The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-03-23
TIE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA
TIE MINES.

A San Francisco correspondent
Northern paper writes as follows on these
two topics: i
1.-THE whole business of the mines Is
cha.eed or changing. It is becoming
fixed occupation, with its joint stock associ-
atoms. its regular employers and directors
its local usages and laws, its cummunities'
its towns, and its cities even. Works cost
ing hundreds of thousands and extending
for miles, conveying water by long aque-
duets: tunnels cut through MOUNTAINS
dams. turning the beds of streams; shafts
piercing deeply into the bosom OF the i"''y
hills; galleries cut out OF SOLID rock siu'c's
and canals, and terraces; roads construct
ed among the gorges of the mountains
scraped from their sides, surmounting lne
the passes of the Sierra Nevada; suen are
| some of the works. besides the building OF
towns and erection of bridges, public build
ings. &c, &c.
1.-THE Chinese have added more largely
to our population the past year than any
other people. They are now numerous III
nearly all parts of the State. AT oacre-
mento there is a long street which Is chiehy
Chinese. In this city there are sections
alleys, streets, chiefly occupied by then'
with their shops, storehouses, markets.
and places of residence. You will see I'M
meaiately opposite the entrances to one OF
their places the littlealter-like establishment
and gilt paper and Josh sticks, like you Will
observe in like places at Canton 1hey
retain the tail, tho flowing trousers, the
tunic the high-seled wooden shoes of their
native land. They are barred from
all intermixture with the Christian Popula-
ton by the insurmountable difficulties OF
language, of coler and of habits. Their
civilization is probably as old as the bones
of julius Caesar, aud in some things not
inferior to ours; but ages must elapse be-
fore they can understand and adopt the
usages of the moderns
Yet the Chinese, possessing enough
with US to demonstrate the unity OF the
human family, have built up structure OF
society SO different, that it is impossible for
Us to dwell in it-for them to adapt them
selves to ours. Their language might be
the tongue of the folks in the moon,' and
have as much affinity-their customs might
be those of the denizens of Mars, and
y scarcely be more strange; and the cons
= science of Chinaman is to be reached by
means to US as incomprehensible as Is our
moral judgment an enigma to them. In
deed it is difficult to find any media of asso-
J citation. With US, they cannot be OF US. 1t
u is to be problem demanding the best care
, of wisdem-achdt IS to be the status Of CHI
nad0m in the american commonwealth
=. That tho Celestials are to be numerous
" upon the coast-that thus the circle Of
. humanity is to meet and mingie-laws de
- creed in the grand moral government OF the
- world, already ordained and strongly exc
10 cuted. 1t may be found that from Chin'
= we arc to have that abundant labor which
is to enrich the dominant race. and at thu
n Same time confer great good on million
O. fleeing from society falling in ruin
20 Speaking of John Cinnamon, reminds u
:, of the following certificate of bad charac
"a ter, which they have just received from
d Bayard Taylor:
80
- Chinese are morally the most debased pc"
- pie on the face of the earth. Forms o
-, vice. which in other countries are barrel.
49, named, are in China so common that the
70 excite no comment among the natives
w They constitute the surface levels, and be
- low them are deeps on deeps of depravity
A SO shocking and horrible that their charac
70 ter cannot even be limited. There ar
.. some dark shadows in human nature whic
70 we naturally shrink from penetrating an
10 1 made no attempt to collect information c
: this kind; but there were enough in tn
10 things which could not avoid seeing an
T. hearing-which are brought almost daily t
Of the notice of every foreign res;aent-to in
Of spire me with a powerful aversion to tn
os Chinese race. Their touch is pollution
=, and, harsh as the opinion may seem, jus
If tice to our own race demands that the
II Should not be allowed to settle on our soil.
,h AN INGENIOUS NORTH CAROLINIAN.-
Among the thousands who now throng tn