Show AFFAIRS DT the war department and indian bureau is fully determined to enforce its policy for the prevention of the settlement of nebraska territory but it is doubtful whether the means at its disposal are adequate to the exclusion of squatters from a territory reported to be peculiarly adapted to settlement the whole of the territory lies above latitude thirty six thirty and its liability to the prohibitory hibi tory clause of the missouri compromise is the ground of this nebraska dispute it appears there are quite a number of of settlers within the limits of the proposed territory because mr guthrie the late voluntary ben tonian ionian delegate has just been defeated in a I 1 1 contest for representative or agent of the inhabitants 1 to congress by a mr thompson who received upwards of three hundred votes voces against twenty or thirty for guthrie it thus I 1 appears that while mr benton has taken this district under his peculiar care and patronage the people who live in it are almost V L I 1 unanimously on the side aide of his antagonists col benton says there will be but two questions before congress at its coining session to wit the construction of the pacific railroad by the central route end and the organization of nebraska he attributes the opposition i to both these great projects to slavery sla iery I 1 and maintains that the contest on that question I 1 will never cease until his recommendations i relative to the territory and the railroad shall be carried out senator atchison and mr manypenny Marty penny commissioner of the indian bureau are minutely informed on all that relates to nebraska and will oppose col benton at every step |