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AT THE OFFICE OF
TJI lu JEFFERSON Atf.
LAW VERSUS SAW ;
Or, Irlusings from the Office Window.
BV LKWIS DEL A.
Sitting in his office was a lawyer
Standing in the street was a sawyer
On the lawyer's anxious face,
You could read a knotty case,
Needing law :
While the sawyer, gaunt and grim,
On a rough and knotty limb,
Jiun his saw.
Kow the saw-horse seemed to me
Like a double X in fee;
And the saw,
Which ever way 'twas thrust,
U6t be followed by the dusl,
Like the laio.
.And the log upon the rack,
Xike a client on the track.
Played ils part
As the tempered te.elh of ttcei
Blade a wound that would not heal,
Through the heart.
And each severed stick tint fdlt
la its falling seemed to tvH,
All too plain,
'Of the may severed ties,
That in law suits will arie,
Bringing pain.
'Then melhought the tturdy paw,
That was using axe and saw
On the wood
lleld a yielding mine of wealth
With its honest toil and health
Doing good.
If tire chips that strewed tho ground,
By some stricken widow found,
In her need,
Should, by light and warmth, impart
Blessings to her aged heart,
Happy deed.
This conclusion then I draw,
That no exerciEe of jaw,
Twisting India rubber law-,
Is as good
As the exercise of pa'.v,
On the handle of a saw,
Sa wins' wood.
tTr People who expect to get to heaven
'liy dropping a shilling in the contribution box
n Sunday, and shaving a dozen poor men of tcmpt-ing to a stranger, but purchases aro
ten times that sum on Monday to make up for rujnous at the present crisis, when money
ii, are as likely to have a seat in paradise as commands fifty per cent, premium here,
a one-ox express is to beat summer lightning. and seventy-five per cent, at Shanghai.
. Whoever first invented the "pigeon
O3 We cannot control the evil tongues of j English,'" as it is called the jargon used
others, but a good life enables us to despise by foreigners in their intercourse with
them. i Chinese deserves an immortality of rid-
; jicule. The jargon has now become so
A Good Anecdote. We heard the;fi"d, that it will take several generations
other day a good one of John Check, ' to eradicate it. The Chinaman requires
who always had his eye cocked both
always
ways for justice,
and perhaps, for Sun-
dav. It seems he had fined an Irishman,
who having used a little too much of the
crayther, was foolish enough to let tho
cra3'ther use him. Pat on leaving the (
office met a friend to whom he held forth: ;
" By-jabers, I was fined, Martin !" j
u Ah, who fined you nowT' !
That's tellin' just. 'T was a raon in
there who's cither a justice of peace or
piece of justice and I don't know which; ,
and he s left handed in both eyes."
If you waut to marry, don't sneak aud
honey round a girl without letting her
inow what you are after. Make a bold
stroke of it, and tell Miss Checkerberry
that you want her hand, heart, and body
for the parson, matrimony and population,
Do it-like a man. The joyous manner in
which the fair one consents will only be
surpassed by its rapidity.
For liking a
proposition right out, hearty aud strong, ,
the ladies are No 1, silver top, cool and
comfortable. Order a few for samples,
.
A Quick Thought. An Irishman
having accidentally broken a pane of Mr Wells, AYilliams and Rev. Mr. Bouncy high, at thc farther end. bpveral Unna
trlass iu street, was iuakin? the best kind rmmirrli to aecomnanv me ves- men were in the room, and one stretched
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of his way out of sight; but thc proprie-
eeized him by the collar, exclaimed
u-Lwi.. ...ii.. i
" rn Vrnlrn mv rvtnAnm fiilln. lwl
..v .i.uv, um
you not."
"To bo sure I did." said Pat. "and
did you not see ine running home for standing within enclosed courts, which The opium-pipe is a bamboo stick, a
money to pay for it 7" 1 are shaded bv lare and venerable trees, bout two feet long, having a small
a rrood deacon, making an official visit
j Ar-nr nftiohbor. who was a verv un-
popular man, put the usual question
Arc vou'willin" to go my friend V
" Oh yes," said the 6ick man.
" 1 am glad of that," said the deacon,
for oil thc neighbors are willing." ;
i .air an--. -
Canton Its Streets and Shops the Ho -
nan Temple a Walk around the Walls
Opium fcrnoiCing- the i east of Lan
terns.
