Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-25

and the dissolution of the Union, the wreck
of empires and the crash of worlds, which
hung on it, are postponed for the Princes
visit. President Buchanan has ceased his
weeping over the political depravity which
uses money TO carry elections, aad is furbish-
ing up the White House for the Princes re-
Ception, at which only James Gordon Ben
nett and family, and few others of the
(swill-milk) cream of the elite of the land are
to be admitted. The editor of the Atlantic
(Ga.) C0nfederdcy, has postponed his job of
''paving Pennsylvania-avenue ten fathoms
deep with dead bodies" until after the
Princes visit as this would seriously dis
Cemmode his entry into the White House.
Governor Wise is to be sent off in a long,
low, black, rakish steamer-such as he longed
for to cruise off the Banks, to capture The
Cunarder that carried off Fred Dougas-to
explore the Virginia "oyster fundum," osten-
sibly to calculate its increase, with aview to
poll-tax to pay the interest on the Virginia
debt; but really to keep him out of the way,
lest the sight of the Prince should throw him
into one Of his blood-thirsty fits Brutus A.
Pryor has beaten into a jack-knife thedagger
which he proposed to plunge into the vitals
of any Republican President who should
trample on the rights of the South-rights
which, like the camomile, the more they are
trampled upon, the better they seem to
fourish-and now he is capering nimbly be-
fore an amorous looking-glass, to the las
civious pleasing of the Lutte, to practice his
PAGES for the only entertainment which
pleases the Prince. The South has laid aside
political melodrama which sups full of hor-
rors in every public performance and has
Emoothed its wrinkled front, and is now on
hospitable thoughts intent. Surely this must
be the instinct which Sir John Falstaff de-
scribes, which ever recognizes Prince
Gwen the lion will not turn on q true
Prince" The approach Of the Prince bushes
the contest which was supposed to have
brought our country into the throes of dis
solution, and cuts off the daily food Of
threatened horrors, bloodshed and civil war
which is now required to carry on the tri-
umphant experiment of selfgovernment.
But these piping times of peace are not
free from anxiety. The question is, how
shall the Prince be entertained? 1t was dis
covered on his first arrival that he was fond
of dancing. This is not very strange
passion in young man of eighteen, and in
any other young man would be considered
rather as a subject for reprobation. But
this seems to have settled the point that the
Prince has come to America to attend a
round of dancing parties. A sef-constituted
committee of New York gentlemen, repre-
senting the wealth and high-prced piety of
that city, waited upon the Prince at Mon
treal and, as humbly asEf they were to the
court-funkey manner born, supplicated him
to accept ball, promising that the vulgar,
and especially the New York Aldermen,
should be excluded This affair is now alb
sorbing the attention of that great me-
tropolis.
In the first place, several high-priced
cergymen appear in the list of managers,
Some of the wicked scott at this and some
of the righteous vince. But the Prince is
not only the future temporal ruler of Great
Britain, but the future Head of the English
Church, which is the bulwarl1 of Protest
antism; and if the Head of the Church
officers and members to do likewise2 On
the contrary, does not his act sanctify dane
ing and make it holy ordinance? This is
not our reasoning, but that of the New York
Christians.
But this question, momentous as it is, is
eclpsed by another; and that is who shall
dance with the Prince? AS he can not dance
Ill H.. La. ,l,an he Of
having touched the hand of Prince, to
transmit to posterity, and to be commem-
GRATED in all the family pictures? 1t is the
founding of an order of nobility in America
Who, of the coming generation of Ameri-
cans shall be permitted to exhibit to the
future admiring vulgar a portrait Of his
mother, or his grandmother, or his great
grandmother's fourth cousin, dancing with
the Prince of Wales, afterward King, and to
transmit this to posterity as a perpetual
patent of nobility?
1t has been suggested in the New York
papers that the Presidents niece would be
the only proper person in America for the
Prince to open the ball with. To this, some
who have not acquired proper regard for
DeuOcrhLC Thnht OpJeCI' Inc question Is as
important as that which once divided the
Little-Enders and the Big -Enders in Lilliput,
and threatens as much controversy.
In this city we also have our tribulations.
Our City Council instructed the Mayor to
invite the Prince to enjoy our hospitalities
and, although his governor declined them,
probably because he did not know their ma
ture and had fears for the personal safety of
his.ward; yet, as be is coming here, something
must be done, and our people don't know
exactly what. Now, it seems to us that the
way is perfectly plain. 1t is supposed that
when the Prince is not eating or sleeping he
must be dancing. Mr.. Pike has provided
for that in his magnificent Opera house.
But, if the Council wish to do the thing on a
scale commensurate with the importance of
our city, let them assume this ball at the
city's cost, and then take all the tickets for
distribution among their friends, after the
New York plan. Let them, also, take the
Burnet House during the Princes stay, and
keep an open table for themselves and their
friends at the city's expense, with sparkling
Catawba and cigars ad hJitum. This is the
only way 10 dispense municipal hospitality.