The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-01
Especial Correspondence Of the Public ye5oey
LETTER FROM CHINA

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o-day 1T arrived, and will probably sal
on the nth. We have dates from the United
/ States to July 10Th
A late arrival from Nagasakie tells us that the
currency question at that port was again in an un
settled state and that the feeling of the locality
was rapidly becoming anti foreign What be-
tween the dictatoTial bearing and want of Justice
/ which characterZes many foreigners settled or
! rather unsettled, in this part Of the world, it
would not be at all surprising if the Japanes.
| Were work ID up into an ofeRstre attitude that
will call for display Of force by the naval mari
time powers. Things not going on as well in
that country as the friends of civilization had
| hoped, and the experience of the past has shown
| that whenever strength has made a treaty with
weakness, and weakness has failed to respect it to
the letter. that she has been certain to 90 to the
wall
On the 9th inst, there arrived from Pekin the
answer to the Presidents letter lately delivered BY
Mr. Ward, when at that place. 1t seems to have
made the journey from the Capital here in great
state, and was finally received with every show of
respect-adOratiOn evenly the mandarins of this
place, who went some distance outside the city
walls to meet it. understand that it is now being
translated, and that it will 90 home BY this mail.
SGngho'insin, the great Mongol chieftain, who did
tle Emperor such good service with his Tartars at
the Pie-Ho fort some months since, has lately adj
dressed MN most sanguinary memorial upon the
strength OF that success, strongly advising him to
eXpcl every foreigner from China: or rather he
mildly suggests, to cut fall their heads. The Em
peror, however, being more humane in his views
has c3ntented himself with thanking his adviser for
his loyalty and zeal, and expressing his determina
ton not to behead eXDei every iOreigner-his
Glove for the nations of the world being too great
tor that" Perhaps one two extracts from this
very fierce memorial may be amusing. at leas rare
Here Is what the memOriast SAYS of the English ::
"lt has been stood that the English barba-
rans are but a pack Of dogs or a herd Of swine;
in disposition but oxen shecp ignorant of the
great relations and standing obligations of i, un-
acquainted with the duties OF man to man, and
without the light of conscience Politically and
domesticaly considered, they are in short. people
owning allegiance neither to sovereign or parent
men among whom none acknowledges his subordina-
tion as servant or Having silk worm like eaten
up all other barbarians, they have cast their
ttgrish eyes upon China. What Will satisfy their
appetite?"
This though by no means reputation aatterinr
to the English. is, firmly believe, the prevailing
opinion regarding them throughout China And
their ideas ot the other [inferior) barbarians-
Americans Frenchmcn, etc.-arc not much better
They do not HATE us they do the English but ]
believe their SeiclnCeited empt for Us is even
greater. Here is another extract indicative of very
erroneous views of religion upon the part of this
fierce warrior:
"Then they want to preach their doctrine in
every Provinces now, the doctrine Of the Lord of
Heaven (the title by which our Saviour i known
IN Chna) sets at nuught and annihilat"s the Ohii-
cations of man. and the light of cansrirncr The
simple are stupifcd by the hncrodox tor unrirht-
eous) doctrine Of Je.u.! The wise are corrurtad
to become its partisans, by the gold and silver of
China. Ia Il few years this unrightcuus doctrine
will have spread, aud the true philosophy of Con-
Iucius and Mencus will cease to he practised. The
world will not b. a world
One more extract and have done. This is sup
posed to be lap at the ate exchange Of letters be-
tween the President and the Emperor:
"As to letters passing t. aud fro from brother to
brother, these are offence against the dignity
OF the superior nation; these different rcbellinus
forms many insults to your Majesty, bv which
dO 20 to wi tipvg
entitled" etc, etc.
The exaggerated style in which Imperial Adviser
closes his memorial is even more absurd than the
foregoing:
"Your servant, prostrat,, looks for your sacred
Majesty's decision. Shnud you dcign to accept his
humble proposals, he will be immcasurabIy CRATE
full Snbbing, as though he chuked with
blood, he presents his memorial"
These extracts give a very fair and Just idea Of
the style Of Chinese memorials They remind one
strongly Of the far-ietched and terribly grando-
quent pron"neiamentos Of Mexico and other decay
ing countries.
| met, the other day, n friend, who gave me some
curious Information upon the subectur this ''coolie
trade" He said that, for long time, the poor
and hallstarved coolies along this coast were read
ily persuaded to enter themselves for y.aTs'
labor as it at once seemed to insure them food to
eat and clothing to keep them warm, besides the
monthly salary. Years passing, however, without
the return Of any Of the many thousands who had
left their poor people began to suspect that every
thing not cOoUr de rose, and the process OF con-
vncing them became more difficult. Finally, some
drpravcd mind suggested that few should be
bribed heavily, sent back, and used drcov ducks.
This succeeded admirably for n time, but the
calitv discovered finally, and great deal Of
Indignation and bad feeling vas the result
The process OF c0RriRci"g was now, of curse, not
sufficiently productive. and consequently they
sorted to that OF EiduHpDiHg. The cons QucnCc at
this moment is. that the Who'll. Chinese mind
throughout the neighbnrh hoods where the kiduap-
ping had been discovered is inilamed against for