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«W 0! M. CROSKTTK, Editor.
Brovlßr, Saturday, November 20, ISSG*
Topics of the Day.
'I hr Increase of population ami
changes of location which the last
three or four years has effected in
California, has rendered the repre
sentation in our Legislature, the most
unequal and unjust of any State in
the I nion. Many of the mining
counties have doubled and trebled
their population since apportionment
under the last census, and conse
quently have not the representation
to which their population should be
entitled. In no county in the State
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will this inequality be more severely
felt, than in the county of Butte at
the next election. With a popula
tion of about six thousand voters,
about one-sixteenth of the entire vote
of the State, Butte county will bo
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entitled to one Member of Assembly.
Were the other counties of the State
represented in this ratio, the House
of Assembly would be composed of
but seventeen members, whereas it is
composed of eighty members. It is
so with regard to Senator. Butte
and Plumas, which together cast
about eight thousand votes, elect one
Senator, while the counties of Santa
Barbara and San Luis Obispo, with
an aggregate vote of five bundled
and seventy-five, also have one Sen
at or. The San Francisco Herald
mentions other glaring inequal ties
in the present representation. Thus
Tuolumne and Stanislaus counties,
with an aggregate vote of 8884, have
two Senators, and San Francisco and
San Mateo, with a vote 12,1159, ha ve
four Senators, while the twelfth Sen
atorial district, composed of Siskiyou
Trinity, Humboldt and Klamath,
with a vote of 1700, and the four
teenth district, composed of tire
counties of Butte and Plumas, with
a vote of about 8000 thousand, as
above stated, have only one each.
I ut though a very great inequality is
observable in the Senatorial appor
tionment, it is much more glaring in
the lower House. Thus, San Luis
()bispo, has one representative, while
Siskiyou, with 4327 votes, has only
one also. Klamath, with 101 votes,
has one representative, while the ad
joining county of Trinity, with 2084
votes, wields only an equal influence
in the lower House. Unless the
Legislature elect shall adopt some
method to equalize the representa
tion, the 191 votes of Klamath will
wield the same influence in the Leg
islature of 1858, as the six thousand
votes of Butte. The Herald sug
gests that a fair apportionment wo’d
ho one senator for every 11000, and
one Bepreseutative to every 1300.
There are 33 Senators, and allowing
one senator to each 3000 votes, the
aggregate would be 0900 votes, which
approximates to the vote of the state.
The result would be similar in the
ease of the representatives of whom
ther arc eighty. It is to be hoped
that the Legislature will devise some
meai to remedy the inequality, and
pern i us to enjoy equal rights under
ago rnment to the support of which
all c ibute.
In iikmg back to the Express,
we 1 v hinted at the building of a
raih from Orovilla to Folsom. In
com .tion the other day, with a
ft gv man who has been for a long
time denuded with Butto county,
and v • feels tv deep interest in her
welfare, We were struck with some of
the sensible ideas be advanced in re
gard to the pos;ability of building a
railroad to connect with the Sacra
mento Valley railway now termina
ting at Folsom. He very truly said
that the objections that have been
raised to building railways in certain
o •/
parts of the valley lands that arc
subject to overflows, and become so
softened during the rainv season as
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to sink under the pressure of the cars,
arc entirely inapplicable to the sec
tion of country through which a road
from hence to Folsom would naturally
w
run. The entire road could be fur
nished with the requisite timber from
the wooded lands along its line, and
in no place where the road would run
is there a possibility of an overflow,
or the sinking of the rails from loose
soil. A country better adapted to
the construction of a railway does not
exist, and the necessary bridging and
grading would ho a comparatively
small item of expense.
Oroville is both the key to and the
depot for the entire northern country
above her, and there is not a place in
the state that nature Ims so well ap
pointed to be the great terminus for
a northern railway as this, and that it
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is fast becoming the great store-house
from which the vast mining regions
to the north will obtain their supplies,
is a self-evident fact. It is for the
advantage of capitalists to turn their
attention hitherward, for nowhere, in
or out of California, is there so great
an opening fur a successful specula
tion as in the building of a railroad
from Oroville to the southern portion
of the state.
Man Tarred and Fkathkhed.— Under
the above caption the State Journal copies
front the Yrtkn Union a long account of the
rough bundling of our old friend, Browder,
who once upon a time patronized us so liber
ally us to order the printing of nine hundred
bills for one of his shows, forgetting, howev
er, to settle his bill before he left town. For
the mistreatment of the two young ladies in
his charge, Miss Litton and Miss Randolph,
the Yrcka boys administered a coat of tar
and feathers to his back. The last that was
seen of him he was making track* for Ore
gon. Served him right.
