Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-17
GNurtester Daily Syn.
of the New York Tribune
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.

DAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 70, 1859.
The chief topic. of discussion during the
last week has been Mr.. Greeley, his move
ments, and his sayings. He arrived in this
city on the morning of the 10th inst, having
been met at Benica by a committee of cti-
zens, including the senior editors of the Atlas
and Bulletin, who accompanied him to San
francisco and escorted him TO his hotel. Dur
ing the 10th and 18th he received visitors
great numbers of them. On the evening of
the 18th he made a speech an hour long, in
front of the Oriental Hotel, on the Pacific
Railroad, before about 5000 persons. The
meeting was very enthusiastic, applauding
Mr. Greeley and his ideas often, long, and
loudly. The daylight of the 18th was spent
by him in looking at the city and writing let
tiers to the Tribune in the evening he deliv-
cred lecture in the First Congregational
Church before the Mechanics Institute. Yes
terday he went to see our public schools this
evening he will deliver a lecture before IL
brary association tomorrow Sunday he will
lecture in the American Theatre before the
Dashaway Temperance Society, and on
Monday he will go down to San Jose to see
one of the agricultural districts of the State,
and to visit Mrs. Alden Ia daughter of Thur
low Weed), who lives on a rancho in Santa
Clara Valley. Some of the newspaper editors
pretend to be astonished to see that Mr.. Gree
ley wears black coat and clean shirt. The
Mariposa Star tells the following story =
Several of the passengers who arrived in
Mariposa on last Thursdays stage speak in
hlgeAyms of the fare and accommodations
HYDRA this place and Stockton. Roast pigs,
iner' luls, chickens, and luxuries to match,
as A. ID the tables all along the road. Excel
lent AFnnerS were set, where least expected
and general air of neatness, and everything
i'll order prevailed at every stopping place.
IlrNO 1AI..A L.
had reported that Horace Greeley would be up
on that day-but as he happened to come by
private conveyance, our Mariposa friends feast
ed on the extras prepared expressly for 'Hor-
ace, The shameless rascals seem to be rather
hckled at the idea of teasting on Greeley dim
ners, and say they hope he will travel on this
road.
The Germans of this city held meeting
last week to take measures to put stop to the
importation Of dancing-girls from Germany.
Large numbers of German girls from II to II
years of age, are now employed in this state
at low dancing houses, which are open every
evening and free to all. These places are
frequented by men of coarse manners who
dance with the girls, and at the end OF each
piece each man is required, by custom, to
take his partner to the bar and treat her, the
two drinks costing twenty-five cents. 1t is
expected that the girls will accept every offer
to dance Acquaintance neatness of dress, or
gentllity of conduct is not expected in the
men partners. During the daytime the girls
go about the streets usually in couples, playing
the tambourine or accordion, and singing at
the doors Of grog-shops or inns, where they
demand "two bits" cash payment of every by
stander. OF course these girls are exposed to
many temptations, and it is matter of wonder
how well they guard themselves, and how
faithful they are to their employers. The lat
ter make contracts with the parents in Ger
many to pay a large price, varying from 81 to
So per day, for the girls during period of
several years, and 10 pay their passage to Cal
ifornia and back. These contracts are usually
faithfully kept by the employers and the
girls rarely break their part Of the bargain. 1t
is the interest Of the employer to prevent the
girls from falling to the lowest grade Of hui
mainly, for if they should so fall they would
desert him and deprive him of his profits SO
he manages to always keep two or three girls
together, and make them serve as guardians
for each other; and their comparative success
deserves TO be set down as a psychological
wonder, due, perhaps, rather to the phlegmatic
inertia of Germany than to the active virtue
of humanity Most of the girls come from
Hanover and the vicinity of Bremen, and they
to be sent to all parts of the state Several Of
them were arrested in this city day before
yesterday, and an effort will be made to have
them sent to the House of Refuge The Ger
man meeting referred to passed resolutions,
and requested the Consuls of the various Ger
man states to address their governments on
the subject of the dancing girls.