American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-09-30


Yorkshiremen and Irishmen introduce the
true SYSTEM! They have been emigrating to
this country for two hundred and thirty years;
and if they have not yet introduced it--for The
pig has been in plenty all the time-they must
be slngularly awkward at imparting instruction,
or we must be singularly slow to profit by it.
The American exhibitors appeared at the
Worlds Fair under great disadvantages, / say
again. AT such exhibitions, articles of taste,
of luxury, and of virtu, always attract short
attention, and in that field we cannot bel hope
we never shall be-successful competitors Of
old, corrupted, decaying communities that have
been manufacturing. such articles for the last
two or three thousand years. In the depart
ments in which we are the strongest and unde-
niably ahead of the Europeans, and of all the
rest of mankind, we cannot be, from the nature
of the thing, adequately represented at such an
! exhibition. We cannot take to it our steam
! boats, onr railroads, our corn, wheat, and to-
| bacco-felds, our cotton and sugar plantations,
our commercial marine of three million TONS
our common schools, our two thousand news
papers, our social and political institutions;
or any thing that is best calculated to show
how prosperous, how opulent and how powerful
we are. And yet, nevertheless, towards the
winding up of the exhibition, the Americans
have, III many particulars, beaten all competi-
tors, all hollow. McCormacks reapng ma
chine, for instance, which has been fully tested
in England, is acknowledged to be wonderful,
and will probably receive the first medal given
l mean the most complimentary one. The
American planning machine, American ploughs,
carriages, garden tools, sitting chairs, school
furniture, and lndia-rubber articles, are al
lowed to possess great merit, and to be in many
respects superior to every thing else of the
kind. To which may be added, Newell's lock,
which is the only one in the world that cannot
be picked, and as far excels Brahma's famous
lock as that exceiled all that preceded it,
Though in haste and disposed to be brief, L
must say word about the American yacht,
America, which has outsailed all the English
yachts, royal and all, running far ahead Of
them and beating them one mile in eight, which
is indicative Of unapproachable superiority.
And England, let me observe, is par excellence
the yachting nation, which has for hundreds Of
| years arrogated to herself pre- -eminence in all
nautical matters. Three months ago John Bull
would much sooner have believed that the moon
| is made of green cheese, than that plain,
modest.l looking Yankee craft was to walk over
the Atlantic and beat him on his own waters, in
his own harbors, in the very line which, of all
Others he believed himself to be first, there
being no second. This has made the old chip
look about him, and he begins to see that there
is another nation as well as his own Of whom it
may be said
Her march is DER the mountain wnve.'
| As we contribute to other nations fairs, and
do it at disadvantage, why not get up
Worlds Fair on our own account, and invite
the other three four quarters of the globe to
visit it and zee, and bring their productions with
them if they choose? Here they viii see some
thing more worth crossing the Atlantic to look
at than Koh-i-noor diamonds, Malachite tables,
paper- -mache articles, clocks that 60 a hundred
years without beng wound up, and ten thousand
i fl,n- md frIfpc
! They will see our country. L.
A PERSIAN AMBASSADOR IN ESGLAND. Some
excitement among the fashionable and political
circles in England has just been created by the
! arrival III that country Of an Ambassador from
Persia, with view to promote the arrangement
! and settlement Of commercial relations between
the two countries. The name which he rejoices
in is Shefah Khan, and an interesting descrip-
ton of the appearance of this distinguished
stranger is thus given in the latest London
papers,
Gas an accredited ambassador direct from
the court of Teheran has never been known in
this country, some considerable interest was
excited in Southampton by the arrival Of his
excellency. lie is a fine, handsome man, about
forty years Of age. lie was dressed in the
costly and picturesque costume worn by the
highest ranks in Persia. The sleeves and col
lar of his cloak were ornamented with gold en-
broidery the clasp of his girdle was studded
with diamonds, and brilliant star was suspended
on his breast. lie wore the high conical cap
of the Persian country. He was accompa-
MED by dragoman and servant. An extern
sve suite accompanied him from Persia to Tur-
key nearly the whole of which he took leave of
at Constantinople.
"The ambassador reached Constantinople by
way Of Trebisond and the Black Sea. During
his voyage in the Euxine, he sat at table in the
saloon with the other passengers, and was not
moro particular in his diet than liberal Mussul
men usually are. lie drank his tea out OF
glass tumbler making it sweet and hot, without
milk or cream He vigorously abstaiued from
wines and sprituous liquors. He smoked much.
His manners on board during the voyage were
extremely gentlemanly, and he is evidently n
man Of education and refinement. lie cannot
speak English His secretary, and who acted
rs dragoman, is true born Persian, and was
educated in India. Ills cxcellcncy is Mussul-
man, belonging to the great Mohammedan sect
of Ali. lie is remarkably strict in his religious
obscrvanccs. Every evening, while on board
the Euxine, he prostrated himself, and said
prayers for about two hours. He had num-
ber of ornaments in his possession adorned with
Jewels and precious stones. One of these orna-
monts contained an emerald as large as a small
plum Most of these had been presented to him
by the Shah Of Persia, to mark the favor and
esteem of his sovereign
Look out for changes of weather peculiar to
this season, and see that your children are pro-
perly clad to guard against the cold.
The Susquchanna river is not knee-deep OPP
posite Harrisburg.
Turner. the ballad singer, makes his first
opncaroncc in New York, on Wednesday.
Ten thousand tons of lard oil were imported
from the United States to England last year.