The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-08-19
Royalty at the Centennial.

Royalty at the Centennial.
The general tenor of the American press just
now, and especially that OF the Philadelphia
journals, forshadow something large iii the way
Of visits from orr transatlantic and Pacific
neighbors during the colossal jolliication which
will occur in honor of our independence on the
Centennial celebration Of its declaration. There
is no open and express declaration that several
ship loads of crowned heads will certainly be
imported to enhance the general splendor and
interest of the interesting occasion, but through
all the leaders OF the Philadelphia press, there
may be d:scerned sort OF vague reference and
carefully guarded allusion to the Importance of
liberal and munilicent appropriations in case
any exigency should arise which would require
a more costly and magnificent style Of enter
tainment than mere provincial Americans might
anticipate. Indeed one paper has startled the
continent by boldly asserting that, at least the
personal presence Of Queen Victoria her.
self, and perhaps that whole royal brood, is an
event more chan probable, and in this connec-
ton very appropriately begins study of pros
pective hotel accommodations in the CITY of
brotherly love.
Our close relationship to her Majesty, and the
| the maternal interest she is assumed to nour-
ish in her royal bosom for her distant children,
is eloquently and feelingly dwelt upon, and al!
unhappy reference to any unpleasant emotions
she might experience at witnessing scenes as
ISOLATED with the overthrow of King Georges
power-we, in an unfilial way, We're wont to
call him the ''old tyrant''-is avoided with
true Philadelphia courtesy. There is nothing
but what would contribute to her enjoyment,
so they say, and to watch the innocent gambols
OF this lnflntile nation, and the ecstacy OF pride
into which we intend to work ourselves over
our achievements in the way of killing cred
coats" and dismembcring the original realm of
England, will fill the soul of the good Queen
with sensations indescribably delightful
Pleasant anticipations fill the minds of the
good-society Philadelphians, we know. victo
ras social position is excellent, and her person
al surroundings decidedly 'snobby." Out Of def
erence to our severe Republicanism, she would
ofcourse drop the cumbersome titles, and Quak-
er City footmen would carry up to their delight
full mistress plain card, bearing only the mod
est inscription, s'Mrs. Guelph with Miss Dag
scendants of Penn would rush down in most cor
dial fashion and greet the portly British ma
iron, and they would talk babies, and tell each
other, en- PEASANT, how Albert Eddie suffered
with the ''thrash,'' and George Washington
and Andrew Jackson Penn languished with
''measles," and then Mrs. Guelph would leave
amid pressing invitations to call again. Mrs.
) Penn would be cordially solicited to come over
during the winter and ''make Windsor her
!, home" and the very essence Of all that is ami
cable, hospitable and congenial, would be distll-
, ed from these delicious little informal reunions
Albert Edward, too, would take kindly to his
} American cousins, and being gentleman who
knows how to go long, would see the Elephant
under their auspices and perhaps allow them
to ssskin him out'' Of some few thousands of
Parliament's special appropriation, just to spice
the visit. Altogether it will be big thing, So
cially, for the Pililadephians, and further &C.
: lnent the strong international bonds Of fellow
+ ship and good feeling which have so long held
the two countries in friendly intercourse.
e King William Of Prussia, is also remotely
S alluded to asa guest of ours at that time, and
numerous and brilliant retiaue of mobiles will,
: of course, accompany him. ssThe committee to
receive" will, doubtless, be perplexed as to the
:. selection of the most suitable location for his
Majesty, whether to quarter him and suite at
the ''Royal Hotel,'' which of course we must
build there for the special purpose, or to as
sign him apartments in one of the numerous
s'breweries'' with which the good city of glori-
Y GUS memory abounds.
. That lively sister, Cincinnati, would cheerful
G " tender the Inequalities of the time, or on
the score of remoteness, send in semi-hourly
e trains loaded with watts of beer and floating
: tanks of lager.
No bitter recollections of mercenary and
l vandal Hessians would mar the beauty of his
e reception, but under floods of Cincinnati stock
ale, the very ghost of painful revolutionary rem
: iniscences would sink forever. We are more
t and more delighted by the visions which crop
out from this field of conjecture. Let all the
papers pull sturdily together in the matter of
invitation to royal :eople; let Chlds of the
Ledger, quit for the time his elegiac labors and
turn from obituaries to promised orations, and
the thing as far as concerns that particular
metropolis, is done. The Centennial comes but
once III a hundred years, ana dOn let 1t be a
ten centennial affair. 1t must be ttB'' select,
, and what can contribute to it more directly
than the presence OF all the stately men and
women who feel in their pulses the throb OF
blood that for centuries back has warmed the
veins Of earth's greatest and most powerful.
JUDGE A. B. CoBHRAN.-Althoughw we de-
cidedy differ with Judge Cochran in our party
relations and may not agree with him in some
Of his views of state policy we take pleasure in
laying before our readers the following evil
dence of the high esteem with which he is
regarded by so able journal as the Richmond
Whig:
, JUDGE COCHRAN, OF AUGUSTA. 1t is