Pack

Influences  exerted  to  elevate  Fremont • 625

Fremont  the  cause  of  the  difficulty 626

The  rupture  and  how  it  was  brought  about • ^«.  626

Keamy*s  return  to  San  Diego;  Fremont's  commission  as  governor  of  California;

Stockton's  withdrawal 627

How  Stockton  and  Fremont  found  out  that  they  had  made  a  mistake 628

Arrival  of  the  Mormon  battalion;  Kearny's  voyage  to  Monterey 628

Commodore  William  Branford  Shubrick;  the  instructions  he  carried 629

Arrival  of  Captain  C.  Q.  Tompkins  and  United  States  troops 630

Arrangement  between  Kearny  and  Shubrick;  their  agreement  with  Commodore

James  Biddle 630

Announcement  of  the  arrangement  and  its  terms;  Kearny  governor  of  California,  631

His  proclamation  to  the  people 631

His  views  as  to  the  future  of  the  country 632

Arrival  of  Stevenson's  regiment  of  New  York  volunteers;  his  instructions 632

Kearny's  orders  for  the  settlement  and  government  of  the  country;  distribution

of  the  military  force 633

His  grant  to  San  Francisco  of  beach  and  water  lot  property 634

Alcalde  Edwin  Bryant;  his  projects  of  improvement  for  San  Francisco 635

His  advertisement  for  the  sale  of  beach  and  water  lots 635

Subsequent  survey  and  sale;  the  prices  the  property  brought 636

Invalidity  of  Kearny's  grant;  the  prize  court  established  by  him  and  Biddle  at

Monterey 636

Fremont's  position  at  Los  Angeles;  how  he  was  obliged  to  obey  Kearny  and

give  up  his  pretensions 637

Colonel  Mason's  arrival;  the  outcome  of  Fremont's  schemes;  disbandment  of

the  California  battalion;  popular  feeling  against  Fremont 638

How  Kearny  returned  to  the  United  States  and  Fremont  was  compelled  to  ac-
company him 639

Arrest  of  Fremont;  his  trial  by  court-martial,  conviction  and  sentence  of  dis-
missal from  the  service  639

Latitude  allowed  him  on  his  trial;  recommendation  to  executive  clemency 639

Benton's  conduct  on  the  trial 640

President  Polk's  simultaneous  approval  and  remission  of  the  sentence;  Fremont's

inconsistent  refusal  to  accept  executive  clemency  and  resignation 641

CHAPTER  V.
