Channels of Trade Auction Houses Business Organizations Insur ance Banking Disasters and Revivals Savings Institutions Gold Dust and Assay Offices Private Coinage Variations in Values The Mint Speculative Spirit of the Flush Times Interior Trade- Credit System Commercial Catastrophes and Failures Express and Banking Houses Adams and Company Failure Mining Stock Gambling Its Power and Influence Its Fall and Attendant Disas ters Biography.

CRIMINAL AND JUDICIAL.

Creation of Courts Their Powers and Position Legislators, Lawyers, Judges, and Governors, the Enemies of the People and the Friends of Criminals Early Judges And yet there have been Honest men on the Bench Weak and Unprincipled Governors California the Murderers Paradise The Noble Profession of Highwayman California Banditti Judges who should have been Hanged Pros titution of the Pardoning Power.

The First Supreme Court Personnel of the Judges Influence en Opinion Evils of an Elective Judiciary Character of Cases to be Attitude of the Legislature Sentiment of the People The Crisis Loy alty and Disloyalty More of the Pacific Republic Representatives in Washington Turtles and Politics State Rights and Secession The Pulpit and the Press Coast Defenses Conspiracies Army and M -n and Money Greenbacks and Gold More Govern ors and Legislatures Clubs and Conventions News of the Death of Lincoln, , 275 Coming of the Mongolians Not Welcome in California Attitude of the Miners Disgusting and Altogether Damnable Long but Powerless Legislation Against Them Treaties and Commissions Our Masters of the Hod and Shovel Kearneyism Monopolists Denounced Sandlot Speeches Riots and Arrests Safety Committee Labor Organizations The Workingmen s Party Becomes a Power Decline of Communism More Elections, Legislatures, and Representatives 335 Proposed Constitutional Convention Defects of the Constitution of 1849 Something Different Desired by the Free-and-easy Ruling For eigners License Versus Liberty Attitude of Kearney and His Workingmen s Party Acts of the Convention Provisions of the New Constitution Bill of Rights Legislature Appcopriations Divorces Lotteries Public Debts Bribery Executive Judiciary Taxation Corporations Railways Chinese Education Labor Municipalities Adoption and Workings of the New Constitution- Personnel of the Convention.

Under the New Constitution State Elections San Francisco Charter Municipal Matters Our Imported Rulers Legislation under the New Regime Irrigation and Riparian Rights An Elective Judi ciary Extra Session of the Legislature Party Issues Grave Questions Contest for the United States Senatorship Brief Period of Quiet California as a Type Disturbance of the Public Mind- Names of Counties Finances Federal Expenditures Industrial Enterprise Immigration New Era of Development 407 Beating up the Game Treatment by Mexicans and Americans Some So-called Fighting Congressional Attitude and Action Outrages and Retaliations United States Law of Compensation End oi Indian Affairs and End of the Indians : ly Transcontinental Expeditions Wagon-road Projects First Rail roads in America Agitations and Projects for an Overland Railway -Ca lumbe, Whitney, Wilkes, and Others The States Mov ing- M and Conventions The Question in Congress- Pacific Iroad Hills The Act of 1802 495 Organization and *tion- Routes and Surveys-Action of Congress nstruction-Ccntral Pacific and Union Pacific- icriptions and Subsidies-Other Roads 534 Incorporation and Charter Relations to the Central Pacific Legislation Yerha Buena Islaiid as a Terminus Consolidation of Railroad Interests in California Effect upon Business and Politics 593 Origin and Development of Quartz Mining Hydraulic Mining Effects Arising from Hydraulic Debris River-bed Mining Silver Mining -Yield of Gold and Silver Cost and Returns Other Metals and Minerals Mineral Springs Stock Boards and Stock GamblingCity and County Fraser River Excitement Traffic and Improvements Street Railways Effect of Floods, Earthquakes, and Overland Railway Evil Influence of Politicians Stock and Labor Excite ments Inflations and Depressions Future of the Metropolis 682 Early Arrivals Intercommunication Decline and Advance National ities Health and Diseases Benevolent Institutions Woman Domestic Life Amusements Drinking and Gambling Mining Stock Mania Distinctive Traits Education Art Literature Keligion 695 ration Public Imvrovemeiits State text-books Farming Irrigation Fruit-raising and Fruit Shipments Wine-making raising The Iron-moulders Strike Ship-building I road Indebtedness Alining Commerce and Banking Real Progress and Prospects.