Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-27
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. EVACUATION DAY. The Grand Pageant in New
 York. A GREAT MILITARY DISPLAY Fifty Thousand Men in the
 Procession. TKE CONTEST TO BE SPEAKER. All the Candidates BusiIy
 at Work.
NEW YORK.

in the Metrop01fs-Fffty Thousand Men in LIne-The City One Sea Of Gayety and Holiday AttIre-A Grand Parade of SteambOats-The Evening Banquet at DeImOn1cO's.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Cloudy weather, with slight prospect of rain or snow. ard bracing November air, miles upon miles of gorgeously decorated house fronts a city full of guests and visitors, the blareo of trumpets, the scrssch Of five thousand whistles, the thunder of innumerable guns, and all the pomp and glitter which can be introduced in military and naval pageantry, combined to make to- days celebration of the evacuation of America by the British one hundred years ago the most notable commemoration ever witnessed on this continent. The city was in gala dress when New York awoke this morning. Rivalry in business had combined with patriotic emulation to make each house. holder on the business streets anxious to eclipse his heighbor in the extent, taste and costliness of his decorative supply, and the result was that Broadway blossomed out with wealth of gorgeousness which aston ishsd even those who had contributed most iberally toward bringing about the general EGSu1Gs A4IAO6e 060Ay AOuoO "0o OSSOA- ated to some extent. Some showed 6 perfect blaze of color. Immense show win dows were turned, for the nonee, into patrio- tic tsbleaux, in which DO expense or labor was spared to make the exhibitions both rich and accurate. The whole city was picture -kaleidoscopic and somewhat bizarre-but very brilliant and reminding one of the oc- casienal pageantry of southern European cities rather than the ordinary life of the me- tropolis of staid republic. The two great features of the day were the land and water parades. Each was enough to make g carni- val itself and both together were somewhat bewildering but very effective. A light driz- zling rain set in shortly after 10 o'clock, not withstandiHg which large crowds of people lined both sides of Broadway in the lower part of the city and the avenues leading thereto, while the roofs, windows of the houses were crowded with people awaiting the procession. The street parade was in eleven divisions and was formed on Fifth avenue the various organizations aligning on hankinR streets from Thirty-second to Fifty seventh streets. The total number of men in the procession was fifty thousand, and it embraced every arm of the present military service, State and federal, and exhibited al- most every uniform worn by American troops from the Continental period to the present, it being nearly 10 o'clock when the line took up it's march. The whole line was under command of General John Cochrane, the grand marshal of the day.
 The most gorgeous division was the first, which included the Governors of the various States and their staff officers, full dress among the latter and carried to an extreme. and the result in gold lace and bullion, was dazzling This division also included ths regular troops, who earned and won the plaudits of the crowd by the easy manner in which they wore their uniforms and perform cd their duties. To them 1t was familiar routine; while to some others it was an un- usual honor of which they were painfully self-conscious. In this division also were the statesmen, city, State and federal, in car riaRes, the commercial bodies of this and other cities, the Cincinnatians, the Loyal Legion and the carriage which brought Gen 0ra Washington to this city in November, 1783, and which was drawn on this occasion by ten black horses.
 The second division, under command of Major General Shaler, was composed of the various regiments of the National Guard from New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the formation of this division being made up as follows:
 Major General Alexander Sha1er, First Division N G. s. \. Y, Commanding, and Staff,
 on West FIfty-hfth Street.
