, 1860-03-02

To Wells, Fargo & Co.'S messenger we
are under many obligations for files of San
Francisco papers. Also, to JERRY SELL
VAN, the California news prince. From
these we extract the following items Of
news
POLITICAL.
The Minnesota Democratic State Con
vention met at St. Paul on Thursday o.
last week for the purpose Of electing dele
gates to the Charleston Convention. Res
olutions were passed endorsing the Cincin-
natl Platform and the Dred Scott decision
opposing the opening of the African slave
trade; denouncing the Harper's Ferry in
surrection, and declaring for Stephen A.
Douglas as their first choice for the Presi-
dency. The resolutions instruct the Char
lesion delegates to vote for Douglas as long
as such support shall prove available, and
declare that the Democracy Of Minnesota
will uphold the Charleston nominee whoever
he may be.
NEBRASKA NAT1oNAL-The bill which
passed the Nebraska House of Assembly,
prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude
in the Territory, when it came to the Conn
Gil was indefinitely postponed; but on the
2lSt inst. it came up again on the question
for a reconsideration, and the bill was again
laid aside, or, in other words, killed.
The Tennessee Democratic Convention
met at Nashville, on Wednesday last, and
nominated Senator johnson, of that State
for President, subject to the decision of the
Charleston Convention.
The TENNESSEE OPPOSITION. N.-The oppo-
sition members of The Tennessee Legisla-
turc have called an opposition State Con
vention, to meet at Nashville on the 23d Of
February, to appoint delegates to the Ma
tional Convention. The following is one
of the resolutions passed by the Convex
tion:
Resoircd, That the sentiment Of the 0p-
position party in this State upon the subject
Of the selection of a candidate to the Pres
idency, points clearly and unequvotally to
one who has long been the pride of the
State-One who has ably and faithfully 6ll
ed high and important public stations-who
has always been national and conservative
in his policy, true TO the Constitution and
the Union-One whose wisdom and sagaci
ty as a statesman has been tested and veri
fed by the results, on all the great ques
tions affecting the peace, harmony ant
prosperity of the country, which have nriseI
in the long period Of his public service, from
the days Of publication to this day. A
man uuder whose lead they believe they car
conquer, and whom they earnestly recon-
mend to the national, conservative and pa
trotic people Of the United States for thei
support-and that man is JOHN BELL, o
Tennessee.
1t will be seen that the party in Tennes
see are tolerably sound on the Union ques
tion:
ResOired, That we hail with great pleas
ure the recent manifestations Of kind AM
fraternal feelings towards the South, an
\ fidelity to the Constitution, as expressed b.
our Northern brethren in their recent Unio
meetings And that we most cordially re
ciprocate their sentiments, with the assuI
ance that we will be just and true to them
SO long as they remain just aud true to us
The "OPPosIrIoN" IN KENTUCKY.-Th
Opposition" members of the Kentuck
Legislature held meeting in frankfort,
few days since. They approve the call o
a Convention, to bo held in ST. Louis, mex
month. The following patriotic resolution
was adopted:
Rescired, That we solemnly deprecat
the wild spirit Of madness and confusion
which seems to rule in Congress now assem-
bled at Washington; that in our deliberat
Judgment, the preservation Of the nationa
credit, the honor Of the national govern
meut, and the security Of the nationa
peace, requires that this reign of anarch,
and turbulence should cease, and that
Speaker should at once be elected by th
concurrent voices of those who desire to SCI
Justice done TO all sections of the country
and we believe this can and ought to b.
done, if the spirit Of party has not over
thrown entirely the spirit of patriotism.
The Touro Cotton Mill at Newport
working about ten thousand splndles, wa!
destroyed by fire on Saturday, involving {
loss of 100000
The Military bill has passed the Missis
sippi House. 1t appropriates $l20,00I
for the purchase of arms
Hon. Mirabeau b. Lamar, late U. S
Minister to Central America, died suddenl
OF apoplexy at Richmond, Texas, on tn
18th ult. lie was the second President o
the Republic of Texas.
England has concluded treaty witt
Honduras, by which the Bay Islands ar
ceded to that Republic. There now re
mains to be adjusted only the question 0
the surrender of the Mosquito Protcctorat
to Nicaragua, to complete the scttlemen
of the differences between Eng and tn
United States.
James W. Jones, editor Of the Aagusi,
| (Ga.) ChrOnicle, died on the night of tn
goth.