White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-02

i he conflicting accounts with regard
to the anticipated visit to our shores of
H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, have
made us anxious to obtain the most re
liable information. We have done SO.
Through the kindness of Mr.. Wise, mot
of Virginia, we went up at midnight.
in small balloon, to a position about
halfway between this country and En-
gland, taking with us the American ter
minus of the transatlantic telegraph
By a preconcerted arrangement, fmade
through distinguished sporting gentle
man of New York, wo there met Mr..
Erwood, the racket-champion Of Great
Britain, the most confidential friend Of
II. r. H., the Prince, in a similar bal
loon, and with the English end of the
magnetic line in his hand. In accor-
dance with the lucid directions given US
by Sir c. w. Field, we then established
the connection, and after celebrating the
event over copious American champagne,
washed down by genuine British cognac,
we hung the cable securely up there, and
descended to our Office, where the battery
was fixed. (The corresponding battery
on the European side, we may add, was
stationed in the office of '"Bell's Life"
where the Prince was incog., instrueting
Mr.. Bowling to decide the fight in favor
of Sayers, at all hazards.) In exactly
twenty-three minutes eleven seconds and
thirty one sixtieths Of a second. the COM
munication began, as follows-errors ex-
cepted Ellis Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, will sail upon the 3lst Of May,
in our four ships-of war. for your shores ;
His Royal HigEness will distribute HIM
self impaTiiaiiy among these magnificent
vessels, so that you need not look for him
in any particular one more than another.
He will proceed over that fluid portion Of
Great Britain commonly known as the
Atlantic Ocean, toward his Canada and
Nova Scotia farms, where he wishes to
inspect the potato crop aud buy pair Of
ponies for his little brothers. Here he
expects to be received by Judge Halibur-
ton, accompanied by the Hon. Samuel
Slick, who will present him with the
freedom Of speech, in neat pumpkin
pie illuminated with new England rum.
"After this imposing ceremony, he
will proceed in state to visit the lions oil
the country from the lions he will de-
scend to the inferior animals, such as
apes, donkeys, &c. At this stage of his
progress, he will expect to meet the Com
mittee Of Invitation from New York.
headed by Alderman Doodle. bearing g
free pass upon the Live Oak passenger
railways, elegantly bound in the form Of
q gridiron. He will accept it in a neat
speech, in which he will eagerly seize the
occasion to pay himself and bis nation
their richly Jun inherited tribute Of praise
for all the high qualities-such as mod
esty, philanthropy, scorn Of oppression
fair play, &c.-which have IN lever dis
tinguishsd them. His II. II. after THU
oratorical triumph. will retire amid en-
thusiastic shouts Of "Fair Play and Ole
England foreverP' Long may she wavel
VERY like a whale p etc., especially
prepared for the occasion.
THE Prince will then disguise himSel
as q very ordinary man, and quite yount
at that, and go to bed in so commonplace
a manner that the most acute observer
seeing him at that moment, would neve
! detect his royal PrerogatiVe to be anything
beyond the claim Of human nature
:" Here the connection was Interrupt
ted by large baldheaded Eagle alight
t ing upon the wires at their junction mid
way between the two countries, and CIV
ing vent to an enormous scream, whic
as we have since heard, vibratsd owe
/ the cable to the Office wherein the Prime
, and his suite were gathered, and explc
, ded there with such violence as to serious
s " incommods His Royal Highness, an
: cause the British Referee, in moment
unspeaksbls anguish. to decide the Figt
in favor Of John G. Heenan, Esquir
II the connection eve- be re-establishe
(which we doubt our readers shall hA'
the remainder Of the Princes Itinerary.