SAN FRANCISCO.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 118, 12 May 1870, Page 7

SAN FRANCISCO.

Now that a mail between Sydney and San Francisco has been inaugurated, it may not be uninteresting to note what a correspondent of the Detroit "Tribune " says of the capital of California. He writes : " Crime stalks the streets and highways. The prisons aye full to overflowing ; suicides are of every day occurrence ; lunatics in and out of the asylum can be counted by the thousand. The simple truth is that there are more people here than can live ; eveiy branch of industry is more than filled ; all branches of business, from that of the banker to that of the peanut vendor, are done upon the associated principal, each branch having its society. Rents are enormously high, and for nearly all the necessaries of life you have to pay from two to ten prices. These are the real inducements we have to offer the immigrant. All other inducements are lies. The immigrant's money is needed to keep the bottom from falling out ; and when his substance is squeezed out, God help him, he will find no help here. This great effort made to induce immigration to California is but the last' dying throes of a , bankrupt country, bankrupt beyond hope of redemption. The gold product has dwindled from a hundred millions annually to less than ten millions. All of the productive resources of the country will not much, if any, exceed twenty millions of dollars, and that to support a population of six hundred thousand souls, with no resource left open for them to profitable employment. The silk and tea culture are myths ; neither can be made to pay with Asiatic labour. For fruits there is no market except for the product of the vine, and that can be cultivated with greater profit in most of the Ea stern States. What, then, is left to save the State from hopeless, inevitable bankruptcy 1

" The visits paid last summer to the breath, of the hay-cock and the twitter of pewses are being returned by people who come to exchange the monotony of the faded fields for the brilliance of the promenades and the spectacle presented by our opera and theatres." That's what a Philadelphia paper says. If any one can "say more" to "tell us less," we'd like to see a sample.