New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-20

naturally are thsse Mandsrins have become provs-b
for the keennes with which they any oppor-
suniy 10 get into their cspseious pockets snythiog In
the way OF money. For instance, man oil integrity and
responsible iy day asked them to grant HIN the pEt
leRe Of running boats regular ferry the Hosng
Hoi they received the proposal considered Il awhile
and finally rejected II, although the man offered q
sum Of Line thousand dollars per yea fr the privilege;
but the fraud Of the thing was that Of tbs Man
dsrns themselves went into the boat business secretly
sOs another 10 ask for the grant and gave for
only three thousand . year. Thus they puI six thou
sand or more per year, FER ten years, into their
own cspacious silk pockets Again, they gave 10
some Tartar merchants the privilege of making
causewsy over q marsh the city bu
they saw that everybod would travel over the
way and the merchants would make much money ofit,
ard 81 they fet an itching TO get finger In the job
But here one Of them played deep trick upon the
Others for In China all proverbs reversed and
there u no honor among thieves This snars Manda-
ill., well knowing the price Of his fellows, bought up hs
whole lot for forty thousand dollars and the sas
bic and befooed fellows elected the Tartar merchants
and gave TIE csuseway job to other parties. Here,
however the Governor Of the Province ntersred and
the matter 10 not yet settled, although 1t 10 generally
.uppced that the Mandarns have really caught Tar
tar And many other tdcky jobs OF ths kind have they
DONE punderug both friend and foe and robbing the
treasury Of Csifcrg without shame and with out mercy
OF these will stop speak but on TO relate
the grand coup CT these Msnsarins just bsore their
terms of Office expired, and which has caused so much
excitement In the city which they lave 90 sadly mis-
governed Ia long and tolerably handsome street,
called the Wydwai. It through tne entire city
ana 10 the main avenue of travel especially for the
many strangers gazing TO and from Canton. For many
wears the chief mode Of travel has been by tho smd
Tartar horses there, for the gsnsr
ally so muddy to be impossible by pedes.risns TnI
horse travel being lucrative business, the Mandarns
set on foot scheme to get monopoly Of II, thai
when they went out Of Office, as they TO do
soon and forever they might retain the sources Of
independent fortune In this monopoly. as they could
not dispossess horses BY horses, they got up and
for a long time co ntnued series Of representa-
hons TO make the people believe that it would be much
better 10 ride cames In vain the horsemen denied
H. In vain the people demonstrated In vain the residents
OF III street protested that the ugly and dangerous
eames would ruin their property and spoil the street
the thing was fxed--the handarns Interested Ia
oameis-,he monopoly Of the travel Of WYdSs was too
rish prize 10 foreeo, and they passed lag that
camels only should carry burdens 10 Wydrsi aad the
borsemen should DO driven The Governor of the
Province of Honen refused TO sanction such outra
peous swndle but the Mandarlns insisted and would
not retact Then there tumult among the PEG
pie; the canels opposed by force the aandarlns
we're hoo,ed beyond the city, and go high the
element that Commissioner had, AZ lsst aiyices,
rived from Ptkng with orders inquire into the whole
affair ar report the Emperor. If his s fair s2eci
men of the manner in which municipal affairs
uaus ged In the cities of the Celestial Kingdom,
only gay that heartily glad that no such Board OF
tea.orinsr MsDdarns exists In our favored and ca.
Hshtened City Of New York.