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gant mansion and the most substantial warehouses. 
The former, however, are rapidly giving way to the 
latter; and now that bricks of a superior quality are 
made here, and excellent building stone is found near 
at hand, no one will think of putting up wooden build- 
ings within the city. In the streets of San Francisco all is 
bustle and confusion. Crowdsare constantly passing and 
repassing. The wharves are thickly lined with magnifi- 
cent ships from every quarter of the globe, pouring in 
their thousands of immigrants, and discharging their 
valuable cargoes. The ocean steamers, each bearing from 
five hundred to one thousand passengers, are weekly 
arriving ; while the river boats, which take their daily 
departure for the interior every morning and evening, 
present the same moving crowds going and coming as 
the Hudson River boats at New York. All go full; and 
one is as much puzzled to find a spare seat or stool on 
which to rest his weary limbs, as on board the excur- 
sion boats from our Atlantic cities. The stages and 
other means of conveyance are equally crowded. The 
throng moves to and fro, from the city to the mines 
and the interior, and thence back again to the city. 
Go to the business streets, and the auctioneer’s hammer 
is heard at every turn, knocking off to the anxious 
bidder every article of commerce. Stocks, gold mines, 
ships, whole cargoes of merchandise, are bought and 
sold with the same freedom as in the Royal Exchange 
of London, the Bourse of Paris, or in Wall-street, New 
York. There are customers for every thing, and an. 
abundance of gold to meet any purchase however large. 
There is no project too great for the Californian of the 
present day. He is ready for any undertaking, whether 
