, 1870-06-04

1Grly commenced Already, though tle seA6Ou
At that altitude has hardly opened, and several
Almoet ali our Eastern visitors this year will 60
the1e.
HUNDRED yEAns AGO.
4 hundred years ago, the 28th OF this month.
the town OF Monterey Was founded By the
padres from old Spain, snd the Society OF
ca]ifo1nia Pioneers, and many other cisizons
OF San Francisco aud visitors from abroad will
e down the coast in steamer to participate
II the celebration Of the anniyersary. The
old misaion of San Diego was founded 100
nipero Sierra. Among the military guard who
stood By and presented arms when the worthy
padre raised tho cross aloft for the first time
in Alta California, on that day, 10l years ago,
was Cimon Avilos, q hale young man OF q
years, who had enlisted in Spain three years
before. To-day, away down in Mexican Lower
California, a hearty and vigorous old man, in
with IN eye undimmed and memory unim-
paired, eits under the Orange trees at Todoe
Santos, and tells the story Of those bravo old
days, when tie lion Of Spain uae lion indeed,
and rent forth his whelps through all the
world, conquering and to conquer. The young
soldier, Cimon AVolos, and the old veteran Of
Todos Santos are one. It has been proposed
to bring tho old man up hcre to sec the
changes that 3 hundred years have wrought,
but it is feared that the journey and excite.
nent might kill him. Would it not be novel
streets Of tho Queen City Of tho Pacific, to-
walked vail ''eS Over lilo 7 its Hite % then la . group
OK barren sand hills, in tho full yigor
Of his manhood, hundred yeaIa ago2
Some yaarB ago I wrote to TIE TRIBUNE,
John is soon to be to tue Pacific States what
sambo iB to the South to-day John is
already the 's everlasting nigger" to our peo-
| pie, md he will soon be the saIne to youra az
[ we'll. Our political bumme1s having played
| Sambo completely out, aud the Republican
5arty, 50 far II this state is concerned, being
[ thing Of the dead past, arc now mounting
the Anti Chinese hobby and riding it to tue
devil as fast as Heaven will let them. Among
| tho very worst Of the demagogues who are
| bounding the more ignorant and debased of
our forcign-born element on to outrages
against the helpless Cinnamon, il Frank Pix.
Republican party in the State. It is true thai
he invariably led the party to disastrous de-
feat: but he was leader, nevertheless, and hi!
sudden conversion and radical harrangues u
the 1abblo ID matter Of surprise to those
who do not know him personally; to those
| who know him and his history it ls no marye
at all. He talks to them Of burning tht
steamships OF the Pacific Mail Company 4
their wbaryes and uphelting tue government
i SELF, if the Chinese are not driven ont, AMI
tabor furnished at flush times pE1cea ny capI
talists and the city, to all comess OF the eau
not to have mobs until Congress has been pc
titioued for redress and refused it; but we 81
know what followed the CRY, 81 Don't nail tn
poor gentleman's ear to the door!" Then u
tells them to send no man to Congress Wh
will not pledge himself to urge tn
the enactment of laws which will deba
to prevent industrious Mongoliaus from sci
: ting ON our shorcs. 4 nan who attempte
to argue tho other eide Of tho question q
} Mechanics' Institute Hall, last Saturday nigh'
, was very nearly mobbed by the rufian rabbi
: the lind which las adopted them, and riot
, | NAV vet fesult from tho agitation here i
San Francisco.
But ret there has been no change in put
Q lie sentiment on the question. Pi1ley
, known az demagogne from baso, and whe
: he tells the bowling audience that he does no
want to So ito to cGngressmthoush en he laa Zee zee
, long-wa all know just What he mean
There must always TO come hobby for tt
professional patriot to ride; but it
4 unfortunate when, as in this instance, tt
3 hobby is Of such character as to cndangt
The peace and safety Of tue entire communi'
+ ike Know-N nottingham and the, other humbugt
j but it is disgraceful nuisance while it lasts.
r Tie influences Of bad example is telling q
8 John, with the rest. Yesterday tho Chine:
= Wozkman'B Protective Association--a humb
J. imitation Of the European Labor Unions, {
common and all-powerful among us-got into
9 healthy old not Of their own. on s3cf
. meuto street, above Kearney; shot, stabbed NJ
Q pummclled each other with iron bars, and,
r. fact, conducted themselves as disgracefully
o any Of their white neighbory are accustomt
6 to do. / don't know that it is any worse +
9 John to thus disgrace himself than it is 4
= Patrick. or Hans, or Jonathan, or sambo, b
= it looks worse We expected something bett
% from The "heathen.'' Pa1haps it afte-
IS only demonstrates Johns capacity for acqu
s ing the higher civilization Of which !
i prate 20 much, and to learn lin which We p
l. biz money for sending missionaries to h:a
l. his own country from "Qur own happy land