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Show ' PEEPS AT THE PHLVcy:, Talk about popular anxiety (o sec the grand duke ! There was just as ! much eagerness manifested hero on I Monday to see "the Prinoo" i: ., to j see lieutenant Grant, the sen of Presi-I Presi-I dent, Qran(., vfliq ia 'going in the IVmA, with admiral AWen, on a trip toiho MediitfiTannan. When the sieiiuibout was gelling ready to go i down loquaranline, where the Wahash lies, the rumor soon circulated that "his Royal Highness," a.s the crowd denominated liiti, would, r,ooli go . aboard, and. jn furious desire to "take '. hin measure"' seemed at once lo ani-1 ani-1 male the crowd. Before the steamer cast off, Whitehall street was deluded with a tidal wave of curiosity-led 1tu-mauit'y- ' '-Winch' is he'f" eagerly exclaimed ono( "Is thai th young I feller?" questioned another, "f see I him!" ejaculated a third. "Bah! i that's only his valet," sneered a fourth. "Is it the man with tho stove-pipe I hat?" interrogates a fifth. "Xo," in-j in-j dignantly responded a sixth, "he wears j a black -and-Up. seed him buy it, 1 myself, under the Astor House." "Be jabers! be s got on zebra breeches," shouted a Pat. "Pooh! you fool, that's bia servant." "Ach! be aisy now; don't you see the goold buttons on his coat?" That settled fto question. ques-tion. It was 'the Prinoe," The police had as much as they eoud do to keep the gangway olo&rof tho crowd as lieutenant Grant went aboard, "That, sir, is the admiral new shaking hands with the young gentleman," remarked re-marked a bystander. ,r "Autniral be ! blowed be b nobody," responded iis neighbor; "what's the use of looking at even the big dog of the tan vara, when the lion's whelp is around, large as life and twioe as natural." Jfist then the steamer east off her lines, and the human mob began to melt away into driblets along the various thoroughfares. thor-oughfares. Fx, |