Year: 1859

aroused in this city and vicinity, land we
nope it may extend) in regard to the coming
Fair of the Agricultural, Horticultural and
Mechanical Society for the Northern District
of California. The people of this section OF
the country remember very well the mean
jealousy with which Sacramento, Stockton
and other places in the South have always
looked upon their efforts to advance the IN
terests Of Marysvlle and its back region
They remember how persistently the papers
hollow have endeavored to make it appear
that Marysville wasa small up country fo'o'''
whereas it is an elegant and beautiful ana
fast improving city located at the junction
Of two rivers hich, with their branches, run
through and water a vast region OF mineral
richness. perfectly inexhaustible in its supply
os well as a broad extent of agricultural land
which yearly pours its wealth INTO the lap
of toiling industry Here is the natural
$ urce of supply to all the northern region o.
country-the natural foci for the roads,
whether wagon or rail, which may lead into
the mountain regions, and the common cen
ire where all these roads must unite in one
grand railroad trunk (now being luilD di
rectly to the Bay of San Francisco. Geo
graphical position, and the great law OF
cause and effect, have destined Marysvile to
be one day great ,ity, and every intelligent
man knows it; but the press below has uni
fo,mly sneered at both the law and the fact
Of the case


So Jealous were our Sacramento neighborS
in particular of our exerlions to improve
our prospects, that, when We at one time es
tablished "Citizens' Steam Navigation Com
panv," for the purpose of lowering the price
Of freight so that our merchants could be en-
abled to sell goo s as cheap as could the mcr
chants of Sacramento, they actually forbid
the Citizens Steam Navigation steamers
landing at the levee! We do not know this
of our own knowledge, but we have been
informed on good authority that it is so. The
Citizens Steam Navigation Company went
down, and it was a great triumph for our
magnanimous neighbors below.


Every thing in the world that they could
do. by means of their presses, did they do to
pre- ,ent us from beginning our great rairoad
enterprise between this city and the Bay OF
San Francisco. They knew that it would
build up Marysville and make her forever
independent of any other city in the State
They could not bear the idea, but they were
compelled to stand it, for the people of thi;
region arose in their might and declared
that that road should go on. Efforts were
made to get the people to invest in the roaC
to Sacramento, in order to build up that city
as the expense of Marysville 1t was toe
transparent a trick and excepting a few
wealthy citizens in this place who care more
for Sacramento in any case than they do for
the place where they made their money, the


people are nth the San Francisco and Marys
willie Railroad. The mass of our citizens
know where their interests are. and the,


cannot be hoodwinked 10y the specious rep


resentations of interested parties.


No doubt the papers OF Sacramento AM


other Southern localities will begin shortl,
, to sneer at our effcrts to get up a Norther


District Fair. At any rate they will hav


their reporters on hand to ridicule any short


comiugs that may be observable in the exhi


bilion. From the spirit which we now Sc


prevailing among the people, we are prett.


well satisfied that these hireling seriLbler


will not have much foundation upon whicl


to base their structures. and that they vii


lie ev,"pvhea, hvvvrvr much ugaInst tntl
p will, TO acknowledge that the North amount
! to something after all. The South of tn
State has known it all the time, but it will


never acknowledge it until it is compelled to
Let us compel it.