From St. Louis
--The following is telegraphed from St. Louis to the Northern press, (May 15,) and some portion of it has the usual Black Republican tinge:‘ A legal demand has been made upon Gen. Harney to give up Capt. McDonald, who was taken poisoner by the U. S. volunteers after the affair at Camp Jackson. The General answered in writing, refusing to give him up till he had received instructions from Washington, and declaring his determination to obey the higher law of his country. The decision of the Judge has been postponed.
Yesterday U. S. Commissioner Hickman visited the arsenal to testify to McDonald's affidavit, and was informed by Gen. Lyon that Capt. McDonald was a prisoner of war, and, moreover, he was not in Missouri.
Gen. Harney denies that any insubordination has taken place among the U. S. volunteers, but on the contrary, says that they have submitted with alacrity and cheerfulness to the discipline of the services.
The public schools of this city will be closed after Friday next, in consequence of an act of the Legislature, prohibiting the distributing of the school money
A dispatch from St. Albert says that Dr. Seimer, residing at Liberty township, near Osdgebridge, has been arrested and sent to Jefferson City, for trial by martial law, for raising a company of Union volunteers. A military encampment of about 200 State troops at St. Joseph, mostly armed with guns recently taken from the arsenal at Liberty, dispersed on the 13th.
Enlisting at the arsenal at St. Louis continues active, about three hundred having been received yesterday. It is understood that Hyde Park, in the northern part of the city, has been leased by the Government, and that a regiment of troops will be quartered there
The Keokuk and Quincy papers say that hundreds of Union men have been driven out of Missouri under orders issued by the ‘"Council of the Southern Legion."’
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