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0 St. Louis THE CHINESE AT HOME. Picturesque Scenes in and Around Canton. The Occupations and Amusements of the Women-Sketches and Notes. (From the Brooklyn Eagle.

is a picture surely calculated to excite compassionate feelings in the bosoms of my sensitive readers: The place, Canton; the time, sundown, under the ruddy after glow which made the scene resemble the last tableau In some delusive pantomime; and the person, bewildered and famisbing Scotch Highlander standing (in trousers, however,) on a frail wooden bridge and gazing with a puzzled air into the abode destined for him--a few feet off -but unable to walk into the same by reason of the somewhat ludicrous fact that the bridge fails at the last extremity to span the intervencreek-one of the fifty branches of the' Pearl River in which Canton is situated. Not to prolong this painful situation, bowever, the stranger finally makes a desperate, if undignified, spring and alights safely on balcony of the house. Such were the romantic circumstances under which the writer WAS first ushered into a Cantonese dwelling which had been put at his disposal by an- -affectionate resident relative, whom we will assume, for the honor of the Celtic race and the Calvinistic faith, to' have been totally Ignorant of the condition of that unspeakable bridge. The only other entrance beside thin, except for birds, were some very slimy steps upon the other side of the house, submerged at high tide by the Pearl River. Here the fish swim in, and are frequently stranded.

The birds entered through the apertures for doors and window trames, for with actual doors and windows the Cantonese dispense. They place large screen before the doorway, which gives privacy sufficient for their need. The window sashes are closed either by a sort of jalouxie or thin matting. They do not surround their domesticites with the same in stery and secret precautions with which even their own countrymen envelop these preceding in America. Human nature, argue the Cantonese, has to sleep, and here is the mat upon which it stretches itself.

Why conceal it? It also wants to eat, and it satisfies its appetite, no matter how many eyes are gazing. The first thing that took me by surprise, and indeed almost overwhelmed me, when had entered my dwelling, was the variety of odors, smells, stenches, scenta assailed me in the various chambers--no, that is a misnomer; I do not believe there is such thing as a chamber in Canton. But different localities, domicile, such as north, south, east or west of my were. all characterized by different smells, For instance, crossing the bridge and the veranda contiguous, me whole. being was penetrated with the unmistakable essenceof putrid fish.

Escaping from this with utmost celerity, I hurried southward. Here WaS a compartment which, beside six window and tbree door ditto, had two large square holes in the ceiling for admitting a ladder into the attic; and I was once more permeated with a delicious sense of breathing in a pure atmosphere. In this spot, therefore, I pitched my tent, or, to speak more literally, my blankets, mat-, pillow, wraps and general belongings; and hither presently came a cook, and commenced mary operations upon a young pig which he was about to roast in my bedroom. It would have taken long time to make him comprehend my objections, but fortunately I bad a factotum, who undertook the multifarious duties of valet. chambermaid, courier, interpreter and laundress--Ah Wing was bis DAIDe -and he and I being of oue mind on most subjects, we soon boisted the cook elsewhere.

He went off grumbling. and whether he betook himself to the bridge or the slimy steps I had no anxiety to learn I firmly believe he burnt the pig out spite. To a person with eager susceptibilities and observant faculties, the first entrance to China proper is enough to cause temporary aberration of the mind; all the senses are suddeny attacked by such outrageous Incongruities novel sensations which he ban never hitherto dreamed of. He is induced to doubt the intelligence he receives through them--to believe rather that he is dreaming, ed, illusionized in some way. Having already seen man; portions of the earth's surface, was yet taken quite aback by the startling contrasts and marked differences presented to the eye here.

The very hills on the Pearl River stood out in such unwonted outline, that I had constantly to place my fingers on my eves to give them the chance of correcting any optical delusion they may have been laboring under. The front of my dilapidated house overhung the Pearl River, and was overshadowed by an immense gnarled tree, whose ronts might nave been in my bed-room, or parlor, or veranda, for aught I could discover. Through its leafy shade what a wondrous scene Was presented to me. The Pearl River in a study of human life unparalleled in any other part of the world. Its numerous branches and creeks encircle and intersect Canton; meeting, dividing, spreading, like a lady's crochet pattern, and each slip of water toating its fleet of bonts of every description, from the warlike junk, bristling wiih cannon, to a dituinutive cockle shell in which a mere baby paddles its own canoe.

Chinese children are both waterproof and drowningp-roof. therefore, disbelieve the libel that so much infanticide is committed by casting babies into the rivers, persuaded as 1 am that at no age would a Chinese infant cousent to drown. Thousands of samp na are plying their pars or are their hing to the homes of large families who pass whole lives on that slender plank. Half a million people are estimated to live upon the water in Canton alone; and I believe it would be possible to find a Chinese landsick, as in contrast to our seasickness. These people rarely go ashore.

Their occupation is on the water; their whops and stores. are floating. They generally earn their living by using their craft ILA conveyances for men and material, Ike the Venetian gondolas, which they, resemble in construction, though not in color. These boats are frequently inhabited, as a dwelling, by two or three generations. I have seeu mere babies steer like any cox wain.

There, 100, are to he seen the pretty sailor girls peculiar to China. They are bright, saucy, robust looking lasses; their glorsy black bair cut short across the forehead, and tied up in knot or plait behind. They wear neither shoes nor stockings, and their pretty little feet and unkles are among the most beautiful and attractive objects in Canton. They not only row. and scull, and steer on that complicat-.

ed mesh of craft, but manage their boats upon the wider portion of the river with masculine agility. This is one of the remarkable features of Canton, and 1 striking instance of what, for lack of 8 better word, I must term the of Chinese life. You find men employed as seamstresses, embroideres.es; while the women are sailors and boatmen. It in not etiquette to admit gentlemen within the precints of the married ladies; and yet they have free and unrestrained admission to the nunneries. Tne nuns have male servants, and this throughout.

