Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-11-04

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around the rim coat, coming tight around the
neck, giving no chance for collar save light
one, with leather binding, made Of heavy blue
cloth, white buttons and leather belt; pants,
the same vest, none to be seen; q heavy pair
Of boots, and white silk or cotton gloves. In
this costume they are always at hand, on duty
Or discharged, and their convenience upon rail-
ways, where they are as here complete net
work, is not to be deprecated, to say nothing o +
their effective service in doing their multiplied
duties.
While speaking of uniforms, let me say that
if you wish to know mans occupation, just
describe his uniform and you will find some one
ready to tell you. Police, railroad, post-ofhce
and telegraph men, servants and pages, keepers
of halls, prisons and almost cvery body, can
have costume if they wish. While an Amer
lean is attracted by these, he can but be more
forcibly impressed with the thousands on thou
sands Of children, in London especially, who
are members of the schools of charity, of the
many orders, higher institutions, and even the
colleges-all require and have fixed costume,
and to see body Of them, of 100 to 700, (the
most | saw,) is sight of no small interest
and do not doubt the real feelings of the EN-
peror of Russia were all he expressed, upon
seeing the IA 900 or $4,000 of them all in one
congregation. The costume differs slightly in
material, but is nearly the same in make. These
call forth the admiration of the beholder, for
while there are thousands that can not, or do
not, receive these advantages, but are left to all
the darkness and crime they can learn in such
place, he feels that something is doing in the
right way, and hopes for the speedy arrival of
that time when these needy thousands shall, as
with US, be sharers in these great advantages.
But while these are In the mind, receiving those
benefits which are only to be had in q civilized
land, there is another very large body who,
while they cannot fail as military men to be
admired, cannot cause in the mind of one whose
interest is for the future results of their train
ing, such feelings of admiration and applause
as do the former. While therefore the military
with its thousands of young men, the very flow
er of the land, dressed in their various costumes
and of various companies of horse and foot, meet
you at every turn, in their daily parades, cal
forth your admiration at the perfection of their
training still in comparison with the benefits
to be obtained from the two companies, who
can but say, how futile and of war, where is
thy beauty! A sad picture indeed is it to see
so many thus engaged, and none but the best
and being once enlisted all care is done--n(
high emotion--no future; all is out of theil
reach Thus thousands of the very bone and
sinew of this people, live doing nothing, want
ing nothing, expecting thus to live, and thus
if not killed, to die. know not how it may
seem to Others, but among the bad phases
have here seen, this is one, and by no means q
small one. "Men wanted for the Army" il
seen at many an Office door, and there they pay
a premium for stout athletic men to become
miserable drones in this busy age of ours. Whil'
therefore we see here much good, there is, a
must be expected, much evil; and where yol
find on the one hand hundreds of schools ant
hospitals for all classes, and all kinds, many o
which are free charities, you also find the thou
sands outside who seek nothing butthe lowest
vilest and most revolving ends, by equally dis
gushing means--a thing never saw before OF
SO magnificent a scale. This I of course con
fine to London.
We will now look at the people as people
A very strong feature in an Americans view il
the comparatively easy manner in which the.
take life and its enjoyments; and although
there may be business men who apply them
selves with as much intensity as any can do
still the large mass are easy, contented, ii
enough to cat for to-day,) jovlal in their way
drinking Ale, Porter, Dublin Stout, and hun
dred diftreut kinds Of sami-intoxicators,) unit
their last penny is gone, when they will try t.
get another. Another large class show then
how it is done, and still do not como to this loy
point in funds, although they may at times b
as low in the ditch, only their ditch is highe
kind To see these people on one of their parks
enjoying themselves in all the variety that larg
parks, studded with ponds, groves and walk
can add to the hustle and strife of the thronge
city, is sight not to be met with in America
to my knowledge, and one which fully show
the English people in all their phases. As W
cannot visit all of them, let us look for fey
moments at London's principal Park, where W
shall sect all the best and none of the loves
phases-otheT parks being more for the commo
people.
Hyde Park is an area of ground of 400 acres
and to say nothing of its beauty &C., is wei
worth visiting for here at any time you ca
see vast numbers Of people; and as no kind G
trade or traffic is allowed, you find them fire
from all these and other encumbrances, and i
their own natural attire. Here you will see i
the inner enclosure, for it is all enclosed b
an iron fence, and then again another fenc
encloses the park from the drive, all classes c
people, from the respectable poor 20 the wealth
lest and most influential, and as they wande
from place to place, in all the careless yet no
disgusting indifference, one cannot but remar
them as different people from our own, an
one that mostly cares only for to-day. Blu
while you can find enough to study and anus
yourself with in the inner enclosure, the grea
attraction is in the drive. For while on til
park enjoying all its natural scenery are all tn
above the ride which extends around the whole
and is wide enough for six or eight carriage
: abreast, is occupied by horsemen of every grade
vehicles Of every description, aud the peopl
who accompany them, attired in as various cos
tunes as the clmes which produce them, AM
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