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

About halfrast ten o'clock last night, u body
OF colorod men marching In military order
under command OF an cp0ullc:tcd black captain
and rejoicing In the name OF the "Comct Star
| Light Infantry" repaired with martial music to
the Office Of hrcc-housand-tloll Corbin, In
Broad, near King street. where several OF the l,ar
monious magnates Of the Republican party. fully
charged with whiskcy anu coquencc, were pa.
ttcn'ly awaiting sercnadc. The company was
drawn up In line on the edge Of the pavement,
und the music Of the band soon gathered q crowd
Of perhaps two hundred men, women and boys,
with few exceptions Of the same color rs the In
appropriately termed ligh, infantry.
When our reporter reached the scene the first
speakers had had their say-amOng whom VIC
learned was the valiant cnptor OF Fort Sumter,
now the loyal Adjutant anu lnspector-Gencral of
tho Statc. Young Moses addressed the assem-
blagc In his usual nori,l, patriotic and disntcr-
estcd style, and was loudly checrcd. The band
then struck up Captain Jinks OF the Horse Ma
rines" in lively style, which led our reporter to
anticipate speech from the pondcrous Inspector
Of Sireets-but this was not TO be- Instead, there
were loud calls for "I,owcn,'' "Bowcn.n In re.
sp0nsc to which the immaculate NJ. G. appeared nj
tile window ana returned thanks for the comp!i.
mcnt which the 'gcntlGmcn (sit1 Of tho Comet Star
Light Infantry had paid him. lie assured them
that he would take occasion to address his coll
sttucnts here In this very City OF Charleston, and
that III u very few days, In vlndlcation OF his
course. With this cheering and liberal promise,
he excused himself from any further remarks.
Another tune from tile band followed, after
which there was discord OF enthusiastic. but
wholly unintclligibe, Shouts for various parties
who were wanted TO make the next speech.
Finally, somebody managed to sound tic name
nf tct,,,
above the tnmult, and our accommodating
Mayor poked his head from IN upper
window. lie spoke for about ton minutes,
opening with the mild suggestion that
some OF his hearers were probably laborcrs-
indeed, be would venture 10 say most of them
were laboIers. He then launched out Into q glo-
rifcatfon of the rights and OF the nobility OF
labor In general, and OF his own persistent and
unscl1sh devotion to the labor interest in particu.
lar, concluding with congratulations addressed
to the crowd on the great triumph which the Ia
boring men had recently achieved, and ON the
revolution which tile last few days had witnessed
in this city in connection with the labor question
These remarks, OF course, were hailed with loud
acclamntions OF delight.
Another tune by the band--"Company, right
drcss!' "Tonch elbows OIL the rlghtw Fright
facen' Forward March!" "Filc RIghtr' And
then tile black squads went marching and coun-
tcEmarchng In the middle OF the street, their
leader meantime whisking about his sword In q
very dangerous fashion, and finally giving salts
factory evidence OF his proficiency In manGuyrcs,
by bringing his command in single file to the front
door OF the Corbn wlgwam, the "gcntlemcn
OF the Comet Star Light Infantry'' filed gal
lantly In; for what our reporter would not hnve
suspected, but for the volunteered suggestion OF
an unmllitary but Knowing darkey, who shrewd-
ly surmised that "dcm niggers was gwinc to
Ticker up.n
At this stage of the proceedings tho assembiage
left, and 1t is to be presumed that the Comet Star
serenade shortly thereafter fzzlcd out.