Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-10-26
Rejoicings over the Atlantic Cable. --latest
by Telegraph.
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Rejoicings over the Atlantic Cable. Late
j by Telegraph. ~ ~.
i .r. NEW YoRK, To- Morrow.
The following important message has this
stant been received. Our predictions ihaye
usual, been most amply verified. We SAID ]
our prophetic soul that John Bull would ha
up not q niger less than we did. Wall, Sir r
it is the faot.-Thsre amt no crocodiles about
The old coon has been going the entire opossur
The Britishers we hear are not whit less exc
ted and slog dollagised than we air. Britain
has been going off at hslfcock, same as we di,
! Yes, sir-ree, it's fact. Our liquor is genuin,
true brewed, neat and no ways CANDY. W
kinder calc'late as our prophecies are of the res
grit. There ain't no small figs about then
John Bull, so we guaged him, is an all fire
still old boss but when he does git bis head, b
sparks out like wet fz on the tail end of
| thunderbolt
Wall-about the telegraph here's the --latest
fxins Off it.
sPunchum to Bunkum, greeting:
The triumph of the telegraph has been on
too many for us. Ali England has gone Graz.
with delight in hearing of it.-Bedlam is chok
full, and HanwelI p'rags is choker. Fifty mil
lion lunacy commissions daily issued. Not 81
much as strait waistcoat to bs had for love o.
money. The wisest men in England have los
their wits in consequence. The Lord Mayor Il
in strict confinement at the Tower.
The rejoicings have, of course, been on TIM
widest scale of splendor, and regardless of cost
Some idea of their extravaganza may perhaps be
formed, when we state that sixteen cities, Gn.
cluding London, Liverpool, Hockly in-the-
Hole,) have been carted off entire to Canterbury
Plain, and there made bonfire of at the ma
tional expense There was grand display Of
fireworks on the roof of Windsor Castle, which
was distinctly visible at Paris and ST. Petersburg.
st. Paul's was filed with naptha, and the dome
sent up at midnight as an illuminated balloon,
with the Lord Mayors coach and four attached
by way of car to it. By permission of the share
holders the Leviathan was hoisted to the top
of Primrose Hill, and blown up at an altitude of
fifteen thousand fathoms. Pieces of her were
picked up on the summit of Mount Blanc, and
the sound of the explosion woke three deaf men
at Venice.
THE illuminations, also, were on the same ex-
tensive and expensive scale. Gas being laid on
at the government expense, the most extrava-
CANT devices were invented to make use OF it,
In economic districts the lamp-posts merely were
unscrewed, and q light put to the sockets; whence
on either side the roadway, pillars Of fre shot
up which overtopped the Monument. But In
parishes more prodigal, new gas works were
built for the occasion, and fresh mains were laid
down to keep up supply. Perhaps the prettl'
est device was that in Pccadily; where, for up
wards of three miles on both sides of the street,
the gas was suffered to escape up the kitchen
and fountain of bright flame gushed
forth from every pot.
Nor was the flare up limited to mere gas and
fireworks There were feasts prepared for other
organs than the visual. For one entire week the
Aldermen of London dined fourteen times day,
and consumed per man eleven plates OF turtle at
each feed Throughout the whole of the metrop-
oils all the baked potato cans were thrown open
to the public; and all the street boys upon town
were put for eight-and- forty hours on the free
list at the pudding shops. Every boy Jack OF
them was glutted with as much plum duff as
be could eat, and then was given half ton OIL
'Hallbut Rock to carry home with him. IL
censed wittler's feed and temperance tea party
was held simultaneously at the Crystal Palace
and the big fountains played champagne and
ginger. beer alternately. The five shilling lines
for drunkenness next morning amounted to the
sum or sixteen nlllOnS SIerllnB. GFoiy Ouaiity
child in England was entertained with buns, the
buns being on this memorable occasion only
Bath ones. A pound and half lollipops were
served out to all of them under six, and the more
adult had pennyworth of brandy balls. Ba-
bies in arms had jack-in the box given them
and were allowed to wheel away as many GIN
gerbread nuts as they could put in their peram-
6ulstors. On the same evening the Thames
was perfectly deodorised and being frozen over
by Smiths patent refrigerator, twelve thousand
elephants were roasted whole upon the ice; and
after all the Greenwich pensioners had eaten
haunch piece, eleven hundred beef-eaters were
feasted on the fragments. ,ae
AT all the theatres, Of course, there were
gratuitous performances, and Almacks aud Gre
morne were thrown open to the million, by the
kind permission of the haut nOblesse. The no.
ble-rioters took part in the festivities and made
themselves conspicuous by their exuberant hi
larity. For the amusement of the populace
several iangling matches came off at Oremorne
in which none but peeresses were suffered to
compete. Punch.