Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-07-27


metropolis of America. Honest deal.
ers are beSi11ered, and do not know
what to do, or where to look for safe,
reliable business men. This condition
Of things is not confined to the brokers
alone. There is a general relaxation of
morals, that prevades all classes Of bu-
siness men. Soon after the Schuyler
fraud was developed, and before the ex-
citement occasioned thereby had passed
away, another event transpired that
added still another severe blow to the
business interests of the city. The ex-
tensiye cotton store house Of Chas. A.
Peyerelly at No. 147 Front street, on
Friday night last, attracted the atten-
ton of the watchman and, thinking that
burglars were within, he procured as
sistance and broke into the building
He there found Mr.. Peverelly and a
young brother, who appeared much
excited and frightened when the watch
appeared. Everything within the store
indicated design to fire the building.
They were arrested and Imprisoned
On their examination before the police
court, the watchman testified to the
condition of the store, as follows. The
intent is but too apparent:
We found the crevices near the front
door filed with cotton, after which we
repaired to the rear end of the store,
and discovered several bales of cotton
torn open, and portion of their con
tents strewed about the floor in space
of ten or twelve feet square; this cotton
was saturated with turpentine and oil;
alongside of this we found a piece of
candle, with the wick lighted and stuck
into small stone bottle; Immediately
under the hatchway of the second floor
we discovered another quantity of cot
ton reaching to the ceiling; we then
proceeded to the second story, and there
found, on the floor near the hatchway,
several bales of cotton all of which
were ripped open and standing on their
ends; we then repaired to the third
story of the building, and found bale
of cotton also torn open, and the cotton
scattered over the floor from the hatch
to the loft; this lot of cotton was also
saturated with camphene, or spirits of
turpentine; beneath the windows Of this
loft quantities of cotton were piled and
packed to the height of ten inches; on
the same floor we found box six feet in
length and two feet high, containing
alternate layers of fine wood and oakum,
and also wet with the explosive material;
on the top of said box was a layer of
cotton covered with turpentine; we also
found in the same loft lot of oakum
saturated with the camphene or turpen-
tine; in the crevice of the girders over
the aforesaid box was small barrel
half fill Of the spirits Of turpentine or
campheRe; the head of the cask had
been taken ont; in the fourth and re-
naming lofts above we found only a
small quantity of loose cotton scattered
about the floor, all of which was satu-
rated with the camphene; in the front
part of the second story we found two
bottles and the bottom part of lantern,
having small piece of candle in them,
but they were not lighted; they, how
ever, appeared to have been previously
lighted; on the same floor was found an
iron safe with the door unlocked and
the key in the lock; the ssfe contained
nothing but four or FIVE account books;
on this floor was found a lot of sperm
cuttings, which had evidently been cut
from pieces of candle, to fit them into
the neck of the bottles above alluded to.
THE CHIEEsE IN CALIFoRNIA.-The
influx of Chinese in California has be-
come so large, and the habits of the
people are so clanish and different from
the other inhabitants, that the question
is very seriously discussed what shall
be done with such people. Three thou
sand arrived at San Francisco in one
month, and twelve thousand more were
on their way. They are not like the
European emigrants who assimilate in
few years with our own population, and
whose manner, religion, habits, and
modes of thought are nearly identical:
the Chinese differ in everything, Ian
guage, customs, religion, color, without
a single connecting link, except the love
of gold, to bind them in social union
with the rest of the population. The
women who accompany the Chinese are I
described as the vilest and lowest of
their sex. An intelligent correspond
ent. writing to the Boston Post, says
unless some means are taken to stay
this emigration, in few years there will
be in that State perfect system of ar
istocracy; white population ruling the
State; with an under-caste of Mongols, 1
of political rights, yet outnum-
bering their rulers. If the introduction
of an inferior and dissimilar race among
our own population present such diff
hculhes in California at the present time,
how much greater will be the mischief
when we come to take into the Union
and to citizenship, upon an equality
with native born citizens, one half of
Mexico, with its best inhabitants but
semi-civilized, and its poems scarcely
equal to the African slaves in the South,
the Spaniards of Cuba not much higher
than the Mexican in civilization, and
the Sandwich Islander the lowest in the
scale.
A SAFE SAFE.-When the steamer
Caroline went down in doom xvafar NTH