The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-10
SKETCHES IN CHINA.
Visit to the EasI-Jnpan-Chinese Trade
The Duty Of Aylerica- Cinnamon and Their
Dcafngs-Uncie SANS Servants Poorly
Paid-Suegcstions.

/ DVdiuSs-OnV0 saM>b Serv0ntA Poorly
SHANGHAE, June 20, 1869.
Here ! ara In shanghai, and my letter goes
by this Tai. IL VIII reach Yokohama In foul
days, son Francisco IN twenty-four, and by tht
just-fn.shed Pacific Railroad the HERALD once
III thirty. Does 1t not seem like romances JUS
imagine Eneas taking the same route Why
BY the time ne took 10 get from Troy to Italy ne
would be getting from here 10 New York yet. Oh
think OF the astonishment OF Columbus were the
great admiral TO arise from mis- rest and leaving
Pa,os travel to the Indies by the western Way
now.
have recently made tour OF the East visited
gain the Chinese ports on the seaboard, gone ovel
TO Manila, thence TO Singapore, thence to Sarawat
and back again, thence TO Sydney, Melbourne and
Wellingtop; thence to Point de Gale, Madras
Bombay. Calcutta, and thence away around
once more to here. my starting point.
have seen all the East, its immense
wealth, ITS incalculable resources. The tabled Ca
thay sevenfoid greater than ever Imagination pic
tured IT, faces the western coast OF America not for
Joe'' nor for John, but for SAM II Sam will have 1t,
and don't know him If he don't. can imagine my
self standing near San Francisco the seashore and
facing the Pacific. Right across the ocean is the
great Chinese empire with its teeming millions, its
immense promotions Of tea, silk, rice, cotton and
manufactured articles and its immense requirements
Between me and China is chain OF islands fertile in
so saubriOus In climate and containing 80 DOC, 900
or inhabitants. This Is Japan. Down to my left
grouped on the bosom of the Pacific. are the Sand
wien Islands, connected by steam with San Fran
CISCO Still further down are the great Islands
OF Borneo, Java and Sumatra, the Moiuccas, the
Philippines, and countless other groups until
come to the inchoare empire OF Australia.
Thence minda M Indi
Ocean unit! reach Persia, Afghanistan Hindostan,
Ava and SIAM and realize the vast mine OF wealth
that hes before me- with nothing between me aud 1t
but the wave that Is FLASHING at my feet.
whistle IL heard, it Is the mail steamer from
emma and Japan; another IL is from Panama and
connects direct with Austraa another it is from
Alaska; another 1t Is from Portland and Victoria,
and yet another that is from Sacramento and con-
meets with the Union PACING Railroad / turn land
ward, and behold a band OF iron casping cont.
nent one destined to have Its antenna stretching to
all the untold wealth, mineral and agricultural lying
to Its north and south, aud at last come to New
York. which is all TO the side OF the earth she faces
that San Francisco Is destined to be to the other
But back to The East to CHINA. America has and
Will always possess the geographic advantage,
England now holds the immense preponderance OF
influence and trade In The East, including China,
and she viii jealousy hold IL as long as she can
You can scarcely conceive the jealousy felt towards
shows itself in everythlngn the daily transaction
Of business in political acerbity, in the social rela
lions Of le and was particularly conspicuous during
our late war, on the establishment OF our line OF
Pacific steamers, and relative 10 the Burlipgame
mission.
Our trade can be direct with China across the
Pacific without having to pass through the tropics
England, even when the ship canal is open
through suez, Will nave to send across France
twhere passengers always suffer from the most
excessive heat and then around the whole Asiatc
poria-stepplng stones OF commerce which form a
continuous LINK ali around from Alden to Shanghae
BY three modes can we succeed IN obtaining the
prepCnderance In trade and influence IN China
vlZ.:-By keeping to the wise and liberal provisions
Of the Burngame treaty, doing as we would be
done by allowing no narrow minded local preju
dices, such as have been evinced In California to
cause Us to refuse TO the Cinnamon there what we
expect for ourselves here-iree emigration and
to those OF any other country anu by paying them
so tnat they can afford to keep up equal appear.
ance, and by acquiring an American colony in CHINA
such as the English have at Hong Kong.
have had dealings OF every kind with the Chinese
and though always found them to be shrewd busl.
ness men. never found them TO be deliberately
swInding or dishonest. In the open ports they are
frequently dishonest. They have been taught dis.
honesty. Their experience OF foreigners has not
been such as to win their esteem and love They
found them cruel and exacting in their military
operations and sharpers and swndlers in their mer.
The Chinese do not love either the English or
French; they fear them Their particular hatred
SnS n 0r emma s English %s sy Fs@m the
they remember the infamous forcing OF opium they
remember the burning OF the Emperor's palace, |
and they also remember that America had moth. |
ing to do with these infamies America is well and
badly or Dy the Chinese-natlonaiiy WE'LL indvidu. |
ally rather badly, and with reason The rowdies of
all Cnrlstend0m driven by the Vigilance Committees
from California fed to Coma, ana became pest at
the open ports, particularly Shangiae In all cases
they proclaimed themselves - americans, thus |
bringing our name into dlsrepute. Added to this ID
the TACT that our cOnsuls IN China are poorly paid
that they cannot AFFORD 10 compete IN appearance |
with the consus OF other nations. Some IDEA OF the
disparity between their pay ana that Of the English
Consul may be arrived at from the fact that The |
English Consul al Shanghai alone receives In pay
nine American Consuls put together. The Chinese |
do not understand nor appreciate "Tepupl., !
S 81 for s@RF oI Of NJ bs si Of ne
dependence. They look to the outward symbols or |
rank, and therefore the American Consul. being
aoe TO compete with the other consuls and the row.
dies who say they are Americans, they call US, know
ing we are sort Of English, yet not English, but
inferior, mo. Engllshmen." Is II not
to have our representatives placed thus aud to give
them no power whatever, except on paper TO crush
the rowdyism called American IN a country where
our present interests increasing every day and
our prospective interests are so imInensef
The establishment OF an American colony would be
OF inSalSuIa6le e, advantage II should be IN sne
the iangtse, OF the coast and the foreign commerce.
thus being TO Northern and Central what Hong Kong
am glad to see that the Burngame mission Is sue
ceedlng so well In Europe assure you 1t Is lot re-
garded with any favor here, and the Eng!ishmen
first cannot see how II should be entrusted to q
"blarsted Yankee, you know,n and second, how
SAID Yankee had the presumption ask the concur
renee oil the United States nrst
Why don't an enterprising company get up q
telegraph line from San Francisco along the coast
up 10 Alaska, then by the Aeutlan Islands to the
Aslatic coast and along down t0 neref 1t Il quite
possible and would pay well.
met most interesting gentleman, the Pere
Guneaux, on board a steamboat on the Yangtse
the otner day. He came from the province OF Sc
cnuen, from near the western confnes OF China,
aud mad come down the river, nearly
eighteen hundred miles. In native boats
70 Hankow. lie had LETT France when he was twen-
v-two years old, had been La China thirty years;
mad been In every province OF the empire and out
10 Mongolia, Munchuna, III and Thibet. He dressed,
looked, acted ana ate ike Ohnaman. He HAD
almost forgotten his French but remembered his
Latln. lie gave me most interesting accounts OF
regions and peoples where very few Caucasans
nave ever been. ! may mention these In future
letter. Among other things he informs me Of large