Daily national Democrat., 1859-08-14
Gwin and Scott.

/ Dr TWINS speech was as ul9 "'"'9
be- and fell like lead upon the audience
Three cheers were proposed Tor MN as ne
rose. but mary" cheer given, aud the appear
ance Of those who proposed the honor as
th,y rolled their eyes over the impnssive
crowd was truly excrueiating. The fact is.
the people came out to look at Gwu, in the
same manner that they would to see some
horrible and nondrscript animal from the Is
land Of Bor(e)ueo or some other marvellous
country. They looked at him so intently
that they came very near gazing him out OF
countenance. and caused him, no doubt, to
wind up his remarks AS soon as he did, for he
made very short speech. lie must have
been vastly fattered at his reception
The principal point he touched in his re
marks, was the sui jeet of the Overland Mails.
This Administration was the first one, he
said, that had ever given overland mails to
California Very true, but he forgot to state
that he had been in the Senate a long time,
and ought to have used his influence during
that time to have overland mail cOmmunica-
tion between the Atlantic and Pacific, but
did not. 1t was not until Mr. Broderick went
to the Senate that we got any opposition to
the monopoly of the Pacific Mail steamship
Company at all. We thought the alluson to
the Overland Mails very unfortunate one
for the Senator, very
Ills illusions TO the position of the Douglas
party in Congress on the Kansas issue, must
have been highly pleasing to Mr.. Douglass
friends who happened to be present. The
opposition to the admission of Kansas, he
8 id, was a m ere factional move to curry fl =
vor with the Republicans, and that there was
no principle at the bottom of the movement
He would thus make it appear that Douglas
was low demagogue, instead Of the great
statesman that he is. Probably Douglas will
survive this sneer Of the Lecompton leader of
California. docs the Express endorse this
sur on Douglas? Let us hear. Of course it
must, or repudiate its lraderD
But, we have no intention of noticing Mr.
Gwin's speech at any length. He spoke us
though he had taken contract to say moth
ing interesting. aud was ready to fulfil it to
the letter
Chas l. Scott-better known as the Gar
den seed Representative succeeded Gwin
in speech of considerable verbositv. The
English language suffered good deal in his
hands, and the truth of history good deal
more. We shall not undertake to correct his
msstatements, for they were already correc-
ted in the mind of every intelligent man
present, as soon as they were delivered, and
brsides the corrections would occupy as much
space AS the printed speech itself, and we
cannut afford room for both. We hope the
Reporter for the Union put down the re
marks Of "Chew oil umne'r son" verbatim ct
pronunciation. 1t ought to be preserved.
The admirable manner in which he applied
his anecdotes was one feature of his speecn
which we must notice 1t was TOO oLserva-
lie to be passed over in silence. The most
telling application that lie made of his anec
dotys " as when he remarked to his Leeomp
ton brethren before him. that they reminded
him of an old nigger" At this point a shout
of derisive laughter went up and was repeat
ed 50 persi-tently that the speaker became
almost wholly disconnected. Il mean
mean-I mean-aw-aw-I don't mean
meant to say-that is" and the swent stood
in big drops on the forehead of the unfortun.
ate orator Finally the drrisive demonstra.
tions ceased. and he managed to tell his story
in little different shape The auecdote was
this. aud though quite threadbare, is in itself
pretty good
An old Niger once went to hear another
ugger preach The preacher was expector.
ating on future state and Informed his hear
ers that there was one Of two roads only for
them to take One led to hell and the other
to damnaiion EFF dnts de case" observed
the old darkey, "dis niggers gwine to take
trew de woods =
The application of this onecdote to the lie.
comptonites nt the present juneture we tho't
was very fine. They have only two roads
before them. Oneis to hell politically speak
ing) and the other to damnation. If they 90
for Buchanan, they are ruined for the peo-
pie won't stand it, and if they go for Doug.
las, Old Buck, their Federal Pap Tor Dad)
won't stand it. so they are compelled like
the darkey to take trew de woods I" They
will fetch up at the terminus of the two roads
nevertheless
Scott wound up his remrrks shortly after
this splendid hit the rebound of which was
so pleasing to his vauity-and failed to touch
upon some other points of which it was ex-
pected he would speak, A lady On the bal
eony was particularly disappointed in him.
she said, for he had not met her expectations
at all. On being asked wherein he had fail.
ed she replied that she was now paying
good deal of attention to gardening, having
some fine grounds around her suburban resi-
denee' aud She had been in hopes that Mr.
scott would have introduced, and dwelt up.
on, the subject of garden seeds. She pouted
over the mutter considerably, but her friends
only laughed Mt her.
The audience was considerably thinned out,
10y the time Scott finished.
Tue RAPE CAsE.-The parties, saws a Sac.
ramento paper, interested in the Young girl
upon whose person rape was alleged TO
have been committed in June last, 10y j. c.
lrdenberg, seem determined not to let the