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OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES.
struction of a distinct new State, to be called South California, its capital at Los Angeles.
TEHACHAPI PASS.
"We are different peoples," writes
one of them in the Californian. "We are different in pursuits, in tastes, manner of thought, and manner of life; . . . our hopes and aspirations for the future are different. The restless, uneasy population of the North, ever drifting, without local attachments, has no counterpart in Southern California; neither has the wild spirit of min-
