The Placer herald., 1870-07-16
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

| lfrom our Regular correspondent
SAN Francisco, July 18th.
The Massachusetts, manufacturer whose impor-
tation OF Celestials into North Adams for thoe-
making purposes has given rise 80 such tumult
Of protest. certainly deserves credit for having
brought the Chinese question into national prom
inence. California politicians have had such a
monopoly Of The subject that they began TO think
they had vested right 10 it, and If any one out
side Of the State tried to make little political
capital by planking q platform ia convention
with good round denunciation of Chinese immi-
! grafton, they resented it as theft Of their own
private thunder. But we have got over all thai
now ,snl the legislative wiseacres of Wisconsin,,
Massachusetts, and South Carolina can puzzle out
the botherng problem California has given them
without the least fear Of exciting our jealousy by
its solution. On Friday night the X. 0. S. G..
| (which being interpreted means the knights of
| St. Crspen called meeting of laboring men
to discuss this all important topic. and the an
swer to the invitation was mile OF banners aud
| iransparercies, Plat's Hall crowded to sunoca-
| tion, and fifteen hundred processonsts unable TO
obtain admittance. That the immediate result
Of the fnti Coolic agitation OH this coast is going
10 be the formation oil
woRKINGxAN's PARTY
Is now pretty certain, and il it once gets head
cratic and Republican parties as easily as Moses
ROD swallowed up those unconsidered trides of
Egyptian astrologera The Hon. Phillip A.
Roach of the Examiner has already taken prom
inent position as leader of this popular move
mcnt, and If he has Congressional or Guberna-
torial aspirations tut few men in the State can
successfully run against him. If the work ngmen
Of San Francisco would only shake off the Wins.
E.nn Iu 81, ,Nso 1n nfv,,.u
who use the creative wealth of this city as tools
Tor their own sclf-advancement and trust TO the
leadership Of such gent enan as Roach, CaZneau
and Bette, snort. sharp and decs We Anti Coolie
| campaign would show the county that California
| is thoroughly determined to have a speedy settle
ment OF The question, and such action would un-
doubtedly stir up the Con gressiOnal drones and
| compel legislation. .4s Frank Pixey said in
recent letter. there several remedies for the
evil condition OF things caused hy the Chinese
| influx, ana the very worst of all is violence -
Hundreds of people here do not care to join in
.dn.i Coolie demonstrations. for fear that they
may be countenancing violence. Such n card.
therefore, as that published by Thomas Mooney
| in last nights papers does more harm than can be
| remedled by half dozen meetings. and If il WAS
not written with the deliberate intention of freak
ing up the movement. thus destroying Mr.. ROach's
chances for political preierment. the only Chart
able surmse is condensed in the word whisky
""' "h''hS W TthlpU, writes MT. MOUU'J my
position as President of the California Building
and wings Bank in order to offer myself to the
people oil this State as their Governor" very big
capitalist land Protector" [srnall roman against
the Chinese barbarians and the loc, thieves"
with the militia and The powers OF the State at
my command. together with hundred thousand
volunteer citizens drilled and armed, MY safe.
ly promise to reship most of the Chinese to tLeir
own country in less than three months after my
accession TO Office" "If the people want their
work tho onghly done they will vote for me if
otherwise, for some of The strong but slip
perry politicians Since the defeat of McCop-
pin for Mayor last fall. there has not been q pro
per harmony amongst the democratic leaders Of
this city. McCoppin, Mooney and the Monitor
assert that the Irish element has been neglected
in the distribution Of office. that the luk.warm-
ness Of what is called the Southern wing was the
sole cause of McCoppin's defeat. Southern Dem
ocrats. headed by the Examiner, deny that there
has been either neglect or unf,irnpss in appor-
tioning the appointments; but for all that the two
| wings are far from reconccd, and McCoppin.
who is the acknowledged head of the Irish aec-
ton. while steadily holding aloof from political
discussion. is said 10 he burning with impatience
for opportunity TO revenge the trelchory The cllls
III that led to his rejection for the Mayoralty.-
fou will therefore understand the motive that
leads his friend Mooney TO try and bring storm
| of ridicuc upon movement that is led Ivy the
Examiner people. | have been thus d1usc in
referring to these undisguised dssensions, in
der that you may have the key to many other
wise inexplicable movements.
BARNES GRAFTON.
Mr.. Barnes snguarly inappropriate oration
and a couple OF murders. are the Fourth of Julys
legacy to gossip. Mr.. Barnes launched of into a
kind of "Lochiel's Warming" in which. after de
nouncing State Legislative bolies. corruption
and mal.administraton in high places. be drew a
r,x,;I
have in bringing Republican government into
disrepute. although no alusion Was made to
political parties in the oro,tion, the Republican
press fud that the cap fits. and are crying out
Justify against the indictments
MuHpEn MADE EASY.
The couple OF murders Il or, should rather soy.
homicdes for murder is not called murder in
San francisco. unless woman is the victim
were only remarkable for the coolness with which
| they were perpetrated hoth OF the victims being
deliberately shot down in the public streets. and
so far as can be asce. tanned without the least
| provocation. In each case the assassins would
| have remained undetectcd had they mol surren-
| dered to the authorities. 1t really seems land
| intended murderers might just as well have the
b'neGt of the experienced that the safest way of
| killing man without detection is to shoot him
down on public thoroughlre. and then. while
the passers Ivy are making up their minds what
| TO do. lol round the corner. and once out of
slEnt resume Tue ordinary Careless WlIk oil an un
| pertutbed citizen. II the deed o blood weighs
little 100 heavy on the soul Tor comfort. there
is no danger to life or liberty incurred by a sur
render, for the annals of San Francisco have no
record OF any judicial punishment being inflicted
| for the offence
| DOUBLE HEADED CHILD
a day or two ago child WAS born in the su-
burbs of the city with two heads. One of the
heads was SO attached to the body that in the
opinion OF the attending physician it was neither
useful nor ornamental. He therefore determined
to amputate it, and did so successfully. The
child is still living, and doing better than could
be expected under the circumstances.
A JOURNALIST ASSAULTED.
| Major John Stratman, ex newsman. ex. Grant
| 1nvincibcs ex-editor, etc gave Mr. +. Marriott.
proprietor OF the .Ne,cs Letter. specimen Of his
muscular development on Saturday night, by
knocking the old gentleman down in Franks
saloon, on Montgomery street, sevcring bis up
per lip in two, and hiking him several times in
the face. The cause OF the assault WAS several
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