The Placer herald., 1866-01-06
JoTrINGs DOWN FROM THE CAPITAL.
rBY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4, 1864.

Eds. Herald:-After an nterregnum Of
ten days-their per diem still running on
some of the members who went home in the
meantime think Of claiming mileage-the
members Of the two Houses have returned
and gone to work with renewed vigor-,hs
refreshing beverages, they imbibed during
the holiday season, having infused new life
and spirit (O into their systems. saw nearly
every county Of the State represented in San
Francisco. at the Church, Theatres. Bar, the
bull and bar fight; some Of them | am told
wen, t" tiger-fghts, cock'ights, lager beer
saloons, ETC., but as am not in the habit Of
visiting such institutions cannot vouch for
this latter. There has been rumor cur.
rent that Senator Hswes, who returned his
pay during similar recess taken two years
ago, into the State Treasury, intends intro
ducing a bill prohibiting the issuance Of
Controllers warrants for the time they have
been playing and done no workout that
untiring old watch dog of the public treasu'
ry must be quick about it, for if the hungry
horde ever get their paws on their scrip next
Saturday it is Il gone case, and they will
rake the Treasury to dead moral certainty
BY the way, although am not singing an
"Ole of Horace" there is little that goes on
in either House that escapes the attention Of
the Senator from San Francisco and San
Ma'eo.
The las! business of the Assembly at the
close Of the year, was the passage of the
Senate memorial introduced by Judge Bel
den in relation to the Pacific Railroad.
which after its reference to the Judiciary
Committee, where it was discussed-or as
member of Western Legislature once re-
marked "desgus,ed." at Ienglh-by the At
torneys on each side, and members Of the
Committee. Old E. B Crocker, who, as
you know, bears striking resemblance to
IIoover's head in the o!d Western Museum
in Cinclnnati,--on Of the corporators and
Attorney of the Road, roared like all the
bulls of Basham, and pufed and bowed like
a locomotive ramping back and forth on the
track to blow of steam. He said it was
'boInbsheIr dropped into their camp--it
was more--it was a torpedo The poor
old man exclaimed in the agony of despair,
"for Gods sake, gentlemen, delay Your ac.
lion--deIay is all we want, they wanted
more--they wanted patent to the miner
al and agricultural lands. Maps were exhib
tied TO show that no mineral lands were of
fered for sale by the Company, whereas the
maps they did not exhibit which were after.
wards examined in the office of B. B. Red
ding, the agent for the sale of the lands, de,
monstrated that the best mineral lands of
Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer and Nevada
counties were included in The lands adver.
tised for sale by The Company in the Sacra'
mento Union. which had material in uence
on the case Hon. A. A Sargent, who appear.
ed before tie Committee for the m iners,
ditch owners and settlers, did not leave
grease spot of the sutfed-paddy of the Pacific
Railroad.
To take a slight retrospective glance--but
a few days before the Pacific Railroad Com
pany gave the members of both Houses
ride to Co!fAx, as tha, honest old Dutchmap,
who had a Suffers Store on the Potomac,
said of Slonewall Shakson Unit pig prass
pand--bIaying whoosh pin here since Ise
pin gon." There grand blow out a;
Colfax, where there were little hogs and cold
turkey as well as cold facts. Champagne
flowed like water and things went on SWIM.
mingly, toasts were drank and speeches were
made. The speakers being glorious, glorif
ed the Pacific Railroad enterprise Of course
The President of the Road, Leland Stanford
selecting the "Od Irrepresslble" - Jake
Chase, Superintendent Of Washington Mari
ket, who from his practice in hosting beet
and whole hog on meat block was Just The
man for the business--woud run down and
asso certain prominent members, hoist them
on the table, and stir them up and make
them roar for the edifcation OF the crowd.
Spe ker Yule, LutlreII, Hurst, and divers and
sundry Others made Pacific Railroad speech
es but alas "There's many a slip twxt the
cup and the lip" when the matter of the
memorial came up on Saturday week, the
Speaker stepped down from his nostrum, as
Mrs. Partington would say, and pitrhed into
the Road, like unto mad bull bucking at a
ocom"tive--Luttrell and others, including
Pete Hopper, who, with brother Benton of
The Senate, halls from the town Of Folsom
the former giving dignity and color to the
Assembly, as the latter does a pious and
moral tone to the Senate-followed suit
Stanford stood aghast at such black ingrali
lude; they had eaten his hogs, drank his
whisky and champagne, lbut, "sich is lif+!"
Wilcox, Speaker pro tenn, alone stood faith.
full among the failhless" COL Lee, of Al.
pine, who being troubled with tremorrhoids,
which causes him to lise to his feet on eve
ry occasion, begged for delay iu order that
be might examine the question, but it was a
forgone conclusion, the vote was overwhelm'
ingIy in favor of The passage. Wilcox, who
voted aye, gave notice of reconsideration,
but old Chamberlain anticipating the "weak
invention of the enemy" cut him off in his
prime by previously suspending the 59lh
rule.
A number OF local measures have been