Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-10
the outset, and the net profits will not be very
large.

THE CoPPERHEADS.
The State Convention Of the Copperheads
is in session here to-day, but / need not say
ANYTHING about their proceedings, as the tel
eeraph will give you all the facts before TINS
reaches YOU. The real secesh Democrats do
not take kindly to Mcclellan, and some 60
so far as to say that they would sooner vote
| for Lincoln out and out; but on the other
hand there is a large and very influential
marty. numbering III its ranks some Of the
| ieading shipping merchants and property
owners of San Francisco, who have not hith-
erto acted with the Copperheads, who will
certainly vote for Mcclellan in spite Of his
platform, and think that they will more
| than make good the loss to the party on the
other wing. Taking all things into account,
fear that the Mcclellan vote in San Fran
cisco will be much larger than the straight
out Union men have heretofore expected, and
there really is some danger Of his carrying
the State.
AN INFERNAL scoUNDREL.
Sheriff Rogers Of Ell Dorado, and under
Sheriff Hall of Santa Clara, passed through
here yesterday, with two more Of the Ell Do
RADIO Stage robbers and murderers in their
charge. The following description of James
Grant, the worst man Of the two, clip from
this mornings Ala. Grant is set down as
about as thorough a scoundrel as ever
stretched hemp. He is an Irishman by birth,
and lived sometime in Tennessee before COM
ing to California. He was once caught By an
enraged party Of Oregonians, from whom he
had been stealing horses, and got not only
terrible whipping at the hands OF Lynch
Court Sheriff, but had the top of his ear taken
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| afterwards killed man and left Oregon.
After the Placerville robbery he made his way
| into the lower country with great expedition,
| and is now wanted in San Luis Obispo. Santa
Cruz and Monterey counties fer trial on three
| separate charges Of stage robbery committed
| after the Placerville affair. He was captured
| about n month since, by Hall and others, IN a
canon az the head OF Portentia Creek, some
twelve miles from San Jose, one OF the most
notorious rendezvous Of thieves and murder
ers in California. After his capture he was
heavily ironed, and one of the guard, sup
| posing him incapable OF further mischief, in
cautiously set his gun down within his reach.
| Grant Immediately seized the gun, and plac-
| ing it over his shoulder, with the hammer
raised, warned his captors not to pursue him,
| and attempted to walk off with his irons still
| on. He was warned to stop; but not needing
the order, and persisting IN his attempt TO
escape, he received dose of buckshot in his
person, the wound being Of that character
which has necessarily precluded his assuming
4 sitting position up to the present time. He
| is now so far recovered that he is able to be
| removed to Placerville, and goes up for trial.
Should he fail of getting justice in Ell Dorado
county, he will be taken the rounds Of the
| Cow Counties, and if not satisfied there, will
go up to Oregon to be tried for his last muir.
der in that State. His prospects, in view of
all these complicated endorsements, are
| hardly more brilliant than those Of his be-
| loved Southern Confederacy.
P.S.-My time is up, and l must close,
| so adioS, AMIGO.