, EditonalCorrcspoufcncc of the N
Y. Tribune.
r . pi - mi j o j. o lor.o
ANTO, Vjtlina, luuday, bept. O, IbOJ.
; The steamer in which I left Maco on
-Monday last, did not reach here until
i daybreak, the next morning. Consequent
ly, whatever there may be of the piotur
, cfque or striking in the approach to Can
ton, was lost to me. As the rapid dawn
, of the South brightened into sunrise, I
found that we anchored in the middle of
the stream between the foreign Factories
and the famous temple of Honan. The
Pearl lliver, at this place, is not more
than a quarter of a mile wide, and thick-
ij. muuucu nuu juun.a, uunu uu.ua, uuu
those crowded hulks which contain the
i "floating population" an important item
in the census of the city. What little
, can be seen of the native part of Canton
from this point is low aud mean, unre
lieved by a single pagoda. Tho foreign
j Factories on the contrary, inclosing a
parallelogram of three or four acres, which
extends dowu to the river, aro substan
tial blocks of buildings, four stories in
I l"glt.
The open space has been turned
: into
a Botanical Garden, which is kept
j in excellent order, as it affords, the resi- ' entered a labyrinth of smaller buildings, ! ous. Its victim becomes hopelessly in- with a fort, which completely commands: the nature of a fluid, that it may be pour -dents
their only chance for agreeable ex- . in one of which was a printing establish- j volved in its fascinating illussions, and ' the city. It was taken without difficulty ed out of one vessel into another. It rw
;crcisc, except that of boating on the river. , ment, where the legends of Boodhism are . an awful death, such as I witnessed not by Lord Gough, during the English war, jes at the temperature at which it is c'x
:In this garden four lofty flag staffs, plant- j multiplied in great quantities. Many of ( long since, is sure, sooner or later, to o- and every preparation was made to open haled from the lungs, but its tendency is
ed at regular intervals, display the colors the books were illustrated with curious ( vertake him who indulges to excess. I a bombardment, when the ransom of 6,-' towards the floor, or bed of the sleeper,
of America, France, England, and Dcn-
' mark, and in the centre a great Gothic
'Chapel stands on the sight of old llog
;Lane, renowned duriug the troubles of
jlS'll. The factories are divided into
'different "hongs" English, American,
j Danish, &c, but the foreign community
(is crowded. into narrow bounds, hemmed
in on all si'des by the jealousy of the na
tive authorities, and a five minutes' walk,
will embrace Its utmost limits.
Adjacent to the factories are the streets
occupied by tho Chinese "hong merchants,"
'whose dealings are almost wholly with
j foreigners, and tho markets and shops of
i mechanics, which depend on foreign cus
itom. The most noted thoroughfares are
; Old and New China streets, and Looking
! Glass and Spectacle streets, which in thoir
;qutrnt forms and brilliant coloring, their
'gay, bustling and lively aspect, resemble
; the bazaars of Oriental cities. They are
narrow, the houses two stories in hioht
; with projecting roofs, the fronts of a dark j inverted cone of palo green surrounded
'blue or green'color, with a mixture ofjw5tu a fringe of golden anthers. The
bright red, and still further relieved by I
I the gilded hieroglyphics which cover the
vertical swinging signs. Iu Old and ,
'New China streets there are also English j
signs which inform you that A-Kow or j
,Uu-ping deals in silks, or porcelain or ;
.'lacquered ware, or ivory, or mother-of- ;
I pearl, or sandal-wood, or silver. The i
j predominant talent of the Chinese is their :
faculty of imitation, and since their in- j
tercourse with foreigners has become less
restricted they have been obliged to a-
bandon many of their former grotesque
!models and accept others more consonant
I with a civilized taste. This is shown in
the patterns in Bilk, the form and style in pile, which is replenished until the flesh
their articles of silver and ivory, and their , is roasted in cinders, and the bones cal
furniture. The display in their shops is cined into dut. On our way back to tho
as mcu FaciIce 10 iea 11 a3 1,0 W0U1U
to learn correct English, while the Eng
lishman in his turn; must pick it up as
he would a new language. Fancy, for
instance, a man going into one of the sil
ver ware shops in New China ttrcets, and
saying "My wantye two peice snuff box:
can secure?" when his meauing is simply
I want two snuff boxes- can vou tret
J . C
them?" To which A-Wing gravely an
swers: can secure." Or, another declar
ing; "My no savey that pigeon" which
signifies in English: "I don't under-
stand that business." If you make in
quiries at a hotel you must ask: "what
man have got top-side?" (who are up
stairs?) and the Chinese servants will
make answer: 1 wo peice captain, one
peJce jos.n,an have got. (There
arc
U.Q captajns amj a clergyman.) It was
sometime before I could bring myself to
make me of tl.:a aKsurj aml barbarous
jj.,,ro an$ u :3 cven vet very unDleasant
,n i.pnr ;f snnvn ilV ., i;i(r
Ag far as . hfc ge . y concerncd
Canlon has lktlo t0 offer thc travel.
