Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-17

tracing much attention. In the June AtldRtic
there was an article suggesting the employ
ployment of Cinnamon in our domestic service
In the July GALAXY appears an article which
gives SO clear and intelligent rssume of the
question, and represents the Celestals in so
new and favorable light, that we here print
the first portion of 1t, with the prospect of fol-
lowing 1t up next week with the other;
THE CHINAMAN- ABROAD.
If we turn from the splendid sunrise
OF our national morning to. the misty
veil that enshrouds the future, we shall
see giant specter slowly defining its
shadowy form against the Western
heavens.
Let us look and reflect; for it is the
mirage of distant empire, looming OF
One-third of the human race. IL is the
toreshadowing of problem which only
time can solve; but which is none the
less one of the most important in the
worlds history. Let us examine the
elements of this problem: On the west
ern shore of the Pacific there is coun-
try, not much larger than the United
States east of the Mississippi, in which a
population of more than four hundred
millions treads closely upon the capacity
of the soil tor supporting existence. So
true is this, that those years in which
the productiveness of the earth falls be-
low the average, witness widespread
famine and all the horrors that follow in
its train.
BY untiring patience and industry, by
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ages Of experience, by uniting all these
qualities in wrestling from Nature the
last atom she can yield, and, finally, by
returning to Mother Earth, with scrupu-
lous care, all that has been taken from
her, with interest drawn from sea and
river, this race maintains its vitality un-
impaired. Bat it is struggle tor life.
So long as the throes of this tremendous
struggle were confined to China by
strong natural and political barriers, they
found remedy in defamation by famine
and pestilence. But the past twenty
years have effected as great breaches in
the political barrier which the Chinese
had rased about them, as twenty centu-
ries have made in their ancient wall of
brick and stone. The social and politi-
cal restraints which opposed emigration
are disappearing, and the first conscious
ness Of an expansive power is beginning
to show itself in the marine provinces of
the empire. q
A few years since the confines of Asia
aud its archipelagoes were the horizon of
the world to every Chinaman. The
small fields therein opened to a peaceful
race, attracted many enterprising emf
grants; but neither were the openings
large enough, nor the facilities for reach
ing them great enough to initiate any
very important movement. The discov-
cry of gold in California and Australia
and the demand for labor on the distant
shores of the Pacific Ocean, gave the
needed impulse. Timidly, at first, small
numbers went abroad; then ten thou
sands, until now there must be nearly two
hundred thousand Cinnamon on the
American continent a.one. During these
years there has been, also, a continuous
stream returning to Asia, and carrying
home, in the aggregate, large amount
OF money and information. Thus, the
number Of Cinnamon who have seen the
outside world can not be far from one
per cent. of the whole male population
of the empire These act as leaven on
ever-growing circles at home, spreading
among hundreds of millions those stories
of adventure in distant lands, of won
iders, of boundless demand for labor and
of high wages, which make individuals
think, land, become restless Thoughts
arise, which, when they become common
to numbers, are intensified to degree
proportionate to the size of the masses
swayedrbythem, snntil the sympathetic
attraction of remote countries produces
the tidal wave and currents of emigra-
fions The measure OF this movement is
the exact resultant OF all the social and
physical forOes whichiOperate in its ac-
ltions These are, OF course, intricate and
obsure beycnd computation; but they
are resolved, an general terms, into one
set OF favorable and opposing forces in
China, and other sets, with different re-
sultants, for each country outside of
China. ufI,vT asraisai % a1r' ys1--
In China we have one.third of the hu-
man race suffering from an excessive
death rate and all the misery of an in
cessant struggle for life, with no remedy
but the ability TO overflow into other
lands, until the population at home shall
stand in proper ratio TO the means of
support. s.
Leaving out all other questions, the
capacity Of America for receiving emf
grafton is at present boundiess, as com
pared with the capacity OF all the world
to supply it, An eminent English geo.
grapher has carefully calculated that
the two Americans are capable OF sup
porting thirty-six hundred millions OF
Inhabitants. Room and subsistence are
not wanting. The capacity for absorp-
ton Of labor is scarcely more limited.