The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1860, Page 4

4 the host after he partook of the déjewni, and joined tn wonrestramed conversation with the Mayor and the guests, At balf past vwo the carriages were ordered, and {he Prince, in company with Mayor Wood, the Duke of ‘Newcastle and Lord Lyons, tovk bis seat and drove down the lawn into the road and proceeded to the Deaf and Dumb fortivution, The morning visiters tothe Contra Park formed an escort to the Pricce on his way to the hovee of oor chief magistrate, and so anxious wore they bo get another look at the Prince of Wales, that the car iages formed a Ime and remained jo tat Pp seition until hhe took his departure, and, cot coctent with looking at Dim as bo passed through the gate, they follo qod io tho yoyal train uptil tte arrival at the Peat and Damb last: tution THE VISIT TO TAR INSTITOTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. | INTENSELY INTERESTING RXERCISKS—A POEM BY oa { PERT—CHARAOTERISTIC CoMPOSITIONS BY BOMEX THR PUFILS—WIS ROYAL HIGUSESS 18 GHEATLY ENTERIAIND AND EXCBEDINGLY DELIGATED. Perhaps the mest interceting part of yesterday's pro- oeedings, and, inceed, conicssedly cne of the most inte- roetiug visite of the Prince and suite since their arrival in thie country, was that made by the royal party to the {watitvtion for the Deaf and Dumb. His Royal Highness and the members of bis suite expressed themselveg as having been exceedingly delighted with their visit, The exerciees, which we fully chronicle below, were of an intensely interesting charact ». Tae elegant and spacious buildings of the Asylum are Situated ip @ beautifal position on Washington Ifo ghta, commanding @ splendid view of the Hudson river, Fifty seven acres of lavd, formeriy occupied by Culonel Mouroe, nephew of President Monros, and drsignated Fanwood, in honor of bis daughter Faavy, are laid oat to the ncateat etyle of landscape gardening. In these splen- did grounds—worth half a million dotiars—and fronting 0p the river, the buildings have been erected at & cost of {about three bundred thousund dollara. The Asylum (s in every way admirably adapted to the purpose for which it was designed Accommodations are provided for dive bua red pupils, with every comfort and convenience. Taere aro {p the institution now uuly throe hundred p spits, malet and femmles, who arejarranged inf rent classes for the purpose of instruction; but to erecting these now Asylum buiidwgs the directors were wisely goverced more by anticipations for the future thaa by the present Dotual nesessities. The Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb is neg! the must worthy fostitutions in the lund. There aro about twenty such asylums ip thie country, and many more tn Earope, but the New York tnatitution is acknow- fedged to be the finest of them all, The system of ia- Biruction adopted in the American institutions \s superior to What employed on the Continent; and the distiuctive Inngungo of #igos, especially ia its bighost developement ts when {t rises into the region of abstractione—is here Drought to @ state of remarkable perfection, The good Abbe De L’Epee, who may be said to be the father of the eigo language, and to have cloeely ob served the natural means of communication which the deaf mutes whom he taight wader (ho old system em ployed among themselves to give expression to their feelings and seniimenis, by sclecting the most sug gestive sod beautiful eigus for didlerent objects, and by careful thought and study, procesded to develope ose of the moet expressive meus of Communication between Kindred minds. Since bis day experteuce has suggested, and led to be adopted, « number of improvements. These the puptls of Unis institution enjoy to the fullest extent, From the lowcet stagce of comprebeasion they are con- ducted through the various forms of emotienal expression, The deaf gnuts aro cordially iuvited to enter the asylum, add if their parents aro able and willing to pay for thom, well and good, bat in the absence of such # desirable contingency, the State pays the institution one bondred aod ty collars per anoum for the maintenance ant edu cation of cach perton, This amount entities each to all Abe privticges of the tmetitution. The puplle are inetruct ed tp the various branches of educatioc—read ing, writing, arithmetic, geography, bistory, moral ecicneo and nataral i} wen dit | to twenty years, are scated immediately bebind—the adations to theThighest | males on the one side and the females on the other. Be- bind theee are the spestators crowded out to the door. There are a number of noticeable persons prevent, Per- haps the moet tmportant and \otere ding individual in the room is the privcipal of the institution, Harvey P. Peet, 11D He learned the art of teaching deaf mutes from the Rev. Dr. Gallaudet, who was tho first instructor of the langrage of eign’ in this country, Dr. Gallaudet tavgbt In the American Asylum at Hartford. Dr. Peet went there 1p 1822, nearly forty years ago, and attained disUnction ia the art of teaching, About ten years later he came to the Asylum in New York, which at that time. bad few in number and an inferior system of instraction. Hila useful labors tp sasiating materially to build up ant improve the institution are well known, and need no epecial mention. In the chapel are also seen bis turge sons, who are ail teachers in the institution, the eldest @ whom, Ivaac Lewis Peet, A.M, is the Vice Principal. The wife of th'e gontieman is a semi mute, aud a most gifted and estimable p«reonage Sbe has composed come vorres giving a welcome to the Prince, which will be tuter- | Proted after his Royal Highness arrives aud the exercises bave commenced. Miss E. Ida Montgomery, member of | the highest clazs, ts w'so a highly gifted lady and ove of the favorites tn the inetitution, She bas a wonderful cow mand of written language, and writes beautiful com positions, replete with exquisite seatiment. Another ex- ceedingly talented young Indy, one who bas been in the | asylom for pearly @ dozen years, is Mise Gertru te Walter, whore exquisite delicacy of feeling and unrurpassed a Valpments in the language of signs in {ts highest forms have elicited the admiration of all who know ber, There ts also sitting on one of the seats on the same side of the room an interesting little orphan girl who was picked up in one of the worst neighborhoods of the city, taken to the Asylum and named Mary Fanwood—after the Aitie of the estate vpon which the asylum is situated. Ove of the young men sitting acar the platform is David R, Tillinghast, a young gentleman of brilliant talents and extenstve acquirements, Other pupils ecarcely less inte- resting are in the room, but we bave not opportunity to deeeribe