There is scarcely anything that the Chinese do not do in manner the reverse of ours. In salutation, a Chinese shakes his own hand instead of bis visitor. In paying respect, he puts his hat on, instead of taking it off. The very houses seem inside out. Wherever we begin at the bottom, they commence at the top.

Their signboards are perpendicular, instead of horizontal, etc. And their ideas are also very much upon the same reverse scale. What is felony in Europe (unfortunately, America fails me here)-plurality of wives-is highly proper in China, in fact a mark of distinction; and concubinage is no more a sin than it was in the days of mon. At least, in households where I visited, I could not find out that it implied any disgrace. These women would appear to belong to lower social grade than the first wife, who is always of suitable rank, and is the only one carried home in state by her busbauds relatives, which constitutes the only marriage ceremony.

Possibly, too, a second or third wife is obtained without a dower, an she way not have near relatives to exact it; but here the distinction ends. She of the same food as the chief wife, and her children share the benefits with the rest. She may not have as much authority as an upper wife, but her position has no opprobrium whatever attached to it. Having once obtained a pied a terre in Cunton, I was enabled, through the kindness of Britisb resident merchant, to be introduced to some of the chief families of the city. And once received inside the mansion, had to trust to my own audacity and savoir fuire for may introduction to the ladies of the ment.

At the house of 0ue mandarin, Daily Glove- Democrat Sheet. FLOWER. (From Magazine -J Fair of snow A April who without sin Enchanted to us dow'r, and there within Conceived wast, but how no man may know; 1 would thou mightest, being of beavenly kin, Fray for as all (thy lips are pure, altho' The soil be souked with tears and blood), to win Some pity somewhere for man's grievous woe. foolish phantasy and fond conceit! Yet mark this little white cleft, And muse apon it. Earth is not bereft miracles; lo, here is one complete: And after this the whole new springtime left, And all the roses that make summer sweet.

HER BLUE-EYED BOY. Harper', Weekly.) "My boy, my boy, my boy, For thee I sigh. for thee I weep, When others tread the mazy dance, Or smile in happy dreams and sleep. Torn from these loving arts away. By those who reeked not tear or prayer, Ere thou couldst speak thy mother's name, My tiny bud, my bubelet fair.

boy, my bor, my bine-eyed boy, -Conid I within thy bright eyes enze, Or have an hour to kiss thee in, light up many weary days. But thou art far away from me; Between us ocenn's billows beat, And I can bat thy picture kiss, My fliry rose, my labelet sweet. As Miss Isabella Spooner finished reading these verses, and proceeded to cut them. out of the paper they had graced. with a pair of scissors that, in company with a bunch of keys, hung from her generous girdle, a murmur of admiration and sympathy arose from her audience.

This audience consisted of Mrs. Spooner, Isabella's mother, a tall thin, pale woman with a great deal of forehendthat is, in regard to height-and very white, -shaped hands, which looked as though they had been molded out of lard; Mrs. Dusenberry, a lady who looked about five-andforty, but who, according to her own calculations, grew young so fast that her friends confidently expected that in a few years she would be a girl again, with lips so thin that they came near being po lips at all, bumpy brow, small, back, uneven eyes, nondescript nose, ana figure remarkable for its unobtrusiveness; Capt. Hottop, Miss Spooner's uncle, a hale, bearty. rather handsome man, who had spent post of his life in a sailing vessel; Mr.

Wellington Octoper, a voung pork merchant, called by those of his compamons who had been to the Aquarium, it came so devilish near being Octopus, you know, with reddish hair, reddish complexion, and no forehead to speak of; Miss Eugenia Ann Octoper, sister of the pork merchants a pretty, pert young girl, who caine down to breakfast in diamond earrings, and talked a great deal about and two or three eiderly men and three or four young men, who being near nobodies. can, of only expect mere mention. It was lovely day in the last week of July, and these people were gathered together OD the broad veranda of the Spooner, homestead (Mrs. Spooner took few summer boarders for company), sud, truth to tell, they could not have been in a pleasanter place. The substantially built of gray stone and draped with beautiful wistarias that climbed to the very roof.

faced the Delaware River, and the gleam of the water through the branches of the catalpa trees that stood just outside the garden gate, laden with showy dowers among which the bees were baving rare riot, was pleasant sight to nee. Miss Isabella Spooner, the real mistress of the homestead her mother' extreme lassitade Tendering her only the nominal one--was a comfortable, sentimental old maid, with an obtrusive figure (in which respect she formed great contrast to her friend Mrs. Dusenberry), light, very light blue eyes, and a snub nosc. She wore her hair brushed buck from her forehead- a forehead much like ber mam-and falling in a curly crop on the back of her neck. In evening dress these curl were always tied with a bit of bright ribbon, which imparted to them quite juvenile pearance and charm.

Miss Isabella doted on poetry, and looked upon all rhymers beaveuborn. In fact, she had an intense respect for and admiration of all persona connected with literature. and was wont to say I have been pengifted I would have asked no other boon. very sweet said Mrs. Dusenberry, in a soft, too soft voice, as Miss Spooner, ter reading the verses quoted above, took ber scissors in hand.

remind me of some lines I introduced in my first letter to Prof. Ganz at the time I became so interested in the habits of the bird- of North America. He said afterward, by-the-by, that the brightness of that letter absolutely dazzled him Mrs. Dusenberry prided herself on her letterwriting, and, anxious that her talent not be hid under a bushel, wrote on the subject which she thought would be inost interesting to him with a hint as to impression he had made on ber susceptible heart, to every man with whom she cane in contact, as 50011 a8 possible after forming bis acquaintance. when do you expect her, asked Mr.

