Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-09-18

who buy IN ngs "by the smallr have TO pay ten
cents for what would be . prnny in the East
Wsges are higher here to Be sure, ana that
equalizes things somewhl'; bnt row, when
business 10 slack a7d msny a-e oat Of onpioy-
ment. toe Forty. 1ine f1sh,on must be h--d on
the poor. The idea current n the East that
recEoaipy diGerenc, be weea gold aud green
backs, piicss are IS low in Clllfor MIA as on the
Atlantic s,op, is miS.aken one. About the
only cheap things here are s,r s.clr ckets
our ior q qusi err, traits, aud We :e able.
Eut II you hand The coudue.or q quarter 70
pay single :aie 10 the ssree: c RS he gives you
aime ch inge. charging Is cent.
CHI ap Fruit.
Fruit is cheap. 1t is so plentiful in Cali
fornia that IL scarcely pays marketing. A good
deal OF meney was made with fruit in the first
years OF the rosh to California, but il is now
raised in such abundance a. 10 b, greatly
beyond the dem I'd. Aud this is true of the
choicest varieties Of fruit. 1t is so much OF a
drug that IL requires caution on tue part OF
strangers no. to get imposed upon by the fruit
dealers. II you are not very wide awake they
will palm on good deal m ore on you than you
pay for. Our first days experience in Frisco
was instructive. We pIusr before a stard
lo d down With the richc-t display We we
red ever seen OF choice, fair. skinned pears,
teaches. grapes aprico;s, plums, &c, and I'M
p Idently asked the deaier to assort MS a quar-
ter's worth. The man filled our hands, I'd
then (when we were helpless) our pocKe.s,
ana then several large p per bags, and had We
not moved OF with considerable haste would
apparently have made us take a drly.load for
our mouey. 1t was pretty bad tx. Two OF
our trio-I name NO names-who undertook
eat their way toroogn were sight TO sss. Tue
third, Of more grace. al proporious about The
waist.band, could not hold but a peck, sud
quit early. There were thea the lper ba - >
be toted through the streets, for ii Il ra.pst
the law to throw Ieoit IN the FRISCO gutters,
and you cau't give 1t away 10 the natives; hey
afecs to think .ruIt Vulgar. nee then, when
we buy fruit, we carefully guard against
fraudulent over.me-sure.
Dull Times In Ian Francisco.
Business is dull in Sln Franciseo-so SAYS
every body, and the papers are filled WI b
'Oh dear what can the matter be-" speCula.
tions. 1t is declared to be the sseverest fusr
cial stringency experienced IN California for
ten years or more" No two agree as TO the
cause. 1t Is attributed variously TO the falling
off in gold production; totis :lct ,bat he
State has to import butter, cheese and house.
hold col, and sells nothing but wheat; TO spec.
ulation In tde-lands; to the absorption OF the
means Of mechanics and laborers by the swarm
OF Homestead Associations which have sold
them sand.hill lots, miles out Of the CITY on a
system Of long credits and small ins ailments;
to the loss Of the Utah, Montana, Idaho and
Neyada trade by the completion Of the Pacific
railroad; to the high price Of wages and the
eight-hour law; to the boarding Of money by
the farmers; TO the fires in the Comstock lode;
to the locking mp OF gold by the Government
in the Sub Treasury at San Francisco with
drawing it from circulation; TO the monopoly Of
IN NV ho
want OF railroads; 40 the usurers and Cheap
Jonn merchants; to the earthquakes SOARING
European capitalists into Withdrawing thar
money from San Francisco; to the want of
greenbacks and thereby the want OF capi,sI;
TO the driving away OF Eastern capital by the
rejection Of greenbacks; to the rule Of the sold
49-ers" with their gambling notionr; to exerbi.
tant profit; the exactions upon shipping BY
which trade Is driven away; the locking M of
money IN White Pine (mines); the withdrawal
OF money % build the Gen raj Pacific railroad;
the withdrawal OF money by the Chinese &c.
&c.
The prolific nature or the catalogue OF rea.
sons gwen why business is dull here shows
that the Californians are really at sea in the
matter. Something of il may be due to a mum.
Der. or all Of the causes enumerated, but to an
unprejudiced looker-on it seems pretty plain
that the radical difficulty with California is
tAot Sao - Out VI gear Win Tue rest OF the
Union. She selfishiy refused to share with the
East in the burdens Of the war, and rejected
the national currency. Now she needs more
money for business operations, and finds her.
self at the mercy OF her single bank or h.
brokers, who charge business men ten per
cent month for discount or an extension of
note. At the same time she sees the ist
prospering through the greenback curreucy,
and every branch OF business quickeued by il.
On the whole, she begins to think that q coin
basis may have its drawbacks, and she would
be glad to get some sreenoacks ana q few Ma
tional Banks; but the bankers here, who rule
everything, won't let her, and there is the
drawback OF unsetfling prices and values
should the change be made. But Zac-
cheus must come down! California mus.
keep step to the music Of the Union, and
take the greenbacks. 1t is exasperaung 70
the Eastern men to have to run to a brokers'
office 70 change his national money, at a stiff
shave, into something that will pass current in
this provincial slip OF land that calls itself one
OF the States Of the Union. Eastern men will
never come here with their capital and submit
to shave Of q third to invest it. Zaccheus
must also come down in prices. California
cannot compete with the East in manufactur-
States and Territories with prices on her
grandiose forty mine scale. She must give over
despising dimes and nickels and make it pos.
slble for the mechanic and laboring man to
live cheaper and work cheaper than now, else
Chicago and the Eastern "West" will make its
nimbie sixpence beat her lazy shilling every