Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 30, Number 4528, 26 September 1865 — NEWS OF THE MORNING. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE MORNING.

No dispatches were received from the East yesterday. * The steamer Sacramento arrived at San Francisco on Sunday night, 24th, from Panama, bringing four hundred and fifty passengers and the New York mail* of September Ist. By this arrival we are informed of the return of the French to Acapulco. A detachment of 500 men occupied the old fort. ( General Alvarez, with 4,000 Liberal troops, was in the vicinity of the town, threatening an attack. Governor Pesquiera has arrived in Arizona, having been driven out of Sonora by the French. The Overland Mail furnishes detailed advices from Hew York to September Ist end from St. Louis to September sth. "We. transfer to our columns a continuation of the report of the evidence in the V»'irtz case, another of Richardson's letters from the Pacific slope to the Tribune, and interesting intelligence from the South and from the Old World. A letter from our special correspondent at New York appears in this issue. The balance in the State treasury at the commencement of business September 25th was $470,4.02 20. We publish the official return of the vote of Sacramento county at the late election. Goon for Office Seekers. — The Trinity Journal has a few timely words for the benefit of those politician? who have been selling their principles, if they ever bad any, for the purpose of securing office, whereby they might get a living without work. It says : The history of the past few months teaches that there U something In the machinery of our Government that tempts men from an honest course to the pursuance of an opposite one. What is that defect It strikes us very forcibly that the temptation lies in the fatness of our offices, many of which enables the incumbent not <■', 1 to make i fortune to himself in a term of one or two year?, but to support a host of professional political trickster.-; and hangers-on, to whom he is tinder obligations far his position. Then the temptation to the pursuance of dishonest courses is in the emoluments contingent upon success. Take away the profits of crime, Mid crime ceases, just as sure as water finds its level. Reduce the fatness of the offices and the strife to posse.*** them will cease. Reduce the emoluments of all our State a.nd county offices to such a standard as will barely pay the incumbents an economical living, and the glorious millenium, when the office will hunt the man, will be upon us, and honesty rill rise to par, for once the office goes hunting it will find a taker in name one who will discharge its duties not for profit, not for the stealings, but because he owes it to his follow citizens and to his country to faithfully discharge the functions they or it may impose upon him. Senator Comma and Secretary McCulloch. The following appears in the Washington correspondence of the New York Times of August 2'Jth : Somebody wrote a letter, which was published in an obscure paper, stating that a quarrel occurred between Senator Conness, of California, and Secretary McCulloch, in the course of which the latter opposed negro suffrage, and the former used profane language. Senator Conness, writing on the subject, says : Georgetown College (Cal.)[»], July 24, 1865. I regret exceedingly that any one has eeen fit to use the ua:ne of our Secretary of the Treasury or my own in such connection as they are found in the extract before me. It is the greatest injustice to both. The remarks on the subject of negro suffrage were made on an occasion before I left Washington by McCulloch to me, but nothing occurred of the kind stated, nor were such profane words ever uttered by myself, nor any words corresponding to those before me. The relations of the honorable gentleman and myself, on the contrary, are, bo far as 1 know, of the most pleasant and cordial character. You will oblige me by giving this publicity in your paper, and .you have my thanks for calling my attention to the matter. Your obedient servant, JOHN CONNESS. San Francisco.— dispatch to the Bee yesterday says : The steamer Sacramento arrived last night at ten o'clock, with 450 passengers, among horn was Madame Anna Bishop. ; • B. B. Numan has sued George Barstow for §3,000 damages for dispossessing him, by force, of a piece of land near Lone Mountain Cemetery. lie also asks for restitution. John Allen was brought into the calaboose last night in a state of intoxication. He had a pistol in his pantaloons pocket, which went off while he was in prison, inflicting a severe flesh wound in the thiirh. Stock wiles to-day : Imperial, $2SS@.S24O ; Crown Point, $1,150; Yellow Jacket, $l,0S0(g t 51,395; Savage, $1,20(K&t1,220 ; Sierra Nevada, $22@522 50; Overman, ?1T5@5132 50; Chollar, $416@5420; Ophlr, $400@5125 ; Hale & Norcross, $620(2 8660 ; Confidence, $12-2; Potosl, $404; Belcher, fS9O@*S3S; Gould & Curry, $1,210® 51,230. Greenbacks. tsc. A Smart Indian.