Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-14
FENIAN PICNIC,


A Grand Rally at the horticultural
Presence of the Northwestern
Strikers With Hammers Containing
"SareRstic " Devices - Procession
Flags, Music, Dancing and q Jolly
Time Generally.
| ILLUMINATION AND BALL AT NIGHT.
Yesterday was a glorious day for ou
Irish fellow-citizens. A grand picnic ha(
been announced to come off at the Hort i
cultural Gardens, and the strikers of th'
late Nashville and Northwestern railroad
had received invitations to attend en- nasse
and at eight o'clock they assembled at The
Church street depot, and formed process.
sion with drum and fife, and flags AMI
banners, and marched up Church street.
hating in front of the UNION AND DIS
PATCH block ard gave three rousing cheers
as hearty testimonials Of appreciation for
the decided stand We have taken from the
beginning in their favor. Among their
banners, we noticed one with the following
poetic and appropriate inscription:
Clowns Of a brief chance power,
Rode LABOR like a patient nag
Till drunk with the glory of an hour,
They feh-fell back upon the carpet-bag'"
The next was Nashville and Northwestern
Strikers Our motto is Justice. Then fol-
lowed a comic carricature of Receiver
lines, who appeared to be in an elegant air
of nOnchdlGnce, with his fingers stuck under
his coat-tail, while his beaver lay back
a Ia mode on his classic "nOggin." At his
feet was placed Lakewood, the railroad
store-keeper, in praying posture, with his
hands clasped in genuine "now lay
me down to sleep" manner. His exhor-
tation was spray, General, don't give up
the road, save our good, dear, fat OFFICES"
lines is made to say, you bet"
The next banner had the Receiver alone
with puzzled look upon his battle-scarred
and sun bronzed face, soliloquizing in this
manner: 81 stole red-hot stoves, tailers'
irons and cotton before now, but DIN these
fellows they've caught me this time"
The last banner had photograph of NJ.
p. Clark, the President of the Board of
Directors, with a cigar in his mouth, a
$500, 900 roll Of bonds under his left arm,
while in his right hand he carried lot of
railroad iron, and from his coat pockets
peered the snoring nose" of MIXTURE
''iron horse" Mr.. Clark was "did up" in
the following manner: an. p. Clark, Pre-
sident of the bogus Board of Directors for
the Nashville and Northwestern road, hunt
ing for a market for his bonds;" while in
one corner was the interrogation "Say, won't
you treat, old coon"
After the exhibition of their banners in
front of the UNION AND DISPATCH office,
they marched up Cherry street to Union,
through Union to College, and thence to
the Fenian Hall. Here they Joined the
Fenian Society and, preceded by a Silver
Cernet Band, marched up College to Cedar,
up Cedar 10 Summer and out Summer to
the Horticultural Garden. When we wit
messed the fine body that they were, with
such intelligent, industrious countenances,
we could not distinguish our favoritism,
whether we sympathized more with our
poor doWn-trodden sons of Erin, or the
sadly and wrongfully used Northwestern
employees. Suffice it, that Southern hlnldnt-
ty will ever drop the tear of sympathy for
of any land, feeling as we do so
bitterly the yoke of tyranny.
At the garden the procession halted and
dispersed over the spacious grounds, some
10 one amusement anu some 10 announcer.
Some took their "dear jewels" off and
whispered in their ears the language of
love, while others, more modest, passed the
time in search of the "manly sports such
as ten-pins, target-shooting and gymnastic
exercises.
The ''Flag of Erin" together with the
"Starry Banner" were given to the South
ern breeze. The band struck up lively 4
airs, and all were happy. .t .
About twelve O'Clock the dancing began.
and Notwithstanding the melting mood of
the participants, it was kept up until after
at which time the garden was
brilliantly Illuminated. The whole affair .
passed off pleasantly and uninterrupted,
until about five o'clock, when M. 2. Clark,
President of the Board of Directors, very
and foolishly we might say, went
out TO the garden and made some scurril-
Gus remarks in regard to his having been
burlesqued during that morning, where
upon he was knocked down by one of the
strikers, and, as our informant states, had
his face beat to the consistency OF soft
sOaD 10. s