New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-10

The FREscH IN SAN FRANcIsco.-There are about six
thousand Frenchmen in this City They are engaged in all
operations They bankers physicians spectators In
land importers wholesale iobbers retail merchants ma
chanics and Cay laborers fair proportion Of them arc
wealthy and nearly all sre industrious and good citizens
They come from ali parts Of France from Paris from Mar
settles from Lyons from Normandy from Brstagne from
Alsaoe and from Fench-swtzerand and from Lousians
and Canada They all have the characteristics OF French
men they must live in company and talk so long they
remain awake and gesculse while they talk. There ars
but very few Of these from France who intend 10 make
California their bOme they long for the tins when they
may have enough OF the shining gold to return to La Belle
Fia1oe and live there in and independence. They
learn he English language very slowly probably because
they do not intend TO make their permanent home here
They cannot avoid comparing California ~ II H. hegowh
Of half decade Of years with their own country the
growth Of thousand years and as they see u the compar
son is very mach in favor of the latter Their universal
intention ofretunng to France Is an error Of which many
OF them will repent in time
They complain that they have suffered injustice At tbs
bands of the Americans 40 doubt many Of them have,
ike many Of the Americans themselves. But
that the French have suffered injustice H. that they have
10 political power They have not endsavored TO become
citizens and they have not learned the English language.
They are IN the country but not oft With such nbers.
no less than 10000 and more coming, they would
make their positive weight felt Let them consider Cali
fOrnia as their home let them become citizens and let
them endeayor to change the evil of which they Justly
complain TO good 1t may be that California shall be
changed for the better and many OF her faults purged
away before they shal be ready with fortunes made, to
return to France San Francisco must have large French
population for many years The French have no important
possessions Of their on the Pacific, bu. they have
some commerce and there a great many Freachmsn
scattered through Spanish America
OF all this French commerce Of the Pacific San Fran.
cisco must naturally be the head considerable number
oihe French residents Of California were living in Spanish
America al the time Of the discovery OF the gold mines.
ard thus it il that many Of them speak Spanish. Many
Of the best eating houses and finest saloons the city
kept by Frenchmen Some professions they almost mo-
n0poli2e importation Of wine foe cookery wig making,
sc They occupy almost exclusively Of the largest
gambling houses in the city and very well represented
in tbs others. They have theaer here which they have
supported exceedingly well considering theirsma number
They have benevolent society which has expended large
sums Of money, and done a great deal Of good They
have two newspaper. which are very wen CONDUCTED.
Our French citizens take but little interest in party politics.
and if naturazed, would probably divide themselves
nearly equally between the Wing and Democratic parties.
THr GERMANS N SAN FRaycrsco There are about 900
Germans in San Francisco. They are Of all classes and
from all parts Of Germany; from the mountains of the
Tyro TO the delta Of the Weser from the hills of Alsaee 10
the sands Of the Nsua Many Of them have long been
away from their native land in the United States
and others in Spanish America and In the Isles Of thu
South Pacific great many OF the teregn merchants ia
Mexico Chill Peru, aud in the Provinces on the Eastern
Coast of South America, are Germans. Germany has
foreign Colonies and yet there IS not room for all her
citizens az home The Spaniards have partially for
the Germans in former times Germany aud Spaia were
united under one Emperor the most powerful Monarch Of
Europe and the associations connected with the history Of
the Umpire agreeable But probably the main cause Of
the preference OF the Spanards for the Germans that
the er possess political power out Of the Continent
OF Europe, while The Ingibb French and Americana
dangerous account at their maritime power as well as
oftheir graspirg disposition
Spanish America has been kind of paradise for adveu-
urous young German merchants that wished 10 their
Wild oats away home. Many OF them scattered from
Chill to chihuahua attracted by the gold Of Csfor
MIA, and some Of them among weslthe,t c-
zens This residence in Spanish America accounts for the
Guency and correctness with which many Of them speak
Spanih The great majority Of the Germans in California
intend 10 make their permanent residence here They
amo 81 universally Republicans; nearly all become citizens,
they learn English readily and they adopt American
ner and customs more readily than any other Europeans
from the continent The Germans here very different
as class from those Of the Atlantic States there nearly
all are mechanics and aborer and but few well educated
Willie here thew are nearly all intelligent men, They hays
several associations to keep up the memory Of the Vater
land" Among these, the Turn Vereia, or Gymnsstia
Union Is the the first Ever since lis formation has been
in high favor with the German people II was started
at tine when all popular gatherings were forbidden by
those who feared the interchange of IDEAS among peo
pie Gymnasc exercises part Of the education youth
in Germany and are even held high that scsdemyis
there called Gymnasium When all other sssembages
forbidden, those for gympastc exercises were con-
dered harmless and permitted but they soon oecsme
the schools Of democratic ideas which they have snce Sd
esctualy propagated. The San Francisco 1Hrn FsreHn
In a very hOurishng condition The SaeHger bHHd sung
errs' band ia another popular German ASSOCIATION
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