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sor fifteen years of ardent, unintermitted, intense study, shut up in a close room, during which time his meals were passed through an iron grating. Hair-cutting and Shaving done at his saloon in the most appropriate fashion, and customers WILL NOT BE BLOWED ON! not.Ice.

THAT THE BRAIN OF THOMAS MOORE, the poet, is softening, turns out, as we suspected, to be a malignant report without any

street, she will be happy to inform her friends in all matters relating to love, matrimony and future events, by the science of the stars. If she were really a prophet, she would probably foresee where money could be had, and so rise above the basement; but as these things are a mere matter of taste and belief, those who have money to spend and do not know how to spend it, had better come and see the Lady of Information without delay.

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foundation in the truth. We hope he will re FIDDLEDER COMPOUNDE ONE GENUINE

the selfishness of men, that they seem to be. grudge the time and space occupied by those who are a little advanced in life. They frequently make inquiry how old they are, and compute their chances to be small; kind of glorying in the contrast with their own ages. But life is uncertain to the best man that ever walked, we don't care if he is a son of ARAK, or a giant in strength; therefore let them look to it. Many remedies have been sought after for protracting life and healing the calamities that flesh is heir to, but we think that HUMBUG'S LONGŒVAL POWDERS exceed any thing before known for all incident diseases. This celebrated medicine is pleasant to the taste. It diffuses a circulating glow through the entire system. We positively assure our customers that there is No MERCURY in it: No Mercury! No Mercury! No Mercury! Heathen god that he is! - or if so, only a little; and if the entire virtue of the medicine is borrowed from that little, let the wiseacres judge. Our object is (to make money, of course; that is permissible by every system of ethics, whatever you do; whether you make pretence to that of which you are entirely ignorant, whether in your ignorance you trifle with the feelings and sufferings of poor, sick, dejected fellow mortals, who have earned the little

UNLESS SOLD IN QUART BOTTLES.-The public has been so long imposed upon by charlatanry, and especially the concoction of quack medicines, which have been palmed upon them to such a degree, that if the public could be resolved into one grand stomach, it would be sickened. It is really refreshing to meet with a medicine the result of study, and formed after the highest principles of art. Such is the FIDDLEDEDEE MIXTURE, without one particle of Mercury, that deleterious drug, which has wiped so many a good noble fellow off of the slate of existence. The beams and timbers of the constitution are rotted away by this dangerous drug, and then of course the mortar falls in. It is really melancholy to see the youth of our country taking calomel and jollups for every slight ailment of the system, when it is going to leave them with toothless gums and obliterated constitutions. The FIDDLEDEDEE MIXTURE Was first invented and applied by the DOCTOR'S UNCLE. Cures Fever and Agur, Fits, Cramp, Diarrhee, Chill Blains, Croup, Tysic, Coughs, Asthmahs, Tic Doloreu, Kings' Evil, and all other Diseases incident to Humanity. Sold only at Bunkum Drug Shop.

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money which they give you by the sweat of A tion in some genteel family as waiter and

their enfeebled bodies; whatever you do, as the great, the immortal SHAKSPEARE has expressed it, Get money in your purse! But as we were going to say, our objeck is) to plaster up and remedy the decayed constitutions of our fellow men. Any thing warranted, from a dislocated toe up to a dropsy or an apoplexy. $500!

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FORFEIT if the medicine does not take effect! Sold at the Bunkum Drug-Shop, (price one dollar per package,) where may be had, also, GRANDFATHER'S LIFE PILLS, HONI SOIT MAGNETIC GARTERS, and PICKLEBY'S PECULIAR PICKLES. None genuine except signed by the inventor's name,

Pitiful Pickleby

Also, Sealingwax sold in large quantities, Lucifer Matches, Magnesia, and Devil's Darning Needles. O sh.wh.th.blsh! - Sep.1.

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cook. They have lived together as helps for some years in the city of New-York. They will expect the drawing-room one evening in the week to receive company, and to have the carriage at their disposal on Sunday afternoons. They will be at the service of the family until seven every evening, after which they expect to be at leisure, and will make it a point never to be out later than one o'clock at night. The lady will take milk-punch or champagne for her lunch, and the gentleman, to save expense to the proprietor, brandy-andwater; he will also expect to carry the keys of the wine-cellar; but in disbursing to his friends the older wines will be used sparingly. The lady and gentleman wish the master of the house to feel that his interest is their own. References confidentially exchanged. Address Box 999,999, Bunkum P. O. 2c001.

