The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-02-12
From the Cincinnati Enquirer
Tlac Territory of Nebraska.

MIR. Douglass, of Illinois, some days ago, intro.
daccd into the House of Representatives, a bill
10 erect the new territory of Nebraska. The
reader will be curious TO know something Of this
proposed new member of tho nation. We have
now four constituted territories, two of which,
Iowa and Florida, are knocking at the door Of
the Union for admission as States. Where can
Nebraska be? 1t will convey a forcible idea OF
Inc vast extent of our country if the reader
will consider that it lies to the west of the Stale
OF Missouri, adjoining that State, but having be,
tween it and the eastern slope Of the Rocky
Mountains, four hundred miles of territory.
We append a very satisfactory account Of the
proposed new Territory, which we find in the re-
sort of the Secretary of War;:
"The immediate valleys of the head streams
of the Arkansas, the Platte and the Yellow Stone
rivers, have much rich and valuable land. The
Pratte, Or Nebraska, being the central stream
leading into or from the great South pass, would
very properly furnish a name to the territory,
which | propose suggesting 10 be erected into a
territorial government i'll connection with, and
preliminary TO the extension in that direction, OF
our military post. | would confine the Nebraska
Territory TO our undisputed possessions on this
side of the Rocky Mountains. Its boundary
line TO at the mouth of the Kansas,
and run up the Missouri river 10 the mouth OF
Running Water river, and would pursue that
stream to the head of its northern branch, and
thence due west TO the Vino river range, and
the main chain of the Rocky Mountains to the
head Of Kansas, and following that stream tc
the mouth OF the Pawnee Fork, would pass by
the heads of Neosha and Usage rivers, again to
the mouth of the Kansas.
"The eastern section of the region embraced
by these boundaries, from the Missouri river
westward for two hundred and fifty miles, is Of
great agricultural beauty and facilities, ihickly
timbered on numerous tributaries of the Kansas.
Usage and Neosha rivers, and 10 fertility equal
to the best land in Missouri. From the limit o
this fertile portion, westward for the space of40C
miles, the country is entirely covered with rich
grasses, which improve in quantity and quality
up to the snow of the mountains.
"The limits Of this territory include the OK.
IRENE head of navigation of the Arkansas, all
the good lines Of communication with California,
the road from our frontier to the Mexican boun-
dairy and Santa Fe, and also an excellent and di
rect pass to Oregon discovered by recent explo,
ration, about one hundred and fifty miles south
ward of the great South Pass.
"Although the number of inhabitants enga.
ged in agriculture and other pursuits within those
limits do not afford the amount of population al
all adequate, at present, TO the formation of a
full and complete territorial government, yet
such an inchoate or preliminary organization
might now be adopted as would be necessary TO
extend the control and authority of the general
government, and to throw its protection around
our emigrants to Oregon in theirpassage through
this country"