Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-15
DUBUQUE MEMPHIS
Marriage OF the Two Cities Yesterday,
and a Celebration Last Night at
the Peabody.
The Dubuque Delegation Cordially Re-
eeiyed, Taken Around the City, and
Pleasantly Feasted.

The only event OF any special interest yesier-
day was the reception of the Dubuque dele
cation. Those who did not arrive Tuesday
night came yesterday morDing. number
OF our prominent citizens conducted the
visitors all over the city The oil mills were
visited, the cotton-sheds, and compress estab-
ments were taken in, and the sewer system
was thoroughly explained by Maj. Niles
Meriwether, the engineer of the Taxing
District. The Porter Guards also did their
duty in entertaining the guests. The trip
about the city was completed about o'clock,
and most of the visitors were taken 10 the
Thester 10 see John T. Raymond in his new
play. The gentlemen expressed themselves
as we'll pleased with their survey of the
sewer system. l. ia safe TO say that the Du-
buque party were highly pleased with their
reception.
THE RECEPTION AT THE PEABODY.
Last night a banquet was given at the Pea
body Hotel, at which the best people of the
city were present. The occasion was very
happy one. President D. P. Hadden was i n
in the chair, and was ably assisted by Mr..
John S. Toof, acting president of the Cotton
Exchange, and Mr.. John K. Speed; president
of the Merchants Exchange. An appetite
ing supper, reinforced by a nice as
sortment Of wines, was prepared by
Col. c. B. Galloway and his as
sistant, Mr.. Alex Kenyon. Arnold's bsnd
was present discoursing beautiful music.
The table was arranged in the shape of
horseshoe. About 1890 O'Clock, the guests
and their entertainers filed into the dining
room, headed by Messrs Hsddeu, Speed and
Toof. Prof. Arnold gave a spirited piece of
music, and President MADDEN, in whose eye
cleaned the festive spirit OF revelry, gave
the word to sit down and fall TO. Before the
knives and forks began to chase each other
unsteady over the plates, Mr.. Hadden de-
livered himself Substantially of the follow
ing little speech as a sort of free appetizer
for the evenings festivity:
PRESIDENT HADDENs address
GENTLEMEN OF DuBUqUE-As the repre-
sentative of the city of Memp his, it affords
me great pleasure 10 welcome to this city
the people of Dubuque, la. We are proud
to receive the representatives of the great
Northwest. We wish that with many of
you the call might be permanent.
You live on the great prairies and
we are among the cotton plantations.
We hope that the relations existing
between Us will become more and more
binding. We intend to raise cotton, tariff
or no tariff / again welcome you TO the
hospitality OF Memphis. As other gentle
ment are 10 succeed me, we will now proceed
TO daily with some parts OF the inner man
After music by Arnold's band, the inner
man was attended 10. The regular toasts
were inaugurated with Memphis Greeis
Dubuque and Welcomes Her Representa-
tives;5 response by Mr.. David H. Poston.
That gentleman spoke as follows:
DAVID H. POSITIONS ADDRESS OF wELco ME
Memphis sends kindly greetings 10 her.
nh. l. L Ill.
the pleasure afforded her tonight OF doing
honor to her chosen aud distinguished repre-
sentatives, ever mindful of the courtesy and
hospitality extended 10 her citizens and sol
diery in the past. Peopled from common
ancestry, protected by the same glorious flag,
and pursuing a common destiny, let these
metropolitan cities Of Iowa and Tennessee,
standing on the banks OF The same great
river, be cemented in the bonds Of an eternal
friendship, and the kindly relations SO
recently begun be Increased and strength
ened as time pursues it's ceaseless flight into
the ages yet 10 come, and may posterity reap
the benefits and foster the relations go auspi-
ciously begun.
"Iowa and Tennessee-Their Fraternal Re-
lations," was responded to by Lieut.. S. d.
