New-York tribune., 1871-05-04
COME OYER AND MARRY US.

!. cpy PROM CALIFORNIA-THE KIND OF WOMEN
THE STATE wANTS-wIyE3 AND wAGES-rhh
MIGRATION OF l61i .r.r
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-California has
abundant gold, but save in hor cities, no women my
one ACQUAINTED with mining districts will bear test
mopy TO this In those forlOrn, money-dgging hoius
men lva IN painfuy primitive fashion. cooking mend
Inc and doing generally those httlo domestic Affairs
which, when not dono by women, might as wen DO iei.
undone Thore, cooking is horrible and productive OIL
moro dyspeptc than all the medicine ana uoctos
In ehristondom could cre while the Sabbath Is generally
profaned and all, nearly ALL the nsthetc ana renhng
Influences OF civilized lfo wanting California Is now
IN immediate communication with the outside world,
and her material RESOURCES arc wei developed consider
ing her sal popuation but the excess OF males is SUN
painfully apparent One OF the greatest wants oi 'o
State today is moro women; not CITY misses Win uo
cate hands, who strangers TO the ktcheh' anu "
shine only in tho heaer tho ballroom but honest In
dustrious American girls such are to be found act8
as woitors In hotels In Iowa and Ilinos or "orhns "
tho factories of the Now England states
good American girl OF this class, who Is passaoV
sful in housework, obtain situation throgh 'ho
state Labor Exchange in San Francisco, Withh 10 nous
of hor arrival oven In such dun times as We arc ho"
pas,ing through The wages range from so 70 w god
per month and If girl goes into the coantry-to
botol or a private famiy-sho got S5 to $40 Even
tho most worthless Of Irish servants earn s2o per
month in the city, and tho Chinese VS. to se Any
American girl can get place in the city; but nor ex
will DO smaller and her chances OF marriage very
much greater in tho country Marriage IL one OF tho III
duceen.s which wo hold out TO this class OF girls III they
accept situation In tho country and only passaDy
odlookjng they may reckon being able to secure
we'll odo husbands In year two at tho urthest dirls
travelling aono ~ the Pacific coast must bo careinl on
,be tourney 10 receive no favor Of any kind whatever
from O stranger male or female, but espcoiauy 'no
former In three cases OF four the casual ao4uah
tauces thus mado are undesirable to use no stronger
term Once here they safe alone they would DO
In any Eastern States But thoy must snow tne
wOnnanly reserve In all my experience on THIS coast on
the steamers via tho Isthmus, aud on the tralscet
mental trip which have made twice nave never seen
a nv ono attempt to break down this barrier. .
Tho establishment here OF the best university or COZ
lege In the United States and Of schools OF mediclne
science and philosophy Of the highest order and the IN
dx of an army OF minister's doctors, poets philoso
phers satesmeD, and men OF science great anu pene
dcia IA their influence would undoubtedly DO, arc not
advent OF few hundreds or thousands or American
girls who have been brought up to wor6 with tcr own
hands. and who would be EliinS 10 1Sdry M @ ana See tb
State would make good husbands. Tho girls that come
may he disappointed in marriage but they VIII certainly
not be disappointed In finding place at S9 10 80 pei
probably remember that "a Mr. Mercer Droug1I a snP-
load vi girls from New-EngaHd TO Washington Territory
in 1854 They sailed from NowYork in special steamer
the Continental. There much pickering ana many
about the delay in starting ana the PROVISIONS
furnished on the PASSAGE Da when Ho S.on % f o thn
found any difficulty in obtaining work as hOusohOu ser
wants hotel walters seamstresscs or seho0lteachers t
wages that would have been considered munlncent I'D
any part of the Atlantic States. Most Of them have
since married. the supposed object OF many Oi ten IN
emigraihg. Mr.. Mercer was believe, their only male
escort. Let the East, with it's 5uperaDundahco 0l
women, como to the r0scuo OF California, and supply
and hunanize with servants and wives