Spooner, lilting her hands of which sh Was very proud. from her lap, to regard then mope closely, aud then listlessly dropping them again. afternoon, toward evening. 21 swered Miss Spooner, taking a letter from ber pocket and referring to it. She writes: bope to arrive just as the sun in beginning to drown in your beantiful river, and the evenIng star peeps forth an bright- -as bright, alas! as the eyes of my blue-eyed boy.

very said Mrs. Dusenberry 4 It reminds me of a note I received the other day from Dr. Drake. in answer to one I sent him begging him for a copy of bis lecture on the "'Human I should say she was right smart. said the young pork merchant, in a nasal voice.

Them verses sounded very pretty. I don't read anything in the newspapers but the lard quotations and hog-market myself, but I knew good po'try when I hear it. And you read tirst-rate, do. Miss Spooner, you was pice, said his mister; no better than a friend of mine can do. She can write pomes by the hour, but she don't print none.

She don't need to, 'cause her pa's rich. She does it for I'm blessed, here broke in Capt. Hottop, dropping his feet with bang from the chair top on which they had been elevated, I wouldn't like to know what this is all about. Who is she? Aud who's the blueeyed bless me! you're just come, and you don't know, do you, said Miss Spooner. putting the pome" away in her pocket-book, and leaning buck in her chair the better to meet the eyes of the Captain.

Mrx. Montgomery Montague, a charmIng young widow. and the blue-eyed boy is her ouly child- lovely Babelet, corrected Mrs. Dusenberry, al the same time playfully flicking the cheek of youth at her side, one of the mere-mentioned, who in his interest in Miss Spooner's story bad neglected to fan the rival of Mine, De Sevigne, after having been captured and detailed for that duty only five minutes before. And when ber husband died, continued the fair Isabe.la (he was the younger 501 of All aristocratic English family, one of the very red below him, though I've no doubt she was much too good for him, and be treated Away to this country on a lark, 01 and his folks.

highest--intimate with the Queen--and be ran d.sowned him because they thought be marher shockingly), his father sent for the boy, and tore bim from his weeping mother' arms. And recked not tear or quoted Mrs. Dusenberry. why did she let them take him?" shouted the Captain. heavens! they couldn't have taken him if she'd a beld on.

Foreigners tearing citizens of the United States from their mothers' arms! Who ever heard of such a thing they didn't exactly tear him away," explained his niece. That's the poetical way of putting it," interpolated Mrs. Dusenberry. she was left almost destitute, Miss Spooner went on, she's a delicate little thing, and-' were too many for suggested the -merchant. Just assented his hostess.

"But, most fortunately, she possesses the gift of song; and with what her writings bring her in, and the presents which are showered on her wherever she goes- she is sueb a favorite she quanages to get along. I met her at Mrs. Bluelight's party last winter, and we took such a faucy to each other right off, and she old me her story in the conservatory. Youngt Chandler was there, too, but she didn't see blm: he at the other end of the room, behind some tall plants he was very attentive to her afterward, and gave her a pearl bracelet on her birthday--and I cried till my nose looked like 8-' suggested Mrs. Dusenberry.

Adding, in a sprightly manner, if you desert me for this enchantress, never forgive you, to the great astonishment of the honest Captain, who had not exchanged three sentences with the lady, and indeed had never seen her until thin very July afternoon. said Mr. Spooner, changing ring from the forefinger of her right hand to the forefinger of her left, "'we must all be very kind to her. I sympathize with her with all my beart about her child. I know how I'd feel if I lost you.

babelet murmured Mrs. Duseuberry, fixing her peculiar eves on her friend, on which the gawky youth at her side dropped the fan and burst into a loud guffaw. cried Miss Isabella; Here she And up the garden walk tripped slight girlish-looking woman, dressed in a blue-gray silk, with a Gainsborough hat, from which floated a long black ostrich plume, coquettishly set on the back her head. Her pale vellow hair bung in babyish curls about ber snow -white brow, and she raised a pair of lovely yellow-brown eyes to the group on the veranda. Mins Spooner, with astonishing quickness, considering how stout she was, ran down the steps and caught her friend in her" arms.

darling she said with enthusiasm, we have just been reading your sweet, sweet poem, 'A Mother's Welcome to the homestead beautiful it said the little woman, clasping her daintily kidded hands, and speaking in a low. clear voice, perfectly audible to the listeners above, as she turned toward the river. 'That glimpse of the water! the grand old trees! the fragrance of the -raising ber, beautiful gloriouxaky, so like' -with a eatch in ber breath- so like the eyes of my lost, my darting In less than a week every man in that house Was more or less in love with Mrs. Montgomery Montague- -the captain, the pork-merchant, the old clerks, and the young And the women-well, the women didn't like her as well as they did before she came. pretty enough and clever enough, said Mrs.

Dusenberry, I for one am getting tired of her blue-eyed boy. As I said in a letter of mine to a distinguished literary gentleman immediately upon reading it be enrolled himself among my band of admirers have lost children, lost them in the grave, but I never bring my shadows to cloud the sunshine of my And, to do her justice, she never did. On the contrary, NO uncommonly well did she bear her bereavements that one could scarcely believe she bad ever been bereaved. But to go back to the pretty poet's lovers. Capt.

