The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-08
From The London T~eIrgraph.l

A HIGHLY imaginative Transatlantic geo.
erapher has lately Informed the world that
America il, or shortly will be, a country
bounded on the North by the Arctic circle,
on the South by eternity, on the East by the
rising sin, aud on the West by the day OF
Judgment. There are a set of bitter and
bilious gentlemen, chiefly of the Tory per
saasion, to whom this kind of patriotic i'm
agery is gall and NORWOOD. They are mis-
cradle because America is big, aud because
she uses these laughably big expressions.
he real reason why they hate her is be-
cause her Government is so free, and the
success Of it so wonderful; but since it does
not do to confess these facts, they are always
girding at her faults OF manner and style-a
practice which is about as useful as TO rail nj
the Allegheny Mountains for being huge and
craggy. For our part We experience no more
surprise or vexation at the hyperbolics Of
our descendants beyond the Atiantic than we
should at seeing a likely lad split his troa-
sers in growing, or q fine healthy baby reach
his plump arms out for the moon. The thing
IS natural and even satisfactory with the
Young giant that we have bred, aud England,
she mother of empires. onght to be heartily
pleased and amused at the glorious gascon-
AIDES OF her mighty child. Is she to be an
elderly coquette. and vex herself because
her sons outstride her, and her daughters
shoot up with u beauty and yigor that remind
her how she ages She ought, II she were
honest and hearty. to be glad and proud OF
youugsters-the ike OF whom history never
knew-to knit them 10 herself ia bonds OF
firm love. and to aim at making outot them
an Anglo Saxon of empires which should
gin die the world with the language Of Shak
spea re. and the happy influence Of the little
tnatrou ialaud. We like to read these ridirl-
Ions subli.niiles. wherein orr lmperial cocks
ereIs crow themselves well>nigh OH their itg~
with lusii.aess round the old BrsAnnIc hen.
What a bard the American chicken viii be
when all the feathers come, II Il can scratch
and crow. and flourish its spurs like this IN
an epoch when it is bnt going through the
barbarism of a new civilization, and has the
best mar, of its hackles TO shoot. And il
bipness iusti6es big words. we shout like
TO know who is 10 blame these inventive
and nowery patriots? Has any
other nation forty million
square acres Of fat corn>ground for back
yard. winch viii grow six quarters 10 the acre
As long a. You ike to plough the old crop in ;
Has any other nation a mountain of solid
ron TO make the ploughs of, ike "PiIot
knoS' in Missouri, or seas Of oil under the
ground. and shores OF solid copper along the
lakes? hoes any other nation double its
population every twenty years, and suck IN
The emigration Of Europe <ithout counting ii.
ar carry carroes txo thousand miles along
one river, or venture on the impotence Of a
Monroe doctriue. or fight 8 war with a nil
lion soldiers. and haze them all home again,
like boys after ~seuool, within a year Or
" hat other people collects a revenue Of Els,
900, 900 sterling, ani, with e2o,Vpu,tpo IN
gold alta time id its Exchequer, laug MS at a
debt Of $500. 600. coo. and engages to wipe II
out in ten years? Mr.. Ariemas Ward says
he never knew q Yankee who didat talk
about the Rocky Mountains except one, and
he was deaf and dumb but even he wrote a
book about them. Who is stupid enough &c
laugh a. that? 1t is in the nature OF the
people the young giants must have gigantic
topics. words, policies, schemes. and sayings
and if we laugh, lei il be vah hearty good
nature, and AS old folks do at the brag and
buueomh OF the young ones, whose strengtt
aud health are so beautiful and full of the
promise of noble days ard works.
Among other things the Yankees have de-
termine it seems, to cap US al ocean yatchl
racing. 1t is only Of late that this improve
ment upon the old style OF yacht matches has
come into vogue among us: aud yachtmer
have looked upon themselves as real salts a
last, for cruising against each other 10 Cher
bourg or 10 Plymouth from Co@es. No soon
er do our Transatlantic children get wind o
the ider than, a. usual, they put 1t into theii
Jolly heroics. Cruise to Cherbourg for a cup
Why not cruise across the big Atlantic. viii
ne high sea for q course, and q cable full o
dollars for the prize, aud John Balls littl,
insular location for the winning post? Ac
cordingly the thug has been arranged, tbs
tremendous stakes Of $4,000 dollars
vessel have been deposited. ar,
the three competing schooner
sailed on tuesday at l p. N. from New York
to race for money across the great wintry sea
The same unhappy dyspeptic critics who ar
always nibbling at AInerican manners, Gus
toms, politics, and people together, crumbl
because the owners don't sail, because tn
race is kept close, because they fear that tn
yachts may be sold at a good price here-i
fact, at all sorts Of dreadful points. none c
which are any business Of theirs or ours. Th
fact OF the race contents us, because ii
characteristic Of English aud American rest
less energy that three pretty schoouers shout
be started IN the Christmas weather for a rul
across the ocean. We don't care who sail
them, or who doesn t, so long as we see III
children of ths Vikings. twice removed,
still with this splendid passion for the brin
in their blood, which makes them scud acros
the Atlantic with their pleasure boats in De
.cember. lie gentlemen of England. VIII
howl at home at ease do you know that th
Atlantic is like in q nor easter at Christma
time? Some of you would be silent, an
tender about sea legs" if you were shippe
with the Yankee crews to make this voyag
in the little holiday schoonersi Many
British pa senger has wished that Christi
nher Columbus had been crucifed," as b
has performed the passage aud its accomps
niments on board the great liners. But VI
less the little ships have good luck, they vi
20 through some water frolics and sea dant
ing to which the rolling steady plunge OF
Cuuarder is but u minuet When the wind
ahead. with q heavy swell on, aud the wint'
night settles down on the grey and whit
waves with an extra howl Of the gale, and a
extra savage whistle OF the water, hevan
some dollars at Cowes To make this pleasan
And when every nov and then 3 great hill
the kissing brine comes boldly on board. an
the look out men holding on forward Eond,
when they shall get anything to breathe Ell
cept salt water, il isn't altogether child
play, whoever may be on board. The
are plenty of hard nations who face III
sort of weather for their livelihood, al
take j, IS 1t comes, in vessels little ar
big but Ne only know two that make
bold pleasure Of the peril, and like it belts
the worse it grows. These two are TIN En-,
lish and the Americans; and. il for nethil
else, there ought. therefore, to be a sol
good feeling between as, esp ciaiIy so lol
rs there is sueh q lot of salt water IN Il
world.
By this time the DAZZLING little Yank,
schooners are well out on the broad Atlanti
Their names are the HeWietta, the Fleetwin
and the Tpsta. owned respectiyefv he N