Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-09
FrOebeI on San FraneIsco.

One Of the most eminent men, says the
Alta, who have ever visited San Francisco is
Julius Froebel, Professor in several German
Universities, Doctor of various degrees, mem.
Der of numerous scientific associations. and
author of several books of European celebri
ty. His latest book, published this year in
Leipzig is on America-Aus Amerika is its
name-a work in two duodecimo volumes. of
about 600 pages each.
We translate, as follows, some of his re-
marks on San Francisco:
"San Francisco is the type of life in Cali
fornia. All classes of the population of the
State-all nations from which representatives
were drawn thither by the fame of the mines
ALL grades of civilization--all characters to
which the race can he developed under the
most diverse circumstances of transition Deri
ods, when society is in ferment, and the
best and basest points of the hnman consti-
tuition, rise into prominence--al these fill
the thoroughfares of the city. All European.
many Asatic, and some American languages
can be heard while walking few blocks in
the streets. And the whole of this apparen.
chaos OF heterogeneous elements has been set
in order,under the great life-form of Ameri-
canism, with its restless labor, its ever-active e
spirit of speculation, its realism which de-
spses all vanties, and its ever faithful devo
tlon to ntiitaranism. The gross realism or
rather materialism of American life has grown
to such high development here, under ex-
traordinary conditions, that it NAV be said
to have reached its zenith, and to have at
talned in its extravaganza, tinge of poetry
"a tfD Enr . i
to American life but it is the romance OF
reality and fact, not of fiction or suffering.
The bankers business is in itself highly pro.
sale; but when you see the stores of gold
bars piled up in the banks of San Francisco,
and see at the same moment in the street
outside, the bearded and weather beaten
faces of the,men who brought the gold to til o
daylight, there is something romantic in the
consideration of an extensive romance, full
of adventurous characters and incidents,
wonderful fortunes and exhibitions of power
in comparison with which the imaginations
of Sue are dull and mean. And how all
the figures in this great composition, various
as are their forms, are united into harmoni-
GUS whole, ty the governing influence of the
main tone
"The gentleman and the lady in most fash
ionable clothing, in fine carriages or on costly
horses-the simple business man with his
sensible and world. wise face-the intelligent
mechanic with the consciousness of his digni-
ty as man and citizen, and the expression
of security and independence in his business
the European merchant who has grown to
be cosmopolitan during previous residence
In China, East India, Australia, Chile, Peru,
or Mexico the smart Yankee, who is never
without scheme for making fOrtune-the
slippery lawyer and the unscrupulous politi-
clan and demagogue, hand in han with the
speculator and land caimant-the protector
OF great enterprises in mining metallurgy,
and other branches of scientific labOr-the
miner in rude and often wild costume-here,
as elsew where, the farmer, the main producer
OF the country-the actor and the clergyman
of this or that sect-the gambler and the mu-
slcian-the German Turner and the German
singer-the Mexican and the South Ameri.
can--the corpulent Chinese merchant and the
lank Cooley-the prosperous Chinese courte
zan and the low class Chinese prostitute-the
Tartar and the Malay-the Kinaka and the
Society Islander-the free negro and the mu-
latto-and. finally, the California Indian,
formerly the lord of this rich land. and now
poorest and last of all its occupants-it is in
deed wonder that all these elements can CO.
exist with each other, and be held together
while the law and the government impose
the least possible restraint upon the move
ments of every individual. Is itIcause for
wonder, that In such mixed society, exten-
ding through the whole State, crimes should
be committed every day-that offences are
committed by the community as well as
against it-that hostilities sometimes occur
between the different races? The Europe
ans who speak with adherence of State
which really presents more agreeable and en-
couraging phenomena to the philosopher iu