The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-10-16

&C., though there are numbers of other
streets, running at right angles with them,
largely devoted to this character of trade.
The stores in these streets are large and
very elegantly fitted up, and their contents
arranged so as to display them to the best
possible advantage and in their most at
tractive form-they are kept open till a
very late hour, say 10 and Il o'clock, with
every gas jet burning at its full height, and
the side walks crowded with ladies and
gentlemen for many blocks.
Most of the important streets of the city
are laid with the Nicholson pavement, and
consequently the carriage and buggy driv-
ing on them is very pleasant. Street cars
are running upon many of the streets and
some to important points for miles out of
the city.
| The San Franciscans are evidently fond
of fine horses and elegantly finished car
riages. There are several splendid drives
in the neighborhood of the city. The AL
media road, from Almeda to San Jose, sha-
ded on each side by large trees, is great
attraction. The most popular drive, how
ever, is the drive to the "Cliff House."
which stands on a high cliff, right on
the Pacific Ocean. 1t is distant about
six miles from the centre of the city,
and one of the finest roads for horse
travelling you can well imagine. A
friend called for me at six o'clock this
| morning ood wa drova ont IF tho rota IF
about 2:40 all the way. At the Cliff House
we met another friend, who had three of
the Representatives from New York, and
partook with them of a sumptuous break
fast which the two San Franciscans had Or
dered. These fellows stop at nothing in
the way of expense to crafty and please
you. After breakfast we went out upon
the large back porch overlooking the ocean,
and you may imagine the scene which pre-
scented itself-on bright, sunshining morn
ing as it was. About half mile from the
shore, Though they seem to be but stones
throw off, are two immense rocks rising-1
am afraid to say how many feet above the
top Of the waves. These rocks are called
the Seal Rocks, and there you can see the
seals laying about on the rocks, basking in
the sun, or working their way over the rocks
with their great clumsy fins and tails, all
the time barking at a great rate, so as to
keep up a continual clatter, which, whilst
at breakfast, sounded like some immense
saw mill, as the only thing can now think
of to compare it with. There must have
been at least hundred seals scattered over
the two rocks this morning, some of them
weighing, VIC were told, 1900 or 1900 lbs
When they come out of the water their hair
(for they are hair seals, or sea lions, and not
the fine fur seals that are found in Alaska)
lies close and sleek upon them, shining like
glass. but it dries as they lay there, and soon
becomes dirty brown. Besides the seals,
large quantities Of the seal fowls rest upon
these rocks, and hundreds of them were
seen there this morning. Their deposit is
kind of guano, and gives to the top Of the
rocks white or chalky appearance. The
birds and seals are protected by law, and a
severe penalty inflicted upon any one found
shooting at them.
The great question to be solved here
is the future result of Chinese emigration.
There are now over 10000 in the State,
and at least IL, 900 in this city, and they are
still coming. One or two emigrant ships
have arrived since have been here. The
emigration cannot be stopped without CO.
ersive measures which the government will
not and perhaps cannot resort to. They
do not appear very likely to assimilate with
our people. They maintain rigidly their
own customs and style of dress, and they
import all their own clothing. They re-
quire very little for their support, and send
away to their own country all the balance
of their earnings. They have their own
temple and perform their heather cere-
monies and the worship of the deity
"Josh," without interruption. They are
apparently very meek, quiet people
Their countenances all indicate an inno-
cent, quiet spirit. They pass along evil
IDENTIFY occupied with their own thoughts,
perfectly Indifferent about the curiosity
they excite. This, however, has almost
disappeared, and is found only in the new ar
rivals from the East. After you have been
here day or two you take no notice of
them, though you may pass 30 or 40 in
walking single square. They live to-
gether in certain streets both here and in
Sacramento, and the corruption and de-
bauchery among large portions of them is,
l am told, terrible and disgusting in the
extreme. There are, however, some very
respectable and genteel people among them.
At the entertainment given to the Grand
Lodge by the merchants and business men
of the city, at the Chamber of Commerce,
there were six Chinese merchants present,
one of whom made a short speech. They
seemed to be, as we conversed with them,
gentlemen in their manners, and very intel
ligent men. The prejudice against them APP
pears to have been excited by another class of
foreigners whose places they take in the labos
of the country; and some of the politicians
are unfavorable to them because there seems
to be no chance to make voters out of them;
while they supercede those out of whom
voters may be made. The Chinaman has
no desire to become a voter. He knows
nothing about such matters. In the couu-
try he comes from ne such privileges exist
and he cares nothing about it. All he
wants is to be let alone, allowed to work as
he pleases and when he pleases, pocket his
wages and send them home to China.
The children born here, and those that
come here very young, howevee, are likely,
as they grow up among us, to become
different people, and the Christian churches
are gathering them into Sunday schools
and trying to teach them the language and
religion of this country; and l believe not
without some success. The Catholics have
large number of them and the Protestant
churches are all laboring i'll the same di-
rection. One gentleman told me they have
about 400 Chinese in the school in
which he was Superintendent. One
thiu,r is remarkable we never coo any