Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-03

Tho DtneEence.
The ball to the Prince, at the New York
Academy of Music, is to be sifled from the
vulgar, by committee Of seventy managers,
who have charge Of the distribution of invi-
tations. The managers themselves, selected
from the cream of society, are made addi-
tionally select by heavy assessments for ex.
penses. The tickets are made select by q
high price and limited number. Each man.
sger has his apportioned share Of the tickets
for distribution, but he first submits list Of
his intended invitations to the whole board
of managers, for their approval or rejection.
By this complicated machinery they expect
to secure party select enough to be exhib-
ited to the Prince AS consequence, all
oodfishdom is dying for a ticket, and pre-
miums of 5000 are offered for them, subject
to approval of the committee.
Yet great tribulation remained as to who
should first dance with the Prince. Whether
it was that all this sitting process had failed
to make party sufficiently select to furnish
candidate for such an eternal honor or
whether this question could not be settled by
a selection from the New York ladies, with
out creating an outbreak, does not appear on
the face, but probably the latter. To escape
this difficulty, itwa at iIst proposed to send
for Miss Lane for the purpose; but this also
threatened q feminine rebellion which would
have thrown the revolt of the harem quite
in the shade. Finally it was decided to
head off the danger by giving the privilege
to the oldest lady at the ball This hushed
the contest. 1t was a coup d'etat. A great
calm succeeded the storm. If it had been
the youngest what an eruption of baby
waists and ringlets, and of infantle inno-
Cence there would have been! But now
there are no candidates, and it is probable
that some grandmother, who has abandoned
all pretense of youth, and who prides herself
on her longevity, will have to be taken tc
The ball for the purpose of opening it with
the Prince.
We can not stop here to comment on the
propriety of inhicting on the Prince the
consequences of this Gothanic strife. But
how differently the thing was managed in
Cincinnati. AS the Prince laid aside all the
paraphernalia of rank, and came to the
United States as an unassuming private gen
tleman, to see the people, it was proper that
be should see the people as they are. The
ball at the Opera-house was opened to the
public without distinction, on the payment
Of fair price for the expenses of it. No
committee was required to boil down our
society and distil its concentrated, sweet
scented odor, in order to find something fit
to put under the nostrils of a Prince; but he
was shown our average civilization in a pub
lie assembly. This was what he oughtto
have seen, and he found that in our public
assemblies no rallied ring was necessary to
protect him from impertinent intrusion, as
in the select balls in Canada, and that royalty
could safely rely on the courtesy and breed
ing Of the general rooiaty of Cincinnati.
This is something which no other place In
America has attempted, nor dare risk. At
every other he is environed by restrictions to
protect him from the uncivilized public.
Nor was the city of Cincinnati thrown
into an alarming conflict about partners
for the Prince, ner compelled to import
q lady especially for the purpose, nor to op-
press the youth with any relic of antiquity.
His partners were selected without parade
or competition, and will not suffer by COM
parison with those which the painful labor
of the New York committee of seventy will
bring forth.
The Prince and his suite have seen us as
we are-an aspect in which Princes very
seldom view the people. He has left on our
people the impression of well-bred young
man, quiet and unassuming, bearing the
awkwardness of a position in which he was
the object to which all eyes were directed,
end in which every motion was by many
expected to show the Prince, with remark
able self possession and unconsciousness,
especially for a youth of an age at which the
majority of American boys are regarded as
any thing but ornamental, even as append
ages to society. The young gentlemen in
his suite were models of elegance, in figure,
dress and manners. We have seen some Of
the best specimens of their aristocracy, and
they have seen our democracy, and, we have
no doubt, are mutually pleased.