Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-13
Chinese Cheap Labor.


the manufactures which have lately sprung
up in the vicinity of san Francisco, the Chi
nese are rapidly undermining the white work.
ers. Their employers admit that they pus-
sess less ply ysicnl force than the whites. and
that they are not So fertile in expedients, in
| the adapiiOn OF means to ends; but they
boast ot their patience, their remarkable ia
cllly for Initiating the modes adopted by
more intelligent workers; and, above all,
they boast that their labor can be obtained
for almost nothing. Chinese operatives we
believe, are employed in the recently estab-
lished woolen manua story at the Mission
near San Francisco, and the celebrated Col
Harazthy, once melter aud refner in the
Mint, now the extensive farmer, vinedresser
aud orchardist of SoDoma county, works
gangs of Chinese at eight dollars per month,
per man. The initial step has been taken to
huid up sysism of coolie apprenticeship in
California, similar to that in Cuba, or in chile
and the consequence must he that intelligent
white workers will he turned .dritt and left
to starve or steal as inclination or necessity
may prompt them.
Some three months ago, several influential
newspapers of the State took I'D the Chinese
subject and argued it very ably so ably, that
1t seems strange the attention of the legisa-
|
ton. So far, however, the legislature has not
thought proper TO trouble itself with Chinese
affairs; and there is no probability that it
Will give the subject any thought during the
briet remainder of the present st ssion. 1t is
unfortunate for California that ncr politicians
and publlc tunctlOnarieS always appear TO he
! more interested in the affairs of other States
and people than in those of their own. The
leading politicians are now cndeavoring to
revigity old party organizations and create
new ones, On questions and issues with which
The people Of California have no direct inter-
/ est. TO the white laboring population of
California it is Of infinite imrortance that it
should he protected against the insidous en-
! croachments of Chinese competition and to
/ that and other matters of home concernment
| il ought to be looking instead of wearing
itself with discussions atcut the relative
merits Of coercion and anti coercion. The
secession difficulties on the eastern side of the
continent can he solved without the especial
! aid Of the people of California and it seems
like going long journey to borrow trouble,
to lug those Ear on difficulties into our midst
TO serve as food for partisan dissention. The
first and highest civic duty of Californians-
workers and ron- workers lis to take care Of
themselves. When they shall have executed
that duty faithfully and we'll, they will have
license and excuse for busyirg themselves
with the affairs Of distant outsiDers
Ihe happiness of the white workers of
California is not, in any wise, dependent on
the course the Federal Government may pug-
sue in regard to the refractory States on the
Gulf Of Mexico, but it has Il most intimate
connection with the home policy of throwing
the labor of the state into tie hands Of an
inferior race. The cry four statisticiane has
been. "Culilornia wants population, she
wants workersp Well the workers come
men q! our own kindred and lineage-and
! they find them themselves shut out from the
field and the Workshop by "A rabble Of rat
and dog-eating Uarbarians The evil is grow.
ing, nnd viii soon be beyond the corrective
power Of the legislature A'ep0cIa 3ranacrjpt
TIE New STYN-Speaking Of masked
balls and parties, Ching Foo writes to the
Union from New \ ork, as follows:
As Americans always improve on every
thing, from tooth. picks to the ten command
ments, we have added to the mystery OF the
masquerade the unexpected pleasures of the
surprise party For instance, just as Mr. and
/ Mrs Clark, Of TIL street, were preparing to
take bit Of cold supper last Wednesday
evening, the bell rang furiously, aud the
/ door being opened in came fifteen ortwenty
masks, al! got ny to kill in the oldest cos
lunes and shortly after as many more, until
Mrs. C.'s rooms were full. c. being very
wartu and loud spoken ttieul Of the South,
was Good deal frightened at first, and had
an idea that party OF Rrpuhs, had come to
carry him out and lynch him in the open
/ square opposite the house However, as
they all behaved we'll and showed 10 signs of
savagery he recovered his cGuaninlity and
went into the lhing heartily. You must know
the way this masquerade surprise is done is
his party is made up, hut no one commu-
nic ties 60 the other what dress he or She will
wear. Arrived at the house of the surpyiSce
each takes an opportunity to shake hands
/ with the host, "mnlgre lui," and raise the
mask us to be seen by him aud him only.
! lheu the ian goes on, and the imlroglio gets
| deeper and deeper, every body being as much
| intrigue by their rig-d-rig for the moment IA
one i at the Bal dopera in Paris till late
| hour, when all uumnsk, and the whole come
| dy comes to a oeaoHemeW amidst shouts Of
! laughter and all manner Of pleasant recrim
nations II makes very lively affair, but as
/ | said before its morality and ellcctare more
than questionable, and the freedom, not to
say license, Of manners introduced and fos-
tered 10y it too much like that of carnival
times in Rome and Paris What would good
old Cotton Mather have thought of such do
iugs? a h me, | am afraid our civilization is
getting too "dore' for the cultivation of those
severe virtues, without which the form OF
Republican institutions are only the glitter
ing and deceitful outside of whte6 sepul-
chrc. inside whereof are only dead mems
bones.
HOMICIDE At PENsAcoLA-A Pensacola let
ter states as follows: Brown, of the Auburn
Guards, was killed to-day 10y Belts, of the
Iuskegee Light Infantry. An justify Betts
The offence was m insult to Mrs Bett" We
learn, from another source, that Brown lived
about an hour during which time he pre-
tested that he was not the man who insut-d
Mrs Belts He was killed with a bowie
knife, having first fired at Belts with re-
yoi7er, on the latter making the attack.
TnE PENsAcoLIASs AND THEIR Posi- OFFICE.
The Fensacolans do not take the withdrawal
of their Post Office kindly. can ignominious
and contemplate act" says the rate editor
Of the Pensacola Tribune "An act only fit
for lnrharous and despotic age" he con-
tinues, and then asks "Docs the Government
of The United State, tolerate such actions?-