. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ?.^.^0. HYDRAULIC MINING. generally in caravans. In a short time mul-titudes came flocking from every country inEurope to join the throng in search of theprecious metal. San Francisco was the cen-tral point of this vast emigration, and thatplace soon grew from a village of a icwmiserable huts to a city of over fifteen thou-sand inhabitants. Within two years after thediscovery of gold the population of Californiahad increased to nearly a hundred thousand ;two
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ?.^.^0. HYDRAULIC MINING. generally in caravans. In a short time mul-titudes came flocking from every country inEurope to join the throng in search of theprecious metal. San Francisco was the cen-tral point of this vast emigration, and thatplace soon grew from a village of a icwmiserable huts to a city of over fifteen thou-sand inhabitants. Within two years after thediscovery of gold the population of Californiahad increased to nearly a hundred thousand ;two years later, in 1852, it numbered <-wohundred and sixty-four thousand The influence of the discovery of gold inCalifornia was not limited to this gave an impetus to the commerce and in-dustry of the whole world. On the twenty-first of February, 1848, ex-President John Quincy Adams, then a mem-ber of the House of Representatives inCongress, was stricken with paralysis in hisseat in the House. He was carried into thespeakers room, where he died two days later,at the age of eighty. On the twenty-ninth of May,1848, Wisconsin was
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