them, for there is an excitement among the roice- | lege, and in subdued tones those who are blessed with the | gift of speech murmur the announcement that “the Prince {s coming.” | Precisely at three o'clock tn the afternoon the party arrived in frent of the Institution. They immediately | alighted, wore met by the President and trastees, and ea | corted up to the chapel. Waiking with Mr, Winthrop, | the President, the Prince of Wales entered the cuapel, | accompanied by the members of the party aad followed by the trustecs of the institution All the people rose } when he entered, and when he approached the platform resumed their seats again, It was a beaut fai sight to witnes# the joy of the puplis, which was communicated to each other tn their own pecaliar manner. The Prince sat botwern the President/aud Mayor Wood, on one of the | front seats. Then Dr. Harvey T. Poet rose and addressed | his Royat Highness as follows :— | Banow Rexvexw—In bebalf of the institution which I | bave the honor to represent, I beg leave ta wader you a cordial welcome, not the less sincere, although of ue | cenmty tt must be brief. Ia your tour throughout | OUF extensive couRWy You Must bave teen every variety of natural scener y—vur lakes, Our rivers, our mouutat ovr broad prairive, our municipal inetivations—sod have everywhere, I trust, received that reepest and contidera tok due to your lordship's high position and future pros- ots. Bat this is the iret ivatitution of the king | be iewe, thet your loraship bas visited. It was founded tn | I81T, and bes eteadily tncreased from time to time as the | wants of the community demanted. Its 0! ia to ro- Flore to the eondition of social life those who are deprived | of the privileges Which we enjoy, and to impart intel Jectual and moral igat to those who sit indarkuess. It numbers thrce bu 2ared pupils, divided into dfveen classes; but only two of them cau be exhibited on the present occasion—~ thoee who bave been bere only foor weeks, aad | those who have beeo bere seven and eight years. | The Prince rose, and gracefully bowed his ackuowledg- | ments. Three boys and three girls frome class which | bad been in the Asylum only four weeks were then | Drovgbt upon the stage. It was explained that when they | came they did not know their own names, coald neither read bor write; but they had since learned to form let- ters with s pon, to distinguish between the wristen and NEW YORK ne printed characters, aud bad become familiar with about philosophy, astronomy, Freneh, logic aud rhetoric, 51 | twenty words. They first wrote thelr names, Mr. English compesitive—tn which some of tiem exiDit | Gemoge, ene of the teachers, thea led them through most astonishiny proclency, They are alto instrustod | soyorni exercises, making the signs for “eat,” « dog,” in the practical part of various industrial employments, | «cow,’ «borse”” and “a blac bird” —the names of which aunple faoititice for which are furnished in the iastitation; | yoey wrote upon their slates, These fne attalomonta in 80 #0 that afler a certala teria of years they are prepared 10 | short.e time elicited the admiration ofall. They were 9 out {nto the world intelligent citizens, and capable of | \nizoducea for the purpose of showing from bow low a providiog for their own subsistesce. j A few weeks ago Mr. Cyrus W. Vickd, who is one of the vente 8 La sepacenenetgantipae arrive abd director#, went with Mr. Archibald, the Britwh Consul, to see the institution, on which occasion the anticipated The next was @ solection of three young ladics and three young gentlemen from the highest class. He in- ‘visit of the Prince of Wales to the city of New York wa8 troduced ihe visitors to these pupils by tho aid of eigus. mentioned. Several of the pupils in tho higher clneees The President suggested that some questions shoul! be were asker if they would like tohave the Prince of Wales propounded to bring out the powers of the pupiia. The PAY @ visit to the Asylom, apt were requested to Write reply was tbat the royal party wore delighted to meet down their sentiments on the subject The roplies were nl) unanimous for bis comiog;aud, through the kiadness of the managers of the {natitution, where copies wore kept, we are enabied to give the public the sentiments expressed on that occasion Mr. Willis Hubbard, one of the pupils, wrote-— sure thie telly btfat after tution Me W. Field, one of our hovored directors. apd lady, ccampanied by Mr. Archibald, the British Coagul at this port Aa { bad, no longer ago than this moraing, rest ia ore of the dally papers an account of the efforts of Mr aid aad several other Brita resiiens in New York to extend t Privee su.tabie reception on bie arrival at the great Western metropolis, I was to meet bim, and divined who bo was when I bis came mentioned As wo are asked whether ¢ pleased to have the Prince visit us, I will \ be aiorded more happiaess cxgiand’s bope”’ than by anythiog cise. 1 ce possessed by oar distinguished visiter eivlly exerted o@ ance with our wirhee. Mr. David R. Tillinghast, another pop!l, thue expressed his sentiments — We fecl highly dattored by the honor whi M. Archibeid, eq. the Britieh Conen! to this city, has | conferred upon us of visiting am inatittion to which we, | ooce tbooght little better thas the brutes, owe so for the ability to express our to bin we his wifo. We are nino glad to eee Mr and Mrs. Cyrus W Field, to whose interest ve sre proud > say that we have a good clam. Mr. Cyrus W Field asked us whether ‘we with to bave the Prince of Wales come bere ite ‘with plestore that weesy yee We hope Ueat Mr. Ar chiball will be pleased to acquiesce in our caruest re quest to bring the Prine» here, which be can do on ac cont of bis copnection with the British government Mire F Adm Montgomery gave expremroa to bor feel- fogs on the subject tn the following beautifal maoner — ned pleamure that we ag Blwart Che earth, to and gentiomen who accompany thom, Of th fre informed that one t= the Baglish Connal, a or of the We are atked whether we should like bh I noknowlosge me pow 2 op | Me. Henry A. Rumrill wrote as followa:— { people. and the government ¢ It is & high compliment to us to receive, this lovely n earth, and afternoon, a call from Lord Rentn the Duke of New. | r ogniahed | © it A delight wi task to | ‘Aan iM wo of Q We hope te will call bere himeeit. We dave 7 Sathy which mow Coomcly siiled ae are Dee that the howe current tay, vulike th brated, werer be inte earnest hope and wiab Thur It is oUserved that the inmates thomeotres ox Premed a deep desire to vee hie Royal Hignens to the inatituiton, however, bad already been dorigned aa © part of the programme of bis anjourn tt New Yore After visiting the University yesterday, the Free