The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-10

rial custom among the Roumanians. As the time
Tor the fair approaches, the fathers whose chill
dren are marriageable collect what they can af-
lord as a dOwTy. Whatever this consists of IL
is packed, if possible, into cart or carriage and
on the appointed day they all-fathers, children,
and chattels-start for some trysting place, gene
rally among the western mountains of Transyl-
Yania. When the fair is opened the fathers climb
to the top of their carriages and shout with the
whole power of their lungs, ~ have daughter
10 marry. Who wants a wfe?' The call is
answered by some other parent who has son
he is anxious to pair off. The two parents COM
pare notes. and if the marriage portion is salts
factory, the treaty is there and then concluded.
The young man takes possession of his wife
with all her goods and chattels; and drives off
merrly. If, on the other hand, the match is not
equal, or for some other reason unsatisfactory,
then the parents begin to cry their live merchan-
disc once more.
The Conflict of Races in America.
FROM the LCndo1 Times Juy 20.
Alone among the races of the world they (the
Chinese) confront the Englishman, and produce
as much work with less pay. Other laborers are
often found to work for less wages than the
English laborer, but they prove in the end the
dearer wOrllmen to employ, because of the in
sulliciCncy of what they turn out. The China
man in large range OF emplOymcnts overcOmes
this difficulty, and shows n balance i'm his own
favor, and the resentment OF the manual labOrer
he underbids is necessary consequence. 1--WE
cannot live the Californian in effect says,
upon that which satisfies n Chinese and i'm
pursuance of that selG-preservation which is the
first law of nature he proceeds to beat and stone
him in the streets.
We venture to think the conflict of races in
California will not be solved by import duties or
street outrages. 1t would appear that in Cali
iornia itself there are persons who find the pre-
sence of the Chinese useful and convenient.
The Californian sections of the Pacific Railway
were made with their assistance, and while the
work was thus cheaply done, it bears comparison
with the sections completed by ''navvies' from
another world. The same mail which tells us
of the vigorous steps taken in California informs
us that Il convention has been held at Mem
phis to devise means of bringing Chinese
into the cotton, sugar, corn and rice fields
of the South. The Mississippi and Missouri
valleys; the mines of Colorado, Nevada and
Arizona the praires still haunted by Indian
tribes, may be contested between Chinese and
American immigrants. 1t is impossible to sup
pose that the Chinese can be kept out, and
speculation may be better employed in contem-
plating the functions they may hereafter dis
charge in the wonderful pOlity into which the
States are destined to grow. lnheriting civili-
zation more ancient and economic methods more
perfect than the European can boast but desti-
tutc of that strength and roughness of moral
fibre which supports authority, the Chinese may
be welcomed as assistants in colonlzatOn they
need not be feared as the dominating race OF the
future.