Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-23
.Jobn IL. and John &.

John IL. and John &.
"Fair play is a jewel" says John Bull
but on the heel of this declaration, he re-
peats with an JUNCTION, the following state
mcnt concerning the Chinese, made by the
Rev. S. Coley, at n Wesleyan Missionary
meeting:
"Isupposc that no country has ever had such n
power of invention and such stuntcd intellectual
development as China. The Chinese is the largest,
yet, beyond its own realm the least influential oil
mOnHrchies From China no mission ever started,
no conIuerOr ever marched Before all people In
rudimenial invention, they are behind all people in
development. They had both gold and silver coins
before the first DHric muted. yet they traftc
bv the scales to this day. They first had gunpow
der but have got little further with its use than Ia
blaze il away in crackers. They We're long before
hand with the magnet, but no junkeVer crossed Tile
ocean except in tow Of n British ship. They have
printed from time immcmOrial. but their literature
awakcs no progressive intellect. They have made
glass for two thousand years and ordinarily 40 nor
make it clear enough to see through yet. Their
astronomy is still astrology, nor has their chemistry
awOke from dreams Of alchemy. They have polite
ness but its odd forms and slavery of etiquette OH
lv make them more unsOciablc. They have won
icrfuI language but It's elaborate clevernesS Is
curse and a fetter to their minds making II the
labor of life to learn to read They are not Win
out notions of dignity: but the men find u III hhSer
nails long enough for claws, and the women III le"I
crushed into the shupelessness Of boots. In III"
South Atlantic there is seattle great Sargazo
All the currents pass by il. Dull, dead hcaVlDs
waves lust move the heapcd up tangle Of weeds
that grow and the drift of wrecks that rot in thai
staGnant melancholy ocean limbo. China is the
Sargazo in the ocean of Humanity.
The misstatements and fallacies con-
tanned in the above " comprehensive state
ment," as it is called by the English pa
pers, are as numerous at least as the lines
in the article. We may notice few OF
them. With regard to the gunpowder
question, We would respectfully suggest
that our British cousins must have forgot
ten their bloody defeat at the mouth of the
Peiho, when that statement was made and
swallowed. The first junk which crossed
the ocean came to an American port, and
sailed the entire distance without assist
ance from any other vessel, proving herself
a first rate sea vessel at that, only tritie
slower than the clipper ships which the
English are now turning out-on Yankee
models. 1t could ouu-sail the Great East
eyn with half breeze. The glass question
is disposed of by the simple fact that balls
supposed to be cut from blocks Of solid
crystal, and sold at enormous prices, really
made BY Chinese artisans from glass OF
their own creation, are common all over
England. All the chemicals required for
manufacturing any of the articles produced
in China are manufactured at home at
tenth part of the price they can be pro-
duced in Europe. When new want in
that line is discovered, no nation in the
world so quickly finds the means Of sup
plying it as the Chinese. 4 few wears
since, John China discovered that John
Bull wanted his ten of green instead ola
naturally black color, and with the aid of
" Prussian blue" and Glenfield starch, the
required article was straightway forthcom-
ing in any quantity. John B. drank the
tea with smack of satisfaction and sold
the /" Prussian Blue" with chuckle of
delight, until one day common coolic,
who had been cast away and was carried
to London on an English ship, lounged
into factory where the blue was beng
manufactured. He went home on the
next vessel, and there has not been pound
of the article exported to China since; they
can make it better at home. There are
more than ten times as many Cinnamon in
the world as there are Englishmen, and
vet you can find ten of the latter who call
not read to one of the former. \ more
sociable people never lived, if we may
Judge by what we see of them in this
country. We have given John BIS idea Of
John C.'s manifestations in the dignity
line. We would be glad to be able to put
OH paper the latters opinion of the figure
cut by Lunnon Cockney with mutton
chop whiskers, an eye-glass, round top
hat fearfully suggestive of the common
furniture of sick-chamber, and switch
cane, on horseback. Beyond doubt
John b. is ahead of China and the rest of
the world in modesty and politenesS; but
when it comes to moral honesty and intel
ligence, did anybody ever hear of vessel
which had gone to China with bread given
in charity to her starving millions, being
captured by pirate, fitted out for the pur-
pose, in Chinese port, on the return trip;
and did China ever produce two such asses
as Russell, late war correspondent of the
London Times, and Sala the present one F: