Herald Of The Times

Grand Whig Procession at Louisville.

The Whigs of the Banner City have had another grand and novel procession, which from all accounts, must have exceeded all others in its enthusiasm and imposing splendor. A procession, bearing over two thousand banners and transparencies, and several hundred flambeaus, which shed a blaze of soft light along the whole line of march like 'the radiance of a hundred full moons'--a large and beautiful balloon inscribed with the name of HENRY CLAY, floating high over their heads, and rockets blazing in the heavens, accompanied with music and songs, must have been most gorgeous and magnificent.

The Louisville Journal, in attempting to describe it, says that 'in length, breadth, numbers, enthusiasm, beauty and grandeur, it was never surpassed, if equalled, in this or any other country--in this or any other age. We have conversed with men who saw great political processions in Philadelphia and New York, during the immortal campaign of 1840 and we have talked with others who have seen the most brilliant pageants of London and Paris, and have been spectators of the entrance of kings and emperors into the chief cities of the Old World, and they all assure us that they never in their lives beheld anything to compare in beauty and glory with the display in this city on Saturday evening. It was the most cheering spectacle that ever addressed itself to the great and glowing heart of patriotism. It was a spectacle which even the youngest children of our city will remember as long as they live, and describe, half a century hence, to their children's children!'