Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-24

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| Citizens and subjects of every degree of digni.
ty have put on their holiday clothes, and are
enjoying their unaccustomed festivities to the
utmost Of the day of the reception, the cor
respondent of the New York Times writes -
RECEPTION DAY.
| Imagine the stir and hustle which this an
| cient town was in all day. AT early dawn
| yes and before any cock had gotten the sleep
| out of his eyes, or had had out his morning
nap, the people from all sections of the sur
rounding country came trotting into the city,
gaily dressed and with an entire confidence i'll
the weather. Friday was very warm day,
so they supposed Saturday would be the same.
Thin dresses, straw hats, fancy turbans, paper
soled Shoes lace mantillas, light parasols, teath-
ers, aud ribbons, were all the rage. The SOL
ders were all up early; pipe-clay, polish
sweet OIL and tullers earth, were in great de-
mand The jauntiest hat, the best fitting coat,
and the newest pants, were selected TOR wear
on this great festive occasion, this royal holi
day which was to witness the arrival of their
military superior and their future comand-
in chief. The citizens of the town had well
nigh exhausted themselves the night previous.
They had been lacking up eytrsreens, hoisilng
flags, mailing transparencies, cleaning door
knobs, washing windows, rubbing down turni-
ture, composing patriotic notices, displaying
heraldric emblems, buying gloves, laces white
| cravats, new feathers, shoes, satin slippers,
and furbelows generally, so that wher the
| early dawn above referred TO made its appear
ance, the population proper were wrapt
in soft slumbers, and dreaming of kings,
| priests, stars, and garters. Six o'clock found
| everybody up at five minutes past that hour
the entire mass of humanity, residents, stran-
gers country people, and soldier men, were
| hraa tbat on1ipantlV rpsnpptahla rula
which emphatically suggests the improprie.
| ty of trifling with the name of the Deity. The
object of this wholesale denunciation was the
blasted weather. The sun was undoubtedly i'll
the heavens, and the earth, or at least this
part OF it, was in entire readiness for the ENJOY
meut of its healing beams, but there was a
dark cloud there and from it fell, gently,
steadily, and continuously, dripping, drop
ping, drizzly kind Of rainy mist. One could
not but feel compassion for the pretty Canad-
an girls who had come from distance with
their coquetish little hats their waving white
plumes, and their dear little boots, protected i'll
no way from "the little drops of water" which
one by one stole their way through the gauzy
| fabric of their "cut-aways," and wetting the
very cuticleS of her majesty's most loyal
| DANES.
LANDING OF THE FRINGE.
| 1t is now half-past three, and the Hero drops
| anchor. Under a circular wooden canopy,
fronting the landing steps, are gathered the
| governor general and the ministry, i'll their
civic uniforms of blue and gold the British
minister at Washington, Lord Lyons and his
two attaches; the commander of the forces,
Sir Finwick Williams, of the Kars the Pro-
teStant and Roman Catholic bishops, and sew
eral of the clergy, all in their robes the may
or of the city and several Of the municipal
council, together with other officers civil and
military, and many members of the legisla-
ture. These are in waiting to receive the il
lustrious visitor on the threshold of the city,
and as the yards of the fleet are being manned
the chief among them step down to the water
side where the royal barge is to touch Min
utes of suspense now ensue. The horses of
the military congregated on the town side of
the canopy manifest good deal of highblood-
ed restlessness, and their riders are as eager i'll
their glances towards the Hero as the crowd
generally. The time has now come. The
| Hero has swung round, and the prince has
stepped into the boat from the gangway OH the
| Point Levi side, so that, while all are looking
for his appearance at the one nearest, the
standard is lowered from the masthead, and
boat with another such standard fluttering
from its peak rounds the ship and appears in
full view. And now the flagship fires the first
Of her twenty -one guns, which is the signal for
the rest to put forth their volleys in concert
with the citadel The natural cliff Of Cape
| Diamond forms a massive and splendid back
ground of an order the most picturesque.
The prince ascends the carpeted steps and bats
under the canopy amid renewed cheers, which
he acknowledged by bowling in his usual grace
| iu manner. Ills manner wins all hearts, and
they hail him as Il friend. The mayor is pre-
scented to him, and lie bows; after which the
former reads an address Of welcome to him in
French, and afterwards translation OF it into
English The prince listens with courteous at.
tention, but smile is traceable beneath the sur
face as he hears the address in the first language
The mayor has finished, and he advances and
hands copies OF both to the prince in person,
who, assuming an expression of earnest gray.
ity, receives his reply from the duke of New
castle, on his left, and reads it in that firm
clear manner for which his mother has been
so long celebrated, and he wears the same re-
gal yet unostentatiOus look as he does So The
reply, alike with its predecessors, is well word
ed and in excellent taste. He hands the copy
to the mayor and there is mutual bow
There is a dead silence of some seconds dura-
ton, when some one of the local authorities
breaks it by excaimng "Three cheers for the
prince" upon which there is grandcr chorus
OF voices than has yet been heard. 1t rings
from the wharf to the citadel and the citadel
TO the wharf, and "one cheer more" is re.
sponded to with undiminished enthusiasm.
The prince, with uncovered head, bows again
and again, and is then conducted to his car.
rage, which is drawn by four dark bays, and
driven by coachman in the red vest of liv.
cry. The governor general, the duke OF New
castle aud earl ST. Germain take their places
with him, and the carriage moves away in the
order OF procession, saluted with renewed
cheers on all sides
The New York Herald has very full and
! redundant dispatches from the scene of the