Year: 1867




A San Francisco correspondent ia q recent letter.
says: ,-....s


There is one marked difference in the characters OF
the japanese and Chinese which is already becoming
apparent to our people The Japanese are quick to
appreciate the advantages of foreign Improvements OF
all kinds and really adopt our manners and customs
when travelling among us. They are anxious to per
feet themselves in all arts and to study our stl-
tutions in the ninutes details In this they differ from
the Chnatnan. The latter is 6 law unto himself"
and however long he may remain among us he remains
essentially Chinaman. His civlisation is older than
our world, if the Masonic account of the creation Is
correct and he is perfectly content Herewith In his
dealings with he conforms cheerfully to our laws,
and is in this respect model which our own citizens
might Study to advantage but he governs his family
his trade and all his private and social affairs by the
laws of Contucius and the habits and customs handed
down him through countless generations OF his an
cestors Every vessel coming from japanese ports at
this time, brings greater Or less number OF Japanese
of wealth. coming to study our customs and learn ali
which is worth their learning of our laws, institutions
and civsation generally. There already four
japanese students in city college, where no China
man ever entered even as spectator, and by the Col
orado, on her last trip, came number OF Japanese
gentlemen who propose to study the art OF navigation
and marine warfare ght at the Mare Island navy
yard, Under Admiral Craven. One of them is prince
and he daily promenades Montgomery street with two
or three followers, wearing curious sheep.shed
sha ped, three-cOrn hat of glazed MATERIAL and
two swords in his girde. His servants have already
adopted the full american costume and he is making
progress in that direction, having already got as far
the pantaIoons coat vest and boots. These fellows
have sharp eye to business, and if they could be
promised protection against unjust laws, and the
violence which is constantly practced on the Chinese
by the hslfcivsed, ignorant and degraded portion Of
our population, native and foreign born they would
soon be here in force They thousands of acres Of


rich land in the low valleys Of the Sacramento and San
Joaquin lying iae and unproductive, and would bay
it and turn it into rice and fields immediately,
adding thereby millions to the taxable property of our
State. As it is, of them now offer to contract
for 10000 skilled aborers and artisans, warranted
peror to the Chinese for teld-werk workshops or
our railroads. at less wages than the latter earn,
and it may be that the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany will make contract with of them aa
experiment. The Chinese have worked so we'll Oh the
railroad that the company would employ more (they
now have eleven thousand Of them at work if they
could get them, and may take japanese instead The
japanese are iDqurng into modes of doing bust
ness aud having already made arrangements for open
ing large Japanese store in San Francisco. The ex-
tensive firm of Chy Fung & Co., Chinese merchants,
Sacramento street, have already established branch
of their house at Kanawaga, and are importing ia
panese goods 1t is probable that the visitors from
the Japanese islands now among us Will render full
report to their government and people of what they
see among u.s. and are likely to soon be much bet
ter acquainted With that curois and interesting
than auy other peOp,e