The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-02-13

C0IUM BBS, ISSISSIPPI. TN
SAN FrslnclscO Now and no nc.
What Paris Is to Trance. what n. Or
leans IS TO The South, San Francisco is TO
California What 'yre and Venice, in their
time were % the Mediter ranean. 50 is and
will be- orr city 10 the broad and vast Pa
EcIfie. They lad their neigh boring Cyprus
and Gambia, Sicily and Corsica Malta and
the Balearic Isles, besides the seaports
which off red inducements to the merchant
and see Inslon to the corsair around the bor-
ders Of the great intercontinentaI sea-
| But we have onrs countless Isles of the inn
n1ense ocean the Sandwich, Marquesas
lSociety, Friendly and others--a voyage to
which is Thought no more of by our adven-
turous citizens than were the few hour trips
lof the Yrians and Yenitians, the Caftha-
genlans and Sardillians who once cut those
waters with their skaIlop boats.
The Pacific, to modern modes Of navi-
CATION, is far less formidable than was the
| editerranean to those yonnglings Of com
lmerce. ct while nature aud the course
of events thus far plainly mark this point
as the great western emporium of COM
merce, the depot of a vast trade, we wish
latpresentto speak more particularly of San
francisco IN It's facial appearance and So
clal aspect. In these respects it is neither
like Liverpool nor New York, nor exactly
New Orleans, although more like the latter
than any other of which we know aught,
Like the State of which tits the condensa-
ton, the extract, the Daguerreotype, it is,
Sats sgeneris, metropolitan Melchisedek,
wltha hydra-headed paternity, and lifnbed-
like Briareus, Ii might be addressed as
was the Irishman-" none but myself can
be thy parallel.
1t perhaps, the most perfectly cosno-
polltan city on earth. All tints of COM
p.exion, from the deep cerberean hue OF.
that bell-ringing cuffee, the city-effer, to
1.-The white Caucasian skin that shows the
complexion of Powers Greek Save, and
like 1t ensaves all who view it, Malay and
Kanaka, yellow Chinese andsswarthy ma
tlves OF warmer climes, are found here
The principles which have operated in ma
king 1t what II IS are as. antipodeanin ORR
gin as its inhabitants. Thus it has grown
up, a condensation or mingling of the feel
ings and customs and habits of the broad
earth. Men have met here for the first
time, and mingled with natives of cliues
of whom they had only heard or read before,
and the mutual intercourse has been a ben
| enr 10 ali.
lhere are, perhaps, no people who have
no aLIollg tient safrt- EAtaelr character,
something 10 praise and admire; nor are
there any who do not exhibit peculiarities
which would be better dispensed with.-
Thus, while the energy and grasp of the
Saxon character sheltered by contact with
the more polished Frank, the latter receives
a corresponding advantage by the associa-
ton, acquiring. something of the formers
perseverance and stability in pursuit of n
definite object. So of other intercommu-
nications. The Chinese-the most indus
trious OF our cltizens-are not without their
influence upon our manners and character
that is and IS to be. Like the manutac-
ture Of marbles, the constant friction OF
such community is wearing off the salient
points of each fragment, and will, we hope,
eventually make each more perfect.
The effects of sucn uncommon attritions
are already very evident. Our city has but
little OF the cold fornlality of our eastern
and northern cities and towns, although
the tone of the best, a large portion OF its
society, is as conservative and moral as is
theirs. Yet there IS more of freedom of
thought and action and expression. e is
the warmth of a New Orleans climate, the
beauty of a Southern Indian Summer,
spread over the more staid and sober land
scape of northern hills, lakes and cities
The warm blood of the south, modified by !.
the cool lleadSof the north. And 10y and
by, if not even now, While perhaps no
stranger, come he whence he may, will feel
exactly at home al first among. US, he viii
nevertheless not feel exactly like a stranger
in a strange land.-44ktz Californian.
The greatest discovery OF the age.
There has just been brought to light the
application Of power which is to super
cede entirely the present steam power of
the. world, This announcement may sta g
ger some, but the discovery, when it shall
be divulged, viii stagger them a thousand
times more.
It has been made by an eastern man,
who has completed his InodeIs-one OF
which will be deposited at Washington as
soon as patentrights shall be. securedin the
different European countries. The ma
ehinery is entirely perfected--tlle power Is
a motive one, and STEAM has no part IN It !
So simple and economical are the principle
and application that two tons of coal will
be sufiicient to drive the largest ship of the
line around the word.
We are not at liberty, now, to- divulge
more of this wonderful discovery; but we
predict, with the greatest confidence, that a
short tins only vii elapse before a total
revolution VIII take place throughout the
world, in our motive power system lll-
deed, we assert, with the same confidence
r.