The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1870-01-06
J ChInese IImnIaEa .

eePtony, aro llesanhnppy Inourn.
ers over the t'Ios( cause.
los Chinese l1mullRfafl6n
4hoappfehehslVns 0l ne Oali.
tforDiana lEst aahordnOia Asihtlcs
leone in and SysrEhelm them, aFe
lgroppJless, and were tbey. At pains
to consult The fscss. they uoil|d
dlsmss tHeir fears aud ce.is6 thtir
lieeish lclauim.l sThoiiora lnllakof
Chinese Into The United S.=sss
since dinclaaing lshR. q period
loffPurteen syaarsl sf=as, Ao6oraing
lto the lEeppgt Sfslheu Speeial Com.
missioner Of tho Reyenue, bat 7S,-
1917, or an average ,oi 5 .029. per An
PniheoY n 1855 The fd1ma tsaslon
iafas -ig78S tfoseto Y5l8ia 1851,
4 and Z deelped tos Jega than three
thousand for several years succeed.
ing. In 1868 il was t0,6S4; aud
fis Fbs the year jqst closing oebVa.'ls,>
lUUU.
This IS not aiaihrgSesii iimmieratidn,
nor does II show such fapidity Of
increase hsut0' jdsdfylthe conolh~
4sion shat the Celestials aI,escomipg
Ito occupy and possess the land,
and convert California into q tea
garden, and set up josslhonses and
dob where C6risiiaD cb1rchesand
affairs have been erected. Ia any
Tote year since 1856 the iihiniels.
tion iron " Western Europe has bedn
1groaleE than from ail Asia n q pe-
fiod of foaftesH ye=fs, while, Il was
more than three times as numer.
ods in 1862 And yet, with this
tremendous stream pouring in up
on US, we preserve our national ia
stitGsions and characteristics.h
3rIt 10 sheer nonsense To- talk Of
Chinese immigration, BY the nils
lion. 1t is very doubtful whether
it will reach fifty thousand per an
mum in any one year Of this cen
fury. when it is considered that
the Chinese do rot immigrate as
the Western Europeans do, to take
permanent residence in the New
World, but that they come to la
bor, make money, sad return TO
their native land, it may safely, be
calculated that there will not be,
in the whole United States, In the
year 1900, more than five hundred
thousand Celestials-a number 90
small that its effect upon social and
political institutions will be hardly
perceptibIc. We very much doubt
whether theye are to-day on the
whole Pacific slope fifty thousand
Chinese. They show for q good
deal where they are, because they
concentrate in San Francisco and
along the Pacific Railroad, and by
their popularity of costume and
mode Of life, stand out as q DIS
tinctive element ofpopnlation. ,so.
The hue and cry raised against
them is gotten, up BY, a parcel Of
conscienceless politicians, wb5.pro-
pose to make good use of the Ct6e
nese as the Democrats have made
of the negro. So far as is known,
the Chinese are Industrious and
inoffensive. They manifest no in ,
clination whatever to mix in Amer
'ican politics, or claim the of6ceA
which are dear to every American
heart. Paid their wages promptly
and supplied with rice, they are
-contented, and will go home tho
hmoment they have amassed sum-
cient money to keep them decent,
Ily in the Empire, whose ailegi-
Iianee they never throw of.--Cm.
cinhdh Commercial. 1.i 90 siGc
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
already extends from Richmond,
W., to White Sulphur Springs in
that State, q distance OF 227 miles.
The distance remaining to be built
is 200 miles, to the Ohio river,
near the mouth of tho Big Sandy.
This point is selected as the near.
est approach Of reliable navigation
from the West toward the Atlantic
seaboard. The low grades by this
route in crossing the AlleghaRies
give it an advantage in addition
to the shortness OF the distance be-
tween water navigation. The
maximum grades Of the Baltimore
L. Ohio road are 116 feet tothe
milo, and those Of the Pennsylva.
MIA Central 80 feet, while on the
Chesapeake & Ohio routo they on
ly reach rs feet in one or two pla-
ces. Tho latter has another great
advantage in passing through q
region Of productive farming lands,
and a country abounding not only
| in iron, timber and salt, but also
in the best kinds of coal, anthracite
and bituminous, 50 that the road
will be locally eclf.snstaining.-