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WANTED, by an Amsterdam Tea-House,

a lad, nineteen or twenty, as clerk. To a young man of integrity and respectable family, the most desirable inducements. Must produce undoubted testimonials, willing to devote his entire time, reside with his parents or guardians, expected to loan two thousand dollars, give bonds not to smoke, chew tobacco, scratch his head, frequent oyster-cel. lars, porter-houses, theatres, balls, ten-pin alleys, billiard-rooms, sweat-boards, raffle for poultry or game, restaurants, confectioners, steam-boats, Coney-Island, Rockaway or Saratoga; take his dinner down town. Information derived an equivalent for first year's service. Apply to ISCARIOT GRASP,

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TH THE BUNKUM FLAG-STAFF is published every now and then at Bunkum, and also at the office of the KNICKERBOCKER in New-York. PRINCIPLES OF 'NINETY-EIGHT, and all the great measures of the day, fully sustained.

(See large head.) Horses and cabs to let by the editor. Old newspapers for sale at this office. WANTED, AN APPRENTICE. He must be bound for eight years, fold and carry papers, ride post oncet a-week to Babylon, Pequog and Jericho, on our old white mare, and must find and blow his own horn. RUN AWAY, AN INDENTED APPRENTICE, name JOHN JOHNS, scar on his head, and no debts paid of his contracting. California gold, banks at par, and United'n States'n currency in general, received in subscription. Also, store pay, potatoes, corn, rye, oats, eggs, beans, pork, grits, hay, honey, shorts, oil, paints, glass, putty, hemp, cord-wood, live geese feathers, dried apples, peaches and plums, new cider, axe-handles, bacon and hams, vinegar, pumpkins, harness, hops, ashes, clams, manure, and all other produce, taken in exchange. WANTED TO HIRE, A NEW MILCH FARRER COW; give eight quarts of milk night and morning; also, to change milks with some neighbor with a cheese-press for a skim-milk cheese once't a-week.

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THE grave of MACTHUIL, King of Imail, may be seen at Glendalough, a celebrated valley of Ireland, surrounded by the Wicklow mountains. It lies neglected beside a ruined church, and is covered with a rough stone bearing this inscription: 'BEHOLD THE RESTING-PLACE OF THE BODY OF KING MACTHUIL, WHO DIED IN JESUS, 1010.'

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LITERARY NOTICES.

THE CANTON CHINESE, or an American's Sojourn in the Celestial Empire. By OSMOND TIFFANY, Jr. Boston and Cambridge: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

THE author of this interesting volume does not claim to have furnished us with a history of the Chinese, or an elaborate essay on that great nation. He visited China for the purpose of studying, as far as lay in his power, the aspect, manners, customs, habits and ranks of Chinese life; and he brought himself in actual contact with the people, instead of remaining in the hongs and obtaining all his information from the numerous books which have been written on the people of the 'celestial flowery land.' In this spirit day after day he went about the streets, into all kinds of shops, passed much time on the densely-peopled river, and made acquaintance with the various ranks of the inhabitants; studying intently all that passed before him, carefully comparing the observations of one day with those of the next, and finally submitting them to the revision of gentlemen who had lived for years in China, and enjoyed the best opportunities of becoming thoroughly acquainted with the natives. The work therefore must be regarded as in all respects a truthful one, since the author treats of nothing which did not come under his actual observation. We have perused the work with interest, for it is alike entertaining and instructive. The style, for the most part good, is now and then a little labored; the accumulation sometimes of tautological adjectives being the most marked defect. We had marked many passages for insertion, but must content ourselves with the following graphic picture of the water-life of the Chinese :

THERE is no spectacle in the world more wonderful to a stranger's eyes than the river population of the Celestial Empire. He who has been accustomed to see vast territories in America uncultivated, and almost unknown; who has seen its mighty rivers dotted with scattered sail, and its forests still unexplored; or who has threaded the streets of European capitals, and thought them crowded, learns, perhaps, for the first time, in sailing up the Canton River, how far the multitudes of other continents yield to the teeming millions of Asia.

'In almost all countries population is confined for the most part to the shore. But, it is no fiction to say, that in China there are millions who, from the hour of birth to that of their death have their only homes upon its waters, dwelling in some frail bark just big enough to breathe in, the gift of parents, who had nothing else to give.

'We have passed Whampoa with its thousands of inhabitants, but considered a mere village; we have passed the nine storied pagodas, that a thousand years ago stood where they now stand, on gentle eminences, embosomed in trees, the most picturesque of towers; we have left the barriers thrown across the river during the British invasion; and now see the stream covered with boats, and float between fields green to the edge of the water.