Aca demy, the Central Park, where he planted an Hogiish | Oak and an Amerionn elm, and the resitence of Mayor Wood, 00 the Bloomingdale road, where he partook of | on elegant repast, it was Arranged that the Prince of ‘Wales and retinue would proceed to the Deaf set fombd Asyiom The matter bad been kept comparatively quiet yet & large but exctedingly welect party of ietios and gentlemen met at the institution to participate ia the pleasures of the ceeaston. A\ Ube ipstitetion everything bad bees wel! arranged ‘Th geet eeaton, without any hurry or burtle. It was om Pected that the dutinguahed strangers would arrive at ‘Unree o'clock. Half an hour before, the children were Seated fn the Fpecions chapel on the second Goor, where Mhoy are in the bavi of assembling dally, morning and evening, for prayers, aod where regular religious oxer, Olees ars beld on the Sabbath. The spectators, who were Present by epecial invitation, also secured their seats in goed season, The chapel, which accommodates about eight hundred, was Glled wo ite utmost cape ity, aad ere ant owrd cole var “the golden ~ we upted,evon teraporari .. A vinit Fy thing was waiting for the appearance of ths !'rinee While he is yet absent, \t \s teresting ant lostracti voto lanes around the room. At the rastern end, arranged on & platform are large slates opou which the pupils avs to write, The thrée front seats are reserved for the Prinag A Wale and euite and w od geste as may aos. Daoy the party. The pupil, ranging from Ube ages of tog | the eyes of everjone all the while being rivited, not | iuem, aod wished the pupils to write on the slates what ever they choee, They turned to their slates, and while they were busy writing the interim was occupied by one of them—Miss Walter—ip rendering into signs the ful. lowing piece of poetry, which bad been composed for the cocasion by Mra, Peet — WELCOME TO THE PRINCE—DY MKS. MARY TOLES PERT. Once from beyond the azure sea, There came ty uf & We come tone ‘Mon paused amid their strife and wil To list (be voice from Eugiaad’s throne, And soup (rom out the ocean's Went forth tue gr “ We'll evermore yen retisuce of Bend up to Heaven this cheey — “ God save the Queen—God save the Prince! Abd om them showor, if A ‘That stds to. Fagiaed'e power.” as the sanshine «hich to Cay enlivens | rf acd Mre Cyrus W. Field ant the lady | These vernes wore expressed in the language of sigas by Miss Walter tn # truly wonderful and «Mective manzer, vpo the Prines, bat om the lady, Whea sbo had dnished & general soctiment of entire watisiaction was distiuetly visible tm the faces of the illustrious gucets. The compositions were by this time c mpleted, and the Vice Principal proceeeed to read them Crom the slates, bot the leagt hope of being able to give him @ altable me, ax we fear we are childreu ag Compared to his stardiog those among them who are stient because God hat seal- 0 their lips. Mies Augusta 8, Kastman’s slate contained the follow- ng: Theevent which has led to our ictroduction to the ape Ri enrplnions afternoon is one which ataods-ri- Tindbasreet Re%ac *2 Miaet h aet ution, viz the Pringe of, Walee, with” wome of the “most Oistinguished nobility of & perioa looked forward fully to the bour in which we of the uvivereaily bouore1 queen of one of the of empires, im speaking of the power of which it bas a5 Jurvy os Peanituny been remarked, ' she has dotted the ‘eurface of the whole werld with he poeseesions aod milt- lery poste, whose morniog drum: beat, foilo #tng the san und keeping company with the hours, circles the earth wily wk ore coutnucus and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England,” ? The greatest ratiefaction was expressed with these compositions Here the Prince was requestedto Indi: cate “a few subjects for the puptis to write upon.” Bir Royal Highness suggested “ Music,” “The auantii%es bie,” and the “Great Fastern;” and somebody -*) “ The Clouds.” Music was the most difficult eubject.v! deaf mutes, who never brard a soul ivapiring etraia, to write upon. Here te what Mise Montgomery wrote about ti Ibave been arked to express my idea of music, that powerful jafluence whieh .holda the hearts of men in euch 4 toy sterious thrall, which has power to disarm the ¢ and cause the wild beast to forget i18 ferceness, while it laste @ orief but costatic milleaiua—that Saviour, and now floats around the throue of God = What it may be in ite booly shape, if I may eo express it, [ kiow bot, but I kpow tte spits to be harmouy; aad it is hot alone through the medium of music that tois diviae rpirit cap make its influence felt, for we can see \t in the ceaselers beat of the ocean, the dark flow of the river, and even in (be Waving arms and blonded colors of the trees that crown our Palisades. Nor is music alone found {h tpapimate uatare, io things perishuble, fur there we those whose lives ara but ove grand pean, which at t werges iu the perfect harmony of the perfected of Mr. Hobbard wrote about the Atlantic cable-— Since Professor Moree applied electricity to wires, for the purpore of conveying from one place to another with ligbining rapidity, i¢ bas been the object of maby seventide gentlemen ¢> establish a cable across the Avantic ocean, between the United States and Great Britaip. A trial was made, and were conveyed acres the wide Atiautic lidays were gives i bopor of the triumob, ard ail the true citizens of Eugaod aod America rjoized at the pew tle that bonnd ua to var mother country Butali these were destiaed to be disay . fow weeks the cable retused Lo Carry messages across the occan. Mies Eastman wrote this paragraph upon tho same sub- Jecti— One of the proudest and voblest triumpts of American gepius we esteem (oat of the submarine telrgrapa, which forts one of the most important links ip the great enaia of national interests which counect this with the mother country, and thovgh it prove s failure—whrcn ti is ual voreally boped it will not—the fame of ite ineestur will in no wise be dimiaished, nor we believe, the deep aud mutual iwteresta which unite the two greatest >avions oo the urface of the carth will be one atom lessesed. Mr. Tillinghast thus briefly epoke of the mammoth vorrel— ‘The Grent Eastern is a grand specimen of woat Eoglish genius could achieve, This achievement ip mechanical ecience is ranked among the prov test triumpos of which the British boast. This grost ship may de ons of the sigue thet “the sword will soo be turaed iato the ploug! and the spear into the pruning hook.” Mies Fasiman said only this about the clos: ~ I have been requested to give my ideas n connection with clouds, the exact pature of wbicb I donot profess to be & good paturalss enough to explain, p@ Ll kaow they are flied with that inciepensable beverags to