The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1859, Page 2

t 2 THE NEWS BY THE NORTH STAR, ADDITIONAL FROM CALIFORNIA. THE BRODERICK-TERRY DUEL DAYERESTING HISTORY oF THE AFFAIR. ‘Whe Provocation—The Correspondence—The #Preliminaries—Account of the Duel by an Eye-Witness—The Death of Mr. Bro- derick—The Imposing Obsequles and Orations at the Grave. INTENSE EXCITEMENT IN CALIFORNIA. Political Enmities at the Highest Pitch— Puels in Prospect. Coot eee ARREST OF JUDGE TERRY. GENERAL SCOTT ON THE ISTHMUS. News from Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Eeuador, New Granada and Sandwich Islands, &e., &e., &e. ‘The Hengy of yeslerday morning contained a very am ple résumé of the California news brought by the North Btar which left Aspinwall on the 4th of October. Ja addition to that compilation we are enabled to submit the following details of ‘interesting intelligence from San Francisco, the South Pasific, and New Granada. ‘The North Star landed $500,000 in silver, and 750 pas- sengers. Me ia Senator Gwin and“Chirles Scott, M. C., came passen- Bers. ‘ ‘The Star ofthe West has the mail, and $1,800,000 in tweasure..“” "Wie North Star arrived out at Aspinwall at 11 o'clock A. M. on Wednesday, Sept. 28. Her passengers went im- ‘mediately across the Isthmus, and sailed during the night ‘en the Uncle Sam for San Francisco. The United States mail steamship Star of the West, which sailed on the same aay from New York, arrived ‘en Sunday evening, October 2, at 53, o'clock, being ‘welve days and three and a half hours between ports. ‘She was detained fourteen hours at Key West taking in coal. General Scott, Colonel Thomas, Colonel Lay and Dr. Grane, U. 8. A., and C. J. Fox, Bsq., U. $. Consul at As yinwall, arrived down on the ship. On entering the harbor a salute of sixteen guns was fired from the flagship Roanoke in honor of Lieutenant General Scott. After the North Star was made fast at her wharf the naval officers from the several ships in the har. ber, preceded by flag officer McCluney, called on the Gen eral. General Scott was taken charge of by the Vice Consul. and, with the officers of the Navy, entertained at the How ard House during the evening. He crossed the Isthmus the following morning, and embarked on the Golden Age, which sailed at 4:30 P.M. on the same day, Oct. 8, for San Francisco. ‘The passengers by the North Star, from New York, ‘had four days start of those by the Star of the West $rem the Isthmus. ‘The United States ship Roanoke sailed from Aspinwall @t9A.M.on the morning of the 4th inst., for San Juan @el Norte, to return immediately. ‘The St. Louis was to sail for Chiriqui, or Boca dei Toro, em Saturday, the 8th, to look out for the “gray eyed man ef destiny” (Walker). ‘The Jamestown was at Carthagena, and the Sabine at San Juan del Norte. ‘There was a rumor at Aspinwall of a battle somewhere ja Carthagena. A small schooner from Carthagena arrived at Aspinwall on the 3d inst., with despatches from Minister Jones for the State Department, said to be important. They were forwarded by the Consul on the mail steamer Star of the West. ‘The intense excitement which has been occasioned in California by the killing of Senator Broderick in a duel wh Judge Terry is reflected in the few papers we re ecived by the North Star in advance of the mails. @empile from various sources the most authentic account ef this painful affair, from the preliminaries to the close, which will be found to contain many new and interesting Seatares. THE PROVOCATION AND CORRESPONDENCE. ‘The following correspondence between Messrs. Terry ‘and Broderick and their friends will fully explain the origin of the difflculty:— JUDGE TERRY 70 MR. BRODERICK. OAKLAND, Sept. 8, 1859. ‘Bon. D. C. Broprick:—Sim—Some two months since, at ‘the public table of the International Hotel in San Fran- tieeo, you saw fit to indulge in certain remarks concern- fg me, which were offensive in their nature. Before 1 hhad heard of the circumstance, your note of the 29th of Jane, addressed to Mr. D. W. Perley, in which you @eclared that you would not respond tw any call ef a personal character during the political canvass Jest concluded, bad been published. Thave, therefore, not been permitted to \..ke any notice of those remarks unti! the expiration of the limit fixed by yourself. I now take the earliest opportunity to require @f you a retraction of those remarks. This note will be handed to you by my friend Cathoun Benham, Esq., who is acquainted with its contents, and will recieve your re- D. S. TERRY. MR. BENHAM TO MR. BRODERICK, Say Francrsco, Sept. 8, 1859. Hon. D. 0. Bropsrick:—Sm—Should you have ocsa#ion tocommunicate with me sooner than toe time agreed upon between us, 1 will be found atthe Metropolitan Hotel. I emitied to leave my address this morning. Very respest- fully, your obedient servant, CALHOUN BENHAM. 4B. BRODERICK 70 JUDGE TERRY. Frascisco, Sept. 8, 1869. Fen. D. S. Terry: —Your note of September 8 veacned me through the hands of Mr. Calhoun Benlam. The remarks used by ue conversation referred to ject of Tutcre misrepresentation, and, for ob Thave to desire you to state what were th Femarks that you designate in your note as offensive, and ef which you require from me aretraction. I remain, &ke., D. C. BRODERICK. JUDGE TERRY TO MR. BRODERICK. « FRANCO, Sept. 9, 1859. K:—Sin—In reply te your note of e to say that the offensive remarks to which I have alluded in “my communication of yesterday are as follows:—'I have heretofore considered and spoken of him (myself) as the only honest man on the Supreme Gourt Bench; but I now take it ull back,” by impli- sation reflecting on my personal and ‘official integrity. This is the substance of your remarks, as reported to me; the precise terms, however. in which such an implication ‘was conveyed, are not important to the question, You yourself can best remember the terms in which you spoke ‘of me on the occasion referred to. What I require is, the retraction of any words which were used calculated to reflect on my character as an officer or a gentleman, Tremain, your obedient servant, . TERRY, MR. HRODERICK TO JUDGE TERK Faupay EVENING, Sep Bion. D. S. Terry:—Sir—Yours of this date ceived. The remarks made by me were occasioned by certain offensive allusions of yours concerning me, made im the Convention at Sacramento, reported in the’ Union of June 25. Upon the topic alluded to in your note of this date, my language, so fur as my recollection serves me, was a5 follows:—“During Judge Terry's incarceration by ‘the Vigilance Committee, 1 paid $200 a week to support a Rewspaper in his (your) defence. I have also stated heretofore that I considered him (Judge Terry) the onl; honest man on the Supreme bench; but I take it all back.” You are the best judge as to whether this language affords good ground of offence. I remain, &c., = ”'D. C. BRODERICK. JUDGE TERRY TO MR. BRODERICK. San FRANCISCO, Sept. 9, 1859. Hos. D.C. Broperick:—Sir—Some months ago you used Janguage concerning me offensive in iis nature. 7 waited the lapse of a period of time fixed by yourself before I asked reparation therefor at your hands. ¥ou replied, asking specifications of the language used which I regard- ed ag offensive. [n another letter J gave you the specifi. cations, and reiterated my demand for a retraction. To this last letter you reply, acknowledging the use of the offensive language imputed to you, and not making the re- required. is course on your part leaves meno ether altern tive but to demand the usual ‘among gentlemen, which I accordingly do. Mr. Benham will make the necessary arrangements. rent obedient ‘MR. BRODERICK TO JUDGE TERRY. i San Francisco, Sept. 9, 1869. How. D. 8. Terny—Sin—Your vote of the above date ‘Feceived at one o'clock A. M. September 10. In to the same I will refer you to my friend, Hon. . McKibben, who will make bee late ret arrange- demanded in your letter. I remain, &c. i D. C, BRODERICK. Accordingly the following terms of the duel were mgreed upon:— Ay “aE i i ended. two seconds and sur. atten 0 i s Sevan . person to Toad the weapons. This not to oxqpde the drivers of the vehicles. If other parties 1, the time and place may be changed ‘at the instance of either party. 2 Place of meeting, on the farm adjoining the Lake House ranch. The road to the farm house leaves the off Lake House road, where you strike the first fence of the | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1859—TRIPLE SHEET. use rty, about a mile before you reach the lace re you take a road to the left, which brings you to the farm house, on the upper end of the Jako (Laguna Merced), occupied by William Higgins. This is the general neighborhood; the precise spot to be deter- mined when the parties meet. ‘8. Weapons—duelling pisto’s. 4. Distance, ten paces; parties facing each other; pistols to be held with the muzzle vertically downwards. 