The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-11-10

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The San Francisco En''eiim of the I'd
inst, says: "The Oceanic had hardly dis
charged her cargo Of 72a Cinnamon. anx-
ious to try their fortunes i'll the land of the
barbarian, when the China touched the
wharf with 975 more Of the yellow brothers
on board. On discharging her live freight
they filed off in pairs, heavily laden with
boxes, bundles, and baskets and are received
in corral, where they are stripped and
their packages. examined, that the Custom
house officials may be satisfied that nothing
is smuggled into the country. Some very
curious developments are made. In addi-
ton to the various articles of clothing and
oertu, the boxes contsiu many curious
things. Hideous family portraits, precious
josses, elegant opium pipes, cigarettes OF
excellent tobacco, volumes Of Chinese litera-
ture, Enthusiastically covered dice, embroid-
cred table-covers, boxes of tobacco, skeins
Of silk, jars of celestial gin, ivory chop
sticks, sc. Some opium, upon which the duty
is very high, was found concealed in a very
ingenious manner. A joss as large as a six
months old baby was taken out of chest
and over looked by one Of the officers; but
another examining the image discovered
that the hollow inside Of it did not cores
pond in length with the external surface.
The head of Joss was found stuffed with
opium paste. Plaster Of Paris had been
glued over the or;fce 80 that the head ap-
peared solid. The way the luggage is rum
maged over is discoulaging to a Celestial
traveller. One of the officials tore open Il
box, expecting to find silk or opium. At
the first glance inside Of it he turned as
white as an Albino and dropped the box.
Very costly coiled up in cotton were
very fine pair of sacred snakes. Although
perfectly harmless, they are hideous looking
creatures. The owner of these singular
pets grinned elaborately at the discontinue
of the barbarian. After they had inspect
ed their goods, the Celestials gathered to-
gether in groups to wait until they could be
expressed to the Chinese quarter. Each
group looked little anxious and forlorn,
and each man seemed to realize that he was
in q strange land, thousands Of miles from
home; but once upon the wagon all thls
dependency vanished, for they were com.
PEELED to hang on by teeth and nails as the
wagons whizzed around the corners Of the
streets. The drivers of the express wagons
seemed to delight in making the new
comers as miserable rs possible, and
grinned with delight when the rat-]ike
soueaks increaaed in pitch and volume.
One Of the drivers undertook to be a
little smarter than his fellows in whlrllng
his load around the corner of Third and
Brannan streets at three-minute gait.
The horse got around and the wagon got
around, but the air was full of bags, bum
dies, boxes and pig-tals. The Cinnamon
picked themselves up and blasphemed
vehemently in their simple manner for
some moments. The street was strewn
with debris that resembled the scene Of junk
shop explosion. TO aggravate the calamity a
valuable joss was discovered to have been
smashed in the head. The heather finally
reloaded and again abandoned themselves
to fate. The Mongolians reached our
shores at a cost Of $45.25 per head,
and the immigration movement is there
fore profitable to the steamship Com
pany."