Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-09
Letter from California.
BROWNSVILLE, Jan. /, Is

BROWNSVILLE, Jan l, 1871.
EIditor Rutland Herald 1t has been
nearly year since have written any.
thing to the HERALD. One reason for
delay was that others were continually
posting you in reference to the transpir-
ing events Of California. But l have
come to the conclusion, that being Green
Mountaineer, have just az much liberty
with a few lines of your paper as others,
that is, provided by your good will it is
sanctioned, trusting it will be, 1 wilt I'M
Ger enormously proceed. For me to say
the weather has been very dry here, would
be mere repetition of that which has al
ready been said by others, yet such is the
case, and it ia not only dry but is very
dry There was little rain during the
last month in some localities it softened
the ground sufficiently to admit Of plow-
ing, but it was of short duration, and the
blows were soon laid abide, and they as
vet remain in that position, cau-iug very
dull times.
Barley advanced from Isl 25 to $3.50
per hundred, remaining there only few
days, when it again advanced to $3.50,
Hay is also advancing in price, aud every
day has tendency to cause rise on all
farm produce. Ii there is not rain soon
there will be general stagnstion in the
market in all kinds of goods
California was, in earlier days, called
the Golden State, but now it has assumed
the name of an Agricultural State, there
fore when agricultural products are af-
fected, all branches of trade in the State
are similarly affected This extends not
only to the farmers, but stock raisers are
also suffering greatly. the feed having be-
come so dry and parched that there is not
in it sufficient nourishment to keep their
stock alive. Thousands of sheep are dy-
ing daily, and the same is true of cattle,
the roads, in many places, being literally
strewed with their dead bodies And it
does not even end here. The miners be-
ing affected as much as other classes !
speak of this being farming State, but
by this do not mean that the old excite
ments have become 80 indistinct that min
ing has ceased to be a virtue. Alb, no,
far from this, for there are thousands of
men that depend wholly upon what they
can get out of the mother earth from De-
oember to March, thus, it is evident, they
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You perhaps may think this long,
tiresome letter regarding the weather but
one thing more and am done.
| I have spoken of the suffering of the
formers, the stock-raisers and the miners.
You may think this the climax, but it is
not. You may think it absurd, but is is
.aid, and this by unprejudieed people,
that every day the rain withholds itself
rbe Democracy" is growing weaker, and
should it continue dry any length OF
| time, it would be their utter downfall and
-uin. Because, without rain, the farmers
,annot pillow. without blowing grain can
,ot be raised, without grain whisky
,annot be manufactured, and without
his "drap of the crature," which answers
ehe same purpose as good lusty worm on
an anglers hook, merely for bait, and at
| rhe Same time to deceive the verdant ones
rom the old country, the Democracy
must throw up the sponge" But then
| re all, dear editors, must look on the
| bright side, remembering that every cloud
has its silver lining, and look for oopi-
Gus supply of rain. More anon.