GEN. KEARNEY-s PROCLAMATION.
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GEN. KEARNEY'S PROCLAMATION.


The Lexington (MissoutD Express con-
tains the following proclamation, with which
ithas been furnished by volunteer attached
to Gen. Kearney's forces. The proclama-
tion (says the Sr. Louis Republican, strikes
US as avery extraordinary document. There
might have been some pretext for taking for.
NAL possession of the territory claimed by
Texas, though never occupied, and which
would embrace the city of Santa Fe; but
that Gen. Kearney should undertake toseize
the whole department of New Mexico, and
annex it TO the United States, is an extraor-
dinary stretch of power, which can only be
justified by express instructions from the
President. We had supposed some tormali-
ties were necessary before such wholesale an


nexation ofterIitory could bepade 10 the U S