The Empire County argus., 1854-09-16
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Bnwer entertained the opinion that the French
were inclined to commit suicide periodically, and
that the disposition for throat-cutting and drowning
was contagious. Whether correct or not the CAL
fornia press appears to be subject to periodical fits
at one time it is in spasms about Plank Roads, at
another in Mysteries about railroads. and just now
having severe cramp about the Chinese and will
without doubt be in raging fever directly, about
the Know Nothings. That the children Of the sun
in this State, have among them great number of
unmitigated scamps we have doubt, indeed we
evidences Of their slippery disposition every day;
but not in SO glaring form as represented by TIE
city press Perhaps the worst portion of the Coles
tials have congregated about and in the cities in
short is it not true that the graceess thieving por
ton of creation, generally congregate about large
towns in greater numbers than elsewhere? ? The
and concert in crime easier attained than in thinly
settled communities.
We have within our borders at least thirty-f
thousand long-tailed representatives of tho fowery
kingdom, and perhaps This people, like
christians have most of them serious dislike Of
and many of them an uncompromising hostility to
labor. Quite one half of this almond eyed popula-
tion, live off the fruits Of labor performed by the
other half. In this respect they appear to be apt
scholars readily acquiring the vicious habits about
them; especially the christian habit of swearing,
soon as they learn a word of English. In lying
they are adopts, having learned this art thorough.
ly wishout any assistance from Californians. They
are universally hated by all classes of men. They
ere incorrigibly attached to their outlandsh bloom
costume and persist after residing here for years,
in eating boiled rice with chop-sticks, instead of
with knife or spoon. They are sells uficient
ugly. and insolent race, whenever their little stock
of courage will permit. Yet theyare persevering
Of mortals, tenacious of their customs establish
ed by their ancestors thousand centuries ago,
perhaps, and the very youngest one, the most out
landish of all the tail growing out of the head
They persevere III the end, in all their habits and
apparently never acquire new one, unless the
worst habit or vice in the community where they
live
Many of them are industrious, and work dill
gently, others are complete patterns of idleness
and all of them offensive in their intercourse with
the white race. The State Journal in speaking of
them says:
Their inertness compels them to be dependant
their wants must be supplied and as they cannot
provide for themselves while laboring on the farm,
deving in the mines, following mercantile pursuits
or the mechanic arts with paore energetic, intel
Igent and shrewder race, they are forced by neces
sty to live in great degree by stealth, cunning,
lewdness or charity.
Now all this may be true about the Chinese in
Sacramento, including the Triad gentry; but here
IN Il Dorado they manage to take care of themse-
YES and pay large amount monthly into the treas
ury' portion Of which finds i.s way into the cof-
ters OF the State. Again the journal adds:
They produce less than they consume or. if per-
chance. a few of them do produce more thev hold
1t with the tenacity of death and send it back or
return with it to their own Aowery land.
Now our Cinnamon up here many of then, buv
scores of watermcons, cords of sardines, and fire.
quently whiskey winding up feast by getting
drunk in true christian style. That man. Of them
economical, aud stick to their money with the
tenacity Of death" is true, and right too, and we
wish they would all do SO, and speedily ''return
with it to their own aowcry Land" We are told
that
wars and rurnors Of wars, are every day rife
among their several antagonistic associations; and
if let alone. they will like the Kilkenny cats, de-
YOUR one another, leaving only their caudal appen
dages to prove that they had ever been"