5. Word to be given as follows, to wit: The inquiry shail first be made, ‘Gentlemen, are you ready?” each party replying “Ready,” the word ‘Fire’ given, to be followed by the words ‘One, two.” hi Neither party’ to raise his pistol before the word “Fire,” nor to discharge it after the word “two.” The intervals between the words ‘Fire—one, two,” to be exemplified by the party winning the word as near as may be. 6. The weapons to be loaded on the ground in the pre- sence of a second of each party, 7. Choice of position and the giving of the word td be determined by chance—throwing up a coin, as usual. 8. Choice of the two weapons to be determined by chance, as in article 7th. 9. Choice of the respective weapons of parties to be de- termined on the ground, by throwing up acoin, as usual—that is to say, each party bringing thelr pistols, and the pair to be used to be determined by chance, as in article 7th, Time—Monday, 12th September, 1859, at 534 o'clock AM. DISAGREEMENT AS TO TERMS. On the part of Judge Torry it is protested against the word being stopped short of the word “three,” as unusual and unwarrantable; also, against the place of meeting being either in San’Francisco or San Mateo county. Mr. Broderick’s seconds answer the protest in regard to the partics being restrained by the word “two’’—that it is neither unusual or unwarrantable, and has the feature of humanity; also, that no possible ‘advantage can ac- accrue to their principal by fixing the place at a remote and isolated spot, where they will not be intruded upon. iartiols nambeten 5, among the articles setting forth the terms upon which the parties are to iaye their meeting, objected to, because the word “‘three”’ to follow “two”? is not to be called as the word after which neither party is to fire upon bis adversary, and it is DS amp to the se- conds of Mr. Broderick, on behalf of Judge Terry, whether or not said article (numbered 5) is insisted upon as a sine qua non to their meeting. A categorical answer in writ- ing is requested. Article numbered § among gph setting forth the terms upon which the parties. ve their meeting being objected to, because the word ee’? to follow “two” is not to be called as the word after which neither party is to fire upon his adversary, and it being propounded to the seconds of Mr. Broderick on behalfof Judge Terry, wheth- er or not said article (nnmbered 5) is insisted upon as a sine qua non to their meeting, and @ categorical answer in writing being requested of Mr. Broderick, it is responded by his seconds, that, having ia the terms asked nothing but what their principal is entitled to, and the terms not subjecting théir adversary to any disadvantage, the re- quest is deemed improper, it being always reserved to them, the friends of Judge Terry, to accept or decline the proposed terms. 4 FIRST MEETING—POLICE INTERFERENCE. The first meeting took place on the 12th ult., at the ap- pointed time and place, but the police interfered and ar- rested the principal THE SECOND AND FATAL MEETING. The parties met next morning, the 18th, mn the vicinity of San Francisco, where there were no police officers or | others to interfere. Terry was seconded by Messrs. Cal- houn Bepham avd Thomas Hayes. The latter had been county clerk, and had also fallen, like his principal, under | the displeasure of the Vigilance Committee. Broderick was seconded by the Hon, Joseph McKibben, member of Congress from California, and Eo another gentleman, who is said to have been either ex-Sheriff Colton, of Yreka, or | Mr. John A. Monroe, of San Francisco. The details of | the affair are given by the correspondent of the San Fran- cisco Morning Call, a sprightly little sheet, as follows :-— ACCOUNT OF THE DUEL BY AN EYE WITNESS. At six o'clock a large party of gentlemen, in buggies and other conveyances, arrived near Mr. Davis’ ranch, about one mile and a half to the south of the southern: | | second, how | epup. Mr. Colton then, in a clear distinct voice, called most extremity of Lake Merced. At this point—all hav- ing definite notions of the place of meeting—they were | met by a carriage returning, containing two partisans of | Mr. Terry, who seemed to have been searching unsuc- | cessfully for the rendezvous and to have given it up. The | whole procession was about to return to town, when Dr. | Hammond, in a gig, was seen to approach in’ the direc- | tion in which we had come. Knowing that the Doctor | was one of Mr. Terry’s physicians, we felt satisfied that that the place of meeting could not be far distant. We | determined to follow the Doctor, and therefore all wheel- ed conveyances. The Doctor hesitated when he saw he was acting as cicerone for a procession of duel ground hunters, and I descended from my wagon to approach | him, under the misapprehension that the Doctor was Ma: | Jor Hammond, former Collector of this Port. The close | resemblance of the brothers will make this faue pas ex- cusable. In order to pass off this mistake with a flourish, | I approached the retiring parties and made some season- | able inquiry. The malignant feeling of some men against | Mr. Broderick can be imagined when, during the conyer- sation , one of the two occupants of the coach expressed a wish that he would be carried from the field a corpse. urse so diabolical a hope, given in uncouth terms, | puld only emanate trom a source lost to all virtuous feel- | ing or manly consideration. THE PLACE OF APPOINTMENT FOUND. The Doctor proceeded, and the crowd followed. Ina few minutes we arrived at Davis’ ranch, where our leader stopped. The whole procession hitched up their animals and T approached the bluff ranchero, who was feeding hig _| cattle, in order to glean some information. In answer to "| my inquiries, he said that no carriages had passed his house during the morning except the one we had over- | hailed. At this moment, a very curious conversation | took place between Mr. Davis—who was dressed in a cot- | ton blouse and equipped with a large sized pitch-fork— | and an individual who had evidently driven all night in search of the field. | “Have you any whiskey in your house?” inquired the new comer. “I have not,” replied the ranchero. ne might be serviceable on this occasion,” said the other, “Whiskey is only serviceable, or of use, on proper occa- sions; this Is not one, and, therefore, if I bad it I would | not produce it.”” About this time several vehicles came flying through the pass and stopped at a place some distance beyond where | we were. 1 oon became satisfied that these men were the important onesof the occasion. Mr. McKibben, ex-Sheriff Colton—this is his reputed name, it may be Coulter—Se- nator Broderick, and one or two personal friends, de- scended from their vehicles. Judge Terry, who was ac- companied by Mr. Calhoun m and Col, Thomas Hays, of San Francisco, as seconds, and Mr. 8. H. Brooks, Comptroller elect, as fleld counsellor; and Dr. Aylette, as Surgeon and general adviser—for the doctor is said to be @ most experienced duellist—thereupon arrived and jumped from their conveyances. DESCRIPTION OF THE FIELD. The field, the entrance to which is a few hundred yards south of Davis’ house, was entered through a gap between two hills. A fence had to be jumped before reaching the ground. The dell where the duel was fought is surrounded by hills and undulating ground. Egress can be had from it—as far as I noticed—only by two ievel outlets, viz: through the opening leading to Davis’ Ranch, and directly south from the ground itself, up a gulch. How far this gulch runs, I know not, but it appeared to me_to connect with a ravine encircling the easternmost hill forming thg amphitheatre where the tragedy was enacted, DEPARTURE FOR THE FIELD. Immediately npon the arrival of both principals and their seconds, which was almost simultaneous, Mr. Bro- derick proceeded up the gap, and occupiea his side of the field. Mr. Terry and his friends did the same. The armorer, with the cases of pistols, took position at the northern point of a triangle formed by Messrs. Broderick on the east, Terry on the west, and the armorer on the north. The empocketed plain in which the affair occurred permitted of abont sufficient level ground for the require- ments of the occasion. PRELE INARY PROCEEDINGS. When all hands arrived on the ground, I counted (not a particular account) seventy-one men, including principals, present. Mr. Terry’s seconds and advisers were constaut- ly with him. Inoticed particularly that when Benham and Aylette