The weekly Placer herald., 1854-05-27
From the Washington Star.
The Democratic Muss in Cali
fOpnia.

Drought various gentlemen IN w aShlngtOn
pretty full explanations of the condition
of the harmonious there, which gave rise
to the nti-AdmnIstrato and anti Gwin
demonstration at the famous dinner in
honor of General Wool and Ex-senator
Foote, with accounts of which all the
newspapers not long since groaned. The
Broderickites got up the celebraton.-
They are the supporters of the preten-
sions of Mr.. David G. Broderick, for the
seat in the United States Senate, now
held by DR.. Gwin, who are hoping OF
beat him for reelection in his absence
aiming, of course, to bring on the election
with the advantage (to them) of having
him some two thousand miles from the
scene of action
They desire to obtain the prestige Of
the apparent sympathy of General Wool
and Ex-senator Foote, and, therefore,
arranged the affair nominally in honor of
these gentlemen; but really, as explained
above, to entrap them. We hear it said
that General Wool has written to friends
here, intmating that he is in no manner
responsible for what went on on that oc
casion, and that he should haye refrained
from making one of the company, had he
known precisely what the affair was to
have been. 1t will be recollected too,
that the Ex-senator was forced to make
his now sterotyped political demonstra-
ton there, as when he begged to be ex-
cused from participating in their politics,
shout of demands for a speech Of him,
which would not be satisfied with his many
refusas at first, brought out his anti
Pierce remarks. G. K. Garrison, Esq
Mayor of San Francisco, we learn, has
also written to friend here, disclamng
lot or part in the political doings of the
evening, for which it appears that he was
as wholly unprepared as any one else
there assembled.
1t seems that the main managers of the
affair were Governor Bigler, who was
disappointed in getting the foreign mission
he is said to have applied for; a Mr.. Mid
dleton, who applied in vain for the Collec-
I torship of San Francisco; Mr.. Seover,
disappointed applicant tor the San Fran
cisco Post Office; and Mr.. Wright, of the
firm of Palmer, Cook & Co., who made
80 heavy an assault upon the Administra-
tien for the post of Assistant Treasurer
in Calforna-were the principal parties
engaged in getting up the affair.
We take it that all these gentlemen, be-
sides owing the President grudges for
failing to appoint them to the offices they
especially sought, owe Senator Gwln
grudges for failing to get those places for
them, and therefore seek to hound him
down while legitimately engaged in the
service of his State, afar off. Mr.. Wright
will be recollected as Representative in
the House from California in the Con-
gress before the last, wherein he was
notable as being perhaps the most useless
public man ever in the councils of the
nation. At least the most useless one we
have ever seen in the course of our long
experience with all the useless men who
have ever been in either branches of the
National Legislature. The Government
have always in the keeping Of the Calfor-
MIA Sub-1reasury perhaps million OF
dollars, the use of which in their business,
the house of Palmer, Cook & Co., desired.
Hence Mr.. Wright's application for the
place, and his extraordinary efforts to
obtain it, and hence, also, we presume,
the Presidents peremptory refusal to ac-
cord it, arose We dwell upon the case
of his Observation-Disclosures e-headedness-
because it affords glaring example of
the tendency of politics among us to sor-
did considerations, and to place gentle
men aspiring to be public men, in posi-
tons which force u pom public opinion,
the belief that it is high time that the
downward tendency of American politics
should be checked.
This California case, take it all in all,
is a very fair example of the tendency to
which we refer. We see there, men with
little or no personal character, without
experience in public affairs, and of the
lowest order of intellect and attainments,
for prominent men banding together like
pack of hungry wolves or gang Of
confederate pocket book droppers, in his
absence, malgn out ofhis present position,
gentleman whose success in carrying
legislative points for the interests com
mitted to his keeping, has hardly ever
been equaled in the American Congress.
On that system of tactics failing to
cheat the pepole of California into the be-
lief that such thimble-rigging psuedo
statesmen as themselves are better able
to protect the interests of the State at
Washington, than their long-headed, in
defatigable and never tring representa-
tives in the Senate. Verify, we should
like no better sport, than to look at them
for an hour, if the stalwart Doctor could
bat find time to leave his labors here, SO
as at this session to drop unexpectedly in
upon them.