both man and rature, without wlitzh no amount of gid aad joweln could purchase life, and thet they constitue one of the chief beauties of the Grmament. It ts almost impossible to give an adequste idea of the pleasure which the Prince and party felt at this interest- (wg entertainment. after those composithas Bad beca read, Mr. Gamage rendered in pantomine the scene of Christ stilling the temprst, which was sxccuted in a highly artistic manner, The Prince of Wiles sai bis euite then ascended the platform, when thePresideot ta- troduced them to the company. A shower of bouquets aimott celuged his Royal Highness, who smiled and ap. peared particularly plessed. He gave bis autograph to Mr. Peet, the author the poem, to whom, together with Mise Walter, be was personally presested. It was expected tbat the visit would be limted to fifteen minutes, but when that time had expired the Prince ex- pressed his desire to remain longer, aud sscordiagly the exerowes Were prowacted for nearly aa hour, [le, to gether with the Duke of Newcastle and tae other mea. bervof the party repeated that they bad been gratifiod far beyond their expectations, At last they proceeded from the chapel, and, re entering their carrisges, drove of towards High Bridge. The visit to the Desf aod Dum» Asylum formed an inveresting passage in the tour of the Prince, and the occasion will be a memorable ono jn the ‘annals of the Institution. THE DECORATIONS OF THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Tt wag generally understood that the reporters would | | be admitted at six o'clock into the Academy of Music, lp acoordance with the following Botive — THE BALL IY HONOR OF THE FHINCR OF WALES. Lee ded, and the follwiog is the result of the observations as far as the Hamarp \s concerned — Outside there are scarcely any specialities to strike the eye. In Fourteenth street there is a passage way of some one bundred an: Ofty four feet in length and twenty feet in breadth, which eperoacles on the sidewalk to the extent of some etx or seven feet. Beyoud this, ands British and American flag here sod there, there were BO Bpecial decorations, The Hxxaup reporter, however, te especialy indebted to Mr, Jovan M. Miller, of No. 34 Biizabeth street, for the information he is able to give on this subject, To bim,and not to Mr. Kingsiand or Mr. Palmer, must be attributed the facilities given to the Bxnscp reporters in what is to follow. THR BALL ROOM. This magtificent apartment comprises the parquette of the Academy, and embraces the stage. It is, as arranged last «night, one hundred ond thirty fve feet tn length by sixty cight fect in breadth. The end towards the stage is arranged in a semicircular form while towards the other end are placed three supers couches, The central ove is for the Prince binself, while those on either side are for hie guite, Following out the general idea original y agreed on, the decorations ere | doral throughout the ball room, remlnding@ee, to thetr tropical character, of those beautiful lines from Miltea — 0 flowers ‘That never will In other clunate grow, My carly visitation and my inat ate ich tender band, dich I bred up © From opening bud, and gave ye wames, to the sun, oF rank Who now eball rear Your tribes, aud The following, from Miss Laudon, was cquaily appro. | priate —~ Bring flowers to crown the cop and lute, Be wert, the bride i# near Bring howers to moore the Br ng Sowers to etrew the bres To looking around the room and viewing the plants Mr. Willis Hobberd expressed bis footings thus — h unbounded pleasure we welcome to oar ivett Privee of Wales or Baron Renfrew, ich hereditary tie he is travelling te thia country th bie eit. As Our BiivDt tongues will not permit ae to weleome bim by chapting nations airs, we hope that Lal frew a beartfelt welcome in writ 3 eh’ be i siyked the Prince, will be exprers our true feelings. Mr. David BR Tellinghast’s read a follows — It with a full appreciation of the grea! the Prince of Wales bee conferret tua = i shi i Chretien men Fo: raat bes beon prepared by » noiber whom Treg most Christian qoven | ever read of in history. ‘Thea cane the sentimenta of the two young Mise E Ida Montgomery gave form to her the following manner — pres’: plead sociaim of fo of her prericss i degree of tu ed th #e who, in imitation of their D vine Master, bave songht to girs care to the deaf and domb apd AS tongne to the voiceless And thoaga the | inethods pursued in tuis country and (n Roglant may be | fier nt, the eptrit i# the fame, and when again the wbite chide of Albion, at they rigs from Ube ore ay's bi bounce that ¢ merrie England orf quent beats biga with the gisd greetings of his own people, We would wish bim to remember that there are | \ 0 from all countries, tropical aud porthers, the following langorge of Mary Howltt seemed to bo peculiarly appro priate — God might bave made the carth bring forth Boongh for great aud emall, ‘The oak tree and the cetar tree, Without & flower at all. He might bave made erongh—enough For every went of ours; For tarury , meoretwe and tott, And yet dave made oo flowers, Outward iiie reqnires them not; Then wheretore have they birtht ‘To minieter delight to man, To bemutl’y the earth. ‘To cemfort men, to whisper hope, Whene'er bie faith is dim: For sboeo carcth for the flowere ‘Wil! moeb more care for Rim Rut the dest sentiment of all seems to be expressed in Park Benjaroin's phiby line — ‘Wee doniqved and executed by Mr. H. W. Osbryo. central fgore represents Poace. On the lof Osiambia ‘appears in the garb of & female Indian, under the mgts ‘the American fag. On hor right is e figure of Britan- bin, with the traditional shield, lion and anion jack, She te shaking hande with Columbia. Below are the arms of New York city, Above, the plames of the Priaée of Wales The whole, it is hardly neadfat to say, repre: tents the entente cordvale between tbe Untied States and Great Britain ‘The lighting of (his part of the building te partiontarty worthy of notice, especialy in the now part, repraseat D, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1860.