East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-02-10
Ori9iual aslistrllaay.


From ratSet John Chinaman, the
transition is easy and perfectly natu
raj, and if there is nothing about the
latter tolerably interesting, there GER
tainly is a great deal that is curiou:
and comical. Never having been in.
side the five walls of the Celestial En-.
pire we cannot undertake to reveal
any Of their home customs, manner.
and appearances, but as they display
themselves in the land of Ophir we
can give tolerably correct notion
Nor are we sufficiently acquainted
with the idiom of their language to
write a complete grammar or diction.
ary we only know that every man
receives the cognomen John, as If il
We're the Cross of Honor, while the
females as readily answer to Senorits
as if they were in truth Spanish
The pilgrim to California when he
lands upon Long Wharf and beginf
to make his way through the throne
always bustling up and down Com.
mercial Street, is sure to be attracted
by q short, squatty figure, mounted
upon two very precarious pegs, that
protruding below black silk thickly
quilted bag gives one q very striking
image of a barrel mounted upon stills
From the other end arises small
protuberanes that fills the Office of 9
head "and thereby hangs a tall
uo~aii, fo~- Got ie~s, the >shels sus
mounted by turban shaped hat.
This is the real appearance of I
Chinaman, but the face is more at
ttractive. The hair is drawn bacl
from the forehead with such fearfu
tension es to elavate the eyebrows un
til their eyes seem to have been pu
into their heads longitudinally insteat
of horizontally-the few remnants o
a beard that have escaped the tweez
ers have the appearance of tombstone
erected over ''the gone BEFORE" Th
whole assemblage of features gives
the very best representation Of thu
full moon as seen in almanacs eve
represented. A little more intellectua
than baboon but not SO pretty as I
gorilla, they become the observed 0
I of all observers until familiarit.
destroys the appreciation. These be-
ings are often the sharpest gambler
and keenest merchants on the street
but the majority have over the doc
of their domicils a sign similar to tn
following, which we copied near tn
corner of SAMSON and Montgomer,
streets: ff HTI ft.f 4fr
/ lf "JoN Foo CHHR CHANG
LoSpERER."
| This had been cutinto pine boar
and blackened with coal by SOM
primitive artist that the public nigh
know that John was in the laundr,
business. sam
We had not been many days il
San Francisco when we discovered
that the Celestials also died and wer
buried. We became fully concious o
the fact in this wise. We were stand
ing upon the steps of the post ofiic'
looking out upon the Plaza when al
at once we heard row or at least
succession Of discordant and unpleas
ant noises approaching us. Glancinl
down Kearney Street We saw ap
preaching two Celestials dressed il
white, howling and shouting at thu
top of their lungs. Next came fou
more playing upon instruments tina
made such music as one hears whel
cats cry out at midnight, when bell
ring and earnest voices shout, fire :
Then followed four othors bearin,
something upon their shoulders GOV
cred with a white cloth, and these ais
shouted heathenish halelujah, OF
words to that effect. Then there cam
long train of sedate and dismal lonI
tails, and we supposed the cowbell
ogians had got loose and were havinI
q devil Of time generally, and w
pursued them. We discovered tha
they were not having q good time
! they felt bad, they were mourners go
ing to a funeral. But it was not tn
silent, sacred grief that shuns observa
ton. 1t was just about the grandes
show ever seen. Ne f1isr.a
i Noise is celestial characteristic
in nall they do noise is essential. a
thorough enjoyment Of business O
pleasure cannot be secured withou
such a banging Of instruments callet
musical, and such clatter of tongue
as would have astonished the builder
Of Babel. They gamble by noise, tn,
looser always making the most. The,
cat by noise, the famishing Away
calling for rat soup or puppy pie. II