The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-01
The Colcree. People Marching by Hun
dreds and Cheering Everywhere.
The Most Brilliant Display Ever
Known in America.
One Hundred Thousand People on the
Streets.
EVERYTHING PASSES OFF QUIETLY
rFrom sundays DAILY crescent.1


Prom Sundays DAILY Crescent
Day dawned, yesterday, upon this city, with
but cloud TO dim the canopy Of heaven. As the
iun rose On bis westward journey. the weather
became intensely warm. About midday the streets
sere throDged with ladies', gentlemen aud exhila-
tated youngsters, ell intent upon purchasing, Dor.
pwpg or begging things to add to the splendor
the great Democratic processon--the COM
fencement of new era. Among those myrads
happy, earnest faces were great many, thous-
Dds, indeed, that were not familiar upon our
korougkfsres. Hundreds of them we're recog-
re ss ciIizens OF Mobile. through the aistin.
4 men in their company, eminent among
Twas the Hon. john Forsyth, the fsvorite
dfted champion of Alabama. Hundreds of
a.hlso, could be recognized from their dark
dexion and raven hesrds, TO be descended
fitbe old Latin stock that nearly two centuries
settled in the fertile regions Of Attakspas and
ibusss. There were people from the lower
all the way down TO the mouths Of the Mis-.
bpi; from the upper coast all the way up to
you Sara on the LEO bank and to st. Joseph on
Xfight. There were people from every settle.
knt along the Jackson and Great Northern Rail.
as far as Holly Springs; and people, not only
along the entire route Of the 0pelousas road,
others scores Of then, that had come from
eston and Houston, and other parts of the
star State by way of Der wick's Bay. There
hundreds, also, from the piney woods,
D. extending from Pon chatoula to Pascagouls.
= were Also many visitors rom Memphis and
towns along the river as far up as Cairo.
these people are Democr&ts-Democrats of
urdest and most determined character.
phalanx they will present in November will
wall OF sdsmsnt against further violations
be Constitution, and against any more out
y upon the Southern country by the carpet
,Sout noon the sky became overcast, the wind
Gan to rise from the Lorth-east, banking mp the
opds in a threatening manner, and then after
y Of five or ten minutes. blew with terrific vio-
Zee from the southwest. Canal street was alb.
outely as dark as if it were night aud all the
as-lights had been extnguished. We can imagine
Vat one class of our population the fsirer class,
rere rejoiced at this obscuTation-for Boreas and
<Lnrus, and all the other windy divinites, were
playing sad pranks with the drapery Of the ladies
caught in the wsnton sport of the gales. A pail
seemed to spread over nature, and what with the
Sudden change from sunlight to eclipse the sitting
binding dust flying in every direction, and the
panic which seemed 10 have seized man, woman
sDd child, and even beasts of burden, II was one
4of the most singular AND sOmbre occurrences we
have ever witnosssd The rain, however, soon
put check on the Jury of the winds, and settled
down for an hour or so into regular sborklivaa
deluge, flooding the street,; but the overflow de.
elined so rapidly to carry of the refuse aud of.
fal of the city, instead Of Allowing it to settle upon
the bsnquettes and carriage ways.
Thus that humorous fellow, the clerk Of the
weather, in giving us a foletsste Of the equinoc-
tial near at hand, amused. himself for awhile by
filing rs with alarm lest THE night should be q
wild and stormy one and st the same time taught
our esteemed street com missioner q lesson, by
showing him how q city might be thoroughly
elesDsed by a plentiful eblution which Major
Murphy could in q few days hard work daily bless
New Orleans with, from abe Mississippi, which
flows above the level Of out streets.
About in the afternoon the rain ceased, except
dropping a passing shower now and then; the
clouds broke without dispensing, and the cool tenn
persture promised first rate evening for the
grand turnout.
The magnitude of the procession had required
the incesssnt attention of the grand marshal, the
chief and assistant marshals, as well as that of
the club marshals and their committees during the
entire week. There was head work and the incest
discrimination in the task. twenty-five thousand
men are an army that cannot be marshalled in an
hour. And besides the marshal and his aids had
not the advantage of preliminary review, so as
to determine the final allotment of each division,
in the narrow and confined streets of a popuous
city. That the whole affair has passed of so effect
lively and pleasantly is due first to the skill and
judgment of Col. James MeCoskey and his assist
ants, and secondly to that esprit de corps which
snimates every Democrat In New Orleans. ban
ishiDg everything like Jealousy or rivalry and re-
duciDg all to the level of the one great impending
struggle for liberty, property and security.
Some may deplore these costly professions |
we do not The artissns,ot New Orleans for the |
lsst fortnight, the livery stables, the dry goods
mo fancy stores, the tailGrs and seamstresses,
unemployed Democratic darkies, have all |
0ped greenback harvest. which they are
md long 10 remember as a God send in these
Gus and stressful times. The rich and the /
dependent have given cheerfulIy and unspar-
ny. and the industrious poor at length have en- |
ment, even if it be only ephemersl.
DIE of the chief difficulties in the way of am.
bus horsemen was the difficulty Of procuring
wherewithal entitling them to that name
fes and white horses were in extraordinary de.
ami, and brought fabulous prices for the even.
ing's hire. On the staff of the chief marshal of
the first division we noticed an aid mounted on
magnificent white charger. This horse Is the
same that bore the commander of our armies at a
review Of colored troops above Carrollton shortly
after the capture of Vicksburg. Whether this
animal then was intoxicated with the glory of
bearing that iustrous man, or with the benzlne
which might have ooZed out Of that ilustrious
mans he adqusrters in the saddle " and perfo.
rated even to the instincts of the horse, is q mat
ter for the discussion of an interested and remote
posterity; but certain it is that magnificent
white charger "i'ung his distinguished rider,
just as Sindbad the Sailor finally flung the Old
Man of the Sea, when be got drunk, and as the
mighty people Of America are going to cling him.
and all the Radical trs,ppings he bears about
him, in November. In another case
\ young gentleman who hs d passed several prac.
ticsl jokes upon bis personal friends, was caught
N turn. he was very anxious to obtain steed
worthy of the occasion. he applied to friend,