The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1869, Page 5

OYSTERS. THE OYSTER TRADE OF NEW YORK, One Hundred Millions of Dollars Ex- pended Annually in the Mc- tropolis for Bivalves. Their Anatomy, Propagation, Names and Com- mercial Classification. The Oyster Navy---The Season “Two Stews.” One!” Is ejaculated by a middle-aged, North of Treland Hibervian, dressed in the careiess costume of a metropontan oysterman, consisting of an apron that ouco was white, a greased garment upon which is advertised the precious propertica ‘of slush, and ali the pieces of an old times Sunday wardrobe failen from grace. The significant mono- syllable he utters has a world of meaning. ‘One!”? the initial number, @ distinction of sbsolute reia- tion, a settled identity, a perfect unity, a palpable coincidence, & separate convertibility. ‘One!’ an tsolation—a widow, perhaps, an entity of two—two hearts, four hands, eight limbs, and go on in the geometrical proportion reaching the iegions of misery at infinity. “Une! an odd, singular, una tended, unrepeated, insecable, inseverable, Irre- woivable, imdiscerptibie non-divisibility. “One? signifies a species. We have done with these frightful adjectives. ‘One’ ts our text, but we are not to follow ita meanderings per Beecher, Chapin or Frothinghaw. Its ominous sound echoes through the oyster house as it passes the trained lips of its articulator and reaches we ears of the kitchen’ maid, who forthwith proceeds to make “one!” Necessarily from the proper application of the imperious mandate which the haughty master of the situation proclaims wo loudly, there must be distillea a primitive essence realizing the conditions of the first word in the Jan- guage—of the word canonized by saints, abused by free lovers, embraced by frantic mathematicians, conveniently used to express tho ordinal in serial Duimbers and expressed in an ancient topgue as E Pluribus Uaum. Five minu:es pasa by; & savory stcam rises from the grate and congeals upon the colder countenance of the maid aforesaid, A dozen of the elementary ingredients which are to make up the “‘one,’’ not- ‘Witastanding its heretofore asserted “‘insecable non- divisibility,”” have been thrown intoa tin dipper, ‘With a Jong, cylindrical handle, and this dish ts now situated in a pleasant little nook among the decar- donizing coats, simmering and sending a pleasant, gurgling music throughout the room, mingled with the volatile particles ascending the air, When the indignant Fahrenheit, whose mercurial temperament rises degree on degree with . the invasion of the vitality of the “one” nath again subsided to a reasonable figure, the maid deposits her charge upon the plate, and the self-same Hiber- nian, with hands covered with real estate, bears nis charge tu the customer, and there 1s the “one.” ‘The word has found its master, and the mysterious Monosyllavle ceases to be one, but becomes two un- der the accepted apology of “oysters? We are Batistied. Yet, perhaps compassionately, we look at the poor, heipicse little orpnaned bodies floating about on the surface of the soup, whoin Iile never did anybody harm, and in sorrow say, “Such is the heartlessness of mani’ Oh! could Mr. Prevention i. Bergh witness the grief, what a poor, profitiess mission would he believe his Soctety of Animals. We proceed to decompose the unit, and naving Grafted that universal soiveat, tho stomach, into eervice, the cniity is soon swallowed up la vict ‘The effect 1s beyond measure. If the actor in this not disagreeable duty becomes idoctrinaied with the stupidity of the oyster, by a strange anomaly he also partakes of the nappiness of the clam. So that the whole bivalve species, whatever their physioiogical connection in the dil- ferent relations, contribute in the expression, as they do also in mastication, to the essential comfort of their remote posterity—imortal man. This reduced system of cannibalism—of making food of one’s own ancestors—becomes so serious a question, both of moraiity and humanity, that we might be inclined to discuss its physical and spiritual aspects were 1t not for Mr. Bergh, who, doubtieas oppressed by the servity of his labors, has neglected to give it any at- tention thus far, but designs doing so when time permits. The morality of eating oysters we hardly suppose would be questioned were it not for the fact that these unprotected creatures are eaten a)ive. Being the only case wherein the mouth is made a slaugiiter house, as well as a butcher shop, it may well excite attention taat the great aniinalitarian has not moved tn the matter before now. An examina. tion into the propagation and domestic vicissitades of oysters reminds us that after a series of years the adults become jaded, feeble, infrin and no Jonger able to support the onerous burdens of their mationality, Hence 16 would be no more than an exhibition of tinely feeling if some of the attention bestowed upon vigorous and healthy lambs and rigid and ruddy turties were transferred to the poor persecuted race whose aufferings and hardships in” advanced age lave never evoked the faintest wall from sympathetic humanity. Oysters are more provocative than nutritious, and for this reasoa, doubtless, the public appetite ior them bas never been known to diminish. They can be eaten at all times and under all circumstauces, when anything can be eaten. In one form or another the mostenervated system will digest them and |r ae their admirable properties, so tbat @ stémach rejecting other iood, and even spurning it by violent volcanic eraptions, will pieasantly and agreeably submit two the ‘Operations of this conservator of vitality and health. Oysters, it will be remarked, do not carry to the eater any extreme degree of relief from hunger, but gre properly an appetizer, and only an appetizer. This becomes patent when a persou tm deprived of his full sense for appreciating food in general, yet Who will attack oysters with deliguiful couplacen ‘They pave the way, they open a tuorougifare w more bmportant exercise of the digestive organs, ana by their pecuuar influence upon the membranes and tissues Of all parts influencing the appetite, ill one Of the most important functions in animal economy. Like every other article of food, they have those who dislike them, butin general ihe sweeping assertion ‘es almost literally true that oysters are the most universally liked, the moai universally cultivated, the most universally cooked, in all varieties of the epicurian art, of the distinct creations known to man, Centuries velore a Parisian culemnter could boast lis gastronomic skill as a kitchen manipulator of these tempting muais, the oid philosophers of Greece and Kome understood sheir vaine, and probably whtle enjoying ther cooked many of the intelicctual disues which give the modern Classical studeni dyspepsia. Some liave amagined and many have written that tue oyster is @ Modern aniwal. Poor suinoiogist | it 1s per se anie- ai lan, Or else you disbelieve Darwin. The oyster Was your own progenitor, of eise you tarn up your mose at aciency, Greece ana ome were full of oysters; America ts full of them, Greece and Rome Were great nations; hence by proof positive, ti Jogival ayllogiam, America must be great. Whethtr Or not this is 4o We have the best independent adthority coming to our euppot Oysters are purely democratic. You can be catered w by embryo Deimontcos about tue Cityettail, woo hang out conspicuous banners;— QOLE POOLE LE TOL OLE LELE-FOLE TELE TELETE IE LE EE TE tb tb EES 3 “Oyster Sour, Five Cenrs.”