Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-10-22
THE VEERGsNEAN.
LYNCHBURG. OCrOsER2s, 1879

DfHih IfdreAeTSiHtde United Siatts-CapI.
Hall has been hardly forgotten a his book of ira.
els deposited amidst the cobwebs & dust before
another of the tribe of national slande,.r,
makes his appearance on the stage. The lasl
de6utdm. however, is not heralded into notice,
as Capt. Hall was, by a flourish Of trumpets,
nor was II attempted TO cozen him of compli.
menis 50 FAR as we have seen or heard hy ASH.
dnous personal attentions Will, he did US the
honor to soJourn amongst u.s. nor by depreca-
tory an laudaiory paragraphs in our journals,
nor even by an invitation to public dinner in
the metropolis OF the Old Dominion. This to-
tai neglect of the traveller readily accounts
for the cold reception his book has met with
where II has been seen, add for the fact iha, the
name OF the author has scarcely ever been
toned south of the Potomac. We can see
no good reason why our authoritative must
continue 10 use this term, no,Wn standing the
discovery recently made 10y snnd,y wiseacfes
that there are no such animals IN this couriry
OF eqlal laws)-we say, We eau SEQ no good
reason why our arisioerats should have made
such broad distinction between Hall and
Mactaggart, (for such is ihe name of Captain
Halls fellow rlvtller) Ir Hall sa Captain
in the Royal Navy. MaciagSan is IA" Civil En-.
gineer in the British service" And then as TO
their names, weigh them, Gas Cassius told Bru
tins 10 do his with C9sa,'s) Mactaggart's is the
heaviest-pronounce them. Mactaggart's will
IN I, i,
Hall passed muster with the beau monde At the
dinner table with rather more eclat than Mac
Tag. A" hree pronged fork was indlspensibly
Necessary TO the Ro, al Captain on such occa-
sons-two prongs absolutely threw him into
convulsions, requiring an instantaneous appIi-
cation Of salts aud haltshorne Msctag., on
he contrary, disregarded such trivial matters,
as unworthy the attention. Of a Brton, and
cirit engineer to boot, whilst III the mid oil
people AT best bat Semi barbarous. Even at Sa.
fatoga Springs, whittier the magnates of The
land, who are at loss what 10 do with their
time aud money, yearly flock, did The lordly
Mac eyince his contempt Of form aud etiquette,
by using the paw. ~here"ltb Nature furnished
| him. IN tearing asumder pig OF pulet instead oi
affecting "a delicHcy he did not feel. aud, like
Capt. Hall, going into Mysteries for Lack Of
three pronged FORK SO very democratic, inieed,
was Maclag, that he would make nothing OF
dcpositing his elbows in the plates OF his next
neighoors, & cutting slndry other such capers
esiucive of his disposition To reduce himself 10
| a level with the democratic boors by whom he
fancied himself surrounded. What shock to
the dandles and ddnd,zettes, who crowd our
/ fashionable scenes OF resort, TO throw away The
money which their frugal fathers boarded up
by hard work with the jack-pidn aud sledge
hammer This is the only Polot in which Hall
exhibited any superior clam to the favor Of
such of our arstocrais (and there are many AS
manifest their eagerness to perform any mental
office for n man who comes TO them in the shape
ola distinguished foreigner or wealthy nstive
Mactsg's elbows aud paws gave him the qale'
tus three-pronged fork would have saved
him. u
Mactaggart was eviIenly chagrined by the
treatment he received at Saratoga. aud II is no
wonder, therefore, that as a broad caricaiurisl
They both paint as they eat-lhe Captain with
his three.prcnged fork, leaving as,reak oil white
for every streak of black--the Civil Engineer
bedaubng bis canvass with his huge hand, dip
ped in tue darkest colours. lie makes of us a
race OF beings completely SUI generis-as a
people without model in lines past or present
and as likely TO be without imitators in the time
to come. Witness the subjoined extracts, which
we have selected from three short paragraphs
.FThe expressions says Mactsgl made USE OF
by The Americans me destitute OF wit and hui
nIor. aud are grounded on The roo,s Of blasphe-
my aud black guardlsm.'
Quite a definite charge this, and clothed in
language of the style most approved by
British tourists A Briion, however, vino
recollects thatthe law was called in aid OF pnb-
lie opinion not very leug ago, to stay the tor
rent Of inhdclity and basphemy in his own
country, should be cautious in making such an
allegation against others-aod as for black
guardism, lie, them not forget the proverbial
ipre.eminence Of Btlingsgate, f,shmarket and
81. Giles.
Mac says that I" the genuine English is fast
vani.hing" from among us-thai few British
books are noW read, and that lever WH be very
shortly, by US that we have no idea OF comfort
tina, an American can he easily pointed oui any
, where, from the apathy aud indifference which
, strongly aud universally mark mis- countenance
7 that there is no solid learning in this country
that the sciences are SKINNED that decacy
AMI refinement are entirely sacrificed to gross
e ness and brutality - a pretty objection, TO be
4 made by one who carves with his fingers that
men, women and children are never much
at home as when calling for cocktails aud fog
mates, (which Mactag. in his admiration o
. Ia EoaIiah - ctalIs MIN, haf