SUNDAY IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 146, 22 June 1877, Page 4

SUNDAY IN SAN FRANCISCO.

One of the results of the impotence of the churches is that there is no public observance! of the Sabbath. All the saloons are open, 1 the billia^-1 roomsiare in full blast, therb; are peW forma^ces •at many qft the thdatr^-rit* n9iv^*L. aH( °f themjr tbft .msjpritj^jpf/)^^ is^alsb 'the chosen dpy W makinaex-" curßions,*and every^Sunliay ( Fran-; ciso pours oat her fopulation bv myfiifdg over tlie 'iMwMm\is&J San Rafael, and to~6lher points in the neighbourßbbd of ttie:hifylAlfxcurßion trains fafei^ran by the railroad that goes northward to the Russian.river, arid- by*tfae Sbutlierb^^rtfc^^iclf l!^ to reach'San^iegbVojUjl"Ws"Wi day. A few of the' t'ravelierb^th^e occasions simply go tb ; enjby;!tffe' 7scenery, which is both wild and baau(tiful n bpL. the! majority are hhbfefs'after Jdeirl wild ducks, snipe, pftil, ani oilier kinds of game. They tave v^iih them, their dogs; and the stranger p^na.::.ori Sunday.to" be Ldowoiibilthe Davis street wharf, whence ,tb£;f.&rry starts for Saucelito, thetermlnus .ofthe RußSian river road, isatartie'J :'at T the eight S3 foreign to Eastern noVio'tfsf-and to the religious idea3 to, which these mbn have been bred; for the., great. nißJority (nineteeo-twentieths) of them aie from Stales where a man -would sooner think of cutting his throat than going out with his dog and gun to'bunt upon the Lord's day. I do not.pretend to p*Bß judgment upon the abstract proposition oi its beingwrong or right so to do. . I simply point obt ;that the atmosphere of a community'soi-'.tinged wjth the mining, element^ quickly, diisolvee' the most stubborn 1 rp'ligious views.—-Exchange Correspondent,