Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-03-09
From the New York Herald.
Talk witt, one of the Chinese.

DR.. Gihon, who has il his charge the Chi
nese troupe of jugglers, de- to the number of
fifteen persons male and female, caled-with
Assam, Zone of the most intelligent of the Ce-
leStials, at this office yesterday, to invite us
to Chinese rehearsal at the Broadway thea.
ire. Assam speaks English, having been a
Canton tea dealer, and in that capacity, hav.
ing had the advantage of considerable inter
course with English and American merchants.
lie knows but little, however. of the interior of
the country, and was totally ignorant of the
late revolutionary movements against the reign.
ing imperial dynasty. He is, however, pretty
well informed concerning the Chinese in Cali
fornia. He estimates the number now in that
country at no less than fifty thousand. These
are almost entirely men, having left their le
minnie attachments at home, to await their
return to the Central Flowery Kingdom. -
And few hundred dollar, being fortune to
frugal Chinaman at home, he is soon ena,
bled, from his good qualities of industry, TEN.
perance and economy, to return and establish
himself as an aristocrat among his late fellow
pie0ians for the rest of his life. There are, it
Is said, however, some three hundred Celestial
women in the town of San Francisco of the
most abandoned and sh ameless dissoluteness :;
and these syrens, being generally handsome,
and possessed of delicate. yet finely rounded
figures, seldom fail, in gathering from the re.
turning miners rich harvest of gold. BE.
tween these frail daughters Of the Orient and
the gambling saloons many poor fellow is
wheedled out of the savings of years of hard
labor in the digsings, and after few DAYS or
weeks, is thrown as loafer upon the town or
driven back penniess to the mountains, if he
does not perish on the way.
The late hostility against the Chinese work
ing in the mines has subsided. II grew ont Of
an arrangement between certain ENGLISH suec
ulators in Canton and their gangs of Coolies
hired at certain rates considerably below the
usual rates Of wages for California labor. This
cause of offence having been removed, the
Chinese are permitted to come and 90, or re.
main, without let or hnderance: and they sell
dom give occasion for trouble, from their peac-
cable, tractable and sober habits. The white
rats of San Francisco are Chinese transpor
tation, aid they swarm through the city. No
place in the world is, perhaps, blest with
greater mum er and variety Of rats. First there
is the grey wharf rat, originally from Norway
but now common the world over; then there
are the black and blue rats peculiar to Califor-
MIA; and last though not least, the white Chi.
nese rat. This abundance and variety of rats
no doubt, contributes to make San Francisco
SO very attractive to the Chinese. But, it is
due them 20 say, that with plenty Of fish and
rice. or even Of roast beef. and plum pudding,
they are generally supposed 10 leave the mo.
nopoly Of sugar cured rats to the Mandarins
This troupe OF Chinese appear to have discover
ed very few things in the United States supe.
ror to what is to be found in China, excepting
The California gold mines, our steamships and
railroads, and labor saving machinery in gene.
raj, in which they are very deficient. This
deficiency, however, reducing all sorts of man.
ufactures to the tedious processes of labor by