The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-20

AUSTIN, March 13.-The Convention has
rejected the alb into and adopted substi.
tute for the majority declaring the secession
ordinance null and void, acknowledging the
supremacy OF the Constitution the United
States, and rsnOuncing the right to again
secede from the Union by 43 aves to 81
nays.
Inc committee on the condition of the
state reported an ordinance permitting the
Legislature to pass a stay law on the iudp-
Inent OF debts for four years on condition
that the interest and one-fourth the princi-
pal be paid each year,
The Judiciary committee have reported
an ordinance protecting Confederate civil
and military officers from criminal or civil
process, Tor lmpressment or injury of person
or property.
GALVESTON, March 13.-Mr Mcdonald,
the assessor for five months in this district
unable to take the oath, has gone to Wash
lngton TO make arrangements for the pay
ment OF himself and assistants, intending to
resign.
WASHINGTON, March H-House-The
bill relative to the Court of Claims passed
with unlmportant amendments
NEW YORK, March l4.-McKenna, the
Chilian agent, and s. Rogers, the Chilian
consul arrested for violation of the neutral
ity laws, pleaded not guilty, and were ad-
mitted TO bail in the sum of $4,000 each.
The Southern Express Company paid yes
terday $500 900 for money lost on the steam
er Carter, which was carried past its desti-
nation at Memphis where the Carter arrived
during the night time.
WAsHINGTON, March I5.-The Senate
concurred in the House amendment and
passed the civil rights bill, which now
awaits the signature of the President to
become q law.
New YORK, March I5-The Tribune's
! 5.l Spaaia1 (FoliDar
held Yesterday, and it is currently reported
the removal of Mr. Clark was under con-
sideratiOn.
BosToN, March Is The Whipple File
Manufacturing Company has failed. Capt.
tai stock, 100000
WASHINGTON, March 16-The President
has approved the act concerning the with
drawal of goods from bonded warehouses.
The Supreme court has before it cases in
volviug the cOnstitutiOnality of the Missouri
test oath
Senate-SIr Stewart offered resolution
declaring in favor OF universal suffrage IN
return for universal amnesty, believing, as
negro suffrage seems to be the main impcd-
iment to Southern restoration, its adoption
would insure the admission of the Southern
representatives.
The House was engaged in the considera-
tion of the loan bill, which gives the Secre-
tary of the Treasury new powers on the man
agement of the country's finances.
Mr. kelso introduced a bill to establish a
line of mail steamers between Charleston
and Liverpool, via Queenstown, which was
read twice and referred to the Committee on
Post Office
a resolution was adopted, instructing the
Committee on Indian Affairs to inquire into
the eXpediency of concentrating the Dakotah
or Sioux Indians in one reservation.
The Captain General of Cuba, in an Off
cial communication, denounces as untrue
. the statement made by Senator Sumner
that freed persons from the South have been
taken to Cuba and sold into slavery.
lNDIANAPOLIS. March I6.-The Democrat
ic State Convention has adopted a resolu-
tiOn strongly endorsing the administration
policy, denying the right of secession, and
pledging the support of the Democracy of In
diana to the President,
New YORK, March l6.-The Commercials
special says the President has determined to
muster ont forty thousand colored troops
now stationed in the South, within the
coming month.
GALVESTON, March l6-The past three
days proceedings of the State Convention
may be cpltomiSed as follows:
1t was resolved to request the President
of the United States to appoint commits
sioners disconnected with the Freedmen's
Bureau or the army, to visit and obtain re
liable information to enable him to decide
the necessity of longer keeping up the
Freedmen's Bureau in Texas.
The ordinance declaring State and Con-
federate debts null and void was engrossed;
also the ordinance assuming the direct Fed
eral tax of 1861
4 proposition to create a new State to be
called East Texas, was under consideration,
and resolution was adopted making ma
jOrity a quorum.
WASHINGTON. March 1.-THE Secretary of
the Treasury has placed before the House a
Treasury statement in reference to the pub
lie debt.
The House was in Committee of the
Whole on the Presidents message with only
a few members present.