CALIFORNIA-Senator Gwin Disgusted with Politics; THE PRINCE’S PROGRESS WESTWARD; THE LATE GALE AT NEW-ORLEANS (9/24/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/24/1860

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SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday, Sept. 1, 1860. The last Pony Express brought the rumor, and the denial of it, that BRECKINRIDGE had withdrawn. It scarcely produced a ripple in political circles, for nobody believed the rumor true. Senator GWIN has spoken. At Stockton, on the 29th, the venerable "Daily Mail Killer," gave account of his stewardship. His reception was without enthusiasm. The town was full of strangers, and a Breckinridge ratification meeting being called, some 350 or 400 persons turned out to hear GWIN's apology. He let general politics slide, and came early down to the catalogue of his own misdeeds. He charged the failure of every measure that interests California to the delay of the Republicans in organizing the House. HALE's overland Mail Bill he opposed, because it was I.C. WOOD's project-and SHERMAN killed the amendments to the General Postal Law, that would have given us all we wanted. The quarrel with the President was all imaginary. When he went into the Senate eleven years ago we had but twelve mails per annum; he had given us three hundred and twenty mail departures from the East in a year, and two hundred and ninety-six from California eastward, or, exclusively of Sundays, more than a mail daily now. The modest old gentleman did not directly claim that he built California, but all the mail facilities we to-day enjoy he gave us. The papers were down on him because they hated the Democratic Party, and because there were aspirants who wanted his place. "Fellow-citizens," said he, "I speak truly when I say I am tired of this species of politics. I am wearied with abuse and misrepresentation.

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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California: Senator Gwin Disgusted with Politics and Craves Retirement – 2-3
Senator Gwin and the Almaden Mine – 3
The Coolie Trade – 3
The Prince’s Progress Westward – 3
Fearful Balloon Adventure – 3
The Lady Elgin Disaster – 3
The Late Gale at New-Orleans – 4
Base Ball: Brooklyn vs. Manhattan; Empire vs. Hamilton of Jersey City – 5
Base Ball Match in Baltimore – 5
Horse-Race at Lexington, Ky. – 5
City Politics – 5
The Republican State Committee – 5
General City News – 5
Police Reports – 5