Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-30

Inc Uucal entertainment committee
met yesterday evening, Mayor johnson
in the chair. The general committee of
which Colonel Plnson is chairman, APP
pointed the following subcommittee:
COMMITTEE OF ESCORT.
r. A. Pinson, II. J. Ellet, ]. W. Scales,
j. Rice, N. 81. Jones, L. o. Haynes, Jacob
Thompson, Napoleon Hill, I. n. Hill, W.
P. Martin, T. J.. Welliford and A. A.
Patton.
COMMITTEE OF RECEPTION.
Hon. John johnson, W. NJ. Earring
ton, D. K. McRae, T. F. MscKsll, J.. 81,
Smith, A, j. Kellar, l.. J. DuPre, ]. J.
Murphy A. Woodruff and I. A, Nelson.
COMMITTEE OF ENTERTAINMENT.
F. s. Davis, General B. 81. Robertson,
w. L. Vance, John L. Norton, r. P.
Duncan, j. W. Jefferson, J. N. Pettigrew,
Paul Otey, ". w. Judah n r. v.
Vredenburg.
Colonel Pinson suggested that the COM
mittee of reception meet the Grand Duke
at Brownsville. Mr.. Harrington said that
the Mobile and Ohio railroad company
would furnish q locomotive and car to
take the committee TO that place. The
reception proper and formal will occur at
the Peabody hotel. Mr.. Seligmsn pro-
poses to furnish a magnificent carriage
and horses for the Grand Duke. The re-
ception committee will take charge of the
Grand Duke st the Peabody hotel. The
mayor suggested that invitations to the
ball should be sent at once to the ladies of
the city. The committee was instructed
to have the tickets prepared and distri-
buted at once. The price of tickets to the
ball was agreed to be fixed at ten dollars,
admitting q gentleman and lady. The
committee will see that no Objectionable
person will be provided with tickets.
INTERIOR TOWNS.
The committee on invitations instruct
cd the press of Memphis to advise the
mayors and citizens of Brownsville,
Jackson, Holly Springs, Huntsville,
Little Rock. Helena, Grenada, LAGRANGE,
Bolivar, Somerville and other towns in
the vicinity that from ten to twenty
tickets would be reserved for each of those
places. Mr.. harrington was made treas
urer of the Grand Bali Association. It
was agreed that Mesars. Bsrinds, Jefter-
son and other gentlemen who would pre-
sent cotton bales to the Grand Duke
should accompany the escort committee
headed by Colonel Pinson, to Brownsville
to meet the Grand Duke.
Colonel McRae will probably deliver
the address of welcome at the Peabody
hotel. A band of music will appear at
night at the hotel, where 1t will discourse
the S~olsvonisn hymn. The Prince is pay
ing $500 per day for the Great Republic,
and from the Peabody hotel he viii go to
his steamer If it arrive In time, where he
will remain till he is escorted to the ball
room Of the Overton hotel.
The escort committee on Saturday will
drive with the Grand Duke around the
city, and show him every point of inter-
est. Messrs. Montgomery, Jefferson and
others will show the Duke how to COM
press a Thousand cotton bales in a minute,
the cotton sheds, the oil mills, the Nicol-
son pavement will be cleaned up for eX.
hibition. The warehousemen are to sup
ply champagne st each cotton shed and
COMPRISING establishments will do like
wise. It is thought the river will be
gorged at Randolph, and the Prince may
remain longer than is now anticipated.
This fact may cause incidents of the day
to be changed in their oder by the seve-
raj committees.
A long dispatch has been sent TO Ger.
Gustav to learn accurately the purposes
and movements of the Ducsl party. An
executive committee was appointed to
confer with the proprietors Of the Peabody
Hotel, and to have general supervisory
and plenary powers, and TO make any
changes of programme that may be rem
dered necessary. The chairman of the
three committees constitute this supreme
executive committee-Messrs. Johnson,
Davis, and Pinson, with Harrington and
Scales added.
The engraved tickets to the ball will be
Wednesday morning.
Gentlemen desiring to attend should at
once send their names and references,
and those of ladies' to the Grand Ball
at the 0yerton Hotel,