were attending to “outside” matters, Mr. Brooks kept close to his friend, and conversed with him in a lively tone. On the other hand, Mr. Broderick seem- ed to be absorbed in matters disconnected with the issue, and was talking earnestly with Mr. Haskell, and a gentleman whose name I am un- acquainted with. During this time Mr. Broderick ‘was cool and self-possessed. His antagonist seemed agita- ted, and measured the ground in his direction with an un- easy andavxious tread. The seconds approached the ar- morer, examined the Weapons, turned several times, and pointed to the white marks that had been placed on the field to establish the distances. Mr. McKibben, in ex- amining the pistols, snapped a cap, with an air of satisfac- tion. He seemed to look as if the pistol suited him. Some conversation was had, Mr. Benham (or Aylette, I am not certain which,) approached Terry, said something to him, in reply to which Terry seemed ‘to smile, and became more calm than before. As the affair was now ap: proaching the crisis, ayery eye was turned on the com- batants. THE MEN FACE TO FACE. Mr. Broderick’s friends had a short and earnest conver- uid retired. Mr. Brooks did the same with Mr. ; and moved to one side. An official expression batants to take their relative postions. marked white, and appeared to an 0! ously close. In fact, more than one man present the ejaculation that it was downright murder to allow men to shoot ateach other at £0 shorta distance, ‘The principals, however, took their positions. Mr. Bro- erick divested himself first of a dark brown paletot, and es his eye along the ground separating him from’ Mr. ferry. THE APPEARANCE OF THE MEN. At this moment I took pains to closely scan the counte- nances of both combatanta. Mr. Terry's were com- pressed, his countenance darkly eailow, and his whole Appearance betrayed that of a man without fear as well ag without religious constraint. Wan and attenuated, ho stood a stolid monument on the field of conflict. Mr. B. could not have been distinguished by the stranger as a principal. With his hands folded behind him he held earnest conversation with Mr. Haskell. He would occa- sionally turn, scan the crowd, and rest his eye upon some recognized countenance. The muscles of his face were strong, and his visage unrelaxed in any particular. His lips, when not conversing, were compressed, and hig whole bearing was that of a man who was about to meot @ great issue and who was firmly prepared for it. oust Sea SOre, Ry FIRING. Hay digressed somewhat, in order to give your read. exun fall nesbuns of What covursed, | retero & te prin, cipals and their seconds at the point where I left them. Mosers, Broderick and Terry, being divested of their over- coats, were told to take a vertical position by Mr. Ben- ham. Theseconds then arranged upon the weapons—how done is unknown to others—and Mr. Ben- on ae led to Judge Terry, and 4 his left hand, passed it behind him, connected both hands, stood for | ec ‘The latter took the ‘pistol | ‘@ moment in that position, and then | ™Ourning flegs, even to the little yacht on her deck. to bi t tails closer . were crowded with On - | He was no contestant; luct was net in issue of contradi in the hearing of the whole State, “Tha Seomncon we iret nt believe ne | 24 apt streets, wile Sho of several others, we sot | had becn mentioned tub once incidentalty—in reply vohhis | man is not living or dead who ever saw mo at a gambling he would have used it, Terry,in the meantime, with | down the xn a assemblage at about eleven thou- | °W? attack, an 1, OS tas ne it be found in pecu- table, in a brothel or under the influence of int his left arm, held bis | gang, Among them were many ladies. They came | Mar traits or peculiar fituess, there was no reason to - | drink.” This implieg no more virtues than @ the barrel of his pistol Testing on , eyes fixed on the figure of his antagonist. Before tho word was given Mr, Benham approached Senator Brode- rick, who handed his watch, money, &c.,to Mr. McKibben, and felt his clothes and examined with his hands the body of the peiocion, A nod of satisfaction showed that he had found nothing concealed beneath his vestments. Mr. McKibben then went towards Judge Terry. The latter handed to his second (Mr. Benham) ‘a watch, pocket articles, and a quantity of money. Mr. Benham accepted the watch, but the money, with a flourish, he scattered over the ground. Mr. McKibben then examined the person of Judge Terry, expressed himself satistled, and took a position to the right of Mr. Broderick and immediately opposite Mr. Colton. The seconds of Judge Terry occupied similar positions, with Mr. Benham on a line With Mr. McKibben, and Mr. Hayes on a line with Mr. Colton, all the parties forming a sext- angle. CONDITIONS OF THE DUEL, ETC. The parties thus piscod were left for about five seconds; Mr. Broderick, in the meantime, as before stated, exam- ining his weapon. Mr. Benham produced a number of papers, and read from one the conditions of the duel. AS this matter is already before the public it will be needless to go over it. The word fell to Mr. Colton, Broderick’s second. He advised the parties, with an example, how he should call it. He said:—Gentlemen, I will give the word as follows: ‘Gentlemen, are you ready? When both have answered ready, I will say ‘Fire—one, two,” with a pause between each Word.” Mr. Benham, for the benefit of his own ipal, repeated the word.’ The arrange- ment secmed to be perfectly understood, and all parties assumed their positions—Mr. McKibben uncovering his head. MR. BRODERICK’S BEHAVIOUR. We have before suid that Mr. Broderick seemed to know the importance of the issue, and seemed nerved to meet it. Up to the time the pistol was handed him he appeared the coolest aud most collected of the two. But after examining the pistol he seemed to become uneasy. He betrayed nothing like lack of courage; but in measuring the stock of the pistol with the conformation of hand, he presented to the observer an unsatisfied appear- ance. This was shown by more than one movement. His right leg—the fore one—sunk below 4 bracing attitude, seemed like as if he was Aghting on down-bill ground. It ‘was the general expression of all within my hearing, that Mr. Broderick’s position, either from his constitutional nervousness, or from a want of confidence in the equality of the chances between the two combatants, was unfa- voruble to his success, All agreed that his personal bravery was patent. There was ho weakening, but there ‘Was an anxious solicitude in his deportment that placed him at great disadvantage. THE WORD GIVEN. At precisely fifteen minutes to seven o’closk, as the sun was endeavoring to force his smiling beams through a succession of clouds that were passing north and south over the head of Mr. Broderick, the solemn moment, on which all were satisfied depended a life, Mr. Benham gave arupid glance towards the sky, detected something to the disadvantage of his principal, and approached Judge Tei ry. The latter, who wore a large, rather stiff brimmed Wool hat, had drawn the front over his eyes. After his , had canght his ear, the front was turn- out the word. He made considerable pause between each announcement—a pause that I can reasonably compare to the time elapsing Detween the strokes of the Cathedral's clock bell—perhaps not so great. THE FIRE AND THE FALL. When Mr. Colten asked, “Gentlemen, are you ready?” Mr. Terry instantly replied “ready,” without moving from his position or relaxing a muscle. Mr. Broderick, however, (a8 I said before) spent several seconds examin* ing the stock of his pistol, which did not seem to fit his hand. When at length he auswered “Ready,” he did so with a gesture, nodding his head and inclining his body towards Mr. Colton. Between the words ‘Fire—one— two,” both parties shot. Mr. Broderick fired first, and at bout the last enunciation required to convey tho word pe.” Mr. Terry shot in a space of time afterwards which it would require in music to a quaver. The word “two” was searcely started upon when the Judge fired. Mr. Broderick’s shot was spent in the ground some four or five feet in advance of his right toes. Judge Terry's Look effect, as we ail know, in his right breast, above tho nipple. MISCELLANSOUS OBSERVATIONS, Immediately upon receiving his antagonist’s fire, Mr. Broderick raised his right arm, still grasping the pistol. It was the impression that he had been shot in the shoul- der. His arm contracted, and a spasmodic effort was made to brace himself up. The legden messenger, however, had gone to a more sensitive and vital part.’ After endea- oring to summon the wil! to resist the pressure that was bearing him down, the head dropped in a recumbent po- sition over the right shoulder; the knees bent outwardly, and at length, gently aad calmly as a child retiring to rest, Mr. Broderick eased to the earth, pressing the right breast with the hand still holding the pistol, and lying on hus left side. Judge Terry, in the meantime, maintained his position, keeping his eye constantly in the direction of the fallen man. In a few minutes he was told that his antagonist could not rise,and he thereupon left the field. It has been said that he made aloud remark when Broderick fell. He did not. Whatever he said to his seconds was not heard by the spectators. I now close this extended and detailed account. I give itto youas a mere statement of facts in the order in whicl'I saw them, merely hoping that I may thereby cor- rect erroneous impressions, and give all an opportunity of judging of what took place from the events that ov- curre Ww ‘opy from the San Francisco Times a fall account of the obsequies of the deceased, and from the Herald the report of Father Gallagher's oration:— THE DEAD SENATOR LYING IN STATE. On Saturday, at ten o'clock A. M., the lower part of the Union Hotel was thrown open to the public, and all day the public threnged in to see the body of Senator Brode- rick as it lay in state. The corpse was placed in a metallic fin, in the inuer apartment, the approach to which was hong With American flags. ‘The outside of the Union was draped with habiliments of woe, and every face wore that unmistakeable expression which denotes that some public calamity has failen upon the community. The coffin was s0 placed that the moving throng could file past and around it and out through another door. The hands of living friends had wrought wreaths and bouquets of flowers, with which the coflin was loaded, and so nume- Tous at last did these become, that, uo room being found for them, they were placed ‘on the floor about the bier. ‘The corpse was dressed in a suit of black with collar and neckcloth, the hands lying along the sides, crossed apon the body. The face was somewhat shrunken, probably from the intense pain which the sufferer had undergone during the previous three days. It wore, however, the same ex- pression as in life, and the Senator might almost havo een supposed to be in a deep sleep, so calm and natural was the appearance of the face. All day long the crowd pressed in—men, women and children; slowly they passed round, lingering at the coffin, and gazing with faces full of grief and reverence upon the last spectacle. THE COURTS ADJOURNED. There were adjournments (in respect to the memory of the dead Senator) in the United States District Court, the Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, the County Court and the Police Court. Appropriate speeches were made on thege occasions. NE PIONEERS AND REPUBLICANS. Meotings of the Society of Californie Pioneers and of the County Republican Committee were held, when appro- priate resolutions wa adopted. TNQUEST ON THE BODY OF MR. BRODERICK. On Saturday afternoon, at ten minutes past two o'clock, Dr. MeNulty, the city and county Corbner, appeared in the Police Court room, where were assembled the jury summoned to investignte the cause of the death of Senator Bro Mr. J. R. Garniss, who had beea summoued, declived to serve, on account of being a friend of Mr: Bro , end was excused. Another juror was then summoned, and the seven proceeded to the Union Hotel, where the corpse was lying in state. ‘The inquest then proceeded, as alreaay ¢ witb the following iG We, the undersigned jurors, convened to inquire into the cause of the death of David C, Broderick, who died in the city of San Francisco on the 16th of September, 1859, do find that the deceased was born in the District of Co- lumbia, aged forty years, aud that he came to his death from a wound inflicted by a pistol ball fired from a pistol, intentionally, by Dayid 8. Terry, on the morning of Sept: nin the HkRanp of yesterday, 13, 1859. WM. A. KEITH, 0. DICKINSON, JR., ©. A. FISHER, CHARLES MAIN, THOS. GORDO J. W. GILMORE. GEO. ©. SCHREVE, APPEARANCE OF THE CITY ON THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL. Many buildings were dressed in mourning throughout the day; men passed each other in the streets with a silent recognition, or if they spoke it was in Jow and suppressed voices as if'a pail hung upon their hearts and impeded their utterance. A loud laugh or a smiling face was a rare thing to hear or see. Even children saw that a biack cloud hung over the spirits of all, and read the general gloom in ev At night the places of amusement were thinly attended. The great event was the theme of all tongues, the thought of hearts. During the night the hall wh was illumined with several large cayaclabras, ndiee being replenished until daylight. Until a rthe throng pressed stendily in, the number of ts ‘ during the evening and until ten o'clock. that more than forty thousand passed in and out of the ball during Saturday and the ensuing evenin; PREPARATIONS FOR THE FUNERAL. At an early hour preparations were made for the ob- sequies. That funeral was tha one object which seemed to oceupy the public mind. On the Plaza, just below the flag staff, was erected an imposing catafalque, consisting of a platform twenty fect sqnare, raised five feet from the ground, and shrouded in biack’ and white crape and al- paca. Above this staging was a black crape canopy some twenty feet in heigh.t ‘The snpporting posts were striped with erape of black and white, and black crape formed the back ground. ‘the front’ opened tows (focing towards Kearny street), ‘The top of éhe support- ing pillars were crowned with funereal black plumes and festoons of the same biack mantling hung around the en- tire structure. It was calculated to strike the beholder with a deep sense of the momentons nature of the occa- sion for which it was erected. Over it, at half mast, hung an immense American fing fringed with crape and waving mournfully in the breeze. ‘The day was beautiful—perhaps the finest of the season. A clear blue sky, and a lack of the usual strong se les; little orno dust, and a soft, balmy, Italian atmosphere. From every fagatatT hang the insignia of grief and mourn- ing. The city was full of people. The boats from the op- Posite side of the bay came crowded, wagons from the country, even from San Jose, Santa Clara and San Mateo, came burrying into town, and in every street were seen the faces of the dead Senator’s friends from the most re- mote parts of the State, The shipping was also dressed in mourning. Among the vessels we noticed the ship B. F. Hoxie at Vallejo street wharf, which was dresi e lay the corps the rested bis weapon on his left hand in front. Mr. Brode- rick, on being handed the pistol, anxiously examined it, aud at intervals meseured with his eye the ground be- tween himself and bie adversary. He seomed to take much pains in examining the pistol, At length he braced himself up and took t tion. A Tro wore seemed to trouble him somewhat, and he endeavoreg THe FUNERAL. The funeral solomnities had been advertised in the various py by the Oovemittee of Arrangements (ron- A ultere 1 Raker, L. Haskell. EJ. “ eGlynn A, AL A.B er aod He port one o'ctock P, M. (Sun- Al that hour the Plaga and Gay, the 18th) on the Plaza. i 5 the js the east | in | Judge ‘ierry’s thronging from all directions, and from the platform the Beene Was One of the most imposing ever witnessed in this city. No obsequies in this city have embodied equally impressive features. ‘At half-past one o'clock the body, attended by the pall- bearers and chief mourners, passed out from the Union Hotel, crossed Kearney street and up the great avenue through the plaza. Room was made by the concourse, and through the alley thus made the solemn procession moved to the platform, where the coffin containing all that was mortal of Senator Broderick was placed. Then the multitude pressed onward like the surging of ocean ‘waves, aud formed themselves into one solid mass of hu- manity—“a gea of upturned faces’ stretching to far be- aod ha ig of the ceremonies which were to take place. he pallbearers and chief mourners then assembled upon the platform, and when all were seated, Col. E, D. Baker arose, and having the coflin (which was covered with wreaths of flowers) before him, pronounced a funeral ora- tion which we venture to say will remain for many years impressed vividly upon the memories of his auditors. The gray haired man (used as he was to addressing public as- semblages) found his emotions on this solemn occasion ready to unman bim during the entire delivery, At times his Voice, loud and ringing as it was, balted and