The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-09-09
Our Foreign Correspondence.
SAN Francisco, August %, 1852.

SAN Francisco, August %, 1852.
The Chinese Bill went into effect some three
weeks since, and has been a fruitful source of
Joy and a no less fruitful source of trouble in
some directions, ever since. It's first restriction
took effect when the question arose as to
whether the walters on the City of Sydney could
be allowed to land. After much discussion and
argument, they were allowed to stretch their
land legs once more. Then word came down
from Puget Sound that there was an American
ship there, Il AIMED by Chinese, who had shipped
in an American port, and querying as to whether
they should be allowed to land or not. After
sundry red-tape had been unwound it was con-
cluded that they might. Then the vigilant
ticket agent, who sells tickets over the various
overland routes beyond Ogden, and to attain a
perfection of unscrupulouaness in this climate,
which is nnheard-of in any other, induced five
innocent, unsophisticated Celestials to take
tickets for New York by way of the Chicago
and Northwestern route from Omaha. The
Chicago and Northwestern, it may be remarked,
is the only one of all the roads that goes out of
the boundaries of the United States, and whether
it was the oily tongue of the agent or their own
tender unwisdom that induced the purchase, the
fact remains t at upon arriving at Niagara Falls
the five Chinese found that they We're outside of
the United States, and their return within the
borders of that glorious Republic were very
dubious indeed. For five days they industriOusly
and steadily anathemized the agent, the rail-
road, the Falls, the Chinese bill, and the United
States. Then, the trouble having been adjusted
st Washington, they were allowed to pass on.
The most ser Gus plant, however, and the one
most pregnant with Importance, comes from
Baltimore, and has appeared in different shapes
in other Eastern cities, A cargo of coolies from
Cuba will arrive, and proceed to land unless
prevented by the authorities. Thereupon the
cry is raised that the coolies are merely unof-
Tending and law-abiding people, who only want
to cross the American continent in order to get
home a little sooner. This being apparently the
fact, the case seems an unjust one, and the new
measure is severely criticized by some of the
Eastern press. The fact is, however, that the
assumed desire to get home is a hollow fraud.
Cuba l. somewhat overstocked with Chinese
labor; so much so that the surplus can be mar
keted to much greater advantage in the United
States. Cinnamon can go home from Cuba to
Chira in a sailing vessel for forty dollars apiece.
SESEs across this continent the cost can
= BY the route be less than a hundred and
not in any event" hiect to the average coolie,
eR thirty. Time is no OF thot the Cuban
he and the pretense. therefore, 49,
1r coolies are homeward bound, instead of des1rr
e. TO get INTO this land and locate, is conseauep
" absurd.
THE MURDER SEASON.
IT 0U epidemic OF capital cfII
Is upon us, and is a little early at that. TT
ss morning We had for breakfast a blacksmith flo
and a broken neck. Yesterday it was the ste
ping OF a stage in Arizona. the theft of S.. O0
the murder of two men in succession--Andr
n Holland and Doctor Vail, a mine owner-botb
y whom Innocently joined the highwaymen aft
their theft and after that the captnre q,
lynchlng OF two of the highwaymen by the a
e grleved, honest miner of that section. wi
turned out numerOusly to help along the mort
airy proceedings. The day before that a Visalia
; negro blsected his daughter-in-law with an ak
: and exploded a pistol in the presence of h
wife, she carrying the bullet into her grave wit
her, while he Illuminated over his lost ones
solitude, far from the bafled sheriff. A few do
before an ltinerant musician, named Meve
tam!llarly known as Professor Caspar." wa
stabbed to death in one of the Chinese alley
/ by some Chinese Romeo, who thus far inconsic
erately Withholds his identity from the police
Caspar Was scarcely cold before a mvsteriou
unknown was brought to the County HOSPITAL !
a gravel cart, and was unconscious for thre
days prior to his death. The police have bee
working with a diligence quite unprofessionaI
and yesterday discovered that his name wa
} Robert Rock, and his assailant one Martin FaI