The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-25
ANCIENT BOUNDARY OF LOUISIANA.

From the New Orleans Bulletin. Oct. a.
From the frequent mention of the subject, and
the allusions contained in our newspapers, one
would think that the emigration to California was
gaining rapidly on the popular favor AT various
points, we notice, bands Of adventures are organ
izng and will be ready to start from their sew
eral places Of rendezvous. There is holiness,
nay, grandeur, in the enterprise, captivating TO
the American taste. Il may be anticipated that
numbers OF our daring, adventurous population
will respond to the invitation. In the western
try, many impatient, reckless spirits to be found,
among whom a tramp across the Rocky mountains
TO the shores Of the Pacific would be embraced as
romantic adventure, and the very acme OF GLORIOUS
fun" Besides, there are crowds Of the unfortu-
nate and dsafected, to whom the chance Of escaping
from the perplextes that now harass them, and Of
trying their fortunes in the UNEMPLOYED boundless
West, will be welcome, as happy release II may
be supposed then, that there will be no scarcity Of
volunteers The party of emigrants is expected to
be numerous, and well supplied with all the means
try through which the pilgrimage is to pass, re-
quires that the travellers should be well armed and
equipped rs their road lies along sdesert wilder
nesscs," and over rugged mountains, inhabited by
fierce and hostile tribes Of savages.
Once arrived, however, at the place Of destina-
tion there Is tiie to be apprehended from any guar
ter. The spot s too remote from the populated
tons Of Mexico to be annoyed by military expedi-
tons. Besides, the government at home is too
much occupied with putting down domestic insur-
recon, to pay attention TO the intrusion of Yankees
on the extreme northwestern verge Of its territory
As TO the practicabity of the enterprise, antic
pafions are most sanguine The country bordering
on the gulf Of California, and the adjacent seacoast
NORTH is represented TO be the Paradise OF America
AT present, the region is wild and unoccuped, and
presents to the Yankee pioneer domain with "am-
pie room and verge enough" for great democratic
empire, extensive as the "twerty-six States" We
hail with delight the march of emigration westward
and would venture the prediction that before the
lapse of many years, continuous line of flourish
ing American settlements will extend along the
shores of the Pacific, from the mouth Of the Oregon
to the extremity of the Californian peninsula
TEXAS AND THE ANCIENT PROVINCE OF LOUIS.
lana.
To the editor ofthe NJ O. Commercial Bulletin:
Though the subjects of intense interest and of
protracted controversy, Texas and Oregon, remain
indefinite terms--fairy lands, over which intense
darkness and glaring lights alternate--to those who
have lived long enough, and been sufficiently atten-
tive to the progress westwardly of Anglo Saxon
population during the last sixty years. the terms
Texas, Oregon, and California, will sound as mere
echoes to Georgia, Ohio, Maumee, Kentucky. Iowa.
Louisiana, Missouri, etc. Since the first English
foot was set on the shores of James river, 1907,
land of aluring promise has appeared towards the
who have been for more than two centuries super
seding the savage on North America. In fact to
recede into the century preceding Anglo-Saxon col
onization on North America, we are enabled to dis
cover that the spirit which has borne and bears their
posterty westward over the continent, is the same
which brought the original emigrants over the At
lantic.
To paraphrase Spanish proverb, we may say,
"wHAT MUST BE WILL BEn 1.-THE effects were moi
too serious to be made subjects of Jest, we nigh,
smile at the interminable distractions which fill the
columns of our prints, and tax the patience of audi
ences and lungs Of speakers. Rivers do not more
naturally and surely flow from mountain wales
to the ocean, than do our surplus population move
westward, and have, under all other circumstances
thus moved in that direction with accelerated force
and velocity, for upwards oftwo centuries. Amongst
the thousands and tens of thousands who have been
carried along the stream, the mysterious current
from the Atlantic border into the savage interior,
sixty-four years since, the writer of this address
was one. Then, the upper Ohio was the ne plus ui-
fra. Before me lies a document in singular
ner illustrative of the march of man on North Amer
ica. II is map, with the following title date and
.5af4 NORTH AMERICA,
Corrected from the observations
Communicated to the Royal Society a. London,
sAi xxx and the Royal Academy at Paris:
ai ,aloa,s BY John Senex, F. R. s.
~ aGFAfa afa ITO.
T5lhc Memorable AnrHoxY HAMMOND, ESQ, one of
The commissioners Of her JMgestys navy this map is
hsnsbly presented by his obliged seroant.
This map, if we refer to the date of its formation,
may be regarded as in high degree correct The
general outlines of the Atlantic coast, from the mouth
Of the Ornoco river to Hudsons straits with inter-
mediate great features, laid down with an accu-
racy highly creditable to the author. similar
character is due to it on the Pacific side; common
cling with the bay of Panama, and stretching to the
1~.4 ~rA tn~ unF( ~, -
ella river and that of Rio del Tison (Colorado) of
modern maps. In regard TO historical geography.
this map is now of great interest. Immediately af-
ter the discovery ofAmerica by Columbus, in 1892,
a fame Of awakened curiosity swept over western
Europe, and in England excited determination to
enter into the rivalry of discovery with Portugal and
Spain. Henry VII of England sent out the Cabots,
who became the discoveries and partial explorers of
that part of the North American Atlantic coast now
the northeastern part of the United States, Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, the mouth of the st. Law
renee river, and island Of Newfoundland. The lat
Ter name was given and adopted by the English ma
ton, as general term for the whole newly -discov
cred coast.
A Spanish naval commander Juan Ponce de Lee
on) reached the North American coast in 1879,
somewhere near where St. Augustine now stands,
and gave TO his discovered land the name of Florida
Spanish maps and Newfoundland on those of Eng
land; and SO continued till 1885, when Queen Eliza
beth ganteda charter TO Sir Walter Raleigh and his
associates, for colonization on North America, in
which Virginia was bestowed general name for the
Countries embraced by the charter. The new name
(Virginia) was popular, and gradually the original
name (Newfoundland) was confined to, and perpet-
uated to our times to designate the island outside
the Gulf Of st. Lawrence.
As English colonization advanced, the name of
New England, though never adopted by any public
authority prevailed, for the Atlantic coast colonized
nv III AT ma and n hat of