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" TIIE LEHIGH REGISTER, sfspublished in the Borough of Allentown, _ :tehigh County Pa., every Wednesday BY A. L. RIJHE, At %I 50 per annum, payable in advance, and $ 00 If not paid until the end of the year. No caper discontinued, until all arrearages•are paid 'except at the option of the proprietor. ADVERTISEMENTS, making not more than one Atm, will be inserted three times for one dol. - ar and for every subsequeni insertion twenty. five 'cents. Larger advertisements, charged in the same proportion. Those not exceeding teb lines will be charged seventrfive cents, and those making six lines or less, three insertions for 50 cents. aTA liberal deduction will be' made to those who advertise by the year. Office in Hamilton Si., one door East of he German Reformed Church, nearly opposite the ..Friedensbute" Office. Vortical Mepartmcnt. (From the Village Record.) Summer Summer comes, calm, perfect summer, Smiling as in years agone, No June rose has failed to blossom,— Yet for me Life's joy is gone. In the orchard birds are singing, Once it gladdened me to hear; Now rye other guests than music, • Sacred Memories and dear. Since the cold, dumb hind of sorrow Heavy on my forehead lay, Life has had a strange sad meaning, And the last month was not May.• Yet the flowers may have blossom'd, For I could not see through tqtrs, And was absent from the wc,od-peth Where they grow in other years. So. perchance, the smiling spring. time Onme to others full of song— Though with me the dreary winter, Saddest I have known, stays long. Storms around my heart haveleverd, Tearing all its joy away; Hope and fear, adverse companions, Each had signal words to say. With the first, my past ilk's angel, It was agony toart, But the last, when hype went weeping, Knelt beside a breaking heart. Marvel not that the young summer Brings in vain the varied charms, am still in April's shadow, Circled by her Icy arms. East winds meet me when I wander, Mist and gluom is all they britig, Summer's witchery is shadow'd By the datkness of the spring. Yet she comes, and others tell me, Perfect still in every part, ,Nothing nature has omitted,---; All-the void is in my heart. Comes she, but her sunny presence Brings no beauty to me brain, still hear the mournful falling Of the chilling April rain. Ladies Names. There is a strange deformity Combined with countless graces, As often in the ladies' names As in the ladies' faces. Home narties'are fit for every age, Some only fit for youth t Some passing sweet and beautiful, Some horribly uncouth. Some fit for dames of loftiest grades, Some only fit for scullery maids. Ahit is too plain and common, And Nancy sounds but ill* - Mina is endurable,' And Annie better still. There is a grime in Charlotte, In Eleanor a state; An elegance ip Isabel, A haughtiness in Katr. • And Sarah is sedate and neat, And Ellen innocent and sweet. Matilda has a richly sound, Fit fur a nurse's trade ; • /Sophia is effeminate, - And Esther sage and staid. • ElizabetYs a matchless name, rit for a queen to wear— ' 4ticaatle, co tt age, b or ball, ,but • - "A 'name beyond compare.. And Hess and..Beasie follow arell, • Sal Betsy is detestable.. Maria is tooforward. And Gertrude Is too gruff; Yet, coupled with a pretty face, Is pretti name enough. ' • And Adelaide is fanciful;; ` And Laur a Is too Otte ; Eniily Is beautiful, And Mary is divine. Maud only suits a high-born daine, And Fanny is a bahy-name. Eliza is-not very choice, Jane is too blunt and bold; And M - arian somewhat sorrowful, •And Lucy proud and cold. Amelia is too light and gay, Fit only for a flit t ; And Caroline is vain and shy, And Flora smart and pert. Louisa is too soft and sleek, But Alice gentle, chaste and meek And hart let is confiding, And Clara grave and mild ; And Ertima is affectionate, And Janet arch and wild. And Patience is expressive, And Grace is old and rare, And Hannah warm and dutiful, And Margaret frank and fair. And Faith, and Hope, and Charity, Are heavenly names of sisters three Rebecca for a Jewess, Rose for a country belle; Anti• Agnes for a blushing bride, Will suit exceeding well. And Phoebe for a midwife, Joanna for a prude, ' And Rachel for a gipsy wench, Are all extremely good. And Judith for a scold and churl, And Susan for a sailor's girl. Ztlections. Customs of the Chinese. The Streets and the Houses of Canton Canton is situated on the left and north ern bank of the Tehoo-Kiang. The part:Of the town in which Europeans are allowed to circulate, and which extends but a short distance from their factories, is considered by the Chinese as the western suburb of the. t.ity. The latter, having an enclosuie of about six miles square, is again. divided