Year: 1861

Our lawgvers are not as yet very briskly
at work The proceedings to-day were not
specially interesting. A resolution to gointo
joint convention on Friday next for the elee-
tion Of a U. S. Senator was offered in the
Assembly, and laid on the table by a vote of
45 to 81. The popular branch of the Legis-
lature does not seem by any means inclined
to go it blind in this important matter. 1t is
pretty well known that the Breckenridge
men, including the Secessionists, will support
for Senator the gentleman with the military
title who is the favorite of those Douglas men
who, during the contest for Speaker, found
their political afinities" in the ranks of the
enemy. The united support of the Seees-
sionists in this Legislature will and ought TO
defeat any man who may be so unfortunate
as to receive it. No man can be elected who
the Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln on the
4th of March, and that he will, under all cir
cumstances, recognize and obey the Constitu-
tonal Government the United States, and
participate in the deliberations of the United
States Senate. 1t would be a direct and
shameless swindle for any man to accept
commission from the loyal State of California
as a United States Senator, with the hidden
intention ofproceeding TO Washington TO play
into the hands of such accursed traitors as
Toombs, Gwin, Lane, ct al. If the California
Disunionists are thoroughly convinced, as
they profess to be, that the Union is already
diSSol0ed, they are common cheats and swim
dlers if they assist in eeeting Senator Of
their own stripe who will lot sit in the Sen
ate. They would, by SO doing, rob the Union
people of this State of a vote in the Senate at
most important crisis, and would aid the
cause Of treason by sending on traitor to
aid in the overthrow of the Government.
Thank God, however, they have not the
strength to do this. Their only hope is to
secure the election of a doubtful man, and
that man they have most surely decided upon.
lie supported Douglas last fall tamely, and
on the ground, mainly, of organization. So
far he has remained ominousy silent on the
great issue of the day, and has thereby made
himself an object of suspicion. The Seces-
sionists may be wrong in counting upon him
as a tolerably good friend of theirs, but if
they are it will be the first time the same set
of men have been fooled lie may put forth
his views on the Union question in public
manner if he finds the Senate pretty true to
the country, but if he does it will take all
hands here by surprise. Ought any man to
go to the Senate who will not agree to serve
after he gets there? Would any man truly
represent the sovereign State of California at
Washington on the 4th of March who would
not, in the event of conflict, be found bat
Ting for the flag of the Union against the
Palmetto rag of treason and rebellion? Every
man who means fair dares to sag fair. Every
straight forward citizen must hope to see a
Senator elected who is either for South Caro-.
lima and her sympathizers, or for the Federal
Union and its preservation. None of us want
to be cheated by the election o. an uncertain
man who might, by some combination of cir
cumstauces, be induced to attempt represent
ing California at Charleston rather than at
Washington.


To come from the sublime to the ridicu-
lous, | will mention the fact that an attempt
was made to-day to construct committee to
collect testimony concerning the compensa
tion of the Pork Inspector, Stamp Inspectors
and Superintendent Of immigration, and re-
port thereon. 1t was promptly tabled by
vote Of A TO 3D.


The Union feeling runs high here. Party
lines seem to great extent oblterated, and
while a limited number of secessionists, (some
in disguise and some openly,) deprecate
"bloodshed," the great current of public
sentiment seems to-be that 'Uncle Sam can
not and will not suffer the outrage upon the
"Star of the West" in Charleston harbor to
go unpunished. Men who preach non-re-
sistance while they are firing cannons iuto
government vessels exhibit degree of cheek
that might be enyied by sperm whale.


CAPITOL.