The Placer herald., 1862-01-04
SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE

lowing 30 the arrangement of travelling
and mail facilities, caused by the second and
third freshets at Sacramento, our usual COR
respondence did not come to hand last week
unit day after the publication of our pa
per. Although the information conveyed
may now be called cold news" yet it is
more full in reference to the second flood
than was given by the Sacramento papers.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 26 1861.
Editors HeraH:--Another week has
brought us another food, but not $50 much
of shower as was feared. 1t is so much
lighter than the overflow of the 9th, that
the people do not mind it so much. Besides
almost all the damage to the lower part of
the city was previously done that could be
well executed But then the overflow of
Monday last has added much to the distress
OF those citizens occupying dwellings below
L street and between Sd and 7th-aIso,
those residing east of 1lth on | and north
and East of line drawn from Sixth and H.
This territory was again all inundated but
by depth less by four feet than the flood
of the 9th.
BOATS AGAIN IN DEMAND.
The streets bounded as above were all
trayersed on Tuesday bv boats, but since that
day, (the water falling again on Tuesday
nighO the north east part of the city has
been nearly free, and its inhabitants can
again walk erect on terra ,frma
AGREAT PANIC.
The greatest kind of panic prevailed
here on Monday night. 1t was known that
the American was rapidly rising, and at
sundown the water was within few inches
of overtopping the new made levee at Burns
slough. The bank at Rabes Tannery Cn
! side the 3lst street, or Eastern levee) was
considered in a very dangerous condition,
and liable to break at any time. Knowing
this great danger, everybody on Tuesday
evening dark and rainy which added to the
gloom,) sat in general anxiety for a notice
that the floods was again upon them.
RINGING OF BELLS.
Finally the unwelcome news was conveyed
throughout the city, that the new levee at
Burns had given way and the waters were
coursing their way directly into the city.
The toIling of bells as rite of burial ser,
vice, sends melancholy thrill through the
heart bat the general tolling of bells an
nouncing tha, a city filed with thousands of
women and children, is to be deluged at
night. overwhelms the strongest heart. For
an hour after this alarm, the people with
lamps. might be seen passing aud repassing
in every direction. Those living in the low
grounds were most alarmed, and many fami
lies Immediately left their homes, furniture,
etc. and hurried towards Agricultural Ila I,
where 800 or 400 were quartered for the
night, in addition to those "regu ar borders, "
who have been unable as get to remove
MOVEMENT OF STOCK.
Before the break of Burns levep was ana
nounced the stock within the city limits,
began to move towards the Plaza, where it
y as driven at the former floods This mi
grafton continued all night, and bv Taeslag
morning th Plaza, aud its surroundings was
again well filled.
/ WHY THE OVERFLOW WAS NOT GENERAL.
The ouy reason why The city was not
again free submerged Was solely owing 70
The fact that the torner floods made So ex
tensive breach in the L street Ievee and
ihrou4h lhe raiiroa e,nbankment at the
point where lhe res;le work had be n filed
up, that the waters escaped nearly a, fast as
thev entered The city. Tbs is also the re.~
on why the overflow which did finally occur.
was so slow and ora .ua The city WAS fill
ed in Il few hours on the 9th. because a
large lake had accumulated East of the
Eastern evee ~ she raiNS6j's1d''track, outside
the city On The breaking way Of the
levee, this great body .et~. water, the arcumu
lation of hours, rushed with a torrent
I ] oh ha Af. ba
Monday night, asNs3oii as the enbanklnent
at Burns gave way, the waters of the Amer
lean flowed directly and steadily into the
city on the east, through the several chan.
nels made at The overflow of the 9th. These
waters run down II, |, J and X srreets-that
coming down the two latter streets passing
southwark through 18th, that o the form
er filling the north east part of the city to a
hight of from two inches to u foot, and then
setting back so as to join the genera! flow AS
it passed off towards Snitervie
NO GREAT DAMAGE.
Tie damage to property by the last flow,
in comparison with the former, is being tri
fling. But there is a great destruction OF
confidence as well large amount of per
severance which is weakened, by flood No
2. The waters of the American, it is now
settled, cannot longer be controlled and
qeld in its channel, without new and exten
sve levees and probably by the extra PREF
cautions of a canal across the country, east
of the city, to carry off the surplus waters
during the more extensive annual flood.
But THE PEOPLE WILL ACCOMPLISH 1T.
From the general tone and temper of the citi-
zens since the last overflow. there is no doubt
but that they will universally put their shoulders
to the work. and cause tC be erected all neces
sary levees and all canals The fact is. that the