Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-31
EXCURSION OF THE KENTUCKY AM
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURES.

TENNESSEE LEGISLATURES.
The Kentucky and Tennessee Legisla-
lures in accordance with asr iifvitation of
the Ohio Legislature, visited the latter
body on Thursday last. The occasion was
one of universal rejoicing.
The following are. some items that
we pick from the reports of excited COR
respondents and local editors:
THEIR ARRIVAL AT CINCINNATI.
When the boats deputised as escorts
were drawn along side, tie. guests were
greeted with cheer upon cheer, that re-
verberated from the hills of Ohio to
Kentucky, and the sound rolling away in
the still quiet Of the morn, it wasechoed
and re-ech hoed, until the very Valleys
themselves seemed to shout Welcome
notes of gladncss. Our citizens, among
whom was his honor the Mayor Benja-
min Eggleston, Rufus King, members of
Council, and many others, quickly
boarded the Strader, and did eserything
in their power to prove that the princi-
pal portal of Ohio was ready to do hon.
age to the glorious occasion. And be-
fore we forget it, we may as well note
here, that never before did so large and
varied an asscmblage find and MA Ike in
so short time SO many acquaintances
One old gray haired man, from Tennes-
see, upon whose brow was stamped the
wrink les of three score years and ten,
and whose feeble step denoted the rapid
decay Of years, seized prominent citi-
zen by the hand, as he jumped aboard
the Strader, and in words quivering with
excitement at the soul stirring events
around him, asked, "are youa Buckeye?
II am, SIR was the reply. God bles:
you all for this, !" calculated he, throwing
his arms about the neck of the aston.
ished Cincinnatian, s'this is more thar
we expected. ;" : -
All along the bank of the river, men
women and children were out with way
ing handkerchiefs, and seemed deter
mined to outdo with their voices th,
deafening screeches of the steam whis
ties, that. b ew their vapory notes with
shrillness that seemed to reach the blu,
empyrean, and resound to earth will
redoubied vigor. Z
At ten minutes past nine O'Clock, tn
entire party, numerically Strengthened
by the members of our City Council an,
a, large number of invited guests, ps
ten,pore turned their backs on the pre-
i cincts of the Queen City, and starte
toward the Capital.
:. AT COLUMBUS.
CoEuMBus, ian 26.
The guests of Ohio arrired.at thre
o'clock, and were received with heart
enthusiasm. The people of Columbu
assembled in great numbers atthe Depo
+ and on the streets, cheering the proces
sion to the portals of the State Hous,
j, The Committee of Escort, and other off
GERS, conducted the guests into the Ha
, of the House of Representative, whel
! they were received by the General A.
/ sem5' y in joint convention.
The address of welcome was delivere
in most impressive manner by Go
Dennison as follows:
HFfiends Of kentucky, Of Tennessee, and
Indiana:
"On behalf ofthepeople of Ohio, ,speal
ing through their General Assembly,
e receive you at-this, their Capitol. :
1 II greet you as Representatives
: Sovereign States. [ salute you as brett
: zren of the great valley of the Mississippi
n the center and the citadel of the N
r tional Confederacy. l greet you as fe
: low citizens of the Union so dear to
e all, the source of whatever makes
y most proud of our country, and the pr
Il servatiou of which, for the equal al
common benefit Of all the States, is all