-TRIPLE SHEET. , tng the tent, opposite the stage, where the gas jets were | very brilliant. There were a vast number of chandeliers | fitted up exprcesly for the occasion, while towards the | other end, ner the stage, the usual arrangements of | lights shone brilliently even during the day, lighting the | twenty carpenters who were engaged ta planing the fluor, covering the whole of the stage, parquette aud other parts of the building, to its furthest extremity. ‘This part of the arrangement was particularly liberal— the order being to epare no expense. Some idea of the | extent of the additional lights will be dorivod when It is | wmcntioned that throngbout the building no fewer than | eight bundred feet of gas pipes were laid on for the occasion, and that three bundred additional gas bura- | ors were placed on by the gas fitters employed for that | special purpose, In this part of the decorations cap {t be considered profane to recall those magaidccent lines at the opening of the Third Book of our great poot? Hail! boly Ngbt, offkpring of heaven's Arst born, Or of the eternal costernal beam, May J express thee uublamed? Since God 4s ight, ‘And pover bat tn w light Pwelt from eternity—dwelt thea ta Thee, Bright cflluence of bright camemce iaeriahs, * . Before the sun— Before the heavens thou wert, aod at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didet invest The rising world of waters, dark and deep, ‘Thou from tho void and formlces iufuite. Bat what need is there to dwell further ou this subject? To describe it ell in full ie simply impossible, Among other decorations, in the tent part of the ball room,a Deautiful allegorical paiating in the cetling was particu. larly noticeable, That, too, was done by Mr. Cabryo— who, by the way, it is juet as well to namo as the artist of the New York Academy of Music, as weil as of the institution of the same name now in the ourse ol erec- tion in Brooklyn. Several photographers were ou band during the day, but they had very little to do in the way of outaide de- imeations, and they were not admitted inside, though it is expected that there will be a perfect rush of the fra- ternity to-morrow. Among them will bea young and ristog artist, Mr. George Stacey, of No. 143 Madizon treet, a stereoacopist, whose views of the Prince's ro- ception yeetorday are likcly to mske a sensation. TUE MAIN BNTRANCB Was in Irving place, and really is not worth a line of deecription. A short piazza has been specisily erected, and it was decorated witha few American and British flags, sod (bat is about al. that can be said about it, It was arranged that the Prince and the General Committee, with their guests, should enter at this point. ‘THE FOWRTEENTH STREET ENTRANCB. This was eet apart for the eutrance of the invited guests, and was decorated in pretty much the same man- ner ag the main eptrance on Irviog place. as already mevtioned, this entrance was tbrougha long, low pine building, overarching on the sidewalk for several feet. THE SUPPER ROOM. Thie part of the arrangement was a great triumph. Tho eupper room was especially erected for the occasion, It te eltaated in the space of ground between the Aca- demy and the Medical College, Im tength it ja one hundred and forty four feet by twonty eight fect In breadth. Connecting with the ball room and the tupper room ia « passage facing on Fourteenth street, one bundred and fifty four feet in levgth and twenty-four feet in breadth. This passage is floored with etout scarlet cloth, aa are other parts of the building, same ae the ball aud sipper rooms. The cloth furniebea for the occasion is ive hundred yards, and was specially dyed for the occasion, at the order of Messrs. Paton & Co, as there was not a sufficient quantity of tat colored cloth im the city for the purpose, Twenty braces chandeliers, ¢ach containing six burners, wore sus pended from the roof, makings brilijant display. The building, which, though vwemporary, was constructed in such a manner as would have befitted the character of a mare permanent edifice. The arrangements for ventila- tien were perfect. In the centre was @ tower, rising some forty feet from the level of the street, while two < smply tmposstble to enumerate all the good plentifully arrayed. THE WINE ROOM, ‘This wos the jolliest arrangement of the whole, Sot adrift, to use & nautical phrase, the good liquor would be euiticient to fioat m tolorably sized schooner, There were aii corte of wines, “from humble port to imperial tokay;”’ and, speaking of tokay, we are reminded of that pareage in one of Dumas’ works where the butler of the Marshal Duc de Richelieu paid ever so wany hundred francs for a bottle of tokay, which be had procured to be stolen for the delectation of the King of Sweden, who was as Cimsily dieguised as the Prince of Walks onder the modest name of Baron Renfrow. If all reports be true, as fabulous prices were paid for some of the wines on the Prince's tuble as for the celebrated tekay drank by the King of Sweden, {t is said that there were not fewer than one hundred different sorts of wines, embracing the choicest viands of oham- pagne, sherry, claret, hock, Sc. ‘THE COST. The supper room, specially erected for the occasion, cost from $1,500 to $1,600, aud the expenses of tables sud decorations added will bring up the sum total to | ‘about $2 000, affording a tolerably good idea of the style in which the great bail to the Prince of Wales has boca gotten up. THE LIGHTING UP OF THE ACADEMY. Like the world from chaos, like a star from inconsistent nebulw, the Prince of Wales’ ball room rose from the fragmenta of odds and ends of every concolvab’s Bort and © variety, whieh bewildered the vistter to the Academy of Music yesterday afternoon, and appearod—perfectioa. Late in the afternoon the disorder and confusion were in- deseribable. Here aud there peeped out bits of the Academy ; turn this way end suits of armor, tied hastily up with corda, reminded you of recreant knights strang up for treston and ss examples of tho effects of evil courses; enter this room, and you seemod to be in a dreeeing rocm, with the toilet articles seattered in ad- mirable confusion; look towards the stage, and & garden scene, allawry and one-sided, appeared as if it were de rigned to demonstrate the effect of a suspension of the laws of gravitation; Jong lines of plauks suggentod supper end Delmonteo; sawdust aud shavings, benches and tools, bangings and flowers, men in shirt sleeves and men in overalls, all were mingled tn a chaos tade. scribable, and it seemed that no power short of magic coud call from these clements the Aladdin's palace which the ball room wag designed to be. Still more confounded grew the confusion as the day | slowly waned and night settled upon the Adademy, thro ¥- ing the dark corners avd out of the way paseagea into the — densest shadow, and giving to the whole interior that | weird, unpateral, half dreamy appearance which deuse fogs give to the laudscape. Then, fliming here and there, | rather making the darkness visible than lighting up the | room, & few gas jets blazed, Still the confusion, still the noises incident to rapid, active work by scores of hurried men. Gradually the coufusion became miog'ed with something like order, and the hurry and bustlo mergod into something like design. Jet by jet the thousunde of lights which circle the room flamed out, aud at precisely six o'clock the Academy was