Weakley, of the PortersG yards. He spoke
substantially as follows:
LIEUT.. wEAKLEY's ADDRESS
Twelve moths ago the people of Tennes-
see and the people of Iowa, separated by a
distance of 900 miles, were comparatively
strangers. True, we had fed upon the pro-
ducts of their vast wheat fields, and they
had been clad with the garments wrought
from our feecy staple, yet the people OF each
State were unknown to those.of the other save
in name. Tonight we are as friends that
have been bound together, trust with hooks
of steel. How this fortunate condition has
been accomplished is we'll known to you all
But few months sgo the good people OF
Dubuque sent message to us saying that
the gallant soldiers of that and the adj AGENT
States would assemble in their city TO enter
with each other into a friendly contest for
military honors, even as the Grecian
youths of old strove in generous rivalry
for the coveted palm. TIE city Of
Memphis was invited to send up a
company OF. her martial youths, whose
reputation for skill in arms had gone
abroad, to try their strength with the sturdy
soldiers of the great Northwest. This invi-
tstou was accomp anied with such assur-
ance of good will and friendship, that it was
accepted, and the soldier boys of Memphis
buckled on their armor and went forth TO
battle. A goodly number OF their friends,
citizsns of Tennessee, who took pride in the
zeal and enthusiasm OF the young soldiers,
went with them 10 share the hospitality of
the people of Iowa, and to witness
"the pomp and circumstance of glorious
war" Such a reception as the people of
Iowa gave those Tennesseans could have
been rendered only by men of manly hearts
and noble impulses. From the moment we
set foot upon the soil of Iowa we felt that
we were in the house of our brothers.
They conquered Us by kindness, and
we surrendered at once 10 our new
found friends. These attentions were
given us, not because of the par
ticular persons composing that dele
CATION of Tennesseans, but as a compliment
to our State and the section Of country we
represented. Since that time Tennessee has
felt for Iowa all the love that a sister State
can feel for another. To. night Tennessee
has within her borders a humber of distin-
guishea citizens of Iowa, known and honored
at home for their integrity and pro-
bity of character, and it affords us
great pleasure 10 have these gentlemen
in our midst. Memphis, the metropolis of
Tennessee, speaks in behalf Of her State to
the citizens OF Dubuque, if not already,
soon 10 become the first city of her common
wealth, aud through them TO the people of
Iowa, and assures them our high regard for the
people Of that State. Iowa and Tennessee
have much in common; sister States in a
great government, under which we will ever
live, protected by the same laws and with
essentially the came local institutions, we
hope 10 march eide by side TO a great
future. Commercial intercourse, that great
preserver OF the peace of nations, will
strengthen the bond of friendship. Rail-
roads extending from the one State to the
other will bear to each others doors the pro.
ducts OF both, while the great Mississippi
will continue to bear upon lis bosom to the
marts of the world our commodities of trade,
Iowa and Tennessee! at thesmention of these
names what hopes for the future arise in our
breast! What pictures of mineral wealth
fertile soil and heal.bful climate.
Under the inf uence of golden. b aired
peace, what cities will rise up like magic 10
beautify and enrich our States. The past is
gone into history. Its sorrows and disap-
pointments have been forgotten. We re-
member only those deeds of courage and
devotion displayed by all alike in oar last
great struggle, which can be preserved as a
monument to The bravery of the American
people. We live for the present and for the
future. He who sits upon the roadside to
brood over what is gone will fud
himself outstripped in the race of
life. The State or nation that INDUCES
in like reflections will experience the same
result. This is, we believe, the beginning of
brighter era in our country. That feeling
OF friendship begun here We hope will peue-
trate the entire Union. 1t is our earnest de-
sire that stream of friendship and kindly
feeling will flow between our States as free
and copious as the waters of the mighty Mis-.
sissippi that flows between US. We will
march together shoulder 10 shoulder" with
our friends of the North until we carve out
for our country glorious destiny.
COL. CRAWFORD,
Of Dubuque, also responded TO the toast,
| thanking the people of Memphis for their