New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-28

-Fleas and the Remedy-Teanisters, their
! Independence and Cruelty-Fires and Fire.
prosf Buiidings-Drunken Men and Grog-
! geries-Stxty barrels of Rum consumed in a
Day-Drinking in Auction Rooms-Auction-
GERS Swear-Prsaress of Sons of Temper
ance-Thieves and Robbers-Gamblers and
Gambling saloons, with Music Gratis-rwo
kinds of Blacklegs-Wind and Weather
Rats, Bugs and other bad things-Nr. Shell
tons Exhibition of California Products.
Correspondence Of The N. Y Tribune.
SAN Francisco, Wednesday, Oct Is, 1881.
few days since i picked up letter
which lay open in public place, written by
some one in San Diego to his friend In this city
Here is portion Of IT, copied literally
Al will now tell mine opinion OF San Francisco
II void bee erade plesanter then san Diego If there
was not so much sand dust fees durty carts hers al
most every day drunken men about the streets
ROBBERS thieves gamblers black legs hoTs thevs and
wind enof to blow you III the dok n you are within
one mile of il cant recolec any more bad things OF
San francisco
Il was not neediul for the writer TO recoect any
more bad things As to sand and dust, Ne must
plead guilty. The hills on the north side OF the
city. about Clark's Point and North Branch. are
hard and rocky or clayey and during the long
dry Summer, dust is supplied by them in abund-
ance. Southwark, in Happy Valley and toward
Rincon Point, the world is made OF sand From
the facility OF grading, the city extends rapidly
in the latter direction. Happy Valley is fast
filling up with an excellent population composed
of families. Three churches have Oeen erected
there this season-Baptist, Presbyterian and
Catholic, and the EpiscoPalians are about
erecting one. There is free school--a large
company of little boys and girls as sweet and as
smart as you would find in the land of Penn or
among the descendants of the Pilgrims
Nv text is the gospel truth concerning heas.
If a troop of California leas had been sprlnAled
upon Egypt in the days OF lsraeli,ish slavery,
this one plague would have worked odt all the
submissiyeness that was accomplished by the
seven of which we have the record Decent
housewifery, however, is gradually Killing OH
the blood suckers. The almost exclusively male
reputation of the past was highly favorable to
them. They delight in piles OF shavngs and
rubbish, in unswept floors and mistaken Dian
kets And they eschew brooms and water and
all sorts of domestic excitement. But the diff
Guilty is, that they have the squatsers title 70
! all the buildings, namely, possession and that
with them constitutes about nine and nine.tenths
points of law However, there is no doubt that
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| and daughters, the fleas will gradually concen-
trate their forces on those who treat them with
most indulgence, and that good housekeepers
will find them not very annoying
The "durty carts" are an unreasonable cause
| of complaint any farther than running over you
! is Objectionable and a "durty" one IS rather
worse than a clean one for tina. purpose. II is
| true the cartmen of San Francisco are the most
| independent sovereigns that " fierce democra-
| Gle can exhibit They can't walk their horses
! If no, loaded II is enough not to gallop win
a heavy load of lumber they will trOt over the
| planked streets faster than an opposition mall
! coach IN any other part oi Chrlstendom. Inc
! California teamster don't talk to MS horses, ex-
cept to curse them when he don't know how to
manage them The lash and verbal dannatlon
are the means OF communicating with them
| and some of the beasts, the mules especially,
are more afraid of the Oaths than the whip. The
| driver don't tell you OF his approach. II he runs
| over you. he curses you Tor II, and drives on
! The cruelty to brutes which distinguishes span
lsh countries IS eXhlDlted mere III l'e Iu4hoeS W
! American horsemen
| Now for the tiers." From the van, OF pune
! tuatcn, an interesting doubt occurs, whether the
almost every day" refers 10 fires or drunken
men, We viii presume the former Tor the
| writer is TOO obseryant man 10 aSccla!e a'n's'
! with drunkenness In California HAD ne re-
] fered 10 the latter, he would nave talked OF
I
founded Since the labOrs Of the Vigilance Com
| rnittce and the determination ofthe incendlanes
who did MT set fire to the city, there Is not the
! least danger from fire. Else, why would the
merchants erect such massive structures-huge
piles of brick and stone with hole IN tne mo
| dle--as might defy the fury Of Uehehha
Alas. for the drunken men ''-One mon'h
400 the number of licenses 10 sell liquor by re-
tail then taken out, was three hundred and sereH-
! t,.y The number now Is not less than -FOUR
hundred Besides these, there are probably two
! hundred places where liquor Is doled out ny the
| drem without license To support all these
| places the daily receipts must average az ieasl
tycntv. five dollars TO each bar. Many OF tnem
nav from $500 10 $500 monln rent ne
! Lowest price of a glass OF groe Is " one nal or
~ cents but the prce at ali the gsnt'el pars IS
/ * cents You get the sight oil handsome
brazen faced strumpet gratis.
Now count up-say only five hundred oars,
taking twenty five dollars day that IS SIZ,Joo
dav for grog That is Fire Millions Of DoHa,s
yeor, IN population OF twenty-five 'honsahu
| All this lie independent OF pirate drinking winch
| is done some. ill
/ wish the reader would spare ne the houote
! and modification OF calculating the Prooaole
! Quantity of LIQUID FIRE poured down the 'hlosts
of the citizens il day, and IN year IL the
average Of a drink be one gill, land some men
can swallow awfully big drlnks,) at the average
price Of lsi cents, how much liquor w9u'u NC
drank for 500 And then how much IN
YEAR At rough guess make n not far from
2.OcO gallons day, or 10000 gallons year
That IS to say, sixty barrels day, and twenty,
five thousand barrels year 0 tempora y
,noresi Besides tree drinking IS extensively
carried on Merchants and shopheepers 90 SOM
tiD,rs whet up the trading appetltes OF tnen Gus
toners tome and sharpen out Of the bot,
tie At the auctions you may ge' IT, u,av
.a Ieie and when the bidding grows dull the aue,
toneer calls for some Of that good oId rIemcn
Brandy, or genuine Port Juice mace 81 bich !.
o., aa,u ON, Of All proportion TO the bidding
LOVE- p OF psi.ins prunes, and crackers are kept
nren and scheese stands there. to afford every
TaaSy a Tree lunch aud TO maintain respectable
noos Some men get their living by
! NN"e -. IL The anciinn stores every CAV