and j am Q thorousbly surfeited whb
China that I have made no effort to see
rrtrtrr tlisin tho most nroiiiinent obiects
terday through the temple of Honan, on
MVIV' AWM w i j
tuv' "l'i'"'110 ... , . ....
n ace of creat sanctity, embracing wituin
. .
,,s h0Unds a
well-endowed college of
O
Twii.Jcf nr;-a
There are a number of
..,i,r oi.v? hoc n f tlift aoda.
We first passed through a portal, placed
a
in advance, like the pylon of an Egyp-
tian temple, with a colossal figure on each
side of the watchers or guardians of the
edifice. With their distended abdomens,
copper
they mi
Magog.
faces and fierce black eyeballs,
i . .11 p i
nt verv wen pass ror tiorr ana
The
temples
wcre raassivcj ;
- ik -f-pirW niifM r nflrr -
1 square structures, with peaked roof-?, con-
taining colossal gilded statues of various
divinities, most of whom were seated
cross-logged, with their nanus ou tneir
stomachs and a grin of ineffable good hu-
mor on their faces. They wcro no doubt
represented as having dined well, and
therefore the more easily to be propitia-
ted
Wo reached tho main temple in
time to witness the rites of the 13oodhist
priests. Numerous candles and "joss- ; ready lor a second pipe,
sticks" of sandal-wood were burning at j To my surprise I found tho taste of the
the feet of the vast statues, and the shav- i drug as delicious as its smell is disagree-en-headed
priests, thirty or forty in num- able. It leaves a swert, rich flavor, like
ber, walked solemnly in a circle around the finest liquorice, upon the palate, and
tho open space before them, chanting the gentle stimulus it communicates to
thoir hviuns. The character of their 1 tho blood in tho luno-s. fills the whole
chants were very similar to some of those
USea in me uouian uathonc service, ana
there were other features iu the ccremo-
nies of the priests which showed tho same
resemblance. I believe this fact has been
noticed by other travelers.
After the chanting was concluded, tho : had supposed that opium was smoked
priests came out in siugle file, and passed entirely for the p irposo of mental exhi
into the large building which they inhab- laration, and that to the smokers, as to
it in common. Son:c of them paused to many" who int?xie;:tj themselves with ar-
speak to Mr. Bonney, who was known to
therr
and whom they seemed to regard
without the least animositv notwithstand-
ini? his missionary character. We then
woodcuts. A little further, we came up-
on the stable of the sacred hogs, and were
allowed a look at the venerated animals.
Alas! like many human, their swinish
nature was only increased and intensified
by their exalted station. Very slothful
and greedy were they.
The temple, with its various attendant
edifices, courts and garden?, covers an a-
rea of forty two acres. The garden, how-
ever, is a mere vegetable patch, with a
pond of the sacred lotus in the midst.
Several of these superb plants wero in
bloom, and we bribed a laborer to wade
out in the slimy pool, and procure us a
few blossoms. The slepdcr stem, five
feet in length upholds a brood cup, as
elegant in form as the Warwick Vase,
i i . i . i -i i
and about eight inches in diameter, when
fully expanded. The leaves have the
velvety whiteness of alabaster, veined
with delicate pencilliugs of the purest rose
I color, and in the centre lies the fruit, an
periume has mat lrcsu and healthy sweet
ness which never cloys the sense. .1 he
rose may be a queen among flowers, but
tlie Lotus, sublime in its purity, grace
and exquisite beauty, is a goddess. How
gorgeous a show must its blossoms make,
on tne White Nile, where, at the first ray
of sunrise, tens of thousand flash open all
at once, along leagues of shore.
