Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-03-08

LIFE OF THE WEST PoMT CADEr-IIe
sleeps in the barracks in room with one
other; at halfpast five in the winter the rev.
ellie wakes him; be Immediately arises,
doubles up his blankets and matrass. places
them on Che head Of bis iron bcdstead; he
studies until seven o'clock; at that hour the
drum beats Tor breakfast, and the cadets fall
into rank and proceed to the mess hail.
Twenty minutes is the usual time spent at
breakfast.
Guard mounting takes place at halfpast
seven, and twenty-four mun are placed on
guard every day. At eight O'Clock the bu-
gle sounds, and recitation commences.
At one o'clock the bugle sounds again, the
professors dismiss their respective stations,
the cadets form ranks opposite the barracks,
AMI march to dinner.
Between eleven and one o'clock part Of
the cadets ere occupied in riding, and Others
in fencing, daily After dinner they have
until two o'clock for recreation, and from two
to four they are employed in recitation. At
four o'clock the bugle sounds and they go
either to battalion or light artillery and other
drill.
This exercise lasts an hour and a half
After that they devote the same time 10 re-
creation until parade, which takes place at
sunset. After parade they form into rank in
front Of the barracks, anI the names Of the
delinquents are read by an officer Of the ca
dels.
Supper comes next-and after supper re-
creation till eight O'Clock, when the buge
sounds TO call to quarters, aud every cadet
must be found in his room within few min
utes, Mt bis study, and must remain there
thus employed until half past nine, when the
bugle sounds-this is called tattoo; and at
ten the drum taps and every cadet must be
Immediately in bed having his light extn-
guished, and must remain there till morning.
If, during the night, the cadet is found to be
absent from his room more than thirty min
utes and does not give satisfactory account
of himself, charges are preferred against him
and he is eourt-martialed.
The use of intoxicating drink and tobacco
is strongly repudiated; so are playing at
chess, wearing whiskers and great many
other things The punishment to which the
cadets are liable are priyation Of recreation,
&c, extra hours Of duty, rcprimands, arrests
confinement in light prison, confinement to
dark prison, disnssion with the privilege Of
resigning, and public dismission.
LIFE AND DEAru y CHMA-As every
thing relating to the principles and habits Of
the Chinese IS to us matter of interest, we
select from an authentic source the following,
as Illustrative of the low estimation they pat
upon human life, even in the case Of their
own offspring:
The number Of people who annually die in
China is said to be truly frightful. Multi
tudes perish from starvation, from inunda-
tious, and from suicide; and the late civil war
has exterminated, by famine, disease and the
sword, millions Of men. women and children
Sir John Bowring asserts that at one period
of his residence in China, five hundred vic
tins fell daily by the hands of the headsman
/ Reverence for life there is none; and the dead
are treated with the utmost indiffcrence--a
corpse being often seen under the table OF
gamblers, and putrid body at the threshold
Of door In many parts Of China, strange
to say there are towers of brick or stone,
where female children are thrown by then
/ parents into a hole made in the inside Of the
wall; and it is asserted that, while the desire
for offspring seems to be universal, infanti-
eide prevails to an extent unequalled in any
other country; and, most astonishing, the
chialess wife Of Chinese willingly comedies
with the husband in introducing into the
household any number Of concubmes, whom
he is able 70 maintain, and she exercises over
them an andispnted authority, and the child
of concubne is bound to pay higher re-
spect TO the lawful wife than to bis own
mother