New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-03-26
OUR EUROPEAN LETTER.

The ENGLISH DEFEAT By THE SA-
vAGE ZULUs. FIVE HUNDRED SOL.
$. D1ERs AND SIXTY OFFICERS sLAUGH-
s: TERED. PREPARATIONS FOR RE-.
: VENICE. EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE IN
|. VARIOUS WAYS. AN INTERESTING
LESSON FOR YOUNG AND OLD. "A
NIGHT SCENE.
trrom our regular correspondent,
London, England, March 7th, 1879.
The terrible disaster to the British
troops in South Africa is the only
topic in London and the Queen do.
mains to-day-The affair is very hu.
milating to British Military pride
and it is evident that ''some one has
blundered. To enlongate whole
regiment in one attenuated line as
con voy and guard of a provision
and munition train, extending over
a distance of several miles, in a
country swarming with hostile sa.
wages, is most hazardous, not to
say reckless, maneuvre. The result
was, as might have been expected,
that the long file of thousand men
were f1anked and butchered by TWEEN.
ty thousand half.naked but we'll.
armed Zulus, whose only knowledge
Of war is contained in their only
word Of command; "Death to the e.
nemy!" Sixty officers and five hun.
bred English soldiers were slaugh.
tered, and as many more of their
native soldiers. That these victims
ofmilitary indiscretion fought brave
ly may be gathered from the fact
that they piled five thousand dead
savages on the bloody field; but over
one hundred wagons, tilledwith arms,
munitions, and provisions fell into
the hands Of the enemy, greatly
strengthening them for future con.
hicts. This unexpected blow has
produced profound sensation in
England. There has been nothing
SO narrowing to the heart of the ma.
ton since the instruction of the
Sepoys. Reinforcements are rapid
ly going forward on gigantic scale,
some twenty large ships having been
already chartered for the purpose,
including four of the National
Steamship Line, and four of the
Cunard, the latter Company having
contracted with the Government to
supply 10000 tons of shipping at a
days notice. This makes business
lively in the Liverpool docks, and in
all the camps and arsenals OF the
United Kingdom. ''lt is an i'll wind,
etc. 1t is to be hoped that these
reinforcements may reach the Cape
I'M tlme=the average voyage Is Thu hiss ty
days-to save the feeble Colony Of
Natal from destruction. Flushed
and frenzied with their victory, the
Zulu army of forty thousand warri.
ors will naturally attempt to ami.
hilate every vestlge Of the English
settlements in South Africa. Of the
ultimate result of this war between
civilization and barbarism there can
be no doubt; but the struggle will
be long and a costly one, like that
Of the Indian war in the United
States. After which we shall prob.
ably hear less of English military
criticism on the manner in which
Americans daily with their barbar-
Gus foes in the jungles, and cayerns,
and forests of the West. Savage
hordes are much harder to fight
than civilized and disciplined Troops.
They never know when they are
conquered, III fact, they are never
conquered, so long as single
brave remains in the field, or
rather hides in the ambush. While
all England is aroused and eager to
rush to Zululand, to infct swift
revenge for their slaughtered coun.
trymen, the Opposition IMP Parliament
is using this humiliating calamity
as an argument against the Minis.
try. These foreign wars, however
successful, are intlicting heavy
burthen on the nation. Weights
farthest from the centre are the
hardest to carry. 1t was in Africa
that the Empire of the Caesars
found its fate, after conquering
Gaul, Britain, and all the world. Is
the British Empire repeating the
ambition of the Anscient Romano
In Punch's great cartoon, a few
weeks since, representing the Bri.
fish Bull staggering under his hume.
rous heavy riders. Turkey- Afghanis-
tan, etc. the Zulu appears in the act
Of jumping on the vacant space near
the tail: saying: s'Dere's jes room
for me.
| What have not cruel parents to
answer for, from the time of Sappho's
mother, who could not abide MIR.
Phaon, down to Wilkins and his
faithful Dinah' lis not often that
the attached couple ride away into
eternity in pairs. Sometimes it is
rather a prosaic sort of business, as
in Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo
and Juliet. The French have de.
cided dislike to such a one.horse sen.
sation. When Jules and Maria find
their parents obdurate, or for any
other cause, they will take stroll a.
long the banks of the Seine, and af.
ter carefully depositing hats and
bonnets on the grass lest they should
get wet, leap arm-in arm into the
deepest hole they can find. Some.
times they prefer warmer and dri.
er death, and after carouse, shut
themselves up in a garrett, stop all
the openings, and asphyxiate them
selves with the fumes of burning
charcoal. In England they are moi
much addicted to this partnership il