SAN FRANCISCO

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 653, 3 May 1870, Page 2

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 " Trihune" says of the capital of California. He writes " Crime stalks the streets and highways. The prisons are 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; every 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 principle, each branch having its society. Bents 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 real immigrant. All other inducements are lies. The immigrant's money is needed to keep the bottom from falling out; and when his substance has been squeezed out, Cod help him, he will fiud 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 resources left open for them to find profitable employment. _ The silk and tea culture are myths ; neither can be made to pay even with Asiatic labor. For fruits there is no market except for the product of the \ine, and that can be cultivated with greater profit in most of the Eastern States. "What, then, is left to save the State from hopeless, inevitable bankruptcy ? For my part, I can see nothing. Would that I could, and save the untold misery in store for her."