SAN FRANCISCO.
The " Daily Herald" draws the following gloomy picture of the great metropolis of the Pacific States : — " A city entering upon its career with a richer patrimony than any other of modern times, having under the Mexican law a landed property that would have enriched a State — an inheritance that would have given us public buildings of the richest architectural beauty — would have furnished us asylums for our sick, our sailors, and our insane — would have built public free schools in every ward — would have brought water to every door, and made fountains play in the plaza, and would have furnished us with public baths — would have created a fire department thai could have stayed all conflagrations — would have planked our streets and built our wharves — all of which resources have been squandered; and our city is not only destitute of the ornaments, necessities, and conveniences above enumerated, but is saddled with a debt of 1,600,000 dollars to anticipate our revenues, and grind us with taxes for twenty years to come."
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Otago Witness, Issue 92, 19 February 1853, Page 3
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172SAN FRANCISCO. Otago Witness, Issue 92, 19 February 1853, Page 3
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