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Mines — Cholera — Hardsnips and  Self -denials — ^A  Commnnity  of  Men — Adulation of  Woman — Arrival  and  Departure  of  Steamers — Sani- tary Condition of  San  Francisco — Rats  and  Other  Vermin — The Drinking Habit — Amusements — Gambling — Lotteries  and  Raffles — Bull and  Bear  Fighting — The  Drama — Sunday  in  the  Mines — Sum- mary   221

CHAPTER  XIL

POLITICAL   HISTORY.

1846-1849.

The Slavery  Question  before  Congress — Inaction  and  Delay — Military Rule in  California — Mexican  Forms  of  Civil  and  Judicial  Govern- ment Maintained — Federal Othciuls  in  California — Governor  Mason — Pranks of  T.  Butler  King — Governor  Riley — Legislative  Assembly — Constitutional Convention  at  Mf»nterey — Some  Biographies — Per- sonnel of the  Convention — Money  Matters — Adoption  of  the  Consti- tution— Ejection 2r)l

CHAPTER  XIII.

rOLmCAL  HISTORY.

1849-1850.

The First  Legislature — Qrestion  of  State  Capital — Meeting  of  the  Legis- lature at San  Jose — Organization  and  Acts — Personnel  of  the  Body — State Oiiicers — Further  State  Capital  Schemes — California  in  Con- gress— Imi)ending Issues — Slavery  or  No  Slavery — Admission  into the  Union — California  Rejoices 308

CHAPTER  XIV.

ENFOLDING   OF   MINERAL    WEALTH.

1848-185G.

Extent of  Gold  Region  in  1848-9- -American  River  the  Centre — El  Do- rado County — South Fork  antl  Southward — Middle  Branch — Placer, Nevada, Yuba,  Sierra,  Plumas,  Butte,  and  Shasta  Counties — Trinity and Klamath— Gold  Bluflf  Excitement,  1850-1— Del  Norte,  Hum- boldt, and Siskiyou — In  the  South — Amador,  Calaveras,  and  Tuol- umne— Table Mountain  —  Mariposa,  Kern,  San  Bernardino  —  Los Angeles and  San  Diego — Along  the  Ocean 351

CHAPTER  XV.

GEOLOGICAL  AND   SOCIAL   ANATOMY   OF  THE  MINE.S.

1848-1856.

Physical Formation  of  the  California  Valley— The  Tliree  Geologic  Belts — Physical As^H^ct  of  the  Gold  Regions — Cieologic  Formations — In-