Year: 1860

of some importance has been passed by ooIh
branches of the Legislature | refer to the
bill to appropriate money for the erection of
a capitol building. Sacramento is the capital
of the State, and those in search of the pub
lie funds may be sure of finding at this place,
so much ofthem as has not evaporated before
the warm breath of SIS, 200 charity donations,
or the burning necessities of Indian extermi-
mating wars. The people hereabout, those Of
them who have life and energy enough to
know that they are to tie benefited, are in
particularly good spirits. The Supervisors
have, in the most extravagantly liberal man
ner, rendered the Agricultural pavilion, free
of charge, in case a blowout shall be deemed
advisable, MS an expression of qualification at
the result Of the Capital agitation. The
building is to be located on NJ street between
| Twelfth and Thirteenth; very good lot, al
though pedestrians going over to that side of
the town. from the business quarter, are OBJ
liged to weather good many rough preci-
peces, and, at the season when the building
will be most used, to ford a goodly number
of small streams. | do not know that our
streets and sidewalks here are any worse
however than those of San Jose were in 1850
and 1851 when the capitol was located there
If people only keep sober, carry lanterns in
the night time and wear good 40 boots, it is
not so very dangerous getting abou. here as
you may imagine


The Senate has been worrying over the
Bulkhead bill all day yesterday and to day
in committee of the whole. The amendments
recommended by the special committee have
generally been adopted, but all Others ema-
mating from the avowed enemies of the
scheme, are steadily voted down. The ants
will delay the matter by offering all sorts Of
amendments, and by occupying the floor, but
this is only to try and make time for coaxing
and threatening members of the other house
Three or four years experience has taught
Parsons and his staff most thoroughly in lob
by tactics, and they are cool and confident Of
success. have 10 doubt the noses were
carefully and accurately counted before the
bill was even brought up. Very likely some
of the amendments which have been adop-
ted by way Of compromise, were drafted at
the time when, and by the hands 10y which,
the original bill was prepared. l do not
Of course know this, but things work so
smoothly, and the Bulkheaders have yielded
this and that point so gracefully, that one
cannot help thinking they only made the
demands, upon which they sustain defeat SO
philosophically, in order that the enemy
might be partially satiated with apparent
easy victories by the way. Perhaps,
then, the bill is being apparently mutiated
by its friends in order that the ants in and
out Of the legislature may not rail so loudly
at its passageas they would if it went through
as the original Parsons Bulkhead Scheme"
Yesterday Phelps made terrific assault upon
the petition sent up from San Francisco in
favor of the measure. lie said it was ga
cheat, fraud, forgery and lie; that
many names were signed over and over,
Dennis McCarty's name appearing as many
as thirty-two times, and John Hornas' nine
teen times. He said negro had sworn that
he was induced to sign it because he was told
that I" it would make times lively" Ander


son replied and said that trickery had not
= been and could not be avoided either in get
. ting up the petition or the remonstrances


Napoleon L. Broughton is Inspector OF
Beef and Pork. Napoleon is a Calaveras
friend of the Administration, and it is well
enough that he should be provided for The
Lecompton hog will be salted down in about
a month, and the office will Ee a very good
one in this State.


The Senate has passed the bill TO prevent
others than lawyers from log rolling among
members of thele islature.


Mr.. Redman offered an amendment OF ad-
ditionOl section providing that no person
having an interest in any measure before the
legislature, should approach converse, with
or explain to, or i'll any manner attempt to
influence the vote of any member relative to
such measures, without first distinctly making
known his interest in, or relation to the same
and that person guilty of violating said Sec
tion, should be deemed guilty of misdemean-
or. He said he had copied the section from
law similar to the one before the Senate,
which was assed by the Legislature of Wis
consin, in 1858. This was more than Sena
tors could stand, and it was defeated by an
overwhelming vote.


A concurrent resolution for recinding the
Alamaden Mine resolutions has been made
the special order for Tuesday, April Sd.


The Yuba county fee BILL after passing the
Assembly, has been lost, before getting into
the Senate. Messrs Hugg, Crowell and Wes-
colt were appointed committee Of inquiry
in the matter.


A resolution requesting the Printing Com
mttee to inquire into the expediency of let
ting out the State printing to the lowest bid.
der, was adopted by the Assembly yesterday.
1t was offered by Bailey, who is one of the
Committee. The other members are Las
peyre, Fairchild, Holiday Buck, Grow and
Burson, and they will, without doubt, show
good reasons why the printing should be done
in the present manner.


The great anti Chinese bill has been the
subject of much defamation in the House
yesterday and to day, but it all came to
naught. The bill was indefinitely postponed
this afternoon, with general understanding
that the Mining Committee should report an
other of more practicable nature


We are being drowned with rain, and are
at tlxT 1xr