The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-30


adorned witt them. Every transparency bore
hem, every tongue repeated them, they seemed
% fash in every torch and wave In every hsndker-
chief, and eli ingenuity exhausted in devising
adornmeLts Tor hem, until the people, in many |
instances being able to think of no decoration |
which could add any lustre to them, coutented
the mseves with the simple and grsndinscription-
Seymour and Bar.
Down Royal street the procession marched to
Eiysisn Fields street, thence to the Levee and
then back to Canal street via Charities street.
What we have already said will fully apply to
this portion Of the route. The same magnificent
decorated every house, the same
crowd lined every street, and the same glorious
enthusiasm animated every heart We cannot DO
iustice 10 il; we here acknowledge that for all the
lust idea we can give of what the appearance
Of the route was, we might well at once throw
aside our pen: it literally beggsrs description"
Our readers win then pardon Us, II leaving the
lower portion Of the city we try-only though
again to fa-to tell how the First and Fourth Dis
trcts sppesred.
Up Camp street, filed with spectators, bril-
liantly Illuminated, marched the Democracy OF
New Orleans and the people were ready Tor
them. The same impulse which had actuated the
Creoles urged the Americans to display their love
Of the cause. Many stores had their windows
brilliantly illuminated and their fronts decorated
with transparencies. From the office OF the Nor
uan line of steamers Just above Grsvier street,
rope had been extended to the house opposite,
and from II hung flags and pehnants innumerable'
MANY or the private residences were Handsomely
illuminated, and in their decoration vast deal OF
taste was displayed, and the ladies were as nu'
merous and enthusiastic as their Creole sisters.
The galleries seemed bat rows OF flower
beds. and the puzzled spectators IN their
contemplation, was bewldered in the attempt to
decide upon the most beautiful one. The streets
were a. full and the enthusiasm as great as in the
lower part of the city. Prytanis street was re-
petition. and Washington and Magazine streets
told the same story. All along these streets the
private dwellings were illuminated, and in many
instances the designs were very beautiful. To
particulsrize is simply impossible; as soon might
we attempt to divide beam of sunshine into its
various rays and analyze their separate merits as
90 endeavor to select and hold up for admiration
any one of the countless offerings that were last
nieht laid on the altar OF patriotism, and whose
G. mbinsd magni6cence and beauty can truly be
compared to naught else but the bright, health.
giving beams OF the sun.
scenes and Iaeidents,
There were CROUCH able-bodied men mingled
with the immense throngs all along the line of
march to have formed another procession fully as
numerous as the immense pageant at which they
gszed.
The soda fountains for squares around the
localities where the procession temporarily halted
were emptied in incredibly short order by thirsty
Democrats.
Our pelican, which, proudly perched before the
CRrscESr Office, reminded the thousands of
Louisiana's sons as they passed of the emblem of
their native State, appeared to be fully imbued
with the spirit Of the great occasion. A curious
crowd gathered around him, but the birds long
hill kept them at a respectful distance. One
small boy had his hat taken off by an over indul-
Reuce of his curiosity, and colored lady came
near losing her waterfall.
The spectacle presented on Canal street, before
and during the start of the vast column Of men,
battles description. The illumination was brilliant
in the extreme. Fireworks shot upward from all
sides, the long lines Of sidewalks and balconies
were not crowded, but absolutely damned with
people; most of the buildings were decorated
with fiery stars, crescents and other embems
while profusion of flags and banners huttered in
the breezes Of the night.
Conid a hAllnnnist frnm snnae distant rei-A J~,rof
ignorant of what was really going on, he might
with reason have imagined that the subterrsnesn
gas beds of the Louisiana lowlsnds had broken
out in flames through the earthly crust, or that
some terrible con6sgration had burst forth and
enveloped the city. But what glorious specta.
Gle would It have been in any event, viewed from
an altitude of two or three thousand feet.
There was a strange quietude throughout the
city during the day betokening the approach Of
universal excitement in the evening. Toward
dusk, young men with red caps, with grey caps,
with white caps, and clad 10 all kinds of uniforms,
might be seen hurrying toward the places of rem
devious, and from that timo until midnight there
was no termination of the excitement.
The proces sion moved with remarkable prompt.
itude and with scarcely moments detention along
the entire route. Such marshslship as was drs.
played in moving so admirably such a vast body
of men, as it we're by clockwork, would have been
creditable to Napoleon and his generals them.
selves.
The time occupied 10 passing the CRESCENT Office
was two hours, almost to a minute. When the
head of the sixth division, which may he said to
have been about the center of the line had reached
luis pOlul, uOubu uptoNu Aho iOot SuaAN Woo a.
Toulouse street, still on its way down.
A singular occurrence took place as the BAR
Zouaves marched by. In their rear followed 8
wagon bearing huge transparency, pouring forth
lurid flames and reeking with fumes of brimstonS
aud sulphur. This was designed to represent
the fiery lake Of Avernus, in which little imp,
and demons were with pitchforks heaping glowing
Goals upon the monster Radicalism. As the me
mage passed under the huge flag, which was sus
pended over the street before our office, the tire,
pronged fork of Of the little iron devils pierced
its striped folds and stsid there, pulling the littl
fellow out Of his Internal residence, and restorin.
him TO earthly existence. He hung dangling Their,
for the rest of the evening, vivid warning Il
scalawags and carpet bsRgers that the only thin
to save them from political hell-fre is a clos
clutehing at the stars and stripes, and the Consti
TUT which IL symbozes.
A serious looking dog, decked out with badge
and pair Of spectacles, Sat on the box OF a WACO
in the procession, and seemed ready to bark 70
Seymour and Blair if called upon.