The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-14
lFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT 7

WASHINGTON, Feb Is, 1859.
One stumbling-block to legislation has been re-
moved by the passage of the bill for the admissi on
of Oregon into the UNION. The opposition here.
all winter resisted the effort to get at Territorial
business because aware that the Oregon bill would
be the first considered, and as a consequence, all
the projects for the creation of new Territorial
Governments, have been kept in the background
There is reason to hope that the bill for the
creation of the Territorial Government of Arizona
will be taken up at once and passed. There are few
measures before Congress of more practical import
tits very certain that Arizona will receive dur
ing the next few months large emigration of turbu
lent spirits, for whose subsection to law there will be
necessity for Government strong enough to make
its arm felt promptly and efficiently. 1t is quite
impossible to secure adequate protection tc life and
property IN Arizona By means Of the Government
OF New Mexico, whose courts and jails can only be
reached by journeys of hundreds Of miles over an
unsettled country, and sometimes over almost i'm
passable deserts. The recent evidences of great
mineral wealth in Arizona make it more than ever
desirable that good Government should be provided
for 1t. The magnificent Silver mines of that re-
glon can only be developed by the employment of
large Capital, which will never seek employment
there until the needed security of law and order is
afforded.
A Territorial Government for Nevada isl also
much to be desired. The people of Carson Valley
one of the finest agricultural and pastoral regions
of the world-are separated from the Government
at Salt Lake, by wilderness of a thousand miles
in width. Even if this were not so, events of the
last year or two have abundantly established the
fact that the Government of Utah is practically n
Theorcracy, to which Congress certainly ought not
compel American citizens to subject themselves
when they earnestly plead for relief. The Terrific
rial Government of Nevada ought to be established
with boundaries for the new Territory which should
bring within its limits large portion of the coun
try lying between the Sierra Nevada Mountains
and the Salt Lake basin. This would bring the
emigrant and mail route from Salt Lake to Cali
fornia chiefly within the jurisdiction of the Nevada
Courts, and thus crcumscribe, considerably, the
country which the Mormon mocker of
Justice extends.
1t is not probable that Congress will provide du-
ring the present session, for any new enterprises
adding to the public expenditures. The pending
proposition for the resumption of trans Atlantic
mail service, at moderate expense may be carried
it ought TO be- if the service be obtained for
the pittance of 5000 900 per annum which is offered
Some provision, or course, must bu made for the
California mail service by sea-but that involves no
new policy in anyrespect, except probably the d-
vision of the service between two routes the Te-
huantepec and the Panama. A memorial has been
presented to Congress, but will not be considered
this year, for the establishment of a line of mail
steamers between New York and ST. Petersburg
direct twice a month.
The CAss-IRIsARRI treaty has come at last having
been ratified by Nicaragua in its original FORM 1t
will probably go to the Senate immediately, and
the prevailing opinion is that it will be ratified
confess that am not so certain of this result if the
threatened onnosition tn the Convention No rar1
sisted in. The treaty qiyes the US,rrn Sr,rrs tbe
RIGHT to land troops at anv time for the .nrotect;np
of the transit" similar stimulation will he made
in favor of England in Sir WIN. Com OUs1ry,s
treatv-and the Question arises whether this senro1
lection is to be exerted bv either to keen the iii
busters out. Probably not: and the chances ara
that w LKER and men will be found actively en-.
gaged in another ilbuster exnedit;on within faIy
weeks after the British treaty has been secured and
the British Minister has left the country
By the wav, the published statement that Col
LocKR1psE. Of fbuster notoretv / is abont to lead
a comnany Of Arizona Coionists cyc;tos nnbonndaJ
merriment here among those Who Know his b;storT
II will be remembered that be arrived in tbe Saw
Juan river with recruits for WALKER. Mt the time
of the seizure of the river forts and steamers. He
assumed temporary command of the forces on the
river, which WALKER FASTENED to confirm, for fear
that other parties of known incapacitv sboud anize