Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22
Our European Letter,
LONDON. Enc. Oct. S. L

WHO HIS nau great e&perlence III couFdleS-
cent camps, says that he has never met
with so many soldiers Frustrated with ex-
treme nervous debility rs he finds at
Muritzburg, and that their agitation and
unrest battles the ordinary modes of treat
ment. | can account for this. The Zulu
war has been war in which an extraordi-
nary mental strain has been superadded to
no ordinary amount of hardship. To say
that the battle of Isandhloana established
scare" would not be going too far.
Here was an enemy who might attack at
any time in overwhelming numbers; who
would march straight up to the mouths of
battery of field pieces, who knew no
fear. and would show no mercy. 10 con-
duct Il campaign successfully against such
an enemy as this necessitated vigilance
of the most incessant kind. A few mo-
ments' delay, if an attack should be made,
would be fatal-fatal not only to the force
in military sense, but also to the lives of
the greater number of those composing it.
TO sleep in your boots; to have your am
munition at hands, so that it is impossible
for it to be mislaid; to have your rifle so
placed that it is the first thing your hand
touches us you spring up from the ground;
to sleep underneath wagon upon ground
sodden with rain, or underneath frosty
starlght-all this is trying to even the
hardest. The men get used to it, but still
it tells upon them. Heads which went
into Zuuland with a mere sprinkling OF
grey hair, come back with a goodly
growth. How grey he has grown"' is a
remark heard every day with regard to
men who have been ill., This is the result
of the mental strain, coming as it does
upon the top of severe physical exertion.
We are again promised a scandal OF the
first magnitude. The name of woman,
previously referred to in one or two of my
letters to your paper, and who, for the
last two or three seasons, has passed as q
professional BEATTY is about. it is said,
to appear in the divorce court with no less
than three high-titled correspondents.
This is the logical result of such unseem-
ly notoriety of y private woman who has
been allowed to exhibit herself in private
drawing rooms and public places us u sort
of prize Lily" the ne Plus ultra of fem
mime physical perfection. All her points"
have been closely examined and freely dis
cussed in society and in the newspapers,
while the royalty on the sale of her pho
tographs has enabled her to dress with the
best of the West End bellies. The ques-
ton has often been asked what manner of
man the husband could be, to submit to
| all this PROCLAMATION of sacred things, the
most sacred of all things, the personal
charms and attractions of his wife; her
form, face, features, hair, eyes, and
all her lines, curves and motions, these
have been the daily themes of the news
papers, and the topics OF the clubs. for the
last two or three years. Such tantalizing
descriptions of this ineffable beauty :"
have naturally attracted swarms of honey
bees around the sweet flower. And now
comes the tale of the sting. 1t is bad
enough to publish the delicate inventories
of the personal properties of actresses,
who, on entering the public stage, become
u sort OF public property, that is, the public
is licensed to discuss them physically and
mentally, to crticise their eyes and their
voices, the opulenco of their forms. and
the grace OF their motions-in II word, to
handle them without gloves" a wife's
beauties belong to her husband only,
and If she loves him, she wants no other
eye to admire, no other tongue to praise
them. The 6ruiting of this scandal will
probably prevent the lady in question from
exhibiting her beauty" in America.
The proposed visit would prove failure
like 6 carrying Goals to Newcastle. .
Should this Dolly Spanker of husband
be foolish enough to appeal to the divorce
court. the several correspondents will
doubtless follow the high English prccc.
dent of denying the " soft impeachment. 81
Where q woman's honor is concerned Il
man. oath must be framed to meet the
occasion. regardless of the pains and pen.
alties of perjury.
If tho ever-drelded political troubles
born and bred in partisan nurseries and
protected by flaming "loyalists a" do moi
upset the present prospects in America
you will hear of many English capitalists
taking their money to America for invest
ment, under their immediate view, that
pay more than the flrcicll one or two Der
cent here. i have heard of several in,
stances Of shrewd business capitalist,
preparing for visit to America with this
financial programme before them. Let
them he assured of political peace, and
then we shall see financial plenty.
So far the influence of Lord Beacons.
fields intentional direction of the farmer
to Canada sort of emigration agents
free advice-has not been manifest. In
Lincolnshire and the counties have been
passing through lately l have learned OF
several farmers, with cash capital and
manly independence, making arrange
ments TO 20 not to Canada, where they
tell me "you get all of Old England's
social pretensions and none of her legal
protection" but TO the American states
they go. ALPHA.
b The Portland, Conn, quarries are turn
ing out some immense blocks of brown
stone for Mr.. Vanderbilt's new house.
Some of them weigh twelve tons. and on
one are tho trucks Of n prehistoric animal.
whose foot, from heel to toe, must have