Year: 1873

DAN FRANCISCO, FeDruary IZ.-lC seems altogether superfuous for one to write to an Arizona paper anything about California, or rather this part of the State; and this again reminds me that San Francisco Is California and vice versa. The papers ill this city should give you all in superior shape, and the small fry scribblers i should "stand to one side and let the monkey sneeze." And that again brings up the sermon, so-called, of Parson Stebbins, Successor of the late Starr King), last Sunday night, on Darwinism; which according to the theory of natural selection makes man and the monkey too closely of kin to consistent with our immense self-conceit. The fault 1 find with Darwin is that 1t was a plain case of cruelty to animals in proclaiming such doctrine without full consent of the monkey. Stebbins did not take quite so broad view of the subject as that, but otherwise he is in full sym pathy with Darwin, if not with the monkey and that fact even has caused considerable remark. Instead of the city returning him general thanks, only The Call did him and the com- munity the justice of giving his moral lecture a decent synopsis. Had 1t been a "horse talk" the entire metropolitan press would have lav- ished columns upon him. Had the lecture been delivered by a man of the world instead of divine, the monkey would have escaped this last infiction, and the whole burden would have fallen upon the canine family At least, what everybody says nowadays, must have some truth; and that is that every body else IS a son of a female cur. Stebbinss lecture I think has aroused the ire of the dogs, or else the moonlight between rains causes them to howl more than usual. As rule, the press is superior to the pulpit i'll America, but here in San Francisco, the reverse is the fact. I would add that the successor of the celebrated Scudder-Rev. MT. Car penter-is a growing favorite here. For a Presbyterian, his sermons are startling; they are more of the scien- fife lecture at all times than the best of the Unitarian Stebbins. 1 was 1rlven to Presbyterian church "when you and 1 were boys" to hear Christ and Him crucifed as a business; now to hear this man Carpenter leave Hamlet out of the play as rule, is

 more than any youthful mind ever conceived would occur in my time.

 The world must move.

 Now to the press of this city. It

 $ essentially like itself-and self is he only other word needed to de- scribe it. The Chronicle comes near being THE newspaper of the place, put the trail of the serpent some how attaches to 1t and neutralizes its better Influence. Still, 1t may be the fittest representative of a community of gambler and its concomitants. The lear people can get anything through The Chronicle, if it will help to sell he paper; hence this sheet Is the treat exposer if not exponent of everything in this foggy atmosphere. l t has a prominent and active nose for news and nastiness. The Call is now the only morning paper that contains all the eastern and Pacific telegraphic dispatches-the wires of the Western Union monopoly extending farther than those connecting with overland railroad wires. The Alta espoused the postal telegraph cause and is now out of the old Associated Press ring. The Alta has been special champion of the Arizona war policy, and with its influence in favor of the postal telegraph--the only relief of the peo- pie from the greatest curse of a monopoly ever affecting the earth-it is to be hoped this paper will increase its patronage down that way. The peoples telegraph movement has put the chronic howlers against the rail road monopoly on the defensive. The Bulletin-Call concern are now the sole defenders in this city of the great telegraph monopoly, and The Union at Sacramento the only paper in the State elsewhere to defend that most tyrannical corporation. The people of the United States have been so ! ] ]