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Show lclcndinK State Rights. New York, 28. A special from Washington saya General Chalmers of Mississippi, eaid this evening that on learning what the President bad said to Conway about using the national authority, if neceerary, to protect the steamer chartered to bring away colored people who arc waiting for transportation north and unable to procure it, be wrote lo the governor of Mississippi advising him, incase the steamboat Bhould make its appearance appear-ance in Mississippi lor any such purpose, pur-pose, lo arrest every one on board oi it. Chalmers thinks the governor will follow his advice. Ho says that by the proposition of Conway is meant nothing less than a general stampede of negro laborers throughout the Mississippi Valley by inducing them to believe that the general government has ordered their removal. He admits that considerable parties o( ncgroc have gathered at different lauding on the river, and refused passage on regular eteamboats, though able and ready to pay for it; but he says thnt the refusal to carry them was because tbo oliicers of roats had bc-pn waruHl by the niilhoriiic-s ol St. Louis anil : Wyandotte to bring no more paupers j to tb.6e phcrs. |