The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-24

st. Charles streets, were lighted ~ with great
-plendor, and on the line Of march down Rampant
and ND Esplansde and Royal streets, good many
residences were gorgeously Illuminated.
We cannot refrain from mentioning the City
Hotel. the Camp street front of which presented a
spectacle which equaled in gorgeous beauty the
snbterrapeap palace which Alsddin's story Used
to couiu,e up in our childish fancy. The portal to
the ladies, staircase ives also tsstefully and
elsborsteiy decorated with transparencies and
wrestbs of evergreen. towering over which was
the conspicuous Inscription, Welcome to the st.
Louis delegation" Tyler's came next in point Of
beauty-perhaps that famous jewelers. surpassed
all others On his balcony Mr.. Tyler had re-
spIepdent cross with the letters s. and B. in the
center. and near by magnificent crescent-the
two blazing to such degree that the Clay statue
and the people about the Magazine car station
we're as plainly visible as in open day.
There were along the entire line many other
buildings the decorations of which were brilliant
in the extreme. But none of these artificial sur.
roundiDgs equaled in our opinion the marvellous
beauty Of the fair spectators who .owding every
balcony, filing every window, looked down with
besming eyes upon the pageant as it swept by in
the following order A. H. Mason, grand mar
shall, A. Benjamin, aid to grand marshal; assisted
by the following named gentlemen as assistant
marshsls: Col. 7. s. Mcknight, ]. R. Purvis, /.
Caulfeld, A. Porteous, r. Sinnott, j. c. Blohm'
W. N. Owen, E. Howard McCsleb, Sam Boyd, DR..
j. D. Bruins, Chas. A. Green, John Tobin, John
sinnott. r. N. Ogden, I. T. A. Lyon, W. II.
Holmes, Thos. L. Airey, Col. ]. o. Landry, ]. NJ.
Peterson.
LEADING DIvIsIoN-HARRY t. HAYS, CHIEF OF
DIVISION.
Music. The st. Louis delegation; the Ladies'
committee; young ladies representing thirty
seven States; Democratic State and parish COM
mittees; officers Of the Spanish navy members
of the press-all in carriages.
FIRST DIvIsIoN-sAM. HENDERSON, CHIEF.
Blair knights Clearing banner), mounted, $50
men Seymour, knights, mounted 1900 men; 0ray
mems Democratic Club, mounted, 300 men Blair
Guards mounted, leo men; Algiers Seymour and
Blair Knights, mounted, 200 men; Crescent
Mounted Club 400.
SECOND DIvIsION-B. N. TURNBULL, CHIEF.
Jefferson City Minute Men of IS LIS men, Blair
Defenders (Cauollton) l25 men, Algiers Seymour
Rangers S. men, Blair Cadets (Algiers) 90 men,
Fuller Guards (Algiers) SO men, Magnolia Rangers
(Algiersl AZ men.
THIRD DIvIsIoN-F. N. OGDEN. CHIEF.
Crescent City Democratic Club leo men, Steed.
man Guards l 90 men, Seymour ZousYes 60 men.
FOURTH DIyIsIoN-C. c. WILLIAMSON, CHIEF.
jackson Railroad Club 400 men, Seymour
Guides $40 men, Second Ward Tigers 500 men,
Blair sentinels so men, Seymour southrons 200
men.
FIFTH DIVISION. Z. AUSTIN, CHIEF.
Constitution Club $50 men, Minute Men of '6s
100 men. Fossil Guards $50 men. Liberty Guards
(colored) 80 men, Frank Blair Guards $50 men,
Delegation Blair Guards, Jr., so men, Seymour
Sentinels 100 men, johnson Rangers so men, Blair
Cadets 100 men.
SIXTH DIVISION. P. SMITH, CHIEF.
Hancock Club $50 men, Jewell Guards 50 men,
stesmboatmen's Club (colored) rs men.
SEVENTH DIvIsIoN-E. A. BOOMER, CHIEF.
Hendricks Guards 90 men, Seymour Legion 800
men, Broom Rangers, Jr., 100 men, Broom Rang.
ers AIS men, Innocents HOO men, Pendleton
Guards 800 men, Pendleton Guards, Jr., so men,
EIGHTH DIvIsION-w. II. SCOTT CHIEF.
Sixth Ward Rough and Ready Club 95 men,
Sixth Ward Washington Club les men.
NINTH DIvIsIoN-Jos. sAIoMoN, CHIEF.
Spirit of '6s $50 men.
TENTH DIvIsION-N. A. LLAMBIAs, CHIEF.
Eighth Ward Seymour Rangers So men, Eighth
Ward Wide Awakes 400 men, German Democratic
Club leo men.
ELEVENTH DIvIsIoN-E coCHRAYE, CHIEF.
Rousseau Guards $50 men.
TWELFTH DIvIsIoN-Jos. COLLINS, CHIEF.
Excelsior Knights (Gretns) 20 men, Seymour
Cadets les men, Chanticleer Club l5O men.
THIRTEENTH DIvIsIoN-R. C. BOND, CHIEF.
Blair Zouaves 26O men, Swamp Fox Rangers
| 100 men, Spirit Of '76 $50 men.
One hour and fifty minutes was the time which
| the procession occupied in passing this Office
The personsl of those composing the various
| clubs was magnificent. The Innocent Club, I'M
der the leadership Of its gallant marshal, Oscar
Blasco, turned out the strongest in numbers, and
| appeared to great advantage. The transparency
| carried by the Crescent Mounted Club was an
elaborate and admirable one. Thas picturesque
| costumes of the Wide-Awakes and Zouave Clubs
| gave rare beauty to the pageant of which,they
| formed part. and the Swamp Fox Rangers, each
of them bearing upon his cap, a fox tail fol.
lowed transparency inscribed, marion and his
men still live" Attic late hour of writing, we
are unable to allude more fully to each individual
club, every one of which be ithowever said, made
1 an appearance creditable both to themselves and
the great Democratic party.
Scenes and Incidents.
So far as we could learn there was not an &C.
currence last evening to mar the festivities. ALI
the immense crowds which lined the BANG uettes
during the procession's progress, moved away
| quietly to their homes when it had passed, and by
an early hour Of the morning the only noise to be
heard was the rafting of an occasional carriage
conveying homeward some wearied participant.
A rapid ride through the portion Of the Second
District through which the procession was to pass
revealed one continuous line Of crowded balloon.
les and sidewalks. Upon Rampant, Espanade
and Royal streets there was not a vacant seat or
an unoccupied inch Of curbstone.
The close compact marching Of the Seymour
Southrons attracted especial attention along the
line. They step with the precision and preserve
the alignment Of veterans.
Towards the close of the ceremonies at the
| Opera House, occurred one Of those panics which
az littIa cau craato and vbich can rnlass D.ora.