Butte record., 1856-12-06


and brother cannibal, John China
man. In his next communication he
promises to show them how to avoid
a result so disastrous as that depicted
above. We shall await the appear
ance of his next article with some
anxiety.
1t has always seemed to us that
AIarysville permitted the golden op-
portunity to pass, when she declin-
ed acceding to the proposition of the
Sacramento Valley Railroad Com
pany. Had that road been complet-
ed to Marysville, instead of Folsom,
Marysville would have now doubled
her present size, city property in
stead of being estimated as it now is
at five millions of dollars, would have
been up to ten or fifteen millions, and
in her streets would have centered
the business of all upper California.
But that road did not suit the Ma
rysville people. They did not con-
troll the company, and they evidently
feared that the road might be ulti-
mately extended farther north, and
they desired something that would
make its eternal terminus at Marys-
vile. Consequently they concluded
to build railroad from Benicia to
Marysville. While they are doing
so upon paper, the Sacramento road
has been completed to Folsom, and
has start that must ultimately ami
hilate Marysville, unless its contem-
plated course can be changed so as
make MarYsville a point. After the
failure of the Benicia road, Marys-
vile built road to Knights Ferry,
on the Sacramento River. They
have always declined cooperating =
with others, in any undertaking of
the kind, and appear to be unable to
accomplish anything by their own
effort. 1t would be a good idea for
Marysville to drop all visionary
schemes Of railways to Benica, and
knights Ferry, and wagon roads by
the Brophy pass and Henness route,
and extend the Sacramento road to
that point. They may then prevent
its further extension to the young
giant of the North, if they can.
The IRISH News is among the
most interesting and ably conducted
journals published in the United
States. Its Editor is Thomas Fran
els Meagher, one Of those distin-
guished patriots who, together with
Smith O'Brien, John Mitchell and
others, was banished from his native
land for the crime of entertaining
and attempting to advance principles
of liberty and love Of country, as
against the political despots who have
50 long oppressed the unfortunate
people of Ireland. That a highly ed
ucated man of genius who has expe-
rienced all the injustice and oppres-
sion that was heaped upon the devot-
ed heads of those noble champions of
freedom, should be qualified to write
with feeling and mastery ability up
on favorite theme, is to be expected,
and Meagher, Mitchell, and the rest
who write for the News and Citizen,
give ample, conclusive proof of their
fidelity to the cause they have es-
poused and their extraordinary capa-
bilities as expounders Of their views.
Irishmen are proyerbially eloquent,
and their rich stores of poetic thought
and sentiment and amazing command
of language, mark them at once as
the most brilliant orators and grace
full. writer's in the world. Well and
truly have these gifted men battled
for the cause Of Democracy and the
Union during the late contest, and
now that the battle has been fought
and won, most eloquently and touch
ingly do they utter their rejoicimgs,
that their adopted land is yet safe
from anarchy and civil war.
The sentiments they speak are
worthy of them, exiles as they are
from their native land, for daring to
breathe them there. Their sincerity
in the principles they profess is fully
shown by their adherence to and ad-
vocacy of the true principles of De-
mocracv. The fanatical precepts