUIETLY.

Day dawned, yesterday, upon this city, with
out cloud TO dim the canopy Of heaven. As the
sun rose On bis westward journey. the weather
became intensely warm. About midday the streets
were thronged with ladies', gentlemen aud exhiIs-
rated youngsters, all intent uDoz purchasing. bor
rowing or begging things to add TO the splendor
Of the great Democratic procession-the COM
mencement of new era. Among those myrads
of happy, earnest faces were great many, thous-
snds, indeed, that were not familiar upon our
thorougkfares. Hundreds of them were recog-
nzed as citizens of Mobile. through the distn-
guished men in their company, eminent among
whom was the Hon. John Forsyth, the favorite
and gifted champion of Alabama. Hundreds of
them, also, could be recognized from their dark
complexion and raven boards, to be descended
from the old Latin stock that nearly two centuries
ego settled in the fertile regions Of AttakapSs aud
Opelousas. There were people from the lower
coast all the way down to the mouths of the Mis-.
sissippi; from the upper coast all the way up TO
Bayou Sara on the left bank, and to St. Joseph on
the right. There were people from every settle
ment along the Jackson and Great Northern Rail.
road as far Holly Springs; and people, not only
from along the entire route of the 0pelousas road,
but others, scores OF them, that had come from
Galveston aud Houston, and other parts of the
Lone Star State by way of Berwick's Bay. There
we're hundreds, also, from the piuey woods,
region extending from Pouchstouls to Pascsgoula.
There were also many visitors from Memphis and
| all the towns along the river as far up as Cairo.
All these people are DemocrRts-Democrsts Of
| the sturdiest and most determined character
| The phslanx they will present in November will
prove a wall OF sdamant against further violations
| of the Constitution, and against any more out
RACES upon the Southern country by the carpet
bsggers.
/ About noon the sky became over.ssst, the wind
/ began TO rise from me northeast banking up the
| clouds in a threatening manner, and then after
/ ull of eve or ten minutes blew with terrific vio-
| lence from the southwest. Canal street was alb.
| solutely rs dark as if it were night and all the
| gaslghis had been extinguished. We can imagine
that one class of our population, the fsirer class,
| were reioiced at this obscuration-fOr Boress and
| Eurus, and all the other windy divinities, were
| playing sad pranks with the drapery Of the ladies
| caught in the wsnton sport of the gales. pail
seemed to spread over nature and what with the
sudden change from sunlight to eclipse, the stiff ng
! binding dust flying In every direction, and the
SSa'e aeeeNesaJ Il have seized man. woman
| of the most singular and sombre occurrences we
have ever witnessed. The rain, however, soon
put q check on the fury of the winds and settled
| down for an hour or so into regular shortlived
deluge, flooding the streets but the overflow de-
clped so rapidly as to carry off the refuse aud Of
fs of the CITY, instead Of allowing it to settle upon
the bsnquettes and carriage ways.
Thus that humorous fellow, the clerk of the
weather, in giving us forstaste OF the equinoc-
tial near at hand, amused himself for awhile by
Sling us with alarm lest the night should be
wild and stormy one ; and at the same time taught
our esteemed street commissioner lesson, by
showing him how city might be thoroughly
clesused by q plentiful ablution, which Major
Murphy could in few days hard work daily bless
New Orleans with, from the Mississippi, which
flows above the level of our streets.
About in the afternoon the rain ceased. excep
dropping a passing shower now and then; -th'
clouds broke without dispensing, aud the cool tenn
nerature promised a first rate evening for th'
grand turnout.
The magnitude of the procession hai requires
tbe iucesssnt attention Of the grand marshal, tn
| chief and assistant msrshals, as well as that o
the club marshals and their committees doring tn
entire week There was head work and the nces
| discrimination in the task. Twenty-Five thOusan
, men are an army that csunot be marshalled in
I, bout. And besides, the marshal ana his aids hs
not the advantage of preliminary review, SO
10 determine the final allotment of each division
t in the narrow and confined streets OF populou
citv. That the whole affair has passed ofso ehec
: ively and pleasantly is due first TO the skill an
v Judgment of Col James McCloskey and his assis
II ants. and secondly to that esprit de corps wnic
Q animates every Democrat 10 New Orleans, ba
1, ishinp everything like Jealousy or rivalry, and
ducipg all to the level of the one great impendir
struggle for liberty, property and security.
"a Some may deplore these costly professions
q we do not. The artisans OF New Orleans, fer u
ls last fortnight, the livery stables, the dry goo
ee and fancy stores, the tsilors and seamstresse
e the unemployed Democratic dsrkies, have
~ reaped a ereenbaek harvest. which they a
At bouId long to remember as God'send in the
re parlous and stressful times. The rich and I
y indepepdent have given cheerfully and unsp'
st noly and the industrious poor at length have e.
a ployment, even if j. be only ephemeral.
eo One of the chief difficulties in the way of a
er bi,ious horsemen was the difficulty Of procuri
ed the vherewithal emitting them to that nan
1t. Grew and white horses were in extraordinary
ne mand. and brought fabulous prices for She ev'
IN ino's hire On the staff of the chief marshal
the first division we noticed an aid mounted o.
'ur magnificent white charger. This horse is
IN same that bore the commander Of our armies
Mt, review of colored troops above Carrollton shor
=" after the capture of Vcksburg. Whether
nk animal then was intoxicated with the glory
he bearing that nustrious man, or with the benz
his which might have oozed out OF that hlusri
les mans headquarters in the saddle " and pei
na rated even 10 the instincts Of the horse, is
bst ter for the discussion Of interested and rem
by posterity; but, certain il is that msgninC
white charger " flung " his distinguished RI
llsn ius, as sindbad the sslOr finally flung the
nj | Man Of the Sea. when be got drunk, aud as
'ete mighty people Of America are going to fling I
aud all the Radical trappings he bears al
30 bin, in November. In another
}, syoung gentleman who had passed several