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MONDAY, OCTOBER ., 1854.

CHINESE EMrGRATIoN TO CALIFORNIA
The recent influx of Chinese into California
has given rise to much speculation and many
grave fears for the future. The San Francisco
journals TEEN with articles on this subject it
is also, we learn, fertile topic of private con-
yersation. During the fortnight, from the
1lth to the Goth of August, the arrivals of
Chinese passenger ships amounted to ten in
number, the passages varying from 40 to 100
days. The total number of passengers given
was 2,S43 in fifteen days One vessel reports
100 deaths, another So, and so on to match
for the poor wretches are crowded in the be-
tween decks, into frail deck houses, till the
miseries of the voyage are rivaled only by the
herTors of g middle passage" Itmay be ask
ed why the laws are not enforced to prevent
the overcrowding OF these ships. The vessels
are mostly old hulks; many of them have
lain here or at Hong Kong as store ships for
months, or even years; and if, in one voyage,
the worthless old craft can be made to nett
$4,000 or $4,000, she can well be sunk and
still make profitable operation. This was
the case with the old Potomac she brought
several hundred passengers is said to have
melted over $25 700, was hbelled for excess of
passengers, and sold, bringing 81, 400. All
these facts excite our pity and sympathy for
the poor Chineee, the more so, as they are
brought over to California by rich companies
organized among their countrymen, and hired
for mere song to labor there for the benefit of
their masters.
Now comes the hardest question. What shall
be done with them Is the welfare Of the
country promoted by this influx of emigra-
grations There is no State now in the Union
more i'll need of Woodworking men than
California. The laboring class there is dispro-
portionarely small, and therein lies one great
cause Of the present distress of that region
If California could have tide of hardy edu-
Gated Americans poured upon her. 1T would be
the greatest blessing she could enjoy; but how
can that be while hardly an old State can be
said to be cultivated Any of the christian
races, however, are welcome there, Or any Of
the white races. They all assimilate with
Americans; they have sympathies together,
and are gradually all fused together into one
homogeneous mass. But whether California
should encourage an influx of population
like the Chinese admits of grave doubts
Take look at Cinnamon in San Francisco as
they are veritably described-one may well
think twice before he speaks on this subject.
There are wealthy men among them, true -
many of whom bear highly respectable char
acter with those who know them. Some of
these are Christians, and with the aid of the
fine brick chapel on Stockton street, and now
support missionary there; and we are told
that John in his devotions shows quite as
much religious feeling as any white man.
But their number is very, very small; a mere
drop in the bucket.
But of the remainder, what can be saids--
They are for the most part an industrious peo-
pie, forbearing and patient of injury, quiet and
peaceable in their habits. Say this, and you
have said all the good that can be said of them,
They are uncivilized, unclean and filthy be-
You'd all conception, without any of the high
er domestic or social relations lustful and
sensual in their dispositions; every female is
prostitute, and Of the basest order the first
words of English they learn are terms of OBJ
scenity or profanity, and beyond this they
care to learn no more. Clannish in nature,
1 they will not associate except with their own
| people, and the Chinese quarter of the city is
| by-word for filth and sin. Pagan in religion,
they know not the virtues of honesty, integri-
ty, or good faith and in Court-over their
most sacred emblem, the burning of bit of
yellow paper-they never scruple to commit
the most hagrant perjury. They have their
secret societies among themselves, their Triad
societies and other powerful associations, by
whose ediets they are governed, and whom
they dare not testify against, for fear of secret
death; thus rendering our very laws powerless.
What shall be done in these premises p
California is strangely situated. The young
est of Young America next door to the oldest
of nations. A sparsely peoDled country, with
wages enormously high, is the next neighbor
to the densest population on the globe. They
are pouring III upon California. Their great
companies are shipping them to that region
by thousands as coolies, virtually, if not NOM
inaly slaves. Already there are 40, 900 there,
and the cry is still they come. If the tide
continues, they must yet outnumber the
whites on the Pacific; aud they are not like
the European immigration to the Atlantic
States, for they have no sympathy with Amer
leans, whether in religion, habits, or language.
Most OF them intend some day to return if
they do, they carry constantly a stream of
wealth from the country wherein it should be
invested, thus adding to the riches of Califor-
mia and the entire Union. And if they stay,
they must be either free or slaves. If free,
then we have in the Pacific Empire people,
living in daily violation of the laws of our
land, governed by their own societies, isolated
from US, and as much ignoring practically in
matters of law and government, our institu-
tons, as if they were still in the central how-
cry kingdom. But, however free all men may
be by nature, according to theoretical repub-
licanism, practice has shown that no two peo-
pie with distinctly marked and uncongenial
characteristics, can occupy the same territory
at the same time, on terms ofequality. Either
there must be sympathy enough between them
to produce fusion, or the one will be virtually
if not nominally the master of the other
Tribune.
SEAsoNADLE HINTs.-Our winters are often
so severe, that not only the supply Of fruit,
but the vigor of the tree itself, depends in a
great decree l1non the rand Growth Of ,raoI