Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-07-02

and opium enough to set him up for life
in his native village. But the custom.
house officers are very smart, and from
long experience are up to most of their
little games. The most of them come to
grief
After they are examined, the officer, if
he finds no dutiable goods about them,
puts a chalk mark on their baggage and
another on their backs and they are free
to depart The employment agents are
waiting for them. They are lO:Fded up
in express wagons and taken to various
lodging houses where they stay until work
| is found for them. They were all at
work the next day. So far have only
spoken ofthe men, but there remains to
be considered the
WOMEN.
Outside the ropes that keep the crowd
away from the emigrants stood a dozen
hard faced Chinese women waiting pa
tiently. What were they waiting for
| Why the female emIgrants. As each one
| passed the ordeal of the customs officers
| she was seized by these waiting women,
/ few words passed, a document in Chi
nese was exhibited, and the girl would
be carried off, Every one of the women
on that ship had been bought IN China
by the keepers of the Chinese bagnOis
and were consigned to them like so many
pieces of merchandise. The harridans
here contract, With their agents in China,
who, for so much in hand paid, buy gIrls
and ship them. When they arrive they
are taken to the dens on Dupont, Jack
son, and Pacific streets, and kept there
IN abject slavery till they have earned
their price and passage and made Ger
tain profit for the keeper, when, if they
are yet alive, they are free. There were
forty eight of these unfortunates on the
"CitY of Toxic" Every Chinese Wo-
man
WHO Is SEEN ON THE STREET
is prostitute. The aristocratic Chinese,
the merchants and manufacturers, have
their wives with them, but no one ever
sees them. They are kept carefully Sc
eIuded from the gaze of all MANKIND
The orientals do not believe that women
have souls, and they keep their wives
Just as they would any other luxury
among them wives are bought aud sold,
and such trifles as love, affection, or re-
spect, even, meyer bother them. The
common Chinaman buys a wife and sells
her when he tires of her, and his title to
her IS respected. Those brought for the
bagnois are held by a regular bill of sale,
which every Chlnaman will support, for
he holds his own wife in that way. The
Chinese women need few Susan B. An
thongs.
CHINATOWN
cannot be said TO have been seen till one
has taken the trip did last night To
do it, get on good terms with the Chief of
Police hav i'm oil 81
licemen in that district to take YOU
through. You will see things, that to an
American, would seem impossible. You
go through long, narrow, dark passages,
sWarming with the heather, and smelling
OF all the horrors that sin, dirt, and filth
can produce. Understand, these are the
quartes of the low Chinese You enter a
room in cellar, or in the garret, as the
case may be, ten feet long, fye feet wide,
and six feet high, and in that space you
will find six, or eYen more, Cinnamon,
reclining on shelves, one above the other
and all smoking opium. In the lower
berth, on the floor, is always an old
wrinkled scoundrel, who lets these berths
by the night, and sells the wretched occu-
pants the supplying drug. He is thief
by day, as probably are all the occupants
of his cell. But as he sells the opium he
gets the entire products of their days
work. And imagine building four sto-
ries high, each story divided into two
90 feet by 120, with an average of six to
each room 10 by 6 There are dozen
such buildings dozen, yes, fifty land
scores of smaller ones, and all filed as l
have stated.
In these dark passages, narrow alleys,
and dismal courts, dwell the
CHINESE Thieves,
male and female. Here they concoct their
robberies, and here they bring their booty.
and hide. But buried as they are in num-
bers it aVails them but little. The Of
ficers on this beat know every one of
them, and, as they cannot leave the city,
it is essy enough to find them. 1t would
be unsafe for white man to go through
these places alone, but with an officer
one is as safe as he would be with thou
sand about him. The Chinaman has a
wholesome fear of an officer and never
molests one.
POLITICALLY
California is mixed this year as it has
been for several years past. The Repub-
lican party happened to have among its
leaders large number ofheaVy capital.
lists interested in the Central Pacific
Road, and of course those-who fight that
road fight the party. The Independents,
made up of three fourths Republicans
and one fourth Democrats, elected Booth
Governor two years ago, and will proba-
bly, carry the State this fall. The Cen
tral Pacific Is, in all senses, a monopoly.
Every passenger and every pound of
freight that crosses the continent has TO
pay tribute to it, and then tariffs have
not always been so reasonable as could
have been wished. And the managers
are, as all men are, selfish. They want
all they can get, and, as q matter of
course, they squeeze the people. They
have always something for q legislature
to do, some tax to avoid, some land to
gobble, and what is worse, they discrimi-
nate against the established cities in ia
vor of their own speculatiOns.
For all the sins Of the gigantic corpora
ton, the Republican party is held re-
sponsible, because it has been in power,
The people forget that Democrats have
been guilty as well as Republicans but
as the party has held the reins, it is
charged with every break in the har-
ness.
The fight in this State is really between
the railroads and anti-railroads, and the
have more votes than both the old or
ganizations, at least so it looks to day.
All the towns and cities have grievances
and they somehow have identified the
Republican party with the road, and so
down it goes. But when it comes to
presidential contest, whsn the issues are
nominal instead Oflocal, up it will come
again. The members of the Ind epend-
ent party will wheel into line again
they will drop back in their old places,
and California will take her place in the
Republican ranks.
The Republican State Convention at
Sacramento, yesterday, nominated
splendid ticket, the Hon. T. G. Phelps
heading it for Governor. And the plat
form is as good as the ticket 1t opposes
monopolies of all kinds, fsvors irrigation
and is altogether a platform which the
people ought to be pleased with. The
ticket is made up of men, who, if elected,
will make the platform a reality. With
this ticket and platform the Republicans
ought toicarry the State, but the feelin
is now against them but there may b e a
change before the election. The party
is determined upon fight for il at all
events.
Blu sINEss
is good on this coast, and everything is
prosperous. The hard times which squsts
on the shoulders of prosperity in the
Eastern States is unknown here. San
Erauofuoo Ia build;nr nm nOra raDidlv