The weekly Butte record., 1867-12-28

The STORM, which has been one of great seyeri-
ty has poured tremendous volume of water down
the course Feather river. and must have done much
damage in the lower portions of The valley
The riTeF here, has at no time during the storm.
attained great hight as il did during the food
of i6l-2, into some eight or ten feet On Christmas
night it frolieked furiousy and fast. and suddenly
wert up some three or four feet. raising the appre
tensions Of some that the cellars on the river side
of Montgomery street, were in danger. Bat such
not the fact. Tha waters were six or eight feet
TOO low to damage any portion of the town, and by
daylight on Thursday morning. was gracefully
retreating in good order. The descent from the
canon whe it debouches down past the town is too
rapid to permit Of any considerable accumulation of
water, and the whole vIlley would be changed into
sea before Montgomery street would he
overiowed. OF course the ferry boats we're sus-
pended in their crossings small boats occasionally
making passage for the accommodation of pedes-
trans; but that extra hazardous at times
so great was the rush of waters. A sycamore that
had stood the upper iend of the bar during all
former floods since il had taken root, was no longer
the ru sh of the waters and bowed its head to the
fury Of the blast and become ioodwood TO be gath
cred BY ranchmen below TO whom ii will tell a tale
of many storm. it furnishes material for
bright evening fire. Sic transit sycamore. You
will no longer figure tree in the boundaries of
bar and river claims of untold wealth. Perchsnce
had not the miners pick prospected the bed rock
at thy root thou hadst wthstood the storm of ages
vet to come and served to mark the SPOT where the
angry waters of Feather river poured vast flood
from the rock bound canon ere it was dried up and
ecpsed by the swelling proportions of Chico creek.
Doubtless the valley has been pretty well wet down
for il has raned furiously and fast here well in
the mountains and the streams that drain the vast
range to the east of not at all particular in
conining themselves to their channels when they
reach the valley. We judge they have spread them
felves pretty considerably over the upper country,
for the stage from Portland has not been in during
the week. which il pretty good evidence that the
road between Oroville and Red Bluff is impossible.
The Honcut, too between Marysville and Oroville,
Is a wicked stream in flood, and has been at its
old tricks of shutting of communication with the
lower country, and we have had no mail from be-
sanyille and Tayorville came in on schedule time
on Wednesday and started out again on Thursday
morning. This good behavior on that route is ow-
ing to the nvncible determination OF the proprietor
to keep the road open despite the efforts of old Ju
piter Pluvius to close il up. Susanville, Taylor
vile and Oroyille will vet constitute Sta5e with
all other places lett out in the strin except Omaha
to which point we shall soon have railroad.
The stage for Quincy started ont on Monday morn.
ing, on its triweekly trips, and has not return ed
up to the present writing. Walkers Plains are,
doubtless, an impossible snowbank; and at Bucks
Ranch il is fair presume that the dwellers, after
digging their way to the surface of the snow, are
cutting 'tip-top wood" from the tallest pines and
chucking it down the chimney to the fire place be-
low. The La Porte Stage has not made its appear
ance during the week. but this we understand from
gentleman who have come in horsebsck, is owing
to trees that have been uprooted by the violence of
the storm and fallen across the road These be-
ing cut awpy and removed, and the regular trips
furously en- Wednesday, but its fountaia of waters
appeared to be exhausted. and Thursday was clear
and beautiful day overhead, and our magnficeat
streets, firm and Clean invited every body out for
promenade The town was toleraby well pre-
pared for much longer seige than the present one
promises to be: Perkins and Clark have their
stores filled with groceries, and the Ophir mill is
grinding two or three hundred barrels of flour per
day that it will be impossible to ship out of town
until the roads become passable. Was our ranch
men, and some of the other towns OF the State as
well prepared for siege as 0roville, they could
laugh at the storm and enjoy its widest and most
terrible grandeur. 1t is feared, however that much
damage has been wrought in the lower country.
SAcRAMENTo-We have before US a copy of the
Sacramento Union, of Saturday. December 2lst.
It is the last number printed prior to the flood, and
We have cherished it would have cherished
specimens Of the old antedeuvian period if We had
any. By il We learn that the Legislature probably
adjourned to December th. 1865. in order to spend
the holidays in san Francisco whittier they sped to
ind old Moah's ark. and avoid the floods of the
capitol city. By it, we also learn that the Gas
works of Sacramento were endanged by the food
from, which infer that the waters had surrounded
the budiag used as State capitol, and frightened
the assembled wisdom ;herefrom. We had scissor
ed an item or two from it before We became aware
that it might be the last one ever printed. Since
the commencement of the food, however, W. have
cherished it and preserved it and intend TO have it
placed il glass case for grand children to look
at in after years, as able and indendent journal
tha. existed prior to the food that destroyed Ra
bel,s taunery,' and undermined stone house that
it had induced the people Of California TO erect on
sand bank between the American and Sacramento
rivers. 1t was able paper, always running before
the popular breeze, 50 as not TO be at open eanty
with the dominant party, whichever that might be,
and displaying lack of Judgment only in adherng
TO Sacramento instead Of Oroyille a safe place TO
locate in.
LIBERAL. Mutual. JUsT.-In an institution in
which men are compelled TO trust implicitly, even
though the future Of those nearest and dearest de-
pend wholly upon its integrity, infallible security
is the prime and indispensable requisite. This in
fallible security the North America Life, has been
the first company to furnish. With it originated
the Special Deposi, Act. now a law of the State,
which enables the company TO issue 10 the insured
registered policies countersigned by the Superin-
tendent Of the Insurance department certifying
that they are secured by pledge of public stocks.
deposited with him. TO be held by him. till the
nolires nr annuity honis thus rerstare5 are flliy