The union Democrat., 1870-09-17

oeTfnan celebration. The Chinese mind has
an impression that their race has friend in
Germany and the American Germans. In
regarding all these political complications
from an elevated stand point there is grand
crash of tin pots and trnmpets in the alley
under my windows. I may be the object OF
a public ovation. / will Just .'pus up'' few
sentences in the event of being called upon
for speech and 20 out upon the balcony.)
DISAPPOINTMENT.
1t is nothing. The gathering was dispers-
cd By matron just as I emerged into the
outer air. The scattered fragments have
been pursued to their respective homes
Life is indeed series of disappointmonts.
CHINESE CLOTHING STORES.
On Dupont street, the Chinese have estab-
lished stores for the sale of slop clothing.
This for them is a new, phase of business
So they creep in. Our California manufac-
turing interest is largely going to China.
Lofts and cellars are flled with them making
cigars. They monopolize the slipper trade
They constitute the human portion of the ap-
partus on hundreds of sewing machines.
Wherever. they see an opening, they rcsh in
Chinese industry is td-n that childn
USELESS ADVICE.
The Press as ever advises men to 90 off into
the agricultural districts aad seek employ
ment. These gentlemen whose business it is
to write a certain amount of matter per day
to fill up q newspaper column should theT-
selyes,take tramp to the agricultural coun-
ties and see how much employment is there,
for any considerable number of men. At
hae 81 ! I
That over will tie man obtain much employ
mont? Try it and see. There is an inter
mittent system Of advice to young men from
portion of the City Press that they 60 to
work in the country and cultivate the sail.
| ask how can they so 90 Without-a snug lit-
tie capital? Can he build himself a house,
barn, fences, procure stock break ground and
secure provision to live on for at least year
without thousand or two dollars? Where
may the army of men lingering about this
city earn this now in California? A few
may and do. The many cannot. TIE coun
try is full Of every resource. But there is no
important market for anything save grain
and can your unemployed young man with
out capital put in his two hundred five hun
dred, one thousand, three thousand acres oi
grain on those plains exposed to the contin.
gencies of successive droughts, can he do this
without capital? Ask the scores of small
one and two hundced acre farmers. cleaned
ont, dried out and played cut this season in
the San Joaquin Valley.
PRESUMPTION.
| will be presumptuous and explain the
evil. There is no employment for the crowd
that's here. There is no market for nine
tenth's of what the soil is capable Of produc
ing. There is no manufactures. There are
no interior market towns. Cut off the grair
and gold product aad out falls the bottom
Tim serene at hearing that brat who's been
bowling for the last FIVE minutes so vigorous
ly spanked, | enioin in spirit upon the mother
the Scriptural injunction "what thou doesi
old woman, that do thou with all thy might. y,
now WE ROT.
To proceed. The city to-day feels the de-
cay of the extremities. | found this GUNNER
the hotels shut Up in two Of Your Tuolumne
Camps. Closing up the Public House is O
bad sign for a place. 1t shuts out much life
and stir and business. It's en indication
that life, population. stir and business have
decreased in the vicinity Of that camp. q
think from the noise that several pairs oi
twins must have come into the world in cur
back-allev( San Francisco feels proportionate-
ly the shutting up of those two hotels The
extrem:tics do not decay without affecting the
trunk. But this 10 not a true comparison.
The country is the trunk. this city the more
snowy and fairer leaf and blossom The
trunk may sometimes be long rotten ere the
foliage shows that it lacks sap. There are
more houses to let in this city than ever. see
almost the entire front of blocks placarded
"To Let" The recent Census estimates
show that in population, we are not the Her
eules we thought we were. | see more of the
raiddling upper crust eating at ten cent res
tGurants. The Press pooh-poohs all this
1t denounces it as stereotvped cry, raised
by the restless and dissatisfied. 1t covers i,
up as it did the earthquake two years ago.
Then when every other bailding on the made
ground in the lower part Of the city was
cracked from top to bottom, when scores oi
walls were shorcd and propped up, when
dozens of grocery ard crockerv stores had
their contents knocked and tumhled into an
eternal smash. when that terrible force was
such as to scale and chin the solid granite
from the edges of the Bank OF California s
copings as you mag see to-day and on other
buildings as well, why even then these Jour
nalistic swinders after they had sufficiently
composed themselves to sit down to their
desks and were able in their trembling fin
gers to hold their pens, did they write "AllS
Well !" (flannigan is giving his wife her
regular Sunday beating. | go out upon the
balcony to take the air and hear and see as
much of the spectacle as possible. 1t rests
the mind.
PRENTICE MuLFoRD.
REsuLT OF TUE LATE ELEcrroNlN San FRAN
CISco.-Tax Collector, Alex. Austin, Demo
crat, majority over Peters, 500; Auditor, Mon
roe Ashhury, Taxpayer. majority of 3,4lS