New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-07

$685. NUMBER 3O2.
THE VISIT OF THE DISTANT F1REEr.
The visit Of the nremen from Mobile spd Jackson
was notable feature Of the celebration Of the New
Orleans hrenen on Friday. We have already chroni-
cled the warm and hearty reception offered them,
and the handsome provisions made for their comfort
whilst in the cty as well a. the public honors paid
them on the day of celebration.
The day and night Of the celebration, however, did
not include more than haK the cordialities ex.
perienced by the guests. On Saturday TIE town was
alive with the movements Of the RremeD paying the
last and warmest Of all their respects to the strangers
Previously, the company from Jackson had been the
special guests OF Eagle No. Z, and the company from
Mobile, Washington No. 8, the guests of PeTsever.
ance No. 13; the other members Of the Mobile dele
CATION being the guests Of the above named and other
companies Of the New Orleans department. They
were somptuously treated by the companies who had
the special honor of'taking care Of them whilst
from the members Of other companies, and from the
officers of the Firemens Charitable Association they
received all the different courtesies which mark the
genuine bond Of brotherhood.
On Saturday, all the guests were made the re.
cipients Of concentrated compliment from the whole
Fire Department The Board Of Foremen, q body d.
rectly representing all the fire companies independent
OF the Firemens Charitable Association got up for
the visitors grand parting collation., which was
spread in Masonic Hall, on st. Charles street. It was
sumptuous affair there being no end Of good
things on the tables, and no end Of champagne and
the other juices appropriate to such spread. The
Jacksonans and the Mobans were for the first time
brought formally together, and with the warm atten-
ton Of the Oreanians who did the honors the natu
rally existing bond Of brotherhood was cemented all
round in the happiest manner. Chief Engineer Cru
ber made himself useful master of the ceremonies
and Mr.. Louis Power, Foreman Of Phoenix No. 8, and
chairman of the Board Of Foremen, was equally in
dustrous in fomenting the good feeling, and render
ing the occasion something to be long and pleasure
| bly, remembered by the guests.
| Judge Meek, of the Alabama delegation, accepted
the invitation to preside He was supported on one
side by Mayor Stith, and on the other by Chief En-
gineer Jewett, Of the Mobile Fire Department. The
delegates from the different Mobile companies, officers
Of Washington No. 8, Of Mobile, and Of the jackson
company, with invited guests of this city who were
not fremen, sat near whilst the red shirts Of the
Jackson company and the white shirts Of the Mobile
Washington company. with those Of their New Or
leads entertainers, were mingled harmoniousy around
the remainder Of the long tables. We witnessed
happier assemblage, or more hearty gush of good
feeling than that which characterized it.
Judge Meek, being the first called upon, made a
neat and humorous speech, in which he complained
of the treatment to which the Mobile men had been
subjected. The first thing upon their arrival at the
lake, the New Orleans men commenced pouring cham.
pagne down their throats, and had not ceased work.
ing the breaks since. Here waiter, in opening a
bottle of champagne, accidentally broke the bottle,
and the fragments Of glass and the foam baptized the
backs Of half dozen or more Of the guests.l The
Judge, noticing the incident, and continuing his
speech, added that not content with pouring cham.
pagne down their throats they had even commenced
washing them with it outside. The hit was capital
and brought down great roar. The Judge concluded
by toastng the three garden States Of the South rep
resented by the assemblage present Mississippi
Louisiana, and Alabama.
Mr.. Mcknight member of Washington No. 8, o
Mobile, and editorially connected with the Mob,
Advertiser; legal gentleman connected with th
jackson Company, whose name we were not fortu
nate enough to obtains Capt. Blakesley, oEe of th
outside invited guests Mr.. Louis Power, Foreman o
Phoenix No. s, and Chairman of the Board of Fore
men of this city; Mr.. James Beggs, Foreman o
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and Ladder No. 4; Mr.. Lyons, of the Mobile delega
ton; and others whose names escape our memory
made speeches concluding with toasts appropriate t,
the occasion. Capt. Ricardo, of this city, mad
one of his humorous speeches, which aroused th,
noisy merriment of all. Speeches made by members
of both the Mobile and Jackson delegations, ex
pressed the Acknowledgements of those delegations
for the manner in which they had been received and
entertained, in the warmest and most fervent Ian
guage. This reunion lasted nearly three hours, and
broke up about 3 o'clock.
Chief Engineer Jewett also made handsome
speech, in which be alluded forcibly to the bond o
union existing between the gentlemen present, moi
only as iremen, but Southerners and sons of the
three great States which formed the nucleus of the
South. His sentiments were endorsed by the warn
applause of all. Mayor Stith, being called upon
made brief speech, and gave for his toast, tht
daughters Of the South. The Senior of this papel
was called upon for something, and gave as a toas
supplementary to that of the Mayor, the men of tn,
South. Mr.. James Wingfed, Chief Engineer O
the New Orleans Department, was called upon, ant
made speech, the good taste and genuine fireman
feeling of which were boisterously appauded. Chic
Engineer Gruber, of the New Orleans Department
made the happest speech we ever heard from him
and toasted Southern generosity; which he expaine
as having reference to the generosity in New o.
leans which had elevated him to the post he hele
He was tremendously applauded.
) After that, the guests were formally escorted
their respective points of departure the MobiIian
to the lake end of the Jefferson Railroad, and th
Jacksonians to the Jackson Railroad Depot. Th
| incidents of the parade, and the final parting, W
need not detail. They were marked by the highes
degree Of brotherly feeling and enthusiastic cordial
ty. The engine and hose carriage of the Jackso
, Company, and the engine of the Mobile Washingto
Company, were fixed on the truck cars of the tw
railroads in the handsomest manner, by the New o.
leans iremen the visitors not being allowed to pu
hand to anything, or to spend cent for anything
An unhappy incident marred the preparations fc
departure in the afternoon. Mr.. John Latham, q
t estimable young gentleman, belonging to Hope Hoo
b and Ladder Company No. d. fell suddenly dead fro
e a rupture of blood vessel, at the engine house
t Perseverance No. 10, on Perdido street, which W
the first point of departure of the Mobile delegato
H. In the hight Of his life, humor and good feeling,
o in the midst Of the friends who loved him. as well
of the strangers to whose pleasure he was minist
e ing, he was called away without moments warnir