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received the close attention of the audience, and renewed and loud applause. At 2 o'clock, dinner was announced, and the company sat down to an excellent bill of fare, among which we saw traces of Charley Hunt, and other worthies "of that ilk," united with the native cookery of a gentleman who presided at the end of a table, and gravely insisted that everybody should eat roast pig. After dinner, the meeting re-assembled, and the ladies had again filled the long piazza of the hotel. Messrs. Pennybacker, of the Legislature, and H. Clay Pate, Esq., of the Petersburg Bulletin, delivered brief, but eloquent speeches, in favor of the secession of Virginia. At the close of Mr. Pate's address, the Chairman laid before the meeting the following preamble and resolutions, which were adopted by acclamation: Whereas, we, a portion of the people of Chesterfield, in a public meeting assembled, deeming it a duty of a free people at all times, in their primary assemblies, to express their opi