Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . n at Washington for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. In 1838, his estate,amounting to more than half a million dollars, was secured by a governmentagent and deposited in the mint. John Quincy Adams prepared a plan oforganization, which was adopted. The Smithsonian Institution, so named in honor of its fonnder, was placed THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA. 263 under the immediate control of a board of regen
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . n at Washington for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. In 1838, his estate,amounting to more than half a million dollars, was secured by a governmentagent and deposited in the mint. John Quincy Adams prepared a plan oforganization, which was adopted. The Smithsonian Institution, so named in honor of its fonnder, was placed THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA. 263 under the immediate control of a board of regents, composed of the President,Vice-President, judges of the su])reme court, and other principal officers of thegovernment. It was [)rovided tliat the entire sum, amounting with accruedinterest to $625,000, should be loaned forever to the United States guvernmentat six per cent.; that from the proceetls, together with congressional appnjpri-adons and private gifts, i^roper buiUlings should be erected for containing amuseum of natural history, a cabinet of minerals, a chemical laboratory, agalleiv of art, and a library. Tlie plan of organization was carried out. and. THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Professor Joseph Henry of Princeton College, the real inventor of the electro-magnetic telegraph, was chosen secretary. THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA. For many years hardy hunters and trappers had penetrated the vast wil-derness of the West and Northwest in their hunt for game and peltries. Someof these were in the employ of the Hudson Bay Company, whose groundsextended as hv toward the Arctic Circle as the rugged men and toughenedIndians could penetrate on their snowshoes. At points hundreds of miles apart in the gloomy solitudes were erectedtrading posts to which the red men bi-ought furs to exchange for trinkets, blank-ets, firearms, and firewater, and whither the white trappers made their way, afteran absence of months in the dismal solitudes. Further south, among the rug2;ed 26
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