Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-06-06
The Reception of the Memphis Delega

LION.
a special committee OF ten from the Gen.
eral Committee of Reception. left The city
in the 10 o'clock train last night for Sum
mcrville, where they met the main BODY of
the delegation and accompanied them to
the city. They came down in the night
train from Augusta and reached the city
this morning at s o'clock, where they were
received with warm end hearty welcome
by the Committee of Reception, including
portion of the FIRE and military depart-
ments, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the
city.
The first welcoming address was made at
The depot by ]. w r.. Pope, esq, Chair.
man of the Special Committee, aud he was
followed by VIM. E, Martin, esq, Chairman
OF the General Committee. An eloquent
and appropriate response was made by Mr..
Munlord, Chairman of tho Memphis Deega-
tion.
The military company from Memphis, the
German Rifles, was received and escorted
by the German Artillery, and the German
Ititiemcn and German Fusileers, of.this city.
to their quarters, at Military Hall. The
Memphis Fire Company, the 'Inyincible, !"
was received.by n detachment of ten from
each company of the fire department, and
escorted in procession to the Hall of the
Phoenix Company, on Cumberland street.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Memphis,
Huntsville, and other cities, were received
and welcomed as the guests Of the city, by
the Mayorand Aldermen Of this city, at the
City Hall, At 10 o'clock this morning, where
they were introduced to large number of
cur citizens.
The procession was quite large and i'm
posing. reaching from Line street to CAL
houn, accompanied by an array of flags,
banners and marital music. King street,
along the whole line of the procession, was
crowded by thousands Of citizens, and the
fair daughters of Carolina smiled down upon
the moving multitude from tie windows
and balconies on either side. King street
between Wentworth and Calhoun, was
sPanned with hHgs and banners, containing
appropriate devices and Inscriptions.
The first that attracted our attention in
passing up was one suspended upon line
between the stores of Messrs. Fogarlies g.
Sillman on the West, AMI +. Won Santen
on the East. and was gotten up, we learn,
by the former enterprisiog and public spir-
tied firm. The device Represented Charles
ton and Memphis as two men, approaching
each other with extended hands, and shin
and train of cars in the back ground, Sur.
mounting the whole was the following 10
scription: "May our union prove mutually
beneficial.
Further up. and just beyond Wentworth
street, was suspended another beautiful ban,
ner. which was COTTON up by the inyibcible
and interchangeable Cohen. Of the Carolina
Clothing Depot. The device is the coat OF
arms Of the four States through which the
railroad passes South Carolina. Georgia,
Alabama aud Tennessee, surmounted by the
inscription, "Yoa are welcome" and at
the bottom, the humber Of the store, 29t.
Among others, che stars and stripes were
flung to the breeze and suspended across
the street Ia various places, so that vii
derness Of flags. all procIaimipg baasty
welcome, greeted the procession as they
passed down tho street. and were saluteJ
by ;heaa wiisi sosg sna loud chessa.
The number which arrived in the cars
this morning was very barge. probably not
falling far short OF one thousand persons. -
The arrivals have been quite extensive for
the past thr q days, and will be. continued
throughout 20 day and to-inorrow.
Tbs Attendance thus far Is Us barge as WINS
to be expected, and the weather 5rine fine,
though rather warm and dusty, there Is ev-