The Washington union., 1858-03-21

In the northern Provinces whittier the general
Is reported to have in person. it said that order is
being completely restored and that the ness discrim-
mating cemency and unswervng Justice displayed by
Lord Canning, contributing largely 10 the subms
sion of the population to British dominion and British
law. J., journal Of Commerce
INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF CANTON AFTER IT'S
CAPTURE.
The following account Of excursion into the interior
of Canton city after its capture from the Friend of
China y wi II be read with interest
The houses about the spot selected for the landing
place. as precautionary measure, had To bs destroyed.
Before setting them on fire. Captain Hail. whose activity
in works of this nature Is spoken of all hands in the
highest terms took great pains to ascertain whether there
were any inmates aud fortunate for poor bed rid
den people it that he did SO, they would have
been burnt to death The dois of these houses still
smoke, and passage the hot bricks is not pleasant
to the feet Over the creek, running IN the of the
French Folly bridge of rough timber half dozen
boats had been made. As We passed this morning
Chinese vagabonds had Just completed an aperture
in the roof of pawn shop the contents Of which
distributed about. From the street parallel with
the creek the road leads the eastern parade
ground by the c,siemost of the called arches erected
in 1917 to signazc ''dcicat, Sir John Davss
raid at Canton called another of the striking in
stances of the impocy of doing anything by halves with
the Chinese From this column arch the street runs
direct to the east gate and is crowded all day with beg
gars, blind women, and children. Col Graham has his
head quarters at the first shop within the gate and
we passed was dusty as miller, aiding his hands
to clear the place OF lot of rice quantity of which he
hunanely doing out to the starving crowd outside
Unless provided with pass from the aliutant general
Col Stephenson strangers not permitted to mp to
the front As went in Mr. Sturgis, of the firm of
R'issc Co., more fortunate than others of his brother
merchants coming out While waiting for the passes
Major Burmestcr came up with two prisoners who, it
turned out aors. caught in the of chasing
our lines poor fellow that had escaped from jail The
escaped man proved to be Ashing Of Woo.soo poo
of the Oldest of Pcdlers wharf boatmen Ash
ings tale ran, that about two months ago he went
to Rowoon to purchase stock for American ship he
supplying, and there seized by the mandarin,
and sent TO Canton His appearance most begonc;
his hair unshavcn during the period of his detention.
standing con end like quis frctful porcupine."
He said that many five hundred and fifty the
same Jail himself there four ias in the city but
of the batch he does not think than fifty got clear
the mandarns to make of the rest whipping their
heads off at These wrctchcs had The suacity to
oil three heads in the street below and in full of
sentrics the cast gate Orders had been given
to fire the people in the streets and the blood
thirsty exccuoncrs allowed to do their work nmo
Tested but the sooner such assumption Of sovereign pow
er is stopped the better
The military train coolies and Madras camp followers
quartercd in the Examination Hall cells and capital
quarters they make Each cell five inches
long, by four feet we and from the board floor raised
about foot and half above the ground they are six
feet high. OF these cells there fifty or sixty
ranges of fifty eight cells in range along side Of
spacious yard and similar range the opposite side
n
forming distinct from the southeast angle of the
wall of the old city up to the Ching ooog o,oon East
Gate)
fourioot passage way along the front Of each range
of cells is paved with granite but than half Of
these lanes ovegrown with weeds and rank grass
and now that shot and shell have torn up the roof
ings the great Temple of Learning, the headquarters of
our hcrcest opponents, the i1erab presents orlorn
| appearance.
Over the southwest gate the following characters
Tooh chooy signfying "For the nourshng of talent !"
Over the southeast gate, Hngym signifying 'For the
raising of WORTH
An old man. calling himself after his abode Aetfah
refuses to yacatc the Temple below the Sam un cong
headquarters He is seventy years of age he says and
long as he obtain little rice tobacco and tea
there he shall remain He told that the marines
then there going to leave e might not find the in
comers tthe royal artillery accommodating they
were; to which he replied he did not three of his
| children Qelow-recluscs he meant had been killed du-
ring the bombardment but he did not fear.
IL was generally supposed that the ivesoriod Pagoda
must have received good ridding but il did not Not
shot struck It, although that it The object of much
attraction notorious The walls of this building
very thick The following the dimensions of II :
From east to west top story 90 feet north TO south
30 feet exclusive of veandah which is about five feet of
additional width basement walls OF faced with red
sandstone, 10Y feet thick lower story 16l feet high
with square tile flooring seoond story walls, also faced