Year: 1866

and also Will have seen statements in the Amer
ican Flag accusing seven members of the Senate
of having been bribed to vote against the repeal.
As matter OF common sense this insnuatiou is
without foundation, because there has not been
q time when the vote on that measure was in
doubt, and the large majority in favor of strik


ing out the enacting clause would seem to con-
tradict that assertion beyond cayil The Senate


however, felt though the sweeping statements
against its integrity ought to be investigated and
a unanimous vote was given to appoint a COM
mittee for that purpose The Senate afterward
took the matter directly in their own hands yir-
tuaily resolved themselves into a Court of Inyes-
! tgaton and proceeded with the case by sum-
moning the witness, D. 0. Mccarthy editor of
the 1merican Flag, before the bar of the Senate
to testify. Having utterly refused to answer the
questions propounded, Mccarthy was committed
to Jail for contempt. a writ of haJcas corpus was
taken before Judge McKune, who denied it, and
to-day it will come before the Supreme Court
Of the language used through the Flag, pre-
sumo you already cognizant, and it is not
worth while to give matter hatched up through
pernicious motives any undue publicity. 1t has
already attracted too much attention


The - tide land swindle,'' as it is commonly
termed, has been before the Senate two or three
!
been before two previous Legislatures | believe.
The bill originated in the Assembly, and the OBJ
ject is to render relief to owners of swamp and
oyerfowed and tule lands, who had suffered from
food and drought, but on reaching the Senate
an amendment tackled on by Il majority of
the Swamp Land committee, in order to give n
clear title to parties holding certain lands in the
neighborhood of San Francisco, Oakland and
San Quentin The opposition claim that it is
giving to monopolists some of the most valuable
lands in the State beside granting privileges for
wharf purposes which is contrary to the intent
of the law and especially detrimental to the city
of San Francisco. The lands were located by


land warrants and the title is probably good, al
though it will be contended that it remains with
the State to withdraw the land, inasmuch as the
water front will be seriously injured bv such ex-
tensive transactions. The survey under which
they claim runs some distance into Mission Bay


The Assembly on Friday referred to the COM
mittee on Federal Relations resolution sustain
ing Congress in its position on the Freedmen's
Bureau bill. haveno doubt that ere this reach
es you both branches will have adopted similar
resolutions to that introduced in the Assembly.
If matters at Washington do not assume differ
cnt shape soon, a decided expression will
be given by the Legislature, and indication of
the intention of the Union party Of this State to
stand by the principles cnunciated in the past
not depart from the objects for which we strove
through IOur years OF DiOOuy contest. vi course
the Democrats hilarious, and now vie with
each other in laudation OF an act OF the Presi-
dent which smacks too strongly of latter-day
Democracy.


The telegraph and steamboat companies have
been very materially affected by the opening of
the sources of communication in their re-
spective channels. Now telegraph to San
Francisco for about onc-thrd what it cost by the
old Company line. Cabin passage from San
ID I,,f
now but Sl5 caused by placing English boat
on the route; freight, So per ton. A new steam
er is in course Of construction ct San Francisco
for the Sacramento route.


Amusements claim much of the time of Sacra-
mentans at present, and they Of such varied
character that the most fastdious tastes cannot
but be satisfied Masked balls. theutricals So
cial entertainments and excursions are now the
order of the day. Ga Washngtons birthday
Senators Dodge and Tubbs, of San Francisco in
yited their friends to accompany them to Cofax,
on the Central Pacific Railroad on a pleasure
trip, and if good feeling and cordially are to be
considered, i can assert that more pleasant par
ty never turned ont of Sacramento. Perhaps it
may be owing to the fact that the gentlemen
named have natural ia culty of knowing how to
render such occasions peculiarly inviting, and in
this instance they did eminent justice to them
selves in making the affair most pleasant one.


Your people DO not perhaps appreciate that
the Central Pacific Company is scaling every OBJ
stacle in the extension of its road and threaten
to ride every legislator on a rail TO Dutch Fiat by
the frstof April. To those who have an oppor-
tunity it is worth the while to ride over the road
to what is known rs {: Cape Horn, three miles
beyond Colfax. | understand that a single mile
at that point cost S4oo, 900. There is doubt
but most of us have placed the time too far dis
tant when the East and West shall be bound by


iron bands, and let US only hope we have. On
this subject will endeavor to more fully inform
you at future time X.


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