The national Republican., 1861-03-19
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The vessel boush by Governor Pickens, at
Richmond, Va, and altered for service, armed
with twenty.f y.four.pounders, and regularly equip
ped, has been named Lady Davis, in compli.
ment to the wife of the first President of the
Confederate States. She started on Tuesday
night on the harbor defence, with her compile.
u uent of enlisted men, Lieut.. 7. B. Huger com.
manding, with First Lieut.. Dozer and Lieut..
Grimball.
The proposition for National Convention,
introduced in the Legislature Of Indiana on the
first day of the session, passed just before the
adjournment by decided majority in both
Houses.
The Fayetteville IN. C.) Observer of Thurs.
day, states that Governor Ellis has decided not
to call the Legislature of that State together,
unless something more urgent than now exists
should occur to render an extra session n0ces-
sary.
The grand Jurors of Montgomery county,
Nd, thoroughly investigated the report in re.
gard to a negro insurrection near Rockville re-
Gently, and the Sentinel learns, from report
which they made to the court, that there was
no real foundation for the rumor.
J. A. McBarron, Chief Justice Of Hamilton
county, Texas, has been notified by q public
meeting to leave there because he is suspected
of being an abolitionist.
In Missouri, the young wheat in the country
north of the Missouri river is looking unusually
thrifty and Aourishing for this season Of the
year. In other parts of the State it presents
good appearance, and farmers are encouraged
to look for an unusually good harvest Of this
grain.
The Norfolk Herald states that paper,
signed by over 800 persons in Portsmouth, has
been sent to Messrs. Holleday and White, dele
gates in the State Convention, requesting them
to stand by the Union until the last link is
broken. Another paper quite as numerously
signed as the first has been forwarded from
Norfolk to Gen. Blow, q delegate from that
city, requesting him not to favor secession.
We perceive by the English papers that DR..
Russell, the Crimean correspondent of the Lon.
don Times, who was also the correspondent of
India, is coming out to this country, to describe
the revolution going on here. The fact shows
what a deep interest our revolutionary proceed.
ings possess for the public mind in Europe.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says:
"Some of the people of South Carolina ap.
pear 10 be getting sick of separate State seces.
sion ana f0rceu loans, and moving from the
State with all possible haste. Messrs. Farr,
Cotter, and Burns, with their families, thirty.
five negroes, twenty horses, wagons, carriages,
&c., were found on the Admiral last evening,
on their way to a new home near the mouth Of
the Arkansas river. There are said to be many
others in the Palmetto State who will follow
their example, and leave as soon as possible"
Passengers for Savannah by the steamship
lines we're notified, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, that their baggage would be subject to
the scrutiny of the Savannah custom-house
officers. The officers, it is said, make q very
rigid examination, and allow nothing but the
strictly personal effects of the passengers to
pass.
The New Orleans True Delta Of March 10th
has the following:
"The new law of the Confederate States, re-.
quiring steamboats, for foreign ports to take
out clearances went into effect yesterday, and
created no little excitement and comment on
the wharf The most important feature of it
seems to be the fee which the custom. house
officers never fail to exact. The boats which
found themselves compelled to obey this new.
tangled regulation yesterday, were the Hanni.
bal, Col. Kennott, and T. c. Twichel, for St.
Louis, the Peytona for Louisville, and the Era
No. for Camden"
Colonel s. Cooper, late Adjutant General Of
the United States Army, has gone South, to
accept the post of Adjutant General of the
Southern army.