faltered. and the trembling of the uccents showed how often and how deeply the strong was moyed. Nor were his hearers less acutely pen ‘d with the momentous and affecting nature of the occasion ORATION OF COLONEL E. D. BAKER OVER THE DEAD BODY OF BRODERICK. Crnzxns oF CauivoRNia—A Senator lies dead in our midst. He is wrapped in a bloody shroud, and we, to whom his toils and cares were given, are about to bear him to the place appointed for all the living. It is not fit that such a man should pass to the tomb unheralded; it is not fit that such a life should steal unnoticed to its close; it is not ft that such a death should call forth no rebuke, or be sur- rounded by no public lamentation, — It is this conviction which impeis the gathering of this assemblage. Woe are here of every station and purauit, of every creed and cha- racter, each’in his capacity of citizen, to swell the mourn. fui tribute which the majesty of the people offers to the unreplying dead, He lies to-day surrounded by little of funeral pomp. No banners aroop above the bier, no mel- anchboly music floats upon the reluctant air. The hopes of high-hearted friends droop like fading flowers upon his breast, and the struggling sigh compels the tear in eyes that seldom weep. Around him are those who hayo known him best and loved him longest; who have shared the triumph and endured the defeat. ’ Near him are the gravest and noblest of the State, possessed by a grief at earnest and sincere; while beyond, the masses of the people that he loved, and for whom his life was given, gather like a thunder cloud of swelling and indiguant grief. In such a presence, fellow citizens, let us linger for a moment ot the portais of the tomb, whose shadowy arches xibrate to the public heart, to speak a few brief words of the man, of his life, and of his a Mr. Bro- derick was born in the District of Columbia in 1819; he was of Irish descent and of obscure and respectable pa- rentage; he hod little of carly advantages, aud never summoned to his aida complete and finished education. His boyhood—as, indeed, his early manhood—was passed im the city of New York, and the loss of his father esrly stimulated him to the efforts which maintained his sur- viving mother and brother, aud served also to fix and form his character svon in his boyhood. His love for his mother was his first and most distinctive trait of charac- ter, and when his brother died—anfearly and sudden death—the shock gave a serious and reflective cast to his | habits and his thoughts, which marked them to the last | hour of his life. He was always filled with pride, and | energy, apd ambition—his pride was in the manlidess and force of his character, and no man had more reason. His energy was manifest in the most resolute struggles with po- verty and obscurity, and his ambition impelled him toseek a foremost place in the great race for honorable power. | Up to the time of his arrival in California his jife had bee assed amid events incident to such a character. Fear- less, self-reliant, open in his enmities, warm in his friend- ships, wedded to his opivions, and marching directly to his purpose through and over all opposition, his career was chequered with success and defeat. But even in de- feat his energies were strengthened and his character de- veloped. When he reached these shores his keen obser- vation taught him at once that he trod a broad field, and that a bigher career was before him. He had no false price—sprung from a people and of a race whose vocation was labor, he toiled with his own hands, and sprang at a bound from the workshop to the legislative hall. From | that hour there con; ted around him and againgt him the elements of success and defeat. Strong friendships, bitter enmities, high praise, malignant calumnies—but he trod with a free and a proud step that onward path which has led him to glory and the grave. Itwould be idle for me at this hour and in this place to speak of ail that his- tory with unmitigated praise; it will be idle for his encmies hereafter to deny his claim to noble virtues , ard high purposes. When in the Legislature he bold!y denounced the special legislation which is the curse of a new country, he proved his courage and his reeti- tude. When he opposed the various and sometimes suc- cessful schemes to strike out the salutary provisions of the constitution which guarded free labor, be was true to ail the better instincts of bis life. When prompted by his ambition and the admiration of his friends he first sought a seat in the Senate of the United States, he sought the highest ofall positions by legitimate effort, and failed with honor, It is my duty to say that, in my judgment, when ata later period he sought to anticipate the Senatorial election, he committed an error which I think he lived to reget. It would have been a violation of the true principle of representative government, which no reason, pubic er private, could justify and could never have met Tmanent approval of good and wise men. Yet, while I say this over his bier, let me remind you of the emptation to such an error—of the plans and the reasons which prompted it—of the many good purposes it was in- tended to effect. And if ambition, “the last infirmity of noble minds,” let him for a moment from the better path, let me remind you how nobly he regained it. It is impossible to speak within the limits of this ad- | dyes of the events of that session of the Legislature at which he was elected to the Senate of the United States; but some things should not be passed in silence here, ‘The contest between himself and the present Scnator had been bitter and pegsonal. He had triumphed. He had been wonderfully Sustained by his friends, and stood con- esredly “the first in honor and the first in place.’? Ho | yaiced to an appeal made to his_magnanimity by his foe. | f he judged unwively he has paid the forfeit well, Never in the history of political warfare has any public man been so pursued, never has malignity so exhausted itself. | Fellow citizens, the man that lies before you was your Senator, From the moment of his election ‘bis character { has been muiigned, bis motives attacked, his courage impeached, his patriotism assailed. It has been & system tending to one end. And the end is | here. What was his crime? Review his history— | consider his public acts—weigh his private charac- ter—and before the grave encloses him forever, judge between him and his enemies. As a man to be judged in his private relations, who was his superior? Ii was his boast, and amid the general license of a new country it ‘Was @ proud one, that his most scrutinizing enemy could fix no single act of immorality upon him. Temperate, ccorous, self-restrained, he had passed through all the excitemente of California unstained. No man could charge imple im with broken faith or violated trust. Of habits si and inexpensive, he had no lust of gain. He overreached bO man’s weakness in a bargain, and withheld no man hie Juet dues. Neyer in the history of the State has there ‘Lien a citizen who has borne public relations more stain- Jess in all respects than he, But it is not by this standard that he is to be judged. He was a public man, and his memory demancs a public judgment. What was his pub- he crime? The answer is in bis own words:—“ They have killed me because I waa op} to the extension of slavery and a corrupt administration.” Fellow citizens, they are remarkable words, uttered at a very remark. able moment; they involve ‘the history of his torial career, and of its sad and bloody termination. When Mr. Broderick entered the Senate he had been elected at the beginning of « Presidential term as a friend of the Preswient elect, having undoubted- ly been one of his most intluential supporters, There | ‘were unquestionably some things in the exercise of | the appointing power which he couid have wished otherwise; byt he bad every reason with the administration which could be suppesed to weigh with aman in his position. He bac heartily maintained the doctrine of popular sove- reignly us set forth in the Cincinnati platform, and he never wavered in its support till the day of bis death. But when, in his judgment, the President betrayed his ob- ligations to the party and the country—when, in the whole series of acts in relation to Kansas, he proved recreant to bis pledges and instructions—when the whole power of the adminietration was brought to bear upon the legisla- tive branch of the government, in order to force slavery upon an unwilling people, then, in the high performance of his duty as a Senator, he rebuked the administration by is voice and his vote, and stood by his principles. It is true he