Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-02-28
Late News from Richmond.


The New York Herald, whose secession
leauings has enabled it to keep good Its
southern connection, and to receive south
ern papers almost as promptly as when
the mails we're run regularly, has news
from Richmond to the 18th, some items of
which are interesting:
1.-The most extensive preparations had
been made for the Inauguration OF Jen.
Davis as president on the 22d inst. The
ceremony was to have been performed with
all the pomp and splendor that could be
devised. A military parade and banquet
were to add to the attractions of the &C.
casion, and a grand ball was to conclude
the festivities of the day. Now, however,
all this is changed. In view of the seri-
GUS rcverses that have happened, the GER
emory is to be of the simplest kind, with
out pomp or parade, without any military
display, without banqueting or feasting
and as to the ball, as one of the ladies
said, 1t would be disgraceful to be dane
ing aud enjoying ourselves after such de-
fcats. and while our poor soldiers are suf-
fering' So the ball, too, has been aban-
doned.
There was no intention expressed Of
evacuating Columbus but it was admit
ted that such course might become nec-
essary. 1t was stated officially, however,
that there was no probability that the
line of the Potomac would he abandoned,
and there was no doubt expressed as to
the ability of the rebels to retain possession
Of the whole of Virginia east of the Blue
Bridge and Cumberland mountains, and
to defend the Cumberland Gap.
On Sunday last the Spottswood House,
and the pavement in front of it, were fill
ed with excited crowds, discussing the
news from Fort Donclson and the critical
condition of the confedcracy. A prominent
member of the rebel Congress- whose re-
lations to the rebel President give great
weight to his words, declared that the
day had now come in which the southern
confederacy was to pass through the fire /;
that the events of the next three months
would decide whether or not the southern
people are worthy of being an Independent
nation; that the fortune of war consists
of alternate victories and reverses, and
that, having their day of triumph, they
were now about to experience period OF
defeats; that the preparations of 50 skill
full and scientific general as Mcclellan,
made at his leisure, resulting in the for
nation of an army of 100000 soldiers,
with the discipline of regulars, must re-
suit in some successes on his part. But
these reverses,' he said, would try the
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temper, the powers of endurance and the
patriotism of the southern people. If
they became discouraged if their SOL
diers, tired of one brief campaign, refused
to re-enlist for the war, they might as
well abandon the attempt to gain their in
dependence, lay down their arms, return
to the arts of peace, acknowledge them.
selves fairly vanquished, and submit to
whatever terms the North saw fit to i'm.
pose upon them. But, if their troops re.
enlist, and the spirit of their people re.
manned unsubdued, the victories which
the Unionists had gained would be of nc
advantage to the victors, but would only
be salutary lesson to the South; thai
the topography and natural features O
the southern states were such that no ar
mics, however numerous and we'll disci
plined, could penetrate them. or take pos
session of any OF their cities, withou
being surrounded and cut off, either BY
regular or by guerrilla warfare; that tn
tide of fortune would soon turn again il
their favor, if they would learn to rely o,
, themselves alone. But they must pu
forth all their efforts, and give up tn
idea of foreign aid for the present.
ca We have this morning from sever