The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-09-02
For The DEE0cGAT.
An OVERLAND TRIP TO OREGON.

II. UecnLahD lh.F III UGEGJM,
Remaining in Sacramento three days
-hayiDg first seen everything worthy
OF note in that beautiful. city with It's
wide streets and beautiful parks, Its
magnificent race course and water
works, its beautiful residences,-2 p.
m. Of the 23d of April found me at the
foot OF the Sacramento street wharf,
near the beautiful steamer 'Chrysopo-
lis" With crowds pouring in and out,
half ragged and disappointed miners
just from White Pine giving wotui &C
counts Of it and curSing the day they
ever started to tho internal regions, .
and loaiers 0. all descriptions louneing
around with no apparent purpose but
to be on hand if something should turn
w, the voice Of the captain is now
heard, "All ashore there is sudden
stampede to the wharf, and the boat
swings oat into the stream. We are
soon passing down the river, lined on
either side by beautiful grain fields,
vineyards, and extensive vegetable gar
dens which supply the Sacramento and
San Francisco markets. We pass the
clogs Back" at !, Bcnecia at ., and
half hour later found us steaming
down the bay, and at ESQ we were
safely landed at the foot Of II Washing ton
street in San FRANCISCO. The 18th
found ne on beard the steamer bound
Tor Portland, Oregon. Passengers
were already on board in great iui;l
bers-red>eyed Biddys shaking hands
with departing Patricks. We are soon
leaving San Francisco behind US, Oak
land on our right, and ploushing along
past Fort Point, Point Adams and
the North Head Light-House. Hare
our pilot left us, aDd We were soon on;
on Tie broad blue sea-" Our pass
age tickets are uow collec:ed;thi is done
By line OF passengers joining hands
IN a large circle Oh the dert and t'ting
in every one as they so-above. below,
fore and aft. This process is carried on
until every one has demonstrated his
right to a passage, or in default there
Of, has been placed on the hurricane
deck 10 cell rope, or put below in the
hold to shovel coal for the engines. 4
family Of s-w-a>ways were found be-
low who acknowledged their intention
of steaiing passage to Oregon. Our
meal tickets are given Us, and all We
have ID do now is to eat. sleep and be
bcrne along. 1t would be difficult to
imagine more unsettled state Of az
fairs anywhere than upon steam ship,
the first day out. Everybody wants
something he can't ind, everyone
wants everything, everybody wants
and nobody gets until everybody, tired
and Disguised, or owing to very disa-
grceable state Of "unsettlement' which
Neptune has imposed upon all his sub
jects, retire to their rooms, navigate
into their buuks. and forget all their
troubles. | was Obliged to retire for a
short time, as was also friend Burch,
who never left his bunk between Be-
dega and and the Columbia Bar. On
finding that lying in my bunk did not
afford aay relief. | crasled to the bur-
ricane deck, feeling in a very unset.
tied condition generally, and about as
pale as the ghost Of Hamlet's father
/ felt pale. felt unsettled. Ia fact,
everything appeared to be spinning
around Of the rata IF n mi Ia in n min.
ute. Leaning over the railing, amid
the jokes Of the sailors about Gland
lubbers," | made very generous con-
tribution to the Pacific Ocean. After
passing cape Mendocino with its tow
ering cliffs rising hundreds of feet as if
bidding defiance to old Ocean himself,
we saw our first whalcs-a couple Of
large ones came sporting up by our
ship, Twenty five miles north Of this
cape VIC saw large school of PROPOSES.
The third day out We passed Trinidad
Head, where gold was discovered in
1858, at which time, according to all
accounts, old Ocean turned miner and
washed up great quantities of the
precious metal on the beach above
Trinidad City. We passed Crescent
City Point at II m. same day, 100
miles from the mouth Of the Columbia
river; 80 niles to northward we pass
the boundary Tide between California
and Oregon. Here the scenery chang
es perceptibly, from comparatively bar
rem and rocky cliffs to rolling hills and
table lands covered with gigantic pine
and hemlock, towering tall and straight
to a hight Of two hundred to $50 feet,
and oft times to distance of SO f..
without limb. Niue o'clock a. M,
we passed Cape Blanco, the bug-bear
and terror Of every sailor along the
Oregon coast. Indeed, an old sailor
ditty has it thus:
"If Cape Mendocin-o
Lets You pass, oh,
Then Look out for Cape Blanc-o."
Here We began to encounter strong
head-winds and rough sea, and the
manner in which our ship rolled about
in the through of the saav made II vcrv