The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-04-22
TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Tremendous Flood in California.

and $500, 900 in gold dust on freight.
She brings news from San Francisco to the
10th of March.
a terrible Hood had occurred in California, by
which Sacramento, Marysville and Nevada had
sustained great loss.
The FL Dorado sailed from Chagres, on the
81 inst, and Aspinwan city On the same day.
The steamship Sierra Nevada was at Aspinwall
city, TO sail soon.
The steamship United States arrived at As
pinwall at II \. NJ, on Sunday, the goth ult.
The passenger trains now run on the Panama
railroad as far as Buena Vista. The road is ex-
pected to be opened to Hula the 18th April,
leaving only Il miles Of river navigation, and
passengers leaving Gorgona for Panama reach
there the same day. The fare upon the road is
So The road is described as in excellent order.
and as promising the greatest convenience in
the transit of goods and passengers.
The mails of the steamer California were
twenty hours behind the specie and passengers,
and the EI Dorado was detained that length Of
time awaiting their arrival. She after all came
away without them, as the Mail Agents refused
to put them on board, stating that his orders
were to send them via Havana They viii pro-
bably be forwarded in the Georgia.
The news from the Isthmus is not of striking
Importance or interest. Things seem to be go
regularity.
The steamship Ohio was loked for hourly when
the E. D., sailed.
The steamship California, from San Francis
co, had arrived at Panama, and the steamers
Constitution and Tennessee were daily ezpec-
ted
The Ell Dorado saw on the 11th inst, SO miles
south Of Cape Hatteras, the steamer Empire Ci-
ty, from New York, for Havana and New Or
leans
The Ell Dorado received and discharged her
passengers and freight direct from the ship to
the wharf.
All the mail steamers now load at Aspinwall,
and Chagres is being fast depopulated. Many
houses have already been removed from Chagres
to Aspinwall, and the latter place presents quite
a busy and business-like appearance.
The steamer Northernleft Panama on the 26th
of March for San Francisco, taking out large
number of passengers at 1925 each, being $50
less than the usual rate and still further re-
duction in the rates of passage was anticipated
The North Americas passengers at Acapulco
are represented as in q most destitute condition
many there depending for their subsistence on
the gifts of passing strangers. Most of the
ladies among the passengers had been taken on
board the steamer Panama, and sailing vessels,
it was said, would be sent from San Francisco
for the remainder.
The steamer New Orleans left San Francisco
on the 18th Of March for San Juan del Sud.
The most important item of intelligence by
this arrival is the great freshet in the interior
OF California, caused by the late heavy rains
! The loss of property, however, is not so great
as it was on O similar occasion last year. Sac
ramento was overfowed in consequence of an
immense creyasse in the lcyee, as was also Ma
rysville, but in the former city comparatively
little damage was done, for the reason that the
inhabitants were prepared, to a certain extent,
for the inundation, and as the waters rose and
gained upon them, they removed their property
TO more elevated positions. They, therefore
suffered more inconvenience than actual loss
In AlarysviIle, on the other hand, the loss of
property was much larger, and is estimated at
$3.50, coo. The greatest loss was sustained by
the farmers on the low lands, and the owners Of
bridges leading to the mines. The crops are
not so much injured as it was feared they would
be.
Yuba city escaped all damage ythe food.
At Nevada the food proved very serious, and
caused great damage to property. Two quartz
mills, the theatre, and Empire Hotel werec car
ried away, many other houses swept down, and
considerable damage sustained by the mer-
chants
The bridges at Coloma and Salmon Falls were
carried away, and it was feared that every
bridge on the South and Middle Fork, and on
the American rivers have shared the same fate
The cbuntry between Sacremento and the
mines is utterly impossible.
The rivers continue to yield well, the drought
being at an end, and the golches and raTines in
the interior filed with water.
The miners are busily engaged in working the
earth, which they have dug, and from which they
could not extract gold for the want of rain
They are said to be in the best Of spirits, and
their returns thus far are very fattering.
1t is confidently expected by intelligent per
sons who have given attention to the subject,