'We have seen thousands of natives, men and women, toiling under a blazing sun in meadows rich with heavy harvests, yet not more than enough to preserve life in the mass of creatures who garner it; we have seen other yet more pitiable objects, searching the banks of the river for reptiles to feed upon; we pass again fortifications as extensive nearly as those at the mouth of the river; but we shall see something more wonderful than this, than these, than

all.'

An immense hill upon the right now attracts our gaze, for on the one side of it are scattered villages and emerald meadows, and on the other a hazy cloud, like the dense atmosphere that overhangs an enormous city.

'We pass now rows of fish-stakes driven into the bed of the stream, reaching from bank to bank, with narrow passages for boats, and now we float between large trading junks from Singapore and Siam, and the northern ports, shaped like a Chinese shoe, and their high sterns decorated with gaudy paintings. We mark their huge wooden anchors, their grass cables, mooring them at both ends, and their immense sails of coarse matting.

'Some are laden with bamboo furniture; some have quantities of lanterns hanging over the side; and some bring the highly prized sandal wood and precious drugs, and return laden with the productions of the looms, workshops, and gardens of China, its silks, its porcelain and its

tea.

'There were two vessels near to each other, that had come long distances with different purpose; the one was an English war steamer that had left Hong Kong to compel the payment of the indemnity money, or to throw her shot into the narrow streets. The other was a Siamese ship humbly coming as of old, to lay tribute at the feet of the Emperor.

'We soon arrive among the larger class of vessels employed as men-of-war, and more highly decorated: some most elaborately carved, painted and gilded. Vast numbers of junks are passed swarming with life, loading, discharging, repairing, sampans are flying to and fro, and Indiamen's boats, pulled by Lascars in gay dresses, forming one of the most lively and crowded scenes imaginable.

'Here is a mandarin boat coming down the tide with perhaps forty oars on a side, covered with a matted house, to shield her crew from the sun, armed with one or more cannon or long swivel guns, and decorated with brilliant flags and lanterns.

'But what means this loud noise and sound of rejoicing, proceeding from one of the boats gay with streamers, scarlet paper and gaudy inscriptions? Some are burning paper, and others beating merry gongs, for a gentleman has taken unto himself a wife, and is entertaining his friends to the best of his ability.

'And here, in a large and beautiful green and golden barge, is the sound of music, and between the silken curtains we may descry some of those painted Jezebels, from whom no soil is free. 'We have passed through several miles of boats, and have not seen the quarter of them. It is, indeed, impossible to give an idea of their number. Some say, there are as many as seventy thousand of them at the city of Canton alone. But let us be content with forty thousand. Then fancy forty thousand wild swan closely packed together, floating on some wide pond, and mostly restless, you would say they might cover many acres of their element. Now by the enchantment of imagination convert the pond into the roaring Pekiang river, the swan into boats of every shape and size, the notes of the birds into the yells, the shrieks, the piercing noises of the river people, and you may have the actual scene before you.

'And all these boats, miles upon miles, from border to border, are densely packed with human beings in every stage of life, in almost every occupation that exists upon the shore that they seldom trespass on; and there they are born, and earn their scanty bread, and there they die.

'The boats are moored side by side in long reaching thousands, so that the canal they form stretches to a point in the distance. In the Shaneem quarter, above the foreign factories, they form vast squares and avenues. Forty thousand floating tenements would, under any circumstances, be considered a singular sight, but here the swarming occupants give them the appearance of a mighty metropolis.

'Let us take up the course of a human being, nursed in one of these river-rocked cradles. He is born, and his mother, in a few days recovering from her maternal throes, straps him tightly to her back, and toils, as usual, at the oar. As soon as the little fellow can stand, he, in his turn, is put to the scull, just where his tiny hands can reach it, and is made to go through the motions. Thus the knack of working his passage comes to him theoretically long before he can put it in practice.

'As soon as his cranium is sufficiently covered with its natural growth, his hair is shaved off in front, and plaited with difficulty into the tail, the pride of his life, wfiich he is taught to cling to more pertinaciously even than to his integrity. Then follows his initiation into the mysteries of chopsticks, the fragrance of tea, the chink of money, and the abhorrence of foreigners. He learns just as much English as his parents happen to know, and as much Chinese as will serve his purposes. In time he comes to paddle his own sampan with the best of his compeers, and to carry a fanqui (foreign devil) to Whampoa.

