Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-16
THEIR cHAaAcrrR1sT1os.

reading Father Hoes Travels IN onina,.
Tartary and Thibet, a work kindly loan
cd US by Bishop 0'Counel. Father Hoe
was n Catholic Missionary, who pens-
trated the Flowery and adjacent king
doms with a courage unsurpassed; and
who, having made himself acquainted
the dialects of the people, was enabled
to take "full notes." He was a man Of
great powers. Of observation, aud q
graphic writer. His travels were made
during the years IA, AS and '46. He
says that the Chinese are chiefly char
acterized' for ilthiness, %avarice and
treachery. Or in other words, he says,
they are almost universally nasty, mis-
erly and hypocritical. The parallel adj
jectives do not seem to leave much room
for conjsctural explanation as to what
Father Hoe, the most learned and expe-
rieuced Of Chinese travellers, found the
Chinese of the Interior Of their kingdom
to be. He says that the Tartars COM
pare greatly to advantage with their
ancient foe-race. The Tartars are not
excessively clean, as a rule; and the
Chinese commonly speak of them as
sstinking Tartars;" butthey are, on the
average, much more clearly than their
neighbors, and almost without exception
the Tartars, who are not Of the small
Kolo tribe, are hospitable, generous and
very sincere and truthful in all their
dealings. Indeed the Chinese despise
them for their unsophis,icated nature
and "ways," and "pluck" them regu-
larly in their commerce. 1t has been a
popular dslusion that the Chinese who
lived in the interior were far superior
in all respects to those who live on the
ocean line, and who furnish our coast
with inhabitants. But unless there has
been a great change since Father Hoes
journey, there is as much squalid mis-
cry and vice in the Interior Of China as
on the sea border.
Father Hoe has declared that the
Tartars are "sincere Budhists," while
the Chinese on the Tsrtary border are
knockers Of their own religion" He
says the Chinese are q nation of liars,
and licentious past all description.
It may be remembered by many Of
our readers that the Rev. Edward Beech
er, who was amopg the Protestant mis-
sionaries in China for some time, de-
clared in very nearly the same terms as
above, that the Chinese were hor-
ribly degraded sensualists. Beecher said
that there were "no words in our LAM
guage or even the Chinese dialect"to tell
oftheir beastliness. And he, too, spoke
of their "ingrained skepticism." He
said he had met with very few who be-
lieved that there was such Il thing az
an honest mau in the world.
The Catholics had. convert, (Father
Thomas in San Francisco, for many
years; and he was a man who had been
brought up by the PROSECUTING sect. He
made every effort to redeem some of his
c%opntrymen at the Bay; but he failed,
and sorrowfully confessing his failure
and the seeming impossibility of the
omission" he departed. We are, in
| formed that he did not succeed in maxi
ing a single convert.
The only missionaries who have had
any success worthy of record, as a ba-
sis of hope, are the French Catholic
Priests, of whom Father Hoe was one.
But their christian triumphs are said to
depend upon bringing the children under
their exclusive care and influence.
A nice people-4Oo ,oOo, 900 Of them
to draw into III country, and endow
with full citizenship
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