Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-19

A San Francisco correspondent of Northern paper
writes as follows on these two topics:
The whole business of the mines is changed Or chan
gng. 1t is becoming fixed occupation with its Joint
stock associations its regular employees and directors
its local usages and laws its communities its towns and
cities Works costing hundreds of thousands and
extending for miles, conveying water by long aqueducts
tunnels cut throug mountains DAMS turning the beds
of streams shafts piercing deeply into the bosom of
lofty hills galleries cut out of solid rock suices, and
canals, and terraces roads constructed among the gor
ges OF the mountains scraped from their Sides surmount
ing the passes of the Sierra Nevada such some of
the works. besides the building of towns and erection of
bridges, public buildings, &C.. &C.
"Ihe Chinese have added more largely to our popula
ton the past year than any other people. They are
now numerous in nearly all parts of the State At
Sacramento there is long street which is chiefly Chi
In this city there sections, alleys streets
chiefly occupied by them with their shops storehouses
markets. and places of residence. You will see mmed-
atey opposite the entrances to of their places the
little altar-ke establishment and gilt paper and Josh
sticks which you will observe in like places Canton
They retain the TAIL the flowing trowsers the tunic the
hgh-soed wooden shoes of their native land They are
barred from all ntermiXture with the Christian popuI
ton by the nsurmountabe difficulties of language of
color and of habits Their civilization is probably as
old the bones of Julius Caesar and in some things not
inferior to ours but ages must elapse before they can
understand and adopt the usages of the modems
"Yet the Chinese possessing enough with us to DEM
onsrate the unity of the human family have built up
structure of society different that it is impossible for
to dwell in t-for them to adapt themselves to ours
Their language might be the tongue of the folks in the
moOn and have much affinty-their customs might
be those of the denizens of Mars and scarcely be
strange; and the conscience of Chinaman is to be
reached by means to incomprehensble as is our
moral judgment an enigma to them Indeed it is diff
cult to find any media of association. With u.s. they
cannot be Of 1t is to be problem demanding the
best of wsdom-qrhat to be the status of China
dom an the american commonwealth? That the CeeS-
tsls to be upon this coast-that thus the
circle of humanity is to meet and mnge-laws decreed
in the grand moral government of the world already
dain and strongly execute. 1t may be found that from
China to have that abundant labor which is to
enrich the dominant race and at the time confer
great good on millions fleeing from society falling in
ruin"
Speaking of John Cinnamon, reminds of the fol-
lowing certificate of bad character which they have just
received from Bayard Taylor:
1T is my deliberate opinion that the Chinese
ally the most debased people the face of the earth
Forms of vice. which in other countries are barely named
are in China common that they excite no comment
among the natives They constitute the surface levels
and below them are deeps on deeps of depravity so
shocking and horrible that their character cannot
be limited There are some dark shadows in human
ture which naturally shrink from penetrating, and
made attempt to collect information of this kind but
there enough in the things which could not avoid
seeing and hearing-which brought almost daily to
the notice of every foreign resident-to inspire with
powerful aversion to the Chinese race. Their touch
is pollution, and harsh as the opinion may seem Justice
to demands that they should not be allow
| ed to settle on our SOIL"