Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-10-22

Grand Union TorchIiSnt Dceaonstruue
in n blaze Of Glory 1.-The t'reat Poiitico-
tIdni Wave swecplns Along!-Demec-
rncy Parai,zed!-" GRANTS whats the
Matter
The grand mass meeting and general
Union torchlight demonstration last
evening at Silver City was, all things
taken into consideration, decidedly the
most spirited and brilliant of the cam
paign thus far. By special honorary in
vitation we rode down with the Grant
Glee Club, starting out with them from
South c street, Virginia, where the
Union people of that place formed at 7
o'clock. There were about II dozen
wagons and carriages fully loaded, and
many rode on horseback, the entire
cortege numbering about two hundred
bearing torches and an occasional
transparency. There were twenty OF
the Glee Club, stuck rs thick as peas in
q pod into that gay little Black Maria
razee band wagon, propelled by Il par
ticularly good feeling old white horse
and five others which were only inferior
to him in being colored. We and an
other individual sat on the seat with
the driver, aad being in the lead had u
good chance to see what was to be
seen.
GOLD cANYoS ALIVE.
Coming down the steep declivity into
and through Gold Hill with our
heavy load, we felt perfectly safe and
reckless for We knew the brake was II
good one, and if things went wrong
and the team rat away, aud
IL valuable neck got broken in the
operation, it was comforting in the
highest degree to know that Doug.
would be hung for it, rs he was the
driver, and the whole responsibility was
on his shoulders. Our Gold Hill boys
were in the street just below the NEWS
office, with torches, ETC., waiting, to the
number of two or three hundred, and
away they started in grand procession
as escort, most of them on foot. And
now commenced u grand triumpha al,
glorious march, which none OF the par
Elephants surely can ever forget AS long
rs they live. The Crown Point and
Yellow Jacket dumps were brilliantly
lighted with rows of candles, n the
boys cheered them in passing. The
Sunderland, Rhode Island, Sapphire aud
lone mills were also most beautifully
Illuminated with candles at each pane
of glass in all the front windows, ana
the steam whistles OF all the mills and
hosting works told the progress OF the
..~~. lA.,, Nho canynn in naSSlnV.
Bonfres were blazing at various points,
and many Of the private houses ana
miners cabins along the route were
handsomely illuminated. Ladies, TOO,
and little children, waved torches, hand
kerchiefs or flags from windows or
porehes as we passed along, II our
Glee Club returned the compliment with
some Of their best songs. Captain Tay-
lor, the affable aud trusty Cerberus who
guards the DEVILS Gate, smiled being
nantly upon the lengthy and hilarious
cortege as it passed, and we did not
hear him say " toll F" once.
AN ARABIAN NIGHTS SCENE OF EScHANT-
NENT.
And now, rs we passed through the
grim portals Of the DEVILS Gate, q
brilliant fairy scene Of wild enchanted
beauty burst upon our enraptured gaze.
Huge bonfres blazing forth from the
tall rocky bluffs each side Of the Gate,
and from all the hill tops around Silver
City, threw n lurid light upon the land
scape. On each side Of the road before
us, leading into the town, were ranged
the patriotic Union boys Of Silver City
in long lines, with torches, transparent
cies, etc, waiting to receive us. And
they did receive US, too, with universal
cheers of welcome and fraternity, all
along the lines us we passed, which
were properly responded to, and with
the Gold Hill band in the lead, dis
coursing national music, the Glee Club
singing, and flags, torches and banners
waving, we marched proudly into the
most essentially wide awake loyal little
town on the Pacific Coast. The cot
tages on the hillsides, the saloon and
store fronts, and even some of the mills,
were gaily adorned with q profuse dis.
play of thousands Of colorcd paper Chi
nese lanterns, and little lights CLEANED
from every window pane, through nu-
merous ornaments of colored paper
stars, pasted upon the squares Of glass.
Alladin's wonderful lamp never shone
upon a much gayer scene. Even the
young moon bashfully retired behind
the big hills, in maideuly consciousness
that her mild rays were mol needed.
Proceeding down the main street OF
this elongated town, the triumphal
procession moved gaily past the crowds
lining the sidewalks, amid the most en-
thusiastic cheers, and the loud booming
thunder of the Gold Hill cannon, "Gen-
eral Grant" which was brought down
here for the purpose, and was being
properly operated by Cummings and
Paul Jus. outside of town. The Glee
Club stopped at the speakers stand,
which was erected in the street, oppo-
site Becker's Billiard Saloon, while the
rest passed on to meet the coming del
egation from Dayton. This they met Mt
the Nevada Foundry below town and
escorted it up in gallant style. There
were about two hundred and fifty OF
this DAYTON delegation in wagons, car
r;agss, on horseback, and on foot, and
all bore torches, flags, transparencies,
etc. One wagon contained twelve Ia
dies. Couutermarching on Main street,
the entire procession now gathered IN
front Of the speakers stand.
THs EXERCISES.
We give less space in speaking OF the
exercises ut the stand on this interest
ing occasion than to the general uoings
and festivities, as in fact Gold HILL, Viz
yin;a mud DAYTON we're fraterniziug with
Silver City, and hundreds Of friends
were, exchanging greetings who had no
met for some time, therefore the whole
Of their attention was not confined to
the vicinity of the speakers stand, yet
there was n huge crowd constantly
gathered in front, and the ladies occu-
pied eligible seats near by. Hon. New
ton Booth first addressed the meeting,
in u most excellent, loyal Onion speech
Of nearly two hours length, which was
warmly ~applauded throughout. The
speech Of Col. Za%briskie, which fol-
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