Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-24
ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, JULY al 1859.

p"'u '"cW HlR0 tf1Onte IN this re-
spect, in praising the perfect order and
sell government which was shown for
long time at that place, when its popu.
latioD, grcetly increased by the crowds
fleeing from the rebels, was abandoned
by its officials and left TO take care of
| itself .s.l .s.. ..,.
Having no fear of TIE future world.
they meet death with great courage,
dreadlng it less than continued pair.
The family ties are very close, and fam
ny honor is the strongest cheek Oh their
actions. Their sense Of commercial honor
~ deep, and my own experience, in Cen
tral and Northern China, leads inc to
thlhk that honesty is quite as general
there as in other countries. The exist
ence of hospitals, founded by private
charity for the sick and foundlings, and
Tor other purposes, proves that the Chi
nese are not negligent of social response
bilities. They are proverbially industri-
Gus, and could we measure the amount
OF productive manuel labor performed
throughout the world, without the aid
OF modern labor-saving machinery. we
should probably fud that this third of
the human race accomplisIles not less
than from six-tenths TO seyen.ten,bs of
the whole.
1t is 10 slight tribute TO say that dur
ing nearly 5000 miles of travel in this
closeiy-peopled land, the writer never
saw drunken Chinamen. s,r ... ... .
The Chinese have been charged with
being, as people, corrupt beyond meas
ure, given over TO every aGomination,
and practicing inianticide TO the extent
OF destroying one-quarter Of ihe female
children, but 1t is the opinion of.Dr
Lockhart, an eminent medical mission
airy, who has studied the question MANY
years IN different parts. OF the empire,
lnat The latter crime is lin proportion to
the population) no more frequent, or
perhaps less common, than it is in It's
various forms in England and America.
And it should seem that the healthy and
moral condition of society is proved by
The vitality of the nation, the overflow
ing population, and the rapidity with
which gigantic wounds in the national
body are healed. OF course the agpre-
gate of crime must be very large, Cspc-
cialiy in the great cities but it is doubtful
whether it is greater, in proportion to
the population, than among the nations
of the West. a.
With all the admiration careful Oh
server must have for China, it is certainly
not pleasant country Tor foreigner TO
live III, unless he recognize and keep
always before him the fact that organic
matter i'll decaying and giving nutriment
to plants, loses every vestige of its
former character. There is too much of
the human element; go where you will.
look where you will, it is there. In the
more closely-peopled parts the traveller
Is surrounded by turbid stream of
life, while he treads soil almost
human, the ashes of the unnumbered
millions OF the past; the very dust
which he breathes and swallows is that
OF charnel house. The water of wells
is every where impregnated with the
products of organic decay, and the sew
ers of countless cities.
On the densely-peopled plain all the
organic and much of the mineral ingre-
dients OF the soil must have made many
times the circuit of plant and animal life,
in other words, every thing that goes to
make and maintain the human body has
formed parts of human bodies which
have passed away. .... s.. !
Few foreigners have the courage to
enter the larged southern towns in sum
mer, SO horrible is the air. In the neigh |
borhood OF great cities on the delta plain,
where water is found Just below the sur
face, one may ride for miles, always in |
sight OF coffins bursting in the scorching
heat of the sun, and breeding the pesti-
lence that yearly sweeps off the surplus
population. .f.I.t. -....- r..--r
That have attempted to make con-
spicuous is the fact that the spirit of the
Chinese, as shown i'll their enterprise and
energy as colonizers, in their commercial
character and faculty Of organization, in
the democratic idea of the political
equality OF man, in the practical decent
arlization of their government, and in |
the universality OF education and the
making Of education necessary qualifi- |
cation for Office, is in harmony with the |
spirit of the present age. This is the |
strong Grmcr of the race, its safeguard |
in the future struggle for existence, by |
which it is clearly distinguished from
khcoS Jaws NhOSO oOSistt anu pOllbiCil /
systems belong to periods long past, and |
differ SO much from our own that they |
tall at the very first contact with us. |
CHINESE iMmGRArIoS.
1. We have seen that there exists in China
a boundless source of emigration, and |
the necessity for emigration; that the
of America for receiving this |
emigration is comparatively unlimited
that the emigration viii be at least pro
portionate to the encouragement offered, J
that the encouragement is springing into
existence through the recognition Of the
Chinese as a necessary element for the |
development of the resources of the Far
West that the immense influx of these
people will constitute possible political
power which cannot remain latent, and
that the attainment of the privileges of
will make of them a fixed,
of floating population, which,
so far as anything we know to the con-
trarV NAV Mt no distant date, LARGELY |