The Placer herald., 1867-08-03
Colfax Correspondence.
CoLFAx, AUGUST end, 1857.

Editors Herald:-Tbe grand rally Of the
MongreIs was held here on the 2eth. Nor.
ton aud bis menagarie appeared in good sea-
son and we're apparently in fair condition.
Owing TO tie absence Of Pat. Munday, one
Of the advertised mediums, DR.. Crandall, Of
equal celebrity, was pressed into the service.
1t would bs doing the Doctor injustice not
to say that he filed the bill to perfection
those who have seen the appearance Of this
gentleman before, either on the hus,ings, at
the race course, temperance meeting or
Methodist revival. would have little Difficult
ty in understanding how he performed, and
in knowing in great measure what he said,
if il was not for the fact that in this canvass
he is very awakardly situated. lii ideas
have been derived and retaIed from the
storehouse of the Sacramento Union. The
detection Of that paper has compelled him
to draw on his 1855 speech, the Stars and
Stripes, and 4 few. second rate stories from
fair one, but the application remarkably
bad. II was i" regard to some Individual
in the Mama Valley, shooting off the tail,
from the best looking Of drove Of lliud
hogs, and by holding il '(be tally before
them, leading the ent'e drove through the
principal village aud neigbborbood Of that
section. Had l applied it, shoUld have
compared Spread Eagle Norton to the tail,
and the drove Of county officials following
him. to the blind hogs. After bis hog story
he pitched into me, called me bard LANES
and prayed that The direst and severest to:'
lures and punishments might he my lot.
As tit and proper degree Of torture he
read a few verses from what he called
poem and wished that might feel it ALL
What be read was bad doggerel, written
by some crazy fanatic, like himself, and in.
tended for consumption by the ignorant Of
bis party, who cry loyalty so Justify and do
no, know what it meaps. But friend sug-
gests to
"Let Milton write no more,
Put Watt into the tomb,
Let Shakespeare stand behind the door,
Aud give Docs poet room,"
To the Doctor can say tina, will will.
ingIy stand the prayer for punishment, cheer
fully bear the tortures OF his gray backs,
yellow jackets and porcupines, provide d, the
good people Of this State save us from the
Mongrel doctrines Of his party. Yes, Doc
tor, let the people save the White mans
government, that our fathers made, and pre-
serve me and mine from association and
contamination with the free Negro, Chinese,
Diggers, womaD's rights fanatic mixture,
that you and your crazy cohorts advocate,
and your prayed for tortures would be light
indeed.
But enough for Crandall, and now for
Spread Eagle, who according to the Doctors
story,I consider n pretty good hcg tail, to
lead lhe blind crowd OF Mongrel office seek
ers following him. That he has some speak
ing ability, with voice like yearlng bull,
cannot be denied, but his speech here as far
as applicable TO the issues Of the day was
considered by all as a signal failure. The
greater portion Of it was consumed in quota
tions from the dead Douglass while discus
sing issues and questions then pending and
paramount, and bis entire speech was more
pertinent to the exciting issues Of 1861 than
TO the present. Many portions Of it dsiv'
cred as original l remembered as having
read in pint aud in portions that you could
detect as original, there was manifest under.
meath want of earDestness and conviction
of the truth of what he was stating. That
portion he did not extract from the ngger
BARRIERS scrap book at Lincoln. The hired
Attorney can we'll become interested and
convinced Of the correctness of bis position,
for he studies his case with view to ascer
tain the strength of his position and the
weakness of the opposite, and Without hav
ing formed any prior opinions therein. But
the hired politician, as Spread Eagle has be-
come, cannot SO readily cover up and con.
ceal bis honest conviction. Considering
the but recent democratic antecedenis of
this speaker, it must he regretted tha. poor
human nature can become so fallen. But a
few weeks ago and be was anxious to run on
the Democratic ticket for the Legislature,
and afterwards lie would not have refused
$500 to have stumped the county for the
Democracy. The chalk mark was Zoo high!
Bah, Norton, spread your wings and soar
away
Boust, the editor Of the Dutch Fiat Screw.
driver, is attacking the Sacramento Union
for not supporting the Gorham ticket. The
Union could come back very well a, Boust
and ask him why he does no. hoist the Mon
gre State ticket in full, and why he leaves
off the name of d. 0. Mccarthy, the cand
date for State Printer, and if it is not be-
cause Boust. at the State Convention sent a
message to Nc. claiming per centage Of the
State printing for Withdrawing from the field;
and Nc. gave the messenger TO understand
that Boust might 60 to hell. Hence you
see the Screwdriver opposes the Mougrel
candidate for State Printer.
1t is said Nc has no good friend in Sell
kirk, of the Stars and Stripes, who has re-
ceived his orders from John Conness, not TO
pay any attention to the s. F. Flag, or i's
editor. and to give both cold shoulder.
b. b. BEDDING it is we'll known is Conness'
right bower and fast friend, and that both Of
them are very much chagrned at the way
in which Charley TuttIe managed to carry
the County Convention in Placer for the
Long Hairs. BY some means Redding has
managed to get Tweed aud Spencer TO write