For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

FROM OUR SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPONDENT.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 14th, '55.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS: SIR: —Nothing has transpired since my last, calculated to interest you and your readers. Business is dull, and every thing wears a gloomy aspect—Provisions and merchandize of every description continue to arrive; but there is no demand. The result of this must be ruin to eastern shippers, as goods will not bring the cost of transportation. Mercantile houses are constantly failing. The last was the old and respectable firm of Beck & Clam; attachments were levied to the amount of forty thousand dollars; the full extent of their liabilities are not known.—The theatres here are doing a wretched business, and the city is inundated with "stars" of all magnitudes. Mrs. Sinclair is the manageress of the Metropolitan Theatre, and she is said to be the best in
the State.

The question of admitting colored children in white schools, has excited considerable interest. The State Superintendant, P. K. Hubbs, published a card, in which he took the ground that the physical inferiority of the colored race, rendered it impossible for them to mingle on terms of 'equality with the whites. The school for colored children is in a prosperous condition. There are between sixty and seventy scholars. Mr. Moore, the teacher, is indefatigable in his endeavors to advance them, and his labors have been attended with success. I had the pleasure of visiting the school recently and was astonished at the progress and intelligence of the children.

A debate took place at the San Francisco Athenaeum on the merits of the controversy between the old anti-slavery party, and the Liberty Party. The young men of Sacrament (colored) are organizing a Musical and Literary Society.

A correspondent of the , signing himself "Genus Homo," who, by the way, is the owner of a distillery, undertakes to show, in an elaborately written article, that the African race has failed to prove that they are capable of self government. He instances Hayti and Liberia to prove his position. The Editor exposes his name, and apologizes for the insertion of the article, and winds up by recommending him to the rum and slavery faction as a candidate for Governor.

The last steamer brought the news of the death of Nicholas, the Emperor of the Russias. The announcement created a profound sensation here, and speculation is rife as to its affects upon the war. Most of the journals incline to the opinion, that it will facilitate peace. It is said that Henry Ward Beecher is coming here; but the news is too good to be true. Such a man, in California, would revolutionize public sentiment. The slavery propagandist, and the equally odious milk and water abolitionist would quail before his bold denunciation of the "sum of all villainies."

Yours, respectfully,
NUBIA.