The Placer herald., 1856-06-07
An Old Line Whig

An Old Line Whig
In these times when so many old line
i Wings have joined the National Democracy,
4 it affords us pleasure to publish the reason
given by one of them, for the apparent change
of position. The Hon. Sam. Caruthers, of
Missouri, in letter to his consistency, says;
"IHey charge ME with jctyuying the Hhtq
,mrtI They, who deceived it into their
Councils and dssdssindted IL IN the dark,
thru. who come forth from their concaves
with their hands dripping with its blood
then who met in Philadel phia, in Convention
and vauntingly proclaimed its deaM-wth a
Pharasaical atfcctation Of purity, declare that
Mey are not responsible for its obnoxious acts
and violated pledges yes, while | stood Il
mourner at the grave Of the Wing party
they are rcjoiced at its death and caIumna
ting its life
81 tell these gentlemen they have slain
mn first tore, and have left me politi-
raj midomer, and | have perfect right to
marry another party, it sec proper"
81 went twice (and but twice. into their
Councils. | sdv .Sam It took two visits
TO sec him all over made them. saw
snoagt, and determined never to look on his
face again.
freely admit to you that | ought never
to have gone into secret political society
of any kind whatever-that they are wrong
in principle, against the very genius of our
institutions, dangerous in practice and should
be avoided by all men of all parties"
The Coroncr's jury in the case ofYankee
Sullivan rendered the following verdict.
"We the undersigned convened by Coron-
cr Kent as Jurors on this the first day of une
1856, to inquire into the cause of the death
ola man named Francis Murry alias james
Sullivan. who was found ina room in Build
inc known as the Vigilance Committee room,
situated on Sacramento ST., on the forenoon
of the 3lst of May, do find that Francis Muir
rv, alias James Sullivan came to his death
from the effects Of a wound with knife in
fl ctcd by himsefupon his left arm, which Sc
vercd the brachal artery. The jury accom-
panied bv the Coroner visited the rooms of
the Vigilance Committee and upon an exam
inaton of the apartment lately occupied 10y
the deceased, found everything to correspond
with the evidence before them. We also
find the deceased to be native of Ireland,
aged 81 years. He leaves Il wife and one
child in this city"
ARMS FOR KANSAS MISUNDERSTANDING
CoMMESCED.-The good steamer Arabia,
Capt John S. Shaw, arrived at our wharf
about sunrise this morning. Immediately y on
landing, a committee was dispatched up town
to inform our citizens that a person from
Massachusetts, was on board, having in his
possession 100 .Starps RITES and t,co ca,e-
non! destined for service in Kansas, and sent
bv the Massachusetts Aid Society The
information brought together many of cur
respectable and reliable citizens, when a
conference was had 10y them with Mr.. Start,
with view Of inducing him to leave the
"dangerous' weapons with our citizens for
safe keeping. This he as>ented to and deliv
cred the goods" up, subject to the reqnisi
tion of Gov Shannon orhiS successor in office
The proceedings We're orderly, and although
the determination to arrest the arms was deci-
dcd on, no one talked Of violence to the poor
tool that could so hcarlcsslv lend himself to
such unnatural work.
The arms were boxed up and marked Car
pcntcrs' Toos' The discovery that they
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were on board was made at or below Glasgow,
from letter, droppedby Mr.. S. in the cabin,
and picked up by a boy and handed to Capt
Shaw, 10y whom it was read aloud in the Social
Hall. The passengers and officers were high
" ncenSed at the disclosures, but no ndig
nifty was offered to the miserable disorganizer.
-Lert~gton (Mo.) Express.
WESTERN GIANTS IN THEIR SLUMBERS.-
The Burlington, Iowa Gazette, states that
while workmen were engaged, on the
preceding evening in eXcavating for the cellar
ofGov. Grimes new building on the corner of
Main and Valley streets, they came upon an
arche1 vault some ten feet square, which, on
being opened was found to contain eight
human skeletons ofgigantic proportions. The
walls Of the vault are about II inches thick,
well laid up with cement or some other
indcstructible mortar. The vault is about six