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 since. Yesterday twenty-eighl more passe,

 this town from the neighborhood of For

 Madison, Iowa Territory From St. Joseph

 we learn that two hundred wagons have eros

 sed the Missouri at that place and its vicinity

 and departed iorthe same destination. Whils

 we Write friend informs us that fifty more

 wagons are crossing al the lower ferry, ant

 Will pass on tomorrow. As the main com. Pany have started at least two weeks earlier than usual, and many intending to emigratf may De diverted from so doing by this fact

 we will state that parties will continue to start until June, and that animals, provisions and everything for complete equip uipment, are to be obtained in abundance, and on the most moderate terms, in this country"

 The lludson's Bay Company, on their side. are not sleeping on their oars. The "St Lotus Republican" of the 10th instant, calls upon our government not to leave Oregon settlers without protection, and submits the following information to its readers. The B?IllmoFe American says that stthe question oi right to the Ofegon'' should be brought to issue as soon as possible; for .sif the matter Is not soon adjusted by negotiation, there will be constant danger of q collision between our settlers in the territory and the people under the control of the Hudson's Bay Com Pany. Such a collision would, of course, emharrass the negotiation very much, and add to the difficulties of the question:

 From te H. Louis Repa6lica,t of ihe l5h.

 "A few days since. we saw an alusion made in the New Y ork Evening Post to the BoiS BrwleS of the ncrlhwest and what the Post then said of these men, we have heard substantially sustained by men from the mountains. These B2is Brules are half breeds, or mixed bloods, for the most part the children of the Scotch, and other white men m the employ of the company, by Indian mothers, The paper, from which we quote, says that the liudson's Bay Company 'has mounted five hundred of them, between the ages of IS and 35, every man of whom can read and Write, and all so trained to arms that any one of them could take command of q cavalry company; and such companies can at once be raised among the uneducated Bois Brules, who number some 10000 in the northwest Washington Irving, in his Asto- ria, years ago, called attention to this new race which has sprung up on our continent. lie did not call attention, however, to the fact that not male Indian child of the full blood has Ill years been born between lIutson's Bay and the mouth of the Oregon, but these hawk-eyed northwesiers have their name down in their books, to turn the nurslng to account some day as full-grown and able bodied British subject. If we had these same sagaclous men to manage our Indian policy, manage 1t with the same sleepless zeal, the same searching shrewdness and bold ability, there would now be no question, swhat is Mir. Polk to do with Oregoni'n