adopted no half-way measures. He threw the Whole weight of his character into the rauks of the opposition; be endeavored to rouse the People to an indignant sense of the — iniqui- tovs tyranny of federal power, and — kinditing with the contest, became ite Sorcest and firmest oppoucnt, Feliow-citizens, whatever nap have been your political predilections, it is impossible to repress your admiration 4s you review the conduct of the man who lies hushed in death. before you, You read in his history a glorions imi tation of the great popular leaders who have opposed the despotic infhenees cf power in other Inuds aud. ia our en. When John Hampden died at Chalgros he d his devotion to popular liberty with bis blood. The eloquence of Fox found the sources Of its inspiration in his jove of the people Femators conspired against Tihoring Grac » Tribune of the people fell be neath the power that prompted the eviine tnd demanded the’ sacrifice. Who can doubt, if your or had surrendered his free thought aud bent in'sub- mission to the rule of the administration—who can doubt that, instead of resting ona bloody bier, he would have this day been reposing in the inglorious felicitude of Pre- swential sunshine? — Fellow-citizeng, let no man. sup- pese that the death of the eminent citizen of whom I speak was caused by any other reason than that to which his own words assign it. It bas been Jong foresbadowed—it, was predicted by his friende—it was threatened by his enemies—it was the con- Sequence of intense political hatred. His death was a po. tical necessity, poorly veiled beneath the guise of a pri. vate quarrel. Here, in his own State, among those who witnessed the late canvass, who know the contending lead. ere, among those who kuew the antagonists on the bloody grolind—bere, the public ewnviction 18 #0 thoroughly set. tied that nothing need be kald, Tested by the corres. | steel, there was) no cause in mora , by apy code, by the custom of any civilized l there was no cause for blood. Let me repear the tory itis as brief as it ig fatal: A Judge of the Supreme Court descends into a political convenfion—it is just. however to eay that the occasivn was to return thanks to his friends for ab unsuccessful support—in a speech bitter and per- sonal he stigmatized Scnator Broderick and all his friends. | in words Ol contemptuous insult. When Mr. Broderick saw that speech he retorted, saying in substance, that be. | had heretofore spoken of Judge Terry as an honest man, | ‘but that he now took it back. “When inquired of, he nd? | mitted that he had so said, and connected. his words. with | ‘uecch a8 prompting them. So far as Judge Terry personally was concerned, this was the of mortal combat; there was no other, contest whieh has just terminated in the r. Broderick bad taken m leading part; bo very personal in their of public n had in duct of many public aud ¢ a e of these, tingwshed men. Bui Jaoge | ert of his private piety or otherwise; but whilst 1 pose that he coukd seek any man’s blood.» When Willan ‘of Nassan, the deliverer of Holland, died in the presence of bis wife and children, the band that struck the blow was not nerved by private vengeance. When the fourth Henry passed unharmed amid the dangers of the fleld of Iyry, to perish in the streets of his capital by the hand of ‘@ funatic, he did not seck to avenge @ private grief, An exaggerated sense of personal hovor—a weak migg. with choleric passions, intense sectional prejudice unital with great confidence in the use of arms—the sometimes serve to stimulate the instruments wh accomplish tho deepest and deadliest purpose. Fellow-citiens! One year ago J pertormed a duty, such as I perform to-day, over the remains of Senator Ferguson, who died as Broderick died, tangled in the meshes of the code of honor, ‘To-day there is another and more emi- nent sacrifice. To-day I renew my protest; to-day I utter yours. The code of honor isa delusion and a snare; it paiters with the hope of a true courage and binds it at the feet of crafty and cruel skill, It surrounds its victim with the pomp and grace of the procession, but leaves him bleeding on the altar. It substitutes cold and delibe- Tate preparation for courageous and maniy impulse, and arms the one to disarm the other; it may’ prevent fraud detweenpractised duelists who should be forever without its pale, but it makes the mere “trick of the weapon’? superior to the noblest cause and the truest courage. Its pretence of equality is a lie—it is equa! in all the form, it is unjust in ali the substance—the habitude of arms, the early training, the frontier life, the border war, the sec- tional custom, the life of leisure, all these are advantages which no negotiation caa neutralize, and which no cour- age can overcome. But, fellow citizens, the protest is not only spoken, in your words and in mino—it is written in indelible characters; it is written in the blood of Gilbert, in the blood of Ferguson, in the blood of Broderick; and ths inscription will not altogether fade. With the adminis. tration of the code in this particular case Iam not here to deal. Arid passionate grief, let us strive to be just. Igive BO currency W rumors of which parwosily | know no- thing; there are other tribunals to which they may well be referred, and this is not one of them, But Iam here to say that whatever in the code of honor or out of it de- mands or allows a deadly combat where there is not in all things entire and certain equality, 18 a prostitution of the names av evasion of the substance, and i3 a shield, bla- zoned with the name of chivalry to cover the malignity of murder. And now, as the shadows turn towards the east, and we prepare to bear these poor remains to their sitent resting place, let us not seek to repress the gene- rous pride which prompts a recital of noble deeds and manly virtues. He rose unaided and alone, he began his career without family or fortune, in the face of difficulties; he inherited poverty and obscurity; he died a Senator in Congress, having written bis name in the history of the great struggle for the rights of the people against the desbotism of organization and the corruption of power. He leaves in the hearts of his friends the ten derest and the proudest recollections. He was honest, faithful, earnest, sincere, generous and brave; he felt in all the great crises of his life that he was a leader in the ranks, and for the rights of mugees, of men, and he could not falter, When he re- turned from that fatal fleld, while the dark wing of the Archange! of Death was casting its shadows upon his brow, his greatest anxiety was as to the performance of his duty. He felt that all’ his strength and all his life be- Jonged to the cause to which be had devoted them. “Ba- ker,” said he—and to me they were his last words— ‘Baker, when I was struck I tried to stand firm, but the blow blinded me, and I could not.” [trust that it is no shame to my manhood that tears blinded me as he said it. Ot his last hours I have no heart to speak. He was the last of his race; there was no kindred hand to smooth bis couch or wipe the death damps from his brow; but around that dying bed, stronggmen, the friends of early man- ood, the devoted adherents of later life, bowed in irrepressible sriet, “and lifted up their voices and wept.” But, fellow’ citizens, the voice of lamenta- tion is not uttered by private friendship alone—the blow that struck his manly breast has touched the heart of a people, and as the sad tidmgs spread a general gloom prevails. Who now shall speak for Cali- fornia ?’