gli,stfilanonto. THE CHINAMAN IN CALIFORNIA BY REV. CHARLES L. BRACE. One of the most striking figures to the traveler, in the California landscape, is the Oriental and half.pensive form of the Chinese emigrant, always calm amid all the bustle around him. Sometimes I see these Eastern laborers with their broad hats leisurely working. in the fruit gardens, as, if in a,, tea, plantation. Sometimes they , are binding sheaves behind the American reapers; again, quietly and refleetively, shaking the rocker" for gold-dust in some lonely river bottom; 9r. ‘,stiti,dilz ,yorking, in swarms on a railroad • embankment, or riding slowly, castaway horses in the Sierras, or travelling over the country mounted on thd boath-tops, or making a large and Piettireaque part of the stream of humanity, whleh, pours' through the streets of, San,' Francisco—always busy yet never hurried ; clean, social, sober, polite, with an expression, it often seems to me, of contempt for this Western hurry and barbarism; the neatest and mosmrpectable working / population ever saw. lam often surprised at the facies and expressions one encounters among them ; such, if you saw them in European dress, .you would have raid, were the faces certainly of, scholars and gentlemen—countenances frequently of marked refinemetit, and even of deep, thoughtful, almost sad expression. It is a strange contrast, the powerful, intense, pushing sons of the Pilgrims, and this meek, quiet, dreamy pagan of the Orient, meeting on the shores of the Pacific. The latter bends like the rush before our iron race; he abandons the im memorial customs. of ages, an falls, to a degree, into , the current of Anglo- American ' civilization. One old sea, captain, who had been much in the East, said he bad seen many countries where the`Chinese•wereliving 'stain gers, but " this was the only one where John Chinaman, hides the pig-tail!' He dresses frequently (in the coUntry) like an American.; he begins occasionally to eat beef, and has already learned some thing of Yankee sharpness. In gene ral, however, he is still a stranger—the very incarnation of meekness and suh mission beneath the strong t race which he is serving. There is one habit in man which always seemed to me to bring him nearest to the brute creation—the disposition to attack or oppress a fellow-creature who is disabled by nature or is too weak to resist ; that tendency which 'makes horses kick the lame one, or fowls 'attack the dying one of the flock. The Chinaman has been the luckless object of this brutal instinct fin Califon , nia.' 'tie has incarnated; amid a 'Chrie= thin community, the inspired doctrine of "Resist not,evil !” " Turn, ye• the other cheek It' and the result las been that every man's hand has been against him. The whites have cheated, robbed, beaten him; and he has returned it all with docil- ity and faithful service. AV hen struck, he struck not again; when robbed (at .least so it was a few years ago,) =he complained ' not;__ when murdered, therrias often ,no redress. The_inost, miserable drupkin white ruffian could 'beat hi,m, or atilip him of his hatd earning,' or killrthim, and if there were' no wbjte witnetmes• justice could not overtake elk Aff99nder.4 While all other men—ekeytheAewept vagabonds—were gladly adtnito‘tm-the mines, he alone was, and i‘noWk i ex: and even on the player atone Must pay his tax of ; s4 beam g per mitted to work.. Even the 'bigger In dians, peeing 'this universal oppression, ventured also to plunder and persecute' this ,uriresisting stringer. He had no influetitie Mena; he did not. know the language ; he had'no powerto resist, ancfor years the China man tried the virtue;of meekness on his enemies. , It' is a histlity irk ittir'treatment of the Indians, and the —negroes, Which should make every'Ainerioan blusto--of wrong done to the helklesCand,,,berne with meekness; of oppression on the weak which never. palled „forth an, act of resistance or word of retort. At length, the aspect of this Christian pa tience in a Pagan; this Meekness, which bore all without a murmur; of