lighied up, aud for the first time showed itself as the Priace’s ball room. ‘The decorations of the room have been described with minute particularity elaswhere; but to degcribe the coup @'qil, The ball room at Moat:cal was a circle of light aud beacty, clear and well defined; that at Toroato was in the form of a cross, presenting from sny standpoint diverging lives of bright flame and gay flags; that et Cincinnati seemed an ordinary ‘theatre brill'antly !ighted and otherwise undecorated ex cept by parterres of fowers—com bine these three rooms, in which the only grand balla given to the Prince before this were held, and add to them beauties which are or} ginal with the Academy, and you can form some {tea of the appearance of the ball room when lighted up. ‘The room was completely empty, with the exception of afew persons, putting the Mnishing touches to decora tions which already appeared perfect. Before you things a0 dormer windows wore placed at cach end. The entire | stretebed the floor, so soon to be lightly pressed by trip building was draped in alternate strips of pink and white | ping fect. At the further extremity, its pure white re- muslin, with large mirrors iatervening. These were | lieved by the crimson proscenium above its entrance, twenty four in number, and made @ splendidsbow, All | was a magnificent tent, which included the entire slong the supper room were two tables, from top to bot tom, at which the assembied party took supper at a late period of the evening. Taey were brilliant in all the appointments of gold, silver and china ware, A ‘thes upper end was the Prince's table, raised on a dais, stage, and beneath which were the sofas for the Prince and his suite. Towards the other ex. trewity—if such # palace of light could be imagined to have a limit—circle upon circle of gas jets rose to the ceiling and culminated tn a brilliant semi circle of star-like | samme geot tem! circular tn form, at which the guest of the evening | flames, ehedding their pure, pale light from a height and bis immediate puite were placed. Back of the table | apparently immeasurable. Tier after tier, rolieved by ite were three maguiflcert mirrors, reficcting and flashing | crimson seats and ornamented by figares in plaster and the lights in = beautiful manner. Thecentreglass in par | chandeliers of gas jets, swept the eye dowrward again to tlouar was very lofty and maguificent. The flooring of | the floor, and to the beds and pots of flowers, gleaming thig room was not carpeted in scarlet, but in squares, iu | softly from their groen beds, and speaking in their fra- he contre of each cornucopia, with a red border. Tais | grant, silent language their sweet welcomes. Boxes, bad & very pleasing effect. All around the room were | rising with gilt pilasters, agsin attracted the gaze down- ‘fags, arranged in graceful featoons of the red, white and | wards, and pointed out the rich {rescues which ornament Ddiae, emblematic of America and Great Britain, ed the brilliant room. Sweeping around the PROM TUR BALL ROOM TO THE SUPPER ROOM. ee ee ye ee eee ee Re On leaving the ball room for the supper room, a passage | trance to the Prince's dressing room, guarded bas to be traversed of considerable length, as already | Wy Suits of mall, atiMly erect, an if some anciont warriors jmentioned; but at the entrance from the one to the other | Were awaiting ip stately discomfort the arrival of their ‘were placed a number of figures of ancient knights in ar. chiel, the eye once more turns to the tented siage, and ‘mor, supposed to represent all the previous Princes of | looks back down the long vista of cool, green arbors, ‘Wales. Among them was tbe celebrated Black Prince, who | Stretcbing to the shores of « quiet lake, across which you e4 bis bravery om the bloody ficids of Potcters | cok to a ance limitiess, and seem to get away from Cressy, and entered London with two kings as hig | the brilliant and magnificent room to softer and more Prisoners, namely: the King of France and the King of | *endquil scenes. Calyo bas not painted a “‘soeue,"? but « Hootland, It wae a strange thing, in that temple of de- | Pléture, so exquisite the perspective that the arbors mecracy,, to wilnees euch things as knights and princes, | Set rather @ continuation than & decoration of tho done up in al) the panoply of the Middle Ages; but it must | Toom, and, like true pictures, leads you out of yourscil Bot be forgotten that the guest, in whose hovor ail these | Into the scene which it deplets. The coup dail’ Myri- decorations were gotten ap, te himself a representative of | S¢# Of lights, bewildering, superb! A vast expanse revolutionary ideas, by the very fact of bisbetog Prince | of dancing floor, desert like in its color and ‘of Wales, Al) around this enirasce were bang up vate. | Cxteut! A frame of tiers, brilliautly — light- axes, epeare, ebields and other implementa euggesiive of | 4, rich in crimson, gold and white! Bats of tbe age of the Crusadere, in which the Prince's ancestors | Sowers, the finest and richest of decorations, the flowers Peured conspicuously. which nature has exhausted herself to make more ox { THE PRINCE'S OWN ROOM. quisite. This is the coup d'il—light, lowers, ovlor. | The Green Room was specially Stted up for the Priace, THE BALL ROOM FILLING. (On epvering the eye was struck by & magnificent oi! Gradually the Academy gained the only additional at- painting ot the Queen, belonging to the St. George's Socigty, traction which {t meeded—the attraction of a large, richly and which was specially lent for the occasion. At the | dressed crowd. At baif past seven o'clock the first of the Dotiom of this great tiomph of art was the following | company began to arrive, at firet ingly, then in groups Veena — | of four, five and six, and at last in a contioucus stream o Dereveraveravcecerearersetnecaserecenceseesneeseeeeea | Diack coats and superb dresses. At first the floor, then the , AND | parquette, the dress circle, the upper tiers, the lobbier E cocmetehaianiageeaeaneniancanne the dressing were completely filled Tho fret arrivals were the gentlemen of the Committee of Arrange | ments, Then came the bands, in cntform, who took ‘their places in the ecoond tier. Then the policemen, at Gret drawn up tn piatoous and afterwar le stationed along the lobbies and the several cntraaces, where their omer- cus duties were quietly but efficiently performed. Thea came the guerta, wandering curiously avoond tho rast eprce, following the crimson line’ corridors with their decorations of armorial shicida aud putts of armor, whioh conducted to the simply but magnificently furatshed dreesing rooms reserved for the Pringe aud saite, or into the long supper room, with ite twin ranges of tables Kcaded