Thk People of Sacramento arc talking
about building a bridge across the river at
that point, about which the Union says that
it intends saying something, sho.tly—in re
ply to which the Marysville Kxprebt says;
“ Tliis is a subject upon which we intend to
have a word to say, also. When we shall
have a Marysville and Benicia Railroad, it
will matter but little to us should they d«m
the river ut Sacramento, but until that time,
the people resident above, think they have
some claims upon it, and intend that it shall
be kept open and as free as possible to navi
gation.”
There is a “ beam in your own eye,” Mr.
Express, that you should pick out before at
tempting to extract the ** mote ’’ from your
neighbor’s optics. Some of your good citi
zens have constructed a bridge across a cer
tain navigable stream known ns Feather Riv
er, which may serve as a serious obstacle to
the passage of steamboats on their way to
Oroville, thus doing our town a serious dam
age until we shall have completed a railroad
from hence to Folsom, about which time you
can dam Feather River if you desire but we
are very likely to require a free passage up
that stream very soon and then that bridge
from Marysville to Yuba City will give us a
chance to have “ something to say ” about
matters.
B\i.r Mountain Tun nil —Judge O. Vi
Shultz, of Rabbit Creek, says the American,
has completed a survey for a ditch from the
head waters of Feather River to the Rabbit
Creek mines The whole length of the ditch
will he about four miles. But what makes
the undertaking one of much importance is,
that the water will have to be brought
through Bald Mountain. A tunnel, there
fore, three-fourths of a mile long, will be
dug. The company for the construction of
the ditch is already formed, and the neces
sary amount of stock subscribed. The work,
it is thought, can be finished 3 tun# or ten
jm>Oths from the time of its coviaeocement.
The IMg^tuga.
We took astroli a Jay or two since through
a portion of the diggings in the neighbor
hood of Virginia Flat, Lynchburg, and Gold
Hill. As large a mining population ns we
knew to he dwelling near Oroville, we were
unprepared to witness the number of miners
within so close a proximity to the town and
the extent of their operations. It should
he remembered that the ditch lias been in
successful operation only about one year,
yet in that short s; acc of time, the grounds
in the vicinity of Virginia Flat. Carpenter's
Flat, Robinson lli.l, Lynchburg, •. dd Hill,
anil in fact throughout an extent of c untry
a mile and u half in width, and five or six
miles in length, have been thoroughly test
ed. Some estimate may bo formed of the
great amount of labor that has been per
formed, by visiting these various places and
observing the works that have been and now
are in operation, the shafts that have been
sunk, the tunnels that have been run, and
the acres of surface dirt that have been dug
up and washed.
We believe none of the miners have ever
been successful in reaching the bed-rock,
although a hard substance called by the
min erst “cement, *’ is found in many places
at depths varying from sixteen to thirty or
forty feet, on which a deposite of “pay dirt”
is lodged. From the many reservoirs and
ditches the ground has become saturated
with water, rendering it difficult to work
many of the deeper shafts, and precluding
the possibility of reaching the bed rock.—
We have conversed with several of the min
ers abaut the matter, and all agree in the
opinion that could the bed-rock bo reached,
a stratum of dirt surpassing in richness any
that has heretofore been discovered in the
ground above, would be found extending
throughout the whole of those localities be
fore mentioned-
All sorts of plans have been suggested for
draining claims of water among which are
force pumps, wind mills, and syphons, and
a correspondent in the Sacramento Union
suggests the use of the latter instrument us
a means with which to convey off the water
from shafts and other places that cannot be
drained by ditches or flumes There is no
no doubt of the practicability of the syphon
in some places. Such claims, for instance,
as are situated near the steep bank of a riv
er or ravine could be drained in this man
ner, hut where the claim is situated in a
fiat, level country like this, of course it
would not be available, the long log of the
syphon having to be so placed as to be lower
at its end than the claim to be drained
Wind mills may possibly be brought into
successful > peration, but we opine that the
only reliable, efficient means, is that offered
by the power of steam, and until steam en
gines arc p>ut into use, we hardly believe
that the deeper diggings of the bluff and the
flats can be worked advantageously.
llkduk Fence. —A house and lot situated
at the lower end of town and near the brick
yard, arc surrounded by a living hedge of
chaparral bushes, or more properly the
chiuusul as the Mexicans call it. W e should
judge this to be very excellent material for
making oncloscres as it grows rapidly and
makes an almost impenetrable hedge. The
chimesal grows very abundantly about here,
and if it will bear transplanting, can be
made to serve good purpose by our farmers
and those who have large yards and gardens
to enclose. It is cheaper than fencing and
vastly more durable.
