. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . ty-JourForiy, or Fight, became almost as popular a mottoas Free Trade and Sailors Rights had been inthe War of 1812. 82 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. eries—no limit to the quautity of gold, whichmight be had for picking up. Stragglinggold-hunters sometimes gathered in a few hoursthe value of five hundred dollars. The intel-ligence went flyiug th
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . ty-JourForiy, or Fight, became almost as popular a mottoas Free Trade and Sailors Rights had been inthe War of 1812. 82 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. eries—no limit to the quautity of gold, whichmight be had for picking up. Stragglinggold-hunters sometimes gathered in a few hoursthe value of five hundred dollars. The intel-ligence went flyiug through the States to theAtlantic, and then to the ends of the thousands of miles away were crazedwith excitement. Workshops were shut up,business houses abandoned, fertile farms lefttgnantless, offices deserted. As yet the over- has never been overestimated. Nor is theirrichness yet exhausted. In the year 1846 an Act was passed inCongress for the organization of the Smith-sonian Institution at Washington years previously an eminent Eng-lishman, a chemist and philanthropist, namedJames Smithson, had died at Genoa, bequeath-ing, on certain conditions, a large sum of? money to the United States. In the fall of. JIINhK.^ uh iuKlY-NINE. land routes to California were scarcely dis-covered ; nevertheless, thousands of eageradventurers started from the States on thelong, long journey across the mountains andplains. Before the end of 1850, San Fran-cisco had grown from a miserable Spanishvillage of huts to a city of fifteen tliousandinhabitants. By the dose of 1852, Californiahad a population of more than a quarter of amillion. Tlie importance of the gold-minesof California to the industries of the country 1838, by the death of Smithsons nephew, theproceeds of the estate, amounting at that timeto S515,000, were secured by the agent of theNational Government, and deposited in themint. It had been provided \i\ Smithsonswill that the be(iuest should be used for
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