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...Story.* When Captain Frémont entered California in 1846, 25 troopers, trained to a hair mounted on stallions, wearing gold-braided green uniforms, met him in the mountains. Impressed, Frémont complimented the burly Swiss who led them and the latter, Johann August Sutter, conducted Frémont to an eminence to behold New Helvetia, the largest richest one-man domain in the New World...
Hundreds of square miles it covered, the broad upper valley of the Sacramento. Herds of pedigree cattle browsed its meadows. Orchards bowed with tons of fruit. Gardens of European truck spread for acres, efficiently irrigated. The cavalcade passed through many a village of Sutter's clean Kanaks slaves. Flowers smothered the walls of the master's hacienda where a feast waited-salmon trout, venison, bear's paws, crocodile pears-served on Spanish plate by girls from the Sandwich Isles while a Hawaiian orchestra played the "Marseillaise," the "Berne March...
Secret practice at Princeton, in preparation for Saturday's game, continued yesterday. Poe was taken from quarter again, Sutter being put in his place. Riggs is still on crutches. but it is positively stated that he will be playing by Thursday. Armstrong has recovered from his injuries and was in the practice yesterday. Baird is in a fair way to supplant Poe at fullback. The relegation of Bannard, Rosengarten and Fulton to the scrub training table caused quite a stir among Princeton men. This leaves but four backs at the 'varsity table-Armstrong, Pope, Baird and Ayres-and of these...
...already contributed a couple of papers to the same series; and on "The Discovery of Gold in California," by John S. Hittell. In the department of Californiana there is also an account of the gold discovery by James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold at Sutter's Mill, and a portrait is given of him in Mr. Hittell's article...
Ludlow, J. B. Sutter...