Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-02-11


Airy and light, and high above the food
it spans, hangs our famous bridge, and
g. Like a cloud,
Seems standing in mid air."
But it don't, although we have avafled our
self Of the poetic license, (wh:ch is allowable,
| if others are noD and intimated that the
bridge rested on It's own resources. 1t has
its firm support from ropes OF wire, which
were pulled together with others,) in
direction that eventually made the structure
what ID is Over buttresses on either side
the stream, stretch the iron ropes, and over
all, there hangs-a law suit-or so Dame
Rumor says, and out of respect to that I'M
protected female, we forbear expressions of
disbelief, even If We had asy. Bob, and
George, and the two Joes, planned its build
ing, and in time, let out o contract for tie
purpose, and the contractor came and
brought workmen with him; blacksmiths,
carpenters and masons he brought wire
pullers to, and his employers having learned
that latter trade, kept watch upon the work.
ers, and helped to pull the wires, but they
and the contractor didn't pull together, and
to decide which was the proper direction to
pull in, old Mrs Rumor seys they've gone
to law
| Cotemporaneously with the building of the
bridge, the time had come when the powers
to whom poor Savage had applied for leave
to run ferry, should give way to others,
and they did give way oil but one, and he
sat with his newly elected conductors, and
settled the affairs Of his county for better
or worse. Hope had revived again in the
Savage breast, and visions of ferry boats and
strong ropes, and 1.-THE paying travellers,
danced through his head, and in his delu
sion, he made it known that he should pray
again, to the new-made guardians of the
commonwealth. for aid and succOr in his be-
half But more of this anon.
Our story opens in Bidwe!rs Bar, which
hamlet, we have said, stands as n monument
of the uncertain location of shire towns, and
SO indeed it does, for in its long gone days of
glory, courts were held there, and great,
momentous questions were decided in its
halls of Justice The proud form of its Tenn
pie of Astrea still rears its classic beauty
and majesty, high on the hill that over-l looks
the the town, and deserted as it now is,
strange tales ure told to wondering ears of
suicides committed within its dungeons, for
coupled with it is gaol,) and Of doomed
men whose bitterness and woe have erst been
that occupy those cells, and blind Justice
was led from out its hall, and to newer
and better abode. At very respectable
distance from the blind Goddess, came her
wary agent, ice; but the twain did disa.
gree, and seldom consulted one another, ex-
cept on matters that pertained to busine s,
and even then, the truant Joe too often gave
no heed to his MISTRESS appeals, but he too
went it blind, and pleased himself.
In the same house where Mademoiselle
Justice is said to abide, sit the deities who
have control of ferries, roads and bridges,
and there, too, lives honest John, the chain
bearer, a worthy man, with the fear of God
before his eyes, and some of the Judges kale
seed in his pocket AND he, too, plays his
part. but modestly, ard well, as we shall
see in future.
We said that hope returned to Savage. 1t
did The denizens of Ophir, through whose
clamor Bidwell was robbed Of its grandeur
as q shire-to town, and their town elected in
its stead, co -leagued with Savage, and with
many kindly words of encouragement urged
him to Ego in" under an assumed name,
(that Of Lemons) and ask again for right to
/ do business upon the waters The little
cloud that had arisen in the horizon of the
mighty four Bob, end George, and the two
Joes,) at first no bigger than rich mans
hand, Savage had been one Of war ships
crew. grew larger and denser, and distant
murm arings gave Indications Of On ap-
preaching tempest, that might, perchance,
stir up the placid waters near the Bridge Of
Size. and possibly eapsize the structure it.
self But the fearless Joe saw nothing in
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