 FIRST DIVISION, N. G. s. Brjoadier General Wm. G. Ward, Commanding, and
 stan, on West F1sty-fourth street. First Brigade-Col Josiah Porter, Twenty-second
 Regiment Commanding, and Staff,
 on West Fifty-third street. Twenty second regiment, Lt.-Col. J. T. Camp, Com Eleventh regiment, Col. Frederick Unbekannt Com Twelfth regiment, Lt.-Col. James H. Jones' Com Second Battery, Captain Fsrd. P. Earle, Command
 ing, on West Fifty-second street. First Battery, Captain Louis Wendell Commanding,
 on West Fifty-second street. Second Brigad0-Brigadier General Louis Fitzgerald Commanding and Staff. on West Fifty first street. Seventh regiUent, Col. Emnnons Clark, Commanding sixty-ninth regiment, Col. James Cavanagh, Com Eighth regiment. Col George ,. Scott. Commanding Seventy-hrst regiment, Col. Richard Vose' Con-
 Connecticut Brigade, N G. Brigadier General F. R. Smith, Commanding, and
 Staff Infantry on East Ffftieth street. Third regiment, Col V. H. Tubbs Companding. Fourth regiment, Col. s. G. Crofut, Commanding. First regiment, Major T. O. Goodrich, Commanding. New Haven Veteran Grsys and Hartford City Guard,
 It. Col A. Q. HendE1ck, commanding.
 on East Forty-ninth street
 Provisional Brigade New Jersey National Guard. Col Dudley s. Steele, Commanding, on West Forty Ninth regiment, Col. B. F. Hart, Commanding. First battalion Major J. W. Congdon, Commanding Company E, Third regiment, Captain H. A. Palmer,
 Commanding. Company 0, Third regiment, Captain ". H. De Hart,
 Commanding. Gatling Gun company A, Bt. Brig. Gen. J. Madison
 Drake, Commanding Nineteenth Separate company. N. G. g. N Y, Captain
 Wm Haubenestel, Commanding GOpnnSnY B. SocOEd battalion IQfansrY, R, EsEt
 Forty-eighth street.
 SECOND DIVISION, \. G. 8. NY Brigadisr General c. T. Christensen, Commanding Fourth BriGade-Brigadier General Wm B. Brownen, Twenty. third regiment, Colonel R. 0. Ward, Com EortyssOOnd regiment. Col: Human V. Futile, Com
 msnding.
 Thirty-sseond regiment, Col. Louis Finkelnier, Com Third battery, Capt. Henry g. Bauquin. Commanding.
 East Forty-hfth street. Third Briaade-ool James McLeer, Fourteenth regi-
 nent, Commanding, and Staff, on
 East Forty fourth street. Fourteenth regiment, Lt.-Col. H. ". Mitchell, Com Separate company Captain Thos. Miller,
 Commanding. Independent Organizations, on West Forty-dfth Old Guard and detachment of Ancient and Honorable Artillery, Mass, Major George W. Mclean,
 Commanding Albany Burgssses Corps, N Y. Captain Oscar Smith,
 Commanding.
 Utica Citizens Corps, N. F., Major D. T. Everett,
 Commanding.
 First regiment Light Infantry, Providence, R. l.,
 Major W. H. Thornton, Commanding. Newport Artillery R. l., Colonel George B. Vaughn,
 Commanding.
 First company Washington Oontinentals, N. '.
 Washington ContiHentals Newburgh, N. Y. Veteran Corps N. G., West Forty fourth street.
 Seventh regiment, N. r.
 Twenty-third regiment, N. Y.
 Ninth regiment, N '.
 Seventy-hrsE regiment, N. Y.
 Thirteenth regiment, N T
 Eleventh regiment, N. Y.
 Sixty-nfnth regiment, N. '.
 Twenty second regiment, N. r.
 Ftrst regiment, Penn.
 Miscellaneous Organizations.
 St. Patrick's Alliance of America, N. ',
 HiberniAn Rihes, N. Y. Veteran Guard, N. '.
 On West Forty fourth street, in rear of
 Veteran Corps.
 In the third division were ferty divisions of the Grand Army of the Republic under the command of Major James B. Horner. and contained representatives from nearly all the Eastern States.
 The fourth division consisted of veteran organizations of volunteers, and the whole was under the command of General Stone. Major Oambreling commanded the first sub division and General O'Beirne the second. The fifth division, commanded by Colonel Lloyd Aspinwall. consisted of mounted pc lice, the old volunteer fire department, out of town fire organizations and representatives kQ- Q