The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of CaliforniaWeed-Parsons printing Company, 1894 - 200 страница |
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Albany alcalde American anchor arrived ashore asked baggage banks Benica bill blankets boat bought brewery brig Broderick building bull Cali California Cape Horn captain cent Chagres Chagres river chance coast Coloma Colonel Stevenson commenced dinner discovery of gold excitement expected favorable feet fire fornia fortune Forty-niners Freemont freight gold rivers grizzly bears harbor houses hundred Indians informed knew Knower land looked lumber Mexico miles miners mines month morning mules never night o'clock ocean once Pacific Pacific ocean Panama party passengers person pioneers plaza port Prince de Joinville Relago Rincon Point Sacramento sail sailor San Francisco San Joaquin river Schell seal of California seemed ship side sixty tickets sold soon Stockton Suisan bay thing thought thousand tion told took trip United States Senator vessel wanted York
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Страница 100 - Shall it survey, shall it recall : Each fainter trace that memory holds So darkly of departed years, In one broad glance the soul beholds, And all, that was, at once appears.
Страница 196 - I am directed by the President to say, that the rank of Brevet Brigadier General will be conferred on you as soon as you commence your movement towards California, and sent round to you by sea, or over the country, or to the care of the commandant of our squadron in the Pacific. In that way cannon, arms, ammunition and supplies for the land forces will be sent to you.
Страница 195 - It is the wish and intention of the United States to provide for New Mexico a free government, with the least possible delay, similar to those in the United States; and the people of New Mexico will then be called on to exercise the rights of freemen in electing their own representatives to the territorial legislature.
Страница 191 - State of New Mexico), it will be important to provide for retaining safe possession of it. Should you deem it prudent to have still more troops for the accomplishment of the...
Страница 194 - The duties at the custom-houses ought at once to be reduced to such a rate as may be barely sufficient to maintain the necessary officers, without yielding any revenue to the government. You may assure the people of those provinces that it is the wish and design of -the United States to provide for them a free government, with the least possible delay, similar to that which exists in our territories. They will then be called on to exercise the rights of freemen in electing...
Страница 195 - It is desirable that the usual trade between the citizens of the United States and the Mexican provinces should be continued, as far as practicable, under the changed condition of things between the two countries. In consequence of extending your expedition into California, it may be proper that you should increase your supply for goods to be distributed as presents to the Indians. The United States Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis will aid you in procuring these goods. You will be furnished...
Страница 195 - It is foreseen that what relates to the civil government will be a difficult and unpleasant part of your duty, and much must necessarily be left to your own discretion.
Страница 191 - ... in that letter, for the reason that it is deemed prudent that it should not, at this time, become a matter of public notoriety; but to you it is proper and necessary that it should be stated. It has been decided by the president to be of the greatest importance in the pending war with Mexico to take the earliest possession of Upper California. An expedition with that view is hereby ordered, and you are designated to command it.
Страница 194 - It is the wish and design of the United States to provide for California, with the least possible delay, a free government similar to those in her other territories, and the people will soon be called upon to exe'rcise their rights as freemen, in electing their own representatives, to make such laws as may be deemed best for their interest and welfare.
Страница 193 - You are left unembarrassed by any specific directions in this matter. It is expected that the naval forces of the United States, which are now, or will soon be in the Pacific, will be in possession of all the towns on the seacoast, and will cooperate with you in the conquest of California.