Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-25
The London Times on the Atlantic
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Englsh view the toadylsm OF the Amerl-
cans. When will experience learn US sense /?
When will we learn to conduct ourselves
with decency and propriety
We are in fair way fer another un
pleasantness with our cousins across the At
lantic This time, too, there can be no
unlende, its all come and gone, and it's
now matter Of history, that when Ameri-
ca was all enthusiasm at the success of the
Electric Telegraph we all took it very easily
indeed. They have literally 'spipcd,' and
we have not Glanced :" for England and
America have been married, and the former
has behaved as if wholly unconscious of the
ceremony. New York, and every other city
to the farthest West, went off into ecstasies.
1t was dozen Anniversaries of Indcpend-
cnce rolled into one. There were as many
salutes as at Cherbourg; three hundred and
thirty-three guns from the batteries hun
dred guns here, hundred guns there a
hundred monster rock blasts in the Central
Park, and some heavy salutes from the top
of the Astor Hotel All the church bells
were rung. Every house was Illuminated
in that extempore fashion which tells better
than our own brilliant uniformity. All the
world was out in the streets. There were
the banners Of every nation and of no ma
ton. and transparencies with sentiments,
verses, puns, allegories, and devices, in
which, if England had not quite its due
need Of honor, it was not at least forgotten.
The Agamemnon was the greatest Of kings
CYRUS, the new, made grander union than
that of Media and Persia /; the cable had
opened new field of usefulness the Mag
ara and the Hudson had beaten the Atlantic,
and the union of the two worlds-it reads al
most like profaneness-w actually rank
cd with the Declaration Of American indie
pendence The cable itself is declared to
be the wedding-ring of the two cousins, the
strongest bond of amity, the deed of eter-
nal partnership But it is vain to think Of
beating our neighbors, now hardly trans
atlantic, at this sort of description. They
have special gift at Z" heading Every
heading in the New York Herald tells like
a 6S-pounder but we have not space for
the whole battery only for shot or two
"The Metropolis all in blaze Pc Union
of the whole World''-Quarter of Million
Of People in the Streets '-Scenes, Sights
and Sensations 3" Message Of Mayor TIE
MAN to the LORD MAYOR Of London
"More salutes to-day Was ever any
thing like this display ?'-"I international
Official Courtesies'' = Tremendous Sensa-
tion'- Some of our people going off Half
Cooked Sc But the Telegraph is a sure
thing" Everybody crazy with joy
"Now's the time for a Universal Jubilee
Excelsior" sc. 70 wind up the day,
there were volcanoes Of fireworks, chiefly,
as it appears to us, from the tops Of the
large buildings. concluding with the confa-
grafton and destruction Of the City Hall
from the roof Of which the principal yolca-
no had been discharged.
All this time we did not ring bell, or
let off a squib, or light a kitchen dip, or
even walk out into the streets. or do any
thing whatever in honor of the event. In
all England we believe that not one man
congratulated his neighbor about it. We
were all pleased in our own qniet fashion,
and somewhat surprised at SO complete a
success coming SO quickly upon the heels Of
repeated failures. Of course, those who
had shares in the Company were delighted
to find the quotation rising from $50 to 800
The QUEEN did her duty, though, unfortu-
nately, as it turns out, only the first sentence
of her message arrived in time for the first
burst Of American jubilation. The LoRr
MAYOR followed We cannot charge our
selves with having sighted the OCCASION
We sent one of our best men aboard the
Agamemnon on her first attempt, and he
did as much as man could do to tell the
fearful tale. 1t really would not have been
common humanity to risk his life second
time in an enterprise of apparently such re-
mote success. When success came at last,
we proclaimed it in terms, as we thought,
sufficiently glowing. Had we raised our
key one note higher, we should have been
thought proper inmates for private lunatic
asylum. The High Church pulpits would
have denounced our exultation Of the mira
cles Of science and our worship Of progress,
and the poor cable would have been forth
with stigmatized as an engine Of ANTI
CHRIST. The fault, if fault there be, is in
the British public. It is not SO intensely
interested in this affair as the Americans
are There must be some reason for this,
as we are not an unreasonable people. With
out the least wish to show slight, without
being even conscious of it, we have betray-
ed a want Of national sympathy very little
in accord with so great an event. Among
the future maryels of nature, BACON pre-
dicted communication by sympathy -
The communication has surpassed even BA-
CONS expectations, but it is not with the
expected amount Of sympathy. This is a
question which concerns both the Ameri-
cans and ourselves.
In matter of fact, this is greater event
to the United States than to ourselves
They gain thereby instant communication
with the whole of the Old World With
them it is the ''union of the whole world"
us one Of their transparencies has it. We
gain only the United States and British
America. The information to be expected
from these places will be chiefly interesting
to merchants, who regard the electric wire
as a convenience, or necessity, and not as
new source of pleasure. In other respects
American intelligence is often startling, Gu
rious, dismal and interesting as a matter of
speculation, but without the sentimental in
tcrest which attaches to the events Of most
States in the Old World. Scarcely any
thing ever happens on this side the Allan
tic which is not associated with our reading