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peon capitals, and lastly St. Petersburg, where flattering to its chief, and his success promised 



the eminent diplomatist died after two days' to bo as marked as it was in the United States, 



illness, just as he had nearly completed his His snfldon death cut short a career as brilliant 



great diplomatic work. The reception of the as it was useful, and excited the regrets of a 



embassy at the European courts was highly host of friends hi various countries. 



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CALIFORNIA. The Federal census of 1870 

 556,015 as the population of California, 

 a gain in ten years of 176,669, or about 40 per 

 cent. The gain has been very unevenly dis- 

 tributed over the State, and six of the most 

 important mining counties have lost over one 

 half of their inhabitants. The gain has been 

 chiefly in the agricultural districts and the 

 larger towns. There are 50 counties in the 

 State, 18 of which are comprised in mining 

 districts. The total population of the mining 

 region is 105,814, or an average of 5,861 to 

 each county, while the agricultural and com- 

 iii<-n>i;vl districts have 451,299 inhabitants, or 

 20,513 to the county. The movement of the 

 population, in six of the mining counties, in the 

 last ten years has been as follows : 



Four agricultural counties show the follow- 

 ing result : 





In 1860 the city of San Francisco had 56,802 

 inhabitants, now it has about 150,000, or more 

 than one-fourth of the whole population of the 

 State. A considerable portion of the increase 

 throughout the State has arisen from Chinese 

 immigration. The "Six Companies" have 

 brought 138,586 Chinamen into the port of San 

 Francisco, 41,000 of whom are now within the 

 limits of the State, the rest having returned 

 home, died, or migrated elsewhere. Of those 

 remaining, only 4,800 are women, and 8,000 

 children. In no State of the Union are the 

 products of the earth so great where the popu- 

 lation is so small, and, outside of the cities, so 

 sparse. It is true the State has had an exist- 

 ence of only twenty years, yet, at present, facts 

 hardly indicate a great population in the future. 



The following table is compiled from the 

 United States census of the State: 



According to the latest trustworthy statis- 

 tics, there are in the entire State 120,947,840 

 acres of land, 80,000,000 of which are suscep- 

 tible of cultivation ; half of these still in the 

 hands of the Federal Government. The number 

 of acres actually enclosed at the present time 

 is about 5,000,000, but only 2,000,000 acres 

 are under actual cultivation. Public lands have 

 been disposed of as follows : For schools and 

 educational purposes, 6,765,404 have been 

 granted; 6,030,814 have been taken under 

 Mexican grants; 500,000 have been granted 

 for internal improvements, 116,382 for rail- 

 roads, and 6,400 for public buildings; 1,198,874 

 have been sold, and 868,321 have been taken 

 under the Homestead Act, 470,452 under mili- 