with the chef drweres of Detmnonicn-—miracles of bis art, appealing alike to the cys and the palate— behind witch, im doable ranks, and distin guished by numbered badges, stood the sorrante. Soon the crowd became too great; the dressing rooms sere cloeed, the promenaders leit the suppor room Gad cireled the buliding, the baod struck up & favorite alr, flirtation and conversation began TRE ACADEMY FILLED, The Academy, at ten o'clock, was Milled, and thove who eceneerereeerny On the left of the painting was a beautiful engraving Df the Queer, by Henry Graves & Co , and to the right {be coronation of her Majesty. The group surrounding jhe throne, ow which the Queen bas just becn seated, con- int many good portraile, among whom the Iron Duke wcovsplevous. Other beaatifal engravings deoorated tho ‘tails, the whole of which were by the game firm. smog cther noticeable features ip tbe decorations of this (oom were too very large and superb mirrors, some Sopuitcent gold, eilver, china and giasaware, tod & splendid beuqnet op ® centre table, furaished ) Mr Buchasan. Apotber large bouquet, by the ‘was lo © corner of the room. Ta fact, 60 Ligbly perfumed Was this room that ft was a complete “Wilderness of sweenw.'’ From the centre of the room depended a magnificent cbendelicr of epermecstt candles, containing twecty jghin, The carpeting, like the general arrangements LU renghowt rare the ¢stinctions airendy mentioned, war of erimecn cloth. THE PRINCE'S DRFSSING ROOM, To the left of the Green Room was tho drevwing room of the Prince, which was fitted up in | @Pfived Jator sank unregarded {oto the throng, like rain & etyle of simplicity nlmost severe, and more “Tope toto the ocean. The private boxes wore full: the becoming the soldier than the prospective monsreh of | Here were cornpied by those who preferred to overlook the greaient Kingdom on earth. Tt is namecessary to say — the Delitiant aseemblage which moved reatlvesly voucath further than that ail the arrangements for the toilet, The Japanere ball wae crowded; but there the crowd wax thougd plain, were perfect. | @ivided toto sections by the various rooms, but here in {18 COORING ARR AxeTMENTE. | ope vast area wat collected the élite of New Yorke society, ‘The whole of the basement apd lower apartments of Beorath the thousands of gasiights the crowd surged the Medjen) Couiege were tendered to the General Com. Dack wards and forwards, shifting aud changing like tho mittee, and the specious kitchen of the building was | figures tp a kaleidoscope, of like the ocean rippling beneath made vee of for cooking purposed. It was an astonishing Fettle wince and bright sunshine. There was no jam, tight to wituere that large array of cooks under the adie | fOr “* Jam” expresses « fixed, immovable body of por- managetsont of that prince of caterers, Deimonico. aj) | S0#—thia was rather » throng, « crowd—mobile, varia. were arrayed in white dresses, with aprome and cape of | die, versatile, fickle, quick, changing. A ste of heads, snowy white, and the execution they did put one in mind | but besides a sen of colors, the light flashing back from of honest Peter Pindar, in describing the culisary ar. | ‘be gayeMt and richest of Fargemente of a Westminster election for that prines of radieaia, Joba Wilkes — Saerems Twas all h i ‘The pige and | ducks and geeve os tetape were b ereen aptiens . gollen lace and epauletios, relieved the uniformity of the Cried marder every boar. gentiomen’s totlettes, The throbg sremed to dimtaish fn fact, the whole realm of nature seemed to have boom | the size of the house, and yet, by a common, but singular yantacked to foraish forth this great feast. Thore were | paradox, aided one to appreciate ta great extent, Filled, eximon from the Kenprebee, from the Tyne, and other | but not jammed; crowded, bat with plenty of room for parte of America and Bcotlant, wild fowl from the pral- | all to move com/‘ortably and without distu,bance—for rice of Tiifpovt, beffaloes’ tongues from prairies sult far- | separate cotrances were reserved for egress sod logrens— ther Wert, But why dwell on this department? I were | the Academy was ready for the arrival of the Prince | But the good DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE FROM THB FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL. : ‘The excitement around the hotel was very great, and ‘*t one time there were between six and seven thoussad - Persons congregated round about the various parts of the building. A large oumber of those persons who bad failed to witness the eniyce of the Prince afwor be had re- proton Vielting the various institutions, liogered about Belabborhood, hoping to have better fortune aaa he Young gentlemen for Of course, among snob a concourse of naturally be @ few of those known as as the “New York Boys,’* amuse selves and the crowa by criticising pana por sued peared at the doors oF windows of the hotel. The tre policemen—Nos. 73 aud 1,861—who were placed a4 sen. tries on the top of the stops of the Twenty third atress entrance, came in for @ share of their remarks, some of which were favorable and some otherwise, ag any of the gentlemen residiag at the hotel would leave the building by that way, they would be greeted with “There he is,” “That's him,” “ Hi, bi, hi,” ko, One tleman with a very black beard seemed to be mush People there mass tndividuate en as be ran the gauatlet of those juveniles, and did not seem to like the doubtful compliment, Another gea- Hemen, whe bad a young lady with him, was salaed with “ There's the Prince, don’t you see his quecut’? + No," shouted another, “ that's only @ princess” “ Yes," said the first, but she will be the queen some day,’” winding vp with @ hearty laugh, in which his neighbors joined. Two poley old dust carts passing along the street excited their witty peture, and were set down at once as the carriages for the Prince and auite, At about eight o'clock tho crowd began to increase very rapidly, and located themselves in every available location, The stoops of the bouses on Twenty-thira street, more capecial'y the one facing the i®tel doorway, was crowded, in fact every elevation on both sides of the way on that strees was taken up, and the sidewalks were literally crowded before the hour of the Prince’s departure: arrived. The owner of the house before noticed (opposite the hotel door), bas bad his stoop awept down at least twenty times during the dsy in consequence of the accumutation of dirt arising from the créwds making use of the steps for the purpose of boing able to see the sights the better; aad when he told those aasembied thereon of that fact, one burly fellow said, “the more stoop-id (stupid) he,” At ball-past eight the crowd began to be too unraly im their