The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-04-09

found that all the tender soctude OF the people Of Hong
Kong had been entirely thrown away / traversed the
whole city with my trunk and chow chow baskets my
self the only escort TO four coolies Along the great
east and west thoroughfare closed shop become
exception, and the only difficulty 30 push
way through the crowd The people were cutting up
carp, tcnch and roach in the streets of the city is
wonderfully and cooking their eomestibIes in full bust
ness like security. Idlem playing mt Chinese
hazard and exhibiting their piles of coins upon the
board. The curiosity Shops in incredible numbers,
spread with curious antiques of the newest fash
ions, and victmizing credulous leutenans in way
which Mencus would not have approved The crowds
not afraid TO manifest curiosity at the clothes
and features of their European guests and the shopkeep
ers invite you into their shops with politeness that
they have misgivng that you will exercise any
right of conquest except conquest by purchase Yet
the spirit of nsoence has departed out of them Neither
in word gesture Is there any symptom Of hostility
even of dislike have two people frightened very
much by scoding for using the word Eaqua foreign
dcv but believe they used it in all inn occncc having
never heard it called by any other name would
glcct precautions for the neglect of precautions would
revive hopes abandoned and the neglect of pccau-
tons nearly proved destruction ut Nngpo during the
last war; but so far from their being any notion Of
taking this CITY, believe that no ten Cinnamon within
sight of Canton would dare raise stick In the presence
of British French soldier or sailor
rIiR CITY
The commercial parts OF Canton have been mitch
estimated We have believed that there must be some
grain of truth in the bombast and Drag of the Cinnamon
Canton is big and populous that Is all In other
spects it is very ordinary China city Its temples
numerous, and the Contucan Temple and the Temple of
Five Hundred Gods good of their kind but most Of
the others miserable and dilapidated. The nine
stored pagoda is in ruinOus condition that the gen
era the other day forbade the attempt to climb the frag
ments of its broken staircase. Major uard whose
ut the cscalade seems to have inspired him with
mania for climbing had previously Iisked his neck in
getting way up Yet this pagoa the great boast
oil nf for
egncs could not get hear enough to what miserable
ruin it is What think of people who will not
afford few dollars to save their monuments from mould
ering.
ARRANGEMENT
/ found the yamun of Peli- Kwei in much more busy
state than when i left il. Through the open doors
crowds of Chinese and go. The Chinese tribunal
Pe-kwc and the tribunal of the three commissioners
Colonel Holloway, lie Capitanc Martine;,, and Mr.
parkes) as soiny Thanks to the energy Of the
tumvr the streets Of Canton safe from European
violence the streets Of Paris from Chinese
Colonel Iiolloways court takes all the mixed and
finding the other day that Cnanan was i'll the wrong
he sent over to Pch-Kwci viii, statement of the
circumstances. The Mandarin charmed with this
COM mcnt that he had the poor wretch banboocd nearly
to death The court has also established Can
ton police Captain Ppm is the Colonel Rowan Canton
He has hundred soldiers under him armed with
swords and revoyers, and the French have separate
body of 80 Associated with the European police
equal number of Jartars Five English and two
Of the city and suburbs and tho shopkcpng community
likely to obtain under British and French rule Sc
curity they never before hoped for.
ARsENus.
The three imperial armoes were in high state of eff
icency. The double handed swords were immense in
numbers and terrible TO look upon. There rooms
full Of those fear inspiring shields which in quite
modern period of Chinese history probably gave 10
piratic Greek the idea of the shield of Minerva There
were arrows in thousands very carefully finished and
inrn Init
Great stores of quilted jackets filled the presses and
there many complete suits of Chinese The
swords and pixies, and gngas and matchlocks, in
Vulnerable but the chief attraction five brass guns
which followed by covetous eyes as they walk
ed off by the coolies In another establishment found
collected all the shot that could be recovered after the
last years bombardmcnt, and also unexpIued
shells, which Ind been fired upon the city on the 18th
December. There also great depot of internal
chimes in form like dark lantern nude of tin Many
flags and banners also carried off.
CHINESE
have taken pains 10 ascertain the loss suffered
by the Chinese during the bombaJdment and the storm
We have all the official returns of the first ay in our Dos,
during the whole operations higher than 200. Some dis
trust the Chinese accounts, but inclined to put faith
in them Unless you surround Chinese soldiers you
kill many of them. You catch them upon island
or in isolated position They act upon the principle
of the Wife of Bath that
"a who o poor hole
Can be Of any SOUL
They fire very erccy upon you you coming up to
attack them but escape by the back door ms you
get too Our escaadc complete surprise upon
them They fancicd you advancing under the fire
from their walls to attack Fort Gough they never ex
peccd that you would turn aside and Jump upon wooden
legs over the wall. Howquas comprador with whom
Of talked the matter over declares TINT il is i'm
possible that the numbers killed could be greater than
stated The people, he says knew perfectly well The line
the fire would take and got out of the way The troops
who obliged TO remain on the walls kept very much
under cover and great quantities of the missiles missed
the wall and fell into the ditch The dead must be bur
open il easy for any TO calculate how many
carried out II says little for the destructive power Of
warlike engines that small loss should have
been occasoncd by large expenditure OF shot
and she'll but the probabilities that the fact is the
Chinese state it, IL placed beyond doubt that the
loss of the Chinese during the bomardment in 1896
not than forty three, and quite believe in the
that the recent list of killed does not exceed
two hundred
CAPTIVITY.
Ych, on board the InHexible exhibits much the same
mind that he also must want books. The offer
jected; but Yeh is religious man. and said nothing
about ronances His was what should do with
books All the books that proper TO be read know
by heart He quoted Calipb Omar without having
ever heard his He passes his time in praying to
Bnddha and telling his fortune His papers abound in
fortune telling schemes analogous to Sorfs Vugii-
ann'' or s'.Sortes Bb,cd." One of them liz headed
sSchenie TO determine when the Kwangsi rebellion will
terminate" The Chinese very indignant with him
for not killing himself They say ''Eep number one
fools; he maee wrtee pigeon he makee ghtce pig
con- he number bad Mandalin he no cuttee thloat
The wretched creature to have been influenced in