Year: 1866

A Flood OF Glory and q" blaze OF Light.


IL is but once or twice in a lifetime that
person is gratifed WITH the sight of such
scene as was presented by the streets of Phia
delphia last evening. The sun had scarcely set
ere the entire population of the city appeared
TO have turned out en- nlosse into Chestnut street,
and TO be bent in one common direction. As
you jouTeyed towards Broad the crowd became
denser and denseT, until, in the neighborhood OF
the Continental aud Girard, it blocked up the
street from curD to curb, as well the side.
walks. From this point up to Broad there were
but few bare spots TO be seen. One would have
thought that theIe was to be Il speaker from
every window and balcony OF the crowded
thoroughfare.


But ii Chestnut street was crowded, Broad
street was packed, iammed, filled to overAow wing
with humanity. The crowd on this broad
thoroughfare extended all the way from Spring
Garden street to far below Walnut At o'clock
so densely packed was the immediate neighbor-
hood of the League House, that it would seem
to have been utterly impossible to get halt-a-
dozen more men within square of the place.
And vet after this the various Ward process
sions, the "Boys in Blue, the "National Union
Club" the Republican Invincibles," and the
"'German hepuDllCdn NluD' HrIlNeu ny luOu
sands and found standing room.


The Scene at the League House,


even before the arrival of any part Of the pro-
cession, was exceedingly animated; and when
the glare OF ten thousand lanterns was added,
it was one that beggared all attempts at descrip-
scription.


The police on duty in the nighborhood of
the League House numbered full three hundred


A. 4 tod al
inquiring where he could find two or three men
who were not on other pressing duty.


In front of the entrance TO the League House
was seated Herr Hermann, at the head of his
famous Satterlee Band, dIscoursing at times the
National airs for the ediication of the multi
tude The multitude would have been glad
to render themselves somewhat more com
Portable by making raid on the space occupied
by the band, were it not for the interposition OF
a cordoR of policemen, one hundred strong,
who kept them within their proper bounds.
When the delegates 10 both branches of the
Convention arrived in procession from National
Hall, few minutes after O'Clock, they We're
marshalled into the space in front OF the police;
and then the assemblage was complete and
packed In every part.


And this vast surging multitude the like OF
which, IN pOlnJ Oh numbers ana entluSlas N,
has not been seen in Philadelphia for years past.
was remarkably good-naturei. They waited
long and patiently for the speakers to appear,
amusing themselves the while by cheering for
ANYTHING and anybody that was uppermost in
their minds, by straining back their necks to get
view of the rockets which every now and then
traced their fiery course through the darkness


above, and by demanding at the end of every
alternate minute, the presence of sold Ben
Butler"


Shortly after the various delegations were in
place, Charles Gibbons Esq, the President O
the Union League Club OF Philadelphia, ap
lpesred on the main stand, and announced al
the presiding officer over the vast assemblagt
the Hon. Morton McMichael. At this the mul


titude gave vent to their satisfaction in pro


longed shout of welcome. When this had par
1 italy subsidized some one in the crowd cried out


"Is there any Mayor I'm Philadelphia t'
4 The cry was followed by shout of laughter


ana taken up at once on all sides. where's tn