Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-28
THINGS IN CHINA.
eoRREspoSDEscr or THE BOSTON DAILY ADVERTISER.


and generally the that strikes foreigner most foreby,
the absence of the immense throngs that fill them.
Women Of the lower class and especially boatwomen,
occasionally met with but females of respectable rank
only allowed to go into the Streets but are kept in
state of secluson So much this the that TO
egners have been able get very little insight into their do
mestic economy. Their fictitious writings believe, not
very communicative upon the subject
Should writer with all the minuteness and power Of
Miss Milford, think highly enough Of the for
ward their champion, should, doubt be favored with
details Of domestic trial that would harrow senbies
and create among womens rights advocates unpece
dened uproar WeKnow that they hold subordinate and
degraded position in the scale OF humanity, and that the
prominent feature their character is obedience to their hus
band by whom they subjected the most brutal and
senseess treatment Their nferory is not only inherent
and mananed by the arbitrary rules Of society," but is
knowedged by the municipal laws. However, imagine
their lot is in China than in the majority of unen-
ghened nations In proportion nations become polished
does the situation of become ameorated and exalted
until in Christian and enlightened nations find her raised
her true level We need not be afraid of her rising above
her proper position for is mans allow her
tether to an injurious extent.
TO give you idea Of the estimation in which females are
held, if you ask Chnaman how many children he has he
will in answer tell you only the number of his boys whom
he terms bull c; and, before you ascertain the
number OF his children, you obliged to ask him how
ny girls he has These with like felicity Of expression he
desgnates chiO
Outside the gate in old China street, to be a
ber OF smalfooted women, Of whom decep and
all apparently very poor. There they every fine day.
seated in little groups in the shade and occupied in mendng
old Clothes. This may possibly be their business have
been struck with the uniform cheernes of of the old
and nfrm, who they sat chatting to each ohe seemed
possessed with all the gayey and animation OF twenty saw
them day twhng The card of fortune teller and they
chped and cacked over their amusement till they became
quite boserous. Some Of them, however, very dismal
and melancholy looking objects.
The shops here, with the exception of few painters
all upon the ground floor They Of obong shape, and
many OF them large and handsome The floors paved
with large square slabs of bick which in hot weather give
the shop very cool and pleasant appearance On side
chairs ranged with much order, and the opposite side
glass containing goods while at the lower end and
opposite the entrance small counter behind which is also
glass case, containing nuSers, samples. Placed against
this counter, the outside is small slide tale, which
articles put for the inspection of For their
commodation there a seat each side. All the furniture
made Of dark fine grained wood and every thing displays
the most perfect order and neatness They lighted from
above, by large window in the roof On the doors and
beams overhead posted coored and gilt papers inscribed
with from Confucus and other moral These
also painted embroidered upon strips of paper silk
and hung round the walls Like the majority Of mankind,
they continually holding up the best examples to kindle
emulation in the breasts of their fellow while they
show disposition TO exemply in their lives the wise
reflections Of their great morast Though they recognise the
importance of good abstract principle, they
cessy for applying it individually, and each thinks himself
exculpa,ed from practice by being theoretically good
Inconsistent may seem, these people have vcneraion
for virtue and goodness amounting almost doay and they
attribute TO these moral sentences The power danger
and disease.
The shop doors generally closed whenever the propre-
tors have foreign customer prevent the crowd which al
gathers from becoming troublesome Notwithstanding
the
had become tired Of OF them seldom
stops for instant without attracting crowd, who
upon ones pecuiaies and scutinze with much in
terest naturalist would giraffe any other remarkable
animal
large crowd is joke for in it cannot avoid con-
with the innumerabe pedlars and their Though
the individuals may be civil and goodhunored they al
noisy and nlce and far from agreeable 10 have
cqueed pig merchant against you and leave your
clothes unpleasant tokens Of his profession. Among such
crowd generally number who above
business gentlemen OF leisure who stroll about engaging them
selves IN the charitable work Of relieving their fellow creatures
and searching in deep and philosophical into the
habits and Of human around them Some of
my friends have suffered considerably from the zeal Of this
class, and they adro that knew Of of them
being taken in the act
Of the burglars who in times past operated somewhat
tensvey upon the foreign residents Macao strange stories
told Pistols and other have been from under
pillows and sheets removed from beds in which people
Sleeping. This latter exploit is quite India 1t
is done by tickling person klfuy to disturb without
awakening him. As he rolls over the sheet is folded up
closely after him until he in the required position when the
tickling renewed from the opposite sde and he rolls back
leaving the sheet free. have heard of person who had
large campaor trunk carried off from under his bed without
his being awakened Though he lad heard OF similar tricks
he could scarcely believe this and only whom he found
the trunk the premises that he became unwngy
vnced Of his loss They sometimes climb up the windows
the outside, and inserting between the blinds bamboo
joint with hook attached h up such articles may be
lying They generally proceed upon these nocturnal
adventures with their bodies naked and well creased besides
which, their hair done up in knot and filled with broken
glass; render the chances Of capture few posi-
BILE. There have been but few Of burglary Macao for
three years, the present inhabitants living regu
ay and carefully than formerly the case, and there is
consequently less nducement for the Chinese thieve in
this particular way They occasionally tie highway
in the hope Of picking up something profitable Not many
years ago. several gentlemen fell among thieves" just
Macao and ponderous individual had the misfortune
cordngy left to the mercy the robbers who proceeded very
quietly dispossess him Of his valuabes This operation
however, far from exciting his choer, facilitated by
corresponding mildness Of department his part and
submitted with resignation characterized by Eastern in
docnce, and which could have sprung from nothing short Of
belief in destiny. The probability that his companions
also faalss mention this the most aggra-
vaed know Of That place (Macao) did offer
strong temptations to any who had theviny propensity.
The streets very narrow, and until lately
lighted by the moon, that lanterns universally
used indeed il considered prudent go any
equented place without them OF dark night i, used
any be the darkest place ever sropcd about in, and