Hottop was the most devoted of them all. He bad never been in love before, and love, like scarlet fever, in a most serious complains when contracted late in life. He followed Mrs. Montague around like a faithful, loving slave, carrying a heavy shawl to spread on the grass when she chose to wit beneath the trees, aud a large umbrella to shield her from the run when it was her pleasure to ramble along the road. He named his sail-boat Lilian after her, bought a pony and phaion and placed them at her service, swung her for hours in the hammock which hung in the orchard, and listened with patient, heartfelt sympathy to her lougines for her blue-eyed Blessed if it ain't too said he one day (they were sitting.

beneath the catalpatrees), as the little widow pressed her lace handkerchief to ber eyes to dry the tears that sprung to them just after she had remarked that the twittering of the dear little birds was NO like a baby's voice it it ain't! Couldn't you git him away from the folks? 'Pears to me 1 couldn't refuse you anything when you clasp your bands and look at we with tears in your eyes." Captain, sobbed the sorrowing mother, are very few people in the world like you-vers few. You are. oue in a thousand--yes, five thousand. But I never had a chance to appeal to them personally. 1 was very ill when -when they took my darling away: and letters, with no matter how much feeling we write them.

are so cold. don't you try asked the Captain, swinging her dainty parasol about, to the imminent danger of the delicately carved handle. She blurbed, cast her -brown eyes, raised them again, looked. him in the face like a child resolved to tell the truth, however painful it may be. and said, have no money wherewith to pay passage to England.

Understand me, would willingly. willingly, be a steerage passenger, anything--anything to bring me nearer in child. But coming to them save as befitted the wife of their son and brother, husband's proud family would certainly own we, and I should be alone in a strange land more beartsick than ever. if the want of money's all, cried ber honest lover, "that's easily settled. I'll give you the money to go in bang-up style, and-' But here be stopped in amazement, for Mr.

Montgomery Montague had risen from her seat and drawn her stall figure to its fullest beight. do not insult she said, with trembling lipa. you, cried the Captain, to bir you, my dear little woman! I never dreamed of such you offended me--money, she stammered. I was about offering you my band and the way they put it in the love stories, don't they? Will you marry me, Lilian? and then, if you choose, we'll go together for the boy. said the widow.

tear stealing down her pretty cheek. don't you -that that would never do? I could never plead for my child as the wife of Capt. flottop. It must be an the widow of Montgomery Montague. Blessed if you ain't exclaimed Captain, looking at her admiringly.

promise to marry me when you return. Do, Lilian. No one could love you better than I for surely my promised wife can accept part of the fortune that will be all' bers when she in really my wife, without anybody Darn it! nobody need know. Will you, Lilian?" will, she said. what.

my be asked, sailing. sbe answered: and turned and ded like a bashful girl, after be had clasped her In his arms and given her kiss in true sailor fashion. And by the very next steamer Mrs. Montgomery Montague started for England, with a valuable solitaire diamond engagement ring glittering on ber pretty hand, a check for $300 in her silver portmonnaie, and many useful and ornamental farewell gifts from the ladies of the Spooner household. The ladies felt all their old interest in her revive, now that whe bad gone away indeed, as Mrs.

Du- seuberry informed the -year old grandfather of the youth who fanned her on the afternoon of Mrs. Montague's arrival. wax much too lovely, and made me quite jealous of you, you false And Miss Isabella Spooner hung the picture of young Montgomery, babelet fair, in the parlor. and wreathed it with daisies. grant that we may see the darling himself she said, with piteous phasis.

But they never did. For a couple of weeks after the vidow's departure, Wellington Oetoper burst in upon them all they were playing croquet on the lawn. scattering the balls in all directions. Sold, by shouted he. asked Miss Spooner dropping her mallet.

million tierces of lard and twice 88 many pigs, I murmured Mrs. Dusenberry, leaning in an uncouscious wanner against the shoulder of her partner. a fraud! continued the pork merchant. they all cried this time. widow, Mrs.

Montgomery Montague, that in. Mrw. Maris J. Thompson. J.

-Jane suppose. A sweet name, waid Mrs. Dusenberry. fraud, sir! What do you mean, sir? what do you bellowed Capt. Bottop.

as though througb a speaking trumpet, a flush his weather-bronzed face. what say, Captain. swered the pork merchant. "'It ought to be the lat of April-it ought-for, by jingo, there never was such a sell! The only truth she told was when she said she was a widow. So she is.

The widow of Jack ThompSOD, celebrated, mince and pumpkin pie maker in Chicago. I met his brother on the street to-day. He's a pork merchant. And she never bad any a blue-eyed gasped the Captain. "Not even a blue-eyed boy.

said Wellington Octoper. doted for his sympathy with the Western whole fields of taro and civilization, 1 was received by his handsome wife with the politeness- and gracious civility of a well-bred gentlewoman, placed on the seat of honor--which resembles an English sideboard with the legs cut short, and peculiarly uncomfortable to sit upon-and immediately entertained with tea and sweetmeats. There was no awkward surprise or embarrasament evinced at my unexpected visit. IfI had dropped from the moon it would have been all the same; they would have received me with the same placidity. I was a stranger and a guest, and, no matter of what race or religion, must therefore receive hospitality.

There was no hurry or furry to get up a company style; no attempt to stow ugly articles out of the way, and to look as though such dainty eyes had never dwelt upon anything that was coarse or vulgar. Chinese have not arrived at the point of civilization which engenders company The great dearth seemed to me 10 be of young ladies, such as would be most prominent in an American bousehold. Here they are either little girls or decidedly married-looking women, appearing much older than they were. In fact, one rarely sees girls in China, unless it be the sailor girls. They marry so young that they seem to spring from childhood to maturity without any intermediate stage of girlhood.

There appears to be no 'blushing fifteen'1 or no dreamy, romantic years of love and poetry; no flirtations, no bulla, no picnics, no bisters dour. The child has not ceased to play with her doll before she has a baby to dandle, and surely then her trouble begins. I never could find out precisely what is the great joy of a Chinese woman's life; but I think it must be dressing her hair. And truly. this is dore with an elaborate, artistic science curious to see.

