Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-16
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Especial Correspondence of the Times !
san FRANCISCO. MAY l3


cisco. Everybody is looking out
side for subjects of interest, and
nobody sees much that is new or
startling anywhere. The fact is if
we do not have a sensation in these
degenerate days we don't feel as if
we had anything to live for. The
Beecher-Tilton trial has got to be
such long winded affair that no.
body here thinks much about it,
except to look for the end, which
seems approaching, for something
new in the programme. "The true
inwardness" of the affair has devel-
oped so much that is contradictory
in evidence that Satan himself must
feel rather puzzled to know upon
which side he rightly belongs. If
the jury can discover, we shall feel
much obliged to them, as to know
where we are neutrality-suspicious. in
the church is power enough to keep
it under all circumstances from con-
demnation, or whether outside of
the church is power to pull down
with falsehood all that is good and
holy in the church, is something
really worth the effort this trial is
making, otherwise it is private
quarrel utterly unfit to be made so
public.
San Francisco is growing day by
day, and hour by hour its limits are
extending. 1t hardly seems pos
sible so much real prosperity is at
tending it's growth as would appear
from the character of the buildings
in the course of erection. A few
old houses comparatively remain to
mark the ancient limits, but every
thing has an air of newness in the
suburbs, and everybody wonders
where the people come from, how
they live, and what they are all
doing for a living, as they pass street
after street of well appointed if not
elegant residences. There is no
doubt but San Francisco is destined
to be great city, Notwithstanding
all it's inhabitants have done and
NAV do to prevent it. Nobody has
done much except for number one,
enterprise generally ending in some
big residence, and nobody seems to
have much to do with its continual
progress; aud yet progress it does,
and probably will until Diablo feels
he has victims enough, when some
great earthquake may swallow up
the whole or devour grand hotel
or two, when down will come the
PROCESS tor few years longer.
A grand Christian funeral, for
Chinese convert, week or sc since,
has caused some comment. Wheth-
er Chinese can be Christianized or
not remains to be proved, and
whether they will make better citi-
zens if they are. They are certainly
peaceable enough their private
views are numerous enough, but as
they do not crafty extend them into
our precincts, morally speaking,
: perhaps they do us less harm than
we they, for we certainly do intro
duce among them larger gambling
than they have been accustomed to.
To find Chinese playing with stocks
beside their Christian brethren is
not unusual. 1t may be easy for
them to adopt our vices, if not our
virtues. That they do love money
better than we is hardly possible,
for have we not come as well as
they long way to get it, and If
they can be made to love
Jesus as well as this one hopeful
Cinnamon, to whom the Occtdent
has dedicated three columns of obit-
uary notice, it would not be strange
if the church at least should discover
God, Providence, in the moving OF
the waters that brought them here
and started us along toward them
to help them to our blessings. $50
mote it be-" Any way they are
coming "hundred thousand more"
and not asking what is to be done
for them, they shift for themselves
in some way, and believing them
selves to be of an older and higher
civilization than we, probably look
with as much contempt upon the de-
generate white man, as we do upon
the effete race of the celestial King
dom which we have got to Christian
ize.
Stanford's house is slowly elevat-
ing itself, or being elevated. These
railroad men are bound to get high;
they have taken the most elevated
positions possible, that their hight
shall not be hid, and only rival each
other in the style OF their houses.
Crocker has commenced to build
little cottage for his family. 1t is to
be at the top of Sacramento street
near Powell. The block has been
disfgured long enough by deep
gouge cut in the side, with flights Of
stumble-down steps, erected by un-
fortunate pioneers, who have stood
and trembled looking fifty feet down
till the railroad princes came to their
relief. Verify, it is an ill wind that
blows nobody good, for "Allah is
merciful."
M CYNTHIA ANN.
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