Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-03-11
Correspondence of Wilmington Journal
Kn the Green MOuntAtns-C eIebr { d
sprIngs-Female Suffrage, sc.
MIDDLETowN SPRINGS VERMONT,
March 4th, 1870.

| MIDDLETowN SPRINGS VERMONT, /
! March 4th, 1870
The Green Mountain State is shorn of
much of it's attractiveness by the rigors of
Winter, and the recollections of Summer
travel hereabouts, when kindlier skies pre-
vailed and nature was bright and beautiful
in vernal charms, are evoked only to make
the contrast between the now and then
less calculated to enhance present comfort
or to beget wish for ii protracted stay.
The unending waste of snow on all
sides, the frozen stream Ieafiess woods,
dreary mountains and leaden skies are no
pleasing pictures to cheer the invalid
couch, and, with such surroundings, We
almost imagine ourselves transported
among the frigid scenes of Siberia, ex-
pecting momentarily to sec the reindeer,
The skin-covered Cossack, the dog and the
wolf introduced to complete the wlntry
perspective.
While we write the snow is falling thick
and fast; deeper grows the white covering
over mother earth, and higher monnt the
accommodating drifts. The wind blows
fierce and bitter without the clouds are
heavy with unspent storms, and nature, in
its whole mountain and sky-bound range
offers little to relieve the dreariness of the
inhospitable scene. Such is Winter in
Vermont such the characteristic picture
to be witnessed at this season of the year
in the Green Mountains. Yet it is not
always thus. Middletown, in Sum ,Aer, is
one of the most picturesque and delightful
resorts imaginable. Here it is that the
gay birds Of fashion and the invalid public
periodically wend their way, we'll knowing
that Spring dlspels the last vestige of
Winter and robes mountain, hill and val
ley in richest green. The village is celo-
brated for its remarkable healing
springs, whose waters are pure, strong
chaIyDeates, and most unquestionably
etficacious in debility, nervous disorders
land chronic diseases generally. It is on
the highway to increased popularity and
prosperity, and busy preparations are be-
ing pushed forward in anticipation OF large
summer crowds the coming season. Spring
and bathing houses have long since been
erected, and splendid hotel is to be COM
pleted in a few months, and every desira-
bic appointment made in readiness for the
multitudes OF health and pleasure seekers
To one travelling in this State, or else
where in New England it must appear as a
fact. almost incontrovertible, that the sue
cess of the Woman's Rights, and more es
peciallv the Woman Suffrage, movement is
merely question Of time. Such is the
result of our observation and investiea.
ton. The friends and outspoken, uncom-
promising advocates of the movement are
numbering legion where q short time ago
the idea OF opening the ballot box to the
women of America was hOoted as imprac-
ticable, fanatical and absurd. The conven-
tons daily assembling in behalf of the
cause are successful in the enthusiasm
which characterize their workings; in the
mpatby and endorsement of prominent
citizens, and in more perfect organizations
fox enlarged operations in the future In
decd, it begins to look already that the day
of the contamination so devoutly wished
for, and urged by Julia Ward Howe and
her fair co-wOrkers while or their late
pro>elytipg tour through Vermont, is not
so far removed as many of us would fain
believe. It will come sooner or later we
may rest assured. Like many other isnas
born and bred in the restless and fertile
brain of New England, it will be agitated
and pushed and driven until its accom-
plishment shall prove the realization of the
hopes and ambitions and interests OF the
4" Reformers." The strong minded women
Of New England know no such word as fail
in their fanatical zeal against imaginary
wrongs. They are determined to handle
the ballot and they aDiU succeed "thoueh
the heavens fall" This is no idle predic-
ton and time viii prove its truthfulness.
O.