— The Shasta Courier tells the following good story on an Indian : A few days an a domesticated and very well disposed Indian, belonging on the farm of .Runnels, on the east side of the river, proposed to go out hunting. Runnels, having a weakness for game, rigged Lo out with rifle and ammunition, and saw him depart. In about an hour the Digger came running home, his countenance illustrating ■ very big scare. Runnels inquired the cause of his alarm and the whereabouts of the gun. When Lo got his wind he said that as he was creeping along through the chapparal, looking for game, ha unexpectedly came upon a great grizzly in his lair. The grizzly made a grab at him, when Lo dropped his rifle and made time for home. " Why didn't you shoot the bear?" asked Runnels ; when Lo, with the gravity of a Senator, replied : "I didn't go out to phoot bear ; I was hunting deer !" An Opinion. — The Marysville Express thus comments on the late great race between Norfolk and Lodi : In the late great race at Sacramento between Norfolk and Lodi, the former has earned great reputation and laurels', bo too has the latter, showing him to be a fast, gallant and blooded animal. There is only a few months difference in the ages of the horses, yet this slight difference, according to the turf rules, oblige Lodi to carry tin pounds weight more than Norfolk. Norfolk took the heats and the purse, but some persons ■Oppose if I.<> li had had Norfolk's rider and Norfolk had carried tho ilder of Lodi, the result would have been different, The Express also refers to the manifest lameness of Lodi as lessening somewhat his speed. Look Out for Goosr Lake.— The Yreka Yreka Journal says the waters of the Sacramento are likely to have an addition ere long from those of Goose Lake, on the northern border of the State. It adds: This lake, In the eastern part or the county, is very high and constantly rising every year. The cause of its rise cannot be accounted fcis but If it continues to rise at th.» same rate it will be but a few years more when it will be running into Pitt River Valley and swelling the Sacramento river. It now lacks about thirty feet of running over the dividing ridge. It is a very large lake, and the water is clear as crystal. Young KETcnrjf.— The New York Commercial Advertiser of August 31st says : It is rumored on the street that the hypothecated checks issued by young Ketchum are not to be found. It is. next, attempted to account for their disappearance otherwise than by the supposition that they have been bought up by some unknown parties. It "is supposed certain friends have rallied for the purpose of removing the evidences of forgery. Rumor also has it that the parties associated with the Issuing of the checks are out of the city. Good for Excelsior.— The Washoe Times, alluding to ore from the Excelsior mines, on the Summit, says : Ryan, of this valley, loaded three teams with Excelsior rock and freighted the same to Virginia, where it was worked by the Central mill, yielding $888 per ton. After unloading, Ryan swept up his wagon beds, and washed nine dollars in gold dust from the sweepings. Ryan is himself our authority for the above item. Mat Own a Saw Mill.— The Washoe Times of September i"d has the following: Two loads composed of a steam engine started from this valley for Excelsior last Tuesday, designed to run a saw mill In that new El Dorado. Tax Collector Brady, in behalf of the county, attached the same for taxes delinquent for 1868 and ISM. The present prospect is that the county will either collect her dues in coin or own a saw mill p^co t tempo. Suicide. — Recently a man named Charles Wentworth committed suicide at Jenk's ranch, near San Andrea?, by cutting his throat with a butcher's knife. He was a native of Maine, and abfAit 45 years of n«e. / Sale of Quartz . Claim. — The Rawhide Ranch quart?, claim near Copperopolis has been sold to a company of capitalists for the Bum of $50,000. Copper Ore.— There were shipped from the Union mine at Copperopolis, for six days ending September 21st, 907 tons and 1,175 pounds of copper ore. ' Good Clean Up.— Copperopolis lately, J. C. Duncan cleaned up seventy-five ounces of cold, the result of one week's run of the Alban Kanch milh New Telegraph Link.— A telegraph line is abont to be established between San Andreas and Copperopolis, '