The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-02-23
California and Oregon Items.

eStIhlateu' we eaCh day receive IntelH
gence Ot Its destructive work One So Gen
era i'll character ami completely covering
the face OF the country. we speak more par.
ticulal ly of the great sac, amento Valley, ha.
lot been experienced "by the oldest inhabi
anJs." Yoo comfy has suffered immense
4 ly. She has scaIcel spot above water
between the coast range and the Sacramento
Her loss in cattle can scarcely be estimated
One gentleman informs us that he has sa
we'd SO far portion of his horses by taking
The top off Of a very large hay rick and cut
ting a pass way at one end, drawing them
upon it, where they have been ever since.
His hogs, he hoated into Lis kitchen,
which was luckily above ground, where they
are still
M. Cody ust above Washington, has
lost some twenty thousand dollars worth OF
cattle, which he had bought up as beef
for the spring market.
One farmer put his house in scow and
his cattle in his house and set sail across the
plains for Cache creek, distance of twenty
miles.
A number of instances of the total loss
Of horses, hogs and horned cattle, are report
ed.
The ferry boat beta, "-~navagation be-
ing obStructed across the rver-was 10 have
lett yesterday for twelve miles up the river
| to bring down lot of cattle which were
starving IN the water
west OF Washington the tace OF the coun-
| Try resembles AN immense sea. Looking
SouthWard no land is visible and westward
the waYeswash The teetot The coastrange. The
hIIowS upon this great cxPHnSe OF water roll
Ike young sea, making the navigation even
dangerous TO small crafts
Rabbits and qualIs suffer dreadIuIly, and
wherever hay yard appears they may be
knocked over ddiI5t'm,
We fear when the reckoning up Of this
IuI roll OF losses will be presented, almost
lnpssIb!e to repair.
| Such formidable barriers TO farming op-
erallorS must drive many into an abandon.
ment OF business altagtther.
! Et5- According to Census Statistics, the
number OF men engaged IN mining at Sacra.
mento county IS l,454, The average yield
/
is about - per day per man, making ycar-
| y aggregate OF one milton seven hundred
and llIiy dollars.
MoRE BUTcuERY.-PetcrM Nc Grinigan who
resided twelve miles above Sacramento ranch
was stabbed with butcher knife on Mon
! dav night, BY man in his employ named
Jones. The wounded man was taken to
Sacramento, where he died on Tuesday
evening Jones yss arrested and tied to a
iree, preparatory TO his delivery over II tho
proper officers. /. appears that he com-
m!lled the crime while ~. McGriti ran was
endeavoriny to eject him from his house,
where jones at the time was making dis
turbance, being intoxicated. The deceased
was born in Pennsylvania, and came tc
| California some two years since, ard by
honest industry and enterprise, had accumu-
| lated quite Il handsome lUrtuuc.--Ptacer
Times, Jam. |.
FLOUR MEGrISG IN THE Mines The Co
lumbla Gazette in announcing that the citi-
gems OF that place, feeling the grievances by
which the whole interests OF California are
now 50 heavily oppressed, have concluded
TO hold meeting in the Exchange, in Co
IumOIa, on Monday night next, to take the
subject under consideration, if there is a rem
cay Tor our grievances, holds The following
Yan9u"9e;
! III our Legislature no" about to meet can
remedy 'hlS growing evil let 1t be done,
lor the interests welfare and prosperity OF
California are deeply laIo.Ved IN the Issue.
II the capitalists and flour monopolls,s of San
francisco arc suffered to continue Their un-
holy SpecuIatlonS, breadstuIs and every
other article necessary Tor The support OF the
Iaborng classes Will be IN the hands OF
these monopollstS' and hey VIII ask ana
sell them as 'hey now sell 1our--at cX.raV-
a9ant prlc,S'
PROVISIONS HAY, &c.---1t IS sad that
Dee1 IN lhiS market WILL IN thirty days hence,
DC worm hity cents per pound and that
every description Of meat Will rise rise IN price
pfoPoflona'ely' notwithstanding the mar"
Net IS wen stocked win game OF almost ev-
cry GInd, prices are already adyan;mg-
Inc hood ana ram nave destroyed immense
quantities ol nay, and holders are very
chary with thclr stock. There never was
time when SO MANY Inducements were OTTER
ca 10 emigrants OF the agricultural class
oE0c&t0" heP"0|'ca"'
DIAMONDS IN CALIFoEN1A.-Th The Columbia
Gazette says that it was shown on Tuesday
last, large and brilliant stone, which we
learn had been properly tested by several
jewellers and pronounced to be a pure and
genuine diamond. We examined it through