Thk Race that was to come off yesterday
afternoon was a magnificient fizzle. One of
the parties neglecting to put up the money
in time, the matter was delayed until so near
dark that it was either deferred until some
future time or given up entirely.
A Th aveli pig Frenchman. — The Glam
or Publico mentions the arrival of a French
men at Los Angeles, who fought at Sebasto
pol, and afterwards receiving his discharge,
started for the United States. He left
France with only the sum of SBO, From
Santa Fe to Los Angeles he had journeyed
alone, and on foot.
Wole Killed. —On Monday morning, a
wolf, that measured six feet two inches from
tip to tip, and two feet in hight, was killed
near the Mission Dolores, by one of the
hands on Mr Radiant's Ranch. The animal
whs shot in his tracks, with a navy re
volver, at a distance of sixty-five yards.
Talcose Quart* Ledge.—A ledge of
talcose quartz has recently been discovered
by J. Heekendoru on Moccasin Creek, near
the Tuolumne river The vein is represent
ed to be quite rich, and ttic probability is
that it will pay well for working.
A Fair for the benctit of the San Fran
cisco Orphan Asylum is being held in that
city, says the Herald,
Judgment ngnlnst Pnliurr, Cook ik t o
for SIOI,OOO.
Mr. sag!re, (he receiver of Adams & ( 'o.,
obtained yesterday a Judgment against Pal
mer, Cook & Co. b-r 5*101,01*0, despite the
bard fighting of the counsel <d that firm and
the desperate attempt made to gain time and
further profit by the laws delay. The i'til
letin, governed hy its hatred of the Receiv
er, did not even inform its readers of the
judgment, and will no doubt wait bob re it
does so, to add to it that other interesting
infurmuUon that Stanley is fueing lor a ice
of £‘,’0.(100!
We predict (lint this miscalled banking
firm ot Palmer, Cook V Co. will appeal this
judgment to the Supreme Court, and thus
still further bn file the creditors. Their use
ful auxiliary, the Bulletin , will cover up
their defeat, no doubt, with the usual daily
attacks upon the Receiver. Rut the time is
last approaching when these men and their
sn| porters can no longer deceive the people
by false issues and false charge. —<>’. t.
Globe.
Ahead ok time —Mr. Watson was ahead
of time yesterday with the papers. Major
Graham and the Pacific Express were close
tiller him with letters and dailies. We otter
a thousand thanks
Mr. Martin informs us that there is more
than a foot of snow near his house, but that
tit Rcrry Creek Mills, four miles this side of
his place the grass is growing. Great coun
try this Culiforny.
We understand thot Col. Charles
Pierce of Sun Francisco, has very recently
discovered a very rich quart! lead in the vi
cinity of Frenchtown.
Explosion of a Cooking Stove.—A
cooking stove in the second story of No. ]HI
Varick street, New York city, exploded
about 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, and
knocked out the three Iront windows, dhe
stove had not been used all summer until (.5
o’clock yesterday morning, when a fire was
kindled in it. The only way in which the
explosion could be accounted lor was that a
son of Mrs, Cassidy, belonging to a target
company, had carelessly a few days back
stored a few blank cartriges in the oven of
the stove. The paper wrappers of these ex
plosive articles were found among the bro
ken metal on the floor. It appeared strange,
however, that they did not sooner explode.
The lire was lighted at six, and the accident
did not occur till o'clock. No person hap
pened to be in the room at the lime.
At Ballinhohe, in Calway, Ireland, the
wife of a farmer named Magrath left her
two little children while she went to bring a
kettle of hot water to scald the churn she
was about to use for making butter. '1 he
eldest child meantime forced the baby into
tiie churn, and the mother unwittingly
scalded it to death, llcndercd frantic by
the discovery, she threw a stool at the other
child which killed it, and then drowned her
self.
„i„. "’c arc under many obligations to
Col. Bust, of the Marysville Express, for
bis kindness and attention generously ex
tended to us. His is nut merely the profes
sional courtesy that obtains among the craft,
but is accompanied by the heart-in-hand
manner that lays the recipient under a
thousand pleasant obligations.
