The Nevada journal., 1853-01-07
Per IVeils, Fargo f. Co.
News from the State.

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debted 10 Wells, Fargo & Co. for full files of
Sacramento and San Francisco papers. The
latest dates we have at this writing, are to the
3lst. The great item of importance is the
| flood at Sacramento. By the Union we learn
that the rise of waters had, on Thursday night,
after tearing away the new work on the Levse,
poured into the city, and reached the height
attained at the late iundation. The Amsri-
can river was yet rising rapidly. Mayor
Hutchison, in an official statement, dated
Thursday, 5 P. NJ, says:
| cat this hour, the American river has risen
since o'clock, A M. about two inches and
the water in the city has reached the highest
point attained during the late flood. and, with
the continuous fall Of rain, prudence suggests
preparations for any contingency that the pre-
| sent unprecedented state OF things may require
| The city authorities have made every exer-
tion In their power. and employed all the means
at their disposal 10 avert the disasters that are
impending.
1t is gratifying to know that timely prepar-
alton on the part of our citizens will render
their peeunary loss comparatively small in any
probable event."
By private advices, we learn still later that
the flood had reached still higher than the de-
structive one of ls49.
The flood had destroyed vast amount of
stock herded on the ranches above and below
the city.
The Unisn says:
Everybody is busily engaged in making
preparations 10 meet the anticipated flood
Merchants, storekeepers. and all having vau-
able property on the ground floor, are raising
them above high water mark-boats arc moor
ed at the doors-vehicles, of every description,
stock, grain, tents. hay, provisions and people
are crowded together on The public square, and
every available dry nook and corner is occu-
pied.
On some accounts, an overflow, at the pre-
sent time. is preferable to tho unfathomable
mud that has filled the streets, and rendered
them almost impossible for the last week.
Goods of all descriptions can certainly be
transported more readily and easily. Team
stcrs from the interior can load up a the doors
of the stores and convey their effects to the
high land beyond the fort, where they can be
transferred, in dry order, to their wagons We
fear, however, that some damage may be done
the foundation of brick buildings and the frail
tenements scattered over the town, should the
flood prove as severe as is anticipated"
The Union learns from Mr.. Ryan, of Ad-
ans e. Co.'s Express, that
$ "The driver of the Nevada stage was com.
? PEELED to swim his horses through Penn Val
ley Creek, twelve miles this side of Nevada,
and also across the slough near Brophey's
rarch A teamster was drowned at The latter
place about the time the stage passed
The Yuba river was rising with alarming
rapidity. although it had not yet felt the riso
of ID er Creek, and other mountain streams
} There is scarcely any doubt that the city of
Marysville is completely submerged, as the
water on the departure of the Sacramento boat
was within foot of the highest point reached
during the last flood
On the passage down from Marysvlle three
men we're seen on the roef of their cabin near
Hook Farm, Justify calling for boat to take
them of. The water was within three feet of
them,
At Nicolaus many horses ard cattle were OBJ
served wading through the water which is ev-
cry where above the natural bank of the river
The latest news from Downieville is, that
that place is almost entirely deserted
FLoop AT MARYsvILLE.-The Express of
the Sd inst, says the food has passed in that
city, and the water had receded about four
feet. The water was 27 inches higher than any
previous year. The damage by the flood did
not exceed $4,000. The same paper congrat-
. ulates its readers that Marysrale is not sub
ject to inundation."
The Calaveras Chronicle, of Saturday, con-
tans the following:
"THE SToRM.-Throughou the week. the
storm has continued unabated. Rain, snow
Y and wind, agreeably alternating, lest we should
= get tired Of the dull monotony of an uniform
pour down-have proved the great features Of
tho favors from the weather office And as we
g have been cut off from all communica ion with
, the cities since the l3th-the latest dates re-
ceived-the topics of conversation and discus.
sion have been about as varied as the different
r phases of the storm. To make this barrenness
, Of interest more keenly felt. one should be sit
uated-as we now ars-on promontory. with
no resources in our rear, and no possibility of
r obtaining supplies across the several "raging
, canawls" by which we are at present heinmed
in To add to the iRterest OF the thing, while
we are writing there is not pound OF flour to
be obtained in the the town on any terms; and
we have heard it stated that there were about
six head of cattle in the corrals, with "plen-
tiful scarcity" on the neighboring ranches -
: The surrounding camps are even worse OFT. and
the storm stayed traveller considers himself
richly catered for in partaking of 40 fare
flap. jacks and frojoles, minus the pork or the
mahogony imitation, and these, too, at the
8 triRing charge of fifty cents pece-that is,
kind reader the "jacks, not the "joles."
But, while such triflng inconveniences can
: be borne, or buried in forgeffulness, outside
) our lines, the are stirring incidents by flood
, and field" some alas of a fatal character
Lives have been lost, men being ungulphed in
the rushing torrents-large numbers of cattle
f. drowned, agricultural produce swept away, and
0 property of every description destroyed Such
widespread ruin and devastation has never
before visited California. God grant that the
/ catastrephes already known o us, may be the
only fatal effects of this fearful storm.
As so to press, frightful tempest pre-
walls. Thunder, lightning, hail and rain are
hows fearfully, and enormous sized hail stones
a are falling in myriads from heaven. The at
8 mosphers is keenly cold, and from all appear
, ances, the storm will continue to rage through
out the night"
FROM SAN FRANcIsco.-The Transcript
speaks confidently of an immediate decline in
flour.
The decision in the case of the claim Of Col
Fremont, is Published in the San Francisco