Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-06
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tives, has had the effect to arouse the Sacra-
mentans to a sense of the importance of inn
mediate action on their part, if they would
secure the western terminus Of the Central
road at Sacramento. 1t is important that
/ thepeople of Marysville should also be awake
upon this subject. The Sacramento Union
is doing all 1t can to help on a plan gotten
! up 10y I. d. Judah, of the Folsom and Sacra'
mento Railroad Co. We do not know pei
sonally. but we are informed that Capt Ju-
dah has landed interest, projected town
plot or a something of that kind on the line
upon which he desires the rails of the Cen
trail road to run on its way to Sacramento,
Be that as it may, he is for some reason ex-
oeedingly anxious,-as he has right of
course to be-to have a California Company
organized and ready to meet the Central
Road as it comes to the border of the State,
thinking that the organization of such a
Company would decide the terminus in favor
of the route chosen by this Company. Now,
the route selected by Capt. Judah leaves
Marysyile entirely ont of the question, not
withstanding he has selected the Marysville
OF Henness Pass Che calls it Truckee Pass) as
the best pass for the road. He is undeubt-
edly correct in selecting this pass as the low
est, although the Sacram en- tans long contend
ed that the johnson Pass was eminently
practicable and tried their best to ignore the
Henness Pass altogether. The Sacramento
Union and Capt. Judah, and all the rest
now quietly acquiesce in the stubborn fact
that there is no pass to compare with the
Henness in advantages for a road and that
the Central Road must run through it, if the
object be to have the best pass through the
Sierra Nevada. They are conquered then
on that long contested proposition between
themselves and us. Having accepted our
pass as the best, they now propose to organ
ize Company upon line that leaves Marys
willie away to the North, and runs along down
by Dutch Flat and the foothills and Auburn
and one place or another, in the most circu-
itous route ever projected in the State. To
all this we have no shadow of objection. But
it demonstrates that the Sacramentans, when
they denounced the Henness Pass route and
"cracked up" the Johnson, were actuated
more 10y n fear that Marysville would be
benefited than by any very particular re-
gard for the logic of facts.
Secure in our geographical position, we
need not fear being wiped out" by Sacra-
meuto, if we are only true to our interests.
And how shall we be true? BY encourage
ing those enterprises which benefit our own
city. We ought to have nothing to do with
this projected Company Of Capt. Judahs and
the Sacramento Union. They can have n
road to the Henness or Marysville or Scott
Pass (for it was Engineer Scott, of the San
Francisco and Marysville Railroad, who first
placed its merits before the people by actual
survey and zee can have our road-a contin-
uation of the San Francisco and Marysyille
Rairoad-to the same Pass. We are on the
line of the most direct route that can posi-
bly, be made from the Henness Pass to San
| Francisco, and that is the point to be reached
by the Pacific Railroad; saving Of a hundred
and fifty miles, at least, will be effected by
taking the Marysville road, in preference to
the cireuitous route by Sacramento No
man arriving at the Henness Pass, from the
Atlantic border, and finding q road direct to
San Francisco, would care whether it ran
through Sacramento or Marysyille, but
would take the shorter route, of course.
| hava hot if
| choose to have it, and We consider no man q
friend to Marysville who would help the
project of Capt. Judah and the Sacramento
Union. We don't dispute their right to go
on with the work, but the people of Marys-
vile ought to have sense enough to look to
their own interests, and to take advantage of
their superior and vastly important geOgraph-
ical position.
The necessity of immediate attention to
this subject,-and we trust we shall have
the attention of intelligent citizens-is mani
feft, when it is considered that the Curtis Pa
cifc Railroad Bill will almost undoubtedly
The Senate has already, on two or three oc-
casions, approved this very measure, lin its
essentially and cannot foil to approve the bill
in its present shape, unless some unlooked-for
circumstance occurs. The. bill provides for
two roads, a Southern and q Central OF
course our interest lies with the Central
more particularly. Now, ought we not to
organize for a road direct to the Henness
Pass, in order to secure the route of the
grand trunk through our city to San Francis
COZ We shall have such road, soon after
the completion of the San Francisco and
Marysyille Railroad, but ought we not no,O
in the nick of time, to be moving in the mat
ter?
If we do not do this, and propose to lend
our aid to any project at all, should we not
lend it to the Oroville Company, who pur-
pose building a road through Mobiles Pass,
connecting with the Central, and running
through Oroville down to Marysville Bet
ter do this, by far, than quietly to allow the
Judah and Sacramento Union project to
throw Marysyille aside.
We hope that citizens interested in the
welfare of Marysville will be alive to this
matter; and we shall hold our columns open
to all who may desire to be heard upon the
subject Let us not be supine on a question
of such exceeding importance to the future of
our well beloved city.
A delegation of the Stockbridge Indians,
formerly Of New York, now of Wisconsin,