This hair dressing is the one accomplishment of the Chinese ladies, occupying the same place that music and drawing have in the education of our own women. Their hair is invariably black and very long. It is drawn back tightly from the face and stiffened with gum made from some kind of wood. It is piled up in wonderful pyramid of bows, loops, wings, twists; leaves, flowers, rolls, all 80 stiff that they stand alone without the aid of pads, roulettes, puffs or hair pins. Not a single bair is astray, the whole being highly polished, or, I should say, veneered, which keeps it smooth for nearly a week, when the fabric is taken down and remodeled.

do they asks a curious reader. They have a small leather pillow, which fits underneath the back of the neck and keeps the head in a settled position. Others have a case or box, in which they put the whole head comfortably, and which protects the coiffure from being disordered. It is, beyond question, the most intricate structure that could be reared with hair, and when adorned with real flowers and geins is both an elegant and imposing head dress. Few women are taught to read or write, whereas nearly every boy is instructed by the nronks in reading and bandling the paint brush, with which their writing is effected.

was surprised to find in this so-called benighted country that even the coolie chainbearers could read. It must be remembered, however, that this much of education is I sisted upon by Government merely to fit men for the proper discharge of their respective callings. and not from any abstract idea of disseminating knowledge or among the masses. If a boy displays quickbess at his lessons, he does not necessarily aspire to become a clerk instead of a coolie -a mode of progression which, if universally carried out. would leave the world without any manual workers at all.

There are no spinsters in China except the buns, who dedicate their virginity to Buddha. These ladies shave their heads like the Buddhist priests, and thus deprive themselves of the only sign of gender the hair is dressed a tespot. I paid them a visit in an old tumbie down convent, more intricate of narigation than even the Mandarin's labyrinthine palacos. The great business of the nuns is to do praying for the female portion of the sinners. They visit the sick and perform ceremonies over them which are considered alike beneticial for this and the next -a sort of Buddhist These women are reared for the priesthood, like the vestal virgins of the Romans.

This being the case I could not account for their extreme ugliness. Perhaps it was the shaven bead which made them so sessing and which conveyed the impression, lu spite of my kuowledge to the contrary, that they were lunatics. However, they received me with civility, and indulged in feast of curiosity over me. Nothing escaped them til they got hold of my purse, when they forthwith began to beg an hard for money as many religious Christian dates I wot of. are 80 poor, argued the abbess, little old woman, crooked, gnarled and round headed, like a knobstick; aud we can not go out to beg like the Monks, who get much.

Look at our best image of Buadhu, she cried, drag. ging aside a battered curtain, his head knocked There he WAS, surely enough, holding bis head on his lap. 4 Put it on again, I rested, my organ of order being offended. It will not stick on, said the old abbess, piteously, yet miking the attempt, when the head nudie-nodded in a most grotesque fashion. 'There were a number of girls of various ages, all with shaven beads, being trained for this religious lite.

One was quite a little toddler, a very baby, a miniature abbess, very droll to look upon, but of whom they ail seemed very fond. I am sorry to add that these Chinese vestals are not free from the shafts of malice and scandal. Very, very naughty stories are told of them. Poor things! I could not help feeling compassion 'for them, and balf regretted that I could not aseist them to a new Buddha. For what other joy could they have in life since tbey had no, hair to dress? A woman deprived of the natural objects of affection tinds an object of interest in the representation of an ideal, and I verily believe that the poor old bald, gnarled abbess at Canton had her heart broke when that gold and vermillion streaked head of Buddha was shot off by the French and English.

To return to the wonderful river and the boats. Tuey seem of endless variety-some, all covered, make a sort of traveling hotel, like the Dutch trekchniten, or Egyptian Nile bouts. You are, boarded, lodged, conveyed, for so much per diem. They are generally manned by twenty to forty rowers, polers, for many of the rivers are 80 shallow that poling, and even pushing, become occasionally necessary. 'The passengers are jammed in together like sardines (oil not excepted) unless there chances to be a mandarin on board, when be would invariably monopolize the bout with bis wives and his retinue.

There are also pleasure bouts, painted and decorated in the most gorgeous style and tastelully adorned with flowers, whence they are called Feasting is done on them, and at night they are brilliantly illuminated with a myriad of tiny Chinese lanterns, which give them a fairy -like effect. Issuing from them may be heard the sounds of revelry, of laughter, and the shrill falsetto whine called music, far into the carly hours of morning. The Chinese enjoy themselves by night. All their feasts and festivals are kept through the when poor a Chinese exists on a cent's worth night, generally by moonlight; and altuough of rice a day, yet when riches accumulate he becomes the most luxurious of sybarites, indulges freely in the most reeberene delicacies the table, and like any Roman voluptuary of yore becomes corpulent and phlegmatic. lavited to a grand Chinese dinner, the hour named was 11 a.

m. and the locale a boat. We did not conclude the performance till 5:30, and though 1 certainly felt a little squeamish, by the time. I was enabled to desist I was not actually sick. An enumeration of the dishes we ate and the prices paid for them would sound fabulous.

We commenced with tea and finished with soup. Some of the intermediate dishes were shark's fin; birds' nests from Borneo, costing nearly $5 a mouthful; fricasee of poodle, a little dog rather like a pig, except for its head; the fish of the conch shell, an elastic substance like paxwax or India rubber. which you could masticate, but could not possibly mash liver, very fine and recherche; putrid eggs, nevertheless very good; rice, of salted shrimps, baked almonds, cabbage in a variety of forms, green ginger, stewed fungi, fresh tish of a dozen kinds. onions ad libitum, salt duck cured like tum. pig in every form, roast, boiled, fried; fouchow ham which seemed to me unequaled.

