Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-01-26
The Louisville Festival.
NATIOxAL HOTEL. LOUISVILLE.
January q, 1850.

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January q, 1860
DEAR PATRIOT When Preached the d pot
lof the Louisville and Nashville Railroad this
morning. little before half past six O'Clock,
II found the platform crowded with members
of the Legislature, of our city government,
and few others, including a handsome
| tprinkling Of 1.-The fraternity" all bound for
| THE Fails City to attend the Union Festival
| which comes of this evening. Nearly every
one in the crowd carried thin ana rather
cheap earpet-bag, mostly containing one
shirt, and small glass continuance, which
at distance, somewhat reSembled piece of
-..dead wood'' from ten-pIn alley don't
know the name of il nor the purpose for which
1T was Intended.
We past over the Cumberland at twenty
FIVE MINUTES to seven, and being quarter Of
an hour behind schedule time, we made
beautiful lick all the way through the Dark
and Bloody Ground, arriving here just five
minutes behind time. Soon after We past
Bow ling Green, it was rnnOred on the cars
that a number Of the Democratic members OF
a our General Assembly had mistaken the me
stropoIis Of Green River Valley for Louisville,
v and had di-embarkcd under that impression,
:. and were left behind. This may or may not
dhave been true. ANY how, we brought into
sthe city with u n members in ail-55 of the
uHOuse. and 70 of the Senate. We had a
pleasant and Jolly time coming thrOugh-eS
specially coming through moderately long
TtunneI, in the darkness of VII ch Democrat
Lie member of the House (whOse brow was not
tentirely bayless after pushing certain st OF
sfresOIutions touching the Harper's Ferry al
:, fair through the Housed snatehed his carpet
bag from the rack, hastily unlock, it, and
: was seen when the cars dashed into day light,
with large black bottle balanced ON his
q lips, al an angle of about forty-tive degrees
!. on the lean.
r. Our delegation (Which behaved itsel
:, throughout the trip with commemorate pro-
npriey) was egan0nIied on arriving At the
q L ,uiSville Depot, and las received by large
.. number OF ciIiz-u~, and escorted up towu by
VI /. finely uniformed and well drilled military
o. company, with music from an excellent field
81 band.
IN The Press Gang, without an exception, /
- believe, are stopping al the National, an a
No. I.hotel on the corner OF Main aud Fourth
~ Streets, kept b. Messrs. HARROW 4 PHILIPS,
who would seem to have been invented eN-
pressly FOR the hotel business. The rooms al
y the National arc tastefully. some of them
pesumptuOusly, furnished, and all the appoint
nsments of the house. from turret-tower to
- 5ouioukecp 'are gotten MP in the best style
taI The banquet begins at DEL OK. and as
that hour Is rapidly approaching, Ill drop my
tei pen until it is over, and wind up this hl>fy
L.scr.wI with a page or so in reference thereto
osif don't happen to fall in the action. These
louisville people have such winning way
Eawith them, that whtn they say champagne.
Kaiy ou'd well pour the wat.r from your gla-s
Tat once aud be done with it. The represcn-
natives OF the Nashville Press now here are
Anot much giv.n to looking upon the vine
when il is red: but under certain circHmstan-
.ets, there is no telling how far they maG
tread '.the primrose path of dlIliancc" which
rIeads under the table and to a forty-hor,e-
Opower. headache in the morning. Man-frail
mau-so prone to that sort OF thing should
f0nevcr lose sight of the advice of the epigram-
iniist:
s'In going To parties, Just mind what you're at,
= Beware of ycuT head ald take you hat,
2 Leaf you fad that favoritc S,R q your mother,
= Has an aeh tbs AMI a b.icS Ia ia Utuer.''
Upon second thought, will defer nv ac-
Ncount of the banquet till my next when
Twill have more time To do the subject Justice
We go up TO Cincinnati tomorrow after
ttnoon on the Jaco5 S'ruder. and will go thence
4to Columbus to look npnn the Ohio Lrgsla-
9iure upon their native heath. They are ma
Fixing handsome preparations upon that way
afor the occasion. and just such another occa-
,,sion will hardly occur again soon, for it il n
vrare thing for the Legislative bodies Of three
States to meet together "all at once" The
assembled wisdom of Ohio, Kentucky and
A Tennessee-for their law-making machinery
fought to be their wisdom, e. say nothing
about their virtue, whether II is or not-all
= mingled and commingled in one harmonious
V -opposiIionism, Democracy, Republ.-
5ni canism, &c will he something worth taking
). pleasant trip 10 see.
= But good night. RkroRrER.
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