The Nevada journal., 1860-02-24
Correspondence Of the Joarnal.

ter resource TO drive away the tedI7m
of six hours trip on a Martsville
boat, than to tell you few Of the
matters observed on my way here,
from our fogy town. Stage riding,
you know, is the pnrgatory we have
to pass through to get to the lower
paradise-if that is fair comparison,
where we leave bright, warm skies,
and cheerful nature, for clouds and
fogs, and penetrating winds. The
trip from Nevada to Marysville, al
ways disagreeable, is now rendered
ten-fold moro so by detour the stage
takes from the Empire ranch, to pass
through Smartsville and Tinlbueto.
The old telegraph road in so was not
a circumstance to the rough, hilly.
rocky, corduroy route, through and
over which you are now jolted and
twisted and rubbed, after leaving the
old road, till you strike it again. !
can remember no other incident in my
history SO physically exciting as this
recent rough and tamble fight with
ruts and boulders, unless it may be a
ride / once took out of Marysvil.e on
y nag rejoicing in cross between a
pile driver and an Internal machine.
But l can't say the trip was uninter-
esting, for it opened up to me new
country. Smartsville is a smart little
village of about forty houses of all
kinds, most of which are new and of
vivid whiteness, and the place has the
air peculiar to new California towns,
of briskness and enterprise. The
place. as well as Timbucto, is supplied
with abundant water by large d;tehes,
and some fine fumes line the road.
overhowing with the yellow waters of
Deer Greek and the South Yaba.
Timbucto is asmuch larger place
having several fire-proof stores, and a
considerable population. 1t being
Sunday and noon, when we passed
through, the main street was crowded
with blue shirts and black coats, the
o#ers of which soon pressed towards
the building where the express box
was passed ont to see the novel Incl
dent of the arrival and departure of a
stage. The hills aronnd Timbucto
are deeply SCARED by hydraulic mill
ing. and immense bodies of tailings
are discharged into the Yuba just be-
low. Several failing fumes looked
as if the owners ought to have a good
thing. 1 noticed one large one, the
false bottoms of which were of slate,
seemingly not only durable. but pecu-
liarly fitted for saving gold. We rat
tied into Maryssiile about four O'Clock
and resigned myself to the hospita-
Bile attentions Of mine host of the St.
Nicholas. In the evening, after
searching for half an hour for a
church. bringing up first at the coll
ored Baptist, | made my way into a
chapel, next to which is a superb
church building for the same congre-
gation-Congregational, | believe. l
did not enqaire the name of the
preacher, but the discourse was ex-
cellent. The choir was a simple
quartette, with melodeon accompany
ment, and The music was. to my ear,
charming.
This morning, at o'clock, on board
the boat for Sacramento. The boat
lay about a mile below the city, the
river being so low that no nearer ~
proach is possible-and this in Febru-
ary! Marysville will have to COM
plete its railroad soon, or move down
stream. AS / read the face of the
country, the only advantage that Ma
rysville has had heretofore over any
other point above Sacramento has
been in the fact that a navigable riv-
er washed by it. Close up that ave-
nue. of commerce, and what is left !?
Any other place on the plains can as
readily be reached by a railroad.
Why should men give five thousand
dollars for an hundred foot lot on the
spot where the city stands, rather than
one-eighth of the amount at Oroville,
or some point lower down the river,
or nearer the foot hills A Benicia
road would make Marysville a great
city, because it would enable it to tap
a vast trade it does not have at pres
ent. and to keep fast all it row has;
but a road ria Sacramento, Auburn
and Lincoln, will make Marysville a
pensionary of Sacramento forever.
All that Sacramento would have to do
after the finishing of that road. to
" finish Marysville, would be to help
build one through Auburn to Nevada.
and then it would become to Nevada,
Sierra, Upper Yuba. etc., as it now is
to EIDorade and Placer-what San
Francisco is 10 the State. The Lin
coin road viii Undoubtedly be carried
on TO Oroville, for the country is a
continuous level. and the cost of gra'
ding will be insignificant. How Ma
rysville ciphers out its own interests
in all these movements puzzles my
comprehension. Is it asleep, while
the rest of the world rushes by it
shall excuse your devil if he mis-
prints this, for it is written in pencil,
on boat that jumps with every throt