The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-10-25
From The ~ Y. Tribune.
THE TERRITORIAL BILLS.

Of the Boundary between New Mexico and
Texas:
A BILL.
Proposing to The State Of 1sras the establishment
If her Northern and Western boundaries, the
relinquishment By said STATE Of all territory,
claimed by her exterior Of said boundaries, and
of all her claims upon the United States.
Be it enacted, &c. That the following propo-
sitions shall be, and the same are hereby Offer
ad to the State of Texas, which, when agreed to
5g the said State in an act passed by the Gem
| eral Assembly, shall be binding and obligatory
upon the United States and upon the said Slafe
of Texas: Propided That said agreement by the
| said General Assembly shall be given on or be-
( fore the 1stddy of December, 1900.
First The State of Texas viii agree that her
boundary on the North shall commence at the
point at which the meridian of 100 degrees west
from Greenwich is intersected by the parallel of
36 degrees and 80 minutes north latitude, and
shall run from said point due west to the merldi-
an of l03 degrees west from Greenwich; thence
her boundary shall run due south TO the 32d
degree of nor:h latitude; thence on the said par
alle of 80 degrees of north latitude to the Rio
| Bravo del Norte: and thence with the channel 0!
said river to the Gulf Of Mexico.
Second The State OF Texas cedes to the Un-
tied States all her claims to territory exterior to
her limits and boundaries, which she agrees TO
establish by the first article of this agree
| ment
Third. The State of Texas relinquishes all
claim upon the United States for liability for the
debts of Texas, and for compensation or indem-
nifty for the surrender to the United States OF her
ships, forts, arsenals, custom houses, CUSTOM
house revenue, arms and munitions OF war, and
public buildings. with their sites, which became
the property ofthe United States at the time OF
the annexation.
Fourth. The United States in consideration
of said reduction of boundaries, cession OF errl-
tory, and REIMBURSEMENT of claims, will pay to
the State of Texas the sum of ten millions OF
dollars in a stock bearing five per cent interest,
and redeemabe at the end Of fourteen years,
the interest payable half yearly at the Treasury
of the United States.
Fifth Immediately after the President Of the
Uuted States shall have been furnished with an
authentic copy Of the act of the General Assem-
!. bly, of Texas, accepting these propositions, ne
shall cause the stock to be issued in favor Of the
State of Texas, as provided for in the fifth arti-
Gle Of this agreement.
Prorided, also, That five millions Of said stock
shall hot be issued until the creditors 0. the said
State, holding bonds of Texas, for which duties
IN imports were specifically pledged shall first
file, at the Treasury Of the United States, re-
! leases of all claims against the United States
: for on account Of said bond
This bill passed the Senate by vote OF 80 to
20, but so much of it as carries the boundary OF
t Texas North to 36 deg. SO min. was barely car
o red by vote Of 25 to "a for substituting the
s Clay Compromise Boundary which carried Tex
r as at no point above the parallel Of "a deg.
b North. Messrs. Cass, Dickinson, Dodge, of
j. Iowa, and Sturgeon of Pa. (and on subsequent
!, !, vote Messrs. Brighand Whuecombo of Ind voted
with the ultra South to turn the intermediate
i 25 900 square miles over from Free Soil to Sa-
il yery. That vote secures the ultimate erection
d O! two more Slave States out of Texas, when,
! but for it. one OF them would have been formed
h from New-Mexico and been Free.
y The bill organizing New Mexico as Terri
v tory Of the United States passed the Senate on
N the 5th ut. and was spliced TO the above
lie boundary bill inthe House on the 9th inst. by
" loo to 99 This bill is very long, and consists
merely Of the usual provisions, (for which see
IN any act organizing U. s Territory )-The
e following are its more material provisions:
u The first section Of this bill enacts that all thai
ct portion of Territory of the United States, boun
al ded as follows, 10 wit: Beginning at point il
he the Colorado River, where the boundary line o
20 the Republic of Mexico crosses the same: thenc
od eastwaldly with srid boundary line TO the Rif
ba Grande; thence following the main channel o
{ said River to the parallel OF the AID degree Z
'lo north latitude; thence eastward with said degrei
lc- to its intersection with the l03d degree OF lon
as gitude west from Greenwich; thence north wit
Die said degree of longitude to the parallel ol tn
as- 38th degree Of north latitude; thence west wit
yas said parallel to the summit of the Sierra Madrt
ire thence south with the crest of said mountain
- to the 37th parallel of north latitude; theme
,'o west with the said parallel to its intersectio
tri- with the boundary line of The State OF Gallo
'ek MIA; thence with the said boundary line to Il
bur place Of beginning, be, and the same Is hereb
erected into a temporary Government by u
name Of the Territory of New Mexico. Prov
90 ded. That nothing in this act contained shall
70 construed to inhbit the Government ofthe Un
" ted States from dividing said Territory into tW
can or more Territories in such manner and at su,
all times as Congress shall deem convenient al
an, proper, or from attaching any portion thereof
the any other Territory or State, Provided fnrtht
the That when admitted as State, the said Ter
,1es tory or sny portion Of the same shall be recel
49, ed into the Union, with or without Slavery,
80 their Constitution may prescribe at the time
'o'e their admission.
was The seventeenth section enacts that the pr
re- visions Of this bill be suspended until the dlsF
ted boundary between the United States a
(, "a rhe STATE OF Texas shaIrDe adjusreu, and wh
feet such adjustment shall have been effected,
hin President Of the United States shaissue his p
T .l' clamation declaring this act to be 10 fa fel
, .le and operation, and shall proceed to appo
ltne the officers herein provided to be appoin
ruck for the said Territory,
her The above two coDjoined bills; after being
cisively rejected, passed the House on Ffid
on of Sept 9th, by vote Of l08 to SO, and their
mo- Junction was assented to by the Senate on NJ
.a,,, dav, and the double bill thus passed. II
1ol.a signed by the President on Monday the 9th,
lsseu is now the law of the land.
then : 49, - -
1ip's g While looking out of our sanct
tail, window, last evening, at the busy thr
He crowding above the ..sGarding Sass,
and old joke that a Frenchman once tolf
forced itself upon our memory.
cover sAh Monsieur said he. sde Yanke
cross very curious man. Ven come tc
lean countrie, ma fol, take ma basket, a
4 the 90 10 de mamuet. / see some fine pon
i the de terre-vell, how you sell dis!' sTy
IN at bon91 cc4r a old