Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-05-07
THE MARYsvILLE CoNvENrIoN.-Weh had

The MARYsvILLE CONVENTION. We had
intended to publish the proceedings of the
Marysville Convention. but as it degenerated
into an assemblage of selfish and unprinci-
pied toll .gatherers, who look only at the
Almighty dollar" to be left at their toll
gates by the immigration, we have conclud-
ed to leave the publication Of their doings
to their organs, which for the sake of local
interests, are willing to practise base and
criminal imposition upon the overland i'm
migration. The route adopted by this as
semblage of greedy toll -gatherers, is one
that would turn the immigration from Indian
Valley, back into the mountains, and thro'
the Feather river mountains, for sixty or
seventy miles, in order that they may con-
tribute to the profits of the toll-roads and
bridge Of Plumas, Sierra, Yuba and Butte,
and that Marysville may be the terminus.
and this, too, while it is said, that most of
them were willing to admit, that they were
not selecting the most feasible route. The
exhibition of such spirit, upon question
affecting the overland immigration, Is IN our
estimation, disreputable in the extreme,
and we can only denouncc the imposition,
and cry shame upon the spirit that would
turn the weary immigrant from the best and
nearest route, in order to exact toll, to pick
the IRONS Of his broken wagon, to secure his
exhausted stock, as it drops by the mountain
wayside, and to profit generally oy the
msortunes inflicted by mountainous
route
Place the immigrant in the American Val
ley, where the action of this convention
leaves him, and he cannot find feed for his
stock without the payment of rancho fees,
and from whence he cannot escape Except
by retracing his steps to Indian Valley
without traversing toll-roads or toll bridges
1t Is by a combination Of such interests that
the result of the convention was arrived at,
and they could not bring it below the Amer
lean Valley, because the piundering inter
ess that combined to entrap the immigra-
ton, could not do so, without creating dis
sensions among themselves.
We had hoped this convention would have
been governed by desire to secure the
nearest aud most feasible route for an immi-
grant road from Honey Lake We have
been disappointed however. They have
thrown aside the report of Messrs. Gamble
and King, and declared in favor of routes
which have nothing to recommend them
but the interests of toll bridges, and the
fact that they lead to particular locality.
If there was anything but unprncipled self
ishncss, and a disposition to impose "a noun
famous and toll-road and bridge route upon
a weary and exhausted immigration, in the
action Of the convention, we have failed to
discover it, and while we have n voice te
raise, or type to handle, We will denounce
the base and unprinciplcd imposition, and
direct the finger of scorn AGAINST those who
have thus trifed with the interests Of north
ern California
Seven Of the twelve commissioners, ap-
pointed by the convention, to survey and
locate the road to the American Valley, we
know to he interested in toll-roa1s and
bri lges below that point, and doubtless all
of them are, if the truth was known