Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-22

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Henncss Pass, or the new Pass little South
of the latter, recently discovered The dis
tance from Marysville, via thetwo last named
passes, to the Humboldt, is less than the dis
tance from the Humboldt 10 Placerville, tC
say nothing of Sacramento, and yet this sec
tion of the country is compelled to wait unit
the mail can be transported all the way a
round | y Genoa, Placerville and Sacramento
and along the windings of the Yuba river, be.
fore the mail can reach u.s. The mails ought
on the contrary, to reach us sooner than they
regard to Shasta. A direct mail route from
Shasta through Mobiles Pass to the Humboldt
or Salt Lake would be a saving to Shasta,
Siskiyou, Trinity and those Northern coun-
ties of hundreds of miles of distance and
weeks of time. Even an ntersecting mail
line from the Salt Lake line to Marysville
only would be consummaton much to be
desired by the counties alluded to. If Gov
ernment money is to be expended, let it be
expended in answering great necessity of
the entire North, instead of merely opening
an emigrant road for the especial benefit of
Sacramento. As for this section of the coun.
try, we ask no assistance from Government
in the matter of inducing immigration ria
Honey Lake or the Henness or adjacent Pass,
because nature has done so much for us that
we can do the balance for ourselves All that
we demand is that, having a direct natural
route from our own section to the Humboldt,
over which the mail can be transported the
! Government shall not refuse us the benefit of
appropriations for the especial purpose of
having these mail facilities established. We
hope that our Yuba delegation in the Legis-
lature will take this matter in hand, examine
the subject, spend some time on it, and obtain
the passage of a Resolution calling the atten
tion of Congress to some immediate and spe-
eifc action in regard to the object in view
Had the necessity of this thing been suffi-
ciently urged upon Congress, at the last ses-
sion, the requisite appropriations would have
been made. They should certainly be made
at this session, and, if they are not, after a
fair presentation of the facts before Congress
we shall consider that the charge of favorit
ism, on the part of the Government, to the
Southern sections of the State, is well founded
Now, that we come to recollect the history
of the General Post Office Bill, of the last
session. we believe that provisions for several
routes partially of the kind alluded to in our
remarks above, were actually inserted in the
bill. But, if they were not stricken out,
they remained Intellectual, from the neglect of
the Government to put mail service upon
them. These routes were
First A route from Rabbit Creek, Sierra
county, pia Quincy and the American and In.
dian Valleys. to Susanville in Honey Lake
Valley mail to be weekly. This would be
the Marysville Route.
Second: From Bidwels Bar, Butte coun-
ty, to Susanville, in Honey Lake Valley
mail to be weekly. This would be the Orc.
vile Route.
Third From Shasta City, Shasta county,
to Susanyille; mail to be weekly. This, of
course, would be known as the Shasta Route
These routes are well enough so far as they
go, but the main idea is to have a mail line
directly intersecting the Salt Lake and Pla-
cerville Route, so that the Overland mails de-
signed for Shasta, Oroyille and Marysville,
may branch off from the Salt Lake Road at
whatever point a direct line from Mobiles
Pass would strike. The mails, too, should be
semi-weekly instead Of weekly.
What Marysville particularly DESIRES and
what she should have, is mail line straight
to the Sink of the Humboldt, or some other
point intersecting the Central Overland route,
to run as follows: lst, to Downieville; ID, to
the Sierra Valley; Sd, to the Sink of the
| Humboldt, or other convenient point
turnpike road is now being constructed from
here to Downieville. That point therefore i:
settled A road will be constructed-prepa
rations being made for it-from Downievill'
to Sierra Valley. through the lowest noun
tain pass in the whole range of the Sierra Ne
vada, to wit pass near the South Fork o.
the North Yuba, known, we believe, as the
"Yuba Pass" pass which IS open at all sea
sous of the year That point is therefore set
tied again. Thirdly, the route from Sierra
Valley to the Sink of the Humboldt is al
ready a good natural stage road. Stage:
could be run from the Sink Of the Humboldt
straight to Marysville over this route in less
time than they could make the trip from that
Sink to Placerville.
The path of duty, under such circumstan
ces as these, would seem to be plain before
our Legislature, and could be made equally
plain before Congress. Let our Yuba dele
CATION urge through Resolution calling up.
on Congress for the immediate establishment
of branch mail line from Marysville to the
Sink of the Humboldt Tor other equally good
point over the route we have above indica.
ted. Let the whole North demand it with
one voice, as their right, and the object will
be accomplished. After the Branch Line is
established, there will be no difficulty about
selecting the distributing points for Oroville,
Shasta and other places.
Esy- Catharine Annie Kettell has sued her
husband for divorce, in Sacramento coun-
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