Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-03-13

~ A Wanderers Notes.

-Prairie-Odk grores-HHs-
School for politicians Excellent rodd-In'-
mense amount of irurci-F remont's route.
Former ignorance Of The geography Of this
country Suffers Fort-Capt. Sutter-Odd
Fello,c's Hospital, &c.
PORTLAND, OREGoN, Dec. 20. 1850.
DEAR TINES Lieut.. Lynch, of the dead
Sea Exploring Expedition remarks that the
"king of the feas is said to hold his court in
Tiberias, an ancient town upon the sea of Gal
lice. This was said before much known
of the gold mines in the domains of Uncle
Sans youngest daughter consequently before
the tide of emigration began to set strongly in
that direction. 1t is nor understood that his
jumping majesty no longer holds his cour: in
the province of ancient Galilee, but has re-
moved to California; the precise spot which
has the honor of being his throne not being
Observation-Disclosures in San francisco or Sac
in both places have freely shed my blood as
a tribute to his terrible reign. Seriously, they
do have the largest neas and the most of them,
in California, of any place that l have yet
visited on this mundane sphere. The album
dance o. sand in San Francisco, perhaps, gives
it the prominence in this respect, but in any
portion of California which l have visited, the
traveller sojourner is bound to leave bloody
testimonial of his presence in every place where
he pays his dcvotions to Morpheus.
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of California, and neglect to notice the rats,
millions of which are holding carnival in every
town and city of the STATE. The exposure of
flour and other edible materials in the streets,
in front of shops and in other out-of- door stu
atoms during the dry season, affords fine op-
portunity for this species of animals-rcmarka-
bic for their powers of fecundity-to multiply
and replenish the EARTH" and it will not be
disputed that they have obeyed the Divine IN
junctions-if designed to reach them-to the
very letter. Such rats and such Numbers, too,
running over the floor of ones sleeping apart
ment, over the cotton substitute for an over
head coat of plastcring, even over ones person,
are enough to make night truly hideous, and
W MANI OuN idhS, iiiiiSSii pSSCt W Il
night mares, all playing their sambols in the
spirit Of primitive coltshness. Were l dispo
ed to get up novel speculation, one that 1
think would not fail to pay we'll, l would buy
up a cargo of Thomas cats and establish colo
ony in this country. Once train them to
watch person while sleeping. and one
would ever think of remaining in California,
without his cat to watch over him in his SUM
in the morning, minus his proboscis, in conse-
qucnce of these mschicvous animals, or of
having his face gnawed by their ugly teeth,
when he could 50 cheaply preserve his comel-
ness. hope some of your capitalists who wish
to make additional shipments to this country,
will think of the hint here thrown out.
Back of Sacramento City, as far as the eye
can reach, is one level prairie. on which hun
dreds of cattle, horses and mules arc seen feed
ing, with scattering oaks much resembling the
white oak of the east, but with a smaller leaf
These oaks. with short, gnarlcd bodies, and
large spreading tops, rising only to a moderate
height, appear in the distance like thick
grove, and the horizon appears to be com plete-
ly fenced in with living hedge of these trees ;
but as You advance the hedge rccedes, and
your efforts to reach the thick grove. are about
as successful as the efforts of The child who at
tempts to find the foot of the rainbow to obtain
the tabled pot of money buried underneath it.
For thirty or even forty miles, this same
kind of country extends, with very little change
Of appearance, now gently rising, anon spread
inr out !, boundlcss level, and then again beau
tifully uadulating, but all the time gradually
becoming more elevated and more rarchcd dur
Ing the summer season, with here and there
the dry, gravelly bed of former stream, or
miniature rivulet as yet not entirely dried up,
until the foot hills OF the distant mountains are
reached, when the country assumes entirely
different aspects. Now the traveller no lor ger
finds beautiful cxpanse around lin, but
rocks ard lodges. hills and prccipiccs are all
about, and his road is one continual series Of
ups and downs-the ups-no matter which
vantage over the downs.
As propose in another article TO inilict upon
your readers some account of my observations in
the highlands, around Coloma, (Suttcr's Mid
Salmon Falls Georgetown, Oregon Canon,
and other interesting places, will not now en-
ter the mountain gorses, and hazard thei
necks by description Of the twists and turns.
and tergiversations to which one has to accus
tom himself in order to get along with tolera5le
safety. 1t would be an admirable place to pre-
pare ones self to become a successful party
politician, and am half inclined to believe,
that, having survived the lessons l have taken
in the California mining regions, can return to
the States and 20 through the evolutions of
political campaign life with remarkable exact
ness and skill. Whether shall ever attempt
TO do so is quite another question
From Sacramento city roads diverge to vari-
Gus parts of the State-to the southern, north
ern and middle mines, on most of them private
stage lines being established. l am most ac-
quainted upon the great road leading to Nor
mon Island, Willow Springs, Salmon Falls,
and so on. over the vast ranges of the Sierra
Nevada and the Rocky Mountains, to the
States. This road, sixty miles of which have
twice passed over, IS in most places equal to
the best roads in the eastern States, batting the
dust which rises in clouds, and the ravnes and
dried up water courses occasionally met with.
Not an axe, shovel, or any tool of iron has
been used upon this road, but it is precisely as
it has been made without hands, by the travel