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TUKXUOLI), GA., FEBRUARY 28, 1805.
Send to Eutonton.
Exchanges and correspondents will
please direct their favors, now. to Ea-
tonton, instead of to Greenesboro, to
which place we had our papers sent,
during the raid. tf
Richmond, Feb. 7.—“In pursuance
of a call, by Gov. Smith, an immense
public meeting was held, last night,
in the African '•■eburc'Ii, when a Beries
of patriotic resolutions were adopted,
of which the last was as follows :
Resolved, That in this. presence,
and in the face of the world, rever
ently invoking thereto the aid of Al
mighty God, we renew our resolve to
maintain our liberties, and independ
ence, and to this end mutually pledge
our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honors.
President Davis addressed the
meeting about thirty minutes, in which
he said lie was rejoiced to witness
this demonstration, and expressed
the belief that if the people would
give a hearty, and unanimous response
to the demands of the exigency, the
enemy would next ask for a confer
ence, in which to make known our
demands. His^ life, he said, was
bound up in the confederacy, and, un
der no circumstances, would he be the
agent for the reconstruction of the
union.
The president was frequently in
terrupted with enthusiastic cheering.
Several other addresses were
made.
A call for another mass meeting, for
tbursday, lias been published.
Weather, today, very inclement—
the ground covered with snow, and
sleet.”
Richmond, Feb. 8.—“In the
house, today, the senate resolution of
thanks to Capt. Semmes, officers, and
crew, was unanimously concurred in.
The bill for the employment of
free negroes, and slaves, in llie army,
was referred to a committee of con
ference.
The tax bill, heretofore discussed
in secret session, was further consid
ered in the committee of the whole,
until the hour of adjournment.”
“Wigfall introduced a resolution, j
directing all laws authorizing the im
pressment of property for the use of
the army, except by military efficers,
in cases of absolute necessity, repeal
ed, which, after a long debate, was
adopted.”
News of Literature.—“It would
appear that Solomon spoke truth,
when he said that there was noth
ing new under the sun. Tennyson’s
‘ Charge of the Light Brigade,’ owes
much of its popularity to its metre,
and mannerism. Except the sounds
corresponding to the reiterated * six
hundred,’ such as blundered, thun
dered, wondered, and sundered, the
rhymes aie mean, and ‘ cannon to
right of them,’ ‘ to left of them,’ ‘ in
front of them,* are no rhymes at all.
In the first stanza, as originally pub
lished, instead of ‘ charge for the guns,
he said,’ the line ran, 1 Take the guns,
Nolan said.’ We Buppose that, as
Nolan was only a subaltern, it was
held, on second thought, that his
name was not worthy of being pre
served. Had he been a general, it
might have been different, perhaps.
Even the metre of Tennyson’s lyric
is not original.
An English essay writer, in a vol
ume just published, in London, by
Strahan & Co., and entitled, ‘Tangled
Talk,’ quotes a verse from a ballad,
‘The Battaile of Agincourt, 7 by Mi
chael Drayton, and published in 1627,
which shows from what source the
form of ‘The Charge of the Light
Brigade’ was derived. It runs thus :
‘They now to fight are gone,
Armor on armor shone,
Drum now to drum did groan,
To hear was wonder—
That, with the cries they make,
The very earth did 9hake,
Trumpet to trumpet spake—
Thunder to thunder.’ ’’
Richmond, Feb. 6.— “The senate,
today, adopted resolutions of thanks
to Capt. Semmes, his officers, and
crew,- for their signal victory over
the enemy’s steamer Ilatteras, and
for their long and arduous cruise in
the pursuit, and destruction of the
commerce of the enemy.
’Fhe negro bill was further discuss
ed.
The house amendment, leaving the
number of slaves to be employed in
the army undefined, was agreed to—
yeas 12 nays 8.
After an executive session, the sen
ate adjourned.”
Richmond, Feb. 6.—“It is under
stood that Vice-President Stephens
will return to Georgia, in a few days,
to canvass the state, in behalf of a
vigorous prosecution of the war.
He says, the only hope now left
for the whole south, is in its strong
arms, and strong hearts.”
When demagogues become alarmed for
their proporty, they appeal to everybody
else to fight forever. Go, all! Come, 00 ! j
Richmond, Feb. 8.—“ The New York papers,
of tbe 6th, contain voluminous telegrams from
Washington, relative to the conference at For
tress Monroe.
A special to the Times says Lincoffi informed
! the commissioners, at every point, that recog-
j nition was out of the question; that the United
States could stop the war only on the condition
that the authority of the national government
should be recognised, and obeyed, over the
whole territory of the United States.
This point conceded, he assured them that otii
every other matter of difference, they would be
treated with the utmost liberality.
Another telegram says, Stephens wa* the
mo3t liberal o( the rebel deputation. His theo
ry was, it we would but treat with them as an
independent nation, such agreement could be
had as would practically unite the north and
the south.
A special to fibre Tribune says, Stephen* sur
passed all his old exhibitions of shrewdness,-
force, and tact, in putting tbe demands of the
confederacy.
In the midst of them, at the conclusion of one
of his points, Lincoln sprang forward, and, in
terrupting him, said, that reminds me of a
story of a man in Illinois.
The commissioners instantly jumped up in »
roar of merriment, and after tbe story wa*
through, Stephens resumed, and finished the
statement ot the terms on which he thought
the rebels would be willing to stop the war.
He proposed, and urged his crafty scheme of
temporary recognition. But on recognition
absolutely, tbe three commissioners stood like
rocks.
The result of the conference is the union of
all parties, here, in tbe vigorous prosecution of
the war.
Fernando Wood took the war-path, yester
day, and Cox, and other democrats, will take it
tomorrow.
Gold opened, in New York, on monday, at
214.
Foster has been suspended, by Gen. Gil
more, in command of the department of South
Carolina.
The Western Virginia legislature has passed
a bill abolishing slavery.”
Richmond, Feb. 6.—“The commis-
sioueis were not allowed to leave the
boat, at Fortress Monroe.
At 9 o’clock, on friday morning,
Lincoln and Seward met them on
board tbe steamer, where tbe inter
view lasted about three hours, result
ing as stated in yesterday’s tele
grams.
In tbe course of the conversation,
Lincoln slated that Blair’s visit to
Richmond, so far as it contemplated
any arrangement for peace, was with*
out his approval.
Lincoln, and Seward both inciden
tally admitted the possibility of com
plication in their foreign relations, but
professed to be able to suppress the re
bellion in time to meet them.
They were very courteous to the
commissioners. Lincoln related sev
eral anecdotes, and, on parting, he
ejaculated ‘God bless you 1’
Hunter asked to be remembered to
all old friends in tbe north.”
“Mr. Thos. S. Pettit, editor of the
Owensboro, Ky., Monitor, has reach
ed Richmond, under sentence of ban
ishment, for alleged dislopalty to the
i Lincoln government.”