Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-08

agent of the Connect icut State Agricultural
society, the prize banner won by that state.
In performing that agreeable duty he made a
neat and appropriate speech. Mr.. Hyde re-
sponded, the president made a closing Speech
and the exhibition was ended. BY universal
consent it was the most successful exhibition
of horses ever held in New England
The Prince of Wales and the Orangemen.
1t has been stated in the brief dispatches of
the last two or three days that tile princes
progress through Canada had been exposed to
some vexatious Interruptions, which have since
occasioned very great and ominous excitement
throughout the provinces. The history of
the movement is thus given in the letters to
the New York Tribune -
ORIGIN OF THE DIFFICULTY.
The Orangemen of Toronto having an.
nounced an intention of assembling in great
numbers to welcome the Prince, not as private
citizens, but as a party, wearing all the insg-
MIA and robes OF their order, and carrying
banners with inscriptions peculiarly dstasteful
to their opponents, the Roman Catholics, and
having moreover, erected arches covered with
the same emblems and legends, the Catholics
addressed remonstgance to the duke, ex.
pressing their Discrimination to join in any
procession thus composed or to walk under
arches which protested to proclaim their
shame. AT the same time they avowed their
readiness to relinquish their own standards,
and to participate us citizens only, III the cele.
bration, Perceiving that the peaceful progress
of the Princes tour was threatened, the duke
Immediately answered that no party displays
of this character could be sanctioned, and
that, in case OF landing at Toronto, the royal
party would avoid passing through such streets
as should be distinguished by Orange embel-
hshments or, it the Objectionable demonstra-
lions were persisted in, would omit visiting
that city altogether. He alluded, at the same
time, 10 the rumored possibility of similar
movements at Kingston, which, he intimaled,
would be regarded in the same light. This
letter, at Kingston, produced the intensest
excitement. The two daily newspapers were
suddenly infamed with an Unprecedented
energy-one savagely denouncing the origina-
tors Of the difficulty, the other applauding
them and assailing the duke of Newcastle
and his advisers with that spIenetic vul
garity which SO many of the minor journals
of Canada revel in. The leaders of the Or
angemen, who had prepared a display of con-
siderable magnitude, applied to the chief of
their order, at Toronto, for advice and counsel /;
but this, it appeared was mere matter of FORM
tor although the response was i'll these words :
81 think 1t better to comply with the Dukes
wish, j. II. Cameron" the extreme opposite
plan was adopted land the determination to
resist all discussions was openly declared. An
Orange arch was reared in Princes street, the
main thoroughfare of the city, in which the
significant coors, orange and blue were prom
inent, and upon which various party emilia
Zonings were distributed the secret emblems
surmounting all. These facts have been COM
munlcated TO the duke at Breckville, brief
consultation was held there, which resulted in
the decision to proceed to Kingston and ex-
anime more closely the condition of affairs,
but on no account to land unless the conditions
previously laid down were submitted to. Ac-
cordingly, at four o'clock on Tuesday after
noon the Kingston" appeared and was greeted
with the usual salutes but after moving slow.
ly to position commanding a free view of the
principal streets-whch were then filled with
groups OF Orangemeu all striped and badged
with yellow and red stugs, she quietly let tall
her anchor and held alOof, surrounded howe.
yer, by fleets of crowded steamboats, and
smaller craft.
The city had all day been wildly agitated
and confused. The anxious doubts of the Or
| angemen, who, in spite of their effronlery
| failed to conceal their evident perturbations.
| UNIV Ni9PiN"suiS vi thS lSSpecldble ClllZeIs, anu
| the heated denunciations of the more earnest
loyalists, gave rise to frequent angry discus
sions, which many apprehended would termi
nate in violence. The Catholics, holding the
best position in the difficulty, could afford to
wait quietly for the issue; so no manifesto
tons Of any kind proceeded from them The
preparations Tor the princes reception were
all snarled and irregular. The city council
had ON Monday resolved, in the vain hope of
making matters better, TO abolish the entire
programme for the reception and procession.
The result was, that instead of complying
with this settlement and absenting themselves
as had been hoped for, ,he Orangemen gath
cred III greater force than ever, as il resolved
to take arrangements for the ceremony entire
" INTO their own hands. A little after noon
they formed a procession of more than a mile
in length, in which no man appeared with
out his ribbons OF orange and blue, while
many were arrayed in wide gowns of red
or white, bearing open Bibles on their
breasts, or parchment scrolls containing their
secret creed. A large proportion were armed
with drawn swords, and lowered near their
banners, which they carried in great profus-
ion, rs if TO protect them in case OF need. I'M
less personal ugliness be one of the qualifca
tons for admission to the brotherhood it is
difficult to understand how SO much repulsiye.
ness can be gathered into one organization
They were headed by II mounted chief, more
villanous in aspect than all the rest, n0twth-
standing the cavalier fnery with which he
was bedecked, and the pompous airs of author
ity he assumed. In disjointed line this jann-