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Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18

INCOMPLETE AND UNRELIABLE REpoRTs-
Mr.. Harris, of Butte, complains that the
report of his remarks on Monday made by a
morning contemporary is defective, in that his
sentences are not recorded to their conclu
sion. 81 am made to say" remarks Mr. Har-
ris, on yesterday. Il am made to say that Il
feel, too, that my natural affiliations are with
the breckenridge party The sentence there
stops Owing to the inability of the Re
porter to keep up with the speaker, the SEN
timents of that gentleman, (Mr. Harris) are
msrepresented. The basis of his remarks
On the occasion referred TO, were that he be-
Neved that Speaker could not be elected
without the assistance Of either the BrecEin-
ridge or the Republican party; that in the
event that 1t became necessary TO call for the
assistance of either of those parties he would
prefer to cooperate with the Brecknridge
party, rather than with the Republicans. To
sueh an association, politically, would his
natural inclinations and preferences lead him
Again, Mr. Harris is made to say i felt
that in my heart the other day, when the
proposition was made by that party. that we
had put forward for Speaker man who was
Objectionable to them and for whom they
would not vote" This sentence is pronounc-
ed incomplete" by Mr. Harris.
long-hand writer can easily take down
the beginning OF sentences as they fall from
the speakers lips; but that is certainly not a
reliable report which does not contain the
ends and conclusions of sentences. A long
hand writer can, after some practice, make
good synopsis of speech, but collection
of literal records of the mere commencements
Of sentences, as uttered in any deliberatve
body, must necessarily be q poor tumble,
and reasonably provoke the man thus mis-
represented to rise to Question of Privilege.
A single or an isolated error of this kind
might be attributed to some other cause, but
n series of such errors in one little paragraph
epeech proves grevious incaPaeity in the Re-
porter.
To prevent painful omissions of this kind
in the same quarter in the future, we would
advise our Legislators to furnish the Union
with a copy of their remarks written out by
themselves. From such a saving expedient
the members need not be deferred by any
feelings of modesty, as the journal referred
to wlll-iudging from its recent action-usher
their manuscript into print as a "report" u
OF their remarks, and never intimate its i'm
mediate Indebtedness to the speakers them
selves-.Sac News.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18


A VERY curious law case came recently be-
fore German court, arising from the follow
ing circumstances:
A gentleman sat at faro table in the own
OF Koethen, in Saxony, playing with the
usual attention and silence Several plays
were made, and the card which the gentle
man continued unchangedly to put forward,
won repeatedly. The gold pushed toward
the winner by the croupier, however, was
not drawn by him, and after several more
accumulations had made the pile inconve-
niently large, the keeper of the bank rather
angrily requested the fortunate man to take
in his money. With his eyes fixed on his
card, the player took no notice of his request
''Draw in your goldP was again uttered by
several around the table. No answer. "Mon-
seiur you incommode the other playersi"
said the croupier. The same motionless ST.
lence. A person sitting next the offender
took hold of his hand. 1t was stone cold -
The winner was dead. AS the body was be-
ing removed, the croupier drew back the
money he had showed towards the dead play
er, alleging that the game based upon re-
ciprocal engagements could not exist between
the dead and living The heirs of the de-
funct presented themselves the day after,
declaring that the winner had regularly and
in due form commenced and continued the
game. The question was carried before the
tribunal of Koethen, and will probably de-
pend upon the evidence as to the point OF
time when the player ceased to live.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18

IHE QUESTION AS STATED By DANIEL WEB
sTER-During the debate in the Senate or
the Oregon Bill in ls4S, Mr.. Calhoun mad,
one of his customary crafty and metaphysical
speeches Mr. Webster, in his speech on the
same bill, met his pretensions with that
strong common sense which pervades all oi
his speeches, and addresses itself so irresisti-
bly, to the plain understanding ofall thinking
men. lie said:
81 am not going into metaphysics, for
therein | should encounter the honorable
member from South Carolina, and we should
wander in "endless mazes lost" until after
the time for the adjournment of Congress-
The Southern States have peculiar laws, and
by these laws there is property in slaves
THIS is purely local. The real meaning, then
of Southern gentlemen in making this com
plant, is that they cannot go into the Terri
tories of the United States, carrying with
them their own peculiar local lava law
which creates property in persons This,
according to their own statement, is all the
ground of complaint they have Now, here
| think gentlemen are unjust toward u.s.
How unjust they are, others will Judge
generations that will come after us will
judge. 1t will not be contended that this
sort of personal slavery exists by general
law. 1t exists only by local law. 1 do not
mean to deny the validity of that local law
where it is established; but say it is after
all, nothing but local law. 1t is NJ thing
more. And wherever that local law does
not extend, property in persons does not ex-
ist"
Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18
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Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18

