Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-10-10
Effect Of Auerica's Triumph I'm
England.


The success of America has stirred
up English ship owners and builders,
and The journals a3ound with commune
cations upon the subject A good deal
of talk has been caused by statement
Of Sir James Emerson Tennent, that
the Cunard steamers are slow. in this
connection Mr.. r. NJ. CaImont writes
to the Times, enclosing the names of
several who are ready 10 stake their pro-
fessioual reputation on excelling the per-
tormances of the Cunard steamers by at
least 100 miles per day.
The Times has an article apropos TO
the result of the yacht race, from which
we extract few paragraphs:
Taking all things together, the British
and American have run a pretty fair
tie through the trials of this wonderful
season. The spring, il must be confes-
seG, opened i'll for Brother Jonathan, and
for good while in the race we kept
well ahead. We had our great Exhibi-
fion--a real new 'smart" speculation,
which did not turn out failure, which
exceeded every body's hopes, and which
brought about no revolutions AT all. As
it turned out, even the extra policemen
might have been dispensed with, and
$4,000 visitors of all classes have con-
gregaled and dispersed daily without as
much disturbance as attends common
country fair. Moreover, the dollars have
really come tumblihg in amain We say
il withou, any malice, or any wish TO cre-
ate annoyance, but the fact is, that even
the hyperbolical eonjectures OF Ameri-
can irony have fallen short of the trGth
in this interesting particular. II was
calculated that we should realize So ,00O,-
600, whereas We have got over SO. i0G,-
900 at this very moment, with six good
weeks before Us still. And all this ls
in hand, too. and in solid coin, so that
we fairly walk away from our rivals.
On the other hand, it is beyond all de-
nial that every practical success of the
season belongs to the Americans. Their
reaping machine has carried conviction
10 the heart of the British agricu.turis,.
Their revolvers threaten to revolutionize
military tactics as completely as the orig
inal discovery of gunpowder. Their
achi takes a class of itself. OF all the
victories ever won, none has been so
ttranscendant as that of the New York
schooner. The account given of her
performances suggests the inapproacha-
BILE excellence attributed to Jupiter by
the ancient poets, who describe the King
Of Gods as being not only supreme. but
having none other nex,to him. "Whats
firsi!' 1.-The America" "What's Sec
ond" Nothing" Besides Tins, the
Baltic, one Of Collins line nf steamers,
has ''made the fastest passage yet known
across the Atlantic" and according 20
the American journals, has been purcha-
sed by British agents .1or the purpose
Of to,cmg the Cssaard Uesseis from one
shore of the ocean 10 the other" Fl
nally, as if to crown the irinmphs OF the
year, Americans have, actually sailed
through The islh,nus connecting the two
continent. Of the New World. and. while
Englishmen have been doubling and
grudging. Yankees have stepped in and
won the day.
So we think, on the whole, that we
may afford to shake hands and exchange
congratulations, after which we must
learn as much from each other as we can.
As for yachts, we have no doubt tina, by
next August every vessel of the Cowes
squadron will be trimmed to the very
image Of the America; there is no doub,
that our farmers will reap by machinery,
aud the revolver, we fear, is too attractive
an embodiment Of personal power 10 be
overlooked by European mischief.ma
kers.