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PROM THE ST. LOUIS REPORTER OF .uIr ..


The following from Governor EDwARDss reply to
letter addressed to him by Major WErMoRE, will show
what authority has been conferred STERLING PRIcE and
how the laws have been set aside for his promotion
"The President has said that if the Hon. Sterling Price,
and certain other gentlemen would raise regiment and
battalion of mounted their services oud be accepted By
him. and he hopes that the Executive may aid in the organ
zaton Of said troops which expect do, far
mission the officers when they elected.
"Colonel Price, who here a day since, under
call from me, says that the whole number of required
der his instructions have been ordered enroed and that
he has for more"
In this the Governor Of Missouri is made act
becomes the Chief Magistrate of State bound
se its rights and vndcate its laws the agent Fede
raj authority. If the President will accept the services of
regiment raised by Colonel Price, let him do his
sponsibi but by what right Governor Edwards can con-
fer commission Mr. Price, unless he is elected that of
fee according the laws of the State have been unable
discover If that regiment be raised under the direct
orders of the President the commission should from
him if II is to be formed the other volunteer regiments
have been the laws Of the State should be observed
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The discussions of the with Mexico by the British
press which have just reached US, remarkable They
charge US with being the aggessors in the war; forgetting
peace to Mexico through our Consul and then followed up
message by Minister fully accredited, upon the same
pacific Grand Washington Union.
1t is true that il was proposed, through the Anne
rican Consul, TO open negotiations but II is not true
that the United States, in dispatchng Minister,
fairly carried out the understanding with the Con-
sui. The Mexican Government agreed to treat, i'll
regard to the Texan boundary, with Commits
soner appointed specially for that business; but
the United States, instead of sending such special
Commissioner, sent Minister Plenipotentiary.
There is no reason whatever to doubt that Mexico
would have received the special Commissioners and
treated with him. In the correspondence with Sir
dell, the Mexican Minister Of Foreign Affairs stated
repeatedly that the Mexican Government was
DIV to receive the Commissioner, and to negotiate
about the matters in difference with the United
States but that that Government could not con-
sent, in the then state of affairs to the resumption
of friendly relations implied by receiving Minister
Penipoentiary, while the United States held mill
tarv possession of part of her territory, and had
fleet lowering about her seaports. Ii was barely
consistent with these hostile demonstrations to
receive Commissioner to adjust the boundary,
but the Government of Mexico could not with self
respect do an act which would imply the existence
Of friendly dispositions on both sides. We enter
tain hardly doubt that the war might have been
averted if a special Commissioner had been sent
out according to the arrangement made through the
American Consul-LouisuiHe Journal.
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The government paper of yesterday corrects
what it calls Misrepresentation of the New York
Herald, in the statement that /" six hundred thou
sand dollars recently left New York in gold, for the
transportation of which the Government paid six
thousand dollars, or one per cent"
The government paper on this remarks as follows:
''Ths is a mistake Not farthing paid by the
Secretary Of the Treasury for the transportation Of SPECIE
above stated is the business of the repositories of the Go
make these transfers without any charge, and any
expense Of transportation betrayed by the banks making
the transfers, and not by the Government"
The Banks, it seems, and not the Secretary Of
the Treasury, paid the piper.
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The HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was on Tuesday
the theatre of an exciting struggle on the question
as to the time at which the present session Of Con-
gress shall be brought to close. A disposition
was manifested by large majority of the House TO
fix upon the Sd day Of August for that purpose
but, in the end, the subject was postponed for two
weeks, apparently from an unwillingness to trust
The Senate upon the question of adjournment until
il shall have disposed Of the Tariff Bill. The
Senate in some measure obliged the House to con-
sent TO peaceable adjustment of the great foreign
controversy which hung SO darkly over the pros
poets of the country and the House, apparently, is
disposed to retalate on the Senate by forcing it to
adopt the anti-proection measure which it has pass
ed and sent to it.
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THE SALT DUTY AND THE TARIFF BILL.

