The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-11

comHerce has sorsahcn Macao, and Hong Kong
once 50 sckly, is the favorite settlement; and
restless progress marks the one, when old age ia
its siippcry panaloon sans wealth and life, almost
tells you Of the other. In the warm months all
foreign China flock TO Macao. AS q Summer retreat
mary Of the merchants have houses here, one of
which, If in Wall State street, would make mil
honaire Of the fortunate possessor but here they
are hollow, sepuichral, cherries, they are so
large and cold; rooms wider than dancing hal,
with solitary chair in the centre, and walls SO thin
that the least whisper at one end rings throughout
the house. and that lot, outside the garden,
still beautiful with natures loveliest ornaments
went to the foreigners graveyard, but my stay was
brcf for it made me sad, it looked SO dreary and SO
cold Fellow countrymen, old and young. were
lying side by side, the moss grown marble telling Of
age, and death, and merit Governors and subjects,
the rich and the poor, all were there, crowding
each other for more room, for the burial
ground is full saw the grave of young Joseph IL.
Adams, the descendant Of a line OF Presidents-a
Lieutenant Of the Powhattan, died in 1853, and
their comrades. Gray would never have written an
elegy here-his eloquence would have chilled in the
ink-rhe atmosphere is so damp.
Twas glad to get away, and the next morning we
again passed the B0gue fort, where the old Admiral
Of the Chinese feet boldly met his death, as tn !,
British shot rang through the war junks in lS4l.
Lin first and Kishen afterwards gave the orders of
D match for jcto e naVy once more seamNs
up the Bocca tigris where more forts pointed can
non at us, and leaving whampoa behind, we are
again on the naval battle field opposite the factory
gardens. A few days in Canton looking over that
huge pile of fanatical worship and Bouze priests,
the Honan temple, with it's half hundred statues,
embematic OF virtue and OF vice-its sacred josses
and its sacred pgs-I don't know which appe lred
the iattest-a few days more in Canton hospitality,
and excursions to the celebrated private gardens Of
the Hong merchants Houqua, Puntinqua, Sequa and
several others. But it was the Chinaman's new
year, and all was still; every shop closed, and all
dressed in holiday garb to call upon his neighbour
and be called upon in return. Fire crackers, can
non gongs, bells and tomtoms, driving crazy at
all hours Of the day and nighta never ceasing Bed
lam it was 80 noisy. Purchasing quite collection
OF annoy bracelets, beautiful sandal wood fans and
card cases, writing desks and ornaments Of ivory,
and Chinese presents innuInerable for friends at
home, again bid good bye to Canton, the seat of
f0seign commerce for ever century.
But have written Of Canton before, and you
don't want to hear the story again. ] got out at
Whampoa to take the steamer Thistle into Hong
Kong as she came down in the evening" but untOr-
tunately for there was no down on the thistle,
and we had TO go back to Canton in q sampau, to
take the early morning boat However, saw the
harbors of Canton and Whampoa, and was salts
fed. Here all the clippers load, and il repairs
wanted, Messrs. Cooper's dock will accommodate
the largest clipper ahoat. Other docks are also
being finished, aud two or three steamboats, are on
the stocks, but the machinery comes from home or
England. am pleased to see 80 much go-ahead-
ativeness, tor the docks are really deserving of
every credit. Another graveyard-good God, what
Q place-worse than Macao! Why, Macoa is
Mount Auburn in comparison. A little square
patch Of stngy soil on bleak and dismal hill that
owns but single tree-hat tombs, no enclosures,
not even fence round the burial place. One soli-
tary monument points to the final home Of our
Minister, Alexander Everett, who, in le47, was
buried by those who loved him while living, and
honor him now that he is dead. Young Walker, of
N Y, graduate Of the University, captains of
American ships, and missionaries from both
England and the States. masters and mates, cooks
and Sailors and in one deep grave solitary row OF
six graves whose marble tops give the names of six
young Englishmcn, who were killed in lS47, at
Wong. kee, by the Cinnamon; their bodies were
wherefore of their DEATH all side by side in an un.
enclosed, uninvting, irhospitable pasture, sur
rounded by the paddy fields, that crowd fairly on to
the white mans grave. The descendants of Aped and
on the barren side of the French Island that does
not even boast of landing place to the cemetery.
The marble stores are black with rust already and
no old mortality to reletter the names A few more
make small addition to the rice field paddock.
Shame on the foreigners OF Canton for such neg
lect Can no better place be provided ?-for it is a
dismal abode for the last resting place of man.
Should die on this foreign shore, throw me over
board-do anything but bury me at Nhampoa.
Late at night we reached Hong Kong, whe-e your
correspondent found pamphlet, publ he'd by the
Melbourne pilots, which has just come up from Aus
tralia, and which calls Young America anything but
gentleman for endeav0ring, through the Chamber
of Commerce, to reduce the exorbitant port charges
of Port Phillip. All right-nothing like oppOsi.
ton to help man along the rough paths of life.
Smallpox at Manila, and no ship going over, 80
! must wait more opportune time to see the splen-
did capital Of the East. ! am disappointed for
wanted to go there and see something of Spanish
manners and Spanish life, and look at the sugar and
the rice plantations, and the Spanish girls make the
cheroots, and the ropewalk-the enterprise of fel
ow countryman, friend of mine, from Salem; but
must give it up, and lose the companionship even
of my late travelling companion, a partner in the
leading American house there-a jolly good fellow.
My regrets 60 with him. But Manila, expect, will
keep for few years longer, and then we'll become
acquainted.
Hong Kong is as busy as ever, ships arriving and
ships departing, and have been 80 fortunate as to
get a passage to Calcutta in the clipper steamer
Fiery Cross-Jardines opium despatch boat-which
goes through to Calcutta, stopping ut Singapore in
less than fortnight, and all for 1884 On the Both
of December landed in China, and now, on the 14th
Of February, leave it again behind me, having
spent six weeks of restless activity at Shanghae,
Fouchow, Canton, Macao and Hong Kong, from all
OF which ports have sent you the impressions of O
freshman in China. On my passage down you must
pardon me for taxing you with concluding chapter
on China and its people, which | shall mad at Cal
cutta.
On BOARD STEAMSHIP FIERY CROss.
Bound from Singapore to Calcutta.
Feb. 20, 1856.
Books in China--Disco,dancy Of Vie,cs in Relation
to its Religious Future-History of the Opium