—who be the interpreter of the wants of the Pacific coast? Who can appeal to the communities of the Atlan- tic who love free labor? Who can speak for masses of men with a passionate love for the classes from whence he sprung? Who can defy the blandishments of power, the indolence of office, the corruptions of administrations ? What hopes are buried with him in the grave! Ab! who that gallant spirit shall resume, Leap from Eurotas’ bank, and call us from the tomb? But the last word must be spoken, and the imperious mandate of Death must be fulfilled. Thus, 0 brave heart! we bear thee to thy rest. Thus, surrounded by tens of thousands, we leave thee to the equal grave. AS in life, no other voice among us so rang its trumpet blast upon the car of freemen; so in death, its echoes will rever- berate amid our mountains and valleys, until truth and valor cease to appeal to the human heart. ‘His love of truth—too warm, too strong, For Hope or Fear to chain or chill— ‘His hate of tyranny and wrong, Burn in the breasts he kindled, still, Good friend! true hero! hail and fareweil! Far and near the assemblage, wrought into sympathetic passion by the words and aspect of the gifted orator, vainly endeavored to repress their emotions. Audible sobs arose from heaviug breasts, and tears coursed down many a browned and manly face. At the close, when Colonel Baker bid farewell to the “ gallant spirit,” and bent down over the glass which covered but yet revealed. the pailid features, bis self-possession entirely forsook him, and with faltering accents and agitated face he sank dewn. Not an eye but was moist—not a heart but shared with him his deep emotions. An ominous silence reigned for more than a minute over that vast concourse, and then slowiy they began to move off, but not before Colonel Baker, at the request of a friend, had invited the citizens generally to join in the funeral procession. The coffin was then taken down and carried by the pall bearers to the front of the Union Hotel, where the hearse was waiting, and where the procession was formed. THE FUNERAL PROCESSION. At half-past two o’clock, all the preparations having been made, the funeral procession commeuced moving from Kearney street, opposite the plaza, and out to Lone Mountain Cemetery by’ the following ronte:—From the Union 1 through Kearny to Clay street, down Clay to Montgomery, along Montgomery to Market, down Market to Sansome, thence through Sansome, Washing- ton, Montgomery, Jackson, Stockton, Vallejo and Powell to Pacific, and out through Pacific and the Presidio road to the cemetery. The following was the order of the pro- Rersiey hae was fifty-two minutes in passing a given point:— Grand Marshal—John Middleton. Aids—A. G. Rnadall, J. C. L. Wadsworth, W. B. Far- well, Charles Hosmer, John Kuox, H. 8. Fitch, D. H. Car- penter. Two policemen. Thirteen carriages for the pall bearers, the last contain- ing Fathers Gallagher and Harrington, of the Catholic church. Rreoveoreororerneeree ee. PALL BEARERS. Thos. J. Poulterer, A. A. Selover, J. MeGlynn, Jos. €. Palmer, Jos. W. McCorkle, Wm. J. Shaw, B. B. Redding, Jobn Curry, B. 8. Lippencott, Edmund Randolph, Geo. H. Crossetto, H. W. Carpentier, J.B. Frixbee, Ogden Hoffman, Wilson Flint, Frank Soule, C. A. Washburn, M. J. Vallejo, Wm. McKibbin, John White, D. J. Oliver, John McDougal, J. A. Monroe, Moses E. Flannagan, Jacob Deeth,” John O'Meara, W. Fuller, F. D. Kohler, Jno. V. Wateon. Geo. Green, S_H. Dwin A. R. Baldwin, Alex Campbelle, James M. Wilson, J.P. Dyer, E. L. Beard. Delegation from the California Pioneers as pall bearers:— R.C. Moore, Win. Huefner. FIRE DEPARTMENT ‘The were fifteen engine, hose ond hook and ladder com- Danies represented. ‘These numbered a little rising of one thousand men, nearly the entire Department turning out (of course without uniform or their engines, but with mourning badges illustrative of the occasion, and bearin; the bumber of the companies.) These walked four ani ve deep. CALIFORNIA PIONEERS. ‘Thir association was represented by seventy-four mom- bers (many of the society being included among the chi mourners and pall bearers), aud were dressed in full re- gulia, ILLYRIC SCLAVONIC BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. This association Was represented by seven-seven mem- bers. ‘They walked four deep and made an exceedingly reepectable appearance. 289 citizens on foot. 12 carriages, containing ladies, with an average of four to ‘@ carriage. ntaining ladies and gentlemen. 2 horsem Afterwards crowds of citiz Il iuto the procession, whose numbers we unable to estimate. The entire mov ing assemblage amounted to several thousands, ARRIVAL AT THE CEMETERY. The procession having to ‘ont: already pre- serbed, arriv jock at the Lone Mountain Cemetery were gathered a large num- ber of vehicles awaiting its approach. The iron doors of ceiving tomb were thrown open, aud awaited their pant Sorrowful and grief stricken faces were Silent and slowly the concourse: ded their way towards the last resting place of the dead Senator, and there awaited the arrival of the funeral cortege. Soon it came; not with the glare and sound of military. display; hot with the tingel of uniform or the pageantry of civic or military pomp, but slowly, mourntully, and with the as- pect of men on whose hearts # blight had fallen, whose affiction could best and oniy be expressed by the deep elequence of silence. Slowly and mournfally they march- ed towards the mausoleum. ‘The assemblage made way for the sad procession. The pall-bearers, uplifting their precious burthen, came to the doors of the vault, and resting the coflin upon the sod, awaited the last melan- choly rites. ADDRESS OF FATHER GALLAGHER AT THE GRAVE. Al five o'clock the funeral cortege reached the ceme- tery, The pall bearers assisted in removing the body from the bearse, and carried it to the grave, preceded b 106 open vehicles, Rev H. P. Gallagher and F. Harrington. Father Gai- lagher then addressed the assemb! as follows:— BELOVED AND ESTKEMED FELLOW You are as- sembled for the purpose of beholding the earthly remains of the Hon. David Broderick deposited in their final resting place—a most melancholy officc—and ono that wrimgs the Christian bearts of our getcsd throughout the length and breadth of the land with grief, deep, intense and unalloyed, over that most pernicions error which created the fictitious artificial neceasity that has cast the eternal nce of death upon this noble young Tribune. With what constitutes the character of a good or a bad, an honest or dishonest politician, or with what he was or was not in that respect, T’baye no. thing to do, nor do Tobtrude any idea T may have form. compelled to irreparable 1 feel egret and condemn unequivc nult by whiel hr publ and cireum: man’s duty enjoins; but it is confessedly a refreshing in- Stance to the world, to which I say, all earthly honor to him of whom such things can with ‘truth be said. Subse- quent to his sad mishap he sought and received the conse- lations of religion, We may and must presume that hig Tepentance was siucere and genuino—tbat he forgaye his enemies; for thore is no place in Christian ethics fer re- venge. He was reconciled, therefore, to the church, and. received her list rités. In her unquestioned rig) therefore, as his Holy Mother, would she have clai him to lay hin down with honor in the ground which she hid conscorated as the tet rary rest ing place for the annointed bodies of her 4 that unhappily for him, by the accursed duello, the privi. Jege was forfeited. A church that has with unabating per- sistency issued and renewed her anathema from century to century for twelve hundred years, against this Pagaa. code of blood, trom the time tat Pope Nicholeus I. de- nounced it in his letter to King Charles the Bold of Franco, in 850, to the present day, could not be expected: to re- verse her i rary ¢ regarde minutable decrees for human capeece tempo ency. He addressed mo as father—F, indeod,, him as my son in Christ, in his repentanec, and the grief I feel that his misguided act dey ives mo of hate ever of sorrowful satisfaction there might be in deposit. pg him with solemn honor in his consecrated , is uch as oppressed the paternal heart of the noble Brutus, when of the sons of his bosom he said, “J Lictor manus.” Your thousand sorrowing hearts attest day that in your solemn and sincere condemnation of this code of blood, you confirm and re-echo the church’s senttments, but that sho, the ther of the Faithful, ‘is ever — consistent—obnox- sous to no vicissitude nor varied phase of feeit ng, indiscriminatejy, this temporal penalty on all who. may set.at deflance her maternal mandates, Would to God, beloved and esteemed fellow citizens, that this which presents to the horror of a civilized world, bleeding, mangled spectacle of a murderod Senator— amake no allusion to his antagonist, I say so with emp! —Wwe might bebold the incipient step inaugarated on memorible spot that would trample in the dust this last detested relic of Pagan barbarity, Curistian men, om bended knee, before this melancholy spectacle, with right. hands raised’ to Heaven registering there their solemn vows that they would never cease from peaceful, legal, cgnstitutional agitation of this question, till every remnang- of itis eradicated from our Christian Stato—a. tnonunent more durable than brass or marble, and more valuable than the hands of man could erect. ‘The reverend speaker here turning to the corpse, said, with much feeling: ‘ Peace to thy ashes, joy to thy spirit, truest and most unselfish of friends, and most moral of public men.”” The coffin haying been deposited in the vault, and placed by itself in a niche prepared for it, whore it wilt remain until a final resting place shall have been selected in the grounds of the cemetery, the