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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.
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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-