The Placer herald., 1861-03-16
Sacramento Correspondence.
SACRAMENTO. Marc


SACRAMENTO March l4th, 1861.
.Afessrs Editors:-Another week has passed
away and your correspondent sits down to his
task.
SENATORIAL.
The Legislature, in joint convention, has bal
lottrd fourteen times for SenatOr--not exactly
for the election of Senator, but to show each
faction of that body the relative strength OF the
candidates. OF course no one received MA
jority, a plurality, or respec table vote. IRON
the first ballot to the last there was Dnt siisnt
change one way or the other, ana IL all resu''e"'
and may be summed up in word or two-the
convention ballotted And more no one was
apy wiser than before, and none OF the candi-
tntes were any weaker or stronger than before
single ballot was had. The impression seems 10
prevail here that these candidates. from Weiier
to Nugent Qeaving out the Repubs,) are cndea-
voring to trade on borrowed capital. instead OF
carving ON n legitimate business the regular
specie basis. If it be true, then this accounts
in a measure for the slow progress made in the
election AS each man is running on promised
political fuvors. and that capital transfory, Is Is
plain to see that the friends OF each, MS they
started out in the race, must remain about statn
quo, as one promise is nearly good as another
the only difference being in the individual
abilities of the political brokers taken in connec-
ton with the prestige of success in the coming
fall. To illustrate: would not John Conncss
promise to John Nugent that Nugent should be
Governor next Fall. be just as good ns Denver's
promise to Collector Washington? Certainly,
one is lust as good as the other. and neither are
worth Il .'cuss." But who knows but what noml-
nation is to be made which will be equal to IN
election? If the true Democrats of the State
cannot be rallied together. what value is there in
a nomination by them? 1t is highly important
for the Democracy to elect a Senator this winter.
Not to dispose of this question leaves fire brand
OF, MI TO hmm flicker tO the election QaV
next September
The Sacramento Union, that consistent modest
and negative sheet. pretends to favor the election
of Senator this session. editor says that
it is folly for the members of the Legislature to
have any candidates. and that they might as we'll
proceed to the election of somebody! Well. your
correspondent and your readers would like to be
informed of the name of the Unions candidate
have no doubt but that if the gentleman's name
was announced all the members OF the Conven-
ton would surrender their own individual choice
and 90 forward and elect just such man as An
thonv Il Co. recommends OF course they would,
and cannot understand why the publishers of
the Union are so dull as not to comprehend their
strength in the Legislature! But let me take
another tack in my ramblings about Senatorial
matters. Let me make prediction or two
Senators have been made to order In California
for the past ten years. and the machinery is now
being put in order for another batch. We all re-
from the raw material into II statesman. The
little giant from Ell Dorado. understands the
n,Odus 0perdndi. though the machinery isa little
out of fix and needs oling. aud the timber though
a little unsound and shaky, could be braced.-
to use a vulgar phrase. is 'played
out" and his successor ito be) in the next eau
Gus (Which WAS endeavored TO be held this even
ing) none other than the ''witty and cunning
gent leman from FL Dorado" as Patrick of Tuo-
lumne calls him. is about to be ''played in" 1t
is possible that your humble and unobserving
is mistaken for once and about to
give the Socrates of the Assembly more promi-
nence than he aspires toto more. at any rate,
than he deserves John thinks his lucky star is
about to shine. and that he is about to be trans
planted from the barren hills of Ell Dorado into
the parors Of state surrounding the Federal Capt.
tol. Who knows what may be. Judging from tAat
which has been done in a California Legislature?
McDougall, in the Senat orial JOINT convention OBJ
tlincd twenty. four votes. and he cannot get anO-
ther single one. John Conness, after receiving
the nomination can obtain the same, or nearly
the same vote; and what is more. he can get
twcnty-one Republican votes! Thenty-one and
twenty -four added together make forty five -
That's pretty good, isn't it? About ten or twelve
more will elect. Don't you seer"
The next question which arises for an answer
and satisfactory solution, is-"can the Democracy
prevent John from obtaining these twelve votes?
They can, provided, they will pull together; and
further be it provided, that John can have no say
about Federal appointments. If he is elected
United States Senator by Republican votes, is it
not asonable he may have III say" on some Of
the unfinished business which will arise from year
TO year in the family affairs of the present Ad-
minstration? Quite likely, and more than likely
as he and his democratic nfinites' are to be
Republicans six months hence. Don't you see?'
But want Of room will prevent me from following
this subject any further, and dismiss it by say
ing -"let your readers look out for political
earthquakes about these days"
The HORACE SMITH CASE
AS you are already advised, the Legislature has
granted change Of venue in the Horace Smith
case. You are also informed how Gov. nowney
got a constitutional bone into his throat and sent
the special bill back to the Senate where it orgi
mated. Your readers were also pleased to learn
that it passed both branches of tie Legislature
and became law. contrary to the constitutional
Judgment of the accidental Governor. The next
question is. will Judge Campbell order the change
or ask the Supreme Court to pass upon the con-
stitutionality of the Act? If the matter goes to
the Supreme Court. and that Court decides the
act not conflicting with the Judiciary. where will
Governor Downey's legal and constitutional adj
visers go to hide their heads? and what will be-
come then of the great constitutional lawyer?
SCHOOL FUND BILL.
Yesterday. Mr.. COnness' bill amcndatory Of and
supplemental to an act to provide for the location
and sale OF public lands. for School purposes.
passed the Assembly. The points in this bill
have been discussed for several years. and con-
sist in sectional conflict between the agricultur
al and mineral counties. The bills throws the
fund from the sale Of these lands into common
and general fund to be divided pro rata through
out the State for the benefit of all 1t is neces-
sary to say that the members from the mineral
counties favored the bill and that the members
from the agricultural counties opposed it. Mr.
Ross. of Sonora gave notice of reconsideration.
| remark by way OF clncher that if the act (if
it becomes Onc) ever is reconsidered or appealed
it will be done when the Legislature meets under
the new apport onment. Then the agricultural
counties can do as they please, as they will have
a majority of the representatives.