Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-09
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Wednesday, January 9, 1884.
THE WILY oh1NAMAN.


 Up to date the Caiiforniana have not been completely victorious in their contest with ''the Heather Chinee." They got law passed shutting him out of this free, great and glorious country, but he contrives to come, and will come until Congress devises some newmethod of cireumvsnting him. As it Is now no steamship arrives from Chiness ports that does not bring large colony of Chinese ''traders," who are not prohibited from landing by the act of Congress. A resi- dent of San Francisco who Is thoroughly &C., quainted with some of the stdark ways" of the yellow men writes as follows: The present method of importing Chinese laborers is to disguise them in the aiken habiliments Of the tttradsr," and swear them in through thick and thin, until even the courts are powerless to prevent 1t. Some hundreds have been recently landed in this way, who, when scarcely round the corner from the court room, are stripped of their borrowed plumss by the agents of the companies which furnish the disguise, and stand forth in their true garb of coolies, which they practically arc. By this method of smuggling coolies ashore double success is won, since the garments of the trader which are thns used to dis guiss the coolie-in most instances new ones are in this way smuggled ashore also, and are soon after on sale in Chinatown As part of the stock in trade of some Oriental Moses who carries on the clothing trade in that Ce- lestiRl locality.
 The same writer gives aR interesting ac count of some of the tricks of the Chinese sn2ugglers which have been discovered The water casks used on shipboard for Chinese passengers were for time furnished by the passengers themselves, and thrown overheard apparently as vsluslsss, on their arrival at San Francisco. It was not until the curiosi ty of the custom house harbor patrol was aroused by seeing Chinese fishing boat re. covering one of these waifs, and after fcrci- hls capture of the ssme that the discovery was made that these apparently worthless casks contained ingeniously arranged false bottoms, and other pockets, D in which wore many cans of the precious opium. Eggs were formerly imported from China for the Chinese in large numbers. These eggs were prepared in China for shipment, by covering them with paste made of charcoal and oth- CT preservative ingredients. In this condi- tion they were an article of large consump- ton among the Chinese, whether possessing the freshness and flavor of the new-laid arr ticls or otherwise. Yankee curiosity in this instance accidentally exposed systematic and amazingly cunning fraud. A, custom house examiner upon one occasion had the curiosity to attempt to break the shell of one of these eggs to test It's quality To his surprise the shell was found to be dqctiie, so that while is could readily be in- danted to sny extent it could nos be broken. The removal of the charcoal paste with which 1t was covered revealed 8 cunningIy con structed metallic egg full of the opium of commerce, type of all it's fellows, save the top layers in the keg which contained them For some weeks the invoices of ''eggs'' on the way from China to San Francisco fur nishe6 rich harvest for the customs officers and the government; but this method of evasion ended as soon as communication could be had between consignss and shipper
 Agood many Chinese tricks have been dis covered, but 1t is not at all probable that the Chinamen are at their wits end. They will probably continue to give the most willy of the Californians enough to do to properly look after them.