Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-12-28
A Few More Left

The N. Y. Times enumerates, in a tone
half serious and half jocose, the number Of ad-
ditions likely soon to be made to Uncle Sans
family
On the 18th Of this month the special or
der in The senate is the consideration of bill,
which was proposed near The close Of last ses-
sion by Senator johnson, of Arkansas. The
bill provides for the organization Of a new ter
ritorv south of the Kansas line, and north Of
the Red River of Louisiana and six degrees o:
longitude in width. The tract enclosed covers
an area larger than Ohio and New Jersey. 1t
is the land Of the Che:okees, Greeks, Chock-
,aws, Chickasaws and Seminoles, who num-
Der some &c, 900 souls. This beautiful region,
according to Mr.. JoEnson's bill, is to be or
ganized al once into three ierrlories-the
Cherokee, which the Cherokees occupy, the
Muskogee, which the Greeks and Seminoles
enjoy, and the Chahta, which the ChOcktaws
and Chickasaws possess. These three are 10 be
governed by the Indians, as al present, and the
expense of government to be an affair of the
national government. One of its sections pro-
vides that no white men or Indians, other than
present residents, shall be allowed TO settle or
trespass on any of said lands 1CithOm the con-
sent of the legislature of the proper territory,
and in pursuance oflaws euactedby 1t. Anoth-
err provision is, that all the free citizens of the
five tribes named being Of Indian or Indian
and acAite blood, shall, when this act takes
effect as to each tribe respectively be-
come and be citizens of the United .StdteS.-
Another section prohibits polygamy. The for
ty-eghth section eenscts that whenever the
people of the said three territories shall con-
sent, they shall be entitled 10 be erected into a
territory to be called the territory of NeOShO
and whenever congress shall be satisfied as 10
their capacity for sef-government, and when
ever they open their country to emigration and
settlement, they may be erected into the state
Of Nensho.
Col. Benton, in his lecture at Baltimore the
other night, proposed to lay off five great
states between Missouri and California. The
first should occupy the eastern half Of Kansas,
which his glowing descriptions entitle 10 the
name of the Bucolc State The second 10
take the western half of Kansas, whose de-
| lightful climate and well-watered valleys
would Justify US in designating it the Benign
State These two, with territory of hun
bred thousand sqnare miles between them, he
thinks, will be knocking at our door for admis-
sion as states before the new years bells shall
peal the arrival of 1857. The third state
takes the Three Parks that remind one of
! Cole SYRIA the endless labyrinlhs of grassy
valleys and the Pixies Peak, which make the
eastern part Of Utah another Switzerland. and
which BeaIe and Heap described as the hun
ter's paradise. The fourth state extends from
the Rocky Mountains 10 The Wahsatch and the
| Anlerria ranges, withdrawing our texts
as dry as bone. The fifth, including the
western third Of Utah. with its great and little
| l,E Rriobarn
saints. moves the column up to the California
! line.
This is not ALL Californans mediate Sc
riously the division Of California into two
states.
In Oregon it is quiet now, but shortly since
they were urging it, and doubtless will again,
the policy Of splitting their territory east and
west. Texas is unwieldy, and why should
not the policy at once prevail of cracking it in
to two states!
Around the bed Of the Sultan of Japan, is
conducted current Of water, which at pleas
ure may be made to fall in transparent curtains
Of rain, encircing the royal couch, for the
double purpose Of keeping off the mosquitoes,
and tempering The warm air to the delicious
GOODNESS, which, in a suItry climate, is the con-
summation Of bliss to reposing Iistlessness.
Relations take the greatest liberties, and give
the least assistance. If stranger cannot help
us with his purse, he will not insult US with
his comments; but with relations, it mostly
happens that they are the veriest misers with
regard to their property, but perfect prodigals
in the article of advice.
~ In Maine 956 sailors were registered
during the last fiscal year. Only 10 Of them
were foreigners.
~ Some important changes in the govern
ment of the Methodist Episcopal Church are