The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-18
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1uev - kOOO reason 20 expect tuot congress
| viii q once organize new Territory, embracing
The Kansas and Ne0saslA gold regions. The
name proposed for this Territory 10 Colona Il
is % Be taken chiefly from Ksnsas, but partly
aleo from New Mexico. Uah and Nebraska, and
will contain about l23,OOO square miles. The
present population 10 but email, but before the
v meeting Of the next Coneres il ID likely 70 be
quite large, and will speedily 60 mp, If the gold
excitement continues. to 100000. Ia any
event, this Territory il sure to be early settled
~ thriving population.
The natural advantages Of the sountry In
question are great. Its temperature in summer,
according 70 the isothermal lines, ~ indicated
0y the most recent scientific observations, Ia the
same q that OF south Carolina, and in winter.
similar to that Of Delaware. The mean TEN.
peFature through the year is about the same as
that OF the latter State. The absence Of mois
ture and the mountain air, will render the sum
mer heat much more endurable than in damper
climates
| The raising Of Aocks and herds after the pas
| toral modes Of many portions OF the Eastern
Hemisphere, u likely 70 be introduced in this
enlnently favorable region. Cattle and sheep
u these reports - to climate can be relied on,
will require little feeding during the winter.-
Iney wall have the mountain sides for summer
grazing, and the Wales, or bouudless plains East
ward, for the winter. The plains have lone
since attracted . good deal of notice, as the
probable scene, sooner or later, of an extensive
deveiopement Of pastoral husbandry. Between
the mountains and the settled portions Of Kan
sas, the immense region, once set down as =
desert, 10 now well known to be neither sterile |
nor uninhabitable, but fitted to sustain nation |
OF shepherds, vastly superior to those Of Asia, |
10 the earlier periods Of human history The |
settlement Of "ColOna" will Of course have a |
tendency TO hasten the occupation of some por-
tion Of the Plains.
Whether, therefore, gold digging becomes as
generally profitable as in California or not there
% reason to believe that the tidesi Of emigra-
tion which will set strongly in tha. direction for
the year to come, will result in the permanent
occupation Of large tract near the base OF the
mountains. afording an important point for the
overland travel and business to the Paci6c.-l
Cincinnati Gazette.
Gene HOusa0n-ImsOleFance of ane Pr~ |
P0g@nd@.
CONTRARY to what has been until recently re- |
ported, II 10 nov said that Gen. Houston. al the
close OF bis present Senatorial term, will de
cline TO be candidate for any public Office. nd
retire definitely to private lite.
Without imputing to him any unseemly or
unreasonable wishes, in respect TO the Senate
riai dignity, u may be assumed that he would
cneeriuily have retained it, if such had been the
pleasure Of Texas
That such has not been the pleasure Of Tex
Ae, ls circumstance which cannot tail TO fix
tns attention OF the whole coun,ry, in view OF
me ,llustrlous position Of Gen. Houston in con ,
nect,on With the entire history Of the State
which has now discarded him. /,
The case has no parallel, except that Of Col
benton. deserted in his old ags BY Missouri,
With whose name and fame his own was insepa /
rAblv identified, and to whose interests he had
devoted . lite Of unsuspectei fidelity. 4,
Like the loss OF Col. Benton in the Senate.
1has OF Gen. Houston will bs universally felt to
Pc, what u uD4nestionably is, public calamity /
us sympathies, like his fame, are as broad as /
The nation, and the country can i'll afford to |
spare from the public councils men like him,
no are able, BY the universally of the vener- \
atom which they command. to temper the scri :
nony and diminish the dangers Of sectional Z
And party collisions.
Ii lhe ostracsm Of the Hero Patriot Of Texas
1as many points Of resemblance to that of the
great Statesman Of Missouri, il is identical with
y IN 'ts main canse, snd it is the peculiar char
lcter Of that cause, which has impelled Us TO I
hese observations a
Gen. Houston, like Col. Benton, hes been ?
tricken down by the impacable spirit Of nulIi. Y
ication and slavery ropagandism, the most re
ehtless form OF fanaticsm which has ever afflict
"a and Imperiied our beloved country. Tnose ,
possessed oy this evil spirit, seemed TO desire,
'y two examples pre-. minenty conspicuous, to
warn all the public men of the South that no
personal merit Or distinction will atone tor the
'rime OF hesitancy in keeping up with the ex-
remest opinions and measures OF that section |
u the cou2try. What has been done in these
wo instances, is part OF that system OF moral
errorism. leading TO revolution, and in itself
evolutionary, which has SO long suppressed !.
reedom OF thought, or, at any rate, freedom ot ,
tterance, in fifteen States Of the Union, but :
'hich must soon end, like The material terror
sm Of Robesperre and Murat, by the reaction
y itS own violence.-[ Washington Republic. :
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