Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-08-27
A Visit TO the Great WAL Of
China---Present C0nditlon OF
the Work.

A Visit 10 the Great WAL of
Chfna--.Present COndItfoD 81
the Work.
Mr.. Fnnblanque communicates 20 the
London Times n graphic descripti,r pf q
visit to the Great Wall Of China. The fol
lowing are exteact-:
Accompanied by Mr. Dick, an excellent
Chinese scholar, and attached ms iBterpreter
TO the ministerial. left Tien tian on the
18th Gf March. and, after three DAYS ride
through as embarrassing country ~ can
well he conceived. came IT, sight of theiine
soIid wall which erclosrs fhe straegIipg
mass OF ruin, dirt ard decay called Prkin
Chinese villages are, at best, dreary and
squa He'd locking, but on this roufe. whore
the dogs ot war have So recently been let
loose, there is something narrowing ia the
misery and desniation Of the scene. Has
grinding, oppression and long snf<rirg
deadened the heart of the Chinese pei ant
to all sense of injupzs? Or kz<be alts{alI
a Christian feelia k5sfglSeaess faw.rds
his enemies. lnr1 sch no orthodax chs,teh-
maa pssss e ssss,,.e ,ss
a sense Of shameehavine come over me as
through crowds of men. women and chill
dren, standing by the charred ruins of
their homesteads and among their shatter.
ed household gods, without being met BY
single angry look nr cesture-nay more.
always receiving a ready and friendly
reply to every question. Perhaps they
felt grateful that we had, at any rate.
spared their lives. which is more than thew
thasr
rebels, when they pay them a visit.
Srme of the villages along the road were
mere heaps Of rubbish; others retained
more or less the se;pblance Of human habi
tations. 10 the larger ones, such az Ho-
si-wo, which it may be remembered, was
for some time in occupation of our troops,
the late enemy's inscriptions on doors and
walls seem to be pinusly preserved rs
agreeable Ielics, ard such familiar garrison
words as OFFERS Quarters" "Canteen,"
"Fane's Horse" "Commissariat," "Gene.
raj Hospital" &c., meet one at every turn;
though one cannot but remark with regret
that the buildings which appear to have af
forded shelter to the envaders are sadly
devoid of everything in the shape of wood
wook, which was probably used as occasion
required, for cooking dinners and boiling
water. A celebrated and imposing pawn
brokers shop. which was "ioofed" here
has not yet recovered itself; but let it be
borne in mind that in piIlage, az in wanton
destruction, the Chinese themselve far ex
eel the British or even French soldiers: the
bonds of restraint unce removed. and a Ce.
lestial mob have no patriotic OF religious
scruples as to the property of Mandrin.
priest or peasant, as they fully exemplified
at the sacking of Yuen ming vuen and the
Lama temple, the sacred proceeds of which
are 10 this day openly offered for sale at
more or less exorbitant prices in the shups
of Tein-tsin.
FRENCH BISHOP IN CHINESE ATTIRE.
AT Ho'si-woo we met French missionary
bishop Gu his wav to Europe, after having
passed twenty five years in China. He
was dressed in the native costume, even to
the pigtail, and appeared to he treated
with great reverence by the unhelieveing
crowd, who Rocked in to see the "Manda-
rim priest" The self-devotion, the zeal.
and, as very general rule, the pure and
simple lives led by the French missionaries
in China, land their number throughout the
Eingdom Of Siam exceeds l,500,) arc not
without their effects upon the people. al
though this IS not displayed in a wholesale
and ipdescriminate conversion to normal
christianity.
THE GREAT WALL
Another day. journey brought US to
Chata"n, hamlet ii the foot of the great
wall. The road for the last fifteen miles
had been ST. bad, that We were obliged tn
leave our horses az MARKHAM. hiring in their
nlaces Tartar ponies. Nothing less sure
footed that these shaggy. hardy little hen-ts
could haze carried us through those rug
ged mountain paths, which we would have
done on foot but that one miles march
over the sharp rock which forms the pave
ment would have left us sboe!ess.
At daybreak on the following morning
we climbed the highest peak Of the noun,
tain range, and there, standing on the top
of the great wall reflected on the stupen-
dous folly of this wonderful work of human
industry. which is said to have cost the
country two hundred thousand lives, from
sheer physical exhaustion The wall
which il built If stone and brick, is twenty
fe ct high and fifteen bread, surrounded nv
a double papet, louphuled on the north
side. As far as the eye can follow the
mountain range it winds over the ridges of
the PERCEPTIONS black rocks like a gigantic
serpent crawling along and with its
breath poisoning all around, for. turn
where you will, nothing meets the view
but the Gosolate. dreary tract Of rock, un-
relieved by blade of grass or a tuft of
moss. and huge boulders strewing the base
of the mountain sides II was the within of
tyrant to build a wall where Nature had
already Effected barrier far more effectual
than anything that human art could con-
struct. However, there it remains after q
laps Of nearly two thousand years. NOM
ument If the cruel folly Of one man. ard
the'patient industry and sufferings of many
thousands.
Having made an abortive attempt at a
sketch. and tried in vain to discover one re-
deeming feature 10 this vast scene of desc.
lation. secured my brick and decended to
the pass, remouuted to proceed bnmeward
Our guard could hardly believe his senses
-certaiDl he doubted ours. When at
Nankan mine host eoquired what we were
going to the Great Wall for. Our story
met with no credit Were there not walls
everywheref Was not the wal! of Pekin
better worth looking at? And then as for
shooting. why come so far for game when
it could be bought in the market at our
very doors? HIS impression evedentIy was
that We had some sinister project in view !:
but when we returned with the brIcx the
good man simply burst out laughing. and
let Us down for couple of harmless man.
iacs.
Keeping the Law.
There was an old Quaker, who had an
unfortunate reputation of nonresistsDce -