The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-09-21
pEK1N, THE CAPITAL OF CHINA.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Enquirer
was at Pekn the Capital of China, short time
ago, and what he saw Of it, and how it impressed
him, he thus describes: ..s F.n-
On arriving at the capital OF the Chinesc'iIin-
nire we find a city containing about two millions
Of inhabitants Such is the estimate; but doubt
less tho calculation is made in the usual spirit of
Eastern exarceratiOn BE that rs II may, the
walls are fourteen miles in circumference, tWenty-
eight feet high twenty four feet thick at tic base,
and twelve at theEtop. There are spacious towers
all around at seventy feet distant from each other
and at the gates are lookout barracks for the sold
iers nine stories in height The metropolis Is di
!. yided into two parts one inhabited by Tartars,
and the other by Chinese In each there is n
street four miles long and one hundred and twenty
feet vide and the Emperors palaces and gardens
occu4,y two-thirs of the Tartar city; and all this
besides the sirburs, which nearly as popalous
] as the city proper.
j Pckin is located sixty miles south of the famous
Chinese wall and therefore much exposed to north
ern and hostile neighbora; yet its foricaiois an"
strong and until the vast machinery OF modern
artillery was perfectly in its paatial halls
the walls basfions and towers being iInpregnable
/ in ancient times. Although the country about
Pekin ssandy and unfertile yet proTisl"Iisaboun,
being broughtby canals from all the great rivers
and also with it's commerce. the ,ucFcaits 5ein%
raI IN money! az the capital il he chief recipient
nt fI,c.ravcallcs of al China IL has ever been ro-
carried as avery exclusive place the prscuroof o."
foreigner biug permitted within It's walls; bat no"
the outside bariarians are ~ inlr way of over
leayino the sacred boundaries; and It is probable
that his act together with the opening et japan
NAV prove an important step towards tbs inaIg'r;i-
ton of Christianity among the inIliions whofae
now benighted in pagan idoLisry aud s'tpnrsttifai
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F,1cp ATiov. For the first FINE jil The history
o emigration to the United Shcs from the Briti+h
Islands there is now a preponder'nce ih the
movement towards Australia md Canada over thIt
r towards these shores The Official returns made nj
in Enoland show that for the first three months OF
: 1855 the aggregate number Of eniprants from
, eGr4at Britain was $4,000, OF whom $500 were
I bound for the United States, against l6;I2 for
b the corresponding period of 1897 Df the rest
Q ssG7 were for the Australian coonies Ehngratlen
for all parts of the world bas not been az 50 low
o figure for fifteen years past asst now A. 10 attane
4 its maximum figure in 1888, when it reached
372 725 This was reduced 20 fcss than one-lali
/ in 1887. when the emigration only reacicd some
At 10000. as
Toi nFzz~A tubful of soapsuds, farmers should
remember, is worth much as whee-oafrow o.
GOOD manure. Every bucket OF soapsnds shoulo
90 Re thrown where it viii not be lost The Eardef
IA a Good and convenient place in which TO dispos'
ii of but the roots grape vines hgs young trees
sSr a,s,.t tI,snt, "A, thei sort will do well