NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The Gulf Forts to be Held at all Hazards; Editorials-Foreign Intervention in American Affairs, A Cab Reform; Negro Regiments to be Raised (4/1/1861)

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WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 31, 1861.

Quite a scene transpired at the President's house yesterday. On Friday Senator BAKER, of Oregon, presented to the President ten or eleven men as representative Californians, who, after he retired, recommended Senator BAKER to the Executive as a proper arbiter of the California appointments. The President then invited "all" Californians to call on him yesterday morning.

OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.

On Friday night some thirty Californians had an impromptu meeting, at which they appointed a Committee of Five of their number, as proper persons to give any information desired by the President as to the qualifications of candidates. They also adopted an earnest protest to the President against Senator BAKER's interference; first, because he was not a Californian; second, because, as they alleged, some of his recommendations were injudicious, improper, and unsatisfactory to California public sentiment. This protest was signed by forty out of the about sixty Californians now here. J.W. SIMONTON, of the San Francisco Bulletin, was deputized to present this protest, with necessary remarks.

Nearly sixty Californians met at the President's accordingly, yesterday morning, when JOSEPH A. NUNEZ, of San Francisco, briefly addressed the President, giving him the names of the Committee of Reference agreed upon, and calling attention to the fact that the paper was signed numerously by the Republicans, who had held high positions in the history of the party in California.

Mr. SIMONTON then presented the protest, with some remarks, in which he enforced it with evidence to show that Senator BAKER could not be trusted to speak for California. In support of this he charged the Senator with having presented to the President, as a most substantial and respectable man, a person whose antecedents and reputation Mr. SIMONTON denounced severely.

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