, 1858-04-02
ARRIVAL OF TIE COLUMBIAI
TWO WEEKS LATER FROM THE STATES
Summary of News.

Ia few hours less than six days from San
Francisco with the U. S. Mails, freight
and passengers. The Columbia touched at
all the ay-ports-experienced strong
northerly winds to Humboldt; from thence,
southerly winds prevailed.
We are indebted to purser DAVIS for files
Of papers from the Atlantic side up to
Feb. Goth, and from San Francisco, Of
March goth. Also, for the following pas
senger list, and cOnsignees of freight:
PASSENGERS FOR PUGET SOUND.
Major Alvord Lieut.. Scott, L. l.. Davis S. B. Bos-
well, II. Roeder Geo. Gray, +. Nichols, C. Fetton,
Jno. Roach, Jno. Stewart o. j. Hickox Jno. Larkin
E. May, and H. r. White.
coNsIGSEEs AT OLYMPIA
Phillips, Horton, 4 Co., W. Wright, Jas. Tilton G..
Crosbie, T. NJ. Read, A. j. Miller Willard & Whit
worth, G. X. Willard Son, Barnes 4 Ayers.
The following summary Of news has been
CLEANED from the San Francisco Herald,
and Globe, Forney's Philadelphia Press, the
N. Y. Ne,rs, and n. o. Delta.
We observe paragraph in the San
Francisco Herald-a rumor, apparently
to the effect that the Senate Committee
on Territories will report against the nd-
mission Of Oregon at this time, on the
ground that he has not sufficient popula-
tion, that no urgent necessity exists for her
immediate admission, and that her citizens
do not desire it"
We should like to be Informed in what
manner the information reached the COM
mittee, that the people Of Oregon do not
desire that territory to become q State
We should have thought that the vote Of
OF the people, ralifying the Constitution
would have been conclusive on that point.
TERRToRY OF CARsoN.-The House Com
mittee on Territories, at their meeting,
Feb. 16, directed bill to be submitted at
the next meeting, for the organization Of a
new Territory out Of all territory west Of
Salt Lake, in Utah. to be called Carson.
BIThe Senate Committee on Terrific
ries, it is said will report bill to organize
the Territory Of Arizona, which has been
delayed by some trouble abou, the bounda-
ries.
The leading democratic politicians in
Washington City, newspaper correspon-
dents and the administration press general
ly, are very positive in their convictions
that the Kansas Lecompton Constitution
will be adopted by Congress.
The Washington Correspondent of the
San Francisco Globe, writing under date Of
Feb. 10th, says: Your State is too far
off to appreciate fully all the bearing of the
case, but again repeat what l wrote you,
that Kansas qeiH be admitted uith The Le-
compton Constitution"
The editor Of the San Francisco Globe,
gives the following extracts from private
letters received by him from prominent and
reliable democrats on the Atlantic side:
NEW York, Feb. 20, 1858.
"The great question of tie day is likely
to be soon settled by tho Admission of
Kansas under the LecomptOn Constitution.
1t is now generally conceded that this will
be done within the next three or four
weeks"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1858.
"The opinion is further confirmed that
Kansas must and will come in in less than
a month"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1858.
my candid opinion is, that Kansas will
be admitted into the Union, under the Le-
compton Constitution within twenty days"
In the Senate the Kansas message has
been referred to the committee on Terrific
ries, and in the House it was referred to
select committee of fifteen.
No final action has yet been had, al
though it is universally conceded that the
Administration will have large majority
in the Senate, and also sufficient majority
in the House to admit Kansas at once
The N. Y. Herald states that "a caucus of
Democratic Senators was held on the 10th
nlt, to arrange the order of business of the
Senate. 1t was agreed to dispose first OF
the bill providing for the increase of the
army, and then take up the bill for the ad-
mission Of Minnesota into the Union. ToI
the Minnesota bill an amendment will be
made providing for the admission Of Kan
'as under the Lecompton Constitution, said
SO amended as to drop the
clause which prohibits the people Of Kan
sas from altering it till 1864. There is no
doubt of the result Of this plan of admit
Ting free and slave State together. 1T
will pass the Senate by six or eight major.
ity."
In the Senate on the 18th ult three re-
ports on the admission Of Kansas were
made by the Territorial Committee. First,
the report and bill of the majority, pro-