The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-09

rarret of house in Varick street. The medical
testimony showed that it was born alive but the
Jury could not find how or by whom it was placed
there.
Subjoined is a list Of the contents Of the inside
pages of this edition Review of Interesting Docu-
ments Relative to the Fisheries Late News from Ja
maica and Texas The Resignation Of Bishop Ives;
Report Of the women's Temperance Convention al
Metropolitan Hall Proceedings of the Board Oh Su-
peryisors Common Council, and Chamber Oh Com
merce Challenge to the World and the rest Oh Man
kind, by the New York Yacht Club Theatrical, RI
nancal and Commercial Affairs, &c.
We have in type another lecture by Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher on 1.-THE Conservative and the Fro
oressive. which, together with much other local
matter, we are obliged to omit for want Of room.
Our Interco urse. with China-Openlng Of the
Yangtse Keang.
A few days ago our columns contained an ac-
count of the visit of a native Chinese to this
office. He was, as we stated, member of the
troupe of jugglers recently performing at the
Broadway, and exhibited o fair average Of the
Chinaman whom social intercourse with Eu-
ropeans and Americans had Invested Of the
more striking pecularities Of his race. Assam
had freely associated with English merchants at
Canton, had resided for some time in California,
and spoke our language, if not fuently. at all
events with sufficient accuracy to be readily
understood Intercourse with the barbarians
had worn off the contempt which his country
men are said to feel for foreigners and Assam
was ready to acknowledge that his native land
might learn much from us in the way Of rail-
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machinery. The avowal is significant. He who
admits that he is ignorant is not likely to re-
main so long those only are incurable who
refuse TO confess their need of doctor. When
Assam returns to China, laden with the fruit Of
intelligent travel, he will not quietly submit to
be deprived of the many conveniences he has
enjoyed in this country. Many wondering
fellow-countryman will listen, open mouthed, to
his tales of the wondrous machines by which the
barbarian traverses space as swiftly as the swal
low flies, and the ingenious devices by the aid
| of which one American performs the work of
halfa-dozen Chinese. Nor will he be alone in the
task Fifty thousand Cinnamon, for whom life
Of constant toll would barely have secured the
means of subsistence at home, are at this moment
employed as laborers in California, and will
shortly return home with an ample provision for
their families. They, too, will have seen the folly
of the exclusive principle on which their laws are
based; and will disseminate through the length
and breadth of the Celestial Empire stirring &C
| counts Of the marvels Of American science. For
the first time. the three hundred and fifty mil
lions of people who inhabit China will hear of
inventions and discoveries by which life is rem
| dered more agreeable, locomotion facilitated,
mans power over matter increased. Coming
from the lips of a countryman, the description Of
these wonderful proofs of the genius of man will
not be received with the distrust which would
await similar communications from foreigner
Every year will bring fresh combinations of the
statement, from the latest arrivals IF Chinnon
r-~.-- ra,;s~, nia; anu the conviction will gradu
ally prevail that more is lost than is gained by
the exclusion Of foreigners from the empire.
Together with the knowledge Of American
machinery, the Chinese laborers who have re-
sided two or three years under our flag, will car
ry home new notions Of liberty and the rights
of man. After enjoying the blessings offreedom
under our constitution, the returned Chinaman
will not readily relapse into his former serfdom.
/ AT all events, he will have learnt to know the
power of the people, and will feel keenly that if
his interests and those Of bis fellow-countrymen
would be advanced by the relaxation of
the laws which now prohibit foreigners
from penetrating the interior of the coun-
try, the narrow prejudices Of the court
ought not to stand in the way of reform. This
sentiment will be shared by many thousands Of
men. When we bear in mind the low price of
labor in China, and the high wages paid in Cali
fornia, we shall be rather under than over the
mark if we estimate that the annual stream Of
emigration to and from San Francisco will, in
short time, exceed fifty thousand men. Thus,
| in very few years, there will be hundreds of
thousands of intelligent Chinese scattered over
the empire, clamorous for free intercourse with
foreigners and the introduction of their machi-
merry, and possessing by their numbers sufficient
strength to prove formidable rival to the
State. Intelligent as the people of China are
known to be, the ranks Of the reform party will
be swelled by thousands of proselytes; and the
emperor will discover that, if he persist in
maintaining the fundamental laws of the realm
he will have to contend against far more formi-
dabe foe than the most resolute Of the pretenders
to the imperial throne. Even now, while we
write, the agitation has begun; the nucleus Of
he anti-exclusive party among the Chinese has
been formed-a short while hence, and il will
ripe for action
This is the time then, to review our relations
with China, and examine whether we cannot
usefully cooperate with the Chinese emigrants
| obtaining reform which would be not less
| beneficial TO us than to them. We are suf-
fered by the existing laws Of the empire to buy
and sell with China at five ports on the
sea coast; and at these ports our vessels
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