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98 JUNE 16, 1863 NEVADA TRANSCRIPT
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1863
A correspondent from You Bet sends us the following, dated June 14th.
Last evening I wandered away from our usually quiet village, a little curious to know what
was astir outside of You Bet. I had not long been perambulating when I found my course
directed towards Red Dog, whither I concluded to go. As I neared the place I discovered small
groups of people collected in various parts of the town apparently conversing, which gave it
amore lively appearance than usual. It being a beautiful Saturday eve, I thought perhaps the
miners from the suburbs had come into town to get their weekly budget of news—or perhaps
the telegraph had brought some wholesome news from the seat of war—or that some of them
were “subjects” that officer Combs had summoned to appear before his honor Judge McGoun,
as legal actions have been quite firm and very active in the vicinity of Red Dog the last few
weeks.
I entered Main street with such things revolving in my mind as to the cause of these little
gatherings, when my attention was directed to a boy ringing a bell and shouting at the top
of his voice, “Democratic mass meeting at the Pavillion Hotel tonight—rush up everybody.”
Many did rush up, your humble servant among the rest, curious to see and hear the thing called
Democracy. There convened was the real secesh and peace Democrats alias copperhead,
alias Yankee-secesh, together with some of our adopted fellow citizens working together as
harmoniously as harpstrings, for a more vigorous prosecution of the war, a/ /a Vallandigham,
Wood & Co.
I was somewhat surprised to see those there that I had often heard declare themselves
unconditional Union men, and went away with the conviction that if there was a difference
between a secesh and a copperhead sympathizer, that difference had been cancelled; that the
greater had swallowed up the smaller and cast it forth among the people, all secesh. So far as
this township is concerned the fusion is complete as a list of delegates will fully show. They are
as follows as near as I can recollect.
Red Dog, E. J. Cook, John Hussey and John Durham. You Bet, J. E.Jones and Wm. Reed.
Pleasant Valley, Wm. Greenwell. Little York ridge was left out in the cold, because they don’t
grow that kind of timber over there. Those from Hunt’s and Quaker Hill I have forgotten, and
here the list ends, made up of secesh, peace, copperhead Democracy. Is there a doubt as to the
fusion being complete? Does it not look so to a man up a tree?
THE CHEROKEES.—John Ross chief of the Cherokee Nation, writes to the Indian Bureau that
a special Cherokee Council held at Cow-Skin Prairie decreed a severance of all connection with the
Rebels, and the abolishment of slavery. A delegation of which John Ross is chairman had been sent to
Washington, to renew treaties and petition that the Cherokees may be removed to their own country.
MARRIED. On the 13th inst., by Rev. John B. Hill, William B. Davidson, City Marshal, to Miss
Elizabeth Fitzgerald, all of Nevada.
UNION COUNTY CONVENTION.—The convention met at the Theatre yesterday, nominated
fourteen delegates to the State convention, and elected a County Central Committee. ...
CENTRAL COMMITTEE—Nevada—J. C. Birdseye, H. Philip, G. W. Yant, T. P. Hawley.
Grass Valley—L. R. Sowers, J. W. Rule, E. W. Roberts.
Bridgeport—D. W. Dannals, I. Crawford.
Rough & Ready—A. A. Smith.
Eureka—J. A. Stanley.