Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-04-04
ASHLAND.
CALIFORNIA EXCITEMENT
NEW ROUTE.

| NEW ROUTE.
| The Washington correspondent oI
the Louisville Courier, writes as fol-
lows:--
The late arrival from California ha:
but tended TO increase the emigration
fever more than ever. There is at pres
ent no calculating the number Of emi,
grants that will pour into that State du'
ring the coming soasop; so eager are
persons TO get off, that new as well as
old routes will be thronged with heed
less adventurers for the Ell Dorado or
the Pacific. In New York all the steam.
ships have full passages engaged, up tG
the month of August nert; and in many
instances, tickets have been sold out at
double what they cost. Until more
steamships can be constructed, this kind
of transportation between the Atlantic
sea board and the Pacific cannot be
augmented. which compels people to
adopt some other plan to reach Cali
fornis. ..-
There has been line Of wagons and
coaches, fifty in number. that has been
gotten up under the auspices of Parker
H. French, formerly ofSt. Louis that
is to take an entiie new route. He is
now in the city, asking government for
q typographical engineer and couple
of United Sla,es officers, to take the
command Of the last expedition. He
has two hundred and thirty passengers
already booked, and agrees TO take them
from New York to San Francisco for
two hundred dollars each, and feed
them. His route is as follows: He
transports them all 10 Port Lavaca
Western Texas, by steamship. From
there he crosses by land, through E
Passo thence diagonally across the
head waters of the Gila and Colorado
to San Francisco. His wagon and
coaches are all purchased, as are also
his horses and mules, at Port Lavaca
A portion of his passengers are to be
equipped as mounted riflemen at his ex'
pense, who are TO act as on escort &C
the train, and the whole TO be under the
command Of one or two United States
officers, if the Secretary ofwar will as
sign them for this duty.
This route is pronounced by The eel
ebrated Jack Hayes. 10 be shorter ano
far preferable TO the route by Indepen
dence, and from the avidity with which
the passages have been engaged, i
would seem as if this impression va,
general in New York. have men
toned this, only to show you how higt
is the excitement for emigration to lh'
gold diggings of California. have
conversed with great many gentle
men of the highest intelligence. On,
great practical information, who hav,
arrived in this city within The last thirt!
days from California, as to the exten
ofgold in that region, and but one an
r swer is given by all of.hem-that i, i
not only inexhausiible but that the mail
bodies Of it have not yet been discov
, cred. From all the information | car
acquire after the most diligent applica
f. ton. am forced to the conviction tha
/. their opinion is correct. And ifsc
> there can be no doubt that On entir
s revolution as 10 the value Of the pre-
!. cous metal will before long take place
', not only in the United States. bu
D throughout the world. The Canadian
I have lately taken the fever also. an
8 there are hundreds of them in N. Yor
d offering almost any price for q tcke
G in any Of the steamers of this or mel
+ month,