New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-04
FROM LOUISIANA.
THE CONVENTION.
CLOSING uoURs-FLATNEss OF TRADE.
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NEW-tNLEANS, DlaICu 80 iCoi'
The closing session of the State Conven-
ton Yesterday was very turbulent one. After
the transaction of miscellaneous business, the
ordinance making the judiciary appointive In
stead of elective, came up. The several sec
tons of it were passed, amid variety OF
proposed amendments, calls of the House, de-
mands for the yeas and nays, explanations, etc.,
until President Monitor got away out TO sea IN
the fog, and evidently believed that chaos had
come again. Divisions were so close that no
announced again and again: 1.-THE Char Is I'M
able 10 decide; those who voted In the aihrma-
tive will please to RISE" Then the alternatives
could stand while he counted them very slowly
and laborlousy. Then the negatives would rise'
until they were counted. BY this time fa1hef
Muuton would forget how many had been up On
the other side. and ask the clerk. Shat why.
voiced Young gentleman had forgotten too; 80
both sides would have to be counted again-tnls
time aloud aud rery deliberately. Then, after
sitting down, figuring for three OF four minutes,
upon a paper before him, and consulting with
two or three of the clerks, the Chair would de-
eide that the alternatives were in the maze ity,
but there was no quorum present. Then some
one would demand that the Sergeant-at-Arms
should be sent out for absentees. The Chair
would respond that this had been tried already;
but that the absentees refused to come. Then
some factous member would raise q new point,
and call Tor the yeas and nays and quietly alp
out into the corridor to smoke his cigar during
! the fifteen minutes consumed in taking them.
| SO the time passed until o'clock--the hour
at which the Convention had previously voted to
adjourn until November /. A motion was made
TO reconsider that vote; but there being no
/ quorum present, it was declared impossible.
| The President decided that the ordinance
under consideration was lost, as there was
not a quorum to adopt it as whole. An
| appeal from the decision was taken, and the
| House sustained the Chair. Then all sorts Of
| prop,e itions were made and discussed, several
members speaking at once, until the President
veutured upon little speech of acknowledgment
for the kuduess of the members, and just before
O'Clock declared the Convention adjourned.
few of the rural members still remain in the
city, but the majority have returned TO that
prigate life which they are so eminenty fitted to
adorn.
Five millions of the proposed loan Of the Con-
federate States are advertised to be in the
market here on tbe 18th proximo The Con-
yentiOn yesterday adopted an ordinance exempt
ing the bonds from taxation, and the putting
process in regard to them still goes on in the
secession orgaus.
Trade, in ali departments except the products
of the earth, continues exceedingly dull. Dealers
complain that the usual plantation orders have
completely stopped. Credit is curtailed, on
account of the unsettled condition of affairs, and
there are great complaints of scarcity of money
in the parishes. An immense amount of corn is
being shipped to Texas. The drouth of last
season has made that State dependent upon this
market for its supply, and this city, Of course,
receives lts store from the great North West
The few country merchants who are here COM
plain that our bost aud shoe, clothing, aud dry
goods dealers, are making the tariff there excuse
for most unreasonable and exorbtant prices.
The Delta, after taking three or four months
to prepare it in at last publishes statement of
tue popular vote of Louisiana, in which it en-
deayors to prove that the people by a majority
of 1872 voted in favor Of immediate secession.
But 10 order to do this, it counts on the side Of
the Secessionsts the votes east for several dele
gates VITO were VIGOROUSLY elected 10 opposition
to that party, though some of them went over to
it, soul aud body, after the Convention assembled.
Altogether, tie exhibit makes q very lame show
ing, and when Analysed, shows very clearly why
the Secessionsts have not dared to submit any
OF their acts TO the people. They knew perfectly
well that the :" mere numerical majorties," Of
which Mr.. Semmes speaks SO scornfully, were
emphatically against them.
The Creseen, is exercised at the presence here
of " correspondents of Northern papers, who in.
dite real faiSchOOds and lies as coOIy as they
would eat dinner at the St. Charles" The
| Crescenfs rhetoric ia little linpiDg; but its
watchiulness and patriotism are above all praise.
TIE matter should certainly be attended to at
once.
The Mississippi Convention reassembled at
jackson ON Monday. TIE question of submitting
the Montgomery Constitution to the people bids
fair to be very bOty contested there. The Pre-
cipitsting policy VIII probably triumph but Mr..
Bark.dale the editor of The MissssipPidn, who
is strosely urging the submission, will be can
didate for Congress in the Fall upon that issue,
and at last the people will have an opportunity
to be heard upon it, even if the crushing-out
process 10 persevered in by the Convention.
The weather continues very changeable and
We are experiencing dozen climates a day.
Vegetation in the country 10 unusually forward.
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