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SENATOR BENToS-A number of the

 friends of Senator Beaton invited him to 6

 public dinner In St. Louis. He declined the

 invitation, but treated them to public speech on the evening of the l3,h iRsi In this he

 defined his position on the Oregon question, the Texas question, the War question and op the Calhoun resolutions ID relation to sIa- very in connexioa with n admission of new

 territory into the UnaN In reference to the Major. .Geneul.hip, he spoke as follows He who had refused embassies to the first Courts of Europe, was wiling to 10 to Mexi- co he who had refused to let his friends propose him for tisst Ms;os- General in Nav, iS46, which would have put him at the head

 of the army, was willing b have taken a

 commission when the war began to take ths appeaIance of continuing long, ard of be-

 coming fanatieal, and giving strength to tn. monarchical European party. He was wii ling to have taken the place of Lieutenant Genersl, fnr that would have shocked ns

 military feeling. and displaced no miii.ar,

 man, and would have allowed policy ap

 proved by the President to have been com pletely carried out. He could say no nor

 at this time upon that posns, bet when th

 plan which he submitied to the Presiden

 comes to bs made known, Il would De seel ! that military men would hs+e had nothin,