Lynchburg Virginian

GEORGIA.

MAJOR EATON.

The Globe intimates, that Mr. Eaton has been prevented from setting out for Tennessee by the events which have lately transpired at Washington. His presence may become necessary to meet any emergency which may occur, or explain any circumstance which may be misrepresented.

He was invited on the 12th inst. to a public dinner by "a number of the Citizens of Washington, without distinction of party."—He declined the honor which was intended him, with many acknowledgements for "the generous impulse which dictated the proffered civility"—"Recent circumstances (says he in his reply) have placed me, most reluctantly in noisy strife before the public; to the unnecessary excitement which it has occasioned, I wish to contribute nothing. Reposing in private life, my desire is, to see the public mind at rest, rather than by any course of mine, to disturb it ; —to quiet angry feelings, and by no participation, to afford any new impulse to further misrepresentations, At a time, like the present, when political design interposes a dark and misty medium to every vision, and when the ties of former friendships are rudely rent asunder, I cannot shut my eyes to the admonitions afforded, which urged me to prefer retirement, so congenial to my feelings, rather than by accepting the civility of friends, to be placed in a situation where my actions and their motives might be misconceived, and misrepresented. Besides these considerations, of themselves sufficiently weighty, my every moment must necessarily be employed in preparations, for my departure home.