The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-15
TEXAS.
Picnic TO General LODgstreet-DislOya nj
TOasts - ApotheOs1s of General Lee
Arrival of the I7th RSRuIars-Hatred
OF the COIOred Troops.


OF the COIOred Troops.
GALVESTON, Texas, April 2l.-On Tuesday. the
oath inst, the Complimentary Picnicn to
General j. B. Longstreet, which had been post
poned from the previous week on account OF bad
weather, came off at the Dickinson BAYOU Sta
miles from Galveston, and was attended by
about two hundred and fifty people from this
city. Dancing and various amusements occupied
the time till dinner.
General Longstreet was introduced to the
party gathered at the dinner-table by General
Merliman, OF this city, who SAID he would pre-
sent the distinguished soldier and gentleman,
General j. B. Longstreet, whom we all had
cause to respect for the great services he had
rendered his country; that no Negro Bureau
should intimldate us from honoring the man we
loved; and finally, II the General desired it, he
hoped he might live thousand years.
Inresponse, General Longstreet referred briefly
to his having been in Texas long time before
the war as an officer of the old army; that he
felt like Texan himself, etc. With broad
smile, he said:-'We are all good Union citi-
zens, but we hardly know how to act in political
matters at present; If we are anxious to be
reconstructed on the basis of loyalty, our proes-
sions are not believed; If we do any differently,
we are called disunionlsts. So we hardly know
how TO shape our course" He concluded with
the sublime sentiment-'"The hOme-spun dress
the Southern ladies wear"
Considerable champagne was drunk, and
several toasts given, among them thls:-"Gene.
raj Lee, he is worthy to be President of wise
just, honorable, and magnanimous people,"
General Longstreet said:-Though am un.
worthy to loose the shoes OF General Lee, yet
cannot hear that name mentioned without re-
spopse. General Lee is probably a greater,
wiser, and better man than all OF US or ten thou
sand such. have served under him, and hope
| have merited his appreciation; and trust that
General Lee Will SOME day say as he ought to
say, attention, Universe BY Kingdoms, right
wheelw r.
Agenteman, mistsking the sentiment, added
into the Presldency-right wheel into the Pre-
ri6encyw
Pictures of several groups were taken by the
Galveston Photographic Company, when the
party repaired 10 tent, where the youth OF sthe
party, with few long,eared animals and mus
tang ponles enacted what they called circus.
At 4'30 p M, we left on the train for the city.
The 18th regiment Of Regulars arrived Sunday
morning on the steamship Clinton, and marched
through the town TO their camDlnS-e rounds TO
the southeast of the city.
The citizens have been longing for the IRE.
gulars" to come, as they understood they we're
accustomed to "keepng the nigeers straight"
detachment of cOlored troops was sent to the
wharf to guard them as soon as they arrived,
which did not tend to increase their regard Tor
the negroes and difficulty was barely avoided
then and there. The regulars manifest dispO-
sitiOn TO do what was claimed for them in re-
gard TO the treatment OF the blacks. A soldier
yesterday took negTos hat from him on the
street, when three black men knocked him
down, stamped him, and so injured him that for
some time he was unable to get pp. They we're
citizens in spite of the Presidents yeto.-N Y.
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