Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19
From Our Regular Correspondent
Our EurOpean,Letter,
QUEENSTOWN, Nov.

atlantic steamships touch Mt Queenstown
and deliver or receive their contingent of
passengers. Figures are so barren in
giving an idea of that miniature edition
of the world which a great transatlantic
steamship properly represents. As she
turns the corner at Roche's Point, and
steams into harbor, the little tender at the
quay whistles defanlly, and emigrants
and saloon passengers hurry on deck. All
the cars and all the porters in the town
are engaged in transporting luggage from
the train to the boat, and, as you can tell
a persons character from his company, so
you can guess the nationality of these
travellers from their trunks and their
boxes. Here are the enormous valises of
the American ladies, so large that they
might almost be inhabited. and so strong
that they might defy the burglarious ex-
plots of even a Belgian ship pc, ter
American luggage is always admirable in
structure and continuance, and always
distinctive. 1t has the strength of English
workmanship, without its clumsiness. and
the internal arrangements are as perfect
as those of the big ship in which it is
found. And side by side with this most
civilized of modern impediments come the
bundles in which the emigrants carry
their bedding. their drinking utensils, and
the scanty bundles which hold the few
clothes which they carry from poor
country to rich one. The town wakens
up when the train arrives with the Amer
lean mall and business is brisk with
blackthorns, Limerick lace, grapes, sham
rocks and donkeys. 1t is curious thing
that the Americans have recently devel.
oped great taste for asses. The demand
has diminished the supply, and the price
within recent years has gone up consid-
erably. Thursday and Friday are the
great American days in Queenstown. As
the ship is sighted out at sea she is tele-
graphed, and MS soon as the telegram
SO"SS IA tliO uho up - anu tilS
tender will be found pulling and snortng
at the quay. 1t is an exciting scene to
witness the leavetakings and the partings.
Rich Americans to whom the voyage is
the last item in the programme of their
summer tour, and poor country emigrants
for whom it has been the great event
looked forward to for years, hurry on
board the tender and steam off to where
the ship lies at anchor between the ports
1t is u scene of very contrasted interest
when these two ranks of voyagers pass
over the gangway of the Inman. Cunard,
or White Star steamship, and seek the
quarters they are to occupy, The Ameri-
cans are sure to find old friends on board,
and there is II great comparing of notes
and exchange of gossip. The ship, indeed,
resembles hotel, and if the weather
could only be relied on the eight or nine
days of the voyage might count as pic
mic. We live in Il world of changes, but
no change has been greater than that
which has governed the course and history
Of transatlantic commerce
Among the notable deaths of the past
week is that of Mr.. Edmund Falconer,
who wrote the play, Peep O Day.
which ran two years at the Lyceum thea
tire, and placed twenty thousand pounds
to the banking account of the author Up
to this time MIR. Falconer had been a
struggling provincial actor and had known
the pinching misery of poverty. One
would have thought that the bitter expert
ence of the past would have suggested
prudence, but after making this handsome
sum. which nicely invested would have
secured lifelong comfort, Mr.. Falconer
embarked his capital in re-decorating and
running" Drury Lane theator, bringing
out preposterous piece called " Bonnie
Dundee" which proved disastrous fail
ure. In less than two years his twenty
thousand pounds had taken wing. Drury
Lane theater is a dramatic ogre that can
swallow up al you give it. How anybody
can be found to take the huge cavern has
always been a mystery to me. For the
last fifty years every lessee has left it
broken and ruined, and yet hear, when
it was recently advertised to let, that
Holland, the Peoples Caterer, Augustus
Harris, Holt and Wiimot Circus Myers,
and John Hollingshead were all applicants
for it, The sooner it is torn down the
better, US it might be utilized by the gov
eminent as West.end post office, Or for
the matter it is adapted to large co opera
tive stores.
The demand for American butter on this
side of the water is growing every day,
and the trade seems likely to assume very
large proportions. The New York butter
dealers connected with the export trade
say that larger number of tubs or pack
ages of butter have changed hands in the
market lately than have ever been sold
before, the amount paid to American ship
pers OF the article in one week being about
five hundred thousand dollars. This butter
is bought by agents for dealers in England
and on the continent. The reasons given
by butter dealers for the magnitude Of the
traffic are two-frst, butter has not been
shipped from the United States to Europe
and Great Britain rs steadily this summer
us last summer. Therefore dealers in New
York have had to increase their storing
capacity, aud some dealers have had fifty
or sixty thousand packages of butter on
hand at one time. The second reason why
the sales of later are enormously large is
that domestic butter, th,t is, the butter
produced mainly in Ireland and Scotland,
has been thrust upon the English market
in way unprecedented. ALPHA.
Senator David Davis of Illinois Is quite
sick at Lenox, Mass, where his wife died
a few days ago.