New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-03


FINDING it impossible to agree a. 10 tl, caran,onyy
Of presentation, Or, in other words. finding that
M. ward adhered strictly to his original offer
h te la sdqea ne by conserving
seen the Emperor. On the 4sh, he said M Ward
should be informed of the day; and Il, tba ,oaanl
time he wished him all manner Of happiness and
success. As they were leaving, Seth also became
amlabie, and took Mr.. Martin, the insarpreter
aside, to tell him that they must not feel offended
at the hauteur Of their manner at their first meet
ing, dsHse1e t1ere higher persons than themselves
present, for whose express benefit it had been in
dulged in. This confession but served to strengthen
our previous opinion as to the fact of the Emperor
having been witness to the interview. It would
not nave done to let hlns his Ministers treating
foreigners with considerable politeness.
And thus stand the i" foreign affairsn of Pekinp
az TINS moment Az to US, the foreigners who give
rise 70 these affairs,'' you never saw more dis
gusted party Of sfght-seers We came III see pe
EsnY and are confined within brick wall ten feet
nlsh surrounding a piece of ground two hundred
a rsn ieet square upon the entire area Of which
~. ou III one-sory brick estdblisfn1ent divided
iit ~, eght or ten houses by tagged eourt-yards
.,d sre ngs absolutely debarred from g going
@nidez a,, put have been denied horses and
ne chooses as regards our walking atotat he CIV
PM mat we hed better wait until everything IL III
teu. me WEAKNESS Of all this is quite apparent
Were we to go out by ourselves anil be insn,sad
all that the Commissioners wouId have ~ go
would be, 'tee ddcised yo, not 70 10 o, III a,rbe I,
Consequently, we remain in our Ya1noon. Al frat
MAR fss
the habit of passing in and out at useaanra ~
this was eventually stopped unless Mey had be
Ministers permission. - M
When this was reported to Mr.. Ward, be very
property observed: 81 am prisoner myself
and cannot, therefore, give liberty to others thew
must share the treatment of their employers The
reader must NOT, however, infer from this that Mr.
Ward can send his boy through the soldiers WIN
surround the walls if he desires to-far from ID
That would be taking a Chinaman at his word.
which is always a dangerous proceeding and
indeed, he has once, through the interpreter, ex-
pressed his desire that certain boy should be
permitted to pass, the reply to which was that he
chez officer present rould refer Il to The chief
officer absent, which is the last we have heard
Upon the whole, however it il not an unnleasant
life that we Gagged ones are having here Our
apartments are large, clean and airy. Our bath
ing tubs are large, and the welwater at temper
Azure OF 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The numerous
| courts afford us ample room for exercise while
books, pen and ink and whist fill the idle hours
pleasantly enough Average temperature of days,
. degrees, nights 49, and generally a cool breeze
Though in the midst Of densely populated city
| we are as completely removed from ali noise as We
would be in deserted village, and our daily sup
| ply oil provisions keeps the long table rroanine
under the best of food. They furnish Ms liberails
Win oee' mutton, ducks, geese, fowls eggs spring
chickens, milk, ice, vegetables, watermelons, ap-
pies, pears, peaches, plums, etc. ETC., for all Of
Wnich tney refuse payment.
/ We. however, keep list Of everything, deter
mined to pay after the exchange of the treaties "a
it therein provided that Ministers shall visit
| Picking at their own expense" 1t is probable how
ever, that they will reply: {" all these expenses
| were encountered before The exchange hence thew
are not affected by the treaty, 1t is difficult to
reconclle their liberaty in this respect to their
| great ehurlishness in others. For instance:
| few days since one of our Chinese writers. who
formerly resided here in the service of the Rus
slams told US that it would be easy to obtain the
presence OF Jugglers rope-dancers, etc., in the
courts and he was at once authorized to contract
for daily performances. The officials however.
would take no steps in the matter, asserting that
peklng mad been greatly overrated-in which be-
heve they have stumbled upon the truth-and that
the day for such performances has ceased The
latter we know to be untrue. @
Speaking OF the Russians, reminds me of an &C.
currence in connection with them which shonId
not be allowed to pass unnoticed by our Govern
ment. Arriving here on the 9th ultimo, and ex-
peetlng hourly to be granted " the freedom of the
city,,, Mr.. ward retained communication from
the GovernorGeneral of Siberia to the Russian
Minister, intending to deliver it in person.
Seeing no signs of obtaining this freedom, he
after the lapse Of twenty-four hsurs, forwarded
him the document by hired messenger Yester-
day came the answer, through the officials, on the
18th ult., and telling among other things that we
were surrounded by Gordon of soldiers, that he.
mad mad, been requested not to communicate with us
until after the exchange of the treaties and that
his courier to Russia would be detained four DAYS
in case Mr. Ward wished to write.
NOW the Chinese must have opened that letter.
(they have at Court those who read EngIishl
learned about the courier and kept it until he had
been gone two days. But simply keeping it back
was an act of great international discOurtesy to
say the least of it, and as that courier will carry
the news of our confinement it will trouble our
friends at home greatly before we can reach them
by the next mail. wish every Chinaman in the
Empire was strung up by his tail. AVN.
Il SINGULAR PHENoMENoN.-The Cincinnati En-
quirer relates the following extraordinary case
!, Inc forms OF human suffering as varied as
they are numerous, and though mankind has en-
dured physical pain in every conceivable phase we
doubt II an exact parallel to the following can any
where be found on record
In neighboring village, but few miles from
this city, lives an old man of three score years.
who, for some time past, has been totally blind
Very recently he was attacked by illness which has
since confined him to his bed. About week ago
the lower part of his body began to grow cold and
though every means was employed to impart to his
limbs an artificial heat, the chill gradually as
cended to the region of the stomach, where it
stopped. :
Since that time the upper portion of his body.
including his arms, seems to be burning up with O.
raging fever while the lower portion is as numb as
cold can make it and as chilling as an iceberg to
the touch. All that extremity has lost in
warmth has been more than gained by the other
Every effort to restore to the body an equilibrium
OF heat has entirely failed, and though no change
has taken place in the unfortunate mans condition
for some days past, all hope of his recovery has
been abandoned.
The most singular part of the story, which is
we'll authenticated, is the fact that the sufferer
the abnormal condition of the upper part of his
body, believes the lower portion to be in consum-
ing fire. His constant cry to those around his bed
side to do something to quench the flames that are
crsping the flesh and seethng the blood in his
lower limbs. To priest who was called in to
shrive him he said there was no hope that half his
body was already in hell And still he lives, his
heart and brain fire, and his pulse beating high
and warm, while through the lower part of his
body, which is as cold and dead as death can
make it, he is suffering all the tortures of the
| damned.
| BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MooN-A gen.
tleman of this city, well known as an astronomer
and amateur photographer has succeeded in taking
photographs of the moon, with beauty and aeon.
racy far exceeding anything of the kind previously
accomplished in this country or Europe Last eve :
ming at private exhibition of the Dissolying Views
OF Messrs. Marsh Il Kaye, who have recently arr
rived from England, these exquisite delineations of
lunar scenery being subjected to the operation of
their apparatus, were Reproduced and magnifed
With the most vivid effect, each view being twenty
live feet square. The result is of the greatest in
terest, not only in astronomers, but in those who
with less scientific curiosity have so often watched
the moon, endeavoring, like the Tuscan artist
/ =" To descry
/ Rivers and mountains on her spotiy gobeP
A larger moon than was ever seen by mortal
eyes before was projected upon the screen. The
picture OF the halt-moon, the volcanic hollows, one