The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-12
From Our Travelling Correspondent.
PEORIA, ILL.,, Oct. 23d, 1870.

he bid his tilltcun,s a sad, sad, goodbye
in last July, and, after Mrs. Injun had
cried whole pints of bitter tears (Which
rolled down her dirty cheeks and drop
ped on the floor like beans) he mounted
a oneeyed cayuse horse, took last look
at the dear old mountains, whore, as
most of your readers are aware, he fought
the bloodthirsty savages, and in his hap>
pier hours amused himself by sharpen
ing his scalping knife-where the new
country which my pen has SO often ats
tempted to describe, sleeps in beauty,
with here and there Pioneers cabin to
relieve the eye-a country yet destined
to be filed with the sound of hammer and
the whistle of the locomotive and the
noise of ever advancing civilization.
l arrived at the Dalles and changed
my horse for the steamer to Portland.
| have often ridden up and down the
Columbia river, yet the knowledge of the
fact that should soon be separated from
our grand scenery, caused me to gaze
with sublime and tender feelings on the
erandness of the scenery. Mount Hood,
with her eternal covering of ice and
snow, the lofty mountains, the frowning
walls OF rock, and the gushing waterfall ,all
going to make one grand whole of awful
, sublimity. From Portland by stage to
Chico, passing through the county-seat
of "Old Linn" and near the home of my
: youth, out through the vallies of the
Umpqua and Rogue River-on into Cali
fornia-over the Trinity and other moun-
taius, where one gaze $500 feet
down, and the stage has only about
. twelve Inches spare room to run on-we
pass Mount Shasta, as pretty mount as
Hood then leave the mountains where
spring was just opening and go down into
French Gulch, where the thermometer
: stood at 11oo in the shade, and harvest
had been over a month Soon Chico was
, reached then We took the cars, aud Lit
;. tie Injun must say that when in the
mountains after Indians lie had expert
euced some ro@gh life, yet, a stage ride
he ever tried As was so tired and
sleepy l could not keep awake going into
Sacramento, but FILLING asleep awoke to
find my hat gone. San Francisco was al
> [ would lie down on the bed and rest
until supper-t;me, but awoke just in time
:. for supper the next day. | staid in Sar
Francisco FIVE days. 1t is by far the
prcitiest City | saw on my route. Tht
BAY is covered with vessels. The mast
of the ships seem SO thick as to remino
:. me of the timber in the mountains.
might have found Dear, but from the fac
&c | hadn't lost any, and was not armed.
Left San Francisco Monday, Aug. h
and passing over the Sierra Nevada
was soon rushing with lightning spec
- down the long eastern slope. Arrivin
II at Salt Lake, we mentioned the matter c
g the business of hanging Brigham Th
i Mormons advised Little Injun to ''dr
1 up," which he did till the cars startet
q and then he called them n,ates, and W:
:, happy
9 From Salt Lake to Omaha there's notl
= ing much to be seen save immense pra
e ries. No buffalo, but great herds
| antelope From Omaha to Chicas
j passed thousands of acres of COIN. low
70 is very pretty country From Chicas
TO Titusvilie, Pa. Here we found ''ile
d Titusvile is place of about nine thou
Z and Inhabitants very pretty place
~. the way. The wells are generally abo
900 feet deep, and some of them W
&c yield as much as 400 gallons of oil per da
o The cars, streets, churches, and stor
smell of ssile y the air is ;mpregnate
IS with it, and the people talk of it, thin
te of nothing else. and dream of it. Thou
= ands of derricks arc to be seen. The {
- comes up with about equal quantities
is very salt water 1t is thick, nude
q looking fluid, in its crude state. II
fires for the boilers are kept going by Il
no gas from off the oil.
te From Titusville, we came to this Cit
At Smithville we found many frien
- and shall rest here perhaps this wintt
: | have visited Galesburg, Monmouth Al
Iopia At Monmouth is Theoloeit
Seminary, at which Presbyterian min
C. ters are educated, besides other instii
tions of learning. AT Ionia we fou
Mrs. Little Injun, or rather we inie
to make her so ,cokc Ieaiy
Thus have, for the time being,
e. ished my travels, and have given /
OF readers this rough outline soas to p
a pare them for the places to be deserib
ea hereafter, when we get refreshed a
-, recruited from our long journey.
l met Mr.. r. G. Geer. wife and dat.
0y ter, of Salem, Oregon. They are raisi
to recruits for Oregon. I am sorry tha
lb- brought no fruits, grains. &c, as pco
.er doubt the stories Of large apples, &c,
s. which every Orcgonian can SO prou'
boast.
Gus l have raised about seventy recsr
Of for my dear western home. The peo
he hero arc welcome to their country
nm thunder storms, cold winters, and bar
soil-but the land of the "setting sun
now and ever will be the home of
I VVsrI L INJIgN