The national Republican., 1861-03-08
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The Missouri Convention.

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The Missouri Convention.
st. Louis, March 6.-In the State Conven.
tion to-day, various resolutions were referred,
declining cooperation with Georgia In the
secession movement, etc. One, offered BY ex.
Governor Stuart, declared that no overt act by
the Government, justifyng secession or rcvolu.
ton, has been committed. One, by Judge Orr,
says that we have the best Government in the
world, and intend TO preserve it. A resolution
to refer the inaugural Of President Lincoln to
the committee Of the whole, was defeated and
withdrawn.
The Southern Confederacy.
Montgomery, March 7.-Mr. Clayton to-day
reported bill providing that in the event Of
q conflict or refusal by the United States to
recognise the independence of this Confedera.
cy, no court in the Confederate States shall
have cognizsnce of civil cases by citizens Of
the United States, aud that all civil cases
pending shall be dismissed.
Later from Texas-The Secession Ordi-
nance Ratified.
Nep Orleans, March 6.-Advices from Texas
show that the State has ratified the secession
ordinance by from 10000 to Al, 900 majority.
1t is reported that Gov. Houston resigns his
position.
Virginia Convention.
Richmond, March TN the Convention
to-day, Mr.. Carlisle made speech against the
pending resolution, instructng the Committee
on Federal Relations to make report, pledging
the State to resist Mr.. Lincoln's policy of coer.
cion, and requesting the Legislature to make
the needful preparations for that purpose. He
denounced it as a reasonable measure up.
held the right Of the Government to collect the
revenues in the seeded States; was agreeably
disappointed in the pacific tone of Mr.. Lincolns
Inaugural opposed any action on coercion by
which Virginia should place herself in q hostile
attitude to the General Government. He be.
lieved in the power of tho people yet to restore
the Union. a ~.
The Convention adjourned without any
action.
The Kansas Sufferers.
Atchinson, Wsdassday, March 5.-A meet.
ing Of the committee and others from the
country, numbering about $50, and repre-.
sentng twenty-four counties, was held here last
night, and series Of resolutions we're adopted,
expressing the utmost confidence in Gen. Pom.
eroy and the other members of the general
committee, fully endorsing the system of dis.
tribution adopted by them, and recommending
all moneys and supplies for the relief of Kan.
sas to be sent to them. They regret that con.
Acting statements have been sent from Leav.
enworth, as they consider that it may have ten.
dency to stop the supplies which are yet so ur.
gently needed, and closed with the following res.
oution:
Resolped, That it is the sense Of this meet.
ing that, instead Of gross exaggeration being
do 20 - d. A.
representations are justly attributable to the
authors of tho receDt dispatches sent from
Leavenworth.
From California, per Pony Express.
Fort Kearny, March 6.-The California pony
express, with advices 10 the 10th, has arrived
here.
The fort at the entrance of San Francicco
harbor had been occupied for the first time BY
U. S. troops.
In the Supreme Court, in the case of Fremon,
%. Floreri, it was decided that the holder Of
the United States patent and lands under the
Mexican grant possesses all the precioui
metals contained in the lands.
The Governor had informed the Legislatur,
that the number Of firearms in the possession
Of the State was between four and Eve hun
dred muskets, &C., generally out of repair.
From all parts Of the State favorable &C
counts lad been received of planting opera
tons this season-the breadth Of land sown il
wheat being much greater than last year.
There is nothing decisive in reference to tn
Senatorial contest.
Fire in the State of New York.
Neio York, March IA FIRE recently OF
CURED at Dundee, destroying thirty FIVE dive
+ lings, church, two hotels, and all the store
but one. Loss, 100000.
) New York Markets.
New York, March Cotton firm-sales
400 bales upland middlings, III cent
Flour frm-sales of $4,000 barrels; Stat,
$5.5 q $50; Ohio, $5.45 "a 1856; Soutl
, ern, $5.25 @ $500. Wheat quet-sales
10000 bushels; Western red, $l.2S3; dit,
white $l.3S @ $l.50. Corn frmer-sales
$4,000 bushels; mixed, 81 "a 67,cents. Por
heavy; mess, $l7.OO q $Izl2; prime, vi
changed. Lard firm at 81 @ lOA cents. Whisk
: quiet at l6t cents. Sugar stesdy Orleans,
q 81 cents; Muscovado, a C9 81 cents. Co
;, fee steady at III @ l34 cents. Spirits of Tu
f pentine dull at 364 cents.
Financial.
: Nep York, March stocks firm. nlino
= Central shares, 70; Michigan So., 35}; Ne
1 York Central, ~; Reading, at; Nilsson
a 6's, 62.
Dean Swift, hearing of carpenter fallir
through the scafolding of a house which