New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-30

The albany atlas is puzzled BY correspondent
who doe.n't know what is the authority for this
passage in the quarto edition of Guthrie's Geo
ersphy, published by John Chambers, No. 5 Abbey
street. Dubl n, in 1885,
'All the couBty to the northward of this great river
Ohio exter ding from Pennsyl vaDia to the east, the
Skes 10 the NORTH and the Mississippi on the west arc
intended to be divided by Congress into ten new States,
viz: WAsHISeToN METROPOTAMIA, PERILIPA, MIcH-
IGASIA, ILLENOIA, CHERsONEsUs, SARATOGA, sylvia
MA AssISIPI, POLYPoTAMIA."
We thiLk the origin of the above is to be found
in Thomas Jeaerson's original draft 1784) Of an
Ordinance for the government of the territory
"ceded or to be ceded by individual States to the
United Statea," which The Alas would once
have been gluo to copy, but now probably would
refuse to do go, lest its more recent adherents
should understand that Thomas Jefferson was the
origin al author Of the following proviso, applying to
all the existing or prospective territory of the
United s ates south as well as north Of So 30:
as. That otter the year 1900 of the Christian era,
there shall be Reither Siavery Involuntary serrt
fudc in anv of the said STATEs otherwise than in pun
shment OF crimes, whereof the patty shall have been
duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Perhapr, however, The Atlas may be induced to
copy from said Ordinance of Jefferson (Which VII
appear in full in the forthcoming Tribune AImanac)
the following paragraph which we think will afford
tie light needed by its correspondent:
"Tbst the territory northwsrd of the forty-dfth de-
gree that is TO cay, Of the completion of fotyve de.
grees from the equator and extending to the Lake OF
the Woods sbau be called Syiranid; that of the ter
ritcry under the forty fifth and foryourth degrees,
that which lies eastward Of Lake Michigan shal be
cslled Micktgania ard that which is t~ard thereof
within the peninsula formed by the lakes and waters OF
Michigan Huron St. Clair and Erie shall be called
Che, sonesus and shall include any part OF the PENN
suis which may extend above the forty-hfth degree
degrees, that to the westward hrou Oh which the As
eehisip or Re ok River runs shall be called Asseasd
az that to the eastward in which the fountains Of
the MuskinRup, the two Miams of the Ohio, the
Wabash, the Illinois. the Miami of the Lake and the
SaLdueky rivers, shall be called Metropotamia. OF
the territory which lies under tho forty first and foieth
degrees the western, through which the River Illinois
ruI 3 shall be called Uinoi0 that next adjoining. to
the eastward Saratoga and that between this last
and PENNSYLVANIA, and extending from the Ohio to
Luke Erie shall be called Washington. OF the terri
tory which lies under the thirty ninth and thirty eighth
degree to which shall be added much of the point
of land within the fork Of the Ohio and Mississippi as
es ander the hirtyseventh degree that to the west
ward within end adjacent TO which are the conuences
vf TIE rivers Wabash, Shawanee, Tansee Ohio ILL
nois Mississippi and Missouri sha be called Poiypo-
tomia and that to the eastward further up the Ohie
otherwise called the Pelisipi shall be called Pslipia
What says The alias TO this