The Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1852-1872, 1860-06-09
Arrival of the Overland Mail.

The Overland Mail arrived on the Sd, with
dates from st. Louis to the 4th May, one day
later. The next overland will bring US intelli-
gence TO the 18th.
The proceedings ofCongress were unimport-
ant 1t IS stated that Mr.. Douglas was prepar-
ing to make speech in answer to Mr. Davis.
Hon. A. H. Stevens has written a letter in re-
ply to several gentlemen of Macon, in which he
sustains the principles of intervention dis
approves of the secession from the Charleston
Convention, and recommends that Delegates be
sent to Baltimore
The United States steamer Mohawk, with the
bark Wildhre, captured off the coast of Cuba
with five hundred slaves, arrived at New Or
leans on the 18th. The news of the cupture
occasioned great excitement at Havana
The Richmond Examiner, Georgia Constitu-
tiondtist, Mobile Register, St. Louis Republican
and other leading Southern journals condemn
In unqualified language the action of the sece-
ders from the Charleston Convention. 1t is
openly charged that the object of the secession
was to precipitate dissolution of the Union
In the Sixth Electoral District of Massachu-
sets, mass meeting of the Democrats is to be
held at Newburyport (the residence of Caleb
Cushing) for the choice Of delegates to a Dis
trict Convention, with view to instruct them
for Douglas.
We fad the following item in relation to the
movements of the Republicans:
There is some doubt about Stewards course
The doubtful States are so emphatic against
him, that it may be set down as certain that he
will not be nominated
There is some talk of adopting rule in the
Convention requiring majority of the whole
electoral vote to nominate.
The Baltimore nominations are regarded as
unfavorable to Stewards prospects.
A majority of the Southern votes l. claimed
for Seward. If he is a candidate, he will have
about seventy votes on the first ballot.
AT a Democratic meeting at Atalanta, Ca,
the Postmaster defended the Charleston sece-
ders, and denounced Douglas as a traitor to the
Democracy and the South. B. c. Yancey made
a lengthy and similar speech The National
Baltimore Democracy defended by Col.
Gaskill The meeting adjourned for week.
WHAT IS HONORABLE 2-The State Printer
says that the Democratic editors of this State
generally, because they viii not follow his lead
in becoming political renegades, are "pary
hacks" "spoils hunters trimmers" &C. In
reply, the Amador Ledger asks, severely:
Who was the "party hack" that crawled into
possession of printing materials, and under the
pretense of being about to print a first class
Democratic paper" obtained funGs to enable
him to proceed? Who was the trimmer"
"party hack" and spoils hunter that i'm
plored Democratic State Convention 10 place
him within reach Of g the spoils ~ Who was
the party hack" that threatened to stop the
publication Of his paper if his desire to grasp
" the spoils could not be gralifed? Who was
the "party hack" that begged an office of
Convention, and pledged his honor to publish
daily Democratic paper in Sacramento, which
should faithfully reflect the views of the party
and abide by regular discipline and established
usage?
Here the question arises, If the "spoilsr of
Office were given to the State Printer upon the
condition that he should publish daily Demo-
cratic paper at Sacramento, can he honorably
hold on to those "spolsn now that he fails to
comply with his part of the contract? We be-
lieve that we can name a dozen printers who
would, with the assistance rendered, have made
the Standard paying concern. The .Stardard
did not die, as the editor appears to think, of
too much brains. Its death is the result Of a
lack of business talent. If Democratic poll
ticians, in endeavoring to establish an organ 4.
Sacramento, will call to their aid the knowledge
and business talents of prat teal printers and
men who have learned the trade of editing. they
will succeed-not before. We are aware of the
fact that every old-feld schoomaster and one
horse lawyer deems himself capable of editing
newspaper. Democratic politicians of this State
should ere this have learned the folly of such
belief