, 1854-02-25
News bV EXPRESS.

KER g. GOLFERS Express, instead Of the Pa.
cifc Mail Steamship Company for dates
from New York up to Jan. 5th, and from
New Orleans to Jan. 7th. The news fur
nishcd will be found highly interesting. In
the delay which Judge LANCASTER may be
subjected to in reaching Washington City,
as our delegate to Congress, we hope that
Gen. LANE, delegate from Oregon, will
make it known TO that body, and the prop
er department, that the people of this ter
ritory are no longer dependent on the As
pinwall company for their mail matter and
news, but to the Express and sailing YES
sells engaged in the lumber trade between
the Sound and San Francisco, and gently
hint that mail steamer, toply between the
places designated, would prove of great adj
vantage TO, and be duly appreciated by the
people generally,
Congress is moving in matters very slow
ly. The passage of bills of local and
personal character, and the consideration
Of "one thousand and one" different prop
oSitions for the construction of the Pacific
railway, over nearly as many different
routes, has occupied large share Of the
attention of that body since the opening
of the session. The Northern route, thus
far seems to have the inside track, and
meets with the greatest partiality by the
eastern journals, and would undoubtedly
command the largest subscriptions should
a company be chartered by Congress for
the construction Of it.
A Territorial government will be cstab-
lishcd over Nebraska by the present CON
gress. The bill provides for her admit
tance into the Union with or without sla-
very as her constitution may provide.
Gen. Wool who has been ordered to the
command of the military department of
California, before his departure from Wash
ington was presented with the thanks Of
congress and sword for his distinguished
services at Buena Vista.
The following summary of news is taken
from the New York Herald:
WAsHMGyoN, Jan. 8, 1854
1--WE are enabled to state, upon ample
authority, that treaty with Mexico has
been negotiated by Gen Gadsden, and is
now before the President, and will proba-
bly, soon be communicated to the Senate.
The first article of the treaty in question
provides that Mexico shall give to the Uni
ted States such boundary as will enable
us to protect Mexico from the incursiOns Of
the frontier Indians
The second article provides for a right
of way for railroad to the Pacific, "as a
means'-to quote the language of the
treaty-"of forming q commercial barrier
against the attacks Of the Indians"
The third article provides for an abroga-
tion of the eleventh section Of the Treaty
Of GuadalOupe Hidalgo, which guarantees
the defence Of the frontier in consideration
of money given, which is to be in full Of
all past depredaiions.
The fourth article provides for the spc-
cifc enforcement Of the Tehuantepec right
of way.
The fifth contains an alternative propo-
sition to the second article, to the effect
that Mexico shall cede to the United States
a boundary which will include the route
known in Lieut.. Parke's map as Lieut..
Colonel Cooks wagon route" extending
nearly to the 3lst parallel, and going due
west, so as to give us q large accession Of
territory, and taking in the whole Of the
peninsula Of Lower California, including
Sonora, upon the payment by the U. States
to Mexico of fifty millions Of dollars.
The Alta California adds the following:
The last provision Of the treaty as above
given, contradicts itself. The thirty-first
parallel Of latitude, instead of including
the whole Of the peninsula of Lower Cal
ifornia and Sonora" would embrace but a
very small strip of those territories.
Per eoNtrd-the Washington correspon-
dent Of the Journal of Commerce asserts
that nothing is definite in regard to Mr..
Gadsden negotiation, except that Santa
Anna refused to cede an inch Of territory
to the United States, and declared, that,
before he would accept the terms proposed,
he would sacrifice the lives Of fifty thous-
and men, and his own among them.
The object of the "fllibustering" expo
dition against Lower California, Sonora,
Chihuahua, &c, will be somewhat antici-
pated should the news Of q treaty by our
government with Mexico be confirmed, and
a magnificent field for enterprise and capi
tai will be opened up. The following is the
latest proclamation Of Col. Walker to the
people of Lower California:
'In entering the territory Of Lower Cal
ifOrnia, the force under my command had
for its object the amelioration of your so