Daily Advocate [Baton Rouge, LA], October 29, 1860
Scores of Texas and North Louisiana bound emigrants now line our thoroughfares. A majority of those passing through this place we observe are of the wealthy class, who having to abandon the old and worn out lands of Alabama, Georgia and the Carolina’s, are seeking new homes in Texas and the northern portion of our State. If provender required by travelers is as scarce through the country as at this point, we would advise them to take things off of wheels until there is a moving of the waters.—Harrisonburg Independent.