The weekly Placer herald., 1853-05-28
The EmigratiOn.

The most interesting items of news
interesting to CaIfornians received by
the recent arrivals of steamers, are the
various accounts Of preparations and de-
partnres by the overland route, of the en-
igration to our State. The signs evidence
quite as large, if not larger number than
Mt anv previous year, and in catt e and
species of live stock an unprecedented
number The Springfield O linois) Reg
lister of the 7th of April says:
For few days past our streets have
been enlivened with California wagons
from Ohio aud Indiana, and several have
originated here. 1t is plainly perceivable
that there is this season a vast emigration
to Oregon and California-principally to
California An impression seems to pre-
vail that there will be less emigration this
spring than last This error proceeds
from the fact that people have become so
hahituated to the subject that a tripto that
country excites no remark. The first we
hear now "A days is that IA man is gone
Formerly the news was proclaimed for
months before the adventurer set out.
We are sure that Ohio, Indiana and H.
lnois, will send as many beyond the noun
tains this year as any previous year, and
we hear of no falling off in any other
quarter. The steamers by the lSthmus
route ran full, AM! the ''starting points"
on the Missouri are beginning, even at
this early day of the season, to be crowd
ed with emigrantS.
new feature in this movement west
ward is seen this season. Hundreds of
men who have made fortunes in Calfor-
MIA, and returned here last fall and sum
mer, ARE among those going out, most of
them taking fine trains of wagons, cows,
mu es, and horses, in dreves-nearly all
purchased with money obtained at the
mines.
In review of the intelligence from all
parts Of the west on this subject, the New
York Herald If the Goth of April says:
Once more the overland route frem the
Western States to California and Oregon
begins to indicate AN activity of emigra-
ton such AS has characterized it for the
past four years. The tide, which gener-
aly continues to flow in the same direc-
ton for some six weeks, commenting at
this period Of the year, has set in on its
annuai course, but its present volume far
snrpasses that of any previous season.
Immediately after California had first ex-
posed the mineral wea IN of her mountain
gorges to the eyes of the Ubiquitous, en-
terprising Yankee, and when the sea v"y-
age to San Francisco occupied over one
hundred days, the wild and hitherto un-
trodden route over the plains and across
the Rocky Mount .ins, became at once, as
it we're, highway for the immense popu-
ation of adventures, whose inaglnations
were excited to the highest pitch by reports
of the iIIinitable wea tn which the new y
acquired State possessed. The strange
and romantic incidents of that first years
pilgrimage to the gold regions, the perils
which the pilgrims incurred, and the des-
tituton and fatigues which they encoun-
tered, exceed in interest the wi .dest con
ceptions f novelist or poet. The civil
lied world heard with wonder, mingled
nrreduIIty, the narratives of that hosts
exodus ia comparison with the dangers of
which, those of the Israeiifes, in their
wanderings from Egypt to the land of Ca
naan, seemed light and insignificant.
Since then, quick and rapid commun'-
cations have been established between the
Atlantic and Pacific ports, across the 18th