? ORDLELELE ELLE LODE AE LEDETDIOLOLE LODE LEDE DP ID EELS rt am the fact that Or you can descend into the dives of Cherry and Water streets and eat your peck of dirt with tae a vory juices there distilled. Dickeos says tiat when @ man has nothing else todo he eats oysters. Me- tropolitan observation coniirms bia statement But wherever we go, whichever way we turn, the fact remains that an oyster loving, 18 an order loving community; that oysters aga national disk belong FA those people celeprated for art and industry— reece, Rome, Aimerica, Letting ihe asnes of the two former very ri oil ha bar ge! jent, a a facts, delicious facts, ey a them, of a choice eve: body wager Ty boay eats them, as 8 circle, Tate} beret 6, fe wil not quarrel in the presence of com. ‘of com. ; eapwelaly ins dompany whoke historioa) stus reason is obvioun. ent, if she ts only : NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1869.—TRIPLE SHWKT. pldity calle for the development of ail her powers of entertauung. ‘hea m the great outer world it is JUSL ag Neceagary tat & man should have a mouth jor proclaiming ‘oyelers! as he must have for shouting. ee, or advertising the fasnionaple want, “Any ould hats! To ‘ork alone belongs the credit of having developed and made @ distinct feature of oysters, muppiying them in separate saloons and elegantly fitted Pp stale, were tue staple can be wy ah the Mouth watering forms that have come from adelicace treatment uf tne mollusk. Nottn London or in Paris or in any continental city can a duplicate aystem be found. This, if nothing else, prociaima ‘vuat oysters have been naturalizea in America, and belong protic repeaters it may be presumod they have the right 10 vote, fh such is not true, (Laughter) ‘The number of oyser places in New York city slone whose exciusive operations pertsin to Luis business reacn the almost incredible numer of 7,000, ‘These figures may well cause douvt; bus one baa only to remember that the trade a amall capital, that tuere is a ready sale, large profits, Jight work and continuous employment, and the po- sition of Che 20,000 men engaged in the retail branch alone can then be appreciated, Of liquor dealers tuere are over 7,000, aud of oyster dealers there are consideravly more, In many cases the sale of the two ariicics Ja Muked Logetier, 4@ nat the wades are more coufounded than popular supposiuon allows, We preseul tue lodowing figures lor digestion:— Average number of stews sold 10 New York every day........ peenens ae) +. 615,000 Average nuunber of fries sold in New York every day ... ao cescee. cscs seeee 250,000 Average vumver of raws sold in New York EVCLY ADY....sesesceseesencsesaererecssse 176,000 Average number of roasts suid in New York every day.. 15,000 Average uuimver of broila soid ny New Yo OVETY UB... ceeeeceeeeeeereene ‘Total number of dishes... * oes Below 13 & list Of prices ge! osite the respective dishes as Dow retaued at the ordinary piaces 1 the city, Deimonivo and his brand cuarguig more ehe- real priccs;— Saddle Rock roast. Saddle Kock iry Saddle Kock slew Saddle Rock 1aw Roast In the sell... Roast ou touss, Roast on hot dish, Panned oysters. Fried oysters, . Broiled oysters Claim cuowder. . FINANCES. Tae average receipts of the 7,000 oyster saloons of this city wiil be fully up to thirty dollars per day cach. “AS Ube oyster aeason lasts About nine months in the year the datiy income of this businesss, of $210,000 4 day, becomes, for the full pertod of 270 270 days, $56,/00,000—an enormous sum, yet below, rather nau above, the accurate figures. In these Statistics It should be remembered that oysters for private consumption, oysters for hovela and restau. rants are not embraced, but Only the trade of those places whose exclusive business isthe retail dispo- lion of cooked dishes and “raws.” Then there 18 the Immense wholesale trade—the trade of the sub- urbs und of Brookiyn, 80 citat $100,000,000 1s not too high # ligure Lo pidee upon the vast business which 1D a Tew years has grown up about the city, For one to understand how really extensive that trade has become he must visit the river fronts, all the up WuWa business uvenues and the ceutres of business down town. Now tue trade 1s at its zenith, At no Ue In the season are the sales so large, the oysters 80 good, or the people who eat them so numerous. 4n order to place the subject mtelligibly betore the reader We Wiii describe the ANATOMY OF THE OYSTER. The oyster is what 1s known to science ag & ma- rine acephalous moilusk of the lamellibranchiate order of the genus ostrea. The shells are mequi- valve, laincilated, the right, or upper shell, moving forward with age, and wi! h is the Smallest, leaving @ groove lor the ligament along the adhering valve. rhe animal is the simplest known to natare. hws no feet, but his iobes are widely separaced, be- ing united only near the hinge. The respiration 1 curried on with the vascular gills, which make a curious and interesting featare in their singular con- struction. ‘The oysier 1s destitute of yaws and tecth, and 1s unable to ieed upon any resistive substance; but it has short, labial processes for separating and selecting the food. The intestine is short, with few convolutions; the venticle or the heart ites upou the rectum, One of the iost inieresting questions connected with the species is, whether or not they can be divided into the sexes, It has been atoutly aiirmed by eminent authorities that they are all hermaphvodites, but Jater developments seem to favor tue idea that they follow the same rule that governs the procreation of all species, According to Siebold, the female oyster largely preponderates— # social evil In the oyster family tut has its counter- pare m the human family just now. ‘ihese animals have tie sense of sight, a gift wluch they use when a shadow of a boat approaches. Oysters have no powers of locomotion whatever, and move only in respiration, and when excrement, kperm or ova are expelled by the sudden closing of tie valves and the contracuon Of the manue. Of course the oyster wii tage 16.48 NO insult to say that he is ow in the uniinal scale. Such is the melnuchoty tact, thouge we do eal, enjoy und digest him. PROPAGATION, The eggs of the oyster are expelled tn a white, greasy, viscid fuid, which rises to the suriace when iv icaves the Quuit. Tuese essential ova are termed spats. Alter a short ume ticy are held in soluuon by the water and soon tad # lodgement iu the bed ol the bay. Lo whatever sub-mariae bodies they ad- here they commence tne important measure of de- velupement, wich follows the naturat law of m- crease conceruing every spark OL progressive vi- tality. The fecuadation arises througa the medium oi Water, Wiich conveys the sperm to the Ova. As oysters now breed tue qoestion Of mulupiication 1a luvolved in @ great many conditions, chief among them peing tides, the degree Of saliness of the water aud the character of the soll. TIDES. As oysters grow on abl natural beds just as they are fostered by nature, the law prohibits their ais- turbance in these jocaiities during three months, beginning im May and ending im August, ‘his 19 ' the period of spawning, and the popuiar error that oysters are Rot good during this tune, serves the purpose to produce @ cessation’ in the public de- mand. In ariificial beds, however, the oysterman can do as he picases. When wishiag to raise a crop of oysters he as Ww de weatner wise, to have an ac- curate knowledge of the tides, and a close tam- Uarity with their anatomy. In considering the action of tides care 13 observed to take the oysters from the beds when the water is ranning out, This is done because the fresh water trom the rivers, at the mouths of which beds are generally situ- ated, comes down and affords the animal an op- portunity vo drink, and this umportant