The weekly Placer herald., 1855-08-04
Still Thev Come,


prOgnostcate that last night was an eventful
one among the Know-Nothings at Gold Hill.
Some thirty applications for Withdrawals were
to have been presented. In the language Of
our informant 1T would take half the night
to read them"
And thus will it be all over the State
national men, no matter whether wings or
democrats, cannot stay in the aboitionzed
concern. 1t is impossible for any organiza-
tion in this day of intelligence to make Ame
ricans believe that the refugee from tyranny
is telon or that poverty is pouperism. And
the demagOgueism which is continually cry
ing "Amerca for Americans" is but the hol
low prating of those who wish to elevate them
selves to Office by this absurd ism. Let every
man who has associrted himself with the Know
Nothings and who wishes to be independent
and free adopt the course pursued by many of
the citizens of Gold Hill. Then you are un-
trameled by oaths or County and State Coun-
ellis. I on can then occupy ground which
every citizen should-actuated alone by
sense of right and the promptings of your
own convictions. you march to the polls and
vote for who you please. And is this not
more beftting position for free men than to
be bound by secret oath to support the
nominees of the Know Nothings. Think of
your position--look at the chains that bind
you--cOme out. 'Tis the only course left.
Without you do. freedom of thought and
action is no longer yours. Indeed. you will
potage BY still abiding with the enemies of
liberal principles you aid in disgracing the
very land that gave you birth. and you make
mockery Of that freedom which you profess
to enjoy. An American to be free should
wear no shackles. He should have he right
to think, speak and vote as the laws of his
country permit. Does knOw-Nothing enjoy
this liberty. No. He is in mental chains rivet-
ed by the oaths of the order. Then snap them
asunder and come ont to the light of day.
where you need no dark room in which to
give aid to the principles which you profess.
must certainly have been looking at himself
and his party when he wrote the following:
'The extraordinary faculty possessed by
the Ostrich. of receiving into its stomach.
stones. nails and other ndigestihle substances.
has been matter of wonder and remark
among the students of natural history through
all time: those animals who live upon carrion.
offal. and all manner of filth have ever been
subjects of ahhorrence and disgust yet when
men would feel indignant at an imputation
upon their honesty and rcspectability. pursue
course which will bear perfect comparison
with these unclean and unnatural specimens
of creation. they have the har'lhood to call
upon an intelligent and respectable public to
sit down and partake of their nauseOus repast"
He SAYS IT Is AN ERROR.-A Know-Nothing
acquaintance of ours who resides at Rattle
snake, says we were misinformed in regard to
there being any trouble in the KnowNothing
Lodge at that place. He informs us there
never has been any. This may be! We got
our information from one who is not mem
her of the order. but who heard it for fact.
We have no desire to place our opponents in
a false light. their detormities and troubles
are great enough without any stretch Of the
Imagination.
PRISONER EscAPED-The Chinaman who was
arrested last week. for killing one of his coun-
tr, men in this place. succeeded in making his
escape from the guard on Sunday night last.
He was confined in one of the small rooms on
the second floor of the Court House. and
hand-cuffed The Deputy Sheriff who was
watching him, at the usual hour secured the
door and went to sleep. John during the
night slipped his ''cuffs." made a rope out of
his scarf and lowered himself to the ground
and left for parts unknown.
EXTENSIVE MINING-Mr Hunt has COM
menced an extensive mining operation in the
rear of our office on Auburn ravine. ditch
has been dug from the Bear River canal along
the top of the Big Hill, where the water is
perm tied to flow down the side to the bank
of the ravine in which nearly 1000 feet OF
sluices are set. Mr.. H.. has twelve hands EN-
poyed on the work. he intends to wash the
ravine the whole length of the sluices, and
the face Of the hill. We wish him success in
his undertaking. On Thursday last he pros
pected dirt in the ravine that paid as high as
20 cents to the pan. This is the right sort
of a mining operation and we have no doubt
Mr.. H., will prove to the miners in this
neghborhood that they have idled much Of
their time away in the last three years.
ALMOST FIRE.--On Monday evening last
we left candle burning on the table where