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but never until then would he entertain the subject for
a moment. He moved that the bill and the amendment
be tabled. _ . .

Mr. WELLER urged him to withdraw the motion, a-
he wished to speak on the subject, and Mr. Mason
acquiesced.
Mr. WILLER. sa;d he was one of the last senators that
would sympathise with the house in its factious course
on the Army Bill. TLe only object which he had in
view was to do what the senate had done some three or
four weeks ago, and the bill which he offered was no
more nor less than one section of that bill which the
senate had passe 1, but whicb for some reason or other
had been suffered to slumber on the speaker's table ; but
as the house fines so much fault with the oppressi• • laws
of Kansas, and he would admit some of them were op-
pressive and infamous as any laws which had found their
way upon the statute book of a free people in any age
of the world, why should the senate hesitate to declare
them null and void, as he had declared many of them
were, not only in derogation of the organic law, but rf
the constitution of the United States. Freedom of
speech was guaranteed by the constitution, but by
some of these laws it is denied. When he found laws
which were in conflict with the constitution, he did not
choose to wait for the judiciary, but wanted to wipe them
out at once.

this section d South America.

BUENOS AYRES.

This province is in the enjoyment of a de. facto
tranquillity. Negotiations w,:h the Indians are
carried on, and some kind of a compact has been
effected with the Patagonian chief Yarquetruz,
who has serif; a sp -cial commission, including a
brother cf his own, to congratulate the govern n. en

on so auspicious an event. The general sent to
guard the southern frontier has taken a sing.° larly
discreet step to obtain the restoration of the C Kris-
tian captives in the power of the Indians—ho bas
headed a subscription to raise funds for theirransom.
The British Packet in its monthly rarospeet
says : _ _

in normal circumstances we expect little from J►rJy as
a Inpinesi month.

On the present cceasion it has rather exceeded e xpec-
tation. There has been some demand for the local mar-
ket, and some disposition to speculate for the in'terior
pr.wincep, chiefly, we presume, on the strength f the
rumoured differential dutie. n prices there is a novo.
ment. Articles scarce and in request have reached th.
remunerating point ; others plentiful and in lang aid de-
mand, can only be disposed of at a sacrifice. Syeaking
generally we may announce a slight improvenient, or
tendency to improvement, that is cramped and counter-
acted chiefly by the general cause alluded to, the bad
assorted state of the market, that demands irnamedia4
attention. . _

Mr. BUTLER regarded it as a subject which was some-
what delicate to meddle with, and thought the attempt
to legislate would involve us in greater difficulties than
those now existing. If the laws were unconstitutional,
they were void without any act of congress to declare
them so, and the proper tribunal would settle these
questions. He deprecated the idea of bolding out any.
thing like concession to the house.
Mr. Br.owN pursued a similar line of argument. He
was willing to admit that these laws were unconstitn•
tional, and that therefore congress was bound to blot
them out of the statute book. Sarno of them were on
just, and outrageous, to be sure ; but some of the iaws
-<A.-3irgiala,rn.ight be outrageous too ; and was that a
reason why congress should interpose to prevent Their
execution ? The people who make their own laws are
the best judges of what they need, and, after giving them
the right to make their own laws, congress bad no power
to interfere and overthrow them. If congress could do
that, it might as well make laws itself for the govern.
ment of the territories, and abandon the idea altogether
of popular government.
On the motion of Mr. iIIINTEZ the senate adjourned.

The extremely unsettled state of our money market
during the month has also had a depressing effect, espe-
cially upon the local market ; but that has now become
a chronic distemper. At present the upward movement,
without any real benefit to the importer or wholesale
dealer, is a direct and positive loss to the local dealer or
retailer, whose profits often evaporate in the different
exchange at which he must meet his liabilities. In such
cases we may always expect a certain backwardness and
difficulty in making collections ; but, as a proof of the
soundness and vitality of our Local market, the com-
plaints on this occasion are fewer and more subdued
-than might have .been expected, in the sudden and ap-
parently unaccountable leap that Dunes took, from 350
to 376 current dollars each, a difference of.from 7 to $
per cent., which, with our present brisk competition in
the retail line, the established scale of profits, we pre-
sume, can ill afford to sustain.

The arrivals have been very moderate, and that upon
the whole is matter of congratulation ; for we do not
require many cargoes, but a few selected with extreme
nicety, to fiil iv the blanks that exist to an otherwise
heavily over-stocked market.
Owing to the season of the year and the state .of the
weather, we have to report extremely reduced opera►tions
in our Salareros, and nearly a suspension of our .inter•
mine with the country districts. Consequently we have
had a very limited amount of produce, which was eagerly
taken up at extreme prices, and no stocks of any- .kind
allowed to accumulate.

EXCHANGE, July 31.—Spanish dollars and pataccues,
25 ; Patriot doubloons, 362 ; Spanish doubloons,
367 ; bills on England per doubloon, 68 ; currency per
dollar, 2s. Old. Exchange on England, highest during
the week, 68.6 ; do. lowest do. 67.