We are fain to acknowledge the courtesy of the
Letter from Mr.. TIBBATTs, one of the Representa-
tves in Congress from Kentucky, which will be
found in another column the object of which
is correct an erroneous impression which he sup
poses may be made upon the public mind not from
any thing we have said respecting the way in which
the Tariff Bill came to pass the House of Repre-
sentatives on Friday last but from what we did not
say concerning the eristing duty on Salt So far
from questioning the accuracy of our statement con-
corning the manner in which the proposed Salt
Duty got into the BILL the reader cannot fail to OBJ
serve, Mr. TBBATTs confirms il in every particular.
The present duty on Salt is, as Mr.. TIBBATTs
says, eight cents per bushel and we have no hest
tation in agreeing with him that it is entirely too
high, and ought to be reduced though it is not,
we understand it, nearly high pro rata as Mr.. I.
supposes. Some Salt, which is brought in chiefly
as ballast, does come in at very low valuation
from abroad, perhaps low at six cents per
bushel; but the operation of the present duty on
that article ought to be calculated on the average co
of Salt from all countries. The cost of Liverpool
Salt for example, imported, is over twenty cents
per bushel Twenty per cent. upon that cost Will OF
course be between four and five cents per bushel.
The Average rate of the duty Of eight cents per
bushe upon Salt taking the importation of last year
as the test is stated in Mr.. Secretary WALKERS
Report at sixty-seven per cent. upon the value.
Without being far out of the way in his calculation
OF the effect of twenty per cent duty on the
cheapest salt imported, therefore, if Mr.. 1. had
taken the average, he would Of course have arrived
at the same result as the Secretary Of the Treasury
ALI this does not change in any respect the fact
that Salt had been made free of duty in the bill, to
place it on the same favorable footing ION which il
ought to stand with those other necessares OF life
Tea and Coffee; and that, after being so made free
it was deliberately subjected, by the vote on Friday
to duty equal TO one-ifth Of its cost, not because
such duty was in itself necessary and proper, but
as frankly acknowledged by the gentleman from
Kentucky who himself moved to replace it among
the taxed articles, because doing so was the only
way of proptiating sufficient number of votes 10
carry the bill for reducing the duties generally on
goods of foreign growth and manufacture
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THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN.

The following letter appears in the Bermuda Ga
zette of June 80, addressed to the Governor, Col.
REID. 1t is the first and only official notification
of the Oregon Treaty that has yet been published.
WAsHISGToS, JusR 10, 1916.
Sin have the honor acquaint you that treaty for the
settlement Of the Oregon question, which signed on the
18th Of this month by the United States Secretary Of State
and myself yesterday approvedby the Senate by ma
joriy of forty-one votes TO fourteen.
The treaty, with the Presidents ratification of it, will be
forwarded to England by the Great Western steam packet
appointed to sail from New York the 25th instant.
have the honor to be- sir your Excelencys most ODE
dent humble servant R. PAKENHAM
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GnEAT STEAMBOAT PRoJEcr.-vespasian Ellis, Esq,
formerly United States Charge Caracas obtained from
the Government of Venezuela the exclusive right navigat
ing the mighty Oronoco with vessels for twenty-five
years. terms highly advantageous What theatre here
opened for enterprise and Development and what agent
powerful steam for increasing population and spreading
intelligence Darby says the Oronoco is about fifteen hum
bred miles in length and the of the basin drained by
400, 900 square miles, 256O00000 of Above its
mouth il receives the Paraguay, Oarom, the only large
tributary which augments its volume from the SOUTH For
boats says the respected author few rivers of the
world afford extended and less interrupted navigation
I'm " Tribune
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A NEW LEGAL, QUESTION.

