Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-09

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DICKENS AND STURGEON Dickens and
opurgeon, IT is said, will soon visit America
Inc extraordinary genius Of the first, nobody
in Europe or this country for a moment
doubts. Ut the Rev. Mr., Sturgeon, we
have only to say, that from the testimony OF
! capable critics, he is far less entitled to be
called great pulpit orator than numbers OF
our own clergymen. Sturgeon we think,
Will be set down in America, by discrimina-
ting people, as hnmbug fno inconsidera-
BILE dimensions. Pulpit oratory in this coun-
try is far ahead of English pulpit oratory;
and when this preacher Of Surrey Gardens
notoriety is contrasted with some Of our shi-
ming theological lights, the saner part of our
people will estimate him at his proper value.
Abiding to the intended visit of these
persons, the New Orleans Bulletin says:
Chow are Americans received in Eng
land? They are treated, we believe, gener-
ally, with respect, if they behave properly
and if they do not, they should not be-but
they are not lonized the people do not
make themselves ridiculous by toadying to
their American guests; and consequently
when our tourists return home, they gener-
ally speak in high terms of the courtesy ex-
tended to them; not unfrequcntly, indeed,
they praise without stint the fine lords and
ladies who entertained them, and show that
they almost fell in love with every body and
everything they saw All this we reverse
We exhaust all our means Of toadying to
our English guests, disgust them with our
dunkyism, with our pretended admiration Of
everything English, every thing aristocrat-
ically noble and venerable, and take special
pains to let them understand with what con-
tempt we regard the vulgar plebianism of
republican manners and customs; and then
these tourists go home and lay on the lash
upon us without mercy for the ridiculous
figure we cut"
TIE GERMAN PRESS ON TIE AUSTRIA s
CApTA1N.-The German newspapers of New
York contrast in striking manner the want
Of order and discipline on the Austria with
that of several of the American steamers
lost at sea. The Abind- Zeitung says:
When the Arctic and the Central America
went down, the mind found, in the midst
t.,
circumstances which left an elevated i'm
Observation-Disclosures Of self-command, of he
roc courage of fidelity to duty. and cheer
full self-sacrifce. 1t was not SO in the case
of the Austria A chaotic confusion and
desperation filled the brief interval in which
the fate of five hundred human beings was
decided No ordering and loading hand,
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never-to-be forgotten Captain Herndon,
executed with unfinching courage and calm
ness; all was wild and mad, crowdng hither
and thither, loss of self possession and des-
pair Capt. Heydtman is dead well for
him that he is SO. By his death he has paid
heavy debt. For this is the most pain
full part of the catastrophe disaster was
incurred by the most criminal negligence,
and after it was incurred there were either
no means of rescue provided beforehand Or,
|if provided, the men who had the charge Of
them were utterly incompetent
A Brr OF ROMANCE. -Quite a little buzz
has of late been moving about in the gener-
ally quiet town of Reading. II seems that
young lady, little above the marriagea-
BILE age of twenty, resident Of New York, q
good family and said to be worth the snug
little sum Of eighty thousand dollars some
thing worth possessing took it into her
precious noddle that she would patronize the
newspapers sensible woman-and aavo;-
tise for husband, she believing in sihat mode.
which, of course she had right to do. : A
mong the answers to her proposals was one
from a journeyman cord wainer Of Reading
She took his proposals kindly, and forthwith
packed up and came this way to see the
plucky youth. Immediately upon her ar
rival in the village, the whereabouts Of the
son Of Crispin, she installed herself in the
snug and cosy hotel there, and placed her
self under the care Of the good landlord
Killborn, and then sent for the aforesaid
youth, who forthwith responded to her call
and appeared before her ladyship. The
young man, it is said, has little tinge Of
verdancy about him, but the lady seems dis
posed to overlook this defect, and it is
thought, by appearances, that the youngster
has or is fast finding favor in the strange la
dy's sight. Beading Gazette.
AN OPPOSITION "CABLE" IN CHARLESTON,
South CARoL1NA.-The "Mercu,y" gives
out the following:
Our Cable. We have on exhibition in
our Office, piece Of the hawscr made use
of by the officers Of the United States Gov
eminent in transferring the Africans from the
steamer Gen Clinch to the deck Of the frig-
ate Niagara. It is eleven inches in circum-
ference; is a three laid hawser; each Of the
laid ropes is six inches in circumference,
and is in turn three laid with ropes Of three
inches in circumference, made Of ffty-s
individual strands Of Manila yarn. The
hawser bears marks Of the chatting or rub
bling Of the tub which carried the negroes
over. This hawser will remain for the in
spection Of the curious at our office, for a
few days. We have no intention of cutting
it into small pieces.
The OCTOBER ELECTIONS Elections are
to be held this month in the nine following
States, viz: Georgia, Florida, Mississippi,
Iowa, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, and Minnesota The election will
take place on the following days: Oct. 4th
Georgia, for local officers; Florida, for a
member of Congress Mississippi, for a
member Of Congress, to I'll the vacancy in
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