this,en during, indastriOus, respected 'stranger, who did his *ork 'faithfully, and, re turned not evil for evil, began to touch, the generosity of Californians. The Chinaman, even •against the prejudices of race, and the competition of ignorantl labor, began to win his, way to public respect. White men sometimes took his part against white ruffians. Em. ployers found him too useful to permit hid Ali, be driven off by "anti-coolie" vagabonds. The conscience of the peo ple arose against this oppression. Public opinion more and more sheltered him, and set the ',p . ereilit of 1,08t1°,,, -after those who wrongeq ‘White mew have even been hung,: in these later years, for murdering Chinese. her labor, too, became , more and more indis pensable for the 'countrY. 'A hundred different branches soon .depended on it. Without it, it was evident .that manu factures and a large part, of Californian agriculture and horticulture would cease to exist; railroads could not be con structed, and a vast dealof business must be contracted or given up. The result, both of conscience and of inter est, in California, has been a' -great change of opinion and action toward the, Chinese. People everywhere 'speak well, of,thsin, and agree that they are the most industrious and steady of laborers, THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JU NE 17, 1869. not as efficient, perhaps, as the Irish but more regular and sober, and with a great talent at imitation. In person they are the neatest of creatures. I have seen a whole gang, after a day's work on a farm, washing themselves all over with warm water, which they keep ready for their return, as carefully as a company of _gentlemen, and I was as sured this is their daily habit. The common laborers are said to keep a horn instrument for cleaning their tongues every morning l They are always neatly and nicely dressed, and are far more agreeable coach company than the Mexi cans or Spaniards here, who are exceed ingly " odorous." My laundryman carne recently, with his basket slashed with mud and his clothes spoiled, weeping bitterly, saying that some boys had pelted and attacked him. He evidently had not resisted. I was pleased to see, however, , the other day, that some "anti coolie" school-boys' who were attacking some little yellow boys, met with as good as they gave, and at length, were fairly . driven off . ..the field by the atones of their Mongolian ant*. The , odious tax on the Chinese miner, hoWever, still exists, and he is still ex cluded from most. of the mines. More over, at thiS day a white scoundrel could enter the cabin of half a dozen honest Chinese' with his revolver in hand, rob them of their toilsome earnings, And murder one or more, and no testimony of theirs could convict him. Such an injustice as this,' established by law, is 'a damning blot , on. California civilization. It is as bad as many of the abuses of Slavery, and one is surpriSed hoW the humanity and religion of this State could have endured it so long. No Ben- sible man of any party defends it. The old battle of. humaility fought out on our coast, of justice to the negro, is going on here in different 'form—of justice to the pagan. The same weapons, are uSed,, the same appeal's to low and, ignorant prejudices of race, and the same assertion of the universal rights of humanity. .Caste and ignoraime and de magogue sophisms on one side, and en thusiasm and,generokty,"and the prin. ciples of justice on the other. In the recerkt political canvass the Union can didate was represented in caricatures, as, leading to the polls a Digger Indian, 'a Chinaman., ands baboon, though all that he or his party ever-claim-for the China man is "justice before the law!' ANECDOTES OF EDWARDS. Tlitti, _great 'theologian was extremely absent-minded, carrying ,about with him everywhere the atmosphere of the study --treading-on clouds andlreathing rare fied air—in the world, but not of it. A country parishioner, at' a loss for topics of conversation, ~once asked him how many cows he possessed.. " Really,:l do not know," he replied ; "but Mrs. Ed. wards could tell you. She attends to all such, matters." Now,. Mrs. Edwards wasjully aS pious as her husband—al most a religious devotee. She was oftener in her closet than in her dairy ;, Yet sillelknetv flow cows paid3ri bute to , the ,house of Edwards, which fhet would "seen i to prove that a woman may be 'eminently spiritual and' emi nently t ractical at the same time. The efty: abstraction of Mr. Edwards cairorKftequent; dinnestic disarrange ment;:tretnettrnes playing strange pranks with4l‘ ; Costume, - especially with his wig; hvhile his- profound ignorance - of ordinvy worldly affairs gave rise .to, many ludicrous incidents. One of the , old family stories runs thus: Mr. Edwards havinghavingpreached for- z 4• poor country parson, found to' his..djs: may on Monday morning, that there was no man or boy about the premises to bring up his horse for him. On his con. feSsing that hq knew little about such things, his hostess, " on hospitable cares, intent;" went to the pasture, caught and .bridled the staid, clerical steed, and led it up to the gate. . Then, ,as she was about to put on' the' saddle, the great minister -name- out, and gallantly pro: tested against , her. performing any fue ther groom service, saying he. thought he could manage the rest for himself.. So she went about ,her ,household affairs. The good man was a longtime wrest ling wit o the - ) myri`t,Criet; - of. that Saddle; but just as the lady was going again to his .assistance,.he-carne .get. is saddle-bags and take his-leave. ."All 'Mr. Edwards, • how ',have . you suc ceeded?" she asked. "'Very well, madam,: I: thank you," he replied, " but. La was unusual employnient for me, and •I was h - little awkward. I had some diffictAti. in, properly adjusting ,the straps' andludkles ; and there is still a Superfluous piece of leather, the office of which' i:'cannot divine. But it hangs overthe neck of the animal, and win not in'comindde at ,• The lady, somewhat curious, stepped to the gaKtolipttir.'"„EdWalds put on the saddle reversed-0e pommel pointing back i wards.,;. ! perhaps, with, a vague idea that, as he was goinghack to Northampton, that was the way to do it. he " superfluous piece of leather" was the crupper. —God , rnade men Make care -ofininci ples—women to care for persons. ~When either sex thrusts itself into the other's work, the results are mournful.' When women and unmanly men set themselves tip to judge of general truths, they al- Ways fail to distinguish betireen the Man and his opinions. Hence there is no bitterness in religion or politics like their bitterness. The ability to make the' AieppePoli specified is the crucial test of manliness. fittrag gitttitigutt. -The late Tauchnitz edition of the English New Testament is remarkably popular. It is King James' version, an notated from the three best manuscripts. 25,000 copies have already been sold. It forms volume 1,000 of the Tauchnitz republication of works in English. -Twenty-five editions of Stuart Phelps' " Gates 'Ajar " hSve been, issued by Messrs. Fields, Osgood & Co. -A new volume, by Bishop Coleus°, of criticism on the Pentateuch, is on the eve of publication. -Trubner & Co. have begin the pub lication, in eight volumes, of the Rig- Veda Sanhita (the Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans), translated and explained by Max Muller, Professor -of Comparative Philology in the'TnivnrsitY Ottffitd: The first volume,. which has just appear-' ed in London, contains " Hymns to the Marne!, or the Storin , Gods," and consists of 356 pages octavtt.t -Among `o`ther'ti recent religibtis 'and kindred books we notice a reprint in Engliih of "The Rise, Race, and Royalty of the Kingdom of Grodin the' Soul of Man," by. Peter Sterry. The "Athen aeum" speaks of it as " ,the,most cele brated work of; perhaps, the most mys tical and beautiful of English mystics." We also note Dora GreenwelPs - Carmina Crucis, cr. Bvo. 95.; Smith's '-(W: S Christian Faith, Bvo. 3s. 6d.; Son Of God, by author of " Moral Glory of Lord Je sus Christ," 25.; Olmsted's (Rev. M. N.) Walks and Words of_ Jesus, 1,2ni0.', 2s. 6d.; Tayloi's'(C.) - Gdspel• in the LAW, - Bvo. 10s. 6c1.; Sourres (H: )'Christ in the Pentateuch, cr. Bvo. 55.; Hink's (Sir F,) Religious Endowments in Canada, Bvo. 2s. 6d.; Wray's' (Rev. - G.) Sermons on Doctrines foforMidge : passe!, ss. 61:1-: Via.rdot'! (Lquii) Aide& of. an liever, 12nio. 2s.;:Halley's (11,) Lanca shire, its Puritaru.sin, &°., 2. 