The Arkansas banner., 1845-01-29

American legations, as soon as they arrived. One very interesting fact is worthy oi notice. No obstacles were placed in the way oi MT. Cushing's proceeding to Pekn, one great object of former embassies from England.- He was told there would be none, but find ing the imperial commission had power ful- ly to treat with him, he yielded his personal curiosity and pride, if he entertained any such feelings, to the consideration of hls countIy's interests. He therefore entered at once upon the negotiation so promptly and conveniently offered him, and was an lm- mense gainer by this considerate course.- The Chinese commissioners were intelligent and gentemanly men; they had retinue of civil and military attendants, and so large was it that it was with great difficulty they could find quarters for them all. Tsi 4eng very unceremoniously took possession of an immense temple dedicated to "our Lad y of l Mercy," in the village of Wang l1iya, where he kept his state. The difficulties of the languages were obviated by the frankness and tact of Mr. Gushing in declaring at once the real objects of his mission, dlsclalmlng any resort to fnesse or force, and appealing at once to the good sense and high charac ter of the Chinese ambassadors. These with equal frankness and confidence propo- sed to employ the American interpreters ex- clusively, and by so doing paid our national character, and our national representative, the very highest compliment in their power.
 For two weeks the two commissions were employed day and night, with the exception of their meal times and few hours given to repose, in discussing and arranging the va rious questions in controversy between the two governments, and in negotiating the treaty now before the Senate of the U. s. It was at last agreed upon and drawn up in Chinese and English, but finally prepared in the Tartar dialect, which is the language of the emperor
 It was signed at ten o'clock at night on the Sd of July last, in the sanctuary of the temple we have already mentioned, and from which, as we have stated in part, the priests and their idols had been previously displaced without the slightest hesitation, to make room for the commissioner and his suite. This circumstance confirms the opinion enter tained by many residents in China, that at the imperial court, there is no particular re- gard paid to any religion.
 When the treaty was signed, splendid repast was given in the temple to the Ameri- can minister. Indeed, during the fortnight of negotiation at Macao, the respective lega- tions were constantly giving and receiving entertainments. At one given by Mir. Cush- ling, all the American ladies at Macao were present, and the Chinese dignitaries for the first time in their lives performed the extra ordinary duty of handing in foreign ladies to the dinner table, and of paying them the usual attention there. Many of the officers of the squadron were also present.
 The next day Fsi Yeng was taken so ill that he was obliged to be removed to Can ton, and there various other minor questions were afterwards settled by correspondence, and the personal attention of some members of our legation acting for the minister at Macao.
 Indeed, from the fourth of July for two months following, an official correspondence was kept up increasingly in relation to mat ters connected with he egotation-among these especially was that of the personal safety of Americans in China, arising out ol the circumstance of Chinese, one of a mob, having been shot by an American in the streets of Canton, while engaged in the popular work of insulting foreigners. Mr. Cushing's account of these various difficult lies is in the highest degree graphic and en- tertaining.
 After closing his arduous labors, and, as we believe, achieving more for his country by far than Sir Henry Pottinger has done for his, he left China on the 20th of August last in the U. s. brig Perry. A successful voy- age of 65 days brought him to San Bias, touching at Mazaltan, by the way. From this place he proceeded on horseback to Guadalajara, town possessing about sixty thousand inhabitants, accompanied for part of the way by party of Mexican officers. On his arrival, he found himself in the midst of a serious revolution. From thence to the capital he travelled in diligence, pass ing the whole way through detachments of the hostile armies of Paredes and Santa An na. Not the slightest obstacle was placed in their way, nor the smallest insult given by any of these troops.
 At Mexico the events occurred which found their way into the papers, of which our readers were duly advised. From the city of Mexico Mr. Gushing travelled by the diligence of Vera Cruz, but in consequence of the civil war all the troops had been with drawn from the country between Vera Cruz and the capital. At various points on the route, therefore, strong bands of armed rob- bers had stationed themselves, and the trav- cling became unsafe. One of these parties robbed our minister of his travelling trunk, containing, among other things, some private papers and letters of value
 Al Puebla and Vera Cruz he was an eye witness to the "pronnnciamentos'' against Santa Anna, made by the civil and military authorities. At the latter place there was much ceremony displayed on the occason,- and great deeorum; while at the former there were great disorder and confusion. mob paraded the streets during the night, crying ''death to the foreigners" The hotel in the night, but without success.
 From Vera Cruz Mir C., being disappoint- ed in a passage by an earlier vessel bound 10