SIX Southern States. in all, have called Sc
cesson Conventions; Florida, which was to
meet January Sd; Mississippi and Alabama,
both of which were to meet Jan. 7th Geor-
gia, which was to meet Jan. 18th; Louisiana,
which is to meet January 27th, and South
Carolina, which was by last accounts in
session
Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18
9allg 0atlOnaI 1rmutrat
SACRAMENTO CORREsPoNDENCE.
SACRAMENTO Jan I6

SACRAMENTO, Jan. l6.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT ALL calculations hav,
failed In relation to the Speakership. TIL,
Democratic members, in pursuance of eau
Gus agreement, this day substituted as theii
candidate for Speaker, Mr.. Burnell, of ANA.
dor, in place of Mr.. Conness. Mr.. Conness
in very neat speech, withdrew as candi
date, saying that he thanked the Democrat.
for their support, and the Breckenridge bolt
ers for their opposition. He then placed Mr.
Burnell in nomination. A ballot was tben
had, which resulted merely in transferring
Conness' strength to Burnell. Previous TO
the next ballot, Mr.. Fargo, (the Republican
nominee) withdrew his name as candidate
and placed in nomination DR.. Tilden Of
Butte an uncompromising Douglas man.
Inc Doctor very properly and emphatically
responded by saying that he was an earnest
member OF the party which had in caucus
determined upon supporting Mr.. Burnell, for
which reason hs would not permit his name
to be used. lie hoped his party friends would
support Mr.. Burnell, and that no member
would vote for him. Fifteen ballots were
had with no change from previous results
The Democracy of DR.. Tlden is unquestiona
ble,and had hoped that he would have been
our caucus nominee this morning. His ante
cedents, as | understand, the same as those
of Mr.. Burnel. The Republicans are tired
of delaying the organization, and had DR..
Tilden been named by our side they would,
without doubt, have willingly supported
Mr. Burnell. They have, it is understood,
abandoned all hope of electing any one of
their men to any position whatever; and
now only ask that they may name which of
our trusted men shall be chosen Speaker
1ilden has shown his hand, and is straight
forward Democrat without either Breckin-
ridge or Republican sympathies. lie may
therefore be consistently supported by our
friends, tomorrow, in place of Burnel
There is hope that such course may be de-
termined upon. If Wood, of Plumas, had
discamed affiliations with the Breckenridge
organization as emphatically as Tilden has
with the other wing of the opposition, he
could have been elected to day. The time
has come W hen a man who would stand well
with the Democracy must as clearly purge
himself from all taint of secessionism as of
aboitionism. Southern sectionalism is now
as grave IN offense as Northern sectionalism
Democracy has no leanings either to the
right or to the left. A caucus will probably
be held tonight. The professed Douglas
men who deserted, and supported Wood, are
no longer admitted to party consultations
think Wood or Tilden will be elected to-
mori ow. CAptro1
Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18

Correspondence from Springfield, Illinois,
says that "the position assumed 10y the New
York Tribune. recognizing the right to Sc
eede and recommending passive let them
60 is pronounced untenable both by the
President elect and his friends"
Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18

A PRoPnEcY.-A correspondent of the S.
F. Times furnishes that paper with copy of
a prophecy delivered by 10. Smith % years
ago. 1t is as follows:
A revslation and prophecy by the prophet,
seer and repsIator, Joseph Smith, giUen
December %, 1892.
Verify thus saith the Lord, concerning the
wars that will shortly come to pass, begin
ming at the rebellion Of South Carolina
which will eventually terminate in the death
and misery of many souls. The days will
come that war will be poured out upon all
nations, beginning at that place; for behold,
the Southern States shall be divided against
the Northern States, and the Southern States
will call on other nations, even the nation of
Great Britain, as it is called, and they shall
also call upon other nations and thus war
shall be poured upon all nations. And it
shall come to pass, after many days, slaves
shall rise up against their masters, Who shall
be marshaled and disciplined for war. And
it shall come to pass, also, that the remnants
who are left of the land will marshal them
selves, and shall become exceedingly angry,
and shall vex the Gentiles with sore vexa-
tion and thus, with the sword and by blood
shed, the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn;
and with famine, and plague, and earth
quakes, and the thunder of Heaven, and the
fierce and vivid lightning also shall the in
habitants of the earth be made to feel the
wrath, and indignation and chastening hand
of an Almighty God, until the consumma.
tion decreed hath made full end of all ma
tions that the cry of the Saints, and of the
blood of the Saints shall cease to come up
into the ears of the Lord of Sabboeth from
the earth. to be avenged of their enemies.
Wherefore, stand you in holy places, and be
not moved until the day of the Lord come
for behold it cometh quickly, saith the Lord.
Amen
Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18
SAN Francisco. Jan. 18th.

