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«'hU«h4rri|lwv<,ii. my lovo, m) oWQT Wu4fih« wmpunid youtU to fit. i«*iy fair; '*§*i-.|)I.m auA biAtultu tot your » Ulto «rm», Or <..u4bM twluc kit yourgoMoutoOrt ■EKiXiff&8Sg& What *b*U I you, my love, my own r* And And 'new ih*y brightly With thtlfciht oi Joy and of I«»vv and truth. And U*r breach c«uuo quick «m hor ear drunk The hnmnr&f wonJiToTUil* ufdohTyniith : ~ Hound hdg«fetulor iHilrt hij ha<V£hW»<lau u£jn An he ^ hojPeuiyw, ••wi.m MhnU I BBS h,c 5#m •.; '•Not iinlfa 10 umiS^^C" why archly arid. — KxriiANOk.

it t» WW iwuoruvl fof *'"' : wulfarv " of California that its people, generally, ahouki understand clearly the cause of pre*«-nt depression ^of mdustry and Jpniuoro# >Vi t hou t kho#i ug t he cause, : 3 we cnnivot npply the remedy — *l'd we might even aggravate instead of dititinlulling the evitr For the purpose of contributing such light a« we could, we „ have hcrotoforv' yfiyftiy|arl d|c /plcjstipus whether apocti la lion' rn mining stocks, » or thqeon-itructibn o&the Southern' Pacific Railroad, can bo reasonably ehufgod with the main responsibility For the disastrous condition of general business in our State, and in case there was n l great preponderance of cyidouce on the nVgtffive ^ao.' l*et nfcMftiw 'inqpiiv whether the presence of n largo number - , pf Chinamdn j* the cause. * The ChinesV theory implies that the extent of the evil is proportional to the 4r numfitfv of Te|ed.i:i!a in our State, hut wo know that the increase has been slow and insignificant since the panic whe'fw previously,? pud ©Jk pecially during the periods of the great- ' est iudustriuJ apd commercial activity, it Wlb largo kliti rapid. The excess of arrivals from China over the departure* from ISTO to 1876, inclusive, was 50,000, or more than 7,000 annually on tlio average j while the excess from January 1, 1877, to June :*0, 1S.SU, was 4,176, or .up pnnual average of 1,200. {■ During the last eighteen months the AyeragO increoaejof Chines© residents, ne shown by the 6ii4'6$t« Hbtise Btiitic tied, was less than fifty a month, not sufficient to counterbalance the deaths and immi- * . T . j J i J , ■ gr.ition to the Eastern States. These figures do not* sustain the theory that the increase ofJtihj^ics© immigration Ja; the cause oj' ihecvij, but would- rather justify 'u* suspicion • that the- deenUs©" might be. ^W© so c giothing, hodrever, 4feS- ■

Celestial rush for Cahtornia with the dcpresHion to prove any casual connection. botw<-en the two. The cofrimon argument that California has been impoverished by the exportation of the money earned by the Chinamen will , not bear the test of examination* A ntt^ Coolie orators havo assumed that tho Celestials, on an avornge, earn seventyfive cents, spend ten cents, and save sixty -five cents per day for shipment to their native land. This estimate, howover, is not boned on any statistics, %nnd is highly improbable to any person famrtinr with the habits of tho Chinamen. Thcv spend much money and lose

much time in traveling *, great numbers \ arc unemployed for a considerable part , of tho ydnr ; they pay high Tents ; thoy j patronize the street cars, their theatre I and their gambling houses liberally; many of theni go to China once in five years; and when Bush with money, they are far from liviugnn abstemious life. Instead of taking away §12.15 a month &* their net savings while absent from . China, they probably do not take $5. The main qucstiop, Uowovcr, for California, i« not whether they carry away a large sum, but whether our white population, taken together, makes a profit on their work. The answer to this must Bo' in tho affirmnfire. Ask the farmer, the orchardist, tho vineynrdirt, th© sheepman, the railroad builder, the manufacturer, the keeper of thr* country hotel, the boarding keeper, the farmer's wife, and tho honsewife in tho city. 3 The more intelligent and drtndKT among thorn will invariably answer that, though they wish tho Chinaman could be replaced ,by an equal number of white laboring people, under the cireumston-c'-s, the Chinainen are indiaponrablc, and their sudden expulsion, would throw business Jn to groat confusion, if not compel a complete, stoppage. Without tho Chinmucn there would not be laborers to do tho work, and until their places should bo supplied by immigra.tion, the wages woifld rise to prohibitory rates; and tho employers, rather than submit would stop their machinery, let their lands H© fallow and close th^ir HMwes. The qtiottion shout the amount of money which I ho Chinamen send to Aria is much loss important for us than the other questions, whether with I heir help we are l*s« dopai|dent on distant part* of the world for the articles which we consume; or, in other words, ' whether they enable us to accumulate more capital hero than we could if they were sent away. If, with their , direct or ihdifkot assistance, w$ oan*~||rqlfunhly cultivate land which watihli, otherwise lie Idle ; if by paying $6 tm 'China for Wfttk, on cigars, shoes, slippers, woolen

