The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-09-05
oADIz OHIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER s. 1856.


FIRST letter, We had between seven and eight
hundred passengers; half Of these were in
the steerage, and half in the first and sec
ond class cabins. do not know whether
this is an unusual number for California
steamers at this season. From the great
hand bills Of this line announcing the ex-
pected bloody civil war (meaning Kinney
and Walker, on the rival Nicaragua route,
and from hearing many declare they went
via. the Isthmus to escape the sickness OF
the other route, conclude we had super
abundance of travellers on this trip.
In despite of the rain. there were somo
two thousand people gathered on the dock,
to see their friends off for the land Of gold,
And when our gun announced US fairly a
float, their huzzas rent the air. We an
swered them with right good will. Soon
we were all ordered below, and the ship
master began to canvas for tickets, lest per-
adventure some needy adyenturer should
be aboard without consideration for his pas
sage. In dong this duty only one fight oc
ccurred in our Cabin. A one armed man,
little the worse for liquor, insisted upon
going on deck. The officer rather hastily
choked him down. One-arm showed pluck
aud was put under arrest, Then began
the gathering Of trunks into state rooms;and
as the sea began to get heavy, their own
ers gathered also. For myself. say il
with wonder and gratitude, have not had
touch Of my old enemy sea.sickness -
Our first night aboard was our worst. The
strange sounds which such an occasion pro
duces were almost unanimous. blessed
my stars and smiled at the woe begOne spec
tacle. The deck that evening was q pite-
Gus scene. Women especially suffered; and
sea sick woman is the most abject human
imaginable! She not only grows careless OF
her children, who may bawl af'er her to
their lungs highest pitch;but careless Of all
the proprieties Of womanhood. her hair
comes down, her comb comes out. her dress
becomes slippery and her frame seems
to lose its hang together actiyeaess, and she
Ilawls and -, but let us drop that sub
ject. prefer to see the sex On land.
4 Saturday; our second day was compara-
lively smooth, except in weathering Cape
Hatteras, when tie vessel began rolling in
such crazy way, that comments by no
meana complimentary to herself, or builder
were made. Odd old tub" seemed to be
the climax Of all speeches on the occasion.
Californians are free spoken. AS the wheel
houses dashed down into the brine only tc
he thrown up into the air, as wave
after wave gave us lurch after )urch,
a stranger to sea voyagelng might well
have grown pale with fear, if not with q
sinking at the stomach. But we numbered
on with wave and current against us. unit
Sabbath dawned.
4 Now Sabbath on California steamer is
not kept in very pious manner. We had
no services except such as Mammon, Glut-
tony and Menus furnish. With the best in
tent to enjoy the day in a saanner approxims
ting to The Christian mode, | looked up my
Bible and hoped for at least one days qui-
etude in reading and thinking of Him, wht
EstiIIeth the noise ofthe seas, the noise o
their waves, and the tumult of the people,
I tried to read that most sublime of The
Psalms Of David, the 104th, wherein ht
extols with the ardor of q true lover Of ma
ture the power and Majesty Of the Creator,
and especially in Lis manifestations on th'
great deep The heaven above and thu
sea beneath and around, seemed the glori.
GUS reflex OF Him, who coyereth himself
with light as with garment. who stretched
out the heavens as curtain" for eyeI
cloud and wave, with their changeful shad
owings, gave added enchantment to the al
embracing sunshine, which illuminated
while it clothed, an revealed while It cur
I tanned. Here, in these seas where tina
Imost minute architect, the beautiful coral
is building ever its home and its tomb, raj
: sing above the wave in little layer afte
-Ilayer great islands for the future residence
and cultivation Of man; here. in the ocear
depths, far below the soundings Of the lead
God, thus ''layeth the beams Of his cham
bers in the waters beams whose yariel
bues and stony strength no human architec
ever rivaled. AS sail after sail, ayoidin
The gulf stream, 90 careering toward th
s Bahamas, and appear as 9 dim, distar
. Especk. or as shining full rugged vessel q
most within hail, truly we may sly will
i the sacred poet, there go the ships on til
3 great and wide sea- and here, whereon "
! stand here. in this proud steamer-''i
q that leviahan whom thou hast made
play therein, '--oat Of whose mouth g
burning lamps and sparks Of 6re; out {
whose nostrils smoke, az out of q seethin
pot cauIlron; whose breath kindleth coals
and who nsaketl, the deep to boil. and
bath u shine after him, so that one woul
think the deep to Be hoary. Was ever d
!. scrption 40 Cited for one Of our noble stet
!. mers, asshis II Job for leyiathan2 But VII
]. ofihe hundreds upon our deck Is thinkin
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