operation conduces to his obesity, @ property that is valued by every epicure. If the water be too saline the oyster ts lean and unheaithy, hence the precauwon stated. in planting, the reverse rule 18 totlowed and the breeders are put in at high water. ‘The oys- ter once being in his lodging place in the bed, never moves unless agitated from the gurface, and the oya- terian takes pains to do this so that he may drink and grow fat. When oysters live in a medium highly saturated With salt they are often removed, aud their flabby condition necessitates their immersion in fresh water, which rounds their outiines, gives thew a deliciogs favor and completes the circuit of their development, It will be understood from these facts that the oyster trade 1s largely influenced by the Weather, and that ite perfection 1s realized th the highest possible degree. The ditferent phases of the moon are the oysterman’s guide. BEDDING AND RAKING, It has been contended that rocky bottoms are the best for oyster beds. Such has not been verified in actual experience. On the contrary, practical men say uiat & soft, sandy loam of the same nature as that found in the East river is the most fruitful. When pianting oysters have been put down four stakes mark the outlines of the be It has been found in transplanting them that they must return to a soil almost similar to that upon which they were originally bred in natural beds. or there is an ex- ceeding mortality. {n their bedding nothing is more apparent than the nicety and exact fidelity with which the whole subject is embraced in the grand laws governing the propagation of all species of ani- mal life, Tue value of experience 18 apparent, and according as the oysterman ta famtitar of not with the details of his business in @ like degree will be the measure of his success, #n general, if 1,000 bushels are planted and only one- third live they wiil increase from 2,600 to 3,000 bush- eis in from four to five years. oyster bed 18 not of itaeif very altractive, but the activity is going on upon the surface on a higher plane where the sloops, under full Aall, in @ stilt breeze, with a heavy rake attached are dredging the oysters from the bottom, and sometimes aa many a#® twenty sloops are at Work on @ gingle area, These operations are oniy taken to transfer them to other beds which in a weil regulated system always epures to their delicious flavor and Micreased size. At the ead of six months the young oyster 18 no larger than @ smaii sized egg und double nis size in @ year, and matures at we age of seven years. OYSTERS—NEW YORK SIZB, The followmeg table represents the six kinds of oysters iu order of size, the relative quantity m use of each Kind and their respective dimensions as in vogue in New York:— > Demand in Proportion Name. Size, to Whole, Busheis,... «The very smallest .One-halt. Culungs da Inches by 3 One-sixth, Box % inches by 2 -One fourth, Extras. +5 inches by 345 Double £) Ginches byS } ........One-twelfth, ‘Toree Extras, ..7 mehes by 6 The sizes ven represent the figures only in the erage, and irom these oysters vary a great deal; and 1 often happens that @ giant will moasure a foot in length. it by DO means follows that size is an index to flavor. Those who eat for juices and favor can be sauisfied with Boxes or Extras, as weil as by the larger kinds; but those who go in for the meat preter the larwer ones with all their diaguating deposits. Stews are made almost entirely from Cui- lings, in shops ed in tae lower quarters of the city, and sot even employ Bushels. At Fuiton Market—a piace so justly famed for the best oysters in the Union—Boxes and the higher grades alone are used, Tails is‘the rule that obtains at J. D. Merritt's and other weil known places of the Kind. Places caring for hig eengaey Bushels and -Cullin entirely, and deal only with the upper vircles of tne oyster community. NAMES OF OYSTERS—THEIR COMMEROR. Along the thickly indented coast of the Atlantic Ocean can be found the richest oyster beda in the world. Everything {nm this streton of 3,000 miles of deltas and river outlets favors the increase of the oyster, About New York they are found in the wonderfaliy fertile natural beds in profuse quant tes. The four kinds of oysters most in demand in tho city are as followa:—York and Black Rivers aad Chesapeake Bay—known as Virginia oysters; Princes Bay oveters, Bouin Bide ine ‘ua ah Kast Maver t mules @ Hudsoa. oot ties the York ‘end Buck Rivers are belteved to be the best; but in America, Point, Long Island. conan Small and verv salt; Cow Bay, Ww Badd! Sound, large, g bound, very salt; it 18 in irest Water to make them fatten; Am , Very galt; Keyport, Staten Island, rite size wor; York a irginia jord, Biack River, James River, Chesapeak: , Hamp- Von Bay, Horn 5 p Creek, Linbaven | and Kappahannock, of Virginia. [The oysters 0. ‘Virginia ‘are characterized by a fresh, dercious fa- Vor, Well known WwW epicures. ‘They are large, juicy and tree from nauseus ceposits. if sprinkled with freah water they will keop for three weeks, and if aay ve Spreng. ia quality they will continue 80 to do, and if deteriorating the process of decompo- Sie Bet "Satie nen nc ms chusel ie Haven Bay, Koeks, Kaster’ ranch, Weavern races akon Creek, Hampton ars, Mi jusetts Bay and Raw Virginias. ‘Shere are many other animals closely allied to the oyster tribe, ‘here are clauis, consumed In large quantities in ail parts of the city, but these are not uu Oy artiticial means aud are found only 10 a sta nature, ‘There are two kinds—the hard and sott dbeli—the latter being one of tite most de- ligbtiul of all dishes, Crabs, hard and soft shell, lobaters, scollops aud mussels are also Leen} bs kr wagane uanuiies. Scollops ere prese! public i force, aud about Fulton Market the Popular taste for these. viands 1s on tae increase. THR OYSTER NAVY. ‘ ‘Not less vhan 10,000 men are @ din the ship: ment of oysters to New York. Ve craftio which ‘they are transported are the ordinary sloops seen at our wharves aud docks. Baltiwore, Hamptou Roads, Annapolis and otaer polats are largely 1uver- ested in Bonding North immense cargoes of. the ani+ mais. ‘he steamers derive heavy proitstrom Unis source alone, and no one bas cver Oi. barged in the business with the invoice of ® wood intelligence and who has not come ont i Ket. it is devidediy the most proitable of all aides In America, A jan has to Own no grounds ana requires litue capital. His harvest is rich. All are advised to breed oyaters jora lying. When tuey reacn New York the ariny of retail dealers wakea desvent upon te slvops, and the products are soon im the siwmachs of New York clu ‘shousands of bushels ure annuaily sapped to ie Jand, France, Germany, aad io this respect Europe pays & large tibute to Ameria. Great improve- ments have veen made m tne cultivation of oysters; but the wild ideas advanced in Europe some years ago have turned out to be clumeras, it was proposed Lo Csta'-MsO InEXduustibie beds, covering 3,000 acres each, & duTerent points on the coast of France, and to prowet them by legisiative enact- ment As oysvers alWay live in shoal water, rarely ever going beyond @ depth of aix feet, it te dinicalt, to uudersiaud bow Lie weueme Could conveniently operate, a Creek, FULTON MABKET—THE PRESENT SEASON, Cyatere 1 oysters! oysters! oysters! everywhere in vou Market. The rough exteriors ol the sleep- ing bivalves are piled 10 gutlines, Dota shapely and unshapely, at ali quarters of this weather-beaten edifice. ‘Ihe firsi tuimg tadeliguta upon the nostril aa @ person enters this place—awhich. 