Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-04-10

aided tso PoEms BY Alexander H, EVERETT"
Boston, James Msnroe e. co$ls45, j. 2qo, 563 Pr,
Here is gentleman to whom we owe, accord
ing 10 dates, some literary arrears. Perhaps we
can discharge them the more faithfully that he is
now atar. Whether to blame or to praise, we shall
less provoke his wrath, or less abash his modesty
when he is at the Antipodes; and being Gas is now
his lott in the Celestial Empire is certainly no great
remove from that passionless state in which de-
parted spirits supposed TO regard quite at their
ease the vexatons of this lower world Is he not
(happiest of all the tribe that write y basking in
the immediate rays of the Light of the Universe,
the Suns earthly cousin-german Doth he not
drink his tea where, materiamedically, that extract
is not drawn from persimmon-leaves for the Black,
and from whortleberry and sweetgum for Young
Hyson and Imperial Must it not be "purely
pleasant" Master Slender says. for one to go
ambassador, about that time of life when teeth
failing, 10 land where snags and stumps are all
the fashion, and where our Dr. Maynard would
ruin himself, if he repaired with any thing but
ebony or Jet the dental losses of beauty's mouth
How excellent, how profitable mission must il be
TO such Court for there alone can an American
Minister be able, without running himself, now and
then to give dinner: dining ones friends must be
decidedly cheap in country where good teeth are
discountenanced Nor is this the only happiness
in every part of the domestic economy; for, this
being every where good just in proportion those
best household dvinities, the ladies, consent TO stay
within the heaven which they make, how polite
the Chineses, who have artiuy induced the sex to
place their chief pride in feet fit for almost any
other purpose whatever as for going a-shoPPing-I
that dear delight of Western femme, which maketh
lank the purse and lean the board of full many a
married wight In China, moreover, the conjugal
IL Nv fhar pstit
impri,ais, each man may marry several wives at
once: salutary permission, in so far it utterly
excludes the idea of the crime that among us has
consigned many too clever gentlemen to Punishment
or the penltentlary-the crime of bgamy.
Another wise fundamental law have the children
of Confucius-a law of the most benignest infu-
ence over every part of their social life. The phi
losophc founder of their institutions had remarked
that there are certain things subjects of eternal con-
tention among mankind, which are made so only by
the fact that they are inhibited to certain sorts Of
people. He had observed that the ruling passion
of womanklnd, throughout the world, is 10 wear
that most unteminine garment, the breeches
so he ordained that in China females alone should
go in panaloons, and The men only in pettcoats,
forever. Admirable has been the effect of this |
sagaclous constitutional provision Accustomed |
Tor ages 10 regard the attainment of smallclothes
Tor women as the achievement of the most per- |
feet and ndestructlbe form of Human Free
dom, the quite forgot the substance, man.
hood, III the shadow, nexpressibles. For, after ALL
breeches can no more besow the sexual superiority
upon women than the possession of free and writ
Ten constitutional forms can perpetuae Liberty for
men degenerate and corrupt. China proves the
first OF these great truths, and the United States the
second the women have there been subdued by
giving them the Pantaloon the people here by de-
ceivers in pettcoats, who do what they list merely
by humoring the womanlike CROCHET of the weaker
sort, 10 be all the while fatered and told how soye-
reign and how wise they are.
Besides all these things, agreeable, economical,
and instructive TO be felt, seen, learnt in the land
OF pottery, Mr.. EVERETT will have others he may
even study there, with great advantages, though
under other semblances, democratic politics tits, for
instance, Hard Money Government. We know,
TO be sure, that some seven hundred years ago lat
the time of Marco Polo it issued Treasury Notes
just as our own Financial Secretary is now doing
Apparently it went at that until truned the credit
OF all Paper Money, and made China conceive
an everlasting disgust of scrip and nanciers of the
sort. I'VE alIude, of course, only to |
the famous French bubble of that name.)
The Government is evidently fiat democracy,
tempered down into the last stage of Locofocoism,
a despotic monarchy. The governing class consists
OF body Of Tarars, who overran the pacific inhabi-
ai'9 ohs shSe, InucH ds the JackSOnlan n0rdes dlu
tins country some twenty years back. These
Mantchoos call themselves the Republican Party
and monopollze all public employmens As among
us, they manage every thing on the "spoiIs' prin.
cpe, and have no mobiles but ofTice.holders Is tol
appointments, they have one amelioraton which we
have not yet reached the Emperor selects his
Mandarlns from the most learned. not the mos, il.
literate. Originally the soverepn-chancino n
have no children-appointed his own successor.
like General Jackson; the only restriction upon his
choice being that he should not 90 out of the Mani,
choo or Public Plumber party but now the throne
Is hereditary in the Hickory dynasty, and descends
from uncle 10 nephew, or by adoption. Our am
bassador can also study there the koooo or Art Of
Prostitution for ofiice-a scence which some SUD-
pose TO have made, by dint of time, greater advances
there than even among ourselves for, until about
1928, our Emperors did not have their ears IN their
heels, and men were not obliged to get on their
bellies in order to make the prince hear them. As
to Religion, they have the Locofoco-ttle or none
among the Celestials. Their Marine is fresh-water
fleet, much upon par with Mr.. Jeferson's grand
idea of an Invincible Armada of Gunboats
To return, however, from the public sciences
which our Envoy may cultivate in Canton to the
more personal advantages OF his post there, he can
possibly, as we set out by saying, live there with
out doubling that neediness which is to so many of
our independent politicians " the patriotic call to
public service He can entertain cheap in coun-
try of such peculiar dainties. Every time his Chin
neys are swept, he will get swallow-nests enough
for grand pofage. At pinch when butchers