| From the Memphis Argus |
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| January 11, 1861 |
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| Visitors From Alabama |
| Reception of the Directors of the Mobile
& Ohio Railroad |
| The Light Guard and the ???
Zuave Cadets turned out this morning, accompanied by a number of our
citizens, to receive and welcome several visitors from Alabama,
comprising over a dozen railroad directors of the Mobile & Ohio
railroad, an alderman of Mobile, who it was expected would be
accompanied by the whole board and mayor of that city. Among the
visitors, we noticed Colonel Gaines, brother of the lamented General
Gaines. The colonel was one of the earliest movers in the building of
the railroad whose completion to Corinth, where it intersects the
Memphis & Charleston road, is the occasion of the visit. The
visitors were received at the depot by Alderman J. M. Crews, whose
neat speech of welcome was handsomely responded to by Colonel Baker,
of the Mobile & Ohio railroad. The guests were escorted by the two
military companies from the depot to the Gayoso house, where we left
them partaking of the hospitalities of Dr. Cookerell. |
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