Beyond the pool was a littlo copse, in
which stands a small building, used in
the incremation of the dead priests. It
is a simple chamber, with a small en
trance, and vents for the escape of tho
smoke. The body is placed on a funeral
river we passed through the habitation of
the priests, taking a look at their kitchens
and rcfactorie
number of the young
1 around us. lustin
brethorn gathered around us, lustin
strongly
after the carnal gratification of
cigars,
and my whole stock was soon di
vided among them. Mr. Bonney took
of much
me to visit a former abbot, a man
tJ mf
t-
learning, who now lives in a quiet way,
on a pension. Ho received us with much
cordiality ard showed us his bachelor es
tablishment of three rooms and a little
garden, which were kept in great neat
ness and order. lie was about sixt7
years of age, and his pale face, calm eye,
and high, retreating brow, spoke of a so
rene and studious life. Tn an inner
chamber, however, I noticed one of those
couches which arc used by the opium
smokers, and the faint subtle odor of the
l .'11 l I i il . r. !i i
drug still
hung about
the furniture and
the walls.
In spite of the penalties attached to it
by Chinese law, the smoking of opium is
scarcely a eoucealed practice at present.
I have seen it carried on in open shops
in Shanghai, where there aro some streets !
which are never free from the sickoning j
smell. It had always been my intention j
to make a trial of the practice, in order !
to learn its eltects from personal experi
ence, and being now on the eve of leav
ing China, I applied to a gentleman re-
eidin" here, to put me in tho way of en-
invinrr si ninn nr two. lie w:is well ac- !
quainted with a Chinaman who is addic
ted to the practice, and by an agreement
with him, took me to his house last even
ing. Wc were ushered into a long room,
with a divan or platform about three feet
, . I
out on the piatiorm, was preparing ma
nine at a lamp. The host invited me to
,.ifi, ,ciF nnwiicJfn f him fjnil n1nr.p
ml
vl,uv, y.- ,
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my head upon one or iuoso cane-neau
stools, which serve the Chinese in lieu or
pillows
drum inserted near the cud, with' an a
pcrture in its center. A piece of opium,
about twice the size of a pin's head, is
taken upon a slender wire and held in tho
flame of tho lamp until it boils or bub-
bles up. when it is rolled rnto a cylindn
i i . i i j i ii r i .f ii..
r.a suane on uie arum dv ine aiu oi mu
It loses its dark color by the heat-'ner,
wire.
j ing and becomes pale and soft. Having
j been sufficiently rolled, it is placed over
, the aperture, and the wire, after
Dei no
, inrusc through us center, to allow the air
j to pass into tho pipo, is withdrawn. The
pipe is then held to tho flame, and as the
opium burns, its fumes are drawn into
j the lungs by a strong and long-continued
inspiration. In about
half a minnto the
! portion is exhausted, and
the smoke is
body with a sensation of warmth and
strcngtn. xiae fumes ol the opium
arc
no
more
irritating
to the windpipe or
t bronchical tubes, than common air, while
they seem imbued with a richuess of vi-
I tality far beyond our diluted oxygen I
dent spirits, there was no sensual gratifi-
' cation in the more taste of the article.
i The reverse is undoubtedly the truth, and
: tho nractice. therefore, is doublv dancer-
j have a pretty strong confidence in my own
, power of resistance, but nothing could
induce me to make the experiment a sec-
ond time.
Beyond the feeling of warmth, vigor
and increased vitality, softened by a hap-
py consciousness of repose, there was no
effect, until after finishing the sixth pipe.
i Mv spirits then became iovouslv excited,
with a constant disposition to laugh;
' brilliant colors floated before my eyes,
but m a confused and cloudy way, sonic-
UUli 1U U UUlllUOtJU ilUU blUUU l ilj , aUllllJ-
times converging into spots like the c'es
in a peacock's tail, but oftenest melting
into and through each other, like the
hues of changeable silk. Had the physi-
j cal excitement been greater, they would
j have taken form and substance, but after
i t i . i .i i
smoking nine pipes I desisted, through
fear of subjecting myself to some un
pleasant after-effect. Our Chinese host
informed me that he was obliged to take
twenty pipes, in order to elevate his mind
to the pitch of perfect happiness. I y
home feeling rather giddy, and bee
went
me
so drowsy, with slight qualms ot the sto
mach, that I went to bed at an early hour.
