Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-10-02
From the N. Y. Express.
Then and Now; or the Contrast.

Circumstances have induced the Ameri-
can press, of late, to dwell on the tone of that
of Great Britain towards this country, more
particularly than has been our want. The
invidious comparisons that were made by
the London Times, and other Journals of
the English metropolis, between the Ameri-
can and other contributions to the Great In
dustrial Exhibition in Hyde Park, followed
up the successes achieved by our country
men when the contest for superiority be-
came practical, as in the case of the Virgin
ia reaping machine, the New York plough,
and the Yankee locksmith, and by the tri-
umph Of an American clipper over the best
sailing craft England could produce, are the
circumstances we mean. We fear the sub
ject is well nigh exhausted, though we still
hardly take up newspaper without being
stunned with pretty loud Yankee crow,
from some quarter or other.
We see, in very amusing letter from
London, in the Journal OF Commerce, that
the Virginia tobacco has been unhesitatingly
pronounced TO be unrivalled in the Great Ex-
hibition, and that two ''of the very accom-
plished English Jurors on substances used
for food are tobacco chewers; while their
American co,juror never tasted a quid.
though to the manor born; the former bore
emphatic testimony to the superiority of the
American 1reed."
Then we are told that 'thc grcat gastrono-
mcr, Gunter," cooked o Kentucky ham,
without knowing where it came from, and
pronounced il indispensable in flavor; new
boast is made, that Hobbs picks every bo-
dy's locks, while nobody can pick Hobbs ;;
the announcement is made, for the first time,
that it had been officially decided, that ''the
superiority of the American cotton was as
decisive as in the case of the American
YACHT" next We are told, that ''of all the
substance used for food, that which attract
ed most attention, for its novelty and its
adaptation TO numerous important practical
uses, is the Meat Biscuit of Mr.. Gail Bor-
den, Jr., Of Texas" of the value Of which
the jury marked their sense "by awarding
the highest evidence of their appreciation 10
its inventor" A canister Of il was sent TO
Sir John Herschell, who, unsolicited, wrote
a letter testiiying 10 its excellence. Count
de Kcrgolary deemed il Of such merit as 10
present it 10 the Agricultural Society OF
France, who highly appreciated it, and ap-
pointed one of lis scientific committees to in
vestigaie its qualities more thoroughly than
could be done in general seanee;" [session.l
So, TO sum it all up, VIC have beaten John
Bull in steam navigation, ship-building and
sailing, reaping, ploughs and ploughing,
locksmithery, pressing machines, firearms,
and other things; have sent lin better cot
ton than he can get elsewhere, the finest
piece Of sculpture, and water route across
the continent, by the way of Nicaragua.
The development of these interesting facts
has caused quite change TO come over the
spirit of our English cotemporaries' dreams,
and they are now praisipg us and ours with
a warmth and vigor that really make us,
modest Jonathans that we are, blush. The
Times, itself, as we showed day or two
ago by citations from its columns, in putting
us with pertlnaoiIy that puts us in dread
ful peril of self-exaltation and complacen-
cy which it would not be at all becoming
in daughter to exhibit towards venera-
bic mother.
The London shipping and Mercantile
Gazette, in late number, has this para
graph, in the course of an article upon the
future of America:
"We have no desire, at present, to enter