In fact, the Chinese excel in pork, but foreigners will rarely touch it. under the superstition that the eat pigs are fed on babies. Of course a pig will a baby if it finds one, as it will devour a rattlesnake, but that does not prevent us eating American bacon, although our pigs run wild in the woods, and feed from choice upon any vermin they can find. Beside, I think I would as Noon eat transmutation of baby flesh as of rattlesnake, especially the rattle. But I believe the whole to be a libel.

The Chinese are inost particular about their swine, and keep them penned up in the utmost cleanliness and comfort, rivaling the Dutch In their scrubbing and washing. They grow and I do not believe that one porker in a million ever tastes a baby. About 2 o'clock we rose from table, walked about and looked out of windows. Large brass bowls were brought, filled with hot water, and towels. Each one proceeded to perform ablutions, the Chinese washing their heads.

After this refreshing operation we resumed our seate and recommenced with another description of tea. Seven different sorts of samshoo we partook of--made from rice, from peas, from mangoes and cocoanut, all fermented liquors and the mystery remained that I was not inebriated. Perhaps it was through the length of time which had elapsed and the smallness of the quantities taken. The samshoo was drunk warm, in tiny cups, during the course of the dinner. The whole dinner was cooked without salt, and tasted very insipid to me.

The birds nests seemed like glue org isinglass, but the cock's combs were palatable. The dogmeat was like very delicate gizzard, well stewedshort, close Aber and very tender. The dish which fancied the most turned out to be rat, for, upon taking second helping, I got the head, and I certainly felt rather uncomfortable upon this discovery. But I consoled myself by the remembrance that, in California, we used often to eat ground-squirrels, which are first-cousins to the flat-talled rats, and travelers who would know the world must go in boldly for manners and customs. We had tortoise and frois, and a curry of the latter was superior to chicken.

We had fowls' heads, and brains of some birds. We had chowchow of mangoes, rambustan preserved. malted cucumbers, sweet potatoes, yams and taro, and all sorts of sweets made from rice, sugar and cocoanut. Every dish WaS separate, and the soup, which terminated the repast was surely boiled I began' to wish I had halted a little while ago. The whole was eaten with the inevitable chopsticks and spoon like a spade or shovel.

Rice is the substitute for bread, and poultry and pork for mutton and beef--occasionally there is mutton and goat. The greater part of my time was spent upon the rivers, and a wonderful life it was, The novelty was incessant and almost overwhelming, and it fully repays the traveler, in interest, for any inconvenience he may experience. D. C. MACDONALD.

THE AUSIRALIAN WILDS. Their Proposed Exploration. (From a New York Graphio Interview Sir Thomas Elder, who has junt passed through New York on his way to Australia via San Francisco, has successfully eluded the reporters. It is to be regretted that a gentleman who has it in his power to impart much valuable and interesting information regarding the condition and progress of Australia should be of so retiring and modest. a disposition.

The Queen of England his been pleased to confer the dignity of Knighthood him in recognition of his services. The commander of the new Australian exploring expedition, Lieut. Young, was visited at his rooms in Twenty-sixth street, and notwithstanding he was deep in the mysteries of mat bemutical problem, kindly put aside his books and prepared to answer any questions his visitor might ask. What is the object in sending out this the squatter's herds increase and the Government resumes his land, in order that the cockatoo (farmer) may cultivate the soil, new pastures must be found for cattle and sheep. Thus the squatter's frontier is forced further and further bushward every year.

This opening of the interior has been Sir Thomas' hobby for years. He nas spent an immense amount of money and time in gratifying his fancy, and I am very gind to see that other countries approve of his muniticence by honoring him with their bospitality and honors. He certainly has done a great deal for the furtberance of geography, botany, geology, natural history, etc. You have explored Australia before, have you not, Mr. Young?" I bad the pleasure to be astronomer to the expedition under command of Ernest Giles, in Were you Thanks to the admirable manner in which we were equipped, and the wondeful staying powers of the camel, we went across between the 29th and 30th parallel of latitude to Perth, on the west coast.

Most of the country was sand, spuntex, and flats, perfectly useless at present. But science inay bring it into requisition some day. fail to to see bow, at present, have always understood that you have great didiculty in Ending Is that the case in generally the explorer's most anxlous problem. Where to find water his first thought in the morning and his last at night, as also during the day, and he dreams of it at night. On ope occasion -the last time -We traveled no less than 517 miles without water, except that it rained on the eleventh day, enabling us to bridge over this long to do, without finding water, over hot, burning sand, and thick scrub some sevenhad 337 miles, which 0 took us seventeen days stretch of dry country.

After shower we teen to twenty-two leet you use horses as Well as tried to, but they do not travel well together. The bores died of thirst, though they each had bucket of water every which the camels carried for there any large wild animals in the country you are going to think not. Crocodiles and alligators, wild dogs and marxunials are the only larger animals. Snakes are, of course, plentiful, as they are all over the What will be the greatest difficulties you will bave to contend you bother we, traveler never looks for difficulties ought to be always prepared for them, and takes them as they come. And if we knew what we should ltave to contend with, there would be no merit in In anything known of the country you are to Otherwise it would hardly be an ploration.