Judge McCALEB of the United States District Court,
(says the New Orleans Courier this morning pronounced
decision in the case already mentioned in the newspapers of
habeas corpus in favor of Henry Grammont who
rested deserter from Major Gays battalion of artillery,
stationed at Fort Jackson. Mr.. Grammont contended
that his enlistment Illegal Gen. Gaines not
thozed by the President receive the battalion into the
vice of the United States The point ably discussed
Saturday by counsel both sides of the question The
Judge postponed his decision till this morning. when he de-
cared Mr. Grammons enlistment Illegal and ordered him to
be set nj liberty
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NOBLE SENTIMENTS.

Mr. benton, at the conclusion of his speech in
reply to Mr.. Glass; in the Senate, the lst of June,
uttered the following noble sentiments, which de-
serve, now that the Oregon question is settled, to be
repeated and remembered to his honor:
81 make great allowance for gnorance-for the
mistakes of ignorance-but ignorance ought to be
docile, and surrender on conviction. | make a
broad distinction between the wful and the ignor-
ant deceivers, and broader one still between
the deceivers and the deceived. The former are
generally few, the latter many-the former are
more less culpabe, the latter always innocent.
OF the myriads, nay millions, who have propagaed
the error of "a 40, all but few the innocent
repeaters of what came to them in way that they
could not doubt it. ALI these will rejoice to be
relieved from their error. Instead of getting angry
with me- they will thank me for the trouble take
: to set them right. They want nothing but truth
and Justice, and thank God that have the cour-
age to give it to them, regardless of all earthly
consequences. am right. speak to save my
country from the calamtes of war upon mis-
takes and blunders. | rely upon the equity and
intelligence of the people, and give defiance to g
norance, malice, and misrepresentation.
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CAPTAIN MAr.-It will be recolected that weeks
since elegant sabre and belt sent by citizens of New
Orleans this gallant officer in token Of their admiration Of
his conduct the battle field Of the 9th May The present
duly received but the letter acknowledging delay
ed its way New Orleans II is published in the New
Orleans Picayune of the Gath umo, and couched in the
language Of brave The following passages from it
reflect additional honor upon the writer
"The high estimation which you have been pleased to
attach my services on that OCCASION bears with it, TO
an additional value, it expression OF appreciation from
friends of my early youth
In battle opportunities afforded few to perform
deeds which, successfully accomplished attended with
much bancy to render less conspicuous other deeds
equally mertorous.
In the action Of the 9th il my good fortune, not
only to be Of this favored few but be supported by
officers and men whose gaantry would Is
due my brother officers say that any one Of them would
have goed in the opportunity of leading the charge that
you have thought proper to notice in such handsome
1 erms.u
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II would SEEM by the following paragraph from the Bos-
ton Traveller that somebody been questioning the guess
ing talent Of the good people of that city 1t noby vim
dicaed however, by the champion selected for the trial.
Here is the report
GUEsSGA Yankee connected with the Eastern railroad,
Monday morning guessed before estimate
mad that persons passed in and of Boston
road counting ascertaned that there Just
about 5000 into Boston against 5000 out,
We wish to try this Yankee a guess When will the
Mexican be ended Answer that and get the thanks
Mr.. Polk Patriot.
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FROM ruE UNION" OF JULY 8.