1s @ revolung parody upon the name of the great sveambout inven- tor—i8 the stroug simeli of Our hero, Who seems to be noiquitous, omnipotent aud omniscens among the Jauuly of Kood & Co. He 18 @ iavoril Hoarding house keepers court bum, dirty market women shout his virtues aud nousenolders puy his price. These are sidewalx plays. Enter the butiding; pase into the stall of Deieciation & Co. There, seated by a plain, cleau, uncovered table, 18 one of the redouvta- bie chiefs of Tammany. By his side 1s 4 rural atates- Iman, and opposite both is a seedy aspirant polisn- ing his gis with @ solied bandkerchiel, pre- paratory to attacking his poitical bread and bucier in prospect, One of the magnates decomposes & roast aud the oiuer is busy Wiin the virLues of a raw, and both glance unsecemugiy at the box in which the hopeful savage has piaced himseif. Concord seems to have been establisned alter a little, and the peaceful atiributes of the anunal of animuls yet the trio into a good humor. Long over their dishes they ponder, and aouptiess simuitaneousiy digest some of the political equations that are bound soon to transpire. Yonder is the matron of the boarding house; Lappy is a situation which she never thinks to olfer to her paid guests. She dishes the soup down fer throatirom tie apex of her spoon and creates # gale ubout tbe surface ol the fuid by the impetuous gusts coming from her mouth to assist the cooling process. Lite tmland seas are formed by ‘the waves dasiing over the bul warks of the vessel, and there they remain lll the accommodauing waiter plants his saturated absorbent in Lie midst thereos. Near by two young jadies are seated, in extreme merriuent. ‘they mas- HSU VEOH C RAE SMa PUR See ETS young Man's bonest heart across the way, and ex- biode in @ caplivaung Utter, Honest young man redoubles his avtentions to his oysters, nervousiy examines HS peripatetic wardrobe, and finally Siopes from under the fire ofa doupie baitery, pays his bill and goes on his Way rejoicing. A few good- hearted countrymen occupy seats, loudly extol the fascinations of the oyster tripe, and show that as slobberers they can bear off tbe palm. But why will women take babies wo Fulton Market? They do. ‘The bables eet up awful Lowls right in mid-day, when fathers supposed the meridian had been especially provided for their relief from such bores. Fries, brolis, raws, “oysiers on the hati- sucll,”? “West Broadways, brown on top,’? move wioug in the ceasciess procession of eatables at very Teascnabie prices, ‘Tue most eminent men in the city partake. An eX-Mayor is plouguing his fork through the tissues of @ “haila-dozen raw 7’? wn emi- nent lawyer has his chops poulticed with the sa- vories of & “Boston stew?” a religionist, Known tw jame but unknown Wo sense, Is cullivating a “iry,’”’ red hot; a set of Bohemians, eminent for greed, are discussing the scarcity of items, whe taeir Englisn grammars have a rest; politicians, authors, belles, reporters, pocty and otner equally important and reputabie personages are slaves to the prevatlug custom, ‘Ihese scenes interimingle with ludicrous events throughout the day and Jate inte the night, when Mr. Oyster postpones his popuiar receptions, Selant A CHRISTMAS ECCENTRICITY. Atter His Goose—C n't Get It by Fair Play, but Adopted a “Fowl? Proceeding— Everything (Not) Lovely. On Friday night Mike Farreli, @ fun-loving gradu- ate from the Emeraid Isle, went to a raffiein Seventh avenue to try his luck, and, if possible, return to the bosom of his family and surprise them with a rare treat for Christmas dinner. As Friday ts pre- sumed tobe an unlucky day by the superstitious, 80 it proved for poor Mike, who “curew’? and “chucked” until bis money was all gone without even winning @ feather; but he succeeded in getting someting, and that was a comforta- bie drunk. About eleven o'ciock, becoming an ted, he concluded to start for home, wended his way up Seventh avenue aa happy as a ciam at high tide until opposite the gro- cery of Willtam Rammiey, at No. 281 Seventh mvenue, where he observed a number of fe geese suspended froma peg. He gazed on them Jong and wistfully, nis inouth watering ail the time, when Qe suddenly grabbed one trom the peg and slipping it under 118 coat was in the act of walking of with it When the hana of the corpulent groceryman came thump down upon his shoulder, wnich #0 frightened him that he dropped the goose and attempted to get away, but the vice-like grip held him until the arrivat of an ofticer of the Sixteenth precmet, who conveyed him to the station house, where he was detained the balance of the night, Yesterday morning he was eonveyed before Justice Dodge, at Jefferson Market Police Court, who interrogated him as to bow he could be guilty of such @ heinous offence, when Mike, with tears iu nis eyes, exclaimed, to a tune loud enough to be heard two blocks om, “Well, your Worship. you sce l was going up Seventhgavenue last night when the mean, dirthy goose kept following me, making one of the most undacent noises 1 ever heard, and to put an end to lua ciatter 1 flopped him under me coat ang wae gol iz Wid him to the station house when that mau here saized me.” “Why, Mike,” spoke up Justice Dodge, ‘i think you must be mistaken, as Mr, Ram- mey says the bird was dead.’ Mike’s eye dropped; he hung his head aad nad nothing further to say. He was locked upin default of $300 ball to auswer tee charge. A CLEAN BREAST OF IT. The Tenth Aldermanic District Election, To THe Epitox OF THR HRRKALD:— 1 peg your indulgence to publish these few lines in Justice 1o myself and the people of the Sevenieentn ward, In theedition of your valuable paper of the 17th inst. you publish a paragraph tn regard to the late canvass tor Alderman ip the Tenih Aidermanic dia- trict. Having been poll Clerk in said district, [ Wian to place before the public the scundatous tranaac- uons Of Lhe canvassers amd the wrong which has been done to the people of the said district, asking Al the same time whether It ts worth While for a citi- ven tO cast a ballot herealter. | tallied the votes as canvassed and made out the retarns as canvassed as foilows:—Guutzer, 84; Seger, 14; Levy, 26. This Was thé trae vote cast in the twenty-ninth district of the Seventeenth ward. The returns we alvered to—Qunizer, 150; Seger, 27; Levy, 12. ‘nis gave Guntzer a majority of eight votes, by fraud, over Seger, and he was deciared elected (aiter pro- teal) by the canvassers. Mr. T protested against the canvass as frandn- lently returned. I tested before the Aldermanic comfpittes to the true facts. One of the canvassers oe himeeli.by swearing to what he knew was ‘alse. Tho committee, 1 um sure, was convinced of this; still che fraudulently canvassed return altered from my original revurn was received and the foregoing facts estapiished. toask the people of the district and the Board of Canvassers who they consider to be the legally eidcted Alderman of the Tenth district? The testimony shows Mr. er elected; the returns va the night of the election did the same. ‘The above facts can at apy time be proven. OBAB. A. a cara Late Pol Clerk Twenty-ninth district, seventeenth Ward, Teuth Aldermanic distrion: OUR PAGAN POPULATION. The Chinese Considered Without Reference to “Caste.” Among the Dens of Baxter Street--- A Celestial Habitation. Opium Smoking---It Produces Con- sumption. The Chinese Cob Reom—A “Pigtail” Interviewed. A ROW—SCHOOLS—‘‘ANODER BRUDDER,”? Socialists have been for some months agitating the question of @ large transcontinental infux of the Chinese laboring classes from San Francisco, 10 the first instance, irom the Oriental land to New York, here to prosecute the employment of menials— @ service which, it is generally admitred, is their natural birthright. Like most questions