Mottoes. —The following arc some of the
mottoes exhibited at a recent Democratic
procession at the cast :
“ Union and Peace, or Disunion and
Bloodshed.”
“Not a stripe erased, or a star obscured.”
“The ship of Slate no rocks may fear,
Vith Brock to trim and Buck to steer,”
“(live us a (airtight and we will strike
more stars from their eyes than they have
stricken from the flag.”
“Ballot-box vs. the Bund-box.”
“We stand to the compact that our Fathers
made.”
“Twenty-one years for a citizen and twen
ty-one days for a statesman ”
“The Pathfinder on the wrong track for
the White House.”
DECLARATORY NOTICE
BTATK OP CAI.irCKMA, )
C'ofSTT O 1 ItCTIK, j
Mify June Walker to declaration of Suit? Trader.
m MKS 1 . MARY JAAE WALKER, wITe of Jtdiez
U a Walker, being desirous of availing hersell of
the benefit* of a certain Ael of (;«• legislature uf the
s»t,itP of California, and entitled “An Act to author
!/ ■ married women no traismot business in Iheirovvn
flame as tsolo Traders—passed April l*Jlh, A. I>
(Jo hereby declare, that it is tnv intention to
transact mot carry on the Imsmess of keeping a
dairy lor I In- jiurjmse of selling milk, fuller. \c , in
the •"■minty ot Itutleand .-tat< of (J dtlornia. thiil 1 in
tend to carry on said busbies* in my own name and
will hereafter he responsible for any debts contracted
h> me, and that the amount of property invested by
nie in said business does not exceed the sum of live
thousand dollars.
MARY JANE WALK Kit, [L. 9]
Pinned, sealed and deliver* <1 ill pres* lice of
Frank F. Taylor.
STaTK OF t’ALIFOUMA, I M
Cm mv or Hi nt. i
ON THIS lids the 'Tih bay of November, A 1).
one thousand eight hundred and liily-sti, be
fore me. William <l. Engli-h, u Notary Pub.ic n and
for tho afores,ai<l count). personally appeared before
me. Alary Jane Walker, sole trader, personally
I nnwulii ta 1 to he the Individual described in and
wlio executed the within instrument as the jiarty
thereto, and she ack now I edged to me that she exes
cnted tins name freely and voluntarily, for the UK *
and purjioses ihereinineiitionert. And the said Mary
Jane Walker, wife of Jabea C. Walker, having been
bv me first made acquainted with the content* uf said
instrument, acknowledged tome, on an examination
hud separate, apart from and * ilhoul the hearing of
her husband, that she executed the same freely and
voluntarily, without fear, compulsion, or any undue
iu luence of her said husband, «• d that she did not
wish to retract the execution of the same.
In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto set
(L. JL) my hand and affixed my official seal, the day
and year first above written.
n?s3w WM.G. ENGLISH, Notary Public.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
a THERE VVI LI. BE A STATED M EETINH
Ornville Hodge No. lie. of Free mat Ac
\iepted Masons IhM in Mii-i»i ic Hull, on
Montgomery On-et, on Saturday evening. Ii Nor.
u; which limn ollkers lor lln- ensuing will In- laecied.
All brethren in pood mmdii.g me mviii-d lo abend.
|ly order I* A. IiUUVV.N, \V. .M.
i». u'Honnki.i . Secretary
NOTICK.
i • There w ill bo u uniting i f tin- ‘-OrovilU
I iphl Hnard” ul tin* 1 'rlmm- Hotel, on 'lon .
tf sl«J.iy Evening, 1 eO. llle -lit. - I*, ill - .'V’lu'k,
for the organization of said Company, electing "111*
Ci-iM and noii-roiiiiiil-Muned ellieers, mid lonnili-t
llvl.aws. \c., for tin* Mime. By order of
]nt M. A MeHACHIIHIN, Inspector.
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NOTICK.
To the Stockholders in the I rend.too n Canal Mi
ning i'onuniny is hen by given. Ilnil un additional
assessnien, of ten per cent, on the capital stock u
called in, mid imyuhlo on or In fore the *:»>ih <>i He
sent her next. AN AN F AKHO, Secretary.
Frenchtown, Nt veuther glith, If*At*. n.ti lm
ISeila! He«l*!
Pool ii Bed* for every hodv, ut ‘-'0 per cent, less th-n
Mi.rv si ilh- prices, for 40 days only, to make room lor
un entire new stock per Hist slemner to • iroville ut
(’. s< l: 1H Kit'S
Furniture Ware Booms Montgomery street.