I had made an arrangement to walk a
round the walls of Canton this morning,
with Mr. Bouncy, and felt some doubt as
to whether I should be able to undertako
it; but after a deep and refreshing sleep,
1 .tll. 1
arose at sunrise
heeling stronger
and
brighter than I had done for weeks past.
The walls of Canton are about eight
miles in circuit. This is but a limited ex
tent for a city which contains upward of .
a million of inhabitants and more than
half the population probably live without
the walls, on the side next the river. In
those dark, narrow and crooked streets,
which lie behind the Factories, the swarm
of human beings is uninterrupted from tho
earliest dawn until lafc in the night. We
- set out at an hour wheu few of the Euro-
peans were stirring, and the st
already so crowded that it was
streets were
ready so crowueu that it was uimcuii to
avoid contact with the porters and water
carriers a contact to be shunned at all
hazards. Though there was less noisome
filth than in the streets of Shanghai, moro
sonso!? th sin one wore offended, and T fi.1t
much relieved when, after a walk of more
than two miles, we came iuto a less thick-
lv settled quarter. A Chinese city is the
frrratnst of a abominations, and one
ceases to wonder at the physical deformi
tv. or the monstrous forms of licentious-
uess which are to do iaunu among ine
lower classes of the natives, when he has
seen tho manner in which they live.
Our road in many places skirted the
m I
it .1 n i .1
wall, which is of brick, about twentj'-five
r . i i t . i l..i .1
feet high, and with a
machicoiated para
pet. At the angles there is sometimes a
At
rude squaro bastion, surmounted by an
ornamental edifice probably a pleasure- i
house belonging to gardens within. Wo
passed several gates into all of which I
looked, but could not see that the streets ;
within diuercd in the least irom those i
without. Near the south-eastern corner ,
Mr. Bonney entered suddenly, I following, j
and we passed across the angle and out
another gate, without any one attempting
to hinder us. While wo were in the
neighborhood of the factories, we were
allowed to pursue our way unnoticed, but
in the straggling suburbs on the eastern
side, we were frequently hailed with the
insulting cry of " Fan-qui " (Foreign
Devil I) One old man, who was at work
in his shop, made an exclamation as we
passed, which Mr. Bonney translated
thus : " I lifted up my eyes, and behold !
devils suddenly appeared before me !"
One of these devils, however, belied the
rdifirsifiter mven him. bv carrying with
--- . . " i.i.
I 1 I 1 f l...:.i;n Unikl Tl-llltll
mm a uub
ne aisinouieu wuu u uuuiai muuu, u.u.j.
one, oiu or young, maiu ui jmaiu,
cepting them with great willingness.
Thev are too willing, in tact, lhe eare-
lessness with which they take every thing
that is offered them, shows a lack of re
spect for their ..own faith, an absence of
that inherent devotional spirit, which
alone can servo as tho ground-work of
their Christianization.
At a gate near the north-eastern icor-
we stopped afa tca-house? to take
somo refreshment. A company of Chi- Why Epidemics Rag'G at Eight,
uesc of the middle class, in the white It was in one night that four thousand
garb of mourning, were waiting there, to persons perished in the plague of London,
attond tho funeral of some friend. Tho, It. was by night that the array of Sen
host brought us steaming cups of tea, or j nacharib was destroyed. Doth in Eng
rather tea-stew, very itrong and invigora- j land aud on the continent a large propor
ting, and a crisp sort of cake, seasoned . tion of cholera cases, in its several forms.
with pork and
suirar.
Some of the Chi
uese entered into conversation with 3Ir. tween 1 aud 2 o clock tu the morning.
Bonuey, in a good-humored, friendly j The danger of exposure to the night air
way, but one young dandy stretched him- has been a theme of physicians from timo
solf upon the bench beside our table, and J immemorial ; but it is remarkable that
indulged in some contemptuous remarks , they have never yet called in the aid of
on foreigners. I was well satisfied to be .chemistry to account for tho fact,
ignorant of the language, for his manner j It is at night the stratum of air ncar
was so insolent that I could not have re-jest the ground must always be the most
plied with the same mildness and pru-: charged with the particles of animalized
dence as my companion.
