The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-13
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| .ee Was 10 COME. Inc crowds on the great
| .nvlouehiare were not unusually large or unnstu-
rsliy ousky. considering the lowering appearance
Oh tne skies. But whether the clerk of the
wea'ner, py darkening the empyrean to an inky
nue. mean. 10 hovn upon the demonstration Of
q somher pail in heaven. ss there was slreadv vons
on lne crescent City, remains for the Harvard as.
tronomers to discover. Suffice II IN sav shat ths
sun as ne declined to the edge of the horizon
| seemed sick almost to doomsday with ecIinse
| AT hslf-past six, precisely, a rocket i was IN
| " be sent up from the iron buldiugn (that ia on
Canal street, near the steamboat lsndinpl that
the grand marshal had taken his place. Sure
| enough, about quarter of an hour tsrdy. the
| grand marshal was seen at the head of a long
cavalcade OF aids, (strange to tell most of them
were on horses Of Immaculate white) canterinQ in
hVey style towards that mysterious " iron build.
ing" We saw that grand marshals eye, as he
passed Camp street, turn despairing glance up
that street and down Charities, but nary - club
was to be seen, except few crooked ones in the
hands OF country negroes. The grand marshal
and his stai, though discouraged. continued on to
the iron building. little while after they
had reached that place, a heavy rumbling
sound was heard. The marshal turned to his at.
tendants-" but. hush, hsrk deep sound strikes
Ike rising knell did ye not hear it," 1t was
the approach Of section Of U. 8. artillery, COM
posed OF white men, under the orders Of white
men, that came TO keep "orier in the ranks
The darkies waiting on the side walks were sghast.
Me, I'm gwine home; lord a mercy, Use seen
een uACu suoOt anu IiggerS nor whites
don't stand no show when dem shots Gomez
=" What dey gwine do with dem wagons! Is dem
the wagons what bring the ratious for us country
folks!" and thousand other similar observations
were to be heard on every side. The clubs we're
very slow in coming on the ground. The mar
shal, however, proved himself q patient indi-
vdual.
Finally, about 8 O'Clock the promised rocket
was sent up from the Iron Building, and, amid
dense mass Of colored people, the procession
moved down Canal street. The front and center
OF the procession were commercially orderly and
decorous during their march through the First
Dlsrlct. The rear part were somewhat dsor.
1erly, hooting and groaning, notwithstanding the
repeated orders of their marshals.
Unlike the Democratic procession a fortnight
ago, the Radicals, except ia two or three In.
tervals.
camp followers 10 the front Of the procession but
towards the center very few Their bands of
music were very poor and very far between.
ihey moved In tolerable order. bat anybody that
mss witnessed the turDouts of the Demo ,rstic
clubs nightly on our streets, could easily perceivs
that the procession of last night was onlv An mi
taton OF the Democrats-except that, like the
monkeys eaudal, they we're not so neat but a
sreSt sreo ussl gsqoier. We forgot to say in the
Institute, or rather the State Hnnse 10 sea ,vha.
was going on there, about O'Clock. No Ia was
dark below, dark as the procession without their
a
handsome colored girl of eighteen lighting up two
or three tiimsy transpsrencies. Whilst gazing |
upon which interesting business we heard a sten.
torian-a regular bull Of Bashan's-yoice in the /
HAL Of representatives. and we determined to
see and hear. We went mp. stalwart white /
gent, with nose similar 10 that of Bertram in |
- Robert the Devil" with mutton-chop whiskers
rs fiery as the middle coal in a revenue collectors
once OF cold day, and tout ensemble which
reminded US very forcibly of Capt. Bobabil of |
formidable renown, was drilling club of thirty
men and boys. The orders of this ex military |
character were emphatic and voluminous in the |
extreme. We venture the remark, that Stonewall
Jackson during whole days forced marching
hat truculent marshal of the Grant Empire
Jlub gave TO the unfortunate thirty,
With Col. Wm. r. Fish as their file leader,
n conducting them from the hall of the house
'ver 10 NO. IL, hesdquarters-a distance of thirty
'sces. The clubs on foot were all very well, ex.
ept as TO the outlandish and gsrish costume of
ONE OF the clubs. As to the cavalry, the pink of |
III cavaliers OF lmodeIn times, old Don Quixote,
you'd have been jealous of every horse in that
PROCESSION. There wasn't one that couldn't hays
hown more skin and bone than Rosinante. The |
olored men were all good horsemen, and kept
heir psgs well in hand; but such a show! Ye
ods, Lees light artillery horses at Petersburg,
r the csb'horses of Mobile were beauties com
AIRED to them.
friend of the CRESCENT stood at the corner
I Camp and Julia streets, as the procession
'tut up tne street., ana ne counted the rank and |
10 carefully and uninterruptedly. The number
men and boys was .53S, of whom 2S2 were
bite The time occupied in passing that point
'ss fifty minutes.
AT the Crescent, they were again carefully
oUnted, as they passed down. They took fifty.
We minutes to pass our Office, and numbered |
334, horse, foot and dragons.
Aitogether-everything considered in view |
! the weather-and other things,-we think that
N that party
We watched the "procesh' as it came down
asst our otfice-watched the long file Of unmean
q, lstless, multi'colored phizes until the car
ages came. First came white digntaries then
ime (forgiVe US, women of our race y white |
omen. In barouche with two beautiful white
omen on the back seat, sat the illustrious Hahn |
ith little girl on his left side. Following hard
Ter hahn came carriage, in which sat a white
an and handsome white woman, his wife, no {
Dubt on the back seat, and on the front. a her.
liesn negro, dressed like Dandy Jack" in the | ,
ensgerie, and black as ebony, with little white
MD oi two years lying on the seat, fast asleep,
TN It's head reposing on the leg of the negro. '
here were many other noticeable things in the 7
oeession, but it is too late for us to diIate any
Tther.
So far as we could see, the procession was {
editsole both IN display and in numbers. They 6
ere orderly and respectful, except towards the ,
d. where, unaccompanied by police, they were
Tbulent and insulting. The Second Waad Club
we three cheers 10 the CRESCENT induced, no
uot, Dy the compliment we paid them for their | ,
Derry turn out of Friday night. We thank !
EN-. The Third Ward also cheered US, probably j
rsuaded thereto by their predecessors. We /
ank them also. 7
A MOsr SINGULAR CASE Is now under investi- {
lion. IL seems that short time ago a man A
med Chas. Glenn was tried for robbing bat on
owing an abb by the testimony of another man.
associate, named John Christian, he was die. o
arged. IL seems that shortly Afterwards a auar- d
arose between the two men, which terminated d
al slap In the face given by Christian 10 %
tnn. Actuated by a desire Of obtaining re- =.
uee IN any way. Glenn yesterday catered 4
arge ct perjury against his quondam friend, D
tiDg that he had sworn falsely ia his testimony n
ysrdipg the stealing case. Considering that the !.
owing of this charge necessitates a new trial of
anD, which will perhaps result In his conviction II
$ must be taken as most unusual instance of | u
" far mans passion for revenge may carry W
0, even II the qualification of that passion is to
own obvious and inevitable injury. We await
development with curiosity. :.
TIE DEARTH OF ITEMS yesterday was positively n
pslliDg to arepOrter who wishes his column full. r
items we don't mean petty larce MES trivial
aIlts or what contemporary calls minor ni
'nses, but real solid items on which a writer p'