WESTERN INCIDENTS. 97

Hon. A. Saunders, Governor of Nebraska,

Hon. J. M. Thayer and lady, and Hon. T. W. Tipton, U. S. Senators
elect.

Hon. William Kellogg, Chief Justice of Nebraska.

Major-General Phillip St. George Cooke (commanding Department of
the Platte) and Staff.

Hon. A. 8. Paddock, and lady, Secretary of Nebraska.

Major Cushing, Chief Commissary of the Platte.

Col. J. K. Mizner, (Fort McPherson), lady and sister.

Lieut. Yates, Second Cavalry, United States Army.

Lieut. A. S. Adams, Second Cavalry, U. S. A.

C. L. Jenkins, in charge Railway Pioneer Printing Establishment.

J. Shepherd, Superintendent United States Express Company.

“ Gjles,” Editor Bugle, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

W. F. Burke, Editor Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

The following account of a public meeting held in the
hollow square, in the centre of the encampment, is also
taken from the Railway Pioneer :— ~

PUBLIC MEETING.

“A public meeting was held in the square this 4. M., pur-
suant to notice. Hon. Alvin Saunders, of Nebraska, was called
to the chair, and appointed secretary.

‘Brief and appropriate addresses were made by Senators
Wade of Ohio, Patterson of New Hampshire, Tipton of Ne-
braska, Hon. Mr. Lawrence of Ohio, Hon. John B. Alley of
Mass., Dr. Wisewell, and others.

Mr. Lawrence of Ohio, offered the following resolutions
which were unanimously adopted :

““ Whereas, An excursion party of ladies and gentlemen
from various places in-both hemispheres, started from New
York city on the evening of October 15th, 1866, to visit the
Union Pacific Railroad so far as finished, to a point west of
the hundreth meridian of west longitude ; and }

“ Whereas, Said excursionists, with many others who have

joined them on. the route, have this day reached said destina-
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