The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-03-31

NEBRASKA

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The information on Nebraska IS meagre
at the most, Altogether The fullest and most
accurate account is that to Be found ia The
large volume of Col. Fremont containing Re.
ports ofhis exhibitions 10 California and Or
egon in 1929 and 4. The volune con.
tains in addition to Fremont's narrative, re-
ports on the B. tany Of the country, by those
having charge of these departments also
astronomical ubservious &c. Horn over
land guide. to California isa chin book and
lis information is confined to the routes
pursued by emigrants. Ovens Geological
Survey gives Information on the geology Of
Nebraska, and School crafts large work.
on the Indian gives quite full statistics on
the Indian tribes OF the territory Of Nebfas-
ka.
Nebraska is so named from one Of its lar
gest rivers the Nebraskaof Platte. Accord
inc to the returns of the last census it con-
tains 136, 900 square miles Of Territory as
large as New England, New York q South
Carolina. It should be stated however ta-
king the Southern line at 81 deg as Doug
lass proposes the Territory as thus Organi-
zed will be much larger than the portion
that has usually been designated as Nebras-
ka. embracing large portion Of the Indi-
an Territory and most Of the Indian tribes
except the Choctaws, the Greeks. the Chick
asaws, the Seminoles, and portion Of the
Cherokees.
Nebraska is proposed to be organized
with vast region having the various eli
mates that are enjoyed in Missouri Iowa, and
Minnesota, that leon the eastern border; on
" the climate like the face Of tie country,
is more Asiatic-The Eastern portion, is
more chiefly prairie and rich alluvial. The
middle is more sandy and barren, contain
inc the Great American Desert and the
Western is mountainous the highest noun
tains being covered with almost perpetual
snow.
The Inhabitants of Nebraska may be 75-
OO0mostly Indians. The whites are militia
~ men, Indian agents and Missionaries
Within week paragraphs have appeared
IN the papers, announcing that a newspaper
is about to be published at old Fort kear-
new called the Nebraska Democrat and that
a post office is to be established some forty
miles from it for the accommodation of en-
prants-two important elements to begin
the work ofcivilizing the territory OF Nebras-
ka.
Nebraska is aud must ever be an agri
cultural region. 1t is far fron the ocean,
and has no great lakes. The Platte river,
though from one to three miles wide is on
" nayigable for steamboats, forty miles.
From what the Indians have accomplish
ed in agriculture, the country seems to hold
out great hopes for the former. The In
dams there are mostly supported by agri-
culture and according to returns before me,
four tribes of Christian Indians on the
Northern an. Southern banks of the Kinsas
cnltive four thousand acres. From these
they raised in late year, 10000 bushels
of wheat, and 1000 of oats. 1000 hogs
and 200, 900 melons of diferet kinds. They
kept GOO working oxen, and a large humber
of horses. The annual value of their pro-
ducts is put down at S31 900, The num-
of these Indians is placed at 2,703.
The territory is not well wooded. Pop
lar, birch, pines white oak, maple are found
there in moderate numbers. The cotton
wood tree much abounds on the rivers
Wild animals, such as the buffaloes deer,
mountain sheep, prairie dogs, elk, wolves,
ant lopes, abound in this country.
The territory is capable of supporting
large population. The people are impa-
tient to have an organized territory, that
they may make States of it.