concourse dispersed, and leaving the body of Senator Broderick to the silence: of the tomb, returned to the city, And thus terminated the lust act of the melancholy event. BITTER ACRIMONY AMONG THE POLITICAL PRESS— PROSPECT OF A CROP OF DUELS. The death of Senator Broderick has occasioned a most. bitter warfare among his friends and those of his oppo- nents in the Californian press. Open accusations are made that there was a conspiracy to murder Broderick— that the pistols were not fair—that Judge Terry bad prac- ticed with them—and other equally unpleasant imputa- tions are indulged. The following editorial from the San. Francisco National will convey an idea of the spirit of the discussion :— ‘A NEEDLESS LIK AND WILFUL LIAR. (From the San Francisco National, Sept. 20, In the Times of yesterday morning it was said that one of the editors of the National, since his difficulty with the Hon. W. I, Ferguson ‘‘has spent his miserable existence in the giving utterance to the most ribald falsehoods re- garding all the people of the North who are not servile trucklers to the bastard chivalry of California.” No man, woman nor child in this State or elsewhere, has ever heard trom the lips of the editor referred to any expression, which directly or remotely, reflected upon the worth, intelligence fcourage, honesty, or any other valuable attribute of human character, of any Northern man, solely because of his birthplace. ’ On the contrary, some few ultra Southern men have deemed that editor heretical because he has universally maintained that the native of Maine or Massachusetts may be as meritorious in all that goes to the making up of the nature of an Ame- rican freeman as the man from Florida or Louisiana. The statement in the Duily Times, then, on this score, is simply a neediess and contemptible lie, and the man who penned it a malignant, wilful and deliberate iar, * * ® And this latter libellous print, the Times, in the very issue wherein the cruel results of a personal ant in a recent instance is made the text from which to read. homilies to the public, commits an attack upon one of the editors of this journal, which, among gentlemen in ever civilized land, if the offender were agentlemen, might well be deemed sufficient cause of challenge to mortal combat. We refer to this only as a pertinent illustration of the dis- gusting hypocrisy of the philanthropists who profess to be so shocked because blackguardism is not a chartered liberty under the law of the land. The vile creature who essays the defamation to which we allude well knows that his magazines of slime cannot attaint the purity of any character upon which his stores of filth may be Tevtene le But a knowledge of safety from redress cannot justify the double dealing of the low slanderer. He boils with indig- nation that a gentleman has thought proper to resent an affront after a manner which the experience of the ago demonstrates is legitimate, and yet at the same moment seeks to offend another 90 fiercely as to compel him to similar violent reparation. Fortunately for the peace of the community, the low born miscreant, Charles A. Washburn, caunot insult a gentle- man. His insane revilings are the highest compliments which can be bestowed upon any good citizen—because it Proves the latter to be no associate of the moral felon who belches bile and billipgsgate from the editorial tripod of the Times. It is difficult to tell which nature predomi- hates in the composition of the beast, Washburn; that of the polecat or the puppy. We think the puppy isa little abead. Should the doctrine ot the transmigration of souls be correct, this groveling thing will come back from the abode of departed spirits in a hybrid shape so compli- cated of the physical characteristics of the feline and canine creatures we have above mentioned, that men would be puzzled to know whether to use a club or a bottle of Lubin’s extract to rid themselves of the noisome presence of the mongrel monstrosity. Here, in self de- fense, we have said enough to coerce any decent man inte. an attack upon us. The cowardly calumniator, Washburn, will sneakingly evade such an experiment. His dastarg soul slinks down into his ungainly boots at the thoaght danger to his hang dog-face, and ugly carcase, POLITICAL EXCITEMENT. That the intense excitement which Prevails will end in more bloodshed, appears inevitable. Meanwhile, huge piacarde are posted, With the inscription “They have killed me because T wa “They have killed me because I was opposed to the ex- tension of slavery and a corrupt administration.” en ARREST OF JUDGE TERRY. A private despatch, says the Times of the 20th ult., was received last evening by Chief Burke, stating that Judge D. 8. Terry bad been arrested by the Sheriff of San Joa- quin county, in whose custody he was at the time. This statement is confirmed by the Ala Californian ofthe same date. -— Shooting Affray at Placerville. \CERVILLE, it. 16, 1859. A shooting affair took place in this city this morning ab seven o'clock. J. H. Brown and wife, of California, re- cently returned from a vist to Carson Valley, and H. P. Fletcher, of California, also recently returned from Carson. Valley, whither he had been to meet his father from the- East. The parties were all tarrying at the Orleans Hotel. Brown was jealous of Fletcher, and meeting him sitting with his wife in the parlor of tae hotel, drew his revolyer and fired, the shot taking effect about his chest. Fletcher iled, pursued by Brown, who continued to fire until after Fletcher reached the outer door. Four shots were fired, three of which took effect. Fletcher bled profusely, hig: course being marked from the parlor to the street by a continuous stream of blood. Fletcher lies in a critical condition, little hopes being entertained of hig recovery. Brown was arrested and brought before Recorder . ‘Waiving an examination, he was held to answer in ten thousand dollar bonds; failing to obtain which, he was committed, ’ Our San Francisco Correspondence. San Francisco, Sept. 9, 1859. Interesting Items of News, dc., dc. The Society of California Pioneers will celebrate tho ninth anniversary of the admission of California into the Union this day by a procession and other exercises. Doctor John Hastings has filed a petition for the benefit of the insolvent law. He states his losses at $105,000. Liabilities $21,000, The steamer G \liah arrived in this port yesterday. Sho has beer for several months engaged in removing wild cattlo from the island of Santa Rosa, opposite Santa Barbara, to the main land. She succeeded in landing 8,000 head, about one-third of the numbor of cattle on the island, ‘The steamships Golden Age and Uncle Sam left here on the 6th inst. for Panama. The latter took off seven hun dred passengers and the former six hundre1. ‘The ship” ment of treasure by the Golden Age was $2,123,613, A woman named Emma Brooks, a native of Bagland, aged thirty years, died suddenly on the 5th inst. in house on Pacific street. She led a very intemperate life. Patrick Dolan, who was indicted for stealing a quantity of goods from the United States Appraiser's store, auch who was liberated on $4,000 bail, absconded from. the: Ftate on the 6th inst. He went off on the Golden Age, The third annual exhibition of the Horticultural Society epened at Musical Hail on the 6th inst, Tho display of ee and flowergis very fine. he post mortem examination of the bod Matton, a native of Mokiavia, who died on the. ‘sive, showed that he met his death from a fracture of the skuli., caused by @ blow received in a row, which took ce On the 4th of May last. The testimony on the Coroner's in- quest did not disclose who inflicted the blow. Deceasod vey thirty-six years old. man named N. H. Smith was killed 29, at. Kings Mill, Sierra county, while loading tin weapons some means a saw log rolled upon himand crushod bite: to death. Deceased was a native of Maine. The Pitt River Rangers, ized in Tehama county, cheria of Beaver Creek Indians, numbering two hundred, seventy of whom were killed. "Three of the re We! wounded—two with arrows and the other with buckshot. Robert Jacobs, who was shot by a Spanish woman Georgetown last week, died here on Saturday. was a native of Pittsburg, Pa., aged about thirty-f years, William Koch, while at work at Monte Christo last, was fatally injured by @ mass of rocks failing upon him. A little girl, named Laura Amanda MeCarty, aged abs nine was drownet on the 6th in this cit i been in the habit of gathering ings on t wharl,and. was probably engaged in when fell rate the bay Dr. ¥ of the fuse week, a few miloe ry ony DP Cow one of the physicia was found dead ia The alarm was fh tom from) Maripos