, 1874-03-29

| In the present Senatorial CANVASS in M.7e..
chusotts tho party-lines are beginning to +.
! drawn very rigidly, mud the antecedentg Of c,,.
didates for the chair Of the dead Statesman n.
examined with microscopicai fidelity. Coz
| Banks has been one Of tho victims CT this noc,-
t liar scrutiny. He has been placed under the nj.
czoscope, and Ve1y serious flaw has been dis.
! covered in his 1ntecedents BY the Dawes caucps
which units hin, to be 3 Senator from Masts.
chueetts. Some one in the caucus ventured tia
pretanse Of aristocracy, in Boston, whereupon
another member got up and denied the soft in.
peacament. He reminded the gentleman WIN
had mada this rash aesert5oc ss a1s iur;ienl nj;
tending the Prince OF Wales ball in Boston d,r.
ing the Gorerno1ahip of Gen. Banks. Iha
"layender-warer" element Of the city bad
picked ont certain lady as representative Of
the creme de Ia creme, and typical Of the gilt.
tocracy which sprang from the Original
Goldfish suspended over the Speakers c1si.
in the House, to lead the dsnoa
with tho Prince Gov. Banks, however, 1amiad-
ed the 1avender-water element OF the require.
1nents Of official etiquette On srch occasions. To
this they demurred, as it Was not every daya
live Prince Was caught swimming IN lavender
water; and, although ve-y ugly stories we're cir
culated about the young gentleman, they were
determined that the feminine representative at
the creme de Ia creme, and NOS Soma ordiusey
ski1n-milk woman, should have the honor OF first
inaugurating the terpsichorean honors to Mnster
Albert Edward, who ~:as then An unmarried,
registering youth, addicted to midnight aagons
and penchant for the Car1-can. The Governor,
however. held out for the requirements Of eti-
quette. The 1avendar-water element atormed,
and the more they sto11ned the more determined
grew the Governor; and At last he put his foot
down With q crash, and declared that he would
not be present to receive the Prince unleas thu
first place in the first set was given to the lad7
to whom, the speaker declared, by all precedent,
it belonged,-the wife Of the Chief Magistrate
Lavender, therefore, had to yield, and. although
it was sorely shocked and griaved, 4nG has nc.
recovered from it to this day, Mrs. Gov. EAoxs
led ont the Prince Of Wales in this first dance,
and the gilt-edgod young WOMAN OF the creme DE-
Ia cre7ne is now only known as the woman Eho
didn't dance with the Prince Of Wales, and long
ago made up her u:s;a thai this is hollow, de-
ceitfu1 world st best.
It behooyes Gen, Banks, therefore, if he stiu
has hankering for the Senatorial position, to
settle this question. Did Mrs. GOV. Ranks,
fourteen years ago, dance with the Prince Of
Wales, or did she not7 Il she did, then is Gen.
Banks bloated aristocrat and fawning tutt-
hunter, and unfit for the high position OF free,
Republican, Democratic, Liberal
statesman II she did not, then should he
hasten to deny the slandarous assertion. II
Mrs. Gov Banks was 80 raah as to dance with
the Prince of Wales, how can her husband dis
CUBS questions OF finance OF vote intelhgent]y
upon the tariff? II Mrs. Gov. Banks WAS not
only 30 rash as to dance with the Prince Of
Wales but also to render the gilt~edgel
young woman Of the creme de la creme disconso-
late for Life, and the victim Of secret, coasuu-
ing sorrpw, how can the General expect to
the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts
in the Senate Chamber Of the United States, and
look at the interests Of that State through rs-
publican spectacles7