Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-10-24
VISIT OF TmI PRINCE oP WALES
TOTIIE ST. LOUIS FAIR.

The CORRESPONDENT of the New
Orleans Crese mt, gives tho follow
ing description of the Prince o
Wales TO the State Fair ut st, Louis
on the 9th ult;
Yesterday ,Sas the greatest day oI
the Farweok, Tho Princeof Wales
ha,t arrived tho evening before, and
il was generally. expected, with
no little anx ETY., that he and bis
party would Visit the Fair grounds
At an early hour, therefore, the
streets all ovdr thee We're throng-
cd with pee {estrians Of all ages
classes and both sexes, vending
their way TO the various cars and
Vehicles of all descriptions, 1t seem
ed 80 .eyide,a ..thsi.--everybody he'd
intended TO b ut the Fair, that ac-
tually by IL o'clock of tho day the
city and sire IT'S looked wholly de-
serted. A cloudy morning and Il
little rain for some time threatened
to disappoini the expectations of
many who hi d anticipated to enjoy
themselves, and who had postponed
their visit to the Fair to Thursday.
The clouds, however, soon scattered
to all directions, the skies bright
ened, and tho sun in all its glory
shonc forth Il, brighton every heart
and face. While one portion of the
people rushc,l to the Fair grounds
in every imae'inable vehicle, anoth-
er large crowd collected ut Barn
um's Dotel, in order to get a sight
at the Prince before he started on
his journey to the grounds. After
indulgmg in Jokes and ordinations
of every description, such as crowds
waiting for en- exhibition are apt to
indulge in, they were at length graf
ified by the appearance of the Prince,
who entered i'm open carriage drawn
by four black horses. The crowd
sent up very hearty shout, much
to the satisfa :tion of the Prince and
his followers among whom was the
Duke of Newcastle, Mayor Filley
and other gentlemen of this city
and of the Princes suit. AS the
cortege proceeded to the grounds,
the crowd, o. most of those who had
collected ab)ut the hotel accom-
panied it during its entire progress.
On arriving at the Fair grounds,
the carriage; proceeded directly to
the northern gate of the amphithea-
ter, through which they were adj
into the arena, the band sta
toned on thu pagoda playing Hail
to the Chief" The party then
aljghtod and were received by the
President and directors of the asso-
citation, who escorted them to. the
pagouu, WI lfc tilc puhu P1iyeu
{" Hail Cole mbia and Yankee
Doodle"
The amplritheater, by this time,
WAS crowde'i in everypart to excess.
There was mot Il. seat to be had,
and every II ch Of standing ground
was occupied even to the rails of the
outmost gall cry, on which hundreds
Of people had mounted, eager to
catch view Of what was going on
in the arena. Besides the people
in the amEFitheater, the whole en-
tire Fair gfaunds were covered with
people, and every hali wa, 6llod to
1t is hardly an cNag-
gcration tosay that 100000 people
were on tht grounds yesterday.
When tho Prince and his party
had reache({ the first gallery of the
pagoda, sev'ral of our most prom
inent citize9,s were presented to him.
The Princelwas, apparently pleased
with the sp ctacle presented by the
crowded as it was by
thousands p' ladies and gentlemen.
The difi'ereI gentlemen of his suit
expressed lheir qualification and
pleasure az. the fiattering welcome
they had l'cceived, and were aston
ished at the evidences of taste, skill,
and refinement, by which they were
surroundcd The Prince made Il We
ry favor,ble impression on his au-
dience, and looked ocalm and mod
est, both during his journey to the
grounds AMI after his arrival there,
that he wor all hearts at once. l
will mentipn, however, for the ben
eft of your fair lady readers, that
he is by no means handsome
young MAJ; and that we have
thousands f young fellows, both at
New Orleins and here, who are a
hundred tines handsomer in ap-
pearance and looks. During the
exhibition Of roadsters in harness,
and only then, the Prince manifes-
ted considerable interest in the eX-
hibition, aat when " "silver heels
arrived in tie arena, he descended
from tife Lasoda and examined him
with greet deal of attention. AZ
ter partallhs of lunch in the di-
rectors' 70 IN, the royal party drove
around tile outer portion of the
grounds, and then departed for the
city. And early this morning they
all departed for Cincinnati with an
extra train.
We have been informed by re-
liable geithman that. the work of
surveying the line of road, with Il
view OF Immediate construction, has
been comlnerced on the Houston Il
New Orle ans r. r., beyond the Sa-
bine, in Louisiana, and that the
portion &C the road from Houston
to the Savinc will be finished be-