The North Carolina Standard

American Heroism.—The Algemeine Zeitung, a Gazette published in Vienna, gives an account of a pleasure boat in the river there, by which the Princess Adelaide Sophia was precipitated into the water and would have been drowned, if it had not been for the heroic exertions of Mr. Bell a young American gentleman, son of Dr. Bell, of Charleston, S. C. who happening to be near in another pleasure boat immediately plunged into the river, (without knowing the quality of the lady,) and rescued her from a watery grave. He was the next day invited to the imperial palace, where he was presented by the lovely Sophia herself with diamonds, valued at twenty thousand dollars. Our correspondent to whom we are indebted for the paper states that "it is impossible to conceive how high the American Nation stands in this capital. The Austrian Court is certainly the proudest in Europe, yet the Archduke has lately been heard to say that an American gentleman is fully on a par with an Austrian Nobleman. I should not therefore be surprised if something further grew out of this matter—particularly as young Bell is remarkably handsome and intelligent."