y — . mr* . . j, %\zt!$zrx&,z ! »r« bemifiring our communityV go long | as' tho prosimt Umliug agauvt lh« Mem j gojian* prevails «S^ouiu.s vv» i ■vi utin (list they will atddom be riuploji'Yd vVftlioUt y 1 e hling a igoott p r oft tdo th e white man, and aggregate or the profits froiii,- perhaps, 80,1KX> of thorn iu the State, amounts to an important sum. Chiucse labor is denounced as cheap, but tha.cb©a|aitkw cxkl* qab' -H.jS.ompared with^tluw, lohpr ip California— y ith J.ibpi- in the E.wtem Sfato-4, , Tho • Qiiiu^c farm lnyid . hero ntoro than the white ugricutlural lutHirer In Itltnolii; and fifty- per cent, more than the negro in jSorth| the w 111 to op^rfl t i vo hi It certainly doi* not cause a depression in^ San FrancUco to huv© shirts and slioes put - u £?wv u\,< nym >f,; > ^iiin^rr and materials, owned ^jitfi ^lunSged hero. Neither would it relieve depres* 1 ' sum to ©lose up"*" our manufacturing estAblUhimmU until an uncertain time, |K'ihai>p ln * hi* reii^t©: futuvi}, wJicn white labor would be aoundaut and cheap enough tojierinit *»ia ^rboii^lhig of the factories. Our white boys and" girls a^o excluded front v ^cupation niiieh ihor©-by the eenipctiliomof white labor in the Exst tlian ly that of Chinapieh ; in Calilbrnpw . l^vlyud, lif they would work here ut the rates' paid in -Pennsylvania and Noiv York, and could be .tx^iKM^.tlo-yYvpuhUoqtifiiHl enough to do. The presence or ilio Chin.vncn is undoubtedly o misfortune for a small class of tRo pisiplc. ilat when wo consider the vast amount of railroad and, other indispensable work that they are still tlblng^and that* tho labor could not have been done [at a price that we could atford to pay] by any other obtainable dries of/pe<>plbj wb must come to the 'conclusion Unit, however undesirable they may bo, as cympaved with Wnfte hnml^rabis, wn; Wiuld not atlbrd to expel thein su<ldenlv, nor liuvo w© the least rcHi&n otua-go fchqmvwitli thf re^pousibility^ftk' tli^ dopr&si^n of our business. It is tho nature of fools to tlirc»w;thp blum© p€ their* failures on others, and wlien natmniW States commit j>oliliealTfollios under incompetent loaders, 'bnq pf thp most difficult tasks in the world is to convince tho majority -of-Updr hhuidei^ Such is tho task berort/tfie Pr<C» of'Culiforiiia.— Sax Franrcuneo/Ai^Jt #rii . ' '<1 T * 1 -X J. J . - Napoleon and Seward . r -.i. ■!! a . -

Apropos of tlic death of flio ox-Eni-poror of tho French, the Bulletin of S^in Francisco prints a curious story of some correspondence between the Into Secretary Seward and Napoleon. The ^editor of the Bulletin, who was a personal friend of Mr. Seward, says that at » a prirtile dinner party in San Francisco, | Mr, Soward related the following inci- j deift : "It Wfts,n raid Mr. Seward, "in the darkest days of the rebellion," Disaster • upon disaster had befallen the Union j armies. Treason was active and bold ! fronted at" AVasliington, in Jtbe North j and in the AVest. RebeTcmissaries and i

their allies were plotting against us ; over the Canadian border. Our foreign ; rnlntion* mo«t criUcal. \ cruise i* were being fitted out in British J ports and set to pray u)>on our commerce ; (lortnany was coldly neutral ; llio smaller Europoati States were indifforenl spei'tiitora of the conflict; Russia was tho only friend we had among ! tho powers of the earth. In this desperate emergency I received an autograph letter from the Emperor of tho Fn-nrh. It was remarked "privato and confidential." It began with expressions of personal regard for myself, and pain at the spectacle* of the great Kc- ; public in the throes of dissolution. "Personally," said Napoleon,- "I could wish the cause of tlm TJnion to succeed. i

