Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-08
NTarvsvIlIe Library.

We have already reported in our published
proceedings of the City Council, on Monday
night. the virtual consummation of the trans
fer of this valuable library to the City of
Marysville, by the Marysville Library Asso.
citation. Nothing remains but the signatures
of the Mayor and Committee of Ways and
Means to the deed of transfer, which requires
the city to furnish suitable room for the
library, employ librarian and add Ger.
tain number of volumes to the institution
yearly. a room is to be fitted up in the City
Hall as soon as possible (the sooner the bet
ter) and the library is to be thrown open to
the citizens with only such reasonable guards
and restrictions as are necessary The libra
ry thus becomes the property of the city
for the use and benefit of all classes of the
people who may choose to visit it, and it is to
be in every sense Of the word free library.
The expenses of maintaining it will not be
more than five or six hundred dollars a year,
and certainly the advantages to be derived
from it are not to be measured in comparison
with any such meagre expenditure. Were
the sum twice as large it would be well laid
olt.
The Council has done itself credit in ac.
cepting this library Notwithstanding its at
tendant expense and has, we believe, reflect
ed the views and wishes of the people Here
we have the foundation for a magnificent
and, hereafter to be, celebrated institution.
With some five thousand volumes of stand.
ard works already on hand to be added to,
as per deed of transfer, in the amount 1--WE
believe) of two hundred and fifty dollars
worth of books annually by the city, together
with such outside donations as may be made
to it from time to time, such as "the McCorkle
library" already included in it under the old
regime, it must necessarily steadily grow and
increase until it becomes most noble mon
ument to the liberality and intelligence of
the enterprising little "City of the Buttes."
From the time that our Honorable and
most worthy Mayor-thereby justifying his
reputation rs a man of intellect, taste and re-
recommended the acceptance
of this library at the hands of the Associa-
ton which rendered it, there has been an un-
common anxiety, in the minds of large class
If intelligent citizens, lest the Council. out of
motives of economy, might finally
'efuse to take control of the institution;
md this fear seemed to be justified by the
ong delay attending the action of the Coun-
Ill upon it. The disappointment to this class
If the community had the Council rejected
he offer, would have been very great, for it
would have sounded the death knell of the
the books would have been sold
at sacrifice, the library broken up, and in
.he reason that there had come lethargic
ceiling over the minds of the originators and
supporters of the institution, a reluctance on
he part of the latter to pay their dues, and
. sort of dissatisfaction in the public mind
hat the Association could not afford to keep
the library open at more frequent periods
The Council stepped in at an opportuue mo
ment, saved from destruction most valuable |
destruction as complete as If
bonfire had been made of the whole collec-
placed at once, upon a firm basis,
an establishment the incacuable mental and |
moral benefits of which will be felt to distant
In the name of the intelligence and refined
sentiment of the people of this city, we feel
ike thanking the City Council for their ac-
ion in this matter, and vote them wreath
Of amaranth, to be hung up, as a memorial of
their moral and intellectual worth, among
the worthiest of the type-embalmed heroes
who have deserved well of their country
and who may chance to adorn and hallow the
classic walls of the Marysville Library.