...bor or service as to them may seem proper, without any accountability whatever to said Thos. L. Smead or any one to claim by, through or under him. A party of Secessionists went to the house of Judge Birch , a member of the State Convention, a few days since, with the intention of killing him and his son, but they were fired on and repulsed. Judge Birch came to St. Louis, and to-day returned to his ho...