Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-07-06

the starry banner, and immense arcnes
erected at the corners of Market, Bush
and Jackson streets displayed the ma
TONS colors1n rich profusion.
It Is so very difficult to do or say
anything original In connection with
the great anniversary, that the origin
ator Of . new idea deserves more than
special credit and such ought to be
awarded to General Cazneau for the
happy Thought that suggested fac sim:
lie signatures Of the men who signed
the Declaration Of Independence, writ
ten In large letters and strung across
the street. 1t was early on Monday
morning before these preparations were
completed, and the
Guns Of Alcatraz
were already laundering s~alutation to
the day when the last tired worker
gathered up hammer and nail and
fastened home to don his holiday garb.
Long before the sun had dispelled the
usual morning mist, the streets began
to be busy with the unaccustomed trai-
fc Of
Pleasure Seekers.
The early boats came In crowded
with country visitors, the San Jose
railroad was almost unable to accom-
modate the rush from Its way stations,
and every road into the city was
thronged with a stream of miscella-
neous vehicles, loaded In q manner
that showed on extravagant estimation
of what a reasonable horse could pull.
By seven o'clock the streets were
thronged with people, some strolling
round the city front looking ut the gay
wreathing of the shipping, Others star
ing with establishment at the trans
formation Montgomery street had ull-
degone, and more providently taking
time by the forelock, and selecting
choice positions to view the procession.
Soon after eight mounted aids besashed
with many colors began to GALLON reck-
lessly to and fro, struggling. uniforms
commenced to appear here and there,
and street musicians carrying all kinds
of geometrically shaped instruments,
began to hurry to appointed meeting
places. Half an Hour afterwards the
musicians, consolidated into
Brass Bands.
drummed and trumpeted the stray
CLING uniforms-now consolidated Into
companies-to the corner Of Market
and Kearny streets, where there were
still further consolidated into regi-
ments, and there into divisions, and
there into q
Pr0cessisn
that must have been Mt least two and Il
half miles In length. fit was possible
to say anything about this procession,
that had not been said about every SIM
liar procession for nearly n century, If
it was possible to describe it as being
different from any Of the family of pro-
cessiOns that for twenty-one Fourth of
July's have paraded Montgomery
street, if it was possible to use nicer
rounded sentences, more c%omprehen-
siye adjectives or more brilliant word
painting In writing Of this the latest
born Of patriotic professions, than has
been already written of that the first
born of 70 and every succeeding one,
then my willing pen would gladly at
tempt the task but II a Shakespeare, q
Macauley or a Dickens were to enter
the descriptive field and spur their
genius to It's greatest effort, the result
would be merely a repetition Of what
others have written as we'll before.
For all that mortal man can write
about 1t has already found Its way to
print and paper, and until n greater
than Dickens or Shakespeare drinks In
a new draught of inspiration, poems,
professions, orations and descriptions,
must be annually rehabited from old
efforts.
1t was a conglomeration Of cavalry,
infantry, artillery, Irish-American,
American-Irish, Temperance Societies,
Religious Societies, Benevolent Soci-
eties, Fire Department, Brass Band,
Goddess of Liberty, Schoolboys, Butch
er Wagons and Harp Of Erin; welded
into a mass by patriotism at ten
o'clock, disintegrated into individuals
by appetite at three.
The Goddess Of Liberty was there
seated as Of old In her trlumphal car,
looking as fresh and blooming rs If this
was her fifteenth instead Of her ninety
fourth birthday. Jack Stratman was
there a perfect moustached hero,
leading schoolboy brigade, with all
the f~ierceness Of his martial ardor.
Con. Mooney was there Mt the head Of
the Fire Department, In all the glory
Of new uniform and dignity. The
American Eagle was there, so badly
stuffed that its Internal anatomy Of
sawdust ran out and the unfortunate
bird dropped and collapsed into n
mummy. The other Mooney was there
riding In q carriage, his eyes beaming
Insurance, and his tongue talking Saw
ings' and Loan Society. Clergy Of both
the Fallible and Infallible churches
were there looking ludicrously pious
and orthodoxically foolish, and, o
last MOI least, His Excellency Cover
nor Haight was there, looking for all
the world like q decent American cit
izen and a gentleman. 1t was an
nounced that q Guard Of Honor from
Veterans Of the Mexican War would
escort
Banners Of Friendly NRtisaalities,
and so 1 looked with q two-eye power
for this graceful compliment to the
foreign elements; but n green flag
bearing the strange device, "Erin 60
Bragh," was the only one / could see,
which, considering that Ireland thanks
to Fenianisml Is not yet a nation, wa
either a very sharp-pointed joke on
Patrick or a small insult to English,
French, German aud Italian.
The procession was al hour In pass
ing q given point, and being well
organized, promptly on time and UNI
spoiled by the shop-keeping patriotism
that has hitherto converted these cele-
brations into cheap advertising me-
diums, will long be remembered as the
most splendid display ever witnessed