CALIFORNIA.

New Zealand Herald, Issue I, 24 June 1864, Page 4

CALIFORNIA.

I rn<v,{ A ( «'JIKKsia »XIT.NT.) polities in f'a.lif"rnia have been somewhat enliv< ra d bv the removal of .Mr. Parker, the po-d-master at San Francisco. The decapitation of tins gentleman has rais. d a hr< e/e that will nni readily subside. The can.se of' •he removal is rumoured tn be the opposition expericneed f'-ntn Mr. I'arlierhy ?Jr. < 'onness ill his electinn to tin l I'nited States Senate. Perkins, the new* man, was a faithful Inllnwcr of Senator ('onness, and was a defeated candidate tor the State S'-nate at the ] ;; <t election. Jle wielded with some jiol.'iicv the sni ''boys" of San Franci-a-o as political weapon. Such a man b< ing mnre a bummer than a politician rould imt go down the rcsjM etabh' thmal in tla- miM shii]>e of State Senator, and hnw {lie biltfi* do-f will be tbr-aigh the niDihtrmii of I'osl ()ilice, need ied br Mmnised. '.rhere are frrquent and ominous already. and]Vrkins' friends, who number themselves by thousands, will not In* idle. Parker is the head of the Fninn League, an association numbering* ou,i;uo, and. is also ihe tirst onicev of the Odd Fellows nf the State. Governor how of ( alifn:nia has declared himself indignant over the operation, as he is a candidate for the State Senate, and wnuld not willingly nllend Mr. Oni'iess' friends, it must have been after smne consideration that he declared himself so firmly for the ex-post-mastcr. How the Senator at Washington will be r-IK-ctcd in popularity by his act of vengeance is considered to in:. Military adairs out hero have a severe character, which is nnt at all coin tort al 'le in view of the small means of drfenco afforded by our forts, and the chaneesofa French war sweeping on us from or a warning raid by the 'Alahama' or some other pirate. (!cixt;il Wrijrlit's srrrat iiifx with the small amnunt nf ability displayed by his stall*, makes the military affairs of the coast nmre a subject of ridicule than a matter of gratulation. The latest news is by the telegraph, to have a Major(Jeneral, battelies of Artillery, and snino war vessels fur delenee. Let us have a good active man, and not be obliged to put up with anything too senescent to be useful. The loss of our Monitor " Aquila" in the wav, it occurred after its safe voyage around the Capo Horn, and the jubilations over its arrival has about it something of the laughable, although the public smile is rather sardonic when the rejection comes homo of the approach of the 4 Alabama* to our ilefenceless coast.