of reform their introduction has been loudly howled by men of intemperate brain, and the peculiar ignorance and want of foresight of its leading champions are only fresh examples of how much, and simultancously how little, can be said in favor of adding another and @ most incongruous element to the already heterogeneous population of New York. supplied with the merest outlines of the Chinaman’s nature, which in general they have interpreted to be domes- tic, Kindly and forbearing, but which, on the con- trary, 18 avaricious, cunning and impatient, they have portentously elaborated schemes to bring thousands of the wretched ana miserable toiling classes of the most uncivilized and populous of the Eastern empires into the midst of the degrading snffering existing among the lower wards of the city. Can this be called philanthropy? Can this be termed humanity? Can itgo under the often meaningless and much parodied title, “Political Kconomy?? Would not those two precious words, common sense, shun any mssociation with ideas so far in the Judicrous above and go far in decency below the incorporated ex- pression of the language? The subject needs to be investigated to be understood. China has 600,000,000 people. In local divisions, in geographical sectiom, in religious convictions they are obviously nota unit, A half a billion people could never be. There are quarrels, skirmishes, engagements, battles, wars and revolutions. The last determine the efux of emigration. The government succeeds, and the established régeme in triumph, points the stern, unreleating finger of retribution at the rebels, and they flee the land. They have heard of the El Dorado; they have lived In @ pagan country fillea with superstitions, froitful m fabled wealth and grandeurs, but always beyond the reach of the poor and unassisted; their lives have been vacant and unbatlowed dreams, sateliiies of poverty and subjects of the cruel oppression of mandatory jaws and spiritual creeda; they have dweit in the shadows of infidelity, bound for three thousand years with the chains of a dark unwhoiesome paganism; they have never known minity—immor- tality 1s believed a modern dogma; their plea- sure has been in gaming, their work in agriculture, their religion in bowing before a brazen image. With this epitome of the moral, industrial ana in- tellectual acquirements of the lower classes where does the Chinaman got He 1s a social and poiitical outlaw. He haa been engaged in sanepivecy aad tn surrection. America, He 13 admitted. the Chinese emigrant settling m our seaboard cities—in New Orleans, m San Francisco, and in more western longitudes and northern latitudes. San Francisco alone, perhaps, may be excepted, assist in its construction, and they rendered import- ant and valuable service. The Chinese population of the Pacific seaboard grew rapidly under such an impetus, and now San Francisco has over 75,000 Celesuals, Of these many were driven away by starvation, Many more are only tewporarily an- chored there, because they follow the sea, and the remainder were enticed trom across the Pacific by their mercenary longings. The Chinaman does not like the American; one is a heathen Jew, fixed in his purpose of rigid saving, and the other is a Christian of a frank and open natare. Duplicity may not be indigenous to China; but if history can be relied npon It was one of the cardinal characteristics of the race thousands of years ago, as it 18 certainly now. The China- man’s mainspring of action is accumulation, and everything is bent to that purpose. Cool, audaciously 80, diplomatic in word and movement in his native lang, if he can get the siifhtest advan- tage in trade or make the minutest conquest in com- merce, facts have shown he willtry. This unfavor- able view of his nature is upheld by every impartial observer who has ever visited China, and the in- trigues, treauies and international conventions sus- tain the statement. Believing that there is no higher law than thas pureiy human, ana having no confidence in the doctrine of future rewards and punishments, he adueres to none of the principles contained in the Mosaic law, except where it 1s bis interest so todo. He 18 not domestic—that 1s, do- mestic in his relations to the opposite si Concu- binage, in its most frightfal forins, exists all over the Weg He is not bound by the ties of moral friendship, because morality is only a commodity as it Is a convenience. What, then, is there tn the barbarian optum eater to make bis residence in New York desirable? What ig there in his personality, in hie history and tra- dition to render his presence indispensable? He is a skilied cook, it Is satd. He if a more accomplisiied gastronomicai votary than can be fonnd in Europe, with the exception of the Frenchman, This is un- doubtedly true. But how does that neutralize the unmeasured depravity. the unrestrained sensuality and the neggarly cupidity of the creature? Ia it fea- saole to piabt & new community in this degenerated popniation, and with tt the seeds of anbridied pas- sions aud the untutored customs of the Kast ¥ Shonld Chinamen wuch these shores in con- siderable numbers the first operation would be to enlighten and instruct them; but, as sisewhere wlated, nO amount of influence can prevent weir eating opiim and clinging to the ideas fostered mw their riguive ceun- try. The Chinaman 1 obstinate. He has no aMnity for American manners, and be will not Tall into Lue grooves Of our social laws, To the laws proper he will yield abject servility, because his countrymen are vot geaeraily celebrated for per- sonal bravery. Indeed, they never resist physically for a length of time, becanse they allow nothing to retard the pieasure of the body. They are materiat- ists, In their appetites, physical and mental, they are grows. None of the Aner suades of culture, as exnibited in Kuropeans, exist at ali in the class we are considering. It ie essentially coarse, beyond the Hope vf ly cure of extreme wantonness, It may be said that the samo ts irue of the menial classes of. New York of ail nationalities. However much relovence Were is in suy such claun—and it 6 not allowed that there i any—the philosopay is very poor which would muuitiply that ignorance among the governing classes, now #o baneini and deploravie in the immense bodies exercising the rigut of suffrage at the beck and call of che politi- cian, AS # measure of poly tt might be weil for the republicans to colonize 100,000 Chinamen in New York aud manufacture an important voung ele- ment to ofiset the increasing dewwoc tusjorities. ‘The invest it would pay im the long run, and the perfectly docile Ceiestiala might make dignified ai- derioen and add majesty where we now have @ cur- tailed modesty, but modesty only tn the emyioy- ment of honesty. With our officials and with those of China integrity is & popular fallacy aud justice a lie, No authority on that empire lias ever been written, but the frightful corruption ia public life has been fittingly scored and underscored. So no improvement in tl jar could be anticipated. Assuming, them, that t&e Chinaman lias ho ex- alted standard of morals, that ne is weak and help- less in the presence eit, that he isin no coudi- tion, nor could be trained to any from his nature, that Would elevate we body politic, that be 1 sensu barbarian and cow , What is to be gain ‘by bis becoming & Gothamite? On the other hand no word di Moation oF skill a8 a ts Do his personal faults’ outweigh his imper- sonal industry? In another form does native virtuo aerate over ingenious Vice i cementing the nis of Numan society. This te the germ of the whole Die rh aod agit is treated binges a well