28.0(K) His, POO I. A to Bubs, for side very tow to
the trade, ill t' t*t' KIHI-. It 'ft
ITicniture Ware Rooms, Montgomery si., three
doors below Myers si.
sO.
UEt’EIVI l>—1» Urge assortment of Form*
tore. Alto, alt Invoice of larpe Hilt I mines, tor side
low at c’.ScßtHF'.U’i
Furniture \Vnn> Rooms, Montgomery st., Uireo
doors below Myers st. 11 ‘.Mi
Attention 3liiuTs N, I'h Bill lies!
I». TOY & OTTERS! »N again request the espedid
attention of all who wish lo luy in I loir w inter .'■tuck
of OL3TIIINH, BLANKETS. BooTA mul Woolen
Hoods, to the inagmllcenl ussorlmenl of poods re
ceived by them during the past leigdayg. They uro
now opening and oiler lor sale
300 line and hervy Beaver and I’elershiim Overcoats,
Frocks and Sucks;
100 heavy Pilot floth Coats, latest styles;
no sup» rli “Kaplan” Coins, superior to nay Talmas;
5 bales. 50 pr in each, heavy pray blankets;
3 bales, 100 pr in each tine heavy t ine blankets ;
1 bale, ion pr extra •• French Super Super ” white
Blankets;
30 (liir.. assorted Cassimero mid Salt. Pants, Into
styles, besides a laapnittcent assort nit lit of F iirnishing
Hoods. Montgomery st., Opposite Ist. Nicholas, lute
11 un toon's. 1.7 tf
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|*jf I>R. A. H A 1.1,, oil rs his professiuiml ser
vices lo the citizens of (iroville and \ trinity, havllip
laid lunch and limp experience in the trealiin nt of
tin! ' nrions discuses incident to this climate, ho hopes
to give satisfaction
Special alteiitien given to diseases of n private tin-*
lure. Rheumatism, &c., w Inch lie cun cure without the
use of mercury.
tin'll k, front room, No 17, Vidled States Motel,
up stairs—< iroville. ocl-lf
/atavTicrr tt. jt?. • 'JTTT ijiaii. • rwTr.rj w • .*» I
NEW A I>V EKTISEMENTS,
OPENING BALL !
THE PLEAS! RE OF YoFU COMPANY
is r* spent hilly solicited al an
/% On jo3a.ia.nfj; Hlall, to la*given
wA.iit ihe WI.SI IdlN IliiTEh, Thompson's l int,
on IUK.'HAV I.Vk.MSIi, Hmiulier Hii,
is’.ii, 11\ THOMAS .a PERI HE.
£ T in- hesl Mu*!.'in the country Is engaged.
November lf4lii. If .Mi
OPENING BALL!
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THE Pl-EASCRE OF YOI'R COMPAN
is respectfully soliciled at mi OI*K.\I.V
H\1,1,, to he given at IVKUdl'.* BANCI
„. eight miles troiii Marysville, on Wedliebdt
mnp, Hid I.MIIEK 34th, lend. In
JOHN WDLCH.
FOR SALE!
rglllK HIHISEWIIIF'.R offers for sale his Store and
I Hoods, or his Hoods alone, or his Hot mid S*li
situated on Montgomery street near tin* Orleans Hotel.
For terms and further iiilorimiiion, uppiv lo
rs. MARTIN,
stilt- 1 f on the premises.
BUY YOUR.
33 x* y Gr oocl s an c l
CLOTHING!
AT
BEISOEWMSi'S
American Theatre, Montgomery st., Oroville.
CAM BATON’S GRANT,
Comprising Acres,
(ITtTATE IN
BUTIEJXh SUTTER CUJVTIES ,
F O XT. S A. TLm ID •
100 FARMS,
Of 1(j 0, -0, G 4 0 Acres cadi,
IN TOWNSHIPS XVI. XVII, XVIII N. It 1 W.,
Framing eighteen miles en the SACRAMENTO
kIVEH. and running buck Four Miles.
Said lauds will be sold by Sections or tfnarter Sefr
tiona, Co snit purebasr-rs.
Title Confirmed.
A map of the Hrant. wHli its sutsiivisions, can be
seen al the offle* of E. IiCPRE, Esq., Heal Estate
Agent, Marysville.
Terms made known on application.
nta-Im H. CAMBUSTON.