Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 7, Number 1010, 19 June 1854 — Butte County. [ARTICLE]

Butte County.

The Butte County Record of the 17th contain* a full report of the proceedings of the Democratic County Convention, which was held at Bidwell's Bar on the 14th inst, The Broderick, or Senatorial wing, did not, as far as can be judged from the proceedings, have a stogie delegate in tho convention. So firmly had the Democracy of Butte set their faces against the Broderick move to elect himself Senator, that their delegates in convention did not cast a single vote for Mr. Richard Irwin, who was caudidate for Speaker of the Assembly, and who voted throughout with the Broderick winir. Mr. Ewer, who voted against bringing on the election, was nominated for re-election. Mr. Thomas Wells was the other nominee for the Assembly. L'.jl. P.. C. Baker presided, assisted as Vice Presidents by Dr. J. B. Smith, Saml. Glass, Esq. Messrs. H. U. Jennings, Seneca Ewer, John Lidwell, R. C. Baker, P. Freer, and M. L. King, were unanimously elected delegates to the State Convention. Delegates were also appointed to attend a District Convention to nominate a candidate for Judge of the ninth Judicial District, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge G. A. Smith. The sentiments of the members of the convention are very clearly stated in the resolutions ■we copy below, which passed without a dissentIng voice :

Jitsolvcd, That the Democracy of the county of Butte, in Couveution assembled, congratulate them-s-elvis and the Democracy of the * State on the triumph of democratic principles in the late Legislai u.-e, in reserving to the people the right to be beard :md consulted in the electiou of all officers, and in rhe rejection of measures designed by political wireworkers to tax the people for the promotion of individual and 3elu\-h purposes. And whereas, Knowing, as we do, that tho portion of the State lying north of the city of San Kranciscj contaius more than one half the population of the State, more than two thirds of the mineral lands, and one halt of all the agricultural lands an the State, , . Therefore, be it Rtsototd, That we are entitled to :iud demand our right, that one half of our delega--1 ion in Coogreet, »<.> d one half our State officers, be Bclectcil frotn the Northern portion of tbe State. Ann In itjurther Retolvta, That the delegatesappointei by tiiis Convention to attend the State Conrention, to be hoiden it Sacramento on the !Bth .luiv, lor the nomination ot* Congressmen and St^te offices, bo and they nre hereby instructed to use all honorable means to secure the nomination of one .-rcss'nan from tbe Northern portion of the State. Ami In' H huther limoh'eil. That in view of the tact that each and every Senator in Congress has I liter, elected trom the city of San Francisco — that our SI ite Senator be instructed, and our candidates lor the ."■ate Assembly are hereby required to pledge themselves, to use all honorable mean 5 , in case of i heir election, to secure tbe election to the United stc of a suitable pernon, who is a resident of -!,.! ii-ntilied with tbe interests of the northern portion of the State. Statk Clum for Money Spent in DeVEtfSE <» the People ok the State from Jndian Aggbumoh. — Gen. McUougal, from the Committee ou Military Affairs, has submitted to Congress an able and comprehensive report in favor of paying to the State of California fcer claim for money paid for defending her territories from ludian aggression. We have received a copy of this interesting report from Mr. McDougal. He makeg out a strong case, and if he can ever get a vote upon tbe claim, may succeed in getting it passed. Mr. McDougal presents a lr.Dg array of precedents that in point, and which are conclusive ua to the post practice of payiDgall such Indian war claims, when it was Bhown gatigfactoriiy that tho State had expended the money. If our members, in conjunction with Dr. Pierce, succeed in getting this claim through Congress, they will have done much towards relieving the State fum her financial burdens and in obtaining fur her that juetice which ie her due from the General Government. lim Tree Ball— The Stockton Journal has received an invitation to a ball to be given at the "Big Tree" on the fourth of July.