The suburbs uow ceased, and the open,
cultivated country reached to the foot of
the city wall. To the eastward extended
I a fertile plain, dotted with villages as fariers. In da gases and various fcubstances
as the White Cloud Hills, whose barren jot all Kinds, rise in the air by tho rare
summits arose in the distance. We kept, faction of the heat. At night, when
on, up a little valley, to some springs this rarefaction leaves, they fall by an
under a hill on the northern side of the .increase of gravity, if imperftctly mixed
city, which supply the only good water to with the atmosphere, while the gases
be had. They gush up, strong and abun-! evolved during the night, instead of as-
1 dant, from the bottom of the dell, which
1 was crowded with water-carriers, going to
1 and from tho gates. The hill is crowned
000. 000 tendered by the Chinese mcr-iincold and unvcntilated roomys,
chants, was offered and accepted. There; At Hamburg the alarm of cholera stfc
is now a small garrison within it, but the;
sentinel who stood at the entrance hastily j
retreated within the walls as we approach-
ed, and did not make his appearance
again until after we had left.
1 The view from the fort is very fine, ta-
king in the whole of Canton, the course
of the Pearl lviver from Whampoa to the
mountainous region in the west, the White
Oloud Lulls, and the rich delta ot the
viuuu j-i. - - v
river, stretching away to the Bocca Tigris,
The mountains which surround this wide
landscape are bleak and Darren, and con-
?rast strongly with the garden-like beauty
of the plain. The broad arms of the river,
dotted with boats and junks, the many
. .:n - i.if t. r .1 .t
villages, half-hidden among groves
fruit trees, the lofty pagodas that rise prastico, and those who have tried it as
hore and there from the banks, and thejsert that they have now entire immunity
crowded city- itself directly under the eye from the tropical fevers to which they
the central point which unites the in-j were formerly subjected,
terest of all these scattered objects com- j In the epidemics of the middle ages,
bine to form a panorama unique but fires used to be lighted in the streets fo,r
thoroughly Chinese in its character, and the purification of the air, and iu the
affording as good a type of Chinese scen?-. plague of London, of 1665, fires in the
ry as is readily accessible to foreigners, i streets were at one time kept burning ia
The northern part of Canton rests upon ' ccssantly, till extinguished by a violent;
the side of a hill, whose summit is crown-j storm of rain. Latterly, trains of gutt
ed by a great equare, red temple, four powder have been fired, and cannon dis
stories high. A slender pagoda, toward J charged for the same object, but it is ob
the river, is the only other prominent j vious that these measures, although sound
architectural object. About one third of j iu principle, must necessarily, out of
the space of the wall is taken up with i doors, be on too small a scale, as measur
gardens. We did not remain long upon , cd against an ocean of atmospheric air,
the hill, which is in bad repute on account to produce any sensible effect. Within
of the robberies committed in its vicinity. 1 doors, however, the case is different. It
After descending to a little village, and is quite possible to heat a room sufficient
passing several wet fields of lotu3 and the ' ly to produce a rarefaction and conse
taroplant, we came again into the filth : quent dilution of any malignant gas
and crowds of the outer city, and finally jes it may contain, and it is of course tha
reached our starting-point, after an ab- air of the room, and that alone, at night,
sence of three hours. I which comes in contact with the lungs of
The Feast of Linterns (as it is called, tho person sleeping. Westminster Rev.
though incor recti', by foreigners) is being
celebrated here at present, but with much War Upon the Know ifothings.
less splendor than usual, on account of j The Democraio Tress generally, from tho
the disturbed state of society. The flow- ( Democratic Union aud Patriot down to
er-boats on the river are all ablaze with the smallest ei.rht-bv-tcn sheet in tho
.lamps, and the shops in the streets gaily
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illuminated. J here are also "sing-songs
(theatrical performances,) discordant in- publican, Governor Bigler's home organ,
, struments of noise, and other sources of,comes to the sage conclusion that Kuow
! Chinese pleasure, but the whole display ' Nothings cannot treat foreigners a bro-
s irregular, uaruanu aim uuen uutuiu
' -r i ir.,.. ri... t ii.:i- r iUa
ui lauu viitiui n utu i nunc ui
mosques of Cons
.-awuuujiii-, auu
cannon-thunders of the Night of Predes
tination, the Feast of Lantcrus seems a,
iarce in comparison. I
I have been much interested in a visit"
to Dr. Parker's Chinese Hospital. Some
idea of thc good accomplished by this in-!
