Daily national Republican., 1863-02-21
NEWS FROM THE sOUTH.
THE PROPOSED ATTACK UPON sAvAN-
NAH.
NAPoLEoN's MEDIATION SCHEME AP.
PLAUDED BY HANGMAN FOOT.

Adylces from the South are to the l4th'lnst.
AN APPRRHEsDED ATTACK UPoN SAVANNAH.
The Savannah Ners of the 9th inst, speaks
thus boastfully Of their ability to defend the
town;
"we are authorized to apprehend an attack
from the Yankees on Savannah at almost any
moment. We feel confident that our military
authorities are on the alert, and that they need
no prompting from the press. When the enc
my comes they will find us ready and resolute.
We do not feel that there is any ground for ap-
prehenslon Of the result. Let every one prompt
ly and courageously perform his duty, and the
Vandals will recoil from their long-threatened
attack on our city, as they have done from at
tempts on Richmond and Vicksburg. They
will learn to their cost that there are no more
cities to be surrendered to their infamous rule"
THB WHEAT CROP.
The Rome SOltIsTner says the wheat crop Is
very promising. An unusual quantity Of land
has been sQwn, and unless II should be visited
| by some calamity hereafter the crop In this re-
giOn will be Immense.
AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND.
John Mitchell, Mr.. Hall, of the Baltimore
Erchdngs, and Mr.. Gullck, formerly Of the
Washington Union, II is said, will start daily
paper In this city as soon as arrangements can
be made. u.
| William P. Giles, OF Maryland, late Consul
| General to Switzerland, and Mr.. Hill, late of
California, brother Of Gen. D. II. Hill, have
arrived in Richmond.
Capt. Byne, British officer, now In the Con-
federate service, lost leg in the second battle
of Manassas, and is now in Richmond. Capt.
Gordon, another British officer, is on Gen. A.
| p. Hills staff.
| The Richmond papers record the death Of
Alexander Gait, the young Virginia sculptor,
who was the first Southerner that has estab-
lished a reputation, both at home and abroad,
in statuary. His full length figure of Jefferson,
ha I nj a. rtnIa g.
very high honor, and will long preserve his
fame. His latest work was abas-reliefin In plas-
| ter of Stonewal Jackson, which is In posses
sion Of the Hon. A. r. Boteler. He died Of the
smallpox. 100" ....u. .. ..
Mr.. Foot, Of Tennessee, has offered the fol-
lowing resolutions in the House of Representa-
tives to tho Confederate Congress. They lie
over for the presents .
ReSolVed, That 1t be respectfully but earnestly
recommended by the President that he do, on
or before the list day Of May next, withdraw
our present diplomatic agents from every for
eign capital the Government Of which did not
have at that time agreed to recognize our inde-
pendencei and that, after said 1Bt day Of May,
/ no foreign consul now acting as such within
the limits of said Confederate States shall any
! longer be allowed to exercise consular power
among us, except upon eXequatur asked for at
the hands of the Government of said Confeder-
ate States, and granted by the same.
ResOiVcd, That the conduct of the Emperor
of France In proposing, as he has recently
done, to the several European Powers that they
should unite with him in an act of peaceful
and amlCable Intervention In the contest now
In progress between the Governments of the
United States and that of the Confederate States
Of America, has been highly gratifying both to
the Government and people OF the Confederate
States, and the hope is indulged that this wise
and magnanimous movement of the Emperor
of France-so fully in harmony as II is with
the principles which he has heretofore emphati-
cally avowed in well known published writings,
and upon which he has uniformly acted since
his elevation to the imperial throne-may soon
eyentuate in the establishment of relations be-
tween his Government and that Of the Confed-
crate States of America of close commercial
amity and enduring concord.
COTTON IN GEORGIA.
The Columbus (Georgia) Times says,
"We have been somewhat reminded of a
former period by the appearance of our streets
within the last few days. Drays loaded with
cotton have been perambulating Randolph
street el route TO MuscOgee depot with q fre.
quency unknown since the beginning Of the
war, and men are seen walking about with more
haste and eagerness than we have witnessed In
many day. The cotton platform of the Mus.
cogee road is crowded with bales az though
some people were disposed 10 regard the opin-
ion of Chancellor Kent, on the question OF
blockade as authority. The staple ia freely
selling at twenty cents, and this 10 about the
only thing that balks the reminiscenre NJ