| Show from cathe the american Amerl can oan merchant in europe asia nd australia i C canton ain T 0 N at last I 1 am in sight of canton the cran gran grand d cap capital of china trade where heads of houses most roost do congregate where money is is obtained from wealthy chinaman middlemen middle middie men inen broker brokers i s etc elc who get it from bankers banker in the interior w where her orders are given to loethe loathe the houses and agents ul up and down the coast where wires are pulled secret expeditions expeditious fitted out teas and silks and imports are talked on an extensive scale where so many merchants have made in a few years of active labor fortunes in the trade and where hospitality abounds and kind attentions are showered upon tile the stranger yes this far famed canton known to every school boy and every young merchant whoa whoever ever learned to talk ship canton tile the centre of all eastern exchange the grand bourse of chinese asa the cabmen caliman of albany the hack lack drivers of montreal the tho kling boatmen of singapore must retire in favor of the boat women that came near smothering 11 our boat in order to get got a fare to the pier such an yelling and jab jabbering berin a PP pulling I 1 and hauling rowing and sc screeching and gesticulating can be found nowhere else why itis ills it is enough to drive one into a lunatic asylum it ought got lot not to be tolerated for so sometimes it is positively dai dal dangerous I 1 gero us when the tide is running a perfect sluice some of tile the women are very comely and in their peculiar bloomer costume and strikingly original stele style of head dress you can but be attracted tr As in liori hong kong xong twenty five cents is all they tiley expect for rowing ashore a boat load after paying in in some eases cases from 10 to 15 in melbourne I 1 I 1 really felt ashamed to give the girls here so to little but I 1 was cautioned against introducing ducin 0 bad habits by giving thed more these poor creatures live entirely upon the river and how I 1 cannot tell for in the vicinity of canto canton there must be at least from to A typhoon or a fire I 1 should think would completely sweep them away for they lie lia huddled together liko like so much firewood arriving on new years morning I 1 was most fortunate for in accordance with wilh our time hon ored custom calls were being exchanged and I 1 was just in time to pay my respects and wish the pleasant returns of the year to the eighteen european english and american ladies then if in canton whose cordial welcome is most pleasant to remember beautiful houses large and commodious all joined together or only separated by a small alleyway alley way splendidly furnished and none without aitho t engravings or pictures fancy chinese orna ornaments ants and specimens specimen of every kind of chinese ingenuity tet met your gaze and everything seemed fresh ana and and new to me all different from the western world the ti new w comer delire delivers rs his letters and calls upon those whose acquaintance tin ten cehe cebe be wishes to I 1 make and ben then hen if properly introduced eomy come attentions tent ions on every side my home is deh delightful hatful and my kind entertainer makes me feel hat that dur hiis my stay in canton liis his house honse is mine he ing has las done a large business in his lay day and I 1 think him one of the most industrious men I 1 ever saw breakfasting timm lif ming fing dining excursion parties to the white hill to tila llie honan temple the parsee gardens the curiosity shops music in the evening or bowls or billiards or books or papers you may take your choice but your time will soon fly away among a people who only oni y try to anticipate your wants want and pleasure the billiard room and bowling alley are private club clubs well managed and well attended good tools to work with and chinese makers at the ilie reading room you may find books and papers and all the ilia printed of the day as at the kong club cl ab you can soon do up the llie lions of the place aher after you have gone round the walls of canton and run the llie risk of getting your nose ilose punch punched edby by a bamboo for your boldness in looking in at the gate after you have looked into the shops in old and new china streets walked round tila ilia he factory garden garcen where foreigners are allowed the tiie entire space of about eight ight hundred feet in length by one hundred and twenty deep for trees and plants a church a lodge andA enches and paths for public promenade and nothing no mori mora more and you have been once all round to see whom you may know and in one weeks time most likely you kilow know them alap all ail for knowing one it secures the entree to tle tie he rest after you have been through the bongs and godowns dow lits seen the tea lea prepared for ship inen and tile the way it is got up and talked with some of the tiie chinese merchants who insist upon your taking with them a cup of