The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-02-24
NEBRASKA,

: Nebraska country will not be out Of place &
this time.
Nebraska i. so named, from one Of tn
three largest rivers, the Nebraska or Platt,
According to the returns of the last census
it contains l3G,7O0 square miles Of territory
as large as New England, New York, ant
South Carolina. It should be stated, howev
or, taking the Southern line at 81 deg, n
Mr.. Douglass proposes the Territory as thu
organized will be much larger than the por
ton that has usually been designated as Ne
brasba, embracing large portion of the In
dian Territory, and most of the Indian tribes
except the Choctaws, the Creeks, the Chicka
saws, the Seminolcs, and n portion of TIT
Chcrokccs.
Nebraska as proposed to be organized, vii
be vast region having the various climates
that are enjoyed in Missouri, Iowa, and Min
nesota, that lie on its Eastern border; only
the climate, like the face of the country, is
more Asiatic. The Eastern portion of it is
chiefly prairie and rich alluvial. The middle
is more sandy and barren, containing the
great American DESERT and the Western is
mountainous, the highest mountains being
covered with almost perpetual snow.
The inhabitants of,Ncbraska may be sew
cnty-fivc Thousand, mostly Indians. The
whites are military 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 kearney, called the Nebraska Democrat,
and that post office is to be established
some forty miles from it, for the accommodate
ton of cnigrants-two important elements to
begin the work of civilizing the territory.
Nebraska is and must ever be mainly an
agricultural region. 1t is far from the ocean,
and has no great lakes. The Platte river,
though from one to three miles wide, is only
navgable for steamboats, forty miles.
From what even the Indians have accom-
plishcd in agriculture, the country seems to
hold out great hopes to tho farmer. The In
dams there are mostly supported by agricul-
ture, and according to returns before me, four
tribes of Christian Indians on the Northern
and Southern banks of the Kansas, cultivate
four thousand acres. From these they raised,
in late year, 10000 bushels of corn, 1880
bushels Of wheat, and $4,000 of oats, 1000
hogs, and 100000 melons of different kinds.
They kept 600 working oxen, and II large
number of horses. The annual value of their
products is put down at $4,000. The num-
Der of these Indians is placed 2,7G2.
The territory is not well wooded. Poplar,
elm, birch, willow, pines, white oak, maple,
and other trees, are found there in moderate
numbers. The cotton wood tree much
abounds on the rivers. Wild animals, such
rs builaloes, deer, wild horses, mountain
sheep, prairie dogs, wolves, elk, antclopes,
abound in this country.
The territory is capable of supporting II
large population. The people are impatient
to have an organized Territory, that they
may make State afte. State of it,
cW The latest news from Europe state
that Count Orloh's mission failed. The Cars
proposals were for defensive league with
all German Powers and Western Powers. II
any one thereof attacked, Russia would make
common cause with them, and would not
make common peace without consulting their
interest.
German powers, through Austria, definite
ly refused. Western Powers are to immed-
ately demand evacuation of the Principal-
ties, and will compel it forthwith.
LIQUOR AGENCY OF New BEDFORD.-Thc
liquor agent of New Bedford has lust pub.