The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-05

Tulk with One OF the Chinese.
Dr. Gihou who has in his charge the Chinese trovps
Of iugglers Sc the number Of fifteen persons, male
nd female caed-with Assam, Zone OF the most intel
Tiger Of the Ceestas lat this Office yesterday to In
vito us to Chinese rehearsal at the broadway theatre
Assam speaks English having been Canton tea DEALER
and in that capacity having had the advantage Of con-
siderable intercourse with English and American mer-
chans He knows but little however, Of the interior OF
the country and was totally ignorant of the late revolu
onary against the reignng imperial dynasty
He is however, pretty well informed concerning the
Chinese in California. He estimates the number now IN
that country at less than fifty thousand These are al
most entirely men, having left their feminine
at home to await their return the Central Flowery
Kingdom" And u few hundred dollars being fortune
to frugal Chinaman at home he is soon enabled from
his good qualities Of industry temperance and economy
to return, and establish himself arstocrat among
his late fellow plebeans for the rest Of his e There
are it is sad however, some three hundred Celestial
women of the town in San Francisco, of the most
abandoned and shameless dssouteness and these yrens
being generally handsome, and possessed Of delicate
yet finely rounded figures seldom fail in gathering from
the returning miners a rich harvest Of gold Between
these fral daughters of the Orient and the gambling
saloons many poor fellow is wheeded out of the savings
years of hard labor in the diggngs and after few
days or weeks is thrown oafer upon the town, or
driven back pennless to the mountains if he does not
perish the way The late hostility against the Chinese
working in the mines has subsidized. 1t grew out OF an
between certain English spectators in Can
ton and their gangs of Coolies hired st certain rates to
work the dggings considerably below the usual rates
of wages for California labor This cause of offence hav
ing removed the Chinese permitted to come and
CO. or remain without let hindrance and they seldom
give occasion trouble from their peaceable ractable
and sober habits The white rats Of San Francisco
Chinese Importation and they swarm through the city
No place in the world is, perhaps blest with greater
number and variety Of rats. First there is the gray
wharf rat originally from Norway, but common the
world over then there the black and blue rats peculiar
to California; and last though not least, the white Chi
nese rat This abundance and variety of rats, no doubt
contributes make San Francisco very attractive to
the Chinese But it is due to them to say that with pen
y Of fish and rice or even beef and plum pudding
they are generally disposed to leave the monopoly Of
sugar to the Mand arms This troupe of Chinese
appear have discovered very few things in the United
States superior what is to be found in China excepting
the California goj mnes steamships and railroads,
and aborsaYpg machinery in general in which tn thy .y
very deficient. This "'deie.cy however, reducing all
of manufactures to the tedious processes of labor by
hand is however the secret of the multiplication of the
Chinese nation to three hundred millions of people. As
an evidence OF what tney can 90 In the way VI
ture informed that PARROTS building in San Fran
CISCO of one hundred feet 'front.' seventy eighty feet
Deep and four stories high all of solid granite, was put
up in Canton block by block by Chinese workmen and
the blocks being all numbered the building then taken
down. put aboard ship brought the Pacific ten
thousand miles and in San Francisco by
hands Taking troupe of juggers an average sample
Of the Chinese they evidently compared with any
the European stocks inferior of people, They are
small boned feeble bodied race the being slender
for their height and dark Chocaw Indians with awk
ward high cheek bones angular eyes large ears set high
upon their heads and fat nosesthe whole facial con-
formation being far inferior in dignity and strength Of
character to that of the North American Indian. The
Chinese women, the other hand of much lighter
compexon-their features softer and finer, with
very striking expression of amiably and gentleness;
while their limbs delicate, and their forms round,
graceful and well developed The tricks of this troupe in
the arts of egerdemain Oriental and some of them
are exceedingly well done After the circuit of the prin
cipal cities Of the United States they propose to visit
Europe The double ointed dwarf is their greatest
rosty next him. regard their peculiar ticles
of dress and the richness and high finish of some Of
their sken Chinese robes But glance at these people
in the lump certainly calculated to dpel the delusive
idea of the elevation Of China to standard OF cyza
ton, short of a thousand years to come.