But the welfare of France and tho force of popular opinion nro paramount to , individual sympathies. Our coinmerefnr til leftists" (Tre seriously4" MiiYi^lng from the. prolongation of your war. My subjects appeal to me to' arrest the bloody conflict. I must obey the voice of France at whatever cohl, You cannot put down the rebellion ; qmbraeo the earliest opportunity to mako tormn with the South. If you fail to do this, I shall feel compelled, in tho interests of my country — in TTic int^MIts of ciyilizatiou — to intervene* with all the power at; my command." "I answered Napoleon's insulting lettor immediately. I did not waato words in compliments. I said : This is a family quarrel. We proposo to settle it fifbnr own lijiwv Wo do not. wish the ■*- xill not brook interference. Tiro Amoiican Union is to ho preserved. It shall bo preserved if it takes twenty years to do It, Tb^Wtfr is hardly commenced yet ; tho people are just beginning to warm to the work. We wish to bo on good terms with our neighbors — w© wish especially to boon good Urms with France, our ancient friend and ally. But you must keep hands ofT, If you presume, fci Interfere, we will show you what a free people battling for national o

1 -mi. -*• i is*"m u - J f7 JBb fly oonduiited the war houiujiely, si; [bwi'i•hncuYi tjh t bd YoiRw Jtlml most Christian 8lat e», h.MVrm|^ Vn j your jb^lS jgn;4. .fhr » cqiujueit and de«trucH<>n. Wr wijl f^ i "tuf iieglovtfpl^ wlfPput inWffeir I hands, aiwi seu^ them to Mirage J and phindri-. We will mak© tin- .South j a waste and njesahgtlon. Rtd^o A iandy against A. i^Fnlurriflff^Vmr^e vtljan y thoso ot^nto Domu)ko will be seen (o«|rfjKl|>r. The letter was Sent By (ne first atcwuor* J Ti^Kiiae day I tvlr-grapjied to 1W[: WeuaJ5 A^h^Spv^ughes,*WI r .miis&rcaMt:' That (M|miug I Jbcdt for Nc-w -York and yxpi^iibd to th^ 'end Jicnt gcn.llmpen die objoctsTof the conference ami the Tn England and,- tar the Continent, to , v,i,U,..,n^, ,Kn;,r ,«?d folly ^>f forejun interference. In leas moment — (Mayon antlJi ^ij^l bjacV jnstJ been Heizoil — England 'wnsiin ig nrhlle * Beat 0fTffge^-=n-nd- much— tow;: r<V convincing Europe thkt tho proper thing and the only t|»ing to do was to leave1 us alone. And the mission cost the Government leas than $7,000. • • . : .-rfH — ',■» IS 7-, •* Cutting Flowers . r* Never cut flowers during intense sun.sliine, uop keep tluqn exjK^sed f}o the yun or wind. Do not collect them in largo bundles or tie them Jogcther, a* it hastens their decay. Do not pull them: but cut them clearly off the plant with a sharp knife— -not with scissors. When taken in dOors, place' them in tiie shade, and reduce them to the. 'required length of stalk with a sharp knife, by which the tubes, through which they draw up wafer, is permitted lo ascend freely : whereas, if the stems are bruised or lacerated, the pores are closed up. Use pure water' to set them in, or pure white sand in a' state of saturation, sticking tho ends of the stalks into it, but Hot in a crowdod manner. If in water alone, it should be cut off the ends of the stalks at every change of water. — Old Mrs. Skittlewdrtii don't know why people will make counterfeit money. She says,;}!! tried to pass a bad half-dollar a -dpzeu times, the other day,, but nobody would havo it," and she thinks^it. a t<;,wa*te of time to make '

such." — Toddlckihs is a very small man indeed, but he said he never minded it stall until his three boys grew up to be tall, strapping young fellows and his ! wife began to. cut clown their old clothes | to fit lltm. And then lie said lie did I got mad.

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