The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-02-10

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The water at Marysville was foot higher
than it was ever known before, but means
had been taken to prevent any serious dam
age.
At Sacramento, portion of the levee'
made for the protection OF the CITY, was
washed away, but the damage caused 10
buildings and goods was not as serious us at
first apprehended. Two murders were re-
Gently committedin this city.
The Downeville Echo, of the 25th Dec,
says
Yesterday, six men, breathess and pale
with fear, rushed into town stating that the
mountains above were reeling from the
rocky base and plunging headlong into the
river; that they fled from the impending ru-
ms, took to the bed of the river, left dry,
walled back like the Red Sea by the ava
lanche, and after running down the old bed
for three miles at least, reached town.
We shall give the particulars in our next.
lifin the meantime the river don't break thro'
and sweep us away. sT,e.s.
Another Aralanche-Two men at work at
the bottom of ravine just below town, this
morning, hearing noise above, looked up
and saw logs, rocks and hills marching ma
iestically down upon them-of course they
yamosed, and Just escaped being buried be-
meath the. avalanche, which came thunder
ing, crashing down. o,-e
ScenesOf'4c Reuiued.-Y Yesterday we saw
n dozen miners with 50 and 100 Id sacks
upon their shoulders, which they had packed
from Goodyear's Bar, through two or three
feet of snow. They report they purchased
the last that was for sale. .e4.. .e
nln
same sad particulars from the southern
mines. After abiding to the severe storm,
it says: a'
To add to the interest of the thing, while
. we are writing, there is not pound of tioul
to be obtained in the town on any terms
d and we have heard it stated, there are about
Y six head of cattle in the corrals,wth a'plen
: tful scarcity on the neighboring ranches
), The surrounding camps are even worse oil
and the storm-stayed traveller considers him
self yery richly catered for, in partakins
of '49 fare-fip-jacks and frijoles, minus tn
= pork or the mahogany imitations,-an
= these, too, at the trilling charge OF 90 cent
n a-piece-thut is, kind reader, the 'jacks,
e not the "joles."
6 Calaueras. The loss of life and propert.
n on lne rancues ootuellhS ei''' ~ =,
immense bes'ues Tue 'ntei.se"te VI ~
. atoMn,"e 30 W sInuahs we laarn tint on M
:. DonaId's ranch, % head of his finest horse
q have been lost. One pack tralh' comptls
. ing 32 animals, was lost, WIN the VNGePt,o
" OF three or tour we are .i'lor',eo ''l"t u.
= banks OF lhe s'SushS urt "t'e'"i'y oo''''
IN with dead and dying cattle.
i. :.
The miners are represented as wo'kin
with GREAT energy, whenever and whercv,
r. r,,,;, Tic UnroIlsnvs.
IN '"' ~ NY go
he The Alarming rates at whith provision
.. are held, is now, here as elsewhere tue pr
" vailing topic of discourse. NO enc Know
IS how high these rates may rise or when u
h present scarcity VIII stop N'' "niy uoes
of now take the whole OF INC earnings OF mo
,r miners to support mere cXiStcncc' but nF
% matcly famine must inp'na over th'
Is heads. Curses, both loud ana dpcP' a
n plentfulIy showered upon the heads OF U
-four spectators; and the wiSn is olteh e
pressed that they were only near enough
lt- be reached We doubt not that they Wou
he then get more than they nave oargaineu u
We never remember to have experienced
lgs more unpromising season '"uh 'ne P'oee'
Cd " nv t.on, ,ho .on,oto ro;n;rr 4
hat - ooa,oiao1 II tho Stockton Renub
out I'll. - ,ho nost oloomv cbornct
. Tha, % n.nor sovs. 1H-'h y
;ro Cs,I r. .hrrd,nco but nco,
- connot 1.-Two nn cold alone-they are starvi
for the want Of the necessares Of life.
vain do our merchants forward hour' pc
md aha oeansi .n1,. w"gJns s,oil or d;e from
owe h,nstion. and the Invaluable food is left
,ar- perish. Every road hence to the mounta
ere ere is in the same condition, and the traveller
ern every mlle' meets WIN stI'len a, lsaS, hso3
sed Aen u"T Orr frend Jesse Bru
- Who arriv ed on Saturday, gave fright
description of the state of society in
J. neighborhood OF JacksonV,lie. a IL the IL II
Lhat iau Ooen ea,, Hfhoona eto The miners
beonn to talk of descending by the thous
lille to Stockton and San Francisco.
nors We are sorry to learn thlt' drlven 10
iner peratioh' the wasonS Vi sonio sa,', ~
WV" W. naar Mar;nnso and rided of their {
lear fonts. si4
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