The weekly Butte record., 1862-03-08

islature pass such a law! Is the Legislature
the creators or the creature Of the Constitution?
These are few Objectionable features of the
bill as recommended by a majority of the Com
mite on County Boundaries. What it was
before being amended, your readers are, per-
haps, now qualified to judge. VIII il pass the
Legislature, aud meet the approval of the
Governor Queia Sdbs. The advocates of
division had a start that secured them one of
the Butte delegation, and the Committee Oh
County Boundaries. They are laboFing with
a zeal worthy Of a good cause. 1t was repre-
sented as an unanimous petition without re-
monstrance, and that is powerful lever in
Legislatures as well as in the body polite"
Your own delegation are divided on the
question. Consequently, Butte County stands
a nullty on an issue affecting her very existence
dependent upon the representations of other
sections to say whether she shall remain intact
upon the map of the State, or be cut down
until nothing remains of her once fair proper
tions but narrow strip of comparatively
WORTHLESS mineral land, for adjoining counties to
quarrel over at annual sessions of the Legisla-
ture. How is it that men whom Butte county
las honored with her confidence and sufrages
can give away thousands of acres of her best
lands, until there is nothing left that is capable
of supporting anything more than transient
and floating mining population :? Unfortunate
Butte Divided and torn by political factions,
and misrepresented in a body where she had
right to look for protection, until there is
naught left but for strangers to cast lots for
her government
Mr.. Printy is untiring in his endeavors to
prevent division. Your other member, Mr.
Cunnard, is equally untiring in his endeavors to
accomplish it. When the advocates of the
integrity of Butte county were being heard
before the committee, Mr. Cunnard was present,
although not a member of the Committee, and
proposed to cut of discussion. The courtesy
entertain the offensive motion of the member
from Chico. The report that Senator Irwin
will vote for division, should the bill come be-
fore the Senate, is We hope, simply another
Candrd.
Gallant little Plumas, however has not for
gotten her paternity, and will oppose the
sacrifcial measure. As before mentioned, the
proposed boundaries of Chico have been
changed, extending a panhandle up to one
corner of Plumas, so that those two counties
may form Senatorial District. This arrange
ment may have captured some who are on the
hunt for places to turn up in the future,
but its thin transparency has aroused the lion
of the House (Mr. Shannon), who will give an
honest and Indignant roar against the proposed
mutilation. He can't see how the present
Legislature can redistrict Butte and Plumas
when the constitution says it shall be done
only once in five years.
If the majority of the people of Butte county
could have heard o. C. Pratt, Esq, denounce
them before the Committee as an extravagant
set who paid no taxes. and from whom the peo-
pie of Chico justly demanded to be cut loose,
they might well have been credulous when told
that it was the identical o. G. Pratt, ESQ,
who is now contesting the payment of his
Butte county taxes in the Supreme Court.
Such is the fact, however. There are other
ranch holders in the same vicinity contesting
the payment of their taxes also. Would it
not be well, for gentlemen who profess to en-
tertain great respect for the Legislature, to
appear before that body with clean hands
upon pure hearts?"
The recent news from the East gives general
satisfaction hereabouts. Some of the Seceshers
think it highly improper for Union men to fire
salutes on the announcement Of victories over
the rebels saying that Government should not
rejoice on such occasions, any more than
parent should rejoice after correcting a child .
Can you see it, readers? immediately on the
receipt of any important information favorable
to the Union, Secesh starts an opposition re-
port. Thus, We receive news that Fort Don
elson has been captured, the seeeshers get up a
report that Burnside has been repuIsed. OF
course they are known to be canards In fact
jeff Davis and his southern confederacy are
candrds. Jeff. is simply personating the MAN
in the moon,' mentioned in the Mother Goose
Melodies. His expected aid from England
renders the parallel good. We quote
The man of the moon came down too soon,
To inquire his way to No,acici, (Engand)
The man of the South he burned his mouth,
Eating Secession porridse.'
If JEFF. is not personating the Man in the
moon," Goose was certainly prophet who
foretold bis advent. Gen. Pillow, the distin-
guished ireeater, who, prior to his evacuation
of Fort Donelson, wanted bis flank and rear
protected, has retreated to the Hot Springs of
Alabama. Their waters will be too hot for
him just before the Union boys arrive there
The Secession papers are becoming the more
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