St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-10-02
The Chinese Embassy IN Gotham.

The New York correspondent Of the
Chicago lines contributes To that Jour
nal what he designate, "a careful trails
ia!ion, made 10y my>,il ut a letter wr.t-
ten bv GhIm-Shng. one OF the Chinese
Embassy. 10 his friend Nhu-Cno, AN c-II-
manr cliIzcl ot Fowl how. ChIa, ami
WHich has appeared in the ldh-hl-h-4,
LRk-ktn>-EU itnc morning. buiirtn) Ui IuAi
crlv The impressions and opinions ul
tnc Intelligent and observing Cc.rerlt, are
Ot interest IL showing how many thIu.~
III the metropolis appear /" the unbiased
eye OF II person whose experiences and
y npathc> have been 50 wide.y different
from our own
The remarkable letter is dated New
York, L. =. May %, 1865 and tLc
tirst part detail, G. furnishings impressions,
oi the great metropolis. He then gives
4 little adventure where he tried 10 get Il
siewed puppy for supper. The landlord
SAID he was o,:t OF puppies just IN. II.
aud told him that there was one in the
room adjoining his winch he might have.
Slim Ide AN Intellectual a.tcnIpt 10 Ict
Il poodle, but the lady who owned 1t, ap-
pearing in short, low-neckcd "cveniug"
dress and offering objections, hls desire
proscd unattaImable.
In another part of the letter Il visit to
IA restaurant i thus described
'Whcn came opposite a large house
where many men were eating, l entered
and sat down. ] WAS opposite a famous
iugglcr, who performed wonderful teals
ot knrte-swallowIng, and seemed entirely
indifferent to the admiration he excited.
A boy came to me and asked me what |
wanted. Having AN unpleasant expert
ence in puppies and rats, | asked for
crackers. Chinese crackers ~ he in
quired.
"Ies, if you have them
evil you have them light ;"
"CertaInly, the Lighter the better"
In few minutes he returned with IA
plate full OF the little red paper pop-guns
we make in our country and before l
could rrmun>traie with him, he lighted
them, saying: Look here, old CeIes-
lial, this is one Of the matches made i'll
Heaven! :"
The crackers went off in fine style.
and did likewise. Before | bad gotten
Tar, boy from the eating house ran at
ter me, and pulling my cue (why, in the
name Of josh, does everybody try to take
,he cue from me y, inquired, Buy
these Buy these! Good, good, bow,
WOW, wow.' So speaking, he held up
IA long line OF sausages, and again made
the bow, WOW, WOW sound.
| told HIM spoke English. Then he
remarked: "Dog in all of these.
know-we make em ourselves. Don'l
use anything but dog. Get dogs in the
pound every summer; make great many
,ausages out OF them. Genuine dog.
sausages. Buy 'em, old fel p
declined, and the boy left me with
the remark that | was an Old pudding
head. which no doubt was compliments
rv, as it signifed something to eat, an,
.l,at / was a man of desert.
In the last part OF the epislle 'prett!
waiter girls'' are alluded 10 thus:
As walked on, L noticed IL numbe
of signs above underground places abou
.'pretly waiter girls | though, l,
like to see them. So l went down int,
one OF the saloons, as they are called
The girls carried waters, but not pretli
ness Indeed, they were excessivel
homely, several OF them having painte'
their noses red, and their eyes black Ant
, blue, which didn't improve their appear
ance. Two of them came up to me, an
sat down in my lap, declaring l was
, "hunky old boy" which l didn't under