The Chinese live here very much as the Five Points' population lives in New York.

And here, as there, respectable people--or people at any rate who would think themselves insulted if you called their respectability in question--own these filthy and decayed tenements; live in comfort on the rent paid them by the Chinese; perhaps go to church on Sunday, and, no doubt, thank God that they are not as other people.

It is very good to fine a poor devil of a Chinaman because he lives in an overcrowded tenement; but what a stir there would be if some enterprising San Francisco journal should give a description of these holes, and the different uses they are put to, and add the names and residences of the owners.
California has, according to Cronise--a good authority--40,000,000 acres of arable land.

It has, according to the last census, 560,247 people, of whom 149,473 live in San Francisco, and yet nowhere in the United States have I heard so much complaint of "nothing to do" as in San Francisco.
One of the leading cries of the demagogues here is that the Chinese are crowding white men out of employment.

But one of the complaints most frequently heard from men who need to get work done is that they can get nobody to do it.