The Placer herald., 1867-06-22
Colfax Correspondence.
CoLrAx, June 2lst, 1867.

Editors Herald: business is so pressing g
that have hardly time to write this morn.
ing, and must dash in without ceremony.
The Democrats around this place have bad a
broad grin on their countenances ever since
the action Of our County Convention was re
ceived here, and the report Of the proceed
ngs of the State Convention by the Sacra-
meuto Union this morning has had tend.
ency to increase their mirthfuness. We all
ieel that victory is bound to perch upon our
banner The nomination of VIM. NJ. Crutch'
er is very satisfactory, and l think be will
make Jake Nef hunt his hole in September
next. Dirty Poole thinks it disgrace that
Jake was nominated, and so do |, for Jake
cares no more for the Abolition party than
the man in the moon. The unsophisticated
editor of the Stars and Stripes says be heard
that Netf was Johnsonian, and has sifted
the matter and found that be was not, and
that be would not vote for any man that was.
That is all talk on The part of Selkirk. Jake
is an ardent admirer Of johnson, and don't
60 much on the fellows that wants to turn a
bigger into white man. The editor Of the
Stripes can threaten but be has got to swali
low Jake
Our club list is increasing daily, and we
feel able to clean out the mongrels without
much trouble next September. The foreign
born citizens generally will vote the Demo.
cratic ticket, there are few however, who are
welded to error. You know Bill Sexton is
one Of that kind. BY the bye, when and
where did he get naturalized! Lyon, the Re.
corder, | believe claims to be a New
Yorker, but have been asked the question
if bis birth place was not some where up in
Canada. If so, how did be Am ericanize
himself without being naturaized?
Boust, Of the Dutch Flat "Screwdriver,"
see refuses to hoist a portion of the mon
grel ticket. My little bird strongly suspects
that somebody will get black mailed before
the campaign is over. The Screwdriver fail
ed to get into the State printing, and Selkirk
has bad broad grin on his phiz ever since.
Sci. hosts Mccarthy name. Nc and Se
understand each otber-do you see.
We are to have grand day on Monday
next. The corner stone of our new Masonic
Hall is 10 be laid, and the Grand Master Of
the State will conduct the ceremonies.
should be pleased to see you up here.
udt tACuIslou WulCu tue dCllC RillTUdu
made last week for the members Of the Abo'
lition State Convention was conducted on
rather vinous principles. The State Con
vention, you remember, was in session until
10 O'Clock Friday morning, when it adjourn.
ed, and at o'clock the members started on
the excursion. Hiarity and sherry cobblers"
were the order of the day as the train climb.
ed up the mountains. At Auburn the fat
Superintendent didn't "care d-m for Pa
Ger County, they got the State Convention"
The train got to Cisco, and the crowd were
more jolly than ever, so was the fat Superin.
tendent The train left in due time for Sac.
ramento, and the Superintendent felt and
looked as if he was 10 the seventh Heaven,
by the time he reached your Station be was
glorious. He slapped the agent on the back,
exclaiming, Steve we've got 'em; we got
the whole State Convention in them six cars,
and they're all railroad men," The face of
the fat Superintendent shown like full
moon-he was excessively jolly over the
idea that he "had got EN-" Little did be
think that some of the by-standers smiled to
see bis antics. and could not help thinking
that Johnny Conness had got him too-to
do some Of bis dirty work.
IIurriedly Yours
ROBIN ROUGH.