by a walk parellel to the river, into two equal parts. The larer of the two, lying on the north,' is the old town—ihe Tarter city—the residence of all the authorities—a sort of holy place, closed against strangers. The other half, nearer the river, forms what is called Chinese town, into which Europeans may venture, but where the inhabitants look upon them unfavorably. Twelve gates open to the walled city, bounded on. the north by hills. ••;l'he principal landing-place for foreigners is near n little park, which oc• copies the wide.front of the American fac tory, and in the midst of which we have, on a large flagstaff, the "stars and stripes" of the United" States. In traversing this park, and going out by the gate, which .opens to the west, near the French factory, the traveller meets with a square always crowded with people, and where a thousand curious objects attract his attention. Here are seen shoemakers and seamstresses working in the open air, and smiths, with their benches and portable bel lows, mending household utensils. There is an old fortune-tellei,gravely seated behind a table, where, besides some instruments of astronomy, or rather astrology, stands in the form of a weather-cock a little black and white streamer, all streaked over With forks of lightning. The oracle is surrounded by gaping crowds, who stare at him with a be sotted air, while his inquisitorial glance tranquilly contemplates them from behind the enormous spectacle which cover half his face. Before him are brushes, paper, and ink, with which to make his calculations, and a few big books, which he consults from ti me t o time. - When he has minutely ex amined. the lines in the hand stretched out to him, he begins inn slow and solemn voice to utter obscure and equivocal predictions.-. Further on is a quack, weighing and selling simples while haranguing a credulous audi tory of sick people who receive, with heroic patience, the most formidable thumps on the spine to cure their rheumatisms ; while n. score of barbers gravely pass their blunt razors over a row of heads, which they leave bare, though not without drawing many a groan from their customers, who are seated along the wall in the sun. • The crowd soon hustles you along into a long passage, known to foreigners as Old China street. This uncovered gallery is lined with petty sops, at the door of which stands the shopman, whose business it is to invite passers-by to make purchases. Lak er trays and boxes, porcelain, teas, silks, paintings, fans, old bronze, filagree and ivory work, all the tnerchandize and curiosities which China provides for Europe, are here spread out on.shelves and tables. • Old China street leads to the street of Sopsomoun-Kni, or the thirteen factories, which runs the whole length of thoseestab lishments on the north, and where shops may be found full of baskets; canes, pipes, and woollen stuffs, as well as small fish and vegetable markets, and numerous butcher's shops, where enormous rats,• flattened out and' dried, are put up for sale, besides bleed ing joints of pork and mutton. The greater part of the street of Canton, have their spe cial trade. Parallel to Sapsa.tnoun Kai runs ALLENTOWN, LEIFIGH COUNTY, PA., JULY 13;1853. Lantern street,-iii which little is to be seen but shops filld with apartments of lumina ries of the most varied and Tantastic forms. In other streets you will meet exclusively with pagoda ornaments. To the north of Old China street is Ta- Toung•Kni, or Phisik street, whose'vast and elegant shops contain the most magnificent goods and the rarest curiosities of Canton. Here the silks of Nankin, and of Son-Tchn on-fou, display their glossy folds; there stand little bronze statutes, of admirable workman ship and originality, representing the gods, heroes, and celebrated philosophers of the central empire. A little farther you meet with masterpieces of carving, executed on large red locker boxes of a rounded foim, on which swarm pagodas, bouts and grdtes lpre mandarins. You behold Marvellous old China vases, bamboo roots sculptured with admible art, centenary arms and med als,-little treasures in marble and ynde, of an inestimable value, and from which one shop-keeper, as great a comedian in his trade as the mandarin in diplomacy, seems to separate with tears of regret, while he re ceives for them their weight in gold. The exterior and interior of . a Chinese shop are no less a curiosity to the stranger' than all the marvels of art and industry which it contains. The house, built of brick and covered with a scarcely visible roof, the'' cornices of which are turned up in graceful curves, is rarely more than ono story high, and in this resembles most habitations of Canton. Enormous