directed om oF a felf-imposed misery, ‘Three hui Jears ago @ small trading verse! ‘To eacape with his life he must leap tne Chinese wall of implacable revenge, and this he does, and stands knocking at the door of hospitable This is the story of When the Pacific Railroad was in its incipient stages the Chinamen were imported to brought over the frat Ethloptans, aad their seed wuitipied and pI what vcviprce monster ‘$n8s bas Oved al) crunes, ation, ivsurrection, qavil war, ‘1018 waa the work of Airican slavery. Who cun teil what the antagoniam of a large Chinese eleuent of Ameri¢ay soll might accomplish in a ceatury? Chinese domination would not be lnpro- First would come gratitude, then a reaiizavion political nm then a self-asserting Mmsvience, | Shen @ putaog of arrogant supersority and tic mevibavie Andie, ‘Such are a ew of the considerations why the Mon- race are not cordially weicomed to New York. ose reformers who are siways anxious LO assert aud stoutly indiniain abstract nghts baye cuugit up the new ism, aud, withtheir epuemeral logic, are prepared to mvoive the public mind in discussions joacuas ite feagibliity, abey would embarrads pol- ities by # fresh question, and miroduce a new source Of agitauon just as tue jong bored question of slavery has been hissed from the slae. HOW little success wii have we will proceed wo demonstrate from the condision of the smaii colouy of Chinese in New York, wien Dow auinpers eiguly, a Ogare it Das never exceeded, THE CHINESE IN NEW YORK, There has never beem any disunct aliempt made 2. found Ocal ten 2 tis cil, en prens irty years ago we worshippers o: nm and moon began tw drop mio te deuse ee of the city almost unnoticed, wo f ad die ‘“‘unwept, unhonored and on- bith! § vesseia from india would ship ands in the far East, and a short apprentice- sHip belore the Mast enabied the Orientals lo becume Wwicracie steamer. ‘Ten years increased tbe colony, aud, New York being a port of entry, naturally they settied in our mifat. ‘ney Dave never been jorw dabie in numbers; ds beiore stated, they Lever &: ceeded eighty. Lelng poor, necessity swaue them getect humble quariers, and from thal day to this they bave continued to live in respectavie peaury in the lowest novels In the city. Our reporter set ont for their babitation a few evenings since, While the ground was covered With Snow and the Atmosphere was tuil of stinging cold. ‘They ai reside in toe Fourth aud sixto wards. Accompanied by a policeman, who has made bis round of duty in the locality of tne Five Pots tor many years ‘he directed Wis sieps froin Vaptara Jourdan’y precinct station house down (at most fitwy and doiguitous of ali thoroughfares in the me- opolis—Baxter strect. It was about niue o'clock, The street wae ablaze With lights in tae windows, ligits in the gas posts and guts from the nasiy aad rickety deus in which human beings brecd and die. The pavement was covered by a Uiick deposit of mingied juud, snow and garbage, and noxtous vapors ascended there- from in not very agreeable quanuties. ‘The eauog rookeries and gia mills Were luund With open doors, doing a good business. Passing Gown the sidewaik, wretched women, in tattered garuicuis, shivering with cold, iocnlaied with rum and speckled With chronic sures of deoancuery and Vice, Were Visible upon the sicps and im the hallways, piteous Bpectacies o1 physical, fase speeding decomposilon. Vid men, Whose premature age Mmugiit stil Dave lei. them years of industry and uselulness bad they fol- Jowea the cardinal ‘virtues, toitered under self- imposed draughts of whiskey, into tei damp, lousy aba vermim breeding cellars. Young girls, brought up surrounded by these scenes, Ww whom such a thing as decency or cican- Iiness were oullaws, acted as prominent figures in dirty frocks, upalgittiy garments and discase- eaten jaces, showing aii the horripie mark; of brutality, iuduigence and excess. Une celiar morc noticeable tuan tie rest gaye @ faint view, fom the gilmmering light’ wichig, of What uneartiiiness can be endured on earth, Ab cid woman, withered by age, suffering from exporure, Was evidently not far irom deati’s door. She lay ia a thick heap of rags, While the Gotd air rusued over her partially exposed vody. ‘Ihe hoor was nothing but repeated strata of all kinds i ith, From her continuous walls one might suppose she needed sympathy. But the crowd did Hot Uhink so, and the peopie passed on. Jn such @ quarter as this, where everything ts of tie lowest ang most vulgar description, the Clunese five, Leaving We noise, the ingntfui yells ana the blasphemous oaths—tying througa the air as thick as lail—our reporter passed on t No. 1a buxier street. WHERE THEY LIVR. Standing betore & low, wooden, time-worn and shabby babitation, probably a tung ol Gity yeurs ago, he stood looking down 1nco a low, dark, narrow alley Which Was cul through the buliding, ieaving te upper stories intact. dhe passage led ito dark- ness. Jarough the insufficient chauuel be Lareaued the way over suspicious hoes, staghant pools, fuui deposits and all We débris Known to wnciean flesh. A distance of fifty feet 1s traversed, aud the oulLvok 8 Oh @ Clear sky In an open court, ‘Lo the gut a high board ience rises as a barrier to We adjomung yard. Gotmg torough a door of stingy area, und up @ pair Of steps turuing abrupily row tae teace, lo ascend Witicu requires a caution suggested by the law of seli-preservation, he stood upon we second for of a inee story frame pen. Doors were to right and left, and stvaiwht ahead, ana darkness ali around, Pencils of gas light siole tarougn the cracks in the dilapidated panels, and vroad sleets iiiuinimaced the sills from underneaih, There was 2 chaos of confusion, & Label oi noisy voices and @ ceaseless’ chatter of vul- guy tonguca. A light wee procured from onc of the mmates, aud w lurther ascension of (he feeuie staircases wus veltured upon. ‘ihe landing at the third story was of very meagre dimensions, scarcely room for the comfortable iocomouon of a singie person. A Loud rap was given on the door, ana tue application jor adunission summoned 4 respouse, she dvor swung quickly back upon complaining Binges and our reporter siood in the midst oc the Uhinese abode, Amud the fumes of opiuia, the foul smells ol deoxogenized air, and the nek vapory clouds ot an apartiwent that bad little acquaintance with we external atmosphere, the first impression was oue of extreme novelty, The room must have beca about twelve feet square, with celliig Six feet bia, Bverything Was filtu—tilth ubsoluic, concrete, pai- paple, but almost impossible. The scene was in- credivie, wod the senses had more than Weir match, it 18 sometimes Within man's fortitude to venoid degradauion and busery; but When oul smelis are added, When ius ear 28 niled with jargon, his taste attacked by # revolting nausea, anu Mis feelings ulumphed over by a cnili of ioatping, the conquest of his physical powers 18 complete. “his victory in the presence of the Chinese Was natural. On the casi side of this cramped space was a small cooking siove Beated red hot, radiating a burning temperature througa the dense medinur it would ve @ le to Cail air, Betund it hung some vecayed arti- cles of Wear, trousers, woollen shirts, nusty fabrics, rags—all that once were. A dim kerosene lainp gave forth lignt, On the northern side was a genume spectmen of Chiuese life, The space was divided of into tour buaks, two ut each end, one rising above the other, the pairs separated ouly by rougik boards all construcved of rude specimens of pine slats, loosely thrown Logether without mechanical art or suiticient stabiitty. Kach of these four rickety con- cerns Was lilled With a deposit