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Show IHE EMPEROH. Dom Pedro has settled a great fact. It is that a royal personage can . actually make an American continental conti-nental trip without submitting to tbe imposition of a round of civic and popular demonstrations, which can have little or no interest to tbe personage per-sonage in whose honor they are conceived con-ceived and carried out, and at the best can only gratify the idle curiosity of the people without benefit to anyone. any-one. There are, of course, exceptional excep-tional circumstances, where the honors paid to a great ruler, a popular popu-lar statesman, or a military hero may have a significant appropriateness; appropriate-ness; but as a general rule the American Amer-ican people carry tbe tendency to lionize distinguished characters to a foolish excess, regardless of tho wishes or comfort of the objects ot their attention. We hooted ourselves hoarse over Kossuth and fought for dear life to gain admittance to the presence of tbe Prince of Wales, and latterly we paid assiduous and osten tatious court to Kalakaua, for the lack of a more conspicuous monarch. How that we have amongst us a real, live emperor, for almost the first time in our history, we are asked to receive tho stranger gingerly, to treat him as Wo would any other private gentleman, gentle-man, and allow him the privilege Which be seeks, of viewing the Amer ican people, sights and iconcs, without with-out interruption or annoyance Governors, mayors, and boards of aldermen, are notified that they may keep hands off this great functionary, who will tolerate no municipal junketings, jun-ketings, will drink no official wine, and refuses to be toted around in corporation cor-poration carriages. Ho will make liia own arrangement and pay his own way. Following this programrno ho may get through the country as speedily and pleasantly as any private pri-vate gentlemen of the present day Can do; and probably in following tbuj courao ho will obtain a better knowledge of tho United Btatca than if he wero obliged to undergo tho nuisance of a popular ovation and allow his hand to bo mado a pump handle of, tonality every man who might winti to my that bo has 1 shaken bauds with an emperor, j |