Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-09-12


Light PROCESSION ~ NEw ORLEANS.
The Democratic meeting and torch
light procession ut New Orleans, on
the night of tho 29th ult., says tho
Houston Telegraph, arc reported
by the city papers to have boon tho
grandest and largest ever held there.
The Times and Picayunc, each, dc.
votes whole columns to giving tho
details. The lowest estimate is that
there were 10000 persons ia tho
procession. IL was between seven
and eight miles in length, and lap
ped around about fifty squares, Tho
whole city in its vicinity was illu-
minated, making il us light us day.
The masses are moving everywhere
in the Union, and tho people mean
to take tho veal Of the country into
their own hands. The Times gives
the following account Of some Of
the novelties in the procession:
Such an array of novelty was
presented in the designs of tho va
rious clubs, that tc describe one
half of them it simply an impossi-
bility. Among the many, we no
ticed in the wagon of the Minute
Men of '6S, the illuminated figures
of 'GS, each of which was fully five
feet long. Hoistcd high above the
admiring throng was an automnton
carpetbaggcr, satchel in hand, who
at stated periods bowed his nc
acknowledgements for the excitement
his presence created. A happy
thought was exhibited in the tu-
blcanX of male and female occupa-
ton. In largo truck were ~
crowd of men representing all the
useful trades = bakers, coopers,
blacksmiths, carpenters were yisi-
Bile, e,,apparcntly busy NJ their every
day avocations. ....l.r
Immediately in rear, a wagon dis
played the interior of Il housewives
working room, with a quiet matron
busy at her spinning wheel, and
her companions equally as deeply
engrosscd with other household
duties.
The Ship of State, n real craft,
ship,riggcd, which occupied a place
among the Seymour Knights, was
crowded with little girls.
Still another wagon represented
Pandcmonium. The apparently
bottomless pit poured forth Il ,sickIy
glare on the word "Radicalism"
stI Ictched over its mouth, and below
a mimic flood of streaming lava
seemed trickling into the street.
The mammoth cock bornc by
four coIorcd men at the head Of the
Chanticlecr Club, was the object of
much observation and remark
This colossal specimen stands fully
ten feet high in his stocking feet
The immense transparency, sliapcd
like the old fashioned palmetto
broom, borne BY one of the Broom
Rangers, also occ;lsioncd much
'I llsai ]" t54'oo'h
b Many of the wagons accompany
ing the clubs were beautifully do.
corated. That of the Blair Guards
was also handsomely arranged. A
club bearing transparencicsl shaped
like carpctbags, excited consider
able ridicule. a'Hi 9dj int A"
A carriage, which contained the
portly person Of our jovial and pop
ular friend, Captain John Sinnoit,
preceded a large, most respectable,
neatly attircdclub, composed cxclu-
sively of colored men who are en-
ployed on our river steamboats,
They were among the most cnthu-
siastic and vocifcrous of the shout
crs for Seymour Some of their
and notices wcro
very significant. Such mottocs az
Fire mp, boys, for Seymour and
Blair" mo carpetbag Slavery"
No White Niggers;" ave belong to
he South and have no masters"
We go with those with whom we
nave been raised" "Clear out Con-
way" and many similar expressions
'f contempt for carpctbrggcrs, and
If earnest devotion to the Democ-
-acy, were inserted on their variuds
banners and transparencies.