Year: 1870

advent Of some seventy Chinese at North Adams.
Massachusetts, at time when the knights Of St.
Crispin strike for some cause or other.
1t that the Celestias cody to work. tax
ing the place of those who had undertaken to have
their own way with their employers:


The apparitiOn of seventy Chiramen Al North
Adams, Mass. has set the whole eastern country in
ferment. The working men in New York. il win Be
by the dispatches, have already become alarm
ed They are preparing for grand demonstration
and procession. which is thought will strike terror
into the hearts of that daring band Of orlentals.
There is talk too ef banquet. at which the unhappy
Mongol is to be done for in a summary manner, at
some point between the Consou,ms and Charlotte
Russe. Third regular toast-''A Christian peopls
cannot tolerate in their midst a horde Of Parans -
great orthodox excitement. powerful address from q
working mans candidate. loud rattle Of forks and
spoons, and utter discontinue Of Confucius TO The
end of time.


Of fcourse. in the discussion which the daring ncur
sion of the seventy Celestias in North Adams Mass
achusetts, is destined to excite no other questions
be considered but those which relate to religion
and morals. No opposition is to be offered, because
of any possible competition. 1t is Christianity and
and the dangers to which it is likely to be exposed BY


the coming Of those emi-barbarians that to be con-
sidered. Who can tell but that these almoned-eyed
strangers may convert and lead all over the land


to the substitution Of Joss houses for the temples to
the Most High? The despatch narrates also tha. the
persons in New York who seek to control the work
ing-man's votes circulating the most
wonderful stories about the depravity of the coolies
1t is easy to imagine what force they can impar to
the fact that Cinnamon do perjure themselves-
do occasionally make free with hen roosts which do
not belong to them, and do now and then commit
acts of violence 1t is of a matter Of fact that
among crimes of any kind are ever committed.
We live in state of Arcadian simplicity and truth
fulness and criminal Courts arc merely kept in
operation in Difference to venerable custom.


Meanwhile the seventy Asiatic invaders who have
created all this excitement were busy fitting up their
hunks in the house which had been prepared for them.
and spent their first day after their arrival in bathing
and resting after their journey. They are to be EN-
ployed in a shoe factory at North Adams. The local
Jenkins volunteers the information that 'hey appear
to be greatly pleased with their first glimpse Of New
England scenery and manners - and we are inclined
to accept his statement as correct, notwithstanding
the well known propensity Of that ubiquitious jour
nalist to gush upon the slightest provocaton. Not
one of the Chinamen.was killed MANNED on his en-
trance into North Adams. The Knights Of st. Cris-
pin who to be regarded the especial guardians
of Christianity in those parts contented themselves
the arrival Of the party at the depot, with hoot


ing. throwing stones and threatening worse violence"
1t is added that the Cinnamon took it very cooly."
Perhaps they used to these demonstraive recep-
tons. little hootng nterspersed with stone-throW-


ing, not at all calculated disturb their serenity


Nor was the excitement to be wondered at. These
uncouth foreigners worship wooden idols further,
they peg shoes with great dexterty and despatch
Could any and knight Of st. Crispin be expect
ed to look upon them for the first time without going
off in holy fervor Of stone-throwng7 Indeed. cir
cumstances which had occurred among themselves a
short time ago, calculated to excite in no com
mon degree, religious enthusiasm. They had been
induging in strikes from various causes. They
struck at Malbaro, because six men were employed
in shop who were not members. They struck in a
another shop in the town because some Of their
felow-workmen refused to pay their dues to the
Union. They struck in the largest shop in North
Brookfeld, six hundred in a body, because three or
four Of their number had Withdrawn from their Order
They even went SO far to endeavor to coerce BY
violence the few workmen who subsequently came to
the conclusion that matters Of this kind relating as
they did to the internal Affairs Of their own orgrnza-
tions, not sufficient to justify them in breaking
of all relations with their innocent employers.


These recusants were in the eyes Of the great body
Of st. Crspn, false to holy relgon-sons Belial
and were unto them aHathema niaranaifa They hal
brought religion from the Crispan point Of view into
danger and diseredit Could, in such conjunctnre,
human flesh and blood stand the awful appartion Of
actual Pagans, in the persons Of the seventy China
men who had so strangely turned up at North Adams
very calmly surveying the situation and ready to
peg away at shoes anything else for reasouabls
compensation?