The Baltimore American gives a list of all the vessels which sailed from ports in the United States for California during the month of October, appended to which is the following general summary with regard to the emigration of that month:
The above list comprises 19 ships, 16 barks, 17 brigs, and 13 schooners, in all 65 sail of vessels. The greater portion are ships of the largest class, but even by putting the average tonnage down at 300 tons, we have an aggregate tonnage of 19,500 tons leaving the Atlantic ports in the short space of one month for our distant possessions in the Pacific. The departure of California-bound vessels has become a matter of such common occurrence that, in many instances, the number of passengers is not given, and therefore the number who have left during the month of October, by the Cape Horn route, can only be estimated. Allowing but twenty passengers to each vessel, which is a low estimate -- many of the larger vessels which lft eastern ports having been dispatched by large associations, who go out in them -- and we have a total of thirteen hundred persons. Besides these, during the month, the steamships Empire City, Crescent City and Ohio have sailed from New York for Chagres, and the steamships Falcon, Alabama and New Orleans, from New Orleans, for the same port, carrying together at least one thousand passengers. So that it may be safely estimated, that, during the month of October, at least twenty-three hundred persons have left the United States by sea, bound to California.
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