The weekly Placer herald., 1855-08-25
Iowa Hill Correspondence.
Iowa HILL. August Is,


Iowa HILL. August Is, 1865.
Friend TaJb:-The K Ms held their coun-
ty Council here yesterday to nominate their
county ticket. They met in the Temperance
Hall at this place with closed doors, only adj
hitting the delegates and candidates that
came before them-not that they had any
seekers after office (oh no) Office was seeking
them? Their nominee for senate is Charles
Westmoreland. of this place formerly Of Wis
consn Hill. Their candidates for Assembly
are Sellcck of Rattlrsnake. Lansing Stout of
Beales'. Williams of Wisconsin. and llighee
of the Bluffs. Robert Cummings Of Yankee
Jims was nominated for Assembly, but be-
cause he could not have the Senate. declined
receiving. Westmoreland was tOlcrably we'll
known around Wisconsin Hill few months
ago as disspated lawyer Of no ability. but
lately he has joined the Sons Sellcck made
his entree into this county as a stroll NC play
actor. and recently has been employed by the
X. Ms to establish lodges Stout is IA whig
of the Horace Greely school. Williams is an
old Kcntuck whig and boasfully claims that
all his brothers are wings, his father and
grandfather before him were also the same.
And Hgbee is claimed to he Democrat. hut
he is well known at the Bluff to be II whig.
In the evening they had ratiicat on meeting.
DR.. Crandall was called to the chair and stat
ed the object Of the meeting. Westmorland
commenced to address the small assembly and
tried to prove that he ives a far average man
from coin county. but as none of the assem-
bly, were personally acquainted with the said
county, they could not find out what kind of
IA man he was by his own description. Will
liam~ self styled Colonel. went on to state
that his birth place was old Kentucky. and
bn Of II I'm pnyf to old h pnturk,
he would have preferred California for birth
place The gentleman ought to be b0rn
again. Stout was unaccnStomed to public
speak ing-he need not have told the meeting
so. for it was apparent all could see It,
would Liked to have heard the gentleman
explain his position on the slavery question.
Splleck tried to convince the meeting that
that man John Biglcr would be beat by that
man .NteIy J0hns0n-in very forclhle Ian
gllagc or by the Eternal Gods One Of the
great I ans of the wigwam. Van Pikrr
delegate from this place. stated that there
were none that ''seeked" Office but the office
soefed them. Several more of the kni ghtS of
the closed-door party appeared and baited
their hooks and cast their lines for the foreign
vote. stating they loved the foreigner and
wanted them to hell the American party into
power. Thus showing that they are not quite
so confident of success as they expressed them
selves to be some time since Everything
was quiet. not even a cheer was givcn--no en-
thlSasm. The thing here is so plainly a
whig move that some of the wings are dis
gusted with it themselves. Hilycr was
candidate for Assembly but only received
votes. Complimentary support. Hillyer
woud have made good run. Here there is
great dissatisfaction amongst the X. y. s them
Oh of, In,
night we can beat them without half fight.
There were as many Democrats at the meeting
as the opposite party.
AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT.
Know NoTHNG TRoUBLEs,-The know-No
things in the Shasta Senatorial District are in
a mess of trouble. They have two nomna-
tOns for Senator "a Or. Raymond. of Shasta
was nominated for them by the delegates to
the State Convention. which it seems they
have rcpudiatpd. and another Convention.
Lodge or Council. have nominated Mr.. Nc
Cutcheon. of Colusa The latter gentleman
was a member Of the last LEGISLATURE and
profes.ed to be democrat up to the meeting
of the Democratic District Convention which
nominated Mr.. Dosh for the Senate. over him.
The patr otic McCutchcon then apoStatized
and asked The Know Nothing nomination as
reward for his treachcry. We hope the sterl
lng democracy OF Shasta and Colusi will adj
minister telling rebuke to the apostate. by
giving the talented and faithful Dosh tri
umphant majority.
"RATHER DELICATE. Last evening as we
were closing our inside form. we lacked the
length of this article of Iilling out We ask
ed a Know-Nothing acquaintance if he coud
give us an item about the X. Ms. "Well. says
he. put in they are rather delicate about
Auburn these tines Pretty good. for one Of
EN-.
EDWARD ROBINSON. hereby announces
himself as an independent cand date for JUS
tice of the Peace. for Township No. 2.
Gold Hill. August 2lst lS55.-2w.