stitution may be gathered from the fact
that since its establishment more than
forty-nine thousand persons have been.
admitted. Dr. Parker, himself, is one of
the most accomplished surgeons of our
day; his gallery of portraits, exhibiting
the tumors which he has removed, and
r
the collection of stones which illustrate
his skill in lithotomy, would be
to thc Museum of a. Medical
His operations in lithotomy, especially, '
have been remarkably successful, as ho
has lost but four out of. I believe, thirty-1
two patients.
I am at present enjoying tho hospitali- '
ty of Mr. Gideon Nye, Jr., to whose taste
for art we arc indebted lor the finest col-
lection of paintings by the old masters,;
which had ever been brought to America.
1 leave to-morrow for the long homeward
voyago, via thc Cape of Good Hop", and
this is mv last night on Chinese soil. You
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may have rightly conjectured that L am
not partial to China, but this much I
must admit : it is the very best country
in the world to leave. n. t.
An old pensioner got tipsy and uoify,.
when a person jocularly disposed, asked.
him what he did for a living ? He repliou
that he "sucked a Dome a u.ui tAie
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time, and the uuiteu oiates xreasurv tho
rest.'
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loieei its num. us a ieatner. and as
happy as a butterfly, give, a poor family a, leuhul ahvav
urkey, vegetables to roatohj and a filling ' J by . i nu!UI.SftRMHbi
in of groceries and snu!ur vitAHtiqa, 'SttooUsbnre- Match su, 185L
- Shave been observed to hare occurred be-
matter given out from the skin, and del
eterious gases, such as carbonic acid gas.
; the production of respiration, and sulphu-
; retted hydrogen, the product of the sew-
conding, remain at nearly the same level.
. It is kuowu that carbonic acid gas. at a
low temperature, partakes so ncarlv of
night in some parts of the city, was so
great that many refused to go to bed, lest
they should bo attacked, unawares, in
their sleep. Sitting up, they probably
kept their stoves or open fires burning for
the sake of warmth, and that warmth
j giving the' expansion to any deleterious
I gases present, which would best promote
their dilution in the atmosphere, the
means ot safety were then uucousciously
( liiUilliO U
; assured,
, have a
At feierra Leone, the natives
practice in the ticklv season of
keeping hres constantly burning m their
1 huts at night, assigning that the fires kept
! away the evil spirits, to which they at
tributed fever and ague. Latterly Eu
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of'ropeans have begun to adopt the same
. . . . J . , ,
; State, proclaim "war to the kuife
against,
the Know Nothings. The Clearfield Re
thcrs. and that therelore a lMiow .otlt-
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ing.s cannot oc an acceptable curiauan in
, t He Sight OI UOU 1 11C IV UOW OinillgS
are no
dobut obliged to the Governor's
organ
for this flattering compliment.
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Xho I alley Spirit , a democratic paper
published at Chambersburg, thus refers to
the erection of Mr.Suydor, who has always
been a Democrat, but who wa3 elected
Councilman of thc Know Nothings, at the
late election :
' The Democratic party of this borough
notpremit the election of Mr. Sujder
t0 be on iU back. It had nothing to do
AVjfji that election. It do.es not operate
u the dark, after the manner, of tho
Donnc-Nugcnts, aud it will have no fel-
i treasures, lowship with any secret political assoeia
Collegc. tjon Those who wish to remain in co:b-
nulnion with the Democratic church, must
jjCep aloof from any organization whoso
principles aroantagonistioal to those of tho
Democratic party. Between Democracy
ami Know Nonothingism there can be t
peace, for their principles arc at war, uor
cm diodes of one be diciples of the other,
. tfani;ind may be divided
thn, wt. ..u.
those who1
can t.
Somebody adverting for ar,nt3 to Mn
a work entitled . 3Mneuial Instructor."
i -ue "cst "y'-.enial instructor we kftwjf
is a yourg Wid0w. 'hat she don't know,
there is -d use in learning. :
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An object of " interest" A girl whmm
income is three thousand a
yoaiv'
A carriage has been engaged
movement that was "on foot."
for tffa.