New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-29

extipeuish them BY military force Snali We sook
to disembarrass ourselves by connisng at their
intrusion into the domains of Mexico or Grest
Britain Or shall we effect al adjustment
of the difficulty, which will comport With
our duty to our.elges and our reighbop,
and at the .ame time subserve the cause Of
civilization in general! We may now BY prompt
and Just action so dispose Of this community.
which, whether submissive in Salt Lake City~
dispersed in the Sierra Madre or Wahsatch Noun
ta;ns, must It'll threaten the peace Of the county
We may 90 dispose Of it that its energies shal! b
exercised 10 direction beneficial to the civilized
world, aid conducive to our own advantage.
In the Indian Ocesn, among the multitude
great, and fertile islands which form tho
Malay Archipelago, or rather bordering upon
that Archipelago and forming boundary b.
tween the Pacific and Indian waters, liss
the vast island Of Papua 400 miles long twice
az large as all the British isles four times the OF.
tent Of the State Of New-York. and one-Aira
larger than Utah. II has soil, judging from
he quality of that which has been examined
ear its coasts, equal in fertility to that Of Jaws,
which last year exported little moro shaA
fifty millions of dollars worth Of its own pro-
ducts; whls though only distant 800 miles from
houristing European settlements, which haveexstsd
more than 200 years, Pspua stu remains covered
with vast primeval fore It, Inhabited by Ion
miserable ssvsges without either social or political
organization. The sparseness and savage chsrse-
ter Of the population, and the absence of the spices
and precious minerals found in other islands Of The
Archipelago, have caused it to remain to this DAY,
now three centuries and half since its frat dli-
covery by Europeans undsturbed by the Success
siye communities of traders, whs have brought
nearly every other territory Of the Indian Seas
under their dominion.
Papua is an ample and fitting seat for flourish.
ing empire. 1t possesses every variety Of climate.
Passing from the .trOpc heats Of the coast,
you ascend into cool and salubrious region; and
the central plateaus lying beyond the Lamsntsjen
and Charles Louis ranges Of mountains, some Of
whOse peaks attain the elevation of perpetual
snow, are presumed to BE- from the character ofthef
climate and vegetation, equally favorable to tho
Caucasian constitution with the plains Of Jalsps
and valley of Mexico. Inasmuch as other elevated
territories of the Indisn Archipelago, such -
Bonthem in Celebes, and Gutenberg in Java, pro-
duce in great perfection al the cereals aud esculent
roots of Britain, Holland, and other temperate
regions and have proved 10 be eminently favorable
TO the vgor and longevity of the European race, il
is Justly presumed that the great plateaus Of
Pspua, which appear TO form not less than ono
third of the island, will prove healthy homo to
,fv nh Ia tha al .ko
of ports and the manipulatioEs Of commerce amid
tie less sslublous heats Of the coast can BIZ readily
effected as at Singapore, Batavia, aud other
Erropean ports in India, by the humorous In
len and CbILtse cody or peasant population, who
re eager TO sell their labor for u pittsnce
AS We have said, the attention Of tho Mormoni
as been directed to this Island as well as ~ other
in the Pacific Ocean presenting Iany similar i'd
vantsges. Emigration to Papus Was suggested
to them last Summer BY Capt. Walter n. Glb''s
this city, and plan for the,s transport en-
establishment there Was PROPOSED 10 The Morp"a
Delegate at Washington, who Transmitted il to ha
constituents in Utah. Having been approved b!
them, it was esbmiitea 10 the President in January
last, siih the request that Commissioner shoaa
be appointed TO adjust the several PARTICULAR"
indemnity for improvements in Utah. protection =
the Pacific coast, lbs selection Of point Of u
paIture, snd escort across the Pacific Ocean. 10
the whole Of this proposition the President re-
fused 30 give aEy confederation. The AdEIni'
tratoA then took the attitude OF making
Io terms ~hsteyer with the Moraon@
Since then, however, Mr.. Buchanan hss been ID
duced 10 change bis ground so far, as i. we'll kuow0'
as to appoint two Peace Co nmissionsrs to 60 oa'
to Utah; but with only such powers and ia'@','
tons as may enable them 10 effect temporary ~
jus'msnt Of the Mormon difficulty. 1t was oo~
said that the Government could never 90 Tar e'~'
prtai.se its dignty as to ,ead Commissioner"