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Gouernment Ertortion aud OppresSion.--A gentleman of the highest character for vera city, (says the Baltimore Chronicle,) has &C., quainted us with the following extraordinary occurrence, and vouches for the truth of it's narration. A paymaster in the U. s. Army received $70,000 in treasury drafts. with which he waste pay some of our soldiers in the west. He went to New York, and offer- cd a merchant one half the profits on the sale of those drafts. Tho merchant sold the drafts for a premium ot ' l-2 per cent; so that the paymaster received over $30O0 for the transaction. He now starts to the west with bills on New-York, which are there at 2 premium of 8 per cent. Thus, after reali- zing about $l6,O00 on the operation, he pays the poor soldier in the paper rags of the neighborhood. The Constitution of the Uni ted States provides that the soldier shall be paid in gold or silver, or its equivalent The next best medium was the treasury drafts, which are at 4 per cent, below silver. But the eulicer pocketed the difference, and paid the soldierin currency l6 per cent. below par.