Daily national Democrat., 1860-04-06
SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE.
SAoRAMrNro. April 4th.

EproR DEMocRAr:-Since my last, both
Houses have agreed upon an adjournment
sine die on the oath inst. OF course his may
be resinded, but think majority will stick
to their good resolve The session will be
long remembered in California history, as
one not given to hardness of heart in dispos-
ing of the public funds. zone of their own
poets"-Mr patrick uttered, on Satur~
day, the bill to appropriate money for
deaf. dumb and blind asylum being under
consideration, the following tolerably blunt
language:
1--WE ere now in the closing days Of a
long and expensive session, perhaps | would
not be wrong in saying the most extravagant
session of the legislature. We have made a
large appropriation for the building of State
Capitol in the city Of Sacramento; an appro
priation of 100000, looking forward to fu-
ture appropriations of half million, and
that, | think. will not be the limit | think
the appropriations that will ultimately have
to be made for the thorough completion of
the work will reach a million. We have ap.
propriated some SGT 900 for Indian wars,
and another bill appropriating $4,000 or
$4,000 has passed the Assembly and vii,
pass the Senate. The incidental expenses of
the Senate far exceed the expenses of any
previous session. The treasury is being
drained, ard 10y the time we leave here its
vaults will ring with emptiness"
Extra pay has been voted to a gOodly
number of the petty attaches of both houses,
no good reason being given, or existing there
for, unless that they are clever fellows, and
grateful for favors.
There has been considerable humbuggery
concerning the japanese during the past few
days, in both the House and Senate. A grand
reception of the Embassy at the Capital was
proposed, but the silly proposition was de
feated The trade between Japan and the
United States, under treaty stpulations,
may he a very handsome thing for both ma
tons, and it will be prosecuted by each just
50 far as it will pay, and no farther. What
nonsense then to suppose that an extra din
ner or ridiculous display by militia officers
or others, will result in any good, except a
headache or the cholic. japanese, Chinese
and negroes occupy exactly similar social
positions in California, and to kick the Ash
atics out of the mines on one day and fete
Asiatics "Lig bugs" the next will make us
the laughing stock Of the world.
Mr. johnson, of Amador, has introduced a
bill to provide for the better collection of
foreign miners tax 1t does not increase the
amount, but fixes penalty of fine or impris-
onment upon any neglect by Chnamen to
pay up. The bill is in the hands Of the Com.
mittee on Mines and Mining Interests.
The Everlasting bulkhead bill has occupi-
ed the Senate for aUout a week to the exelu-
sion of nearly all other business. Wheeler
Edgerton, Chase and Clark made the princi~
pal speeches in favor of it, and Parker, Phelps
and Peachy were the leaders of the opposi-
tion. The bill was finally passed to-day,
after a seven hours session. Edgerton, yes
terday, and Wheeler, to-day. got fully even
with the Alta and Bulletin for the personal
assaults Of those papers upon the Bulkhead
Senator's The contest is now to be made in
the Assembly. The bill will probably pass
that body, but Of course there will be talk
ing opposition.
The bill to revive the attachment law of
1851 was ordered engrossed to-day by a
large majority of the Assembly. Ifit becomes
law, the legal fraternity will probably
make merry.
We have had a week of almost incessant
rain and there seems as yet no likelihood of
a change. The cold weather in the noun
tuins alone saves us from an inundation Our
levee is in no condition for high water You
know it does not need repairing as long as
the water is at a low stage
Your readers will be gratifed to know that
George F. Thomas who is mentioned by the
papers as having received a Secretaryship in
the Naval Office at San Francisco is not our
"Uncle George" of the Stage company. He
has no ambition in the way of office, and Is
in every other respect the same honest and
practical man that he was when living in
Marysville
An act providing for submitting to the vote
of the people of Auburn the question of in
corporation, after having passed both houses,
and being approved by the Governor. is
found to be all wrong, in this; it provides for
an election, upon the submitted question, on
Sunday. A bill has been introduced to rem.
edy the error, and this will have to wind its
way through all the various engrossments,
enrollments etc "How not to do it" seems
an easy matter with our lawmakers
The Gordon Simms troupe will leave here
on Sunday or Monday. Perry opens at the
Sacramento tomorrow night, with Lewis
Bakers company. The circus has done but
an Indifferent business D.
Mrs. O'DONNELL-This lady, wife of
O'Donnell who was hung by the mob at Pine
Grove, on Sunday night. for the killing of
Shields, arrived in this city, last evening, by
the Rabbit Creek stage. She walked, on
Wednesday, from the Empire Ranch to the
New York House in the storm, but, there
hearing of O'Donnell's fate, she stopped for
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