Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-11
,,vsreRIoUs CIRCULAR.
..-,.,.ss National Eeude and oath DC una
ChiN' ,,,,-.ni5atious in America

J.
,,ntiIating that the Chinese are IN
,,odncing their national ieuds ana oa'h-
III ,d societies into the United States.
mi assaults committed upon fellow
r,rrren by Chinese tend to conhrm
''' a helief. Within the past few weeks
.ia,ad cipher circulars have been dis
P.s.,,od among the Chinese OF Philadel-
hat are unintelligible to the best
,msrican scholars of the language, but
.,.,nosed TO bear peculiar significance
nb nersons as understand their inn
They are printed, not written, on
n,oca Of rice paper four inches long byone
inch in width
II Is THE YEE HING.
An Americanized, haturalized China
nan named John Wing, engaged IN the
D' +rade i'm "A modest way on North Ninth
't' .t near Race, sheds some interesting
,;,bt M the subject. He pr0nOunces the
Ma yeritable proclamation Of the zee
ntns one of the most feared of all the
rb,nesp secret alliances. While he
(.antIv admits that lie does not under
stond the characters, he declares the slip
s,ba a Genuine bit Of Chinese word coin
;o., tbe letters being formed by combina-
,ons of recognized forms which are
roodily ur0nOunceable. though antagOn-
;stic TO the mOnOsyllabic structure of the
i,nguage. He believes the card to be the
work of a Shanghai scribe, basing the
oninion on certain marked peculiarities of
ldttar formation much affected in and
ahont that city. 1t is the first specimen
oi tbe Y &c Hing he has seen since leaving
Tien.tsin, one Of the ports of Pekin, five
wears ago. He bad seen the air fun OF
sIeh circulars just before an outbreak at
Font hou. They were often circulated
Inv kites and small balloons which car
red great quantities OF the tissue-papeT
rrorlamatiOns alof5 and released a busdel
6r more Of them over city, when a fine
silken cord. leading to the hands of a CON
,pirator, was pulled. AS the snowy
spDwer began 10 fall people in the street
s;0papd, picked up one of the scraps
glanced at it, and If they comprehended
ltsimport spat upon it and affixed it to n
po,t or the side Of house. Then they
abandoned all their Vocatlons and has
tened to the central point previously
agreed upOn or indicated in the cipher.
Tie utmost publicity was gwen to these
prorlamati0ns and the phonetic sub
division OF the Chinese characters WAS
carried to such an artful extent that
uronsrlv instructed zee Hing could read
The newest inscription as well as one
WHICH he had previously seen. 1t was
asserted, even before John Wing left
China, that its membership in the coast
PROVINCES and in Cochin China exceeded
l0D,D,000 men.
IA NEW YORK ORGANIZATION.
an New York there has been for sew
eraf years a secret society among the
Chinese hailiDg from the northern prov
inces" continued the speaker. Il do not
knox That is the Yee Hing; am inclined
to believe that it is not. The New Workers
explain That they are FreemasOns.
Fudge They may be 'free,' but they are
not accepted The New York order
numbers fully 1900, however, out of a
total Chinese population of perhaps 1900.
Its membership is chiefly drawn from men
Of Shanghai or the province Of kiang-soo,
in Which that port is located"
is the power of this or any similar or
ganzRtOn felt in the policy Of Chinap'
was asked
Yes, indeed. The mysterious and far
reaching influence of this society has been
enlisted al various times by the directors
OF the two great trading corporations
me greatest commercial organizations Of
tle gipbe-known as.the Sam zap and See
1aQ.- These powerful companies have
business is hardly suspected and nowhere
outside 0l China understood. Their COM
mercIaI relations reach TO the farthest
confines Of kansuh and Tibet. Cara
vans IN their service started last fall from
valleys in the Kuen-lun mountains that
VIII not reach MARKET before next sum-
mer. They have correspondence with
every part Of Asia, and their circular
notes are good even amid the tribes of the
hnd00 kush or of Little BOkhara. They
zeal IN everything, from tea TO opium. or
spices to gems. The East India Company
was as trading Yankee on Sioux
reservation in comparison. When, there
lore, mighty company like the See zap,
I'selt tue consolidation of four widely ex-
Nnded corporations { as its name indi-
Catts J, employs the zee Hing to aid it in
procuring favor at the imperial court or
WIN the smaller rulers among the prov
laees, 1t Indicates at once the recognized
aaOlutY OF the secret orders memb ership.
from the very fact that its agents were
lecfoited from the educated classes and
H.kuef castes OF China, doubt the pres
guc5 q any great number Of zee Kings in
Tue United States.
40 BAR TO AMBITION.
tbs with more frankness than discre-
u9h, perhaps, that l declare that most of
,u5 Cinnamon in America belong TO the
io"est orders OF society at home. Itmust
w. y admitted, however, that ambition
Nlugs them here. They hope by a few
Je1ls OF abject 'seryility here to gather
enough money to make their families re-
9fecled and wealthy for years To come.
me highest hOnors in the gift or the EN-
Pelor are Within reach OF any man. Edu-
Sauon rs what ennObles in China. This
NaIning many poor, wretched laundry
inah' tOillng over the tub or ironing table
4 II cellar hopes to give TO his son or grand
syn mat he may start the family line in
sue race toward the Prime Ministry. Aud
soMe On these dreams viii be realized.
partially, at least"
DO The secret societies interest them
Ives IN politics AS in some parts Of
rope, or are they charitable in purpose,
~ ln tnis country p was next asked
h. uillles is a trade in China, much as
49, nV,e' was the reply. CIT must be adj
, ,'l mat Tor a young nation on which
lo' WIN our 1000 years OF civilization,
han Iatner cynically, the United States
6eaIia oe considerable progress IN several
M ,o'.cnts Oh the cOrrupting science. In
my, H'llNe land, / grieve 20 Say, many OBJ
CNlou' Methods for influencing imperial
nv ~ are employed. Schemers exist there
s would outwit the average profess
Co,oal statesman Of thi. country. An Ohio
h.. IsfeNsinan would be beheaded before
m., e'cled the dignity Of "A koo-che or
on ,i ei the peace. Since the beginning
Irs,ae ffench difficulty with Tonquin. for
ie..'.'''' couriers have been passing be-
RIO. one province Hnd another Of the
of Dl ui AMMAN establishing branches