AJNN N4ANNISOUI JUN, IOIIIs
N. G. Keyt, bill poster of this city, is the
holder of ticket No. S,74S in the Briggs
Rattle, winning the Sacramento River Ranch.
The steamer Columbia arrived from the
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PRoDIGlous.-Joe Lanes reply to Andrew
johnson, of Tennessee, was a prodigious eff
fort. 1t was an effort to do something that
lie couldn't.
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ORCHARDS
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! HE FRAUDS ON THE GovERNMENT-The ST.
Louis correspondent of the Bulletin, writing
December 2Sth, says that the Eastern papers
contain long details and speculatons touch
ing "the affair of the robbery of the Depart
ment of the Interior of $3.50, 900 in Missouri
Kentucky and North Carolina bonds, and the
arrest of W. II. Russell, President of the
Pony Express Company on charge OF re-
ceiving them and hypotheeating them in N.
York, to help him out of his late financial
embarrassment" The correspondent adds :
The Associated Press dispatches, received
last evening, state that he has been admitted
TO bail in the sum of half million-S2OO 600
of which has been subscribed by Representa-
tive Barrett of this city, Woodson of the In
dependence District and Senator Green: and
that efforts are being made to have the bal
ance subscribed by citizens of Washington.
The three gentlemen who have become
bondsmen for the 100000 are liberal be-
yond their means MIR. Barrett is worth
nothing; Mr.. Woodson worth but a mere tri
tie; and Senator Green has u bare competence
of this worlds goods. Their united proper
ties VIII not cover a fourth of the amount for
which they have subscribed.
Godyard Bailey, or Gordon Bailey. as 7
see it printed in some instances-the person
who abstra2ted the bonds and voluncarilv
confessed the theft to Secretary Thompson.
is law clerk in the Department of the Interi
or. lie was sent some time ago to Califor-
MIA to examine the accounts of Mr.. Henley
who was charged with being in arrears to
abe Government.
A telegram in the Cincinnati Commercial.
dated from Washington, the 26th says:
Bailey has been sent to Jail. Russell re-
fuses to state where the bonds have been dis
posed Of He is still in Jail. Bailey's letter
to Secretary Thompson. confessing the fraud.
was delivered on Saturday, because Bailey
believed that the Secretary would immedi
alely resign his office after his return from
North Carolina. The plan was to deliver the
letter five days before Thompsons resigna
tion, SO that, in the confusion following after
wards, the fraudulent parties might remain
undiscovered.
Had they known that the resignation would
not take place the confession of the robbery
would not have been made so soon. Mr..
Thompson feels exceedingly gratifed that
he has thus escaped the danger of losing his
fair character. Baileys lodging and board
has cost 800 per month more than his sala-
ry; besides, he has been gambling.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-18

LADIES vs. LAWYERS The bar Of England
has been recently put to shame by woman.
by this We do not, of course, mean that its
members have been outdone in effrontery by
feminine rival, for in that respect the gen
tlemen of the long robe are invulnerable and
invincble, but that young and delicate
lady, stimulated by filial affection, has under
taken and admirably discharged a duty, from
the performance of which the first-class law
yers ignobly shrunk at the critical moment
This remarkable instance of professional pol
troonery, and of nerve and ability on the
part of one of the fair sex, occurred in the
London Court of Divorce at the opening of
the case of Mr.. William Shedden, native of
New York, to establish his Legitimacy. The
counsel in question are some of the elite of
the British bar, and had been highly feed for
their services yet when the petition of their
client was called upon to be heard, instead of
being prepared to support it, they plead ig-
norance of its nature, craved an adjournment,
and left the court in body, on being told
that their request could not be granted The
plaintiff was now in most awkward pre-
dicament His opponents counsel were
ready and eager to proceed his mothers hon
or and his own ere at stake a large amount
of property was depending on the result and
yet he must enter the arena without advo-
Gates, and, thus defenceless, expose himself to
defeat as well as his reputation and rights to
ruin. But his case was not so desperate as
he imagined. A powerful defender of it sud-
denly appeared when the lawyers withdrew
from Court This was no other than his
daughter, who, intimately acquainted with
all the facts in controversy, and inspired with
an eloquenee and courage suitable to the oc-
cason, came forward with dignity, and ask
ed permission to plead her parents cause at
the tribunal of justice The Judge, struck
with astonshment and admiration, assented
to her novel prayer, and bid the lady advo-
cate to proceed Miss Shedden' opening ad-
dress occupied the entire day. After apollo
gizing for her temerity in appearing there as
a pleader, which no consideration save con
Germ for her fathers honor, could have in
duced her to do, she went on to give, in a
style equally clear and correct, a detailed
and interesting narrative of the whole case
On the subsequent day she concluded hel
argument, and began the examination Of wit
nesses in support of the allegations advanced
and at the sailing of the last steamer was con
dueting matters with all the tact and coolnes
of veteran lawyer. and with every prospec
of success.-N Y World