Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-10-09
English Opinions.

We extract the following from a correspondent of
the Montgomery (Ala) Ad0ertiser. He says.
/ Down on the cars made acquaintance of two
gentlemen just returned from Europe Oae of them
was bearer of dispatches to. our Government. the
other, wealthy planter, had resided in Franco for
three years They declare that the ioy IN England
over victories could not be surpassed had it been
the triumph of English arms; that Manchester is as
much an unit for the South as Mobile: that our in
dependence will be recognized this &l, that the
Federals cannot obtain one dollar of loan in Europe
and that the entire prestige of this is IN favor
of the South. Canada they also declare to be in our
favor and the hatred there the Yankees as ntense
as among ourselves. One of these gentlemen show
ed me recent copy of the London Punch One of
its illustrations carrcature of the fight of the
Federal army at Manassas, and headed, ''IAe Way
they tool Canada, to which was appended the fol-
lowing remark of the New York Herald. "For
the outrage offered in the Queens proclamation the
United States will possess itself Of Canada" Some
of its witticismS follows: "The flight of the
Federal forces at Bull Run WILL it is said, lead to
change of the name of the rivulet; Bulls Run that
1cas, therefore, we understand is henceforth to be
called Jonathan's Ram" 1.-THE accounts of the bat
tie of Manassa should be written upon flying sheets"
"The Yankees have long been boasting that they
far the most go-ahead of nations, and after hear
ing how they went ahead in running from Bull Run,
we cannot dispute their having some grounds for
their boast"
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Virginia on the scene Of the Great Stampede of
the United States Grand Army:
FIRST FAcE-(By the Times special eorrespon-
dent)
Bulls Run! Which Bulls, Write out the name in full
That when posierity the name shall
We may be thoroughly aware the Bull
Who made the run was Jonathan, not john
SECOND FAcE-(By Yankee volunteer)
l. Jonathan here own in confusion and conjunction,
With for those who blundered and blush for those
who ran,
That in the composition of the said Manassas Junction
There of the and too little of the man.
THIRD FAcE-(By United States sensation re-
porter)
Go, stranger. tell how for our country nigh,
Where yesterday run, to-day are lie.
FOURTH FAcE-(By Yankee Notion-monger)
Our Hobbies Yankee lock hencefOrth the field
To our McDowe's Yankee bolt must yield"
If "straws show which way the wind blows"
these bon maOtS from the London Chdrirari may ex-
hibt the current of public sympathy in England.
"No PARrY."-Oh no, of course not. "No party
now" So demagogues said, North and South, when
they were bringing on the war but finally the trick
cry and cheat appeared on both sides. And now
with the success that has attended our arms and
the complex but smooth going government machine
ry which has been put in operation by Davis and
Stephens they tell us, the Richmond Examiner and
Wilmington Journal that Mr. Stephens won't do
for Vice President! We must have an original Sec
cessioniSt-a better man, etc. Is there no party
in this! If the original secessionists to have
all the Offices why not recall all who We're Union
men, before the Presidential election, from the field
and let them also do all the fighting? This would
be but fair but would our early secessionsts agree
to it? We think not. Disband all the Union men
of last summer in the $4,000 men North Carolina
has in the field and you will leave less than 10000
We tell these "no party men they cannot defeat
: Mr.. Stephens and they might well spare them
selves the odium an effort to do so will create
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