Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-01-13

many items of interest, for Summit County |
to communicate, commence writing to
day and will, il life is spared, FIJI up from !
day to day, until TIE starring Of the Steam. !
he last mails carried gloom and sad. !
Rsss III many bosom in Akron and Sum.
init county, and the next arrivals ore look.
ed forwardsto with; fond anxiety and aeri:
ousapprehenslons; and would that it were
In my power 10 entirely dispel that anxiety
Or afay these apprehensions by what |
shdilawfite ut this time; but alas, the des.
lroyer has, no. been idle in this far off lnnd.
.Ths Cholera has ragged frightiully at
Sacramento City, and among It's vic'ims,lt
hecnnes my melancholy duty to announce
thssnames Of Mr.. Leonard Root, Mr.. Ed.
ward Wait, and MIR. jonathan F. Fem.
. With Mr.. Root, intemperance was the i'm.
mediate exciting cause; and what fatal
mistake those persons make, who come to
California or assist others to come who do
no, succeed ut home on account Of this vice
lfthere is any place in the world where
ss,briety is necessary to success, it is here;
end none but those firmly grounded in the
ways Of Temperance should ever under.
take 10 stem the toirent Of temptation 10 in.
duIgence in California Mr.. Wait was a
most excellent young man, who came
through with Wheeler & Howe, aad was
in their employ. tie had assisted in tax.
ing care Of Mr.. Wheeler, Anson and the
other friends who were sick, and seeing so
. much suffering and death on oil sides, very
naturally INDUCED fears for his own safety,
nh stzoS snddaplv -
summoned TO refinquish life while yet in
bloom Of youth, and yigor Of manhood.
The we'll known prudence and absismi-
Gus habits Of Mr.. Penn, would lead all his
friends. like myself to suppose that he
might almost be the last person 10 be strck
en- down by this terrible disease, but ankle.
y of mind has been in this case perhaps,
The principle exciting cause. MIR. F. has
hsen specializing in Flour, making his
purchases 10 this city and selling al Sacra.
mento and on several transactions has
made handsome profit. About month
since, in addition to some five or six hun
dred dollars, which he was operating with.
hs borrow ed thousand and mortgaged
come property at home as security. came
down here and bought one hundred and
twenty Eve sacks of 100 pounds each, at
eleven dollars and fifty cents per sack.
Before leaving the city flour took sudden
rise to thirteen fifty, and Us the supply in
market was very limited, the demand
from the mines still great, and the rainy
season approaching, he very naturally IN
terred that the advance on The article at
Sacramento would be about so Ruch above
this market any how; and that if there
should be no arrivals for O week or ten
days, 1t might advance to fifteen and per.
haps eighteen or twenty dollars. Acting
upon this basis, he borrowed Twelve hundred
dollars for ono month at 10 per cent inter.
est, piedging the l25 sucks Of Flour al
ready purchased, and bought 100 sacks
more nt thsadyanced price. But he had
scarcely reached Sacramento city. and be-
fore he had got any Of the -four into his
possession, when several cargoes arrived,
and instead Of advancing, it has declined,
and has been as low as eight and half
and il now only abou, len: and at no time
since making bis purchases. could he have
got more than the price of the first lot ad-
ding transportation elc. at Sacramento cl-
ty. This was his condition when the Chol.
sra broke out in this city, which made the
prospect. still more gloomy, and the GER
7tainty Of loss and recuaiary embarrass.
s,ent still more apparent; and, as he in
furIneo me himself, he eng aged in the bus
mess oi undertaken with view to raise
money to relieve himself from these EN-.
barrnssments. This anxiety Of mind, to.
Ee,her with the exeileing nature OF the new
business, and The sickness and the sudden
death Of bis friends and pre-
pared his system for the cholera.
understand that he requested Mr.. Abb
hey to dispose of the Flour and square up
his affairs; but rs there is public admin.
istrator in each district, it is probable that
The matter will have TO be passed through
his hands, and if this be the cuse, his fees
and the loss upon the Flour, will use up
what little there is here, if indeed it will be
soond suficien: to release the property at
home ..a
Ths disease is abating at Sacramento,
and business is again looking up in that
quarter. James Mills, Elijah Wadsworth,
Wms Dunaple and several others have
gone to the mines. Mr.. Matber has SO far
recovered as 10 come down to this city, but
is quite feeble. James Christy is now here
and in good health. Capt Howe still at
Sacramento.
Since my last the cholera has had quite
a run here, but is now almost entirely
abated and it is to be hoped for good
Among others who have died in this city,a
young man named John Myers, son of
zihe present proprietor of Hawks Ho'el
in Canton Ohio, nged "a. Young Myers
was a printer by trade, but was engaged
as a Steward in lhs St. Francis Hotel. 1
did not hear Of his sickness or death until
Il saw the name in the daily mortality list.
q Kov. Al have heard of no further
sickness or deaths among the Akron peo-
pie in this country, since the above date.
The cholera has rather increased in this
city, but still the mortality is not very
great, and in fac. is said TO be much less
than last year al this time, With much |
smaller population then and no cholera |
The disease is still declining at Sacramen-
10 city, and business looking up.