The Portland daily press., 1869-10-05


Parker and the Light Infantry, Captain Mat
tocks, both companies parading as battalion
under Captain Parker of the Blues, accom-.
panied by &he Portland Band. The An
clients were attred in the different uniforms of
'heir respective corps which presented quite q
peculiar appearance. The color guard were
dressed In the old Continental uniform and the
majority of the others in chapeaux. blue coat
dark pants and white cross belts. Upon arri-
val at the residence of General Geo. f. Shep-
ley the troops halted, and notwithstanding the
drenching rain, opened ranks and stood at
present arms, while Glmore's Band played a
most beautiful selection. Despite the storm
the street was lined with spectators, ard Gen.
Shepley, with his father the venerable Ex-
Chief Justice stood in the vestbule and ac-
knowledged the compliment. The route was
then taken up, down Congress street to City
Hall, the procession headed by platoon of
policemen under Deputies Perry and Bolton,
where the guests and escort marched into the
corridor and were introduced to Mayor Put
nam by Mr.. Smith, who said:
Mayor Putnam: In the name of the citizens
of Portland, 1 introduce to you Gen. s. c. Law
renee and the officers and members of the An
Gent and Honorable Artillery Company of
Boston.
The band played "Hail to the Chief" when
Mayor Putnam welcomed them in the fol-
lowing speech:
and Il. A. Co.
presume gentlemen your halt at this build
ing has quite as much of offering evidence of
your esteem for the citizens OF Portland as Of
Dolng assured that your presence in this city
Is acceptable to them. Your welcome has al
ready been assured to you by the committee
who accompany you hither, and by the cOrs
diality with which our military organization
have performed the military honor appropriate
to your arrival.
Your association, by its antiquity, by its roll
Of distinguished members, by the recognition
which it has received from various commun-
ties and high officers of State, and by the SEN
timents it is designed to keep fresh, has entitled
itself to many words of respect and admira-
ton. We need not speak those words for you
know well what they would be. But we desire
now to attest that you are neighbors from a
neighboring city, that you are leading repre-
sentatives of the trades, the professions, the
wealth and the influence Of Boston, and above
all to attest that as individuals you most hu-
namely and generously used that wealth and
that influence on that terrible day, when fire
had driven out ten thousand homeless people
to wander amid ruins as mercless as any which
ages ever swept clean.
In behalf not only of our city but also of our
citizens we welcome you to Portland.
The speech was received with loud applause,
when Gen. Lawrence replied as follows:
Mr.. Mayor and Citizens of Portland In be-
half of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of
Boston sincerely thank you for this most kind
and cordial welcome, and with great pleasure l
return you the heartfelt thanks IF its members
for the civilities and hospitates of the citizens
OF Portland SO lmly rendered by you. We
truly appreciate the courteous manner in which
you have been pleased to greet us, and your
friendly alluson to our venerable corps. When
our fathers established an independent colony
they settled upon three elements as essential to
its success and prosperity; tho church, the
school, and the military; the church, because
they felt that it is the best instrumentality in
saving and civilizing the world; the school, for
universal education is the only sure guarantee
of universal freedom; the military, because they
firmly believed that it is, what the war of the
rebellion has again so clearly shown it to be,
the gallant bulwark of our liberties.
This corps instituted by our fathers in the day
of their peril, had its origin in noble hearts
for noble ends. 1t has an honorable history,
and its roll of honor glistens with the names of
brave men, the memory of whose patriotic
sacrifices will be gratefully cherished through all
future time. 1t is old in history but young in
heart. 1t comprises among its members the aged
the middle-aged and the youthful soldier, who
have been beautifully said to be emblems of the
glory OJ the past the strength OF the present and
the hope of the future. We have here today the
strength of the present with sprinkling of the
hope of the future, many of whom have done
splendid service in the late war, which has won
for us liberty for all and union forever.
Our company is ancient in patriotism and
honorable in all the elements of good fellowship.
We believe in the benefits arising from fraterniza
tion; and what, at the present time would tend
more effectually to arouse throughout the States
of our glorious Union the grand old feeling of
American brotherhood than the fraternal
mingng of their ctizcns?
The better the citizens of Maine and Massa-
chusetts know each other the more they will be
pleased with each other. We have come to your
enterprising and prosperous city eager to grasp
hands with your large-hearted citizens, to say
that we arc glad to see you and cheerfully await
your pleasure during the social hours in which
we are privileged to ENJOY your generous hospi-
tality, and we fully realize that if we are not
happy the fault will be entirely our own.
At the close of Gen. Lawrence's speech the
escort and guests marched over the route laid
down in the programme formerly published by
us, to the Falmouth Hotel, where they will
quarter while in the city, and while the escort
proceeded to their Armories, the Ancents
were assigned to their rOOms and prepared to
dcff their wet suits and get ready for dinner.
THE DINNER
Wao du cutTcly iulOTiudl tueTt DcluR uU
speeches and no desire for them probably on
the part of the company. In regard to the
matter We fully coincide with the opinion ex-
pressed by Sir George Cornewall Lewis, for
mer Chancellor of the Exchequer, who re-
marked she had no anxiety as far as the cares
of life were concerned, SO long as he was not
troubled with the amusements." The only
Portland gentlemen present were His Honor
Mayor Putnam, Deputy Collector L. B. Smith
and Gen. 8. J. Anderson, the two latter gen.
tlemen representing the Committee of Recep
tion. At the close of the dinner,i Barnabee,
the irimitable, sang one or two of his songs in
his irresistibly comic manner, and Col. Wilson
and James H. Freeland, Esq. both added their
quota to the music fund. The members of the
company then retired to their rooms to make
preparations for the Hop at City Hall.
THE HOP
at City Hall may be accounted q success. The
arrangements had been left in the hands of a
special committee, who also acted as floor man
were indefatgabe in looking out for their Wis
itors. But there seems to have been little
uncertainty among some of the ladies as to
whether it would be full dress affair or sim
ply promenade concert, notwithstanding the
Information on the subject impaired by the
daily papers, and therefore they betook them
selves to the galleries, with the intention of
viewing the gay scene at their feet, and listen
ing to the magnificent music of Gilmores or
chestra of eighteen performers, led by Bald
win, without mingling in the dance them
selves. But as the delicious, dreamy strains
of the waltz, or the exciting, maddening mu-
sic of the galop, or the charming melody of the
redowa fell upon their ears, they could no Ion
ger resist, and by 10 o'clock the floor was
crowded with the dancers. And a bright,
ever-changing scene it was, as the differ
ent uniforms of the Ancient and H6norables
mingled with the gay colored silks of the la
dies. Here could be seen the new uniform of
the Independent Corps of Cadets, white sack
trimmed with blue, which reminded us OF the
Austrian servce-there the bright scarle: of
the Laucers-while the modest gray of the
City Guards, always neat and stylish, con-
trasted with the dashing saucy chdsseur q pied
of the old Fourth Battalion There were many
others whom we have not space to particular
ize, if we except the well known Continental
dress, which is the Oldest and most honorable
of all.
The Reception Hall had been fitted up for
the ladies' dressing room, and in addition to
III, o1 frrrn nsirrra Of parf. nj in