Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-28

Of the previous day. My wrath steadily during the ae
ofinspecton. Boy three four day my you no hav
clsan that boot proper now, all same, only to-day M
count number bad. Why you clean more better y
you'll believe me- he merely said shave catch ee nev
year ai-o and gone with such celebrity that had no
time to recover from my astonishment, think what
should soy to him. "Iere's subordnaon with vengeace
Have catch-ee crazy all remarked 70 myself in conf
dental tone, and pulling the dirty subjects of complaint
seized my hat and sailed forth for walk Very much
against my will / found myself in good humor
Every one looked joyous and happy people greeted one
another cordially, the air charming and the sunlight
SO pleasant that i'll humor melted away like yapor beneath
the morning The shops closed but the streets
were filed with wedressed people, the greater proportion
whom were children Of all ages, up ffesn sixteen.
They seemed in high state Of enjoyment and firing oil
crackers with dextsy which could only have been the result
Of long practice. The ue sriSzed themby far the
most dangerous part of the perfonanceand they all took
part in the amusement, maculopsly that il gave rise
the idea that they all might possibly have been born with
e-cracker in one hand and bit Of Joss stick in the other
Every possible variety Of color to be in hreeches
bu, ocks did not appear TO admit OF much diversity. White
for stockings seemed to be- by common CONSENT the establish
ed color.
ability Of the wearer which reaches below the knee Those
for are 500 of jacket and reach but little be-
low the waist They have, in addition little skull cap cock
ed on the apex of their po and from which their long tail
Of braided hair hangs down behind. This completes their
dress, and though it is brilliant in coors it cannot bo called
picturesque.
There goes pair of peagrsen silk breeches flying round
yonder Never said TO myself they twinkled be-
fore my eyes for instant and disappeared, did such
lively green And there pair Of changeabe Silks the first
of the werenunber handsome, and the legs
that in them paake of the mutable nature
They strongly remind one Of couple of ppesems Every
time their proprietor screpes and saaas bis youthful
emporares, stand on tpoes and look at them with
uneasy and anxious expressions expecting every instant to
them break from under him but no, they still flying
about pair OF nevereaveo scraPng and everlasting legs
and you wouldn't them break it, like the Engishman who
determined Van Ambug killed by one OF his ons you
to follow them about for years There three men
dressed blue pettcoa oks They appear be merchants
and have just met for they are bcwng each other carry
extended before them Three times have they bowed
they have stopped just for moment to chin chin and pass the
of the season, and now they gone.
lhiss the lraya Grande, fine promenade which extends
along the front or seaside Of the city, mixed crowd OF
Chinese, ascars, Parsees, Sailors and soldiers be
loungng about without any particular object in vew say
nothing Of the Portuguese with their troops Of children who
look like their parents through the wrong end Of ee-
scope. As for the beggars they literally to-day II
joyous for Cinnamon doubt think those three
four ragged urchins who playing in sand heap Each
one has his hands full of crackers. One little imp who has
his rags short blue fock quite pale with fear from
thinking he has burnt hole in it, He find it, and
finally assured that false alarm SO he dives in
to the sand heap again. though with somewhat more caution
than before, and his diminuve tail whs in the air and Vi
braies like pendulum.
Beyond this, the green at the end Of the Praya is
group Of half dozen Cinnamon PLAYING shuttlecock They
stand in CIRCLE and the shuecock descends they strike
it with their feet which they throw up Sideways and drive
from to the other with great dextery This is univer
sal game with the Chinese and Of which they very
fond The shutilecocks of very simple construction
being merely three circular pieces of sharks skn with
the feathers inserted around the edges.
Other groups were engaged in playing game with eas,
which they dropped edge down upon inclined stone or Bit
Of tile ard let it roll away The piece which rolled the great
rnnl1 tlu
did not much of game but the money circulated free
y, anJ where that is the object ingenuity in The game of
no consequence.
The campo just beyond the gate, filled with people COM
ing into town. all well and many handsomely dressed The
girls have their hair dressed with great neaness and taste and
il is frequently adorned with white waxke fragrant flower
which contrasts beautifully with smooth dark folds.
There few preer sights to be Of pleasant morn
ng when the bright is cleaning and danondng the pure
dew the grass, when the air filled with spring like ur
murs and the soft wind watts ganess to the heart say
there few preter things be than cluster of these
little oe auaycd in bright and beautifully picturesque
garments, tripping the campo graceful and shy as
awns their silver ank!ets genns and sparkling in the sun
the music Of their fairy footed tramp The heart goes back
is hone and dreams Of dark running brooks where the
shallow dash the bright pebbles and sparkle in the
sunbeams that pierce the Of ovehanging foliage
As they pass bless the bright faces and syph-ke FORMS
and carry them memory pure types Of the beauty
and simplicity of nature the blue skies the glorious
bills and trees, any part OF her glorious handwork.
he scenery on tne ht beyond the SAINT Lazarus gate
hy and baren though picturesque. range Of hills the
first of which very abrupt, and surmouned by romantic
looking fort, which is perced alo like beacon shuts out
he view and after Short almost perpendicular descent
slopes gradually down he campo road The whole Of this
slope covered at short intervals with graves, some built in
he horseshoe FORM Others and the majority of them being
marked only by headstone, which carved Chinese
Characters probably the of the deceased and some sim
pie record of death
Some time ago the Portuguese commenced road through
his burial place. but the Chinese nterered and would not
permit the graves Of their be thus desecraed by
he foreigners and stop accordingly put their sac
egious proceedings.
The campo, the left OF the road and separated from il
BY low struggling hedge nterspesed with cumps
IF bamboo, is low. II principally laid out in rice fields and
vegetable gardens; and is from the that the Macao
market is mostly supplied. Occasionally fine vista opens
and catch views Of level Of rce lands terminated by
he inner harbor with the blue mountains in the distance or
by background Of ihcket-coveed hills from which
peep out the white houses Of villages embowcred in shade
short distance beyond enter small piece Of the road
(caed by foreigners Love ane completely shaded by lofty
and mpenetabe hedges Of bamboo trees which fall grace
fully and meet overhead almost exclude the
Of the Emerging from this the path skirts wood or
Jungle Of considerable extent This wood extends from this
path to the village Of Mongha and contains magnificent
trees Of the Banian species They have attained immense
The dark green leaves grow very hicky, and cast great
meath them, and dimness and silence that weigh upon the
sense, making tread with involuntary soness feeling as
f udeed in,rudng in the very coisters and secret
haunts Of the Dryades. After skrng this JUNGLE the road
makes abrupt turn 10 the left aud, following il short
distance where suddcnly descends