Perhaps, in manhood, he may ship on board a junk, to see something of the world. He sails up the coast of China, or to Manilla, Batavia, or Singapore; but wherever he goes, he becomes morally convinced, from the authority of old navigators, and from his own clear, unerring judgment, that the Celestial Empire is the favored of heaven, the centre of the earth, which is itself flat and square, not at all the round orange that lying barbarians have tried to make him believe it is; that the sun goes around the world, for he sees it; that the English are savages from a little island in one of the four corners of the earth; and that America, if he has ever heard of such a spot, is about as large as Macao. He returns with a deal of wisdom, gleaned from foreign travel, and felicitates himself that he is not one of the Yahoos he has met in his wanderings. He may have managed to pick up a few dollars, so he takes a wife, and quietly holds the tenor of his way until he is gathered to his fathers.'

We scarcely marvel that a country like China, with its three hundred and sixty millions of people, should consider itself as occupying nearly the whole globe, and the few other peoples beside them outside barbarians.' The Chinese have very many things about them which might be copied with advantage by more civilized nations; and of these the reader will be well advised who shall peruse the interesting volume we have been considering.

SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF JAMES KENNARD, JR., with a Sketch of his Life and Character. Boston: WILLIAM D. TICKNOR AND COMPANY.

ALTHOUGH this volume is printed for private circulation only, we cannot resist the inclination to refer to it, for the purpose of making an extract or two from the memoir which accompanies it, in illustration of the noble nature and sublime heroism of the gifted and amiable author. Nearly all the articles contained in the work were originally written for, and published in, the KNICKERBOCKER, where they were universally admired, and after the death of the writer a sketch of his life also appeared in these pages; but the present memoir is much more complete, and embraces matter which will not only prove of interest to our readers, but will convey a salutary lesson of patience under affliction and cheerfulness in the darkest hour of sorrow. The victim for long years of a cruel disease, which seemed to take every variety of form, until almost every physical sense was annihilated, Mr. KENNARD never complained, and seemed only at any time to lament his sad fate because it gave pain to his relatives and friends to witness his sufferings. Confined entirely to his chamber; the joints of his body, even to his wrists and fingers, ossified; with no more power of self-help than a new-born infant; welcoming amputation with the most manly courage, and without a murmur; and finally struck with blindness, he yet maintained unwavering cheerfulness to the last hour of his 'maimed life.' Some idea may be formed of his character from a passage or two of the memoir in the volume before us. The following is from a letter to his brother, in anticipation of the amputation of his right leg:

'I HAVE often stated to you my fears that my knee would come to amputation. They are now about to be realized. To-morrow at eleven o'clock I shall get rid of a troublesome appendage, which has palsied every effort that I have made for the last four years. However, I do not complain of that. I think the knee has been of service to me in many other ways. It, at least, has kept me from a deal of wickedness and dissipation, has given me time to reflect, and to form serious resolutions. I am content.

'I feel no fear at all at the prospect before me. I have no wish to put off the evil day. At my solicitation, it was agreed to perform the operation a week before the time appointed. [ wished to have it done before my parents knew that the time was appointed. I would not have them here in the city at the time for any thing. I shall thus save them the pain of suspense while I am under the knife. A consultation of seven of the first surgeons in Boston decided on my case. I told them I wished them to understand, before they recommended any thing new, that I was ready to suffer amputation at any moment. As a last trial, they put me on a course of mercury for a week, and then at my solicitation gave it up, and agreed to cut immediately. Our parents will remain in ignorance until all is over. I wrote them a few days since, in order to reconcile their minds to the measure, but left them under the impression that it would not happen under two weeks. Father's ship will be launched to-morrow at twelve, and my leg cut off at eleven-a curious coincidence. The nearer the time approaches, the cooler I feel about the matter. It does not trouble me in the least. Though the knife will pain me, it will be but for a few moments. I'll put in a P. S. after the operation.' In a postscript he adds: All is over. Not half so bad as I thought. Have been rather feverish and restless since the operation, but am now getting quite calm. Doctor says I am doing well.'

After much suffering, the same disease appeared in his left leg, which was soon rendered not only useless but a source of intense pain, and gradually extended itself to other parts of his frame; but all his previous sufferings were trifling in comparison with the agony of a disease which soon after assailed his eyes, and made him, during the residue of his life, the inmate of a dark room:

'No sun, no moon, no stars; all dark!'

Yet do but observe the tone of feeling and spirit which marked every day of his now sightless existence. At this period he writes to a friend:

'You will doubtless be astonished at the alteration of my handwriting; but my experience goes to prove, that the more I am deprived of the usual aids, such as eyes, hands, joints, etc.,

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