Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-27

lue llme5 correspondent says NO
police were out, no attempt at control
or direction was made The throng,
organized or unorganiZed, was left to
make its own way as it could. The
mass was swaying, and waving, and
Keeling /; the Puerta del Sol was like
huge stomach boiling down food by
loads, and laboring uneasily to digest
it by driblets. Yet there was gayety
and quaininess, and even beauty and
sublimity. III all TINT wonderful cram,
something irresistibly catching in the
animation of that vast sea of heads,
something Enthusiastically thrilling in
the prodigious confusion of inspiriting
strains, in that incessant whirlwind of
frantic shouts / never saw populace
in such terrible earnest This is the
first day on which the Madrid people
seem to be really conscious of free
dom the first day on which they ap-
peared to realize to it's full extent the
change that promises to make them
men. There was its own share of fun
and drollery. doubtless, but on the
whole the multitude was bent on a real
demonstration of love and hatred the
thoughts of the dynasty which had
forged their chains, and of the Liberia
tor who had broken them, were upper
most in every mans mind. This was,
indeed, the last day of the Bourbon
domination.
The Daily News correspondent thus
describes Prim.
Hats and handkcrchiefs were waving
from every window and every balcony
and we knew the hero of the hour, the
idol of the people, was drawing near.
On they came-a brilliant group-be-
meath the triumphal arch, and along
the richly decorated aud densely crowd
ed street. Prim, on chestnut horse,
with rich scarlet harness. small, har-
dy-looking man, with bright, keen
glance, sitting low in his saddle, bow
ing right and left in acknowledgement
of the rapturous greetings of the peo-
ple-not outwardly too much elated,
but his tace flushed and his eyes fash
ing with iustifable pride and satisfac-
ton. On his bride hand rides Serrano,
Due de Ia FORE, in full uniform
proud, sedate, and soldierly and be-
hind and before are numerous staff,
whose utmost exertions are required to
keep the people from crowding round
Prim's horse, and hopelessly impeding
his progress. Now and then that i'm
petuous little hero seems disposed to
ride forward among the crowd, which
is so dense in front that women are
screaming, and children in arms have
to be handed into the windows of the
houses /; but his. friends judge better
than he does what would be the conse-
quence OF such movement, and he is
held back now by one and now by
another, until those whose duty it is to
do so have cleared a passage for him.
Wreaths are showered upon him from
every balcony impulsive ladies waste
good cambria by dropping it among
the crowd and men and women alike
are shouting till they are hoarse. Prim
wore the undress pniform of a general
officer, with the stars of his orders Of
knighthood. IT is SAID that while he was
in Catalonia, some patriot, more impul-
sive than discreet, noticed that he still
carried the royal crown on his cap, and
asked him why he did not remove it.
The answer was short, but significant
81 am not" said Prim," g warning
against royalty, but against the Bour-
bons." Slowly, and with much diff
Guilty, the General made his way into
the Puerta del Sol, now crowded with
people and onlyhalfilluminedb by the last
rays of the setting sun and when his
presence became known, there went up
from that vast mass Of people a shout,
SO earnest, SO loud, sodeep, as has new
err before been heard in Madrid, and
within the experience of living man
may never be heard again" Viva
Prim !"--repeated again and again. II
was like the voice of giant and il
was the voice of the giant-but gi-
ant that had proved that he could be
merciful as he was strong q giant that