The weekly Butte record., 1862-01-25

= MARYsv1LLE AND ORovILLE.-The issues Of
the Marysville papers for the last few days
have noted the departure of the Defiance for
our town, and the Express of the 2lst ndulges
in several remarkable assertions in regard to
the situation of our town,-among the rest are
these" Steamboat departures from this city
to Orovie are unfrequent occurrences to note"
No wonder of it. you Marysvians have bar
ricaded our river to prevent just such occur
rences" by your bulkhead bridges. Again, it
says, "a gentleman who reached this city
about noon yesterday, says that provisions are
very scarce in Oroville, -four in particular, and
saws there was not dozen sacks in town." We
have taken the trouble to make partial in
quiry from two Of our merchants, and they say
that on the 2lst inst, there were over 400
sacks Of -four in three stores of the town to
their knowledge. Again, it says that our
Oroville neighbors have been shut out from
the rude world for the past ten days by small
oceans of water" More particularly, Mr.. Ex-
press by your impossible slough in sight of
your town, and the black game your people
played on US by declaring our river unnaviga-
BILE, when they knew better. Your people don't
appear to be jealous nor nothing, about their
neighbor up this way, you only throw out and
keep up these impediments to travel this way,
to prevent US from getting away from your
" rude world when we get to it over " small
oceans of water )" and when We do by chance
get away from it, you wish to keep us away
from your island ranch BY placing barriers
between US, like the Celestials building a wall
around their dominions to keep off progressive
civilization. We welcome the Defiance, but
we had plenty Of grub of all kinds before she
arrived here. .A
: S1SrT~DAY,s RAIN.-We live in fast coun-
try and do things on the lightning principle
we have competed with and surpassed the
diuyian times spoken of in the Big Book,
about Noah time. We can now stand nearly
double the rain that Uncle Noah required to
float his big ark in. For over sixty days have
We had rain, and scarcely ever in the time,
since the Goth of November, has there been
period of twenty-four hours that it has ceased.
TO stand these things we must truly be a
rising people, inhabiting rising country.
But we still exist amid the disasters and DESC
lations of four successive floods. On WedneS-
day night the water rose here to the exact hight
that it attained at the first food on the 9th of
December. Several cellars were filled, and
others kept dry by pumpipg,-of course, the
damage was not great, as the previous great
food had cleared the way for all ordinary ri
sings. The large boom, at the saw mill, which
has hitherto stood all the high water and rough
breakers, gave way and went on its journey
below, threatening the steamer Defiance, moor
ed in the river about six miles below here, on
that night; but we learn that no accident hap
pened to her from it.
Most of our people vino live in, or occupy
buildings on the north side of Montgomery
street, above Myers, got ready for all chances
by vaeating the premises before night. The wa
ter attained its greatest hight about Il o'clock,
and then rapidly receded, and by the morning
had fallen about six feet, and so continues fall
ing. On Thursday at noon, the wind shifted
to the north, and it cleared off bright beautiful
and COOL On Tuesday and Wednesday it was
very warm for this season Of the year, and the
steady rains that fell during the time has carri-
ed off all the snow in sight, few days since,
upon our mountains.