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items of intelligence from this point appear
ing in the Star of Saturday last, and ineorpo-
rated into his letter of this morning We
have to labor with great industry to gather
such things. and are therefore entitled to the
usual newspaper courtesy of credit for them
when first appearing in our columns. OF
course our friends omission was an accident
As we never omit such credit to any journal.
we trust that hereafter our neighbors of the
RepuJtic will not meet with another such
mishap.
Col. BENTON rs. THE INTERIOR DEPART.
MENT AND THE INDIAN BUREAU The Inte
rior Department and the Indian Bureau are
understood to dissent in toto from the recon-
mendations of Col. Benton to the Missouri
squatters, wherein tho Colonel assures them
that they may, with safety, 60 over the Ne
braska line and make settlements without first
obtaining the heretofore necessary permit from
the Indian Bureau. The Colonel in a late
published letter, takes the ground that where
ever the Indian title has been extinguished.
United States territory is at once opened for
settlement. Heretofore the Indian Bureau.
backed by Uncle Sans bayonets, have re-
PEELED all unlicensed settlers on any territory
not fairly opened by formal action of Con-
gress and in this case they are, doubtless, pre-
pared to carry out their ancient regulation,
Colonel Benton's reading of the law to the
contrary Notwithstanding. AS much of Nc
braska territory is exceedingly valuable, the
Colonel's encouragement will undoubtedly in
ducc many to overstep the line when we will
have exciting news from that quarter or we
are much mistaken. Up to this time, the Bu-
reau has had more trouble in expelling the
unlicensed from Nebraska than from any 9TH
er region, which, so far has been under its
efficient guardianship. Yet it thus appears
that its Nebraska troubles have hardly COM
menced
The PRINCEToN.-The Navy Department
has received official notice from Chief Engi-
necr Martin, that the Princeton's boilers will
be so repaired as to enable her to answer
for the voyage she has been ordered to make
We presume that she went to sea yesterday or
this morning
The CHANCERY COMMISSION IN THE GARDI-
NER CAsE.-Johnson HELEN, John M. Ennis,
and John W. McKim, Esqrs., attorneys at
law of this city, who form the commission ap
pointed by the Circuit Court for this county,
to take testimony to be used before the Court
aforesaid in the Gardiner chancery case,
wherein the Government are struggling to get
back some 100000 of the money paid out on
the Gardiner claim have so far examined but
Judge ASuillar and Col Ogden Niles They
are now examining Capt. Barry. Their task
Is evidently to be protracted and tedious, like
all things in the shape Of law proceedings in
the Gardiner cases.
AN IMPORTANT Treasury CIRcULAR.-The
Treasury Department are n wv sending to the
various Collectors and other officers of the
revenue the following circular, viz:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 20, 1858.
Your special attention is called to the fol-
lowing instructions in relation to the appraise-
ment Of merchandise, under the Act of Sd
March, 1881 additional TO, or in modification
OF the circular instructions from this Depart
mcnt, dated 9th March, 1851:
The invoice cost of foreign merchandise.
supported by the oath required by law, will
be held and taken as the Importers declara-
ton OF value ut the port and time of ship
ment, and conclusive against the importer.
unless. before entering the same the said i'm
porter, his consignee, or agent. where the
merchandise has been actually purchased
shall declare in writing, under oath, on the
invoice, a. decline in value between the time
of such purchase and the date of shipment.
and the amount thereof in which case. such
declared value shall be conclusive against the
importer but In either case, the appraisers
Will determine and fix such additional value
us the law and the facts may warrant,
JAMES GUTHRIE
Secretary Of tie Treasury.
HE TEMPEST ~ THE ROCHESTER, TEAPoT.-
The Barnburncrs and Iunkers of Rochester.
N I =, are again by the cars Cause why
the division of the spoils, in the hands of Mr.
Campbell, the new collector of that port. He
has sent on list Of his lucky ones. which
the Hunkers insist essentially violates his
pledge to make a fair divide Col. Paine. of
Rochester, has therefore come to Washington
to prove to the satisfaction of the Adminstra-
ton that Collector Campbell has failed to asa Y
Turkey once" to his PSI friends.
We apprehcnd that this subject matter was
discussed this morning in cabinet council On
the representations of Paine and Campbell
the latter being also in Washington. If we
arc not mistaken, the administration have
lad down the rule that they will not interfere
TO correct under appointments made by sub
ordinatos, unless their appointees can be shown
to be personally unfit for the positions to
which they may have been respectively as
signed.
The SLooP-oF- WAR JOHN ADAMS has arrived
at Boston, from the coast of Africa. She is to
he inspected to-day. She left the Island of Ma
delra on the I'D of June and anc hnred at Boz