The Placer herald., 1868-10-24
Gold Run Correspondence.
GOLD Run, Oct. goth, 1868.


lu, DULL TINES.
Mr.. Editor:-Times, in q business point
Of view, are growing duler day by day.
Croker u Co. are trying to s,arve Us out.
For several weeks the stores have been al.
most destitute Of everything eatsbe,
sn1.were it not for the goods brought by
the Express companies, We would have been
forced to resume the old system Of transport
tAsion, that Of teams. The railroad is truly
great instituton-it forces the teams from
the road, aud then refuses to do the business
themselves. Glorious old Crorksr-mag.
Hanimous old Crocker-bully for old Crock
or aud bis railroad candidate for Congress,
A. A. Sargent.
POLITICALLY.
We are alive-particularly The Democra.
ey. We are spelling for the oontest-wait-
ing impatiently to finger the railroad money
not known here-it reads thus: "A foSl
and bis money soon parts" However the
Radical money is not burning the pockets
Of the truly "lo," as it once did; they begin
TO smell great many mice, and don't feel
90 confident since Ohio didn't give them
twenty-five thousand majority. and Penn
sylvania has almost spe,ced them out OF the
State, and Indiana has got ths Grecian bend,
and leans clear over into Seymour's camp;
and 10 November when all local issues will
be out Of the way, and the battle will be
fought squsrsy and fairly, upon which we
shall have MoDgrsl government, With it's
tbievery, negro rule aud war, or white.
mau's government, honesty administered,
with peace and plenty guaranteed to all
sections Then it is that the white cockade
Of Seymour and Blair will everywhere be
seen marching its hosts to victory, while the
black colors of Grant will 90 down 10 mid
night gloom, incurred only by dishonest
officials, Freedom Defenders, and lazy negroes.
THE STAR"
Gold Run boasts Of Star, not an actress,
or prima donna, or any thing of the kind.
but II MongreI star; kind Of Five Points"
concern; OF easy virtue as far as varacily
goes. Tbis Star" says many things not
found in The decalogue, or believed by any
one Ulysses and Skier" are its patron
saints, and hang on it's tail, like Hyman
once did the tail Of The paterna COW, and
like this notable cows appendage, this tail
has downward tendency; 10 fact it seems
rs il it was setting, and is truthful 10 Rad
icaism just at this time, which is gradually
waneing, and BY degrees growing small and
beautifully less. T6is Star" has embIazon'
ed upon it some hyfauiin stuff about Maine
and Vermont voting Radical ticket, and
they might have said that the Dutch had
taken Holland, for these states have been
Radical about as long as Holland has been
Dutch; and there is lot more nosense about
Pennsy lvania, Ohio, and Indiana, which |
suppose they intend as huge joke. for no
one believes that Ohio will 90 for Grant,
nor Pennsylvania, nor that the Hoosiers are
fools enough to swap "Psp Prices" men for
set Of wooIly .hsaded Radicals 10 November
next. But the best Of the whole affair is,
our Radical friends Of Gold Run and Dutch
Flat got drunk over The bogus dispatches
manufactured somewhere between the Rocky
Mountains and Sacramento, for the sole pur
pose Of giving strength to tho rotten back
bono Of California and Oregon Radcslsm
Boys don't crow before you are out of the
woods Grant amt President, nor never
will bet amt SO written in the book Of
prephsses.
GOLD RUN RADICALS
are pretty clever act of fellows, considering
their political predictions. They talk ra,b'
or rough at times behind our backs, and call
US Coppsrheads, Traitors, ETC., but these
little acts Of politeness have lost all their
terrors; they don't hurt particles; We feel as
secure and innocent under their maladictions
40 il We were snugly sleeping within the
classmates Of, Alcatras, with q Radical jury
to set on our cases. We know we didn't
deserve banging, or they would have banged
us long ago, and would have distributed bits
Of the rope among the faithful as taIlsmaus,
to keep away the witches, as their fathers
did before them, 10 the glorious days when
New England boosted Of her slaves and
slave ships. There 10 one very remarkable
feature about the Radicals OF Gold Run, they
are very easily led; their noses are as red as
apepper pod, by being hitchsd on to politi.
caIly, by the Major, the old mother Of the
flock; they are all perfectly under bis com
troll, and it is rank Treason, when the Major
takes snuff, il all the RAIDS do not sneeze;
and If be says a erow is white, they all won.
been made before, and so on uutil the end
A. A. SARGENT,
Crocker's candidate for Congress, has been
here, and made speech-and such speech
it would have done credit to a graduate
Of a reform school-so devoid Of truth was
it, with the ''same old song" Of Seymour
and his friends" which was nicely sandwich
ed in. and good deal about the "Rsbsls
and War;" and the Boys in blue" who
whipped the Copperheads at Vicksburg."
etc, and so on until he exhausted the Mon
grsl vocabulary, and was himself nearly 10
The same condition
This man Sargent pretends to be miner.
and the miners friend lie 10 about as
much miner as the Devil is a christian,
or about as mach friend OF miners as the
Pope Of Rome is lunatic. He is the can
ddate of the Central Pacific Railroad Co.
aad worked for them and their interests
when las. in Congress, and against the miner
and working man, in every thing he did.