The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1866-12-29

THE strategy Of the Sacramento Union Is beyond
all expression. Knowing its own ground to be an.
tenabe. it seeks to turn attention from its shsens
and drowning condition, by carrying the war into
Africa; that is by claiming that the foods have
destroyed property a Butte county. As follows:
When the REcoRD learns of the loss OF property
within the limits of its county it will probably feel
less IKE rejoicing at what it deems very mistakenly
by the way, the miseries Of the community herea-
bouts.-
Undoubtedly there has been some destruction OF
property in this county; but it has been confined
to sections subject to overflow, Ike that OF Sara
mento. Where such has been the case, the loss
has fallen upon individuals. who took the chances
in such locations in preference to those subject
to overflow. They expected the increased advan.-
ages Of snch locations during the dry season would
more than compensate for the possible less by
how. But what we object to is the influence Of
men who have chosen such locations for them
selves, inducing the people of the State to erect
their capitol buildings thereon. OF course, State
buildings thus situated must suffer with other pro-
property. But not content with thus warning
against the elements. they must induce the State
and National governments to pay for building a
railroad from one of these overfowed sections di-
rectly into the eternal SHOWS of the mountains. As
proof of the utter folly Of such proceedings, work
on the capitol building has been suspended on &C.
count OF the walls giving away and the cars on the
Central Pacific Railroad, that is to be the great
thoroughfare of the Nation. can only run distance
OF Is or 20 miles out of the Sacramento mudhole
from whence it started. The balance of the road
ont IN will plo pEs for foot
gers, with saddle trains, mud wagons and impro-
vised coaches on runners. Some Of their engines
and are buried in the SHOWS Of Cisco there TO
remain until the return OF the summer solstice
shall release them. The people of the State and of
the Nation, can now see what these Sacramento
swindlers have accomplished with the means so
generously furnished them to erect Capitol build
ings and build . great National Railroad The
building that should have stood for centuries to
marke the good sense, taste and character of the
generation building it, is crumbling into the mud
in which its foundation walls are laid; and the Ma
tiona railroad is a wreck, patch ed out with saddle
rains, foot planks and snow shoes. And all this
while there has not been day. nor an hour, that
the cars could not have travelled through the
mountains the Feather river route, had one
half the amount been expended in constructing a
railroad track along that river that it has cost to
build the now worse than useless railroad to Cisco.
The loss of private property in Butte county is of
course, unfortunate but it is nothing in compari-
son with the stupendous folly and swinde of those
who have attempted State and National works in
localities where their destruction was insured in
advance. Does the Union expect to escape the
responsibility its advocacy of such swindles has
incurred, by mentioning the loss of fourteen sheep
and half dozen pigs in Butte county!
LINES DowN.-An the telegraph lines out Of Ma
rysville, except to Oroville reported down. 1t
Is thought il will take at least week to repair the