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Show TEGEiE LAND. Northern illexico to be I'nr-clmsecl I'nr-clmsecl hy tiie t itiletl Sinles A .Million of reaiers anl Iitdiuus to be -Undo titfzens. Xcw York, 21. The Mercury has a Washington'dispatchallegingjtliat the excursion of Senator Cameron and others to Mexico is for the object of tiie annexation hy purchase to tho United Stales of tho northern states of that republic. Tho Mexican authorities are understood to have already acquiesced in the transfer, the terms of which Are yet to be set- ' tied. Tho territory proposed to bo annexed is ail thatpart of Mexico lying ly-ing north of tho Rio Rapids and Rio ! Grande de Santiago, and comprises : the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahula, Nueva Leon, Cinoloa, Dur ' ungo and Seacatras, one-half of the Tamailpa?, one-third of Jalisco, a small portion of San Luis Potosi, and the territory of Lower California, altogether about 4oS,000 square miles, and over 1,500,000 population, of whom lees than 500,000 arc whites, and tl TTKt Tnilinno nnd nniied breeds. The boundary line will commence com-mence at the mouth of the Rapids, following that river to its source towards to-wards the town of Pinas in latitude -21-0,6, longitude 101-70, thence to the source of the river Santiago, and along that stream to its mouth. The movement ia understood to have originated with the Mexican authorities, authori-ties, who desire to see this sparsely settled country placed under a power possessing the means of in forcing order among the people, and of inviting invit-ing immigration thither. |