We know that there are rivers and creeks dowing into the sea, aud we know that these water channels must have some waterbed, and where there is water there is generally good pastoral couuiry. It is this good country I hope to you meet with many natives, and are they hope to, bind plenty, for in Australia. where there are natives, there is water. opine they will not give us inuch trouble. Our superiority of weapons and the grotesque tigures we present to their uncivilized minds keeps them believe you had one or two brushes with them ou your last expedition?" but.

we always got the batter of them, although at times they were twenty to one. Their boomerangs, and wooden swords are useless against our Suyder and Winchester repeaters. many wen will your party consist or seven. The more men we take the more provisions we have to carry and the more water we have to find, Do you anticipate having to travel through malarious country or sand, ou your previous trip?" We sbail probably have some of all adrts. In following down the rivers and river beds there is generally more or: less fever, but I don't want to anticipate anything bad.

Are the natives quite they have never seen or beard of white men, firearuts, or any animal larger than a kangaroo, and their surprised look on seeing these may be imagined "How many camels and how much provision shall you camels to each man and probably one year's supply of food. do you manage for water when on protracted water camels carry two fifteenbarrels of water each. There will be About four of them, besides several small bays of water distributed in different parts of the loads." the camels imported?" "Yes; they were imported from Rimrachee, but originally came from Cabul. Sir (Thomas has or 600 oF them and some twentythree Afghans to look alter Aighan camel- -drivers go with you?" only; if more go they are apt to want too much Will the learned societies of the world information the results of the Undoubtedly. Botanical, geological, natexpedition?" ural history and other specimens will be collected, and most likely, on previous journeys, the proceeds presented to museums after their characteristics have been published in the archives of the society to which they belong.

Besides which indications of mineral deposits are certain to be THE only son of M. Gounod is not a musician, painter, and ta about to marry Mdtle. Galand, the daughter of the well-known painter. 11 CHASE CABOT Are now exhibiting full of Boston Brown Ducks, 11 grades. Bridgewater Cottonades, 100 styles.

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Vas 3r. LOUIS, April 13, 1879. communications for this department be addressed to the of the GLOBE- DEMOCRAT. 1 Chess Directory. St.

Louis Chess Club--Mercantile Library chess-rooms. Down Town Chess Club--No. 2508 Carondelet avenue. (FOR THE GLOBE-DEMOCRAT.) Problem No. 207.

BY CHARLES H. WHEELER. Black. IF hite. White to play and mate in two moves.

Solutions of Problems. NO. 905. 1. BE 91 B6 Any or 8 PQ4 885 Any or st 9851 moves Solved by John Forsting, city; Conrt House Uness Club, Iola, Chas.

Homerick. Nebraska City, M. L. Zener, ton, Mary J. Doming, Normandy, H.

0. Dunker, Rock Island, all. Notes. The Chess Editor will be greatly obliged to any person sending bim the chess column of March 9, 1879. Mr.

Max Judd seems to be holding his own quite well in the match between him and amateure. The score now is: Judd, amateurs, Mr. Moody lost his first game. The xame of chess with living figures, which tins been talked of is postponed until next fall. the ladies of the School of Design, under the Muspicen of which it WAN to take place, being too busily engaged in other matters to attend to it at present.

The Charleston News is publishing a series of games at the odds ct queen' Knight, which the editor stater are the last that Paul Morphy bas played. They are between the great Amerplayer and Mr. C. A. Maurian, of New OrJeans, we shall give some of them in the course of tew weeks.

Herr Andersen was defeated by Pant Mor. phy in Paris, in 1858, and. while the match was progressing one of Anderssen's friend said to.nim, 'Why, Professor, you don't begin to piny your game with Morphy, what is he reason is, calmly replied the Professor. Morphy won't let we. He is wonderful The March issue of the only American Chess Journal came upon us the other night like a summer's shower upon the dusty and parched earth.

Like its predecessors it is ans honor to American chess, and only excels them in being, if possible, more replete with sho news ol the day. Mr. Samuel Loyd, Elizabe hi, N. is the editor, to whom all subscriptions should be sent. The consultation nmtch between the New York and Manhattan Chess Clubs was brought to a close on the 27th of March.

The fourth Kaine of the third series having been won by the Manhattan Chess Club, the trophy belongs to that club. The following is the full score: Man- New hattan. York. Drawn. First 3 Second Third The chess plarers of Houston, Texas, numbering twenty have organized a chess club, with the following ofticers: br.

Jacob Voorsanger. President; Conrad Kownslar, Secretary and Treasurer, and Col. 8. 8. Nichols, Umpire.

Since we havetaken up the pen in the cause of chess there bus been a general awakening of interest in the game throughout the West and and South. Every month we bear of new chess organization in some town or city, and it is getting to be a necessity now tor every fainily to have a chess board Na a part of the furutture of the house, and for every newspaper to have a chees column, giving the chess news of the day. A Few Practical Suggestions on ChessPlay.ng. The following rules, it they may be so called, intended for inexperienced players, will be found to be of great use in practice. We have jotted them down no they have occurred to us while playing sire game.

We trust that young pingers will read them carefully and bear them in mind: 1. Acquire A thorough knowledge of the openings, without which it is impossible to cope with those who understaud them and are regarded as your equals in other respects. Also study end- games. You may open a game well and secure a winning position, but eventuahy lose on account of lack of experience in playing the termination. 2.

Develop your game, by which we mean bring out your pieces so that when you become the aggressive on the defensive player you will be abie either to prosecute the auack or to resist it. a game bas won itsell, 50 10 speak, on accouut of the pieces havinx been ready tor use. 3. After your opponent minkes his move, frat discover, it possible, the object of Next study out the proper reply, endeavoring in conjuuction with the move to tori some combination again-t bim. 5.

When you nave discovered his design and decided in your mind what you think is the answering move, before making it look around and see whether you have a better one. 6. Calculate two, three or more moves in advance, and try to have a strategic move in umvush. 7. If you have a losing game, never become discouraged, but Diay with tore looking out for an error on the part of your adversary, for all piayers; no matter how good they may be, are liable to make mistaken.

especiany when they are too sanguine of winning. And, besides, a careiul analysis has often resulted in showing that many a game between One players could bare been won or lost several times by pursuing different lines of play. 8. It you have winning do not become careless, but play even with more Lion. 9.

