Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-11-01

preme pOntlh or religious neao Oh the Ctase.
The City of Picking. Picking, which all
the school books you and l studied taught US
was the most populous city in the world, is
now falling rapidly into dilapidation. l do
not think it has more than 100000 inhabit-
ante. The old custom of imperial seclusien
is unbroken Picking consists OF a triple
walled city-one Tartar, the other Chinese,
and a third the Imperial palace, each Enclosed
with separate wall within the other.
The Great Man Of China. The real great
man of China IL Wan Fang, who chiefly car
ried through the Burlingame missions and
established a university for the education OF
Chinese youth by Western professors, in
Western arts and sciences. A reaction which
was really in the interest of the Chinese
hterdti followed these measures, just as a
similar reaction against the Burllngame
treaty had obtained among the foreign resi-
dents in China. Wan lang was i'll and in
temporary retirement, under law which
obliges every public servant on the death OF
his mother to 20 into absolute secluslOn and
mourning for one year Filial affection, you
know. is one of the five virtues recognized In
Chinese morals. Wan Fang visited me, and
we reduced into a personal friendship the
cordial relations which we had entertained
toward each other while was at Washing
ton.
Chinese Business. The skill and boldness
OF Chinese bankers are the surprise of the
East. The activity and efficiency of the
merchants and the magnitude OF their opera
tions are wonder. With rates OF interest
seldom lower than sixteen per cent. the mer-
chant carries on trade with all the distant
cities of the empire and with Mongolia, the
most distant regions OF Thlbet, Sam ana
CochIn-China while the revenue derived
=. h uF this iff1rnnU5p
lation amounts only 20 fifteen millions OF
dollars, only one halt of which, | think, goes
to the Imperial Treasury, and the residue IS
apportioned to the treasury OF the districts
where the foreign trade is carried on. Be
sides this commerce through inland navIga-
ton, YOU find in China that the ship OF the
desert is employed with wonderful effect.
You can scarcely conceive the amount oil
traffic carried on the backs of camels, not
only in the interior Of China, but extending
northward and westward far into the Empire
of Ru, STA.
The Great Wall The Great Wall Of Chi
ma s the great wall Of the world. IL Is forty
feet high. The lower thirty feet is OF hewr
limestone or granite Two modern carriages
may pass each other upon the summit. II
has parapet throughout its whole length
with convenient stalrcases, buttresses, ana
and il runs, not by cutting down hills anc
raising valleys, but over the uneven cresu
of the mountains and down through theIl
gorges, a distance Of thousand miles Ad
miral Rodgers and ] calculated that il would
cost more now 10 build the Great Wall o
China through its extent of one Thousand
/ miles than 1t has cost To build the fifty tiv'
thousand miles of railway in the United
States.
+ The WISE Men Of IN East Reporter
/ Whom do you regard as the four or five fore
most native Oriental statesmen
Mr. Seward-ln China, Wan lang. Tn,
King of Siam i practical and progressiv,
sovereign In India, Sir Jamsetiee Jeleeb
/ hoy IN Egypt, the Viceroy and his Prime
Minister and IN Turkey, the Grand Nizer
Aali Pasha (who died only few days ago,
and the Minister of Finance ia Japan
EyvDt and me Antiguitg or Man ha,
always supposed, before making this journey
that China or some central region of Cont
mental Asia was the seat of the nations
which civilization as a continuing force FRS
+. began; but though ! have had an opp0rtu
nitv TO see what Is old a. well as what !
new in the last as we'll as in Europe, | hav
found no where else monuments and govern
meut so old. or a condition of society $
primitive, as those Of Egypt. With deierenc
Tor those whose studies have been more care
tul than my own, l think that the presen
civilization Of mankind had It's earliest dat
in Egypt, and I think cur Biblical common
tators must c0ncedc that the date is even fur
ther back than IS allowed in the chronology
F. of Archbishop Usher