red, .white, or black signs, are placed vertically at the entry in such a manner that, whatever direction the passers may be going there may be read on both sides the name of the merchant, and the nature of his calling,'set forth in flue large letters - of block or gold, according to the color of his ,sign.. On the inside the walls are lined with presses containing the goods. On all hands may be seen great red placards, covered with the most lendable and edifying maxims, which is well under stood, the merchant takes good care not to l pal in practide: At the bottom of the shop, in a little niche, is an alter consecrated to Boudha ; In the back shop is the alter of the God of-Riches, I to whom the masters of the house offer fre quent sacrifices, and who could nowhere meet with more frequent adorers than in the celestial empire. The house is lighted eith er from the roof, or by an unglazed opening in the from. Glass is replaced in dwelling houses by transparent paper, or by polish ed shells, framed in elegant wooded arabes ques In Canton, the houses of the rich are gen erally concealed from public gaze by hieh walls. When you have passed the threshold of-one of these vast habitations, you see be fore you a sort of screen, to the right and left of which two small passages lead into a court. This screen is intended .to hide the luxury of the interior from the curiosity of the public ; for in no countryis mistrust car ried to a greater pitch on certain subjects than in China—a mistrust which works to conceal the appearance of wealth not only from the eyes of the people, whose rapacity is dreaded, but from those of the mandarins whose covetousness is still more dangerous. On arriving in the court, you generally sea at the bottom of it a waiting-room, entirely open in front, and provided with lanterns ornamented with inscriptions. In the only wall of this anteroom in the open air, a tol erable sized niche is ordinarily scooped out, containing an altar decked with flowers and consecrated to the ancestors of the proprie tor. A lamp is there constantly burning on certain days of the moon ; and on certain anniversaries a table is placed before the al tar, and on it a roasted pig, cakes, fruits and preserves. All the members of the family, after having prostrated themselves, burn papers and pOrfumes before the shrine, •the wall of which almost always separates the first court from a second and smaller one, comprised within the three fronts of a fine building, lighted throughout its whole length by rows of little windows, and surrounded by an elegant wooden balcony. The building is divided into two very dis tinct parts, the one set apart for the masters and has male domestics; the other exclusive ly consecrated to his wives and their female servants. Large drawing rooms are rare in both. Little chambers, on the contrary, succeed each other in •indefinite number.— A. profusion of tables, arm chairs and sofas. is to be met with everywhere. All this furniture is of a stiff, heavy . form. Almost till the seats have for backs large slabs of marble, on which birds, quadrupeds, and plants are sketched, but so confusedly that; at the first glance, the hand of a man tnight be supposed foreign to the production of these figures, 'and nature alone guilty of these singular, caprices, The doors and partitions are of open work, and they are carved in the besttaste. Carpets and cur tains would be so ught for in vain, save in bed-rooms.. The eye finds a resting-place only on the external red placaids bearing, philosophical' maxirns,.*hic4 decorate the walls. When an European presents hiinself fore the•inneter of the houie, her is almost always meet cordially received. The flret side hospitality io not one of the least curi- .ous peculiarities of the character of the Chi nese .nation—a nation which has always been remarkable for aversion to strangers as a-hody, but among whom, individually, all would scruple to fail in the least rules of po liteness towards the insolated stranger who penetrates into their dwellings. , A European visiting an inhabitant of Can ton, has very rarely an opportunity of gelt ing a glimpse of his wives. These latter never show themselves in the male apart ments, and are not even admitted to the honor of partaking the repast of their illus. trious but ungallant consort. One.of them, however, the first, the legitimate consort, possesses a certain authority in the house. The others, who play the part of simple con cubines, and who are purchased of their pa rents like vile slaves, (ve respect and obe dience to the rightful spouse, whose sops are the only heirs of the head of the family. The number of wives of a Chinese is ac cording to his fortune. The common people are