The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-11
LOUISVILLE.

LOUISVILLE, October 1O.-The expect
ed Southern excurslonlsts arrive,H q little
after midnight last night, and were vel.
coined at the depot BY Mayor Baxter u9
escorted to hotels by committee. The
eScursionlsts numbered 425, coming from
Mobile, Montgomery, Selma, Tuscaloosa,
Eutala, Tuscumbia, Greenville, Blrmiug.
ham and other places In Alabama, Pen.
sacola, Fla, Columbus, Ca, Pulaski,
Tenn, and other points along the new
southern route: The delegation included
number OF distinguished citizens from
those places, and was made up Of sub
stantlAl commercial and professional men,
and also members Of tho press,
AT 10 o'clock this morning the guests
were conveyed In 1870 carriages 10 the
House ot Refuge, where they were 70.
cetved with an address Of welcome, on
behalf Of the Directors Of the Institu.
tion, by the Rev. DR.. Rivers. They
then looked through tae establishment,
listened to the singing exercises by the
inmates and returned 10 the Exposition
building at P. N, Alighting from the
carriages they formed In procession and
marched in at 4th street entrance, when
the music struck up the machinery was set
IN motion and the working Of exhibition
was displayed. The visitors, escorted bY
the Mayor and committee, passed through
tho building TO tho lunch room where a
sumptuous lunch was set, and after eating
were welcomed on behalf the Board Of
Trade by Mr., II. G. Pindall. Each dele
CATION responded in turn through a repre.
sentative. Gen. Braxton Bragg, for Mo-
bile, said in the course Of bis remarks
that he had endeavored ten years ago 10
visit Louisville but there were 10 many
obstacles In the way he was unable 10 do
so-he now came, though with a different
purpose, TO accept the hand outstretched
to central and southern Alabama
and Georgia. Louisville had fresh
young, lusty growth Of which all the
South were proud. Louisville opened
her arms 10 Mobile, the pride OF the guilt,
and she accepted the embraces OF the
young giant Of the West. at the close
OF lunch the guests took positions in front
Of tho exposition building when the FIRE
alarm was sounded and the engines
brought to the spot 10 show the work.
ing of the department.. Again 70.
turning to the carriages the guests were
driven TO Cave Hill Cemetery and thence
to the Water Works when they returned
to the Gait House, where grand banquet
will be spread for them to, night. TO.
morrow they will be driven around the
city and to New Albany and Jefferson.
vile, The guests express themselves
highly delighted with their reception and
the prospect OF trade between Louisville
and their section Of the country. Several
urged the the gull ports as the nearest and
best portslnr Louisville importers and ex.
porters. Others profered aid Tor new
connections, and still others urged the
establishment Of cotton manufactures at
this point US tho best point in the country
Tor the purpose and for the exchange Of
Southern products for manufactured
goods. The general impression among
visitors and citizens Is that the opening o!
the South and North Alabama road, OF
which this occasion Is the celebration,
together with the new acquaintances
formed amid the interchange Of courte-
sizes, will bring In large sccessions to the
trade OF Louisville and be of much mutu-
al benefit.