Los Angeles Daily Herald

JAMES A. JOHNSON, Democratic nominee for Lieut. Governor, Judge J. B. Lamar and Major Frank Ganahl, will speak in this city on Monday evening next.

COLONEL J. J. WARNER, the staunch old, recently defeated, Independent candidate for Congress, was Chairman of the Republican meeting last night, and he opened the entertainment with some rather severe comments on Judge Thompson, the Independent candidate for Congress. Which is the Independent and which the Republican party? The times are out of joint and the keenest and sharpest-eyed man in the county can't tell the difference between tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee.

THE evening Express being unable to find anything against Mr. WIGGINTON ridicules his name. It cannot rake up an argument against the Democratic nominee for Sheriff, Mr. D. W. ALEXANDER, and so it objects to his age. Our Republican friends General Bouton and Gauger Brerly must supply their organ with arguments a little more effective than these or the Democratic candidates will walk over the course almost without opposition. WIGGINTON's name and Mr. ALEXANDER's age will not prevent the people from supporting them. Mr. ALEXANDER is in the prime of life and fully competent to effectually discharge all the duties of Sheriff or of any other office to which the people may elect him.

A HERALD correspondent is desirous of knowing what evidence is offered that Mr. HOUGHTON is not now as entirely the property of the Central Pacific Railroad Company as he was when he rather gloried in acknowledging himself the chattel of that corporation. There are a great many people seeking the same information, but they seek in vain. No evidence is to be had on the point. It is the opinion of many well informed gentlemen that should Mr. HOUGHTON chance to be elected he will serve the railroad company as faithfully in the future as he has in the past. His every act in Congress was in obedience to their dictation, and that he will continue to obey their behests we have no doubt. He is coquetting with the friends of the Texas Pacific road for votes, but we have no proof, except his own word, that he has renounced his allegiance to the Central Pacific Railroad Company.

Our respected and respectable friend State Gauger Brerly has issued a small circular in which he places Mr. HOUGHTON before the public in the fairest light possible under the circumstances. Brerly is a keen, shrewd manipulator and knows just what to publish of Mr. HOUGHTON's record. But it won't do. His man is in a tight place and even the cunning of the wily State Gauger cannot extricate him. Luttrell says he did show HOUGHTON the dispatches from our Chamber of Commerce and he refused to act upon them. As for Mr. HOUGHTON's amended bill on the change of route of the Southern Pacific Railroad it amounts to nothing for the reason that he introduced the original bill to change the route and only amended it when convinced that the original could not be passed. HOUGHTON has never shed STANFORD's collar.

Tom. Scott.

It is pleasing to see what interest HOUGHTON's backers take in TOM. SCOTT and the 32d parallel Railroad route. It seems the people might have confidence enough in Mr. WIGGINTON to believe that he would support that road before Congress, as he is solemnly pledged so to do by the platform of his party, which he solemnly accepted before the Congressional Convention that gave him the nomination. The Texas and Pacific Road has now the same subsidy that the Southern Pacific has and besides has a noble subsidy from the State of Texas; to be sure TOM. SCOTT has squandered this, in a great measure, and in a reckless Missouri billier project and finance and construction ring, swallowed up these bonds of Texas and carried to the verge of bankruptcy the confiding gentlemen who furnished him iron. It may be of doubtful propriety for Mr. WIGGINTON to support any bill introduced by Mr. HOUGHTON whom he has convicted of back pay steals and other plunders, or to say in advance that he will vote that the Government shall endorse forty thousand dollars per mile for TOM. SCOTT when eighteen thousand per mile will build it. This would be simply an outrage and an evidence that the twenty-two thousand dollars per mile additional would be used to purchase such men as were capable of voting themselves extra pay and back salary steals. TOM SCOTT is well understood to be a keener lobbyite than NAP. BROUGHTON or Zeke Wilson. He has more sins to account for in demoralizing the people of Pennsylvania than Boss Tweed ever had in demoralizing the citizens of the city of New York. So indignant did the people of Pennsylvania and New Jersey become at the public plunderer, that it is still fresh in the memory of us all when he was threatened with a ride on a wooden rail, and a coat of tar and feathers. See his treatment of the people of San Diego; he got them to subscribe $1,000,000 worth of property, taxed the poor people to this end, and many had to mortgage their little places to pay their pro rata. The moment he gets this he swings himself round to the San Gorgonia Pass says he will give them instead of a direct route on the 32d parallel a circuitous route round the coast by the way of Santa Anna, sends a few loads of ties to San Diego as a make-believe, get CRAWFORD and Evans to scratch a little there, sells out the ties to the Southern Pacific, pays nobody and now comes before Congress for $40,000 per mile. HOUGHTON is just the man to carry out this swindle. What a patriotic set of fellows we have, how simple we are, and how easily well intentioned men can become interested in a schemer like this. A man who never built a mile of road with his own money, a man who has bedeviled the people of his own State, and adjoining ones. Were it not for the honesty and honor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company he would by his combinations have ruined the commerce of the South and West. If we ever get a competing road it will not be through TOM. SCOTT. This man had the audacity to say in his address before the committee of the House that he was not at work for the Pacific coast, that he wanted to tear from us the commerce of the adjoining Territories and the Republic of Mexico, to build up the cities of the East at our expense. HOUGHTON is a fit tool for this job. What say the people to this indictment? It is every word true, and a matter of history. Let us find some new organization or an old one like the Baltimore and Ohio Company, that has some moral honesty left to build us a competing line.

The Republicans held a small and by no means enthusiastic meeting in front of Temple Block last evening. The chief speaker was General VOLNEY E. HOWARD. The General labored very hard to convince his thin audience that Mr. HOUGHTON was not now as much the property of STANFORD & Co. as ever, but his efforts did not seem to be attended with perceptible success. The fact that along the company's roads Mr. HOUGHTON is very popular makes it difficult for General HOWARD or any other gentleman to convince the people that he does not now stand in precisely the same relation to the Railroad Company that he did when he introduced the bill to change the route of the Southern Pacific road and extend the time for completing the track between this city and San Francisco several years. For a consideration in the shape of a large contingency Mr. HOUGHTON may have promised TOM SCOTT to aid him in the attempt to secure his $40,000 per mile subsidy, but he is the signed, sealed and delivered chattel of STANFORD & Co.—the genuine article, with "C. P. R. R." blown in the cork. Tom Scott can no more erase that brand than he can humbug Congress into giving him a subsidy of $40,000 per mile on a road that can be built for $18,000 per mile. The General went after Mr. WIGGINTON with all the vim and about the same success that SANCHO PANZA went for the wind-mill. The General's strictures on Major GANAHL's speech of a few evenings ago we leave to the Major, who will no doubt give the General a Roland for his Oliver.