The union Democrat., 1870-05-21
SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPONDENCE.
No REST.

gagged in renewing the dead from Yerba
Buena Cemetery. Fifteen years ago these
bodies were brought here and deposited in
what was termed their last resting plsce. =
But enterprise anG the rash and crush Of bu-
siness allews Of no last resting places for the
remains of weary men and women. The
dead are buried, the last tears are shed, the
flowers wither on the newly raised mound
and all the while long lines of buildings are
approaching and surrounding the cemetery,
the rattle of carts and drays grows from week
to week louder and louder the hard eye Of
trade casts many calculating glance over
the improved enclosure and at last busi-
ness storms Goods Acre" tears up the grave,
tears out its contents, boxes up the unknown
and undistinguishable bones and buries them
elsewhere perhaps in a score of years to un-
dergo similar removal.
swEEPfSGs.
Passing over this sacked graveyard Of YER
ba Bnena, ! saw rough square boxes chalk
labelled "sweepingsn These ''sweepings"
were the promiscuous bones of somebody and
everybody and any body. Fifteen or twenty
years ego, you were with care and prayer
aud ceremony deposited in the earth. And
then the sorrowing friends and the friends
who came to your funeral for appearances
sake and the friends who were bored by the
whole affair and wished it were-over thatthey
IL IL fbns Il
and as year after year passed they also died
or moved away and your grave which by
some il was intended to have marked hy a
stone which should declare your virtues
wholesale and retail to the passer by. who
would moi of course credit half the assertions
thereon made your grave was still unmarS-
ed and the winds and the rain commenced
their ateady never ceasng work OF leveling
it. The mound sunk to mere hummock
the hummock to an inequality : the inequali-
ty TO a dead level perhaps depression and
one day strange sexton commenced another
grave half over yours and as lie goes down
his srade crunches in on your damn decaying
cofhr. lie widens the hole little the next
occupant is lowered. Perhaps it is Bill
Jones pocr ragged and drunken in life !;
found dead in the street; died of delirium
tremens; you sleep side by side; death also
makes strange bed-fellows more years roll
on Bill Jones mound lasts till this resurrec-
tion: the resurrection demanded by trade
and the city's growth; once more the spade is
busy over; it is Bill Jones' tumulous however
that starts the exhumers investigation nor
yours ; You were 60 have monument; your
friends forgot il and the spades work quick
ly down in the soft sand thev touch with
hollow sound the lii of Bills coffin lloloa |!
here q another fellow that's you. and with
haste and carelessness and Indifference your
bones and Bill Jones bones are mixed CT
they manage to extract q complete 'ske eton
from the two and credit il to someone else's.
And the reat Of YOU and Bill Jones goes into
the sweenings your tjbUla and Jones' .5ibnlo;
your collar bone and somebody else's knee
pan and so yeu are again carted of and
hurried in instalments AZ Lone Mnuntnin
MAY it he granted that mt the next Of these
resurrections your frames work may have so
-lnouldered ard mingled with the other dnst
that you shall rest in such peace as you may.
SUNDAY SHOWS.
This is now Tie city of America for Sunday
shows. Sunday picuics and Sunday parades,
Yesterday Sunday Montgomery Street re-
sounded the entire morn with the military
rub-a-dub We run largely to soldier. The
'plumes swords and epauletts seems to have
broken out afresh This is popularity of
peaceful times These men play soldier to
give vent to their vanity. These very men
who dress SO gaily in white or black shakes
aud parti colored garments will sneer at a
woman's passion for adorning her person.
They will with manly dignity end contempt
look down on woman as she looks up into the
miiliners show window. This week the en-
tire National Grarl in their gorgeous nni-
form are TO appear on the stage Of the Califor-
min Theatre in Ours Five thousand wo-
men in this city envy these men the orportI-
nity thus affasded of displaying themselves
and their military to;lettes before fashioaa-
BILE audience | rejoice that my sex have
this opportunity 10 display themselves.
Fashion or!asns for our common wear the
staides, of cuts and ealorS. Woman revels in
every rainbow tint and every caprice Of form.
The instinct TO indn re in variety as to form
snd color is natural 1t will not be all le.
strained. In man it breaks out and heapolo-
yizes for it by turning soldier. And so on
Sundays he struts 10 the toot aud boom and
crash cf martial music up and down Mont
comery Street. The newly arrived st.an-
gers the puritans fiom New England and
Other respectable Sunday observing people
stopniag at the Occidental, the Lick, the
Rnss and the Grand Hotels look frem the
windows of their apartments at the gay and
wicked show and we the native-hvstanders
look up and our faces say; I'VE aren't
afraid to train On Sunday we've got over all
those old fashioned notions about keening the
Sabbath dav holy this is our holiday and we
yo il with rush If you don't like it. leave. =
But they dn like it. They look long and
strain and twist their neeks frera the hotel
windows as The glittesinc columns pass hv
They never turn swav and moralize oser our
desperately fallen moral condition until the
last CAV coat tail has vanished round abs
corner and the rattle Of the carriages and the
footballs on the pavements below arc marring
and ,ieadening the music Even our ears
and eyes lust after sinful sights and Sounds.
Man means we'll enonyh hu, somehow all his
,senses banker after forbidden fruits.
Prentice MULroRp.