of rage, Dark, nasty colors tiiat becrayed years of use, and thick woven accumulations of real estate that would allow 4 fine field for the Reclogias, were among tne oharacter- istics of the bedding. They were saturated with aimost everything foul in ani.nat vegetabie life. Heaped together on an area of six feet by three tt was wonderful how human beings could turive and live under the circumstances. Tne sequel shows taat they are not living, but dying. Four men thus sieep tu thosefsinguiar contrivances. At the western end of the room the only reminders of modern civilization were a couple of muco abused irunks containing the valuables of the whole breed. Against the souvnern wall stood a low desk, put together of rongh wood, about two feet high, upon Which a quantity of raw tobacco was placea, Ali the implements of the cigar maker were at band, and 8 queer copper-colored Mongolian, with fantern Jews, Contracted chest, protruding bones aud teeta, @ bleared and biltous eye and @ sickly and consump. uye expression, Was Making his Wares 40 reiail on Chatham street at the exorbitant price of one cent. ‘This, iu general, 18 an outline of the apartinent, Now of the tnmates. There was a flutter, a scat. tering, a moment of Oriental excitement as the Chinese saw the pale faces enter tucir quarters at the hour of ume in the evening; but the policeman's buttons were enougn for them, and they simmered, Tifey immediately tormed a ri With our reporter as the centre of curiosity. What could he, with no badge of authority, be dotng sinong the iunar vogR- riea’ The awful dignity of tue policeman aforesaid quieted their fears, and the bope-inspiring counse- nance of the M. P, prevented an outbreak. ¢hinese customs, Chinese colloquy, Chinese lillarity ceased for a Ume, and there was the suliness of death, in Uhe apartment were about a dozen of the associates of thé occupants, Who nightly congregate at this re- sort to spend the evening im the conviviality of opium smoking. ‘The visitors were more active than the hosts, Torrents of questions and vorrents of angwers passed from our reporter to the Mongolans. When she Uhinamen had gathered to cihemselves some of the commandments of etiquette the opserva- Uon was at liperty, Tne observation was employed, The bunks described were filled with their owners, Each bad & bamboo mat, upon which was spread ali the numerous paraphernalia of optum smoking. An examntnavion of one man wil answer for all. Im the farthest corner of the room a foppish specimen of Jobn Ohmamsa ay upon Wie dunk, the lower one, enjoying oun CHIH. Look at hie facet His complexion & dusky brown, is jeatures cast in the ugliest mouia possibie, turning out @ model which had for is chiet characteristic aN excréesence, yolept a nose; two siiall mountatos, known as cheek-bones; two aeep eya, im physiognomy siyied dimples; two caverns from which gleamed the dying pupils of eyes suffering we ecilpse of @ long continued habit of opium Wig rota ® frightful crater, v whence now and shot out & efpalae ‘ty emitting eruptions of spittle; a bro: brow that way aave aiees the Black Sea; a slight promontory for @ chin; & couple of peninsular shaped ears; ali combining with an expression that pictured & Vexation of tie body, a couvuision of nature, The figure was scarceiy less angular, and the outiines of the snape were a libel upon the artistic forms of Western clay, His gatments cor- responded, His feat be oad carried out the geo- graphical figure, aud they seemed to be fttn, implements wherewith to exciude darkness an obscure the radiations of oid Sol or his little boy, the moon, at Will, His attitude was in repose, Partly on bis left side he iay stretched dismonally across the DUDK, bis feet dangling Outside, below. His position formed a curve, seml-circular im form, with the space included between his head aud his knees oocupied for his smoking uleusiis, Kags, of courwe, were his comforters. OPIUM SMOKING, This individual ts 1 juced to the reader au Mr, Pon Sed o ton, Mr. Quen is puting clouds of smoke from bis optum pi filling the room with consumptive vapors aad giving out his volaule éasence with the utmost coomess to Inocu- late the entire neighborhood, if it were powsigie to Spoil the traditional eas. The apparatus—for it de- serves the oignity of t! what novel. The opium is prepared in a yma On or je name—ta simple, yet Romne- | box, m the consistency of a thick paste of about the same specillc graVily a8 Molasses, 1118 has a place near the Caimaman’s chin, iben he has @ su spirit lamp standing in the con of bis straw mat, WICK acts ay a sérver for ail hus unplements, being about two feet square. Me has aise a sm@ali wrought iron wire, anout mx inches lou., Wiech be uses to apply the opium to his pipe. ydine box serves for a place of deposit for the residuum Jelo after BULOkiNg. Ali those petty delais ure arranged With the utmost reguiarily aud nicey, tor the Cumaman 18 a machine. He prepares to smoke. and dips itin the opiug, twisuug to Lake up a small quauity of Un it adaeres like thick inuc opium so taken up in the bo luse and gather sireng tis perfluous propert W Milwence of suficieut hea to satisfy lis sctentiic mind his pipe is orought into requisition, This 1s & curious and interesting Oneutal Geviee, It consists of a long stem. cylindrical im shape, bait an inch in diameter aud ei vlg. 1b bas Oo dis- tluct mouthpiece, mouth has the mete Uoughout, This bas much to Go with the man's euiarged organs of Ciocution. ‘ine DoW) ism the form of a pyramid, With the apex joming the pipe, the whole being perpendiwiiar to the stem, He takes bis wire in hand and causiog 16 avcoule, to Which He thea places the 3 lamp, leaving it there burusag out ali the su 1 1 hus “undergone the introduced into the A email channel, of no veaier diameter than the wire mentioned, is tue only recep- facie Jor the opium, aad Wis cowmuuicates with the mouth through lig enlarged gore of the Mem, ‘The bow! is made yf voxwooud, Ule steui of & softer Substance. As the bow! ts jotued to the stem aboul SLX Muches from Ns End # smal) OuLiet is made 1u this portion of the tuwe to peraut the debris left pe ana fal into the in box Every tuning y Mr. Queu puts the Dighiy heatea opinm into the infinitessimably small hoi with O18 Wire, aud Works iL after the fasion of aminer digging jor gola. Quce la piace the flat aartace Of tac Wood is applied to ihe flame of the spirit lamp, Queu brings 41s iungs iio exercise, the OPLUIN HEZINS LO CrACKié ANG 1488, TO LNitate the buZ- zing of the bee, the dark, vlue Lotoiwrauie smoke ts blown from his mouth and his triumph 1s complete. ‘This 8 opium smoking. its eifects ure fearful It Indocirinates the system with a subtie and stow creeping poison, Wending ils way Lo the seat of Vitality, Where iu a few years it seizes Lhe strongesy constitution and OVGrwilelins ia the {tat disease Of consumption. Opium taken im Uiis Corto 1s @ stumu- jant held by many to be more extrewe iG lis cilunax than Whiskey, certainly mo-e calamitous in the end. ‘The Chinaman s:uoKes at odd intervals in (ns manner and alternates wis pulls with 4 cloud of Oriental and meaningless adjectives. A drowsiaess Js Superinduced, @ beuduibed duiuess Overiakes bis faculties and he wanders off into sieep. Baueful, feariully dangerous a nese classes kuow it to be, they neverticiess embrace Luis emieu oF rotlennesé and death and slowly but surely Laxe an uccomoda- tion train for eternity. Nowing cau allenace their chosen idol, AN INTERVIEW. As our reporter concluded His survey of the apart- Ment he Was lavored with an mterview with three Mmagnates of the colony Who acceded to bis request without the usual formalities of