The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-22
Hall has done everything within her power t.
give at least half the Congressman from this
island to the republican party.


give at least half the Congressman from lhid
island to the republican party.
| The Princes Pr0gress-Its Value Efnsn-
ctaIly and PoAisicaiiy.
| The Prince Of Wales has come aud gone
again. In every respect his visit TO the United
| States was pleasant, and we hope will prove
to be profitable one. The young gentleman
himself, who, in the natural course Of events,
| is to be the sovereign Of that nation with which
we have the closest ties by origin, by language,
| by religion, by trade and commerce, and by
identity of national characteristics, was highly
| grati6ed. 1t is to be presumed that the men,
bers of his suite shared the same feeling. We
certainly can answer for the people of those
cities that he visited. There was something re-
markable Ia the manifestations of cordial re-
spect evinced towards him by the people Of the
| United States Of all ranks from the President
downward. 1t contrasted favorably with his
experience in Canada, where pestent Orange
men 30 marred the pleasantness of his recep-
ton. But once on the south side Of the ST.
| Lawre nee, his progress from Detroit to Portland
was one uninterrupted scene Of pleasure and
| qualification. He leaves our shores bearing
with him none but pleasant souvenirs Of the
country, and with the conviction forced upon
him that republican form of government is
not, after all. 80 Objectionable as court tutors
may represent and young princes might sup.
pose.
utilitarian school may think, however, that
| both prince and people paid rather dear for
their whistle, and that the game was not worth
the candle. They may point to the supposed
| cost of the demonstrations and ask to be shown
| any corresponding benefits. A million or two
Of dollars, they may say, is too vast sum
| to be 30 lightly squandered. A million
or two Is low estimate of the
amount of money put in circulation by
the Princes visit Six or eight millions
| would be much nearer the mark. The Princes
own expenses were very considerable. Special
trains cost rather dear and so do extensive
suits of apartments in fashionable hotels. The
| Prince was magnificent too, in his largesses to
| hotel servants and other persons in subordinate
| positions. Checks for various sums, from $500
to 81 900, for distribution among servants tes-
tilted to his iberality and bis credit at his
bankers. Presents of costly jewelry to part
ners in the dance and to persons who had done
him service or afforded him qualification helped
to swell largely his expenses. His stay in the
United States was exactly month"; but he could
not have managed to expend in that time less
than hundred thousand dollars-a mere baga.
telle, to be sure to one who has the British
| treasury at his back.
Close listed economists need not grumble at
that, nor exclaim against such wasteful extra
vagance. Our republican fellow citizens out
bid the Prince himself in Gberality. Where he
spent hundreds we spent tens Of thousands. Take
the ball at the Academy of Music for example.
Think Of the glittering diamonds, the exquisite
laces and the costliness Of millinery displayed
on that occasion. 1t would be ridiculously
| low estimate If we were to place the average
outlay of each person present at 5000; and yet
at that figure the aggregate expenditure of the
three thousand would amount to 100000. If
we were TO set il down at a million of dollars,
that figure would not be extravagant. The
half million OF people who filed up Broad
way on the day of his entry into New
York-many Of them coming from distant
points-must have paid for their holiday
not less than half q million of dollars.
On the whole, between the military display, the
ball, the fremen's procession and the general
junketings during the few days be remained here,
the occasion must have put in circulation near
ly a million Of dollars. All this was Sc much
gained TO the wealth Of the community, for the
money came chiefly from the classes that can
we'll afford to be extravagant. The demonstra-
tons at Boston. including the splendidly sue
cessful ball, must have been the means OF cir
culating sum equal at least, to half Of that.
Taking these figures as basis, we might esti
mate the general expenses, or, we might more
properly say, the profit, Of the Princes visit as
| follows