Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-02
DEMAND FOR CELESTIALS.
No More Cinnamon for Hawaii
why CeIeHtials Cling TO California.
San FrdRciScO Eraminer.


An order for 100 Chinese poems was
lately II ceived from the Sandwich
Islands with instructions to Offer each
serf SIS per month and pay two months
in advance. The agent who rec eived the
offer went Immediately to an officer of
one of the Six Companies to try to fill it,
but found that the company applied to
would not contract for any labor with
the islands. He then went to several of
the companies and received the same re-
ply. The Celestial "bosses" do not seem
DESTROYS of having their poems leave
the Pacific coast for plantation work,
where the pay is small and the
death rate large. The latter dread is
really the cause of the Six Companies
acting in the manner stated. A year
ago all the Chinese laborers wanted for
the island could be procured at $12 per
month, and two months in advance; but
during the past twelve months there has
been a heavy immigration Of Celestials
from California, some going further
north, others going east and south, and
thousands departing for China, never to
return. The agent referred TO told the
E,rImiNer reporter that a prominent
Chinese merchant informed him that
there were fully 10 900 less Cinnamon
in California to day than there were
year ago He also stated that q proper
tionate decrease would continue. Most
of the Chinese who have saved enough
to live comfortably in China, and this
did not take a great deal. would go home
as fast as they could. As to the Chinese
labor market as il stands at present,
there is, in reality, a scarcity OF hands.
Farming operations have called for a
great many and the new railroads being
constructed in Oregon and Washington
Territory, British Columbia and else
where north viii take ali the Chinese
they can get.
It is not generally known that the
Chinese are in one sense as religious as
the Anglo Saxon races, and that they
like to be as near to their Josh houses as
possible, Just as Christian people like to
be where there are churches. The Celes-
tial Is an ardent Josh worshiper; but he
likes to DO that worship in few days
during the year. For this stated tine he
is almost fanatical in his religious deYo-
tions. The Chinese in California have
ample opportunities of this kind, and
heuce they hate to leave this State for the
wild regions OF the North Indeed, when
the Chinaman can control his own &C
tons, which is rare, he prefers
smaller wages if he can only be near a
Josh house Another reason why the
Celestial likes California lies in the fact
that he can more easily procure his
opium drug, for which he has an inOrdi-
nate passion. than is possible in the
northern regions, where it is scarce and
sold at much higher price than here.
John is also a gambler by nature, and
lotteries and tan games abound for him
in San Francisco. Another factor in the
CelestiaPs liking for the Golden State is
that ChinawOmen Of a certain class are
plentiful in this city, while they are
scarce outside of it. John is as capable
of making fool of himself about wO-
man as is the most refined and aesthetic
Caucasian philosopher. Human nature
is human nature.