forbidden to have more than one, unless the latter prove sterile after the lapse of a few years. The Canton merchants almost all possess two wives, and choose more par ticularly those who have small feet. These latter constitute a sort of aristocracy in the nation. Scarcely any, but persons of the better classes, can.dratify the whim of re ducing their daughters' feet to the degree of smallness considered as perfection in its way. The common people are too 'much aware of the necessity of having free use of their limbs to be tempted to take pleasure in laming their children, or in forever distort ing their gait. Women of Tartar origin, ,even of the highest birth, also leave their feet as they received them from nature. Let us glance once more on the streets of Canton. It is in these streets, for the most parts lour or five yards wide, that the Chi nese life and character appear in their orig inality. A noisy and busy throng constant ly crowds them. By anit r by, you meet a. rich palanquin, preceeded by executioners, soldiers, standard.bearers, and gong play ers. This palanquin, in which an- obese mandarin is lazily lounging, jostles without pity the groups who are slow i n making way for it. Father no, you see a marriage pro cession, headed by musicians, and by roas ted pigs borne in triumph. The brides se dan chair is richly gilt ; but the features ,of the young girl are carefully hidden from the indiscreet ogling of the public by wooden blinds. Then come long rows of blind peo ple, who, clinging to one another, and gui ding themselves by the help of their sticks, invade the shops situa led on their path, and clap little boards one against the other, in order to oblige the shop-keepers to get rid of their importunate music at the price of a few aopechs, a little copper coin with a square bole in the middle. Elsewhere are hideous beggars, wrapped up in dirty, rag ged mats, and beating their brows against the gtound.while they give vent to their einlster complaints. Porters almost naked and wearing large osier had! run against each other with the grossest invectives, and endeavoring to sustain their double' burthen by means of a bamboo rod, which supports it at two extremities. This busy breathless vociferating throng, offers a most curious spectacle to a foreigner, and inspires him with an interest, often mingled with pity and disguest. A tolerably lofty stature, a yellow com plexion, high cheek bones, small, and some what sheepish like eyes, are the principal characteristics of the citizen of Canton. Ho shaves his forehead, his temple, and the nape of his neck. The long lock of hair which he lets grow from the lop of his head, and which formes his tail, is a jet black,— lie has not a right to wear moustaches until forty, or the entire beard until he is a grand father. The women show themselves but little in the streets of Canton. The mandarins keep theirs carefully confined in their dwellings; and scarcely any other than those of the bourgeoisie and lower classes of Chinese venture abroad. The former are generally of a sufficiently agreeable exterior, their fea tures are more regular than those of the men; their skin is not so dark. But they make a most extravagant us of cosmetics of all kinds. The Chinese of the middle classes are gen erally dressed in a long robe of blue silk, or a sort of loose smock of the same color, with wide sleeves, and a little round metal but, tons. 'File grown reaches down to the thigh, and has two triangular slashes along the hips? The throat is encircled by a light blue satin ribbon, without a bow, and fitting close. Short tight breeches of a dark color, and reaching to the knees are worn with the smock ; under the • robe they content them selves with drawers. The stockings are of ribbedscotton—the shoes of silk, with thick - White soles. The ordinary, head dress con sists of . a black horse hair skull cap, with a red twisted cord, forming a bow. ..The Chi nese seldom go out in summer without a fan or a parasol of foiled page i; mounted o n a bamboo. The domesties and little artiz ens, attire . themselves in stupid' blue, or white ootton smecks; . shorter than those of the merchants, which are again ishorter than 'hos& of the:mandarins. The - costume of the women very newly resembles that of the men in the lower clear ARMER AND MECHAM sea. They do not wear petticoats like the grand dames. The ineiitable blue cotton smock and the full trowsers, generally corn prise their toilette, which is completed by fine head of hair, carefully platted, and often ornamented with flowers and gold pins. . Foreigners, as we have already said, are very unfavorably viewed in certain quarters of the Chinese city of Canton, and even in that of the factories. It is not uncommon to the WOrilep and children laughingly pass their hands across their throats at the aspect of an European, which signifies they would like to see his head cut off. 