Indictments for Fighting a Duel. — The demurrer to the indictment against certain 1 parties for fighting a duel in this county, which hns been argued at f considerable : length with marked ability before the Court of^Sessions, was sustained, and ?' the indictments i declared insufficient. This is the second dueling case in this county which has" been" kicked out of court upon legal fictions and senseless tech- i nicalities. T When the present criminal code' was adopted it was the intention of the Legislature to so simplify the pleadings that an indictment which simply declared a crime had been committed in the county, giving its character and charging that a certain party did the deed, should bo sufficient, leaving the whole matter to be determined upon the the facts. The Legislature believed they had ; fully, accomplished this object, , but ', courts • somehow appear to manage so as to require pleadings a little more strict than they were under the. old English practice. r ... . •t • ; It appears, . further, 1 : that our Judges are inclined to rule any indictment found for fighting a duel out of court. In this case we do not know whether the court 'or the District Attorney should shoulder the ■. responsibility. That somebody is : accountable for a defeat <of < the ends of justice and the enforcement "of the law, would seem a proposition so clear as not to admit of dispute. ;. , : *' Whig Flummery."— The V Union is very anxious for the public to remember that it was once reported that President Pierce disapproved of the Japan Exhibition,, " and was going to order it home." That paper must bo sadly in -want of maUrial to make capital against a Democratic Administration, when it resorts to what was once a report, published in Whie papers, but which long since proved to be a malicious though 'harmless falsehood of Whig manufacture. • '"!- , : •/'■,. \i The above is clipped from the Miner's Advocate, and we reply by simply quoting the following from the last New York Herald. It was in the Union of Saturday, -and notwithstanding the declaration of the Advocate that the report of the squadron of Commodore Perry having been recalled by President Pierce was "a harmless falsehood of Whig manufacture,"' we venture to consider . the. statement of the Herald, as conclusive that orders to that effect were issued before the news of the success of Commodore Perry had been [received] at Washington. Here is what the Herald writes : " The action of the Secretary of the Navy, in recalling the Japan Expedition meets with unqualified approval of Congress." .» Tuolumne. — The convention to appoint delegates to the State Convention, and nominate candidates for the Senate and Assembly, met at Jamestown on the 17th inst.— Saturday last. The Socora Herald says . the convention is so nearly divided as to render it uncertain which party has the majority. Of the 101 delegates, the friends of Mr. Broderick claim' over forty, and that i Mr. Ccffroth would probably obtain the vote of delegates from that county for Congress. | We shall know about the correctness of these predictions in a few days. The Herald is pleading earnestly for harmony in the party, which is a pretty certain indication that its friends were worsted in the struggle. It declares— , We are willing to concede a point ; for the Bake of harmony. Would that wo could . say as much for all of our Democratic friends. | . We plead earnestly for harmony in the deliberations and action of this convention. Sacramento Bonds.— ' fixed determination of the capitalists and business men of this city to preserve her financial reputation untarnished, by coming forward promptly whenever occasion requires, to assume her pecuniary liabilities, is the theme of commendation elsewhere than here. In the Times: and Transcript of Friday, we find the following complimentary notice: The promptness with which the city of Sacramento has hitherto met the interest and principal of her debt as it fell due, is highly honorable to her citizens, and well establishes the character of her securities at home and abroad. A short time since we announced that an enterprising firm in Sacramento, Messrs. Stanford & Brothers, had taken the loan advertised for to meet the payment of the bonds falling due in New York on the 1st of July, and that the money had been duly remitted. We now learn that the banking house of D. O. Mills & Co., of Sacramento, have taken the loan of $80,000 required to meet the proportion of the bonds which are payable in that city on the 1st proximo. Thus notwithstanding the heavy outlays the city of Sacramento has required during the period of her rapid growth, it appears that her public spirited and wealthy citizens are ready and willing to meet every obligation.

Ocean Steamer Race. — Great interest is manifested as to the result of the race to Panama between the rival steamships John L. Stephens and Yankee Blade. On the Ist instant, at 6 o'clock, the steamers left the Golden Gate. On the 7th, at 8 p.m., the Golden Gate passed a vessel supposed to be the Stephens, and on the same day, at 12 m, the Yankee Blade was seen by the Brother Jonathan seventy miles to the northward of Acapulco. According to the memoranda of these vessels the Yankee Blade must have been some distance ahead of her rival, as the Stephens was passed by the Golden Gate at least two hundred miles this side of Acapulco.