...xtra premium, as the Asteroid is not a clipper, and will be a bon prize for the Southerners. I shall sail this evening [September 16th, three days before the Joseph Parke] and take a new route, for Hampton Roads . The Asteroid escaped us, as no doubt many more had done, by avoiding the beaten track, and taking a new road home; thus verifying, in a very pointed manner, the old adage, that the longest way...