 | Joseph Warren Revere - California - 1849 - 354 pages
...dated October 25. 1848, from Commodore Jones to the Honorable Secretary of the Navy. Nothing, sir, can exceed the deplorable state of things in all Upper...enclosed paper, addressed to three of the lieutenants. I am, however, happy to say that I have not been disappointed in the good effect of the means employed... | |
 | History, Modern - 1849 - 620 pages
...letter No. 34, October 25, 1848, from Commodore Jones to the Secretary of the Navy. " Nothing, sir, can exceed the deplorable state of things in all upper...California at this time, growing out of the maddening effect of the gold mania. I am sorry to say that even in this squadron some of the officers are a little... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1853 - 624 pages
...address a letter to the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, in which were the following remarks: "Nothing, sir, can exceed the deplorable state of things in all Upper...of the times, as you will perceive by the enclosed letter addressed to three of the lieutenants." Said remarks being, in thought, word, and intent, a... | |
 | Jessy Quinn Thornton - California - 1864 - 410 pages
...34, October 25, 1848, from Commodore Jones to the Honorable Secretary of the Navy. . " Nothing, sir, can exceed the deplorable state of things in all Upper...exigencies of the times, as you will perceive by the inclosed paper, addressed to three of the lieutenants. I am, however, happy to say that I have not... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 620 pages
...October 25, 1848, Commodore Jones reports from Monterey to the Secretary of the Navy: "Nothing, sir, can exceed the deplorable state of things in all Upper...of the maddening effects of the gold mania. * * * I shall be enabled to keep on this coast until the whirlwind of anarchy and confusion confounded is superseded... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 626 pages
...reports from Monterey to the Secretary of the Navy: "Nothing, sir, can exceed the deplorable 6tate of things in all Upper California at this time, growing...of the maddening effects of the gold mania. * * * I shall be enabled to keep on this coast until the whirlwind of anarchy and confusion confounded is superseded... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 620 pages
...into the October 25, 1848, Commodore Jones reports from Monterey to the of the Navy: "Nothing, sir, can exceed the deplorable state of things in all Upper California at this time, growing out of the ttiaclc3ening effecfs of the gold mania. * * * I shall be enabled to k•eej> on this coast until the... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - Legislation - 1899 - 434 pages
...gold when once they had reached the fabled coast. "Nothing, sir," wrote Commodore Jones from Monterey, "can exceed the deplorable state of things in all...time, growing out of the maddening effects of the gold mania."1 He described the country as in a very "whirlwind of anarchy and confusion confounded," where... | |
 | Stephen Bonsal - California - 1912 - 374 pages
...upper California at this time and of the maddening effect of the gold mania. I am sorry to say that in this squadron some of the officers are a little...manifested restlessness under moderate restrictions. For the present, and I fear for years to come, [the Commodore continues] it will be impossible for... | |
 | Stephen Bonsal - Biography & Autobiography - 1912 - 380 pages
...reported: "Even men having balances due them of over one thousand dollars have deserted. Nothing, sir, can exceed the deplorable state of things in all upper California at this time and of the maddening effect of the gold mania. I am sorry to say that in this squadron some of the... | |
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Secretary of the Navy. Nothing, sir, can exceed the deplorable state of things in all Upper California at this time, growing out of the maddening effects of the gold mania. I am sorry to say that even in this squadron some of the officers are a little... 
