The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-12
A Kentucky Editor In Eugiand.

Mr.. Henry Watterson, the editor oil
the Louisville Courier. Journal, who is
now doing Europe" has seen the Shah,
but does not see the interesting melau-
choly or any other facial characteristics
that other correspondents have observ-
ed. as will be seen by the following
The Shah himself is an ugly cuss. lie
resembles closely the pictures OF the
more cruel OF his forelathers contained
in the early editions OF the Arabian
Nights. l dare say he has caused
many q poor fellows head to be chop
ped eff on a notice of five minutes, and
it would not surprise me to learn that
he has a trick of making himself q
widower three or four times a month,
A fieyce-eyed, tallow-visaged, ugly beast
as ever wore a diamond or carried a
cimetar, and his Grand Vizier, who is
along with him, is only triie less bru
tai and vicious. II you met either in a
dark alley, you would tremble for your
life. If Captain Jack has worse
countenance he is no true Modoc. But
this is all one to the English, who have
q budget of interests in the east, and
expect to make good thing out OF the
present festivities.
Mr.. Watterson, however, seems to
have been in an atrabillar mood, for in
the same letter he assails "Old Eng
land" herself in a most tremendous
style. He says England, with her in
science, her glory and her grandeur, is
destined to come to this. The fuger
OF death is pointed at her. 1t points
towards her beds OF coal, which are
we'll nigh empty. 1t points to her fur
naces which are closing one by one. 1t
will ere long point directly into LON
bard street, through which her financial
life currents flow. There is q Grea.
Britain yonder, across the seas which
has done it all, and the dormant hatred
felt for America in the hidden heart OF
England is not worth its cause. That
this hatred exists, no mau who has
taken the trouble to peer behind the
surface OF things and can see them as
they are, can doubt. The toadies and
and tuft-hunters, who come over here
in search OF social and literary distioc-
ton, and who when called upon to
speak at public dinners, pule about the
bonds OF union between England and
America which grow out OF common
ancestry and a common language, are
ofcourse delighted with everything they
see and hear.
TO be cure, they have a good time.
The English have reduced their hospi-
tahty to a science, and they are ready
enough to patrouize the American who
will flatter their vanity and listen to
their conceited gable They like him
in proportion as he elongstes his VOW.
els and stammers out his words. They
will take him to their heart OF hearts
If he confines his knowledge OF Anne eri.
can institutions to the Mormons and
the Modocs, considers the English
method of riding the most graceful in
the world, aud eats kidneys. In their
purest form of flattery, imitation, he
can give but one higher illustration, if
he is little brusque to ladies he will
prove himself at once hero and Briton.
But, at bottom, the English dislike the
Americans. They know that the
United States must always be hostile
power TO them. They know that the
German and Irish elements ih Ameri.
can politics would settle that if nothing
else did. The plain truth is that Eng
land and America have nothing in
common which does not furnish just
cause for mutual i'll will. This can
only be modified, not set aside, by indi'
vidual cases OF friendliness and interest.
Beyond it all demonstrations OF ma
tional friendliness are false.