Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-10-17
another saciaI Problem.

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I The San Francisco Monitor, as follows
gives grave picture Of the merits of tn
Chinese as class, and Of the effect q
their presence on'the prosperity Of q com
munity:
We were informed a month or so ago
that person had arrived in this city
from New Orleans, to make arrange
nents for the transfer Of three hundred
Cinnamon to work on Southern plauta
tiuns, and as all distinctions Of race and
color are abolished by the Civil Rights
Bill, so far rs Congress can. do so, we
imagine the day not far distant when cop
per-colored Pagan labor will be substitu.
ted for the labor of the white man in all
the Atlantic States.
These coolies, for such they are, nre q
den1oralizihg blight to any community in
which they are domieiied. They are ac-
tive and ingenious, it is true, good copy
lists, quick Of comprehension, and useful
arcdges: but they are filthy, thievish.
and UNANIMOUSLY vie. They are brought
to this city as merchandise, to be parcel
ed out on the labor market, with no 9th.
er condition than the supply of their ami
NAL wants and their return home, living
or dead, OF the end of the term contrac-
ted for. Very few Of them return alive,
but continue to work on their own ac.
count after the expiration Of their term Of
service, and after death their bodies are
picked up and transferred to the "Flowc-
ry Kingdom" annually.
There are several companies trading
under real or assumed names, engaged in
their import to and from this city. The
Chinese population of California may be
set down at 10000; but it may not be: be
demoralizing influence Of so large heath.
en- population OIL a State which casts u
little over one hundred thousand votes
or about fifteen thousand pninsL---. L.
were cast in 1856. The reduction of fit-
teen thousand votes in ten years, and in
new State which offers unprecedented in
Gucements, afford induhi'nb!e proof thai
the McngoIian. like the African race, is
repulsve to the Caucasian. and we know
that the vast majority Of whites on this
coast. of all conditions of life, are desiraus
to return home lis soon as they can.
A IIEARr.RESDIXG IsoDE.--Thc Lon
don Morn9nd HeralTs military CORES:
pondcnt gives the following story: a
farmer, living i'll u hamlet hear Possn'z,
had a wife and two children, and such
WAS the woman's terror If the PrusSians.
when she heard they were Coming, &hat
her husband, to >a'i,,tl her, placed her III
an underground cellar, with her two little
ones, aud built up the doorway, leaving
some food inside. The PrusSian- cnter'd d
the place, aud, amoug others, obi'g' d this
poor man to accompany them, with his
hose and cart, fora days journey, asdhey
said. But the man was brough lit on from
place to place, and at last. when he was
s suffered to return ard reached his own
house, several days had elasped. On the
way back DE- began to calculate how little
food had been left with the wife and thii-
dreil and, horror-stricken not be heard,
his hair is SAID to have turned white on
his homeward journey. His fears were
but too real. He tore down the masonry.
searched for those so dear, but only found
three Iveless bcdies, half devourcd by
rats. Reason left him at The dread
faI sight, and heis now in the hospital, lu-
matte.