Butte record., 1856-04-19
Valley Correspondence.
SEBAsropoL, West Side F. River, }
Butte Co., April 9th, 1856. (

MR. EDITOR:
Dear Sir-In the last is.
sue of your usually fair ard independent
paper, find two very great erfsr., to
call them by no har.her names. You
say that the last slice the legislature has
taken of of our end Of the county, as
near az you can learn, fixes our Inns a.
Hamilton, which would leave Us about
fifty PAGES on this side of the river in
Butte County. New be it known to you
sir, that said line is at Mud Creek, about
thre. miles beyond Maj. Bidwells, leav-
lug US yet more tsrritsry than the great
State of Bangor, or Little Rhoda, or
both. And be it also known to you, sir :,
that within the aforesaid territory is en-
braced Butte Creek, West Branch,
Frsnch,own; Cherokee, Oregon, Morris
Rav.ns, Thompson's Flat, and divers
other places, with all the successful
Quartz Mills in the county, beside tho
two Table Mountains, which have proved
to be equally as rich in their deposits Of
gold, sosp, pan cakes and molas,es and
coal, as the celebrated Table Mountains
Of the Southern mines. see no rea-
son, as this is to ke & fee fight for the
county seat, why we should not present
our ella ms 10 the electors for the honor.
Having the county seat located at any
Of our towns would be no pa. ticular ad>
vantage 30 "a, hut il would be 10 county
officers. Editors. Doctors and Lawyers,
for anywhere among the Table Msun-
ia ns, YOU could raise a horse OF steer,
until he was three years old, with less
expense than YOU could chicken either
in LynchSurg, "IIolo in the ground" or
Orovile-common chickens st that, to
ssy nothing Of the great overgrown
Shanghais yon have for ne1. seor-ysrd
nsighbors. We think it rather unkind
in you also, to praise your Inverted
hat' Of a place by trying to disparage
US, by in,imating that We are covered
by Spanish Grants. It may bs tras that
our neighbors below, and across the river
are in danger of falling into the hands of
the Philistines, by having kind Of a
"Limantour" trumped on them. But,
sir, do you suppose that US free Ansri-
can. aud miners, en- and around these
table mountains, after just discovering
their rich deposits, strapped. by waiting
a year at ether places l mention no
Names for water. that We woullbs afraid
of having good tillcs' Do you suppose
that, with few seventy-four Founders
bristling from the battlenents, over
hanging Thomp.on's Fiat, with thous-
ands of hard-g'azod rock piled up ready
for loading, with any quantity Of Flap
Jacks and molassss in the basin below,
with few bloody furriners with shela-
lahs as kind of reserve, that any grant
holder, agent, or even Gen. " TOOL. would
venture within four miles of US to die
turb us in our titles We think not
we presume not-we reckon not. But
to the pin.. Down here it i. currently
reported, and generally believe that
some clique or sanhsdrlm have entered
into an arrangement with one Of our cit
liens, that he is to carry all the votes
for Oroville, in consideration for whieh
he is to be made County Judge. Now
in short, We are opposed to all such bar
gains and sales, and no threats of future
punishment nor hopes Of reward, can
make US consent to have any county
Judge from this side of the river. We
spurn such "powsrfal inhueness"
Give yourself no further uneaslness
about our towns being covered with
Spanish claims, unless semc Ewing or
Corwin pulls the wsol over the Supreme
Courts eyes, 4, they did in the Galpin
and Dentists Spanish mining claims.
And who knows if they do bat they will
float ono up and k,rtr the wire Bridge j;
Error No. 2, is when you say that the
Ki-yiss and Grasshoppers are eontsmp-
erancous scouTges. This season, We
have none Of the latter, but still a sprink-
ling Of the true blues. Fact is there
has been split in our order, for after
many frivolous conversations, and ress-
lutions, and platforms, in which part Of
us we're engaged in milking the ram
while the rest Of US were holding the
pail" when 4 part wanted to substitute
'.Abelitions shall rule America" and
"NoEs bu. Negroes on guard tonight"
for our old wsll-known rallying cries
rather than Withstand
1.-THE worlds dread laugh
Which scarce the stern philosophers can scsrn,
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