Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-17
AT BOSTON YESTERDAY.
The Reception OF the Southern Soldiers
st the Hub Yestsrday-A MemOra.
bic Spectacle.
SOuth Carolina Pledges Massachusetts,
for the Perpetuity Of the Union
HOHOrs and Tributes.

Boston, June 16.-TC-day hiss been
given up to the reception Of visiting
military bodies, and frem early morn
ing the streets have been alive with gay
unif5rr-s and resonant with the stirring
strains Of martial music. The people Of
Boston, with much of the enthusiasm Of
the war, have given themselves over to
hospitality, and welcomed the military
and civic bodies with an ardOr quite in
unison with the patriotic spirit of the
day, and forgetting the differences Of
the past. The crowd who thrOnged the
streets, through which the visiting mil
ttary paraded on the way to their hotels,
bestowed the heartiest applause on the
men from the south, and a wave OF
cheers swept along the masses crowded
on the sidewalks and filling every avail
able space from the roofs to the pave
ment. The arrival of the Norfolk artil-
lery, escOrting as their guest General
Fitzhugh Lee, afforded the gratifying
spectacle OF the people OF Boston paying
an ovation to an eX-COniederate officer.
General Lee bowed again and again as
the applause greeted him on every cor
ner. The tattered battle-hag Of a Penn
sylyania regiment, as it passed up the
street, was also greeted with rounds of
applause. The spectacle Of such an era
Of reunion and fellowship was one never
to be forgotten.
A formal reception was given the diff
fereDt military organizations at Column
bus square, Hon. J. Quincy making an
address of welcome. Colonel Charles
E. Simmons, of Charleston, South
Carolina, then responded, PROM
ising that henceforth and for
forever Massachusetts and South Caro-
lima will be one and inseparable in per-
petuity Of the cause of liberty. His re-
marks were received with rounds Of
cheers. At the conclusion Of addresses
the band played Dixie" The Fifth
Maryland regiment was reviewed on the
Common by Governor CASTOR. While
the review was in progress the Norfolk
Blues,maTched within the Enclosure amid
rounds and rounds OfappIause, and were
formally presented to the governor and
staff by Major FOllett. They also passed
in review. The Fifth Maryland regi-
ment, during the afternoon, presented
as q tribute to the Massachusetts dead
soldiers a magnificent floral design,
which was placed on the soldiers and
sailors monument at Charlestown by
the commanding officer Of the regi-
ment, Colonel Strickers Jenkins. There
had been no publicity whatever given to
the affair, and when the line was formed
at the capital the command was ordered
to fall in without being informed where
they would march to. The regiment
was then without escort, and marched to
CharlestOwn, their appearance exciting
curiosity in the streets. They were
drawn up at the soldiers monument,
After bringing the command to parade
rest, Colonel Jenkins received from a
florist beautiful aud costly shield COM
posed Of white and pink flowers, about
six feet in hight, and placed it on the
face Of the monument, the marine band
playing dirge. Across the shield was
the following sentence, arranged in flow
ers: "MaryIand's Tribute to Massaehu-
setts." Several thousand persons had
been attracted to the monument after
the regiment was drawn up, and
they were naturally much gratifed
~ the touching tribute 80 gracefully and
mOdestly paid to the Massachusetts
dead. After this impressive ceremony,
the Fifth reformed in line and marched
to the common, where one OF the dis
tinguishsd features Of the days eere-
monies was the presentation of flag to
the fifth Maryland regiment by post
seven of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, veterans of General Banks's divis-
ion Of the army Of the Potomac. The
presentation speech was made by Cen
eral n. 2. Banks.