The Placer Herald

Gold Run Correspondence,
Gold Run, Aug. 2nd, 1867.
The weather has been unusually warm here for the past week The Thermometer ranging from 96 to 104 degrees. Iced drinks have been called into frequent requisition, to the great satisfaction of our bar keepers.
Politically every thing is lively, and if the Mongrel Goose is not slightly elevated on the 4th day of next September, then set me down as a false prophet.
We were regaled a few evenings since with a chaste, fastidious lecture upon the negro, by a Mr. Brown of Pugilistic notoriety. He demonstrated the negro's claims to the rights of suffrage, &c. He also dissected the whole Chinese race, and entered into a learned dissertation upon the physical organization of our embryo Celestial Citizens, and found certain physical disqualifications, which renders them unfit to enjoy to the fullest extent the rights of American Citizenship. The speaker was afraid that by amalgamation either one race or the other would become extinct, he was not positive which race. This was the learned gentleman's principal reason for not wishing them to become Citizens.
But his heaviest tilt was at the Foreigners. He charged that a large number of them had been fraudulently voting for years, and that the Registry Law was so demonstrating that fact, by large numbers of them coming forward and getting naturalized. He said that there was 1000 foreign votes now on the Great Register, and that 740 of them were Democrats, and had been voting for years without being entitled to do so. This is rather a serious charge, and casts a stigma upon our Foreign Citizens which is to say the least of it, rather hard to bear. How does Mr. Brown know so much about these 1000 Foreigners, and that they have all been such scoundrels and perjurers. They may have all been just as much entitled to vote as Mr. Brown before the Registry Law disfranchised them, and swindled them out of their votes. If I mistake not the shadows which coming events have thrown before them, Mr. Brown will find he will never preside over the High Court of Dutch Flat, if these same foreigners have any voice in the matter. Such men as Brown and Norton do the cause of Democracy more good than the most eloquent men we could send out. Their abuse and vilification, are better advocates for our cause than the most soul stirring peans which could be sung in its praise. These fellows disgust all decent and sensible men, with their obscene, rough and untruthful rantings, they are great Evangelists, and we hope they will be untiring in their zeal until the Election, for we will then reap the fruits of their labors.
It is a sad sight to see Pat. Munday, in his attempts to fit himself to his new harness. Ah Pat. Pat, it is a lame stick upon which you are leaning, it will break and let you down shortly, and you will be buried beneath the debris which now surrounds you and like Booth, no stone will mark the place of your burial or epitaph transmit your name to posterity, such is bound to be the fate of all false Teachers. The Gorhamites free train was tolerably well loaded at this place and Dutch Flat, a large number of democrats and anti Gorham men availed themselves of the opportunity to take a free ride and see the little swindler, who lobbied a bill through the Legislature larger than himself, and which is now making him sweat at every pore in attempted vindications Oh Georgy, the road of the transgressor is hard, and we see that your case is no exception to the general rule. You can't make the people believe that two and two are not four, neither can you make them believe that you did not intend to rob the State of 7 or 8 millions of dollars, by your swindling Railroad and tide land schemes, or that you will not consummate your former swindling operations if elected Governor. You can't fool the people my little fox. The Railroad folks don't give free rides for no purpose. If you are elected Governor of this State, the Bank of California, the C. P. R. R, the Western Pacific Railroad, and the California Steam Navigation Co's will be the powers behind the throne which will issue their imperial dictums through you, and make the poor, over burdened tax-payers of this State sweat drops of blood, to pay for the privilege of taking them to and fro to your meetings.
It has been said by some quaint author that "Fools make feasts and wise men eat them." But in this particular case I think there should be a new rendering of this true ism, it should read thus: "Knaves make feasts and fools partake of them." For these free Gorham rides will yet give many a tax-payer the dyspepsia before they are paid for.
I see that Selkirk has turned his pop gun on Billy Crutcher, well it is a formidable weapon for slang. Selkirk must have been educated in a fish womans hovel, he is so well versed in all the low billingsgate of that class of humanity. Well Billy dont fret badly about it, every time Selkirk puts in, it only looses Mr. Neff votes. If I were on the Mongrel ticket, I would pray to be saved from my friends, such as Selkirk.
Mr. James Holmes, a very estimable Citizen, met with a sad accident, by loosing his little daughter a few days ago. The little girl accidentally fell into a pan of boiling water which was sitting on the floor at the time, and was so badly scalded that she only survived the occurrence a few hours. The child was one of great promise, and unusually bright and interesting, and was the idol of its parents. They feel its loss very much as well as others who were used on their visits to listen to its innocent happy voice now hushed in death. We all sincerely condole with the family in their affliction.
Yours Truly,
OLD GUARD.