The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

county will be issued next week, IN which the
number of delegates to which each precinct is
entitled will be given. The Union State Con
ventioc is called to meet at Sacramento Oh
the 25th day of March.
VINO is going to remain in Orovlllef If all
or any considerable portion of those who talk
Of leaving this place carry their designs into
effect. a few months from now will find the
population to consist only of county officials.
Everybody is going somewhere this spring to
make fortune, and there is no use of talking
or trying to reason the case with them-they
all know that it only requires slight effort to
'smake pile" and are all determined to make
rush for some sage brush region" as soon as
spring comes Many persons who have COM
Portable homes, and are doing well enough here,
have taken the mania for feet and are leaving
business aud sacrificing homes and property
under the delusion that they will soon acquire
command of immense wealth, and nothing will
convince them OF their error but sad experience.
Grim-visaged poverty will stare them in the
face and, with broken-down constitutions,
purses as useless as boots to woodenl legged
man, and greasy old pair of blankets across
their backs, they may be seen Struggling down
the western slope OF the Sierra Nevadas. And
then it will be easy enough to realize how much
more sensible it would have been to have
averted it all by staying at home and being
content with an humble though independent
home and competent living
WAGON RoADs-The Sacramento CORES
pondent Of the Appeal, in an article on this
subject, says: with these two highways to
Washoe completed, tapping the great valleys
and timber regions Of the summit, and connect
ing with two lines of railroad at Oroville and
Marysville, Sierra county will experience
marked increase in population, wealth and
public revenue, and be no longer an isolated
corner of the earth. The results to Marysyille
must also be very beneficial" If the compile
.tion of our Railroad is expected to benefit
counties as remote as Sierra, and wake them
up to the construction Of wagon roads, how
much more should our position at the terminus
of the railroad arouse Us to the necessity of
making good roads to points that are naturally
most accessible to US, but whose trade can only
be secured by making this the best as well as
,nearest interior point for trade
WAsHINGroN's BIRrHDAY.-On account OF
the grand Railroad celebration, last week, from
the effects of which our citizens and military
lhave scarcely recovered, the Twenty second
passed off very quietly. The indefatgable
,Oroville Artillery Company, under command
of Capt Collins and Lieut.. Chase, aroused our
patriotic citizens at daybreak, by firing a
Federal salute of thirteen guns, and at twelve
o clock they made the mountains echo with a
National salute of thirty five guns, including
"rousern for Western Virginia.
CHANCE TO MAKE MoNEY.-We call the
attention of our readers to an advertisement in
to-day's paper, headed "a splendid chance to
make money Adam Schussler, of Yuba
city, Sutter county, offers for sale cheap large
vineyard, wine press, distillery, two dwelling
houses, outhouses, and several hundred gallons
California wine, aud other valuable property.
Here is an opportunity for miners to invest
their money in & sure business-better than
running after the .goi1 excitements' in the far
OF Territories.
Coop WoRK-The Road Overseer of Ham
ilton Dist. No, =, John Wharton, Esq. has
been doing good work upon the old river road
from Hamilton down. Fence-posts aud other
distinctions have been removed, and the
marks of road-war wiped oat-logs, aud drift
wood gathered and burned, together with other
necessary repairs, which add greatly to the
beauty and appearance of that old and excel
lent public highway.
CRoP PRosrRGrs.-The crops on the west
side of Feather river present more healthy
and forward appearance at present than they
have for the past six years at this season Of the
year The weather this winter has afforded
the farmers in this part of the county an earlier
opportunity of plowing and sowing than for
many years past, and greater quantity of
ground has been sown.
s0LD BoREAs was on "blow OUT yesterday,
and among the result of his cavertings was
the fall of several awnings, that of the What
Cheer House of the number. The honest
Vulcans across the way had to suspend the
forging of ihunderbolts, horeshoes, etc, for the
day, on account of the dust.
THE young men of Marysvile have associated
themselves into club for the purpose of anus
ing themselves with sociable dances, etc, says
the Appeal, but does not particulsrize as to
the "etc." Parties not to kept up later than
l. O'Clock. Good boys
MAJ. SrRArMAN, the well known and popular
news dealer, has our thanksfor another bundle
, Of newspapers, piciorials and magazines, iuclu-
ding Harper's Monthly, Foruey's War Press,
iDemorest's Illustrated News, etc, etc.