The hydraulic press., 1860-07-21
The Great Political Upro.r.

To peep at such a world; to see the stir
OF the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
/ To hear the roar she sends thro' all her gates,
| AT safe distance, where the dying sound
Falls, a soft whisper, on tn uninjured ear"
So sang the good tempered and unbellig-
erent Cowper. and SO sing we; at least, so
| we would sing, if voice and brain would
serve US; but our present subject is one not
and, therefore, we shall pitch into it prosai-
cally. In 1910 Gen. Harrison was sung into
the Presidential chair; but twenty years
have made sad havoc with the rhythmcal,
rhymical and rhapsodical genius of the poll
ticians; and in this year of grace, 1860, we
may as we'll be prepared to see the President
elected without the aid of minstrelsy. Those
glorious days, when the rule was, ''no song
no supper" have gone by; and whether we,
free and enlightened Americans, have gained
or lost by the change, is question which
we do not feel ourselves called upon to
argue.
There are, as We lately prcphesied there
would be, four Presidential tickets, from
which We, the aforesaid free and enlightened
Americans, have the right of choosing the
one that we think will do the least HARM
There is the Union ticket, inscribed with the
names of Bell and Eyerett-two as good
men as you will meet on summers day ;
but present appearances indicate that they
are rather in lack of party. Well, that is
not their fault Perhaps Providence may
send them one, as be once sent quails to the
fainishing tribes Of Israel ia the desert.
Our Republican friends are jubilant, or
trying to feel so, over Lincoln and Hamlin ;
excellent men, no doubt, though one of them
did work for living in his young days; and
they will be elected-if the Republicans can
muster enough of votes to effect such pur-
posel
The Observation-Disclosures help them have
split themselves into two factions, and are
now earnestly intent on cutting each others
throats, under the two mutually hostile flags
of Douglas and Johnson and Breckenridge
and Lane. What the fate of those two flags
will be on the east side of the Rocky Noun
cannot help laughing to see the futtering
which these two adverse nominations have
produced among the old chandeliers of the
party in California. There is one portion Of
| the file-leaders who are sentimentally with
| the Breckenridge ticket, but who fear that
the offices may take the other direction
1t is their great boast that they ssimbibed
| their democracy from their mothers milk
that they never scratched a ticket in their
liyes-that they are always in harness, and
| ready for the battle'-and such other per-
suasive expletives as are profuse in the vo-
cabulary of the politician. These men leap
with alacrity upon the party spring board,
give propelling push with their legs, a flip
flap and bound into the air, throwing them
selves over in a most graceful somersault and
lighting directly ia the center of the "plat-
form of principles!" There they will con-
tinue to abide, with such vehement protesta-
tions as to shame the original adherents of
the popular side into belief, that their fidel-
ity to the cause is mere baby devotion by
comparison!
i Ratification meetings have been held for
both democratic tickets, in San Francisco,
Sacramento and Marysyille; and iG is exceed
ingly amusingt to note the different prominent
men taking sides. At the former city, the
custom house, with Collector Washington at
its head, proclaims for Breckenridge. The
| Herald is mute, endeayoring to make up its
mind. Weller, the Postmaster, and Hemp
stead of the Mint, announce themselves for
Douglas. In Sacramento, the Governor,
Supreme Court, State Treasurer and Secre-
tary of State, are for Douglas. Controller
Brooks and Collector Sanders are out for
Breckenridge. The position of Postmaster
Hardenbergh is not known. He has not yet
defined. His position is a peculiar one. In
heart and soul he is a Douglas man. He is
also an old line Democrat, and never likes to
find himself working outside of the regular
traces. But it is "against his interest" to
go for Douglas, and opposed "to his prin-
ciple" to forsake him. In shrewdness, how
ever, he is ahead of them all, and will GER
tainly manage to work himself out of the
dilemma without losing either his Office or
his political caste.
Several others Of the long tried champions
of the party-some of them rather ungrace-
fully, and under sort of protest--have
thrown up their caps for the Little Giant,
viz: Judge Dunlap, (an original, enthusiastic,
answering Douglas man, Ferris Forman,
Humphrey Griffith, James W. Coffroth, VIM.
| S. Long, n Greene Curtis and A. A. Redding-
ton. At Marysville, the strength of the
Breckenridge wing has not yet fully devel-
oped itself. The Express newspaper gives.
Its support to the candidate of the Boilers.