| CHEROKEE AFFAIRS-THEIR SETTLEMENT.
We learn with sincere pleasure, that the serious difficulties
long existing among the CHEROKEE Indians, with their
claims against the United States arising out Of treaty spu
aons, about being brought to final adjustment. The
three delegations, this city, entered into agreement
in writing days sihce, submit all the of diff
cules existing among themselves, with the various claims
they have preferred against the United States three Com
ssoner, be appointed by the President of the United
Sateshese commissioners be legal gentlemen invested
with penary powers and instructed decide the questions
submitted upon principles of and equity Their decision
and submitted to the President and Senate of the United
States for confirmation. The President understand APP
pointed this tribunal Monday last and entered upon
the discharge of its duties o'clock this morning is
composed of Hon. ALBION X. PARRIs Second Comptroller
of the Treasury, Hon. E. BUnKE Commissioner Of the
Patent Office and Major WIN. ARMSTRONG; Superintendent
of Indian affairs for the Western territory.
At meeting of the Board to-day the Delegations from
the Government Old Settler and Treaty parties attended.
WxD5r THOMPSON, Esq. presented counsel for the
G65ernment party COL 8. c. SrAMBAuGH, for the Old
Settlers "Western Cherokee Nation" (his colleague
AMOS KENDALL being absent New York y and Judge
PAscHAL and MATHEW Sr CLAIR CLARKE for the Treaty
party question raised by the counsel for the old
Settlers respecting the powers conferred upon the Board
which seconded by the other counsel and the Board adj
ourned o'clock Tomorrow when its powers
and jurisdiction will be made known. The several parties
by their counsel during the session to-day, briefly stated the
points upon which they intended TO insist in the of the
investigation.
The important duties of Secretary the Board have been
assigned s. HuMEs PORTER, Esq chief clerk Of the In
dian department
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SUICIDE M DRowSiSe.-The remains Of by the
name Of Duncan McKb brought to Cumberland (Md
ntermen Sunday last who TO his death by plung
ing into the Potomac Green Valley Depot He had been
in the employ Of the Mount Savage Company, and
his way in the cars from the point the East On the arrival
the cars at point indicated above he eaped from the
and precpated himself into the river and was drown
ed -Cipikan.
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The venerable AsHpEL GREEN has been elected Pres
dent Of the Pennsylvania Bible Society. This venerable
Jeseyman, who Chaplain TO Congress during General
Washingtons Administration, and enjoyed familiar inter-
course with the great Of that day, is the country will be
pleased to learn, engaged in writing the minutes Of his
diaya faithful daily record Of public and the course
Of opinion, embracing the whole period Of history from
the commencement of the Revolution.
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WAR EXPENSES AND WAR DEBT.

In the House Of Representatives on Monday the
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means
reported bill making additional appropriations to
the amount within fraction) OF. Twelve Millions
of Dollars for the expenses of the war with Mexi-
co and also bill for borrowing, in the form Of
Treasury Notes Loan, Ten Millions of Dollars
towards paying those expenses slender provi-
sion for the next six months
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Will the Union,' the official organ, be kind
enough now to define the difference between a
British Hhig and British Democrat? Also,
what is the present state Of the democratic doctrine
compared with that of the last Baltimore Conven-
toni Any information will be kindly received by
the affiliated presses throughout the Union that sus-
tain Mr.. Polk.-Termont Protector.
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The announcement, says the New York Journal Of Com
merce, (Which appears to be authentc that three ships Of
the line have been ordered to be in readiness for active
service, viz the Pennsylvania, 100, at Norfolk the North
Carolina at that port, and the Ohio at Boston, naturally
suggests the idea that heavy bombarment is contemplated
and that there is only fortress the Mexican coast
where such force in addition to several large gates now
in the Gulf could be required
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Gen. UREA, who is advancing with force Of
from three to five thousand men upon Santa Fe,
with a view of defending that section Of the Re-
public of Mexico from invasion, is said to be man
Of approved courage and military capacity Should
he make his appearance there in time to avail him.
self of the best point to repel INVASION as he doubt
less has done he may give the force under the COM
mand of Col. KEARNEY something to do before pos
session Of New Mexico is obtained In his alb
sence, however and with the acknowledged dispo-
sition Of Gov. ARMDo to show the Americans all
possible favor, very ttle if any, opposition will be
made to the entrance of Col. Kearney into that
department of The Republic 1t will be, we sup.
pose the middle or latter end of August before Col
Kearney can cross the Rio del Norte, and General
Urea has, unquestonaby, full time to prepare for
his reception. The prospect of resistance only
gives TO the expedition little interest, and all
eyes will be henceforh on the watch for the news
from that quarterly. Louis Republican.
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THE CHEROKEES.

