The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-04

.tICU. halfpast ten O'clock last night, a body
OF coiorod men marching in military order
| under command Of IN rpau'lc:tch blach captain
| AMI rejoicing in the name OF the ''Comct Star
Light Infantry" repaired With martial music to
the O1lcc of Thrcc-t housandd dollar Corbin, In
Broad near King street, where several of the l,ar
| monious magnatcs OF the Republican party. fully
charged with whskcy AMI clopuencc. were ia,
'icntly awaiting I. scrcnalc. The company was
drawn UP in line or the edge Of the pavement,
| ana the music Of the band soon gathered u crowd
OF perhaps two hundred men, women and boys,
with few exceptions OF The same ccor as the III
appropriately termed ligh, infantry.
When our reporter reached the scene the first
speakers had had their sly-amDug whom VIC
learned was the val,ilit captOr OF Fort Sumter.
now the loyal jutant un,l Inspect or-G -Gencral Of
the State. Young Moses addressed the assem-
blagc in his usual forid pal irioic AMI disntcr.
cStcd style, nnd was loudly c,iccreh. Tie band
then struck up Captain Jinks OF ihc iiors0 M;l-
rines'' in lively style, which led un. rcpCrtcr to
anticipate speech fro. ihc pvndcrous Inspector
of Strccts-but this was not 10 lie. Instead, there
were loud calls FOR ''iiowcn," "Rowcn," In re-
si,oa:;c TO Which HE immaculate II. Z. appeared at
the window AMI returned thanks for the compli-
ment which the 'scntcmcn fsi,3 OF he Come, Star
Light Infantry" had pail him. lie assured them
that he would take occasion 10 address his cOn-
s1ltucnis here in This very City Of Charleston, ami
that IN Il very few days, In vinliCatlon Of his
course. With this cheering AMI liberal promise,
he excused himself from amy further remarks.
Another tune from Tie band followed, after
which there was y t,lscOrl Of enthusiastic. but
wholly nnintclligiblc, shouts FOR various parties
who were wanted TO make The next speech
Finally. somebody managed to sound the name
OF "old Gilbert Pillsbury'' in stcnorian tones
nm In tru
Mayor pokcd his hcal from all upper
window lie spoke for about ten minutes
opening with the mill suggestion that
some Of his hearers were probably laborcrs-
indeed, he would venture TO say most Of them
were labOrers. lie then launched out into glo.
rfcn,ion OF the rights and Of the nobility or
labor In general, and or his own persistent and
unselbsh devotion to the labor intcrest in parlcu-
lar, concluding with congratulation addressed
to the crowd on the great triumph which the ln-
boring men had recently achieved ami on the
revolution which the last few days had witnessed
In this city I'm connection with the labor question.
These remarks, OF course, were hailed with loud
acclamatons OF delight.
Another tune by the band-"Company, right
dressH' "Touch elbows OH The rightr' Fright
facen Forward, Marchr' "Fic Rghrr And
then the black squads went marching and coun-
teEmarching in the middle OF the street their
leader meantime whisking about his sword in IL
very dangerous fashion, and finally giving salts.
factory evidence OF his proficiency In n,anGnvrcs,
by bringing his command in single file to the front
door OF the Corbln wigwam, the "gcm,icmcn
Of the Comet Star Light Infantry fled gal
lantly III; for what our reporter would not have
suspected, but for the volunteered suggestion Of
an unmllltary but knowing darkcy, who shrcwti-
~ surmscd that ''lcm niggcrs was gwne to
Ticker up
At this stage of the proceedings the asscmblagc
left, and IL Is TO be presumed that the Comet Star
serenadc shortly thereafter nzzlcd out.