Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-17

Shanghai the expense and delay the trans
portauon may be saved which will not only expedite bu
operations but something on the first cost Of
the articles to the merchants The river Wuseney. on
which the city is built deep enough for any class OF
merchant vessels and at all times good and safe an
choragc The climate too, as the city is several de-
grees further north than Canton Is more pleasant and
saubrious The people of this northern latitude
are said TO be better class and have the pratt
cal propensites for which their brethren Canton river
somewhat celebrated. BY encouraging Chinese i'm
migrants to California, and treating them kindly much
may be done the preudces that exist in China
against us.
In passing up and down the river weeks since we
much grsthed to the imposing appearance the
American shipping at Whampoa made. For their number
there finer specimens of naval architecture
the Surprise, Memnon, Samuel Russell, all hrst-rate
ships. If the Oriental, White Squat, and Sea Serpent
had been there too the effect would have been increased
Several Of these elegant ships have been reghed and
dispatched to England And there good deal of inter
est felt about the length of their passages but do
anticipate any thing but complete In speaking
Of ships, it may be of the way say few words
about national vessels and their of service on
this station 1t is stated in the papers that the magnf
cent steamer Susquehanna has been sent to China and
will in all probability be here in month 1t strikes
that the Secretary of the Navy whoever has the
direction of such matters has made mistake in selecting
ship of her gigantic size for station like this where
the principal cities and anchorages up rivers full OF
bars and shoals Two smaller vessels coudb kept
here for the same expense and do just twice the duty
AS these smaller vessels could show eag frequent
" the coast greater moral effect could be made by
them than by that approach the shore The
English have principally small vessels, and there is
complaint of their not being efficient that have
heard We have talked with several intelligent naval
officers this subject who have agreed entirely with the
above opinion frigate for the Commodores flag ship,
and two or three steamers of eight hundred TOMS
would be amply sufficient for all emergencies Sloops
not adapted to this climate they are confined
for their large This reflection was very forciby
painfully forced upon the other day while Macao
by the scky and brokendown appearance presented by
some invalded sailors shore. No shp-ofwar ought
der any circumstances to be kept this station longer
than two winters and one summer. Those who live
shore in large airy houses with every convenience and
comfort hardly keep up but board of ship-o
where the confinement and restraint necessary for
discipline must be enforced they cannot be otherwise
than sicky OF there exceptions to this
all other rules. When the dysentery or the causes
that produce it, get board, it impossible get
clear of it, unless the ship is carried another and more
bracing climate. Many valuable lives have been lost
besides the seeds of endless Indebtedness and suffering
that have been buried in the systems of the officers and
sailors of navy by keeping them too long in this eli
mate The Government ought, moreover, to establish
permanent hospital Macao, wherever headquarters
fixed.
There is topic which it is impossible to
sist few remarks before closing this already too long
letter; l. e. that sinful cutlery of political incendarsm
about dsunon Words cannot express the bitter heart
felt thirst for vengeance that burns within whenever
any of those ratorous pieces against glorious Union
are read 1t is to be hoped that demagogues have had
their day, and that the good Of patriotic
citizens has senced them forever We who live away at
the furhest end of the world truly appreciate the
protection country's flag, emblemac of union and
strength gives her humbles child, and the honorable
position her glowing fame gives him member of one
of the greatest families of the world 1t is with pride
while conscious of all these material blessings, we
hail the time when shall return once more to her
teeming shores, where all is peace, brotherly
sions dsurbers. She is known the asylum for the
oppressed the happy home of the Free" And to read
this argon about dsunion which appears to such per-
feet nonsense is perfectly disgusting May that noble and
patriotic statesman Mr. Webster, keep in his glorious
career-the of liberty and humanity And we
pray that the Advise Ruler of the world may give him
strength emancpate his country from the attempts Of
demagogues and wicked men. MANDARIN.