The Placer herald., 1856-01-05

body which had empowered them to draft
resolutions, DC, and to which they were
ready to report dissolUed. The explosion
(of words) which took place at this juncture
will not attempt minutely to describe, but
will give briefly the substance of what was
said by our willy friends from Wisconsin Hill,
and in reply by our fellow townsman, COL
VIM. Mcclure 1t was said in behalf OF the
delegates that they had been appointed to
represent their respective towns at this meet
inc, and that they had come in good faith to
meet the citizens of Yankee Jim's, to discuss,
not so much the erpediency, (or that they
considered settled), of division of the coun-
tv as where the dividing line should be, and
could not understand why the citizens OF
Yankee Jim's should oppose division, mas
much as the line which they would advocate
and agree to would be likely to secure the
location of the county seat at Yankee Jim's.
70 this Col. Mcclure replied that, he was
opposed to any division of the county at the
present time, and he believed he expressed
the sentiments of very large portion OF the
people of this locality That this meeting
had been surreptitiously called-no one in
Yankee Jim's having been consulted about
the matter, or otherwise properly notified
that a meeting had been called. That the
meeting had been organized by his friends
from abroad, and committee chosen, a ma
ioritv of whom were of their number. That
an adjournment until o'clock had been in
sisted upon, for the purpose, as was generally
believed, of dispensing our citizens, so that
when the committee should report, they
might again assemble and in the absence of
his townsmen, adopt the report which they
knew would be favorable to division of the
county, and thus make it appear that the
citizens of Yankee Jim's were favorable to a
division, when in fact they were opposed to
such measure.
Our friends of Wisconsin and Iowa Hill
were easily and quicky appeased by William
Duck, Esq, proposing reorganization OF
the meeting for the purpose of discussing
the erpediency of division, which was i'm
mediately agreed to. Soon after, Col. VIM.
Mcclure proposed a resolution, which was in
substance, that a Contention of the citizens
of the Divide be held on the 9th day Of Jan
uary next, at Wisconsin Hill That dele
gates be chosen for every election precinct in
proportion to the number Of votes polled at
the last general election. One delegate from
every precinct generally, and one for every
one hundred votes cast. The resolution was
unanimously adopted.
The meeting then adourned: the delegates
from our neig ighborng towns being pretty
well satisfied with the result of the meeting,
and for the most part, we think, in pretty
good humor; as we can assure them were
the citizens of Yankee Jim's.
The convention on the 9th inst. will be,
doubtless, numerouslv attended, and we hope
the subject which will then be before them
may be fairly openly and honestly dealt
WITH without any attempt by one party to
overrule the other by any unfair means, and
that all glittering but false promises in re-
gard to the location Of the county seat, may
be Indignantly spurned, by whatever party
made. We hope that the action Of the con-
venton may prove true and reliable expo
siion of the sentiments Of the citizens of the
'dvide," on the subject Of a division of the
county, A CITIZEN.
Yankee Jim's January 9 1856