Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-10-01
THE YACHT VICTORY.

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ave are not sorry that the Titania is beaten.
II is one of those manly defeats which will leave
no ranking feeling behind. If the Americans
have lost caste at the Crystal Palace, they have
secured trumphs on the waters of England, and
while the result is calculated for n moment TO
abash us, will realize the fine aphorsm which
Bulwer puts in the mouth of observation-disclosures
no such word as fail
"When Charlemagne saw the sail OF the
Mortimer in the Mediterranean, he covered his
face with his hands and wept, in a prescience of
the future. When Queen Victoria, yesterday
week, witnessed the triumph Of an American
sail in the channel that washed her marine resi-
dence she did what Charemagne ought to have
done-she took note of the excellence which
had achieved victory, tacitly telling her sub
ects to profit by rivalry, and keep their proud
place in the advance of nations.
Civilization, as we have often said, has hth-
erto been geographical. The merchant follow
ed trade and where the merchant opened his
counting-house, religion, and science, and morals
set up their affairs. The United States of Amer
ca now occupy that place on the globe which
presents commercial advantages unknown to all
ancient and contemporary nations.
"The territories of the transatlantic Republic
expand into worlds; and she reposes between
the two oceans, one washing Asia, the other
Europe. Her fields TEEN with plenty; her mines
are inexhaustible; while her rivers obvlate ca
nals and tempt trade and manufactures into ac-
tvity thousands of miles from the Atlantic and
Pacific. Nothing was wanted to the local en-
thronement of civilization but aptitude in the
inhabitants and the history of the past week
gives ample testimony to its abundant existence
SIN practical science we admitted no rivalry
for more than century; in trade we desplsed
competition; and, since the naughty Hollander
swept the Thames, we claimed indisputably, the
sovereignty Of the seas. For some time, how
ever, the Yankees have been quietly encroach-
ing on our maritime privilege-aot pushing us
from the element whereon our pride hung out
the cross of ST. George, but gradually creeping
into an incipient equality.
"They did this, not through accident or ia
vor, but by the rigid application of the great
principles Of commerce and science. They have
compared with ourselves, been equally enterpri-
sing-they have been more skilful; and, while
we pay willing homage to genius, in whomso-
ever manifested, it is modification that in our
own waters an American yacht won the prize
from the yachts of ali nations,and that an Amer
lean steamer accomplished the quickest passage
ever made across the Atlantic.
"The Yankees are no longer to be rdculed,
much less despised. The New World is burst
ing into greatness-waking past the Old
World, as the America did the yachts at Cowes,
'hand over hand She dipped the star-spangled
banner to the royalty of Great Britain, for su.
perority is ever courteous; and this graceful
act indicates the direction in which ovr inevita-
BILE competition should proceed America, in
her own phrase, is going ahead and will assu-
redly pass us, unless we accelerate our speed
DEATH OF EMINENT MEN.-Among the deaths
lately announced in foreign papers, are several
under well known names. Ii. E. G. Pauus,
Doctor Of Theology, Philosophy, and Laws, who
died at Heidelberg, on the 10th August. His
profound learning, penetrating Judgment un-
shrinking courage, and unweared assouty, OBJ
tanned for his writings, which were very numer-
Gus, wide circulation, and there can be no
doubt but that his researches historical and crit
zeal, as well as the differences he deduced from
them, had considerable influence on the public
mind. Paulus was man of truly Gernanic err
udition and, with Eichorn, Planck, and Leasing,
one of the leaders Of rationaism, which has end
ed in Stauss and Bruno Bauer-or still further
in Freebach and Max Steiner.
Lorner Oxen is also dead. He was seventy
FIVE years of age. He was the originator of that
theory of cranial homoogies which has effected
so great revolution in anatomical science
His discovery Of the skull as a continuation of
the vertebral coumn-of its being, in fact, moth
ing but congeries of four vertebre, as the brain
itself is but congeries of nervous ganglia-
will immortalize his name.
Another still, is Lord John Hay, distinguish.
ed naval officer He was a son Of the late Mar.
quis of Tweeddale, and was in his 5Sth year.
BRIDGE Across LAKE CHAMPLAIN.-The Bea.
con of Saturday thus speaks of it,
On Monday, for the first time in the history
Of the world, Lake Champlain was crossed by
train of cars The floating bridge emerged
from its slips--the monster Sea Serpent
crept forth from his den, and stretched his huge
proportions from pier to pier, connecting shore
with shore, State with State, New England with
the West. Without difficulty or accident, anc
with as little delay as could have been expected
on the first trial Of the novel aud grand inven
tion--the youngest born of Cambell's schemins
brain-the whole Boston train, engine and all
passed safely over from the Vermont to the
New York shore of Lake Champlain. The ex
element and enthusiasm were indescrbable
The monster depot--500 feet long by 100 broaC
the wharf, the piers, the hotel, were crowded
to their utmost capacity.