Staunton Spectator

The Legislature of California appears to be running the same career as the U. S. House of Representatives, and both furnish striking illustrations of the natural tendency of "Democracy" when it has full swing. A late California paper says the Legislature had been in session six weeks, and, besides electing a United States Senator, had done nothing that had not as well been left undone, and that no measure had even been discussed that looked to a higher end than the gaining a little personal popularity or notoriety by individual members. There are about seventy-five Democrats and fifteen Whigs in the Legislature, and "the majority will do nothing lest it be unpopular, and they will not let the minority do anything lest it should be popular."