We should hail with the greatest satisfaction the
measure announced in the annexed paragraphs from
the government paper were we certain that ii would
produce the beneficial effects which that paper an
ticipates from it. But we confess we have doubts
upon the subject. There are very obvious reasons
why the Commissioners should not have been per-
sons who hold Office under the Government. We
hope for the best, however
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Tax LArE RnSs.-We learn from the Georgetown
Advocate that from that place up to Harpers Ferry
foods of rain have made six breaches in the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal of which Of serious character
There only boat lest, the "Charles" from Viii
Transport, belonging to Mr. John Emery which was washed
with the embankment this side Of Noand's Ferry She
had board five hundred and seventy barrels Of -four and
fourteen barrels Of whiskey
1.-The Monocacy river, learn presented terrible
of desoaon its swollen food being covered with the grain
swept from adjacent wheat and other fields The and
other grain fields perhaps thousands of have been
either washed away perfectly inundated On all the bot
tom lands along the Potomac many Of which before the Hood
presented promising fields this the
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ACCIDENTS THE FouRTH.-We learn that young man
by the Of Minor killed Woodvle, (Hopknton,)
while in the act Of dischaging The cannon was
Of wrought ron Of somewhat peculiar constructors and had
been discharged many times during the day. At last
loaded heavily than ever stones oeing jammed in
TO make up the charge and burst throwing young Minor
several feet into the air and woundg him in the thigh so
severely that he bed deah He wasseventeen
Of age
Two men-oue named Kelly, Of Salmon Falls, New Hamp-
SHIRE and the other Babb, Of Berwick, Manewere killed
the Boston and Maine railroad. They in the morn
ing train fon Portland, the top Of and in passing
under bridge between Great Falls and Dover were damned
eween the bridge and the car, and bruised as TO cause
their death the Of few hous-Bosoa Traveller
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FAcroRr BuNSr.-The Georgetown Ky Herald states
hat the bagging and rope factory of Mr. b. w. Finne
that place. destroyed by fire last Thursday evening
The amount Of the loss supposed to be about $4,000
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GREAT TEMPERANCE CoSvESTIoS.-There is to assemble
in London the 4th of August, the Worlds Temperance
Conrerto to consist Of delegates from all the State and Ma
tonal Temperance Societies in Chrstendom Gen. IT, G.
FLoupxor the delegate from the State of Kentucky passed
through this city day two ago his way Boston to
embark for England,
The St Louis Reporter states that Paymaser STUART has
been authorized pay the Illinois Volunteers their
ton money for clothing, which s42 for each The
whole sum required for this purpose will be about one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars
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The following observations suggest train Of
thought well worthy of being pursued by all who
yet deem the virtue and intelligence of the People
the only safe reliance forhe durable welfare of this
or any other Republicans Government:
LOUISVILLE JOURNAL OF JULY a.
THE FOURTH JULr.-We hear greatly less Of late OF
the commonplace bombastc, and puere declaration that
used TO scken of the of each fourth
July Perhaps this change argues decay of the sentiment
OF patriotism and national go-perhaps public affairs have
such state that Juvenile orators longer
BILE Of assuming the Of the patriot and lover
of virtueou all events the public is greatly relieved
by the of this bubble and balerdash But the fourth
Of July is still observed and it always will be,
political sabbah-day and hope that in the absence Of
and froth portion Of the day will be devoted by the peo
pie the solemn contemplation Of the history and tendency
the Government How far has system attained the end
aimed at Has the Government fairly represented the opn
ion of the vuous intelligent and wise has the prepon-
deance Of ignorance vice, passion, and prejudice lifted dema
gogues into the high places These and kindred topics
the fit themes of contemplation and conversation during por
ton of this daythe rest may be finely spent in excursions
in picncs, and in merry -makings of all Sorts
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"HolIims, snperfine q Family Flour.

w r. have Just received in store a fresh supply
w ofthe Honins Extra supaTfne Flour, and are daily expecting
another supply OF the Family. Thos. in want will please make
early application TO HENRY LUnLAM a 60.