New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-08

PEFocIers ArrtcE GRuzlY Bias is C4LIr1R~r,-
The following exciting story told ~ Correspondent Of
tho sacramento Cnion writing from Diamond Spring.
yesterday about fifteen miles from this point on
t- road from hrTe 70 Caron Valley ma a who had been
inct horribly mntilated by grizzly bear On wednc-
day morning last a man living neqr sy PARK Creek On
the rmgTaut road, while hunting discovered she
with tHo cuhs about the size of common dog coming up
rayne within gun shot q where he standing iu the
rad As the bear had not discovered him, be determn-
%" to give her shot The bail struck her back q the
-nou pT. but too low TO prove fatal She Immediately J
Ei-s lPon heT bind leg turning her head from side o
sie to discover her asEsian lie had commenced 0ad-
.u hut before he got hts powder down the bear discover
81 him He took % tree and barely escaped az the bear
near that he kicked her head with his fat before
the tree for hourz While there he shouted
5g hep and dsusoeeded in attracting attention of
aen IN the empiny Of Bradley u rden Co. who went to
i- relief but when they reached the tree the bear had
ba'r gone about ten mu utz They tracked her into
Acs ehapparal covering about ree acres and there len
Asr linner they mustered loubie-barrsiei guns and
& to the number Of fourteen shots ard started for the
chaPlaral Upon reaching it the mon very impru1euty
catrrG yentung in 10 If they could start her
While others climbed treps u be in place Of saety and
get view Of the ground Among those Who took tree
Wa a llan by the name If Charles II Packard who had
gene short distance into the bush and he had gun
placed himself in sapng about inches through Ths
;Jrksd about six feet from the ground and Packard
wfn up one Of the branches distance Of about twelve
t from the ground and in reply to his co1npal
ilus said be considered himself -afe.
At this moment he cried Here the boar With in
rod Of INT but hardly got the words out Of his mouth
before sh' made towards lin uroJiiy jumped an1
caught the few feet below him and with her tre
msudpus wight. split it al the fork carrying aGt
tree both with her to the ground lie f upon his back
nj the bear seized him by the left side Of BIZ head
face and tore bis iet completely from his head ayn
bare his Eu She then seized him by the other side
his cutting deep cash in the upper p and tesrEl
the eh from the right corner Of the mouth to h
@ artery in the neck then By the fore laying baF
the tndcns breaking Of them and biting his rgh
hand through aud through. She then l'ft the uppe
part 4 his body and made effort seemingy to tea
opon his bowels she len fifteen wounds
liz body but Of them deep 10 the cavity
aad finished her horrible work by taking about tw
pounds of flesh from his right thigh By this tmq Pack
ID nearly exhausted that he lay if dead an,
the lear left him scme Of the company within
twenty steps Of the wounded man but unable t
render him any assistance. They the bear treal
down the heard his cries help bat after he rucl
the ground they could neither bear thic
/ was the chapparal around them
Mr Packard was carried to the house and uotwith
staining he is so terribly mutiiated is fair way
cover. He said this morning that he thought he wOu
be up in few weeks DR. Slaughter. OF Pleasant Vaey
dressed his wounds This bear is said to be Of tn
largest kind and in consequence Of being wounded ha
become furious. She has not been captured.