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cliics® from Home.Wo all remember the Chinese junk which ■visiteel this country and iluropo, some years ago, and on board of which Keo-Sing enacted so well the els ante tor of a l’oyal mandarin. Kcc-Sing is dead, they say j and his wrecked company of mu-' fiieiaos, whose instruments discoursed strains that would have sent. Kossuii to an insane asylum, and marie Beethoven a matiiuu t'c-r rife, have turned pirates, rumor has is, in the Chineso Seas, Koo Sing played tire mandarin so long, that he was unable, after awhile, to divest himself of the idea that lie really was a dignitary of the Celestial Bmpifo. Some high-handed proceeding of his, engaged in under this arrogant delusion, brought him under the notion of the Canton a us tuorivics ; and. as t lie Siamese would say ho resorted to the *' happy dispatch'” to avoid punishment. IIis orchestra accented “ letters of marque'’ from King No-body, am.i lit tod out a junk to prey, in a sm al 1 way, ti ;o a o !■ he r j u 11 kd t rad lug in those Oriental quarters, and met their fate at the hands of a British steamer's crtj.v. Ail this wo gather from a private letter sent us by a (iiuud at ilotig^Kong.Whilo ou the subject of the Chinese from home, lot us alludo to the cumpau) of Chinese actors that were imported, on masse, by Dr, Colly nr; and to the ‘Chinese Beauty’ and her family, brought over and exhibited with Burn uni's Ouiu-cse Jlwiciuu, Tin; Chinese actors met with no miooess m this country. They lost all their Wardrobe. They gut iieav-*■ ^ JUy into debt, and into mischief. Contributions were made to send them home, and a per:ion of them were enabled to reach their own country; whilo some still remain here and sell cigar* in our streets, j or act in a menial capacity on board s!t:j s ; and steamers. The ,! Chinese Beauty,-’ who was anything but live!V, turned out.■— Vto bo no luuy at all, but a poor girl with erumped-up feet, sold by her avtiricnms parents for exhibition. iSlio married the Coolie, who aeeonpauie(i her ks her father! They ail, iiuiilly, found their way back to the “Central Flowery k ng-doni.” So much fur our Chinese Amur ieuu ac-ijuaintauees.
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Oconto Pioneer
Oconto, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Aug 08, 1861
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