Excerpt from Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California Gentlemen, - The letters received by the Clyde, purporting to be written from California, and which represent that country in a state of the utmost anarchy and con fiision, were evidently penned for some sinister or mischievous purpose. These letters state that General Smith had been forced by a mob to take refuge on board a man-of war. The General, when I left Monterey, was living on board the flag ship Ohio; but he was there not to escape popular violence, but simply and solely because he could not, at the time, procure suitable quarters on shore. These letters also state that the life of 001. Mason was in jeopardy, on account of some obnoxious measures which he had adopted, when the truth is, Col. Mason is now in New York. It must be a long arm that can stretch from California to our Atlantic board. There are two classes of persons at San Francisco; the one is the permanent citi zens, the other is the gold-diggers. The citizens have every thing at issue, in repress ing tumult and disorder; and the gold-diggers are on their way to the mines, and are in as much haste as a bridegroom bound to the nuptial altar, or a doctor to his first cholera patient. They have no time and no motive for getting up a mob it cannot supply them with mules or shorten the distance to the mines; and they have no preja dices to gratify, unless a man can hate what he has never seen, and find it in his nature to salute a stranger by knocking him down, and that too with golden visions dancing through his dreams. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.