'Phis amiable gesture is accompanied by the cry of fan konai, or strange devil. These equivocal demonstration do not prevent those who in dulge in them from stretching out their hand to ask alms from the roan they insult. The use of Slander. Slander is often beneficial to the victim, particularly when the victim is a• candidate for Congress. We recollect a case in point. A man, somewhere out west, 'got sent to Washington.' Ho was totally ungallified, in every respect, for th 4 position: A-friend at Washington once asked him : 'flow the deuce did you, manage to get elected ?' ` , I stole a pig.' 'Hey 7—What ? Is stealing pigs a qualification to Congress ?' 'No; but, es soon as it was known, the papers on t'other side took it up, and of course ourn had to defend me. A great noise was made about it—we called it an at tempt to destroy the spotless reputation of an innocent man for party purposes—the people got roused, and I got in.' At the next election his opponent was elected. His friend, meeting him one day, asked how it happened. 'Oh ! blast the feller he replied, 'he smelt the rat, and got the start of me. He mule a sheep !' But it is, not necessary to be absolutely. slandered for vices. Congressional honors may occasionally be achieved by a reputa tion, for comparatively trifling defects, or even a lack of accomplishments. We re member a well known Congressman, equal. ly celebrated for his fastness and his talent, who, alter being considerably used up on several games of billiards, was roundly told that 'lie might be a smart man,but one thing was certain—ho hadn't been sent to Con gresS for his playing.' 'Thar's whar you're all wrong,' he res ponded, in a cool drawl. 'lt was just that elected me, end nothing else !' 'Losing at billiards?' 'Ye-es. I always lost every game ; eve. rybody wanted to play with me, and I let 'em ! That made me popular. Sometimes it cost a hundred dollars a day—but I got elected I' We came away, leaving the Elon. M. C in the centre of a circle of proffered hats. On Board for a Holiday. There was on board our ship a filbert, ac tive, good-natured boy, about ten or twelve years old, who, if übiquity ever fell to the lot of mortal form, possessed that property. He was everywhere, doing everything for everybody, and apparently in the least three places_at the same time : 'Dick ! take Mr. Smith some hot water.' 'Dick ! Mr. Jones wants his coat brushed.' 'Dick ! bring a light in the cabin.' 'Dick ! go and swab the deck.' 'Dick peel them taturs for the cook.' 'Dick ! you lazy scoundrel ! steward says you've not cleaned his knives.' 'Dick ! go' and water the sheep.' (A whole flock formed part of the cargo.) 'Dick ! go and help reef topsails.' 'Dick ! feed the geese.' 'Dick ! take these bones to my dog.' The cry of Dick, Dick, Dick, resounded all the day long, and poor Dick seemed re ally to execute all the multifarious orders given him, with the most unflinching alac rity and good humor. One day Mr. Mere dith inquired, of the owner, if Dick was an apprentice in the ship. 'Why, no,' drawled forth the broad, burly personage addressed ; and' theu he added, with a slew smile overspreading and widen ing his ample countenance : , NO, he ain't a' printice, he's a nevyo' mine, as come aboard for a holiday !' Alas ! for the poor relations ! I began to make a 'rule of three' statement of the ques tion--,if in a cruize for a holiday, Dick has harder, work and rougher usage than any other creature on board, required the amount of Dick's sufferings at school ?—but my heart failed me—l could notyvork the sum, and I comforted myself in the thought, that whatever vagrant propensities might attack Dick in subsequent holidays, he would not be likely'to indulge them by a voyage , with his uncle. ` -,-/Vine years in .ffitstralia. Goon.—A young buck of the emplock or der who wore an • unshaven face, because, he said, sit looked foreign,' • lately accosted a Yankee as follows : 0I lay, fellow, some in. dividuals . think I am a Freichman, and some take rnelor an Euslyean—now, what, do you think I am I , I think you are a dar ned fool r replied immthan. NUMBER 41, Guillotine of the French Reiolution. While paying a visit, in 1816, to the Hotel de Ville, so celebrated in the annals of the first Revolution, at once,' says Mr. Simpson, 'asked to see the guillotine, which I was informed was kept here. A man and woman, the concierge and his wife, told me that it had for some time-been in the posses+ sion of a carpenter in the Rue Pont-a-Chouxo near the Marais." Being in the neighbor hood .of this spot a few, days, a ft erwards', Mr. S. extended his ride thither, and after many inquiries was successful In discover ing the haunt of this terrible instrument of crime. In answer to.his interrogations, he says, was directed to a gate or porte-co here, through which I rode into a small paved court; The noise of my horse's feet brought a girl to a window up-stairs, of whom I asked if the guillotine was kept here ! She was too-much diverted' with so strange an errand of a man and a horse— and the man English—to answer at once, but said she would come down about it ; and down she came with two sisters with her, in great mirth about Monsieur l'Anglaise end the guilliaine. They pointed to a large door like that of a coach-house, and said it was there ; bUt it Was;jocked.. and thilioy with a person who Ilvetrit,n great &Stance. Observing about six ineles - pf 'aperture above -the door, I thought inight'see over it, and asked if they could , get me , something to stand upon ? By this time several of the less employed of their,neighbors had joiiied us ; - and by moving an empty cask, they most readily procured me the means of elevation, held my-horse, and encouraged me to as cend, with--.Allons. Monsieur, mentor, montez,a la guillotine I' Assuring them it was my wish to see it, not to try it, r got up on the cask, and, looking over the door, I certainly saw the murderous instrument ly ing on the ground—the' same 'instrument that'had etrnck off the heads of the king and queen, and of the multitudes who followed them. So constantly was it in use, that a gentleman who lived about a mile from Pa ris, during those dreadful times, said that, on a calm summer evening he distinctly heard the chop of the guillotine for an hour or two together. The' same: instrument which, while it spared neither sex nor age, immolated all description6'd persons, a Lao voisier as well as a Robespierre:; and besides which, it lb said, David the painter' stood with his pencil, in French composure, to catch the convulsions of - expiring nature.— Looking at this instrument, so frightful in dreadful associations, I had almost forgotten my merry friends around, and was not knit in their mood when I came down.' I had only one question to answer to themwhy an Englishman , should come on so strange an errand l—.Curiosity.' tC'est tree extras ordinaire l' Thanking the whole neighbor* hood for their kind attention in doing the honors of the guillotine so sattsfactortly, mounted and rode out of the court.' Romantic French Incident A Paris paper says ; Some years• age, at young man was drawn into the army,.and and was sent with his - regiment to Algeria, He there served out his time, but liking the country, and taking a fancy tolt girl there, , ho married, set up a cafe at Phillippeville and settled down for life. He prospered, and laid up money. Six weeks • ago, his father received a letter from him, offering hint assistance if he had need of it. The old gentlemen, who knew• that his son, at least in his youth, had been a reckless, diisi pated fellow, took the offer of a loan 'Ow n mere pleasantry, and thought no more about it. His eon, a carpenter, brother of the Al. gerian, thought so too, but determined -to have his share of the joke. - He . -wrote to mine host of Phillippeville, that he' was an• ing to be married to a little embroidery girl, just round the corner, and thit as their means were but small, he should be proud of any assistance of his brother ' s° flourishing established, could render him. He thought this a capital trick. • He had never seen the girl he had designated ,but .once, and had no more thought of marrying her than of marrying the moon. He was rather as tonished, some weeks afterward,,to receive a letter, stamped Phillippeville, Algdria and quiet taken off' his feet to find that his brother had sent him en order on the Poet Office for 1,000 francs, as a wedding gift. Ono thousand francs, in Prance, to a car. penter and needle woman, forth quite stating little capital—and smooth down rthe aide,. des that line the path to marriage in every drlightfel manner,,, The nuptials werecele brated a few days ago, and theft is oie less pretty face in the street where .my.avoca lions daily call- me. lio*Or t it probably illuminates some neat little ,atticiand spends its evenings and Sundays'witit a carpenter in a brown linnen blouse., rrr, very young woman is like a due bill; she ought to be - usettled" ofraut soon as oho comes to maturity. . rinlndeed you are very handsome,' said a gentleman . to his mistress. 'Pooh, poop,' said skews° you'd say if you did-not think so.' #And so you'd think,' he answered, 'lf I did not say po.' EMI
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