cards. His princi- pal injormants were lis Kofal dyrauess, Mr. Joun Heng, seaman; Mr. Pon (ucn asoresaid, Mr. Il Da, and Jaines Baptiste, house servaut, surrounced by @ score of Crivamen who by this time had en- tered the room for the night’s froke. An adjoining apartment was selected for the contereuce, and in it were quartered some more of the Urientals, This third story, looaing out on Baxter street, ts used as B sort of club room, Where tae Chiuamaa panders to ms passion for gaming—dominoes, piayed im the Celestial Tashion, but always luc 4 small stake. ReroxTsk (addPessing the crowd)—iiow many Chinese are there in New York? Vorwes—Yah! Yau! ReroxteR—How many? CHINESE STATISTICIAN (to the rescue)—Five hun dred thousand, RECORTER—W hat calling does Uns numerous body follow? JOHN HeNG (twenty years an alien) -Yownowedo- ontheirserandmahketne mento kensmanshipdopackto ~ Chinese | ReEPORTER—Exaciy. « HENG (translatiug, with a few pauses)—Zen you zee | Kill any mens 10 Ze Uveas Who dows wway Wid ah! yah! ‘i " RerorTER—Do you like America and New York? Heng—You zee any wens lake mune wives when zeis to bia drawiag Ms hand ACTOSB LIS LbrOal). KREPORTEKR—L suppose you try to keep up the cus- toms of your couuury uere ¢ Heng—(Excitedly id rising, covered with per- spiration). Mine wives is mine property and no mens take him from me- He is nasty siren [kil him right Zere. (Shouts of “Juterfereuce.”) KEPORTER—Do you dud ae people interested m your welfare here? HENG—Mine Wives has been mine, and ize mur- der une if ne go of With bad man, KEPORTER (iurming for relei)—What are some of the circumstances surrounding the daily hives of your countrymen ? JAMES BAPTISTE (an intelligent Chiwaman, who kpoke good English)—Our peopic come her to hve qulely aud peaceably, ‘The most of them are sea- wen, aot only live vere ducaz tue line their ships are laid up. A jew are cooss. Lue rest are pediers (itinerant cigar dealers, Wain Ube reader may see auy day on Caatuuin siveet). They are aii poor—tive, of course, by their indusiry. bach as # few Bun- dred dollars ia the bank. Altogether there are avout eighty in te city. Most of them smoke opiam, ‘Lneir religion ts divided, Some of them follow the Catholics, some the Jews, sowe the kpiscopuis and some the Methodists, it is not true (indignuantiy) that there are two Chinese priests in New york, as it Was printed in the two ceat daily, itis one big he. My countrymen have no money to build a tem- pie for a JO8s, as Suid 1a Liat paper, and, besides, inost of them belung to the religion of America (with emphasis). What good Wou.d a temple be for a dozen Cuinese with no money? My cuuntrymen want ait thelr people tw come Unt can. lt would be piea- santer for them, of course. They are generally satisfied with America aud Americans, They treat them well, and Were 1s more mouey here than m China. The Chiuauan goes where be makes most money. The peopie of the internal revenue de not aco uberally with my countrymen, hey charge tuem heense fees for Tetailing cigars in the strect, and if it i uot paid thetr whole stock is seized. ‘Lhey therefore lose much mouey often, rhey pay about fourteen dollars a mouth for these rooms (ewght occupying them), and it costs each man trom luree dollars to four dollars per week to live. They keep up the customs of China and do not associate With auy but themseives. Liey are mostly marned to Irish women, and are Gomestic in their tastes, ‘They have @ good many children, who attend the five Pots Mission seivol, A ROW, Joun Hene then favored the company with his views on the marriage We and tofideiuty, provoking consideradie Opposilion Lrom Lis Mopgolian hearers. At this point a low Wall was deard Irom a Qnina- man in an adjoining hall bedroom, and then @ vio- tent cougiing., A glance ut om and his weak frame aud diseased and emaciated countenance gave the uninisiakable proot thathe was about to pay the penaity of death for dedance of the laws of nature as an opluin smoker. As our reporter rose to go a violent outbreak was heard in the next room, Where-he originally entered. An altercation was in yogue, Mr. Jonn Heng had gol Into trondle, Lils rrequent manifestations and enthusiastic discourses cn the marriage relation had incensed his brethren, aud they made common cause against Lim. One burly fellow threw excited aad denunciatory expletives at John and dasued a Whole voluaie of threateung abuse 10 bis face. John retorted with spicit. The debaters waxed warm, Joon assumed te position of a soldier without arms and raised Lis flipper to parry. His oppouent leoxed daugerous. The crowd gathered around, the policeman gave them awentle hint to keep qaict, abd our reporter departed. No sooner bad ue de- scended than Jotin came rushing down, in the wiki- est fear, e kul me! He kill me he exciaimed. He was sent back with an insect tn his eustachian inde, und quiet gathered over the domains of New York’s China, A visit to 66 Cherry street, in the Fourth ward, gave & glimpse at the more domestic life of the Ohinaman, ‘this house in the third svoFy 18 00+ cupied as 4 lodging house, with avout the same accommodation us those deiuied of the Baxter street crip; but there is more neatness and more of tue comforts of @ Nome are yisidie. SCHOOL. A department for the iastruction of the Chinese has beem opened at the Five Pots Mission, and the studenia ssow tolerable progress. They are edu- cated m those branches wich will be of value to them in a mercautile way, Some forty eniidren attend nightly, and their bebavior is, m general, commendable, CONCLUSION, Yrom the investigations made it appears that the Chunese in the city arc harmiess, obeying the iawa aod following industrious aud prudeutial lives, put meuibers of society they are not experts leanlinéss or safe guides im personal ngbits. Few if guy or the quallues of cunnmg ao ed jo thetr countrymen have been left in their Basrern hofnes. Uniting a frolicsome disposition. wi tendency (0 gaming und an irrests- tiple attachment ¢o opium, they are bonnd her as @ body, and pursue their sports kemmed sell-constituted tsoiation, ‘fhey pliant within u selves diseases and never *xolore the (ata heat of their misery, and If tuey do they lttribute early death to @ rigid climate. They care nothing for Other nationalities and are [title influenced by rt meu . they long f ore of aed Se, act Un Hiretteae Satinct be otuer- wise Clan tue that they can never, as they do nou wish to be, alienaced from their Orlental custoras. It is proper thereiore to mquire whether anything would be gained by superseding the 46,000 nouse servants Of New York by @ class Which, If it will de- mand less wages, will impose more burdens; whether itis rigus to depress the moral standard of @ community which most writera proclaim to be the modern Sodom; Whether 11 would be just to throw upon the mercies of charity the vast number of femaies who have ugnt our city from transat- lantic shores; whether New York owes it a3 @ or should undertake it asa pleasure to tap me 600,000,000 Inhabitants of China and determine a steady and swelling stream of emigration toward the metropolis; whether tue entire subject, when exarmined, sifted and refined, does not die in one of of reform, and whetber efforts to enlighten not begin in the Er 4 not in the West, Now the Burlingame treaty negotiated with the authort- ties at Washington has, by the latest despatches, been rautied by the Rmpeoror of China, further agita- tion Will probably be resumed, bat nothing will be more amusing than to observe the vast army of facta inarspalied under the banner of reason, demolisning gveriia sophistries and = exierminatiug cracks brained logio Witaout remorse. eee