Study your opponent's disposition and style of playing, calcuinte on bis provable and play accordingly. 10. Always be on the get cive for a mate. Frequently a mate in one, two or three moves stares a player in the face, and yes he play's without being able to discover it because he dues not think a mute is possible. 11.

Do not attack until you have amassed your forces and are prepared for the assault. 12. Keep cool. If you become excited and nervous you are liable, in the height of your excitement, to make some fatal error. 13.

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Judd-Amateur Match. GAME 103. Played April 9, 1879, between Messrs. Max Judd and C. D.

Moody, in the match between the former and eight amateurs. The gurue one of the best that have been played. Time- A Two hours. REMOVE WHITE QUEEN' 8 KNIGHT. White.

Black. Judd. Mony. Q4 POB BB4 8. 4.

PK 3 $83 PK 3 6. Castles 8 5 (a) 7. POR8 2 K1 9. PK 13. (b) 0.

12. 11. 10. TE Castles 15. 18.

1 (e) 1 90. 21. x8 3 (e) Is 3 QB 4 (9 5 (x) Rx Q6 6 31. 4 (b) PS3 5 (k) BS 87. QR6 QB6t RI 40.

9 6 BPt KRI mates. NOTES. (n). For what purpose? This more turned out to be a lost one. (b).

The object of this move will be seen in the future. 18. (c). 19. 90.

5 eto. Desiring binck to take with B. If to get the well posted and to save the P. 1 (d). Courting the exchange of knights, 80.

(el. The best. (1). 25. 5 would have prevented all trouble for the present.

(x). Necessary. 30. I is better than the text move. ().

Evidently can not capture R. (4). A beautiful termination, in Mr. Judd's best style. It 85.

x4; 36. 6 tained dispatch from Santa He giving The Tribune, of Wednesday morning cona necessarily brief account of the finding. of silver ores in the shape of carbonates of lead. Correspondents at Santa Fe supplement the telegraphic account with fuller details. According to these letters- -for there are several -no doubt seems to exist that the mineral is carbonate.

Indeed, they have a mine called the Carbonate. The silver bearing district is about ten miles from north to south, and six miles from east to west, and is near Pino's ranch, on the middie road, southwesterly from Santa Fe twenty miles, and about the same distance from Bernalillo. A small stream, the Rio Cerrillo, flows through the district. The topography of the district is a number of hills or mounds, more or less connected, rising out of the plain or mesa. Mineral has been known to exist in the Cerrillos for years part, there being mines of numerous shalts and tunnels used by the Spanish over a century ago.

Some of these shafts are nearly 200 feet deep, with levels 300 or 400 feet in length, and in them are the decaved poles with notched surface which served aN ladders' in that primitive age, and by which Indian slaves descended into the mines and bore back with them the mineral, packed on their bucks. Great quanties of old slag survive the mineral furnaces, which in that early day yielded by a crude process a sufficiency of mineral to justify an enormous outlay, as is attested by the extent of the mines which abound in that vicinity. The ditticulty recently taus been in the refractory character of the rock. With the new developments and experiments at- Leadville in the treatment of carbonates, it is possible, may be found the solution of Cerrillos mines. One of the hills bus been well uigh leveled with the plain, in what seems manifest, a search for turquoise or precious metals, and a shaft 150 leet deep has been known to exist in the hills since a time to which the memory of man runneth not: and to which the innumerable and vague local.

traditions of the existence of precious metals, in some degree doubtless have reference. During the last few years a number of parties have been perfecting titles to mineral lands at this camp with a view to their desirability 50 soon as the railroads should advance to within available nearness to it. A few weeks since Mr. Frank Dimmick, an old prospector favorably known to many of the Tribune readers, made a visit to the Cerrillos and begun al careful but quiet examination of their resources. His frequent trips to Santa Fe and numerous assays of ore which be was continually.

making, excited curiosity, which early developed into interest, and at this time a mining excitement promising a furore is menting. Gen. Atkinson, Iudian Agent Thomas and a number of ladies left in a -horse ambulance at 7 o'clock on the morning of the second for the new camp to inspect its richness. They were shortly followed by a fourmule outtit. loaded with prospectors, among whom were Col.

McClure, Mr. Chas, Thayer, and Deputy Surveyors McBrown and Taylor. Other teams are starting this noon with mining implements to commence development immediately. Santa Fe is, indeed, all agog over the new developments. Every buggy and carreta and every gothic Rozinante has been pressed into service during the past few days, and the distriet was visited by hundreds from Santa Fe alone.

Responsible and steady -going men of Santa Fe evince confidence, and even Prof. Strieby, an expert in mineralogy, is improving the spring vacation of Santa Fe Academy to examine into the merits of the Cerrillos district. 'Surface run from five to sixty ounces in silver. At a depth of five feet the Carbonate mine assayed a fraction over ninety and at seven feet it run as high as one hundred and twenty ounces. These assays are of average ore taken from fissure veins.

A select assay runs as high as three hundred and seventy -tive ounces. thorough test will very soon be made by shipments of several ions of rock to different duction works in the States, when something quite reliable will be known. Messra. Andrews Wheelock have had a stall establishment near by for some Fears. The celebrated turquoise mine is in the same district.

The camp is in the immediate vicinity of inexhaustible anthracite coal Gelds and extensive iron deposits, and has a climate that will favor out-door labor the year round. mate. CARBONATE FIND. Particulars of the Recent Discoveries in New Mexico. the Denver (Col.) Tribune..