The Placer herald., 1866-03-24
Jorr1Nas DOWN FROM THE CAPITAL.
(BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE


Ed Placer Herald:-Owiug to the gross
mismauagement Of the mails, it appears that
/ failed to connect last week accordingly l
must give you doube'dose this, and will
commence my report Of Legislative matters
with, the first important action at the begin
ming Of the session Of the present week, which
l have endeavored to arrange under appro-
pirate heads:
CONCERNING DANIEL O'CoNNELL MCCARTHY.
Ny letter of last week, mailed 10 abun
dant time to have reached you for pubca.
tiou but owing to the obliquity of vision Of
the Sacramento Postmaster,-he cannot
read the superscription Of letters addressed
to Democratic papers, until a day or two af.
ter they are mailed while bis vision is ex.
actly suited 10 those Of the "Black" persua-
sion-as for instance, . letter addressed to
the Marysville Erpress, mailed at the same
time With ono for the appeal, will invaria-
bly, be behind the latter at least three days.
As your correspondent is an old townsman,
and is perfectly we'll acquainted with Gov.
Dennson, and as Geo. Rowland the Post
master here, is opposed to the Administra
ton, be will take occasion to call the atten.
tion Of the Department to these facts. Well
ID. o. Mccarthy was once what the Dramat.
ic Chronicle. edited BY Jimmy Bowman,
styles Tuolumne dung-thrower,-sai Nc.
Cartby, having for several years previous to
bis achieving immortality in newspaperdom,
a livery stable keeper in Sonora, thought
to "extinguish" himself BY charging that
the San Francisco Bankers had paid seven
Senators $4,000 apiece to vote against
Wardrobe Smiths bill to repeal the Specific
Contract Law. Being brought to the Ssua-
torial buIl'Iipg, and refusing to testify or
give any authority for bis bare faced a.ser.
tion, he was committed 10 Jail for contempt
An attempt was made to get him out on a
writ of habeas corpus before the District
Court, but Judge McKune decided that the
Senate had the power to send him to Jail
and keep him there-the next fetch was be,
fore the Supreme Court who affirmed the de.
cision Of the Court below. On last Monday
the Senate thinking he was sufficiently
punished decided to let him go, and ordered
the Committee to proceed with their investi-
CATION. On yesterday Coghlsn Of Napa
who has lately drank more lager than Napa
Soda, introduce bill to pay him $4,000 as
endemnity viii, the Assembly voted down so
quick that it made John Ms head swim
AN INCREASE OF Neutrality-suspicious. AND
OTHER LEGISLATION.
The Senate yesterday and Assembly to day,
passed bill granting to the Western Pa
| ciic Railroad the interest on bonds TO be is
sued to the amount of 50, ,25O,O 900 for twenty
years at which time the interest will amount
10 near $4,000, OOO,-but California is rich
and her people can "staud the press" and
any amount Of squeezing. When the mat
ter was up before the Senate Robinson of
Alameda, the orator who cannot speak with
ou, bis paperfolder. and who "spells bis
name the loyal way" whined over it, and
said, that were he a Democrat, desirous Of
the ruin Of the Union party, be would urge
the passage Of this bill. BY the way, the
Assembly the other day indefinitely post,
poned Sawyer's memorial and resolutions,
asking Congress to grant the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, U. S. bonds in lieu Of
lands to which they have no title, much to
the chagrn Of Stanford, Crocker & Co., and
their man Friday, Hearst.
| TWO SPEAKERS IN THE CHAIR.
Your correspondent once heard a Tenn,
perance speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, from
DR.. Murdoch-at the old "Brinstone Cor.
ner," Fourth and Race-in which the speak
or stated that when be was member Of the
Indiana Legislature, there was a night Ses.
sion, and be bad been dining With friend,
having bill that came up, n which be
was interested, he managed to get the floor;
but having imbibed enough to get "binocular
vision," be saw t,0o Speakers in the Chair
regarding this as unconstitutional be subj
sided.
About the 18th of last month ST. Valen.
tines Day "thar or tbarsbouts," Mr.. Speak.
er Yule from The County Of Placer and State
of California, received a Valentine, repre-.
sentipg a "John.horss" with ears, which
would move by pulling . string, Holden Of
Mendociuo hsppened to be making a speech
in favor Of amending the practice Act,"-
which has been amended, until like the old
fellows jack. knife there is nothing left Of it,
when your Mr.. Speaker Yule, thinking TO
make sport of the fat,boy from Msndocino,
kept pulling the string and working the don.
keys ears. when the farthest-west Member
from the State Of California, put down the
Journal Of 1851, and laid down them specs
Of bis and very deliberately remarked "Mr.
Speaker, will no. raise question Of order
or Of privilege, but would honestly like to
know which Of the "Johus" in the Speakers
Chair, am addressing" You have seen
scarlet roses, dahlies and poppes, but Speak.
er YuIe's face about that time laid over them
all in color.
HoLDEN's RESOLUTIONS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS
BILL
Upon the calling Of Motions and Resolu-
tions on Monday, the l9th inst, Mr.. Holden
introduced the following which the major,
ity by decided vote laid on the table.
Whereas by the Act recently passed by
both Houses Of Congress known as the "Civ
il Rights Bill" it appears in Section One Of
the said Act that the children Of Mongolians
born in the United States, will become citi-