'vols. Bvo. 305.; -FiveArearsyin a p -Protp!tpt Sister= hood, &C., An 'Autobiography, 7s. 6d. -Oi ; French - r,eli,gieus . , and cognate, books, we note Th. 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The American 7 -Has no unnecessary restric tions ontrayel and, residence. The American- 7 Declares dividends annually at the end, of the first year. The American—Pays all losses promptly. Where can you find Greater ADVANTAGES. . . CHARTER . 18 2 ;9 PERPETUAL FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY PHILADELPHIA OFFICE-435 and 437 Chestnut St. Assets on-Jah. 14869 . $2,677,372 13. 'Capital, Accrued Surplus, . - Premium, - : _ Unsetled claims; , Income for 1869, $23;758 12., $360.000. Losses paid since 1829, over $5,500,000. , Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal The Corapany also issues policiet upon the Rents of all kinds of Buildings, Ground Rents and Mortgages. :CTORS. Alfredß. Baker, A,lfred Filler Samuel Grant, Thomas Sparks, Geo. W. Richards, William S. Grant, Isaac Lea, ' .1 Thomas S. Ellis, George Pales, I Gustavus S. Benson ALFRED G. BAKER, President. AEO. FALES. Vice President. JAS W. MCALLISTER, Secretpxy. THEODORE ALREGER, Assistant Secretary, 26--bec,. 30 STRICT BOONOMTIN MANAGEMENT. PROVIDENT LIFE & TRUST ...COMPANY OF 'PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE No. 111 S. FOURTH STREET Organly.ed to extend the benefits of Life Insurance among .memhets ot; the , Society of Friends. All good risks, so 'whatever dehoniination solicited. ' President, SAMUEL E. SHIPLEY, vice President,s Actuary, WM. C. lONGSTRPAR„ R9WLAND PARRY. 'lnsurance effected upon;all the approved plans at the loWest cost. No risks en • doubtful or unsound lives taken. 'Funds invested in flist-claim securities. Economy practiced in ell thethiurches of the business. The advan bigee are equal to those of any company in the 'United june4 ly JOHN.SMITH 9 . LOOKING-GLASS AND PICTURE-FRAME MANUFACTURER, • Bible and Print Publisher, and . . WHOLESALE DEALER EP AMERICAN AND 'TRENCH CLOCKS' ANDREGULATORS'OiI EVERY DESCRIPTION. Also, General Agent tor'the sale of the " Eureka ,patent .Condenetng Coffee and Tea Tote—something that every : family should have, and by which they ran say fifty yer cent. Trade Supplied eta liberal discount. • arplb4m • • No. 916 Arch Street. GYMNASIUM Cor. Math - mid Arch-streets, 1E1:11. Ladies, Gentlemen and Children, open for the r Summer course. Open day and evening. Call in person ‘.r send for circular. Lesions liiSparring and Fencing. PROF. L. LEWIS. may2o-6m Electricity as a Curative. Dr. A: 11... Stevens has been using Ele , •tricity as a SPe ciai Remedy in curing chronic as well as acute conditions without medicine for more than ten years, with unboum , - edauCcess:—A pamphlet, including all particulars, with certificates and.reliable references, will be sent to any inquirer. A few furnished ro•mms vacant, for boarding patients in the Doctor's family, if applied fir soon. Office and reet dence, •1001 ARCH STREET, Philadelphia. m.20-3at. OAKIVIAN'S Local Express , 30 SOUTH FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Freight and Baggage;of Eiery Description delivered at Germantown, Chestnut Hill, and Mt. Airy. BAGGAGE'BE CHECKED •tItOM TOUR RESIDENCE TO A TLANTIC CITY, And all Rail Road Depots and Steamboat Landings. Freight FOrniarcied to all Parts of the United States. maylB-3m -PHOTOGRAPHS EXCELSIOR! CARDS, SIX FOR A DOLLAR. All kinds of pictures, of the finest quality. Porcelains one dollar each. Other sizes in proportion. J.. W. HI:MN, 1319 Chestnut St. aprls-li. - $400,000 00 1,083,528 70 1,193,843 43
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