Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-12
Louisville and the Southern Excur.
sfOnisIS.

The imaginative gentleman of the "Asso.
ciated Press" who IS supposed to edo" the
telegraph DeTs (?) at Louisville, furnished
us Yesterday with an elaborate and highly
tinted account Of the "GTGnd reception OF
the Southern excursionists In that magnan-
imous and b0spitsble village. The outside
world as well rs the rest of mankind are
given clearly to understand that through
| the merits If THE "deQd head trip" s'dry
lunches" "dTjres to the hOlSe OF correction. y
and the maTshaling of our Southern friends
I in front of the Exposition building to wit
ness the rare and ROUeI sight of single
| ''steam FIRE engine" squirting stream of
| dirty water along she street, that they have
thereby, at one awful gasp, swallowed the
entire Southern trade" and now have it
rafting IN their unhealthy bowels. 1t is
supposed that the "Queeu City" is clothed
in sackcloth and ashes, mourning over her
desolation as one who viii not be comfort
ed, while Nashville, the hitherto happy
metropolis of Tennessee, is stricken from
the roll of prosperity and passed down
into The shades of oblivion, there to
remain as an example and warning me-
mentO Of the jealous fury of the "Falls
CITY," No one knows when The fearful
tAEltLilioL-lCit v al Gt4A Nov Oth 10 1O1 IL
flying, and Boston TREMENDOUSLY putting her
house in order to resist the frightful on
slaught. We pray heaven to stay the cruel
absorption" and while thus appealing
would suggest shat the city wherein the
'Peace Jubilee" was held and whose happy
location is on %he southern verge Of the
bloody cbasm, should embazen on its gates
II letters of living light the following in
scripion:
gowad some poweE the giftie. gle us,
To see OursePs as ithers see u.s."
LATER--Hore encolroging.-TRere ma
be life IN tie old land get!
Several hardheaded, practical, unimagina-
tive merchants Of cur city have been pick
Ing up aud masticating with considerable
gusto few crumbs of comfort from the
fact that after the wearied and, half fam
ished EXcursionists had reached our city,
some 10 or u hours behind time, worn olt
with the tedious pressure of ISLANDER" seats
for hundreds CT miles, together with the
starvation process that was included
in the programme, have or at least
many Of them have "Stepped
OUeT" here to recuperate their exhausted
condition and to bring their inner man to
its normal condition. After h&ying &C
complish this desirable end and remaining
with US from q to SO hours have purcbas-
ed their goods from our merchants at such
prices TO defy composition and passed on TO
Louisyille.to see the 'Ipgine squirt"
"StraWs show how the winds blow"
We congratulate the magnanimOus man
agement of the Louisville and Nashville
and crest Southern railroad" on the failure
of their efforts to rush the Southern excur-
sioBists through our beautiful city in the
darkness of night as well as compliment
the apparent, and we may say marked
want Of courtesy exhibited by our neigh
bors towards the City of Rocks. They
doubtless thought that comparisons were
odorous." For further particulars we re-
fer our readers to our late Board of "Expo-
si5ionn Managers,