Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-27
Respecting Judge Haun.
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Ma. EDIToR:-The Lecompton paper Of
this city felcitates itself upon the appoint
ment Of Judge Haun to the vncant Senator
ship, and is particularly gratifed because he
has depended upon his own labors, and not
upon the spoils of office, admitting at the
same time that he did occupy an Office, from
which, of course, he must have received
'spoils" The fact is that Judge Haun filed
the Office of County Judge at n time whtn
the "spoils" were greater than they now are,
and he filled it with so little satisfaction to
the people that, at the expiration of his term,
he could not have obtained any office in the
gift of the voters of Yuba county. IF he has
not since enjoyed the "spoils" it is not be-
cause he has not sought them. He was
candidate for the nomination for Governor
against Bigler in '53, succeeded in getting
something over q bakers dozen of votes III
convention, and is believed to have bolted
the nomination. He did not hesitate, how.
ever. to run on the same ticket with Bigler
in '55; but the dead weight of his name, it
was conceded, defeated the county ticket
the Judge himself bringing up the rear very
unhandsomely.
II is further believed that the Judge (who
is understood to be great sticker for regu-
lar orsanization) bolted the nomination Of
Gray and LippincOtt in SO, and it is well
known that he now acts with the boilers
from the regular Democratic convention Of
1853.
lie was candidate for Congress during
the last summer. but having failed in the pri.
mary essential of getting the endorsement Of
the Lecompton party in this county, his
name was not visible ut the State Convention.
The Judge. as politician, is inordinately
elated when he is up, and damnably depress
ed when he is down-he has the faculty Of
making poor stump speeches of the Hard
shell Baptist style, and is fond on such occa
sions of telling story about a Dutchman
whose breeehes were fastened with large
number of bell buttons. Perhaps WELLER
was enamored of this story, and wishes to
get tie Judge out of the way, SO that he can
add it to his own celebrated and affecting
story of the dying soldier. As a Judge, Sen
ator Iaun never achieved any renown, and
is chiefly remembered for phrase for which
lawyers of early times spent dreary hours in
searching Blackstone and it is supposed
that some of them went partially insane from
futile efforts TO find it among their Law
Latin. This immortal phrase is MIA cum
drous :" and up to this day legal phlologists
would not have known where the Judge got
the phrase. if his biographer of the Express
had not informed us that he read law at the
Transylvania University. Nix.
ACCIDENT AT SEA.-The steamship Moses
Taylor, which arrived ut New York, Sept
9th, with the California mails, came in col.
lision. off the Charleston harbor, with the
ChimbGrdgo, Il Boston bark, and was some
what injured. The bark, loaded with so tons
of railroad iron. was badly crippled Horace
Greeley in an account of the collision says
"If we had struck that mass of railroad
iron fuirly and squai ely. we should, of course
have sent the bark and its contents to the
bottom at rec but her cargo would have
knocked hole through our bow below the
water line, and nothing could then have
saved our ship, her 500 souls and two millions
of specie, from following her, more slowly
but surely.
The accident was caused by the renissness
of the light house keeper of the Moses Tay-
or in allowing his light to become extn-
guished.