Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-01
LOG, 900 People Witness the
Spectacle.
MOST BRILLIANT AND IMPOSING
DISPLAY.

imal ia al the livery stables had been
engaged. The environs were searched.
| plantations visited, and In some instances
even carriage horses were engaged for
the occasion, Mobile, the Watering
Places, and ever Memphis and Louis
vile had been appeslsd TO for music, ali
responded, and with these additions our
corps was considered inadequate for the
host. By four O'Clock nearly all the
prominent business houses closed their
doors, and an hour later persons residing
in distant portions Of the city COM
menced thTODging TO Canal street, In
many families dinner was hurried
through in the most hap hazard style. to
enable the younger members to com
plete their preparations.
THE DAY AND THE CROWD.
The rain that had set in about the
middle Of the day cooled the atmosphere
to q most refreshing temperature; but
Just as everybody had congratulated
himself on the freedom from dust. il
commenced to sprinkle, ard continued
until perhaps six o'clock. Notwith.
standing this, by five O'Clock car loads
of ladies and children began to congre-
gate on the neutral ground, and along
the galleries of the Turo and other prom.
/ tuElL buAAU1Gk5 LIZZIE " Is ~ RHD2FAl
~eWeeping and brushing up for their re.
cepjon. Anxious matTons, with ss
many rs six or seven chattering little
people Juggling st their skirts, rushed
hither and thither in the vast crowd.
Each passing minute, from this hour,
brought achievements. The sun had
scarcely sunk behind the houses be-
fore the balconies commenced to throng,
and long before nightfall both windows
and verandRhs from Old Levee to RAM
partstreet was ases of futteriDg wells and
ribbons. Every available inch from
which 8 view could possibly be obtained
was covered. So great was the gathering
that many merchants erected
supports under the flooring to prevent
balconies from giving way under the
weight OF the fair spectators. In the
meantime the street and b~snquettes were
flied to ~sutfocstion with the surgiua
mass. The intersection Of st. Charles
street was slmost impossible, and the
corner Of CsrOndelet YVES, if anything,
more crowded.
TIE ILLUMINATION.
As night closed 8 majority Of the
buildings 5lszed with many tinted lights.
Ga both sides of Canal street, between
Bourbon and Bsronne, the illuminatious
were most tasteful and unique. The
Maison Blanche presented five fiery col
umns, sGrmounted by three arches and
dome, with the portrsits of Seymour and
Blair IA the niches. kuatz burst out in
a gassy star and CRESCENT, the gallery of
Mr.. DumOntIel shone with burning
shields, stars snd crescsnts Auge dis
played the United States fisg and tri-
color, and between them a burning star ;
BlelOck 4 &c. the illuminated portraits
Of the candidates. Toward Camp street,
& a. Tyler on one aldo, and Mr.. Zim-
mermanr on the other, were refuigent
In their pyrotechny. DR.. Syme, on his
gallery, showed 9 broad belt of ligdt, and
Mcssrs. Gaeble & Nippert y forest OF
Chinese lanterns.
On the lower square, Rybaek's and
Mchenna's were also prominent fea-
lures. The spectacle was scarcely ad-
mired before the attention II attracted
was divided with the Clubs, which now
began 70 arrive. Pouring in from ali di-
rectiols snd passing quickly and quietly
to their positions, One'gas hardly viewed
before half 3 dozen took its place. They
commenced coming Just at twilight but
1t was long after dark before ell arrived.
PRELIMINARY TO & START.
Were it not FOR tie presence Of the
crowds, end the multitude of ladies and
children, q could have fsncIed, from
the heavy tramp and the accurate ms
neuyFes; an Immense army was mssslpg
under the shsGOE Of the aicht. Both
sides Of Canal street, from the Ieyee bach
to Basin, and all OF the streets leading
into It, as far up as Lafayette on one side
anu as ssr down as st. Louis on the otber.
were fl led with tSs column, vet in ali
that tOrtuous line there did not glimmeT
g singie lamp. A few minutes before
seven q light glittered on the Ciay
statute and almost instantly 81 illumin.
stsd sgch burst or the view of the sur
rounding crowd, This spd the golden
hre Of a bomb denoted the arrival OF the
Grand Marshal and his aids.
In q moment after wards came the
second explosion, and, as if by magic,
tho entire line, through sill it's twisted
length, blsged with thogsands Of lights.
So sudden was the transition from dark
ness to almost MONDAY spIendor, that the
crowd, taken completely by surprise,
broke into an involuntary cheer, which
rang from street to street.
Under these happy auspices the grand
est procession eVer assembled ia the
streets OF New Orleans started on the
route.
E~x-peetiOn was on tlptoe. The glory
OF me Illumination instead of s~atiating
the desires OF he assembled thousands
seemed only to Increase their Interest 10
this monster rally. After some fifteen or
twenty minutes necessary delay three
moEe bombs announced that the march
had commenced.
THE ROUTE OF THE PROCESSION
was one continued, ~unceasing, never
broken, glorious ovation to the great
principles in whose honor the procession
marched. 1t would have seemed likely
with nearly all the men of New Or /
IN the ranks OF some one of the
many clubs which turned out, each of
whom spent some money Ia the cause,
that our people would have cOptented
themselves with that one mode of de-
monstrstipg their faith aud hope in DEM
doctrines. But no. Determined
that every possible means should b. 7sed
70 make the affair of last night the grand
st ard most imposing one Of the sort
sver seen, and resolved despite thss 1t
leeessitated the expenditure Of that
money which it had been so hard work
or US Of late to earn, to show by its free
)ullay now mucn We mad at hear the
aus in which we are engaged.
We had thought too that the display of
asst July would ia some measure have
prepared the citizens to forbear any ex-
.,ectatiOn of q preparation for g similar
demonstration, but the ilIuminstlons and
last night were as general, as
ostly and as handsome az il we had
lot already given full evidence Of what
New Orleans can do.
But not only IN the balconies was the
displayed. The streets were
ined with spectators. This statement,
70 it understood, does not apply to the
few squares below Canal atreet or
boYe IL, but to the whole route Of the
recession, from end 70 end. Where the
came from was q mysisry. 1t
eemed to US that the whole population
{ New Orlesns was on Canal street; but
re turned into Royal street, and there
las q crowd as great. We followed the
recession to Elysian Fields street, and at
very step the crowd became greater.
rem the old man of seventy to the ia
mt Of the breast, every age was there,
nd no station lacked its many repre-
sntatives-and the cheers which we
ave already mentioned IS given by !
clubs and echoed by the ladies. ware {