Mobile register and journal., 1845-02-18
THE SToRM--The Boston Mercantile Journal

THE SToRM.--The Boston Mercantile Journal of the 9th. says
 ed with SHOW than ,liey have ever been before The Newton train, which went out Tuesday e,ening, encountered drift al ihe ship yard in Brookline and was detained all night. The drift was cut through yesterday find by measurement found be nine teen feet deep.
 The Dedham Branch railroad is completely block ed up with snow. For quarter of a mile i: lies about eight feet oD the track, and notwithstanding large number of meu are shovelling it of, the road will not be open for day or two.
 During the storm Thursday night, a new block of five wooden buildings at East Boston, with brick bases and chimnc,s. situated the third section, PGrier-street, was crushed into n of ruins level with the earth.
 The New-York Express, of ihe 9th. has the fol- lowing in relation 10 the apprehended dsasiers The Underwriters were greatly relieved ,e<ter- day, by the favorable accounts that have been re- ce,yed from outside The stories Of ships ashore are something like the black crows. We have advices of the coast from Barnegat to Sandy Hook, on the Jersey shore, and there is ship aground and ouly schr. There is but one ship ashore for fifty miles down rhe Long Island shore. She is on the break CTS, about thirty miles down. She went on after the gale, and had, yesterday all sails sei No co,nmu- ncation has been had with her.
 The ship Mosem. which was reported shore has been heard irom. The ship Sheffield, Capt Gils spie, from Hull is ashore. full of water, on the south side of Long Island.
 Rumors were rife yesterday in the city, that one or more ships were ashore the Jersey Beach, The vessels arrived last evening, th,t came along the Beach, report that there is foundation for the rumors, and vessel ashore north of Rarnegat, ex- cept small fore and aft schooner, d little to the southward of Long Beach.
 OREGON ERKIToRy-T'he New y,rL Cou-;o. and Enquirer condenses the following interesting ac- count of the "Delaieabe Land" on the Pacific. from Greenow's History of Oregon The rumored failure of the negotiations with England, and the recent ac- ion ofthe House in passing by immense ma ority,a bill To extend the government of the United States the whole of this region, gives great interest to all authentic information concerning it.
 l. The Dispute and the Disputed Territory By the Florida Treaty of 1919 between the United States and Span, line drawn along the 42d parallel f I, ttude, from tlie Rocky Mountains to the Pacific was fixed the no, Iern limit of the Spanish territory and the southern limit of the territory of tIe United States in Western America; and when Mexico look the place of Spain, the same boundar, line was Ire. served by a treaty.
 By the convention of 1924, between the United States and RussIa, the Russians ag,eed to make no settlements south of the latitude of 54 degrees. 40 minutes, and the United Stat agreed to make no settlement north of that line
 By the convention of 1925, between Russia and Great Britain, It was agreed that The British sboul occupy no place north of 54 deg. 40 min, and tba, the Russians should make settlement south of ina, line and further, that line from that parallel norih- ward within 20 miles of the sea, to its intersection win he Hist meridian of west longitude and thence along that meridian 10 the Arctic Sea- should be the I,int between the Russian and British possessions. glance at any good map will show that this line passes t rough Mt. St. Elias.
 Here, then, are two lines of boundary-one north from the line of 54 deg 40 min latitude to the Arc. tic Sea- between Great Britain and Russia; tl,e other following ihe 42d parallel, marking Ihe limit between the United States and MexIeo. The intermediate reg ion is the disputed territory "f Oregon. The Americans claim north of the 42d line, the British south of he line of Al deg. 40 min each to an un. defined extent, but each So far as to embrace the country drained by the Colu nba River. These claims were mnproaised by aB arrangement ma e in 1913, continued indefinitely in 1927, and still in force, by which any territory m that section claimed by eier shall be free and open 10 the citizens or subjects ot-both-the government of each being at liberty To abrogate the arrangement; after giving due notice of twelve months to that of the other This then K the dispule-the ownership of this ierr rlory
 Oregon, the disputed territory, thus extends from the 42nd parallel 10 lhe line of 54 deg 40 min. Its natural boundaries are: ihe ,Le Rocky Mountains; on ihe south, the Snowy Mountain ; on the west, the Pacific, from Cape Mendocino to Cape Fia'ery; and on the north, ile SiraiIs of Fuca about l1o miles eastward, thence a line running north east along the highlands separating the waters oi ie Couinba from those of Frazer's river to the h"cky Mountains. This is the territory drained by the Columbia, and the extent of it's surface is about SoO,OO0 square miles. This country is divided by i's na'uri,. c"nhsurition into three great regions winch dier from each other materially in soil cl,- | mate and productive powers l. The first regnon low coun,rv lice b.,w.e, the Pacific Coast and d chain of m,,,,a, ru,.;oo | near the sea. This chain has received . y,,,o,x oI names, 'he Californian the kamat, tn. Cascade | and the President range, and is seven b;vheel peaks have been named after the seven p,.s;Sen,. from Washington to Jackson in succession Tha.a mountains of considerable elevation. and ,h ss who have trave' d over them speak in ran,ur.n. terms of the wide and magnificent view winch ,SsS present The distance from the coast 70 the iuot n, these mountains is in some places 100 miles, in ntb CTS less. The intervening country is crossed by low | ridges, between which are vaes drained by r,yers flowing into the Pacific and the Columbia or the two which empty into the Columbia. the Cowhtz has been but partially traced; the Southern, the Mutnomah or Wallamet. has been traced 200 m,les, through valley s'ld 10 be the most delightful and fertile pat of Northwest America. The climate ol this region is more favorable io agriculture than h,t of the other parts of Oregon. The summer is warm and dry. Snow IS rarely seen in the valleys, aad ihe ground is very seldom frozen, so that plourhnp may be carried on during he whole winter. Wh.at, barley, rye, peas, appes, notatoes etc are raised horses and cattle succeed oierably we'll but agrcul- must always suffer from the dryness of te sum. mer The growtb Of timber on ibe pplapds s enor.