Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-06-04
Our San Francisco Letter.

| by the six Chinese companies who control the
| movements Of their countrymen on this coast.
1t is an address to their people at home discoun-
tenancing further immigration to the State, and
is to be published and distributed throughout
all the large cities of the empire. As it s a
very interesting manifesto, | will give you a sy
nopss of its contents. The circular says that
California and the Pacific States are very differ
ent now TO what they were few years ago.
That the prevailing impression that money can
be easily made here is wrong one, for few
amass even competency, and none but mer-
chants with large capital to commence business
ever grow rich. The placer mines are described
as being nearly worked out, and if Chinese
( miners do make money in them they are liable
! to be robbed and murdered. Chinese evidence
is not credited in the courts and much
wrong and injustice is done them that the laws
afford virtually no protection. Cinnamon are
/ looked upon as inferior to cattle and the lower
| animals, and are seldom treated with respect.
| Thousands are unable to obtain employment
! the temples crowded with their desttdte,
and but for the liberality of the companies many
would perish from actual starvation. The
women who have come here severely cen
sured as disgrace to their sex and country,
and as having made their nation by-wOrd
throughout America. The circular continues,
that threats of violence are openly made by the
controlling political party Of the State, but
while they do not attach much Importance to
this, it proves the existence OF Il widespread an
imosty. In conclusion, the policy OF sending
any more Cinnamon here is deprecated, and the
people at home assured that nothing but
good motives prompt this advice.
How little we know Of this curious people was
forcibly illustrated on Sunday. They carry on
nearly the entire laundry business of the city
and competition is great that association
of waghermen was formed, and made rule that
no new establishment must be started within ten
/ don pf L.,,,.
been violated by believer in free trade, the OF,
fender was cited to appear before IA jury of his
cOuntrymen and show cause why he should not
be punished. The case excited unusual interest
and several hundred Chinamen were present to
watch proceedings. The evidence had been
heard, and the presiding officer giving his
opinion, when John in the audience took ex-
cepton on point of law, and emphasized his
dissatisfaction by pulling the trigger of his Rem
| ington with the barrel pointed at the Judges
head, This attempt at murder was the signal
for furious battle, and but for the interference
of outsiders who hearing the Babel of wells ran
for the police, the Coroner would have been
kept busy for a week. The captain on duty
started with ten men for the scene of conflict
and their appearance caused the opposing fac
! ton to cease internal hosttles for beligerent
! operations against the officers. Running the
fire of pistol battery effectively served from
the windows the police stormed the stairs,
cracked the crown of Chinese Horatus who
stood on the landing ready to battle with an
! army, and after a desperate resistance carried
each room in succession. Twenty Celestials in
| jured by shots and stabs were conveyed to the
| hospital, the walls were perforated with bullet
holes and even Joss, decked his wooden
throne with gaudy inery, received wound in
his sacred stomach
II the noble Caucasian objects to the employ
ment of Chinese labor, it seems that John is
| euunllV adverse N hrinU white m In
day afternoon quite an excitement was created
| IN the Chinese quarter because Chinese mer-
chant employed Il hungry-lookng German TO
cut up a cord of wood, No sooner was it known
that :" barbarian" was doing work that they
considered rightly belonged to their own race
than crowd of his Asiatics marched to the
place and demanded that the white man should
be discharged. As the manager showed a re-
luctance to comply, they threatened to carry off
his wood which brought him to terms, and so
he paid the white employee and Chinadom
triumphed. But the case has not ended here,
for the manager will be brought before his COM
pany for breach Of rules, and probably severely
punsh for giving work to the starving stranger
The Cocos Island treasure hunters, who left
here last December, on the schooner Mary Tdy-
tor, returned on Friday somewhat disgusted
with their wild goose chase They took with
them one of those remarkable men to whom dy-
ing pirates always conide the secret hiding
pIdCe vi IutlI SlOltH TICutS ana IOllOWlnI tnlS
worthy's directions, landed, prospected and dug
for seventeen days, but found nothing more val
liable than tropical soil. Although the race of
Spanish Main buccaneers has been extinct for
nearly threeq quarters of century, it is wonder
ful what IA number of their intimate friends still
survive. Every waterfront grocery has some
one connected with the establishment who
could II tale unfold about the dissipation of
Kidd's or Morgan's booty if sufficient induce
ment was only offered. 1t is generally an old
salt who in his younger days heard or read
some wild yarn on the subject, ard has related
it so often as his own adventure that at length
he firmly believes that he was present at the oc-
currence. These Cocos Islanders bear their dis
appointment with a stoicism thoroughly Califor-
nan, and had the magnanimity to bring
back the guide, not only alive but with "A ful!
complement of arms and legs. They had
splendid opportunity to wreak vengeance
their misintormer, and probably would have
done so had not that individual convinced them
by his eloquence that the detunct robber must
have made slight mistake in locality when des-
cribing the treasure cave. Notwithstanding the
ill-success of this expedition, if any speculative
genius was to insert flaming advertisement in
the papers tomorrow for joint-stock, treasure
seeking company, plenty OF fools would eagerly
purchase shares.
The foundation stone of the new mint was
laid yesterday in the presence o: an immense
cohcoutse OF spectators, the grand lodge OF Ma
sons assisting in the ceremony. The site is the
corner of Mission and Fifth streets. The struct-
ure will be of rectangular shape, brick and iron,
with an exterior of Freestone, ard will cost
about 81 100000 Judge Hardy delivered an
eloquent address, and Grand Master Leonidas Il.
Pratt then applied the square, level, and plumb
to the stone, struck it three blows with his gavel
and pronounced the work well and fairly done.
In copper casket were placed a number of in
teresting articles, and amongst others the first
iron bar rolled in San Francisco from ore pro-
duced on the Pacific coast, and samples of silk
used in making the first United States flag man
uiactured from Californian cocoons
In mentioning the Mercantile Library lottery
scheme, short time ago. | said it was a
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