The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
Yankee Jim Correspondence.
YANKEE Inns. Dec.

YANKEE JIM's, Dec. 9Th, 1855.
Mr.. EHtor: | notice a correspondent in
the Ioaca Hill News of Nov. oath, who uses
three KS as signature, and purports to
write from this place as one of its citizens, is
out in favor Of division of the county
1t is no doubt quite convenient to use
Yankee Jim's as starting point for this
move, the better to hide the real object of
the move and at the same time give charac
ter to it. But the communication in ques-
ton, as we'll as the very lengthy one of the
subsequent issue, reminds me too forcibly Of
the style of certain Senator, who is said to
have obtained his nomination from the Know
Nothing county convention by pledging his
support to the Iowa Hill Office seekers, in ia
vor of this measure, to establish any great
degree of confidence in the good intentions
Of the. author, hereabouts.
Perhaps the Honorable gentlemen fancies
that inasmuch as Iowa Hill influence pro-
cured him the unmerited nomination, he is
bound to 90 into the Legislative body for the
sole purpose of representing the X. Ms Of
that flourishing village, and like statesman
of enlarged views, he is by means of these
anonymous epistles preparing the public
mind for this great measure of internal
policy.
The editor, in commenting upon the first
communication, very modestlv observes that
The subject of division of the county and
the want of a new county seat Of reasonably
convenient access to a large portion of the
people of Placer County, as ercittng some at
tepfion among those Who are most nconrep-
ienced Jy tie present arrangement" The
young man has barely heard of it, but it is
only exciting some attention among those
who are the most inconpenienccd by the pres
ent arrangement. This present arrangement,
| suppose must Inconvenience the proprie-
tors of the -Ne,cs, to the extent Of certain
official patronage, which they snuff in the
distance. Being entirely disintercsted in the
matter, he condescendingly remarks that he
has mo objection to making room for fur
ther communications upon the subject All
this is done contessedly as starter, in a
scheme, in which the tayern-keepers, four or
five incipient county judges and some twenty
would be Sheriffs, of our neighboring village
are the real parties in interest. 1t has been
discovered that debt of some forty or fifty
thousand dollars is of incalculable advantage
to new county. and the aggregate of mile
age will be infinitely less if this division
takes place. A plan of salvation, for all the
evils old Placer is laI oring under, has been
conceived: yea, more. from the fruitful brain
of this giant legislator, this new county has
burst upon the planetary system, all glowing
with harmonised organization, and its name
is Uashingtoni
Now, Mr.. Editor, I'm Il plain blunt man,
and quite willing to admit that there are
some convenences to be enioved at the
county seat which we do not have who live
out of it-among which is the exquisite priv
iege of sueing and being sued, with great
er degree of facility, and Of being jerked up
to settle other peoples difficulties, every few
days, as Juror. None Of which Injuries
am | particularly DESTROYS of, but as my
neighbors rather envy Auburn on that ac-
count, | could wish for their accommodation
that every town in the county was a county
seat. | am not willing, however, as one Of
the tax payers to 90 into this speculation
merely to CRAFTY this whim of our neighbor,
when taken in connection with the expense,
which any sensible man must be convinced
would necessarily follow in the train of a
new county organizaton-the purchase of
books, Court House. Jail, the salaries of Off
GERS, to say nothing of the annoyance arising
from the crowds of the hungry attorneys
that would flow in upon us. | do not find
it any further from Y Yankee Jim's to Auburn
now, than it was three years ago, and the IA
cities of travel much better and all the
time being improved; and, if am obliged to
90 to the county seat as a witness or juror,
shall exact my mileage and per diem, and if
as a suitor, | shall consider it as an evil that
a new county would be more likely to in
crease than diminish. | have another objec-
ton to this move, which will mention and
then close this hurried communication, viz:
We now live in a county of some Importance,
some weight politically, say about the fourth
in political magnitude in the State as we
now stand we can make ourselves felt in our
legislative bodies, but divide us up. as the KS
propose, and we shall have two counties
perhaps three, for God knows where these
things will stop when once commenccd),
neither of which will support itself, or have
the necessary weight in legislative matters.
From this state of insigniicance, good
Lord remoye-from the contemplate bck-
erings about county seats, and the small fry
ambition for petty office-good Lord remove
me and all my respectable fellow citizens
YANKEE JIM'S.