Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-05
scenes, Incidents, sayings and DOIng=.

Nashville Greets Her EeighbOrs nj the
banquet Board.
scenes, Incidents, Sayings and DOIngs.
THE FESTIVAL AND ITS OBJECT.
The incidents Of yesterday and last night,
pleasant and long TO be remembered as an
interchange Of social good feeling
with our Kentucky friends, bear
an importance which no present
view can fully comprehend ahannel.
Through them another great commercial
has been opened TO our city of Nashville;
another source OF mutual benefit and wealth
has been sprung for us and for those whose
business and commercial interests draw
them here. Slumbering for time under the
WEAKNESS and depression consequent upon
our peculiar times, the merchants Of Nash
vile are at last mp and doing, mingling
and cOmmingling with the world and pre-
pairing to gather the harvest which our care
and attention must bring Half the world
has too long known nothing of how the
other half live, and il is fully time that we
should seek and draw TO US all whom we
can reach, ascertain their wants and ours,
aud IN supplying them realize the mutual
benefit which must follow.
la the development Of Tennessee, Nash
Vile must become, if not the metropolis
itself, a city that cannot be less than next
in order TO The first. With the opening Of
every railroad our commercial borders are
extending, and orr facilities for competi-
ton with more Northern marts becoming
greater. The towns Of this State and por-
ton Of Kentucky can at this day supply
their wants 10 much greater advantage here
than elsewhere, and as trade increases all
articles We have for sale must Become
cheaper and better 10 proportion. Our big
warehouses are Of ample capacity and our
merchants know better the wants of the
people of this section than any other class
OF dealers to be found, and with time will
come facilities possessed by no other com
mercial community in the State.
ARRIVAL or THE GUESTS.
At nine o'clock yesterday morning, the
Committee of Reception and large num-
her Of citizens were at the depot of the
Edgefeld and Kentucky railroad TO re-
ceiye our guests, and as the slackaaing train
rolled putting and changing into the depot
building of the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, the Post Band sta
toned upon the balcony strnek up
rich German air of welcome.
0mnibuses, carriages and hacks were in
waiting, and as soon as the train was
emptied and congratulations were ex-
changed, vehicles were filled and driven to
the various hotels where apartments had
been assigned. All the visitors by the
o'clock train came from this side Of the
State line. Another train at I o'clock
brought the Kentuckians, who we're re-
ceived as had been their predecessors, and
escorted TO the hotels.
MASONIC TEMPLE
The building designated for the grand
reception is one of the largest and finest
structures in the city. Immediately adj
Joining the mammoth Maxwell House, on
Church street, and built upon rise Of
ground, its roof overtops that of the great
hotel itself 1t was completed just before the
breeking out of the war.
MASONIC HAIL.
Masonic Hall, the largest hall in Nash
Vile, is in the second story Of Masonic
Temple. Here the guests were received,
and preparations made for the dance ac-
companyine The festivities. There were no
decorations save some simple Rreatbs of
green foliage upon the walls, and seats
were ranged upon all sides of the long,
wide room. The hall is entered by door
to the right of the stairway. The succeed
ing stairway, after few windings, touches
the Grand Lodge Room of the MasonS,
and this was the room set apart for
THE BANQUET HALL
1t is moderately spacious, and its seven
windows are shaded by Venetian blinds
Upon the walls are ranged large portraits
Of eminent Masons, and various represen-
tatiOns peculiar TO the mystic brotherhood.
The floor is thickly Carpetea, and from the
ceiling are suspended five chandeliers In
this room, six tables reaching from side 20
side and nearly from end TO end Of the
apartment, we're spread AT the stand on
the platform was a miniature railway
with locomotive and train. The loco.
motive bore the name of Gen. Boyle, on
the tender appeared the name OF Major
Lock hart, aud on each of the cars was
painted the name of the Edge6eld, Hen
ders0n aud Nashville railroad. Below this
appeared the words, 'Wsloome to Our Ken
tlicly Guests"
THE TABLES.
Few tables were ever more sumptuously
filled than were the six in the banquet hall.
Their preparation had been under the inn
mediate superiniendence of the well-knOwn
Nashville caterers, Kinney & Wand, of
the Merchants' Exchange and the hand