Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-10-03
THE BOYS IN BLUE,

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THE BOYS IN BLUE.
The Demonstration in PhiladeIphia-The
Great Procession Yesterday-The Meet.
ing Last Night.
In Philadelphia yesterday from 1900 10
1900 persons took part in the Republican
Soldiers and Sailors procession which ex.
tended over line of i've miles These num-
bers We're exceeded in the parade last night,
which was swelled by q number of the cam
palgn clubs that did not turn out in the morn
ing. The procession formed on the lower Sec
ton OF Broad street, and commenced to march
about nine o'clock. An immense crowd filled
the streets on the line Of march which extended
from Christian street to Girard avenue, and
the steps and windows Of the houses en- route
were crowded with spectators. The process.
sion reached the corner of Third and Chestnut
streets at half past ten, and We're an hour and
a quarter In passing that point The city clubs
acted as escort TO the visiting Boys in Blue
and conducted them TO the meeting IL front of
the Union League Honse, where the whole
BODY pas SEQ IN review.
Among the notices exhibited on the banners
and lanterns was one protray ing huge empty
whlskey bottle, with Likeness of Blair, in
scribed Here lies WhIskey Bottle empty, as
we go arching on" Another asked whether
Tom Florence, the Democratic Congressional
candidate was not carpet-blgger! Another
had the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock as the
first carpet t-baggers; another, mo rebels IN the
these ranks One ward had a huge rolling
ball on a wagon. The Twenty eighth Ward
cries out for Grant and Colfax"
The invincibles and the Campaign Club
turned out each about a thousand strong. Du-
ing the whole OF the evening Chestnut street,
from Broad 10 Third street, was so pack ked with
people moving in various directions as scarcely
To leIye room for the passage of the street
cars.
The crowd al the Union League meeting was
immense, Notwithstanding so many persons
We're attract"d TO other parts of the CITY 10 Wit
ness the procession. Col. Forney presided,
nhaS, laI;x
and other distinguished strangers before the
arrival OF the procession, which was received
with constant succession of cheers and a dis
play OF fireworks, and the line was then passed
in review. The League House blazed with gas
jets, the flags which surmounted 1t were iliu.
mined by calcium lights, and the entire sprc.
tacie was magnificent. After the passage of
the procession the assemblage disperJ ed. il be-
display.
The District of Columbia was represen tad nv
delegation four hundred strong, COMPOSED of
the Soldiers and Sailors Union, Grant and
Colfax Club, Printers Grant and Colfax CIub
Coiored Soldiers and Sailors Union League
and detachment of the first Regiment of
Boys IN Blue, Captain H. F. Brian command
ing. The District of Columbia delegation We
under command Of General A. Grant with TIE
following staff officers: Colonel G. w. Taylo
A. G.: Lieutenant Colonel A. A. Cant L G:
Lieutenant Colonel Albert N. Seip, Quar.e !.
master General; Doctor Samuel s. Derl, Sur.
geon General; Major Newton Eerree A. A. G.:
MAYOR Il. +. Gatchel, A. q. NJ. e.: Ma jor l.. H.
Cutter, A. ID. O.; Major Shenell. A. ID. c.. and
Captain NJ. +. Kelly, A. ID. c. General Car.
rington, the United States District Attorney
was on nand, taking most active part in the
demonstratlon, and doing much TO make the
visit of the Washington delegation a success.
All along the route the procession was greeted
with cheers from the vast multitude, and by
the waving Of handkerschiefs from the thou
sands Of loyal ladies who thronged eyery
yerandah, window, and sidewalk along the
route. The most marked feature was OF Wal.
from thoT
lnstltutel OF the men who fell in battle were
placed along the sidewalk. the bows bel ng
dressed in the familiar blue which their fathers
had so nobly worn before them. As the thou.
sands OF veteran heroes marched by them with
uncovered heads these little ones greeted them
with continued cheers Of welcome, having a
banner on which was the Inscriptions, slim.
coin lnstitute;' "Boys, in Blue, Our Fathers
Died for the Dear Old Flag" Governor Gearv
was the special object of their admiration, as
with General Burnside, of Rhode Island
Every county in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey was represented by an organization.
and not single State in the Union but was
Last night the multitude which lined the
streets along the route Of the procession was
immense. Thirty thousand banners, torches,
ana Tansparences were in line, and men and
women We're wild with enthusiasm An i'm.
mense mass meeting was held on Broad street
In front Of the League House. The street for
a distance of three squares being a dense mass
OF human beings. Speaking was going on from
four stands. Col John w. Forney presiding
at the main one, and Isaac Hazlehurst. Hon
John II. Ferrer, and Isaac A. Shepherd at the
other three.
As the procession was passing the corner of
9th and Pine streets, in the afternoon an as
sault was made upon the Baltimore delegation
and pistol was fired. In the struggle that en-.
sued second pistol was fired, and George
Sawyer was carried away wounded to a hospi-
tai, where he lies In q critical condition He
is Republican, and was on the sidewalk an
the time the affray occurred.
~ RItualism in the Protestant Episcopal
Church Of Canada has come to most decided
grief. The Canadian Provincial SYNOD not
only condemned by unanimous resolution the
elevation OF the elements, the use Of incense
the mixing Of water, the use of wafer. bread
and OF vestments other than surplice, stole or
scarf, but the Synod would not even hear the
communion table called ian altar. and rs for
s'altar lights" gas is good enough for Canadian
Protestant Episcopalians. So we understand
from the Toronto Globe.
SALE OF ARMS STOPPED. Acting under
recent orders from Washington, Colonel Ben.
ton has indefinitely postponed the auction sale
OF guns and equipments announced to begin on
Federal Square yesterday. 1t is suppos:d the
correct inference to be drawn from the most
ponement is that the authorities at the canitsl
were induced to take the step backward 40 AZ
to give no opportunity for agents of either Of
the Spanish belIigerents for purchasing arms
springfield (Aasso RePHbieGn, September 30
~San Francisco expected when the P,ren.-
Rosa troupe announced the s.Creatlonp thst 4,
was to be given in strict biblical costume Tha
indelicacy Of Parepa appearing as aEye, so
shocked one hoEest citizen there that he wro,e
TO his newspaper 10 inquire IL il would r.