The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-01
THE INAUaUaATIoN.
colonel Holiday and Gene raj Walker
Welcomed to RieRmOud.

ARRIVAL OF MILITARY AND EXCURSION
| IsTs FROM TIE yALLEY-INcIDENTs
of The TRlP-spEEGHEs AT RICHMOND
| PROCESSION FROM THE DEPOT TO THE
| EXCHANGE MILITARY ENTERTAIN
MENT-PRoGRAMME FOR TO-DAY.
Colonel +. w. NJ. Holiday, the Governor
| elect. left Winchester ut O'Clock yesterday
morning. and reached here at 4:S0 yester-
| day evening. From Winchester he was ac-
comp lnied by his sister (Mrs. DR.. Mason),
| Mrs. Henry S. Baker, and Messrs. William
Byrd. J. 2. Reilly, Lewis Wagner, A. 4.
Pendleton. Henry Kinzel, &. w. Ward, T.
+. Grimm, and James =. Russell. and the
Winchester Light Infantry Company (whose
officers are Captain J. b. Burgess, First
Lieutenant Il. Gibson. Second Lieutenant
W. W. Faulkner, and Third Lieutenant
James A. Sutton) and their band and
drum corps, numbering ninety-four men
in all. Assistant superintendent Ave
rill, OF the Valley road, was in charge
OF the train, which consisted OF ten
coaches, including the splendid compart-
ment-coach OF Vice-President Keiser, OF
the Baltimore and Ohio road, which was
kindly placed at the disposal OF Colonel
Holiday for himself and the immediate
members OF his party. At Harrisonburg
the troops were reinforced by the Harrison
burg company. Of which o. G.. Roller is
captain, John Donovan is first lieutenant,
L. G.. Myers is second lieutenant, and
Charles McQuade third lieutenant, having
| fortv-fye men.
At Staunton an additional coach was pro-
vided, and the West Augusta Guard Of that
city (oficered by w. l.. Bumgardner cap
tain, John McQuade first lieutenant, Will
liam =. McChesney second lieutenant, and
James Byers third lieutenant), 40 men.
and the .Stonewall Band, Joined the party.
At Staunton, or on the route thither,
Speaker Allen, General Meem and wife,
Captain Meem and wife, Captain Peachy
and wife, General EchoS and wife, Il. G..
Morton of the Staunton Vindicator, w. Ii.
Fl. Lynn OF Staunton. and many others, in
creased the list. From Winchester to Cor
louisville, whenever the train stopped, per-
sons got aboard. At Staunton and at Char
| lottesvile Colonel Holiday, in response to
calls, went upon the platform and spoke
briefly to the people.
RECEPTION At GuRDGNSyILLm.
A large delegation Of influential citi-
zens, led by Judge Lay, and representing
the General Assembly, the City Council. the
Richmond military, the various commercial
bodies OF the city, and the people generally,
| left Richmond at $50 o'clock yesterday
morning on 81 special train and reached Cor
louisville in good time. General James A.
Walker reached Gordonsvlle by the regular
train from Lynchburg, and was given cor
dial though informal welcome. 1t was en-
pected that the gubernatoral train would
arrive In all hour. 1t vas. however, nearly
two hours late. 1t was after O'Clock when
it came. 1t was greeted by great crowd.
Two coaches from the Winchester train, IN
GLIDING Colonel Holidays, We're attached to
the Richmond special. Loud demands were
made for speech from Colonel Holiday.
He stepped out upon the platform and re.
turned his thanks, saying that the trains
going to Richmond carried no strangers,
and that notwithstanding mountain barriers
the people of the Valley and Piedmont, the
| Southwest and Underwater, and Southside
were one. The train had fairly started by
the time he had made his bow in conclusion.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thomas, General Jos.
E. Johnston and wife, and Mr.. Charles
Taylor, Of Alexandria ian elderly gentle
man, who is to be Colonel Holidays pri-
vate secretary, came to GordonsviIle in
the Alexandria train in ample time to
come on to Richmond with the Governor
elect and military. Messrs. Barbour, POI
ham, Wallace, and doubtless other MEM
bers OF the General Assembly, also fell in at
| GordonSyillc.
Colonel Holidays uain led the way to
Richmond, followed By that OF the military
ami eXcursionists. after that came the
| Chesapeake and Ohio mail train from
Staunton. Richmond was reached Win
unusual speed. a great crowd was found
| courreua ted at the depot here. a military
escort Of members OF the First regiment, the
Howitzers, and the Blues, were also there
drawn up in line to do the honorS accord
ing to Upton. The rear car OF Colonel
Holidays train was stopped on the south
side OF Broad street. From the platform
OF it the speaking took place.
THE GovERNoR-ELECT INTRODUCED.
After the military and excursionists had
teen allowed time to get out of the train
and take their places in the line or crowd,
Governor Holiday and Lieutenant-Goy-
ernor James A. Walker were introduced.
Judge Lay, in presenting Colonel Holli-
day, said
Colonel Holiday,-To you, sir, the Gov
crnor-elect of our State, upon the eve OF
your inauguration to its high and RESPONSE
BILE duties, and as you enter upon the
threshold Of our city, we are hidden to say
that the doors Of our homes and our hearts
are thrown open wide. Richmond bids
you welcome, and Richmond but reechoes
the welcome OF whole State.
You come, sir, the representative of a
locality new in the history OF Governors,
but it is locality so endeared to us in the
memories OF the past and so valued IN the
bright hopes OF the future that to-day we
may invoke nature, in sympathy with our
own welcome, to bid her .Everlasting
Hills which have separated us bend and
bow that OH the morrow the Valley and
mountains beyond may catch the Deep
toned murmur OF the sea, and the RANK de
caches Of the mountaineer borne upon the
breezes, let loose, may minge with the fes-
| tive sounds OF the city and find its echoes
along the valley OF the James, so that all may
blend and swell in one grand diapason Of
harmony at this special season Of peace and
| goodwill among men. [ApplauSe.]
| Une in past, one in the present, ever
united, we trust, in our future, We gladly
hail a Governor from q remote section OF
our State, that we may receive and foster
him in our midst with that warmth which,
flowing from this great heart OF the Com
monwealth, permeates every mountain and
valley, village and hamlet, to her EXTREMIST
limits and boundaries.
| To you, General Walker, the Lieutenant
Governor-eIect [cheers for General Walker,
who bowed in response], we beg to repeat
and ask you to appropriate these words OF
welcome, representing as you do distant
but equally valued section Of our State
the great Southwest-with all OF its varied
interests and beauties.
And to you, gentlemen, civil and militia
ry, and to you, fair ladies OF that fairest of