Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-02-25

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Herald Of the 18th
ARIZONA.
We pity the map makers. Their task
is endless. Between the drawing and the
engraving new empires spring into exis-
tcnce- The bowling wilderness of yester-
day is to-day the field of eager speculation,
and the subject of Congressional conten-
| ton
1t is curious to look over the map by the
aid of which one studied the geography of
North America only few years ago.
We have before US one such relic of de-
parted boyhood. It's titlepage declares it
to have been printed in 1833-only twenty
FIVE years ago. Upon it the names Of Wis
consin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas,
the Indian Territory, &c, are unknawn-
The boundaries of the western part of the
United States are ambitiously extended to
fifty-four, forty" but Mexico stretches
northward to the latitude of Connecticut,
and eastward to the Sabine
Across what nor comprises the teeming
valleys of California and the vast plains of
Utah, are written the words, unerpZored
region" Some wild conjectures are en-
bodied respecting this unknown region
Thus, in the place where Great Salt Lake
ought to be, is represented sheet of water
some two hundred miles long, entitled
A." Lake Timpanogos," with river flowing
out of it to the westward, right across what
we now know to be the high ridge of the
Sierra Nevada, into the bay of Sir Fran
els Drake that is our Bay of San Fran
cisco. Along that wild Pacific coast there
is no vestige of city, or any settlement,
laid down, but two lonely whale ships are
represented ploughing their way north
ward, as if
They They .ry were I'l, the m first that ever burst
How great the contrast now.
And yet something of the wildness of
this picture was owing to the ignorance or
indifference of the geographer. A portion
Of his Unexplored Region" had been
traversed by Spanish discoverers nearly
three centuries before, and Spanish settle
ments had existed there for at least two
centuries. Nothing is more remarkable in
those regions than the extent to which
they were settled by Europeans and the
progress made at an early period in agricul-
ture, mining, cattle-breeding and the like,
and the subsequent decline or destruction
of these settlements by the incursions of
the fierce Apaches and Camanches.
These remarks apply especially to the
proposed Territory of Arizona, which is
beginning to excite SO much interest This
name is applied to vast region extending
from the Rio Grande to the Colorado Of
the West, lying mainly north of the ella,
but including also the "Gadsden purchase"
south of that river 1t is elaborately de-
scribed in letter recently published from
Mr.. John r. Bartlette, who was lately the
Commissioner of the United States for as
certaining the boundary between our terri
tory and that of Mexico-lHobtZe Tribune.
John Mitchell turned Knoac Nothing.-
Our readers recollect an anecdote of John
Mitchell, the Irish refugee, published a
short time since in the Gazette, in which
he is represented as having said to darkey
he owns or hires, Sambo, we are going to
open the African slave trade and bring
regular jet black, ivory toothed, Guinea
niggers into this country. What do you
think of it?" Sambo replied, "Well,
massa, tink it would be good ting, and
keep all these low Irish out"
John seems to have been thinking seri-
ously of the darkey's answer, and has final
ly resolved to be guided by his superior
wisdom, for he is now denouncing in the
Southern Citizen-the paper he publishes
in Tennessee-the naturalization laws, and
fears that, unless they are repealed, "the
United States is in danger of being made
the common almshouse refagstum peccato-
a'iame and penal colony of the world."-
Ctn Gazette.
SS-Grief knits two hearts in closer
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