Daily national Democrat., 1860-03-04
SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE.
SACRAMENTO. March

A0" Oh"ONNAl line heel.taps as it
were Of the great effervescinc bowl Of NAT
riotism which has for three days been Foment
ing in and about this settlement. still remain
The general appearance of the moderate
sized gangs which congregate at the Orleans
tor the purpose of explaining how the thing
was done, is indicative of fatigue Redness
OF eyes, and full development of heads en-
courage the beliefthat many of the delegates
INDUCED in no such effeminate luxury as
slumbers during their discharge of the du-
ties assigned them by the great masses who
support Buchanan CENTRE" The Latham
men are, of course, in high glee, and full of
ooasting as to the how and the why of the
result. The Weller and Gwin men trv to
show that they have lost, because some of
the delegates are intensely sound and were
once friendly to Gwin.
My own opinion is. as l have before stated
that the delegates will look carefully to their
own advancement, in all they do.
The victory of Haun over other Yuba as
pirants, at the caucus of the Yuba delepa.
ton, not only proved a barren victory, but is
likely to be attended by still more pleasing
results. Judge Hauns claims were inferior 70
those of Mr.. Wilson, who was ON the snot
and the pressing of them by distinguished
Weller leader Zone of the delegates) was not
rellshed by many who have at times co ope-
rated with that leader 1t is very clear TO
my mind that this forcing of Judge Ham
upon the Yuba delegates, by a majority vote,
and the consequent ignoring of the claims of
other strong and Jealous party men, will be
followed by flat refusal upon the part of a
very large number of Democrats to longer
permit the insolent rule of three or four
small beer politicians, who can only prevail
in primary meetings of the party through
the aversion of other Democrats to 90 where
they are in order TO defeat them.
The State Central Committee test is now
"played out" The Know Nothings who
ruled out Democrats from primary elections,
for fear that delegation of true Democrats
might be sent to Charleston, if any other
course were pursued, have become offensive
in the extr eme to their old whilom associates.
Henceforth, all Democrats will probably
take apart, withom the irritation of intruders,
in the arranging of affairs in the Democratic
household. The little clique who cary
primary elections when fifty or sizty votes
are polled, none but their own admiring
crew voting, will hardly be noticed next
fall when the Democratic masses 60 to work
to elect delegates to the county conventions,
which are to decide the election of q United
States Senator.
But little was done in the Legislature to-
day. In the Senate, the special bulkhead
committee was announced, Edgerton Parker.
Watkins and Peachey. A pretty fair COM
mittee, it is thought. shall send you
copy of the bill, that you may judge for
yourself whether this project for building,
with private capital, magnificent stone wall
between San Francisco City and San Fran
cisco Bay is so great bugbear as has been
pretended.
The telegraph monopoly bill came up to
day, and after drowsy debate was laid on
the table. 1t is dying a natural death, poor
creature, that it is, because the necessity for
it is not now so pressing as it seemed to be
when the Union and Bulletin were so very
exclusive.
In the House, the bill to create the new
county of Alturas was passed. This will be
glorious news for the Rabbit Creek-ers, with
whom you, as neighbOrs, perhaps, "feel to
sympathize."
The House adopted the resolutions against
a division of the State, and our representa-
tives in each branch of Congress will likely
give heed to this expression of the popular
will. (YOu know that some people always
ascertain the popular will by consulting the
peoples Representatives. d.