Year: 1866

ATTEMPTED AoSGoLrAs AsDUcTIos-GzEAT
ExcTExESr.IQsit crowd Of good nutured peo


pie we're assembled at the Court Hoase on Monday


afternoon, by the arrest Of a Chinaman and China
woman, by Marshal wISKIET, of Marysville. On a


charge of felony. committed either in Aarysyie or


some other place in the regions below. 1t was gen.


orally regarded, whether correctly or not, as an
attempt to abduct the woman, and her friends
were boisteroo>iy cheered on by the good natured
crowd in their attempts to prevent her from being
carried away. 1t is generally known that this
class of unfortunate women, are brought to this
country as the property-the slaves. or peons-of
the more wealthy Chinese, who seek to exercise
absolute control over them They mortgaged,
ilke chatieis and according to the report of the
'rand Jury OF this county for the year 1864, there
were some white men who were induced to invest
IN this class of security, promising high rates of
interest. 1t is seldom, If ever. that a woman thus
mortgaged is successful in purchasing her freedom
IL the usurer finds the investment profitable one
his efforts are to continue it, instead of permitting
It to be cancelled. and the abandoned and unfortu-
nate creature finds herse.fa victim to slavery in
comparison to which the system of American slave
ry was indeed freedom. There is no escape from





semicivilized creatures. If, finding it impossible
to purchase their freedom, they succeed in making
their escape from those exercising control over
them. charge of felony is trumped up against
them, warrants are sworn out, and off GERS sent to
arrest them. The charge of felony is not sustained,
OF course; but the mortgage has by that means
obtained possession of his chatte and that was the
object to be accomplished. Believing the present
TO be transaction of this kind only the friends of
the woman, in their appeal TO the authorities
heartily sustained by the careless and good natured
crowd that had assembled around Marshal Wink
LEY to see what the matter? 1t is not sup
posed that officers who issue or serve the process
know the object to be attained although it is un-
derstood that they are generally well paid for the
arrest. The Chinaman arrested in this case, it
seems was only blind to cover up the real transac-
ton, and was permitted to go about his business
after the kidnapping party was stopped by the
thorities. 1t is base prostitution of laws
to serve the purposes and customs of heathenish
and barbarous nation and should be frowned down,
if there is no other way to stop its practice.





ANOTHER CHANGE IN THE RourE.-The Nevada
City Transcript learns that the Pacific Railroad
Company is talking of changing the line of their
road to the Henness pass. 1t is said they have
struck mountain of rock that is impossible to get
through, and it is now proposed to up along Bear
river valley to Canyon Greek, and through to the
summit on the Henness pass road. They had bet
ter adopt the open and practical route of Feather
river at once. The Henness road, like dozen
other mountain thoroughfares, will take them to
tke summit. How will they get down? Feather
river extends entirely through the mountains to
Long Valley. in Nevada. 1t is the only stream that
completely sewers the Nevada mountains, from the
Columbia liver, to the Cult of California. 1t is
open and free from snow, easily graded, and is the
route marked out by nature for the great national
sion of the region of SHOWS must sooner or later
end in defeat. The Gold Hill Macs says, at is
stated that eleven thousand Cinnamon are at work
on the railroad above Dutch Flat, and that these
Asiatics together with one thousand white men.
will finish grading twenty miles of the road by
tai Springs then ones the iron barricaded sum-
nit" This force cannot be employed in the work
grading during the winter. Neither can the road
be run the winter after it shall have been compile
ted on that route. That force is sufficient to grade
a double track up Feather river from Oroville to
Virginia City in ninety days, and the route would
be open the year round. These are the advantages
offered by the natural route; but they set aside
and the great national thoroughfare is to be rem
dered nullity by the local demands and jealousy
Of Sacramento