tea without milk or sugar vullar the 9 grounds rounds in tiie the cups each eacil made expressly for each person after you have chin chinned se several veral of these hong 7 merchants and heard thern them expound commercial a affairs after yon you have been over the dutch duich folly the pavilion of the fire genii the lye lyre pagoda at the wonderful gardens wo wonderful because so singular and novel after after you have seen the duck hatching up the ile lie river where the young ducks are traced in all their stages aft after eryou you have been to the white hills on your chinese pony or carried up p by your chinese cia cha coolie in your Cliine chinese sa chair chain ir and looked down upon the city of canton w with ith I 1 its t s one hundred and twenty four temples and halls hails at I 1 9 pavilions and pagodas after you tou have pe perfectly c t ly satisfied your curiosity by looking at the fall flower w a blatsa boat sand 11 d gazing at lle ile lie the beat beautiful tirui specimen of chinese frailly so fantastically dressed after atter you have seen all ail il these thae you will have a right to say that you have killed all air the lions at canton it takes but a t time to run through the theadist dist ilist alid abild when once seen it is time to go over tha the ground a se time the city of canton is about one thousand years old but no foreigners have ever had the en tree tb to its interior notwithstanding the treaty provides for goi gol going ng into canton by diplomacy and and intrigue the chinese officials have managed to break faith falth and keep heep out all outsiders how much longer this will ivill last fast remal is to be seen the foreign population of the hon bongs occupy about fourteen acres of or land notie none of erf which can call oe ue owned by the residents some of the bongs rentford rent for and so on down to 1 1200 per annum in 1822 1622 most of these buildt buildings were destroyed by fire the residents are called fac far tors hence the name factories on every side of you pigeon english that horribly hor j jargon argon 0 of f mutilated baby talk which custom has made law liw meets you from boat women to houseboy lo 10 compra dore you hear bear nothing eie ele else I 1 endeavored to get a copy of hamlets soliloquy which was translated into pigeon english but i I 1 have failed to do it I 1 can only remember its commencement tobe or not to be reads can no can send for your hat and this W would 1 ouid be the style go top side sabe that hat bat pay my A nol noi moiseis eis els heard in an adjO adjoining ning bing street the cause says the ser serva vant ll 11 t is chiney woman have catchy one piece bult bull chilo in other words it would read mrs pigtail PI tail aall of a boy I 1 called upon some ladies bo boy return returns sl no mall man can see intimating probably that bey they hey were not cot at home for it read ad c cali cail do how yes re call can many to dinner teis thes this evening my boy promptly replies four piece man two piece missie 11 1 1 of courle course I 1 have haye laid in a good stock of chinese presents I 1 should be considered the barbarian didi did I 1 not I 1 have been through all the shops buying sandal wood fans and card cases ivory chess men an and whist counters pulses and boxes studs aud and jade jude stone bronze bronza ornaments bamboo work carved necklaces and walnuts and bra bracelets 1 belets and rings silver and copper ornaments and a thousand other little notions which will soon reduce your loose cash especially where your sovereign or pound sterling is worth but 4 it makes a wide difference in ones finances since the rebellion canton has been active and its ister eister ports younger in experience younger in com commerce merces younger in years are gradually taking I 1 away her prestige foo ch choo 0 ois is i gentil getting ag the biati black black blach tem tew pa while shanghai takes the silks in large quantities and the green teas but canton nevertheless has the tha wealth the tha capital the ilia headwork beadwork the experience and the exchanges she is still hard to bat and may yet be able to to hold her head as high as lie lle her r nort northern hern branches we must wait I 1 was much surprised to find such battalions of parsees parsecs promenading in the factory gardens all speaking understandable eny english these high turbaned merchants are taking off of tile the best share of the opium trade and now a clipper steamer the lightning plies between calcutta and opium hor only 11 pigeon y some of the names oe of these men seemed to have been given them purely for the amusement of offee the western merchant for they have a strange sound mixed up common and uncommon names scriptural and sectional my few days visit has gone I 1 can hardly harily tell teil inhere whore where but tomorrow to morrow iam lam boudi d to ahe the north my next chit chat bod may expect from froth shan Shau shanghai ghai or foo cho chaw w 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