remarks, although they were only meant ta fan, therefore it was deemed expedient to cause their partial removal, which was dove in a very effectual manuer, a follows :—The officers, about twouty, marched from the he | tel door in close file, two by two, headed by Sergeants Vaa Bagen and Matthews, and when the foremost two roanked the curbstone, they (aced right and left, and advanced upon the people like a solid mags, compelling them to re- treat molens voles, The two sentries then each took @ rope, whish they fastened fret to the railings, and (strotoh- ed tightly) next to the lamppost on either side, thes effectually formiog a barrier to their advance. Having stationed some of the men to guard this rope, the remain- der next proceeded to force back the others who were ta the roadway near the curb. This move was also very effectual, for in a fow moments there was plenty of room for carriages to drive up to the door. One man took up his position on the lamp posi of the hotel, doubtless for the purpose of being double posted, vig —with what ws going on, and baving an elevated position. Ashe was very quiet the police did mot disturb him in bis enjoy- ment. One of the police arrangements was, that all the private carriages should take up their occupants at the private ontrance of the botel facing on the Fifth avenue; bat ope young lady, dres*ed in pink, who bad been wait- iog tm the ball that rans from the stairoaze to the door om Twenty third strect, eaid—That if she could not get out of the same door as the Prince she should not go to the ball at all, There!” Acc, of course, the obliging sentry police officer, in the goodness of his boart, bad to allow the dear young lady that little pleasure for fear it might ead to eerious consequences. At quarter to ative o'clock the biack carriage of ex-Goy. Fish drove up to the door of the hotel, for the purpose of ‘taking up the Priace to the ball. The ‘“darkey” driver certainly seemed proud, but the footman, also of the same lasting hue, was prouder still, for he strutted about from the steps to the carriage in s manner, during the interval of waiting, that would bave suprised the Prines could be have secn him. If the Prince éid not, the crowd did, apd made their remarks accordiagly, euch as “You'd be worth a thousand dollars more tn Savannah t> mor- row if you were down there," &o. There were five car- riages, Delonging to the hotel, devoted to the Prince der- tog his vielt to the city, and these were brought into use for the purpose of conveying the suite to the grand enter- tainment at the Academy. The seevants were attired ia black livery, great coats and bats, with white neok- kerchicfe, &o. As the police focud « little difficulty ia keeping the crowd from the hotel side of Twenty-third street, they feit somewhat pleased when & long political torch light procession passed down the atreet, forcing a large num- ber of the people to the opporite side of the way, wher, after the procession bad passed, the police determined they should cot recross the road. One of the byetanders scemed to be very anxious te koow whether the borees in the ex-Governor’s carriage ‘wore the property of the Prince or not. They were very handsome horses, and the manner they “‘champed their bitte’ caused them to throw the foam over every one near them. One man had e lot of the salira thrown over coat, which he did pot seem to relish at all, and so expreaced himeectf, when ouc of the bystanders suggested tbat “be should pot mind bis coat being spolied by the foam from the mouth of the Prince's horses.’ “Prince's or President's horees be did not care about, but ho did not wish to have his clothes damaged by either.” Several ladies who were located near the borse’s Leads wore afraid that “they would stand @ chance of being run over if they did not move away from there.” Buta very gallant young man acid he Would ‘risk bis own iif to save theirs, especially us tho dancer wae trom the carriage occupied by a Prine of Fogiand.”’ “Epglieh or Dutch,” she eaid, “abe did not wish tobave ber arm brokea in hie honor in suck 4 mean way; but if she foil down with him at the ball, and to got injured, ehe would [ike that much better.” She then inquired whether the Prince was going to the ball in a» open carriage, and when she found be wae not, she very quickiy changed ber quarters for home, as “she did pot aee the fun of etaying there three hours and not him then—bali!’ Sevoral other ladies, although shivering with coll, gtood their ground man- fully Got the iast, determtmed never to give way. Ope energetic female, who woald not keep in the rauke, was compeliet to be removed by tho police to ihe notes of the following rhyme, surg loudiy by tee boys — Ove, two, three, Abd cul goes she. Ha, hal Aa the crowd would prews on the jimits, the police were continvally employe! in posing them back, making them eway about like a surging sea. A joung woman, whe Cid pot }\ke the policeman pusbirg ber with his back, for be found usii bands was of very little effect, began to belabor bim with her banda to the vest of her ability, fellow merely smiled and pushed, purhed and emiled, and, when he had got them back, calmly took @ ‘chew of tobacco” and put it in his moult at asolace and payment for bis bard work, One girt broke the rauke, aod after running from one poiat te snother, and another, and being turned back from cach by the policeman tn charge, he wound bereelf, to ber an- Bos ance, instead of being in a better position, right owt- side of the entire crowd, and out of eight aad bearing. Uoe man was rewarted for an sttempt to slip by the cifleere with @ very nice tap on bie head, which deter- mined bim and others to keep in tho ranks for the rest of the evening. Some one appearnd to get A #. vere squeeme, if a loud “ob BB!” wight be takea in exidence of thas fact. From what the officers said they seemed to have more trouble with the guests inside the hotel than with the crowds outride; for, though the former knew woll they mast not crowd up the hallwave, still sothing would per- evade thom they wore doing wrong, and if the police laid thetr bands on them over so lightly the reply wae, ‘Take pour hands off of me, you nwiy fellow,” aa. ‘To\make the peopia look about before time, ths boys would raine the cry of “fire,” &e., and if any one locked from & window they were immediately grested with a hearty shout, Oy man epoke out loud ¢ ough for all to beary “There is ® lot of demoorate here wasting their time ayon royalty; when he was asked, “Then, why cnmo he thorel’ What the anewer might have been we know not, but at this moment the royal patty descond ed the stairs foll evening csstumo, carry ing their opera hats in their bends, and on fered the carriagt® amid fond cheers, The om