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LOCAL.
jjiQg- We refer our readers to the
law advertisement of Messrs. Hall &
Feuvy.
B@“Wo ask a perusal of the beauti
ful lines to Anna Vone, by our young
and talented townsman, J. Y. Hall.
The sudden-and serious illness
of one of our compositors on Thurs
day delayed our issue till to-day. We
are now all right again, and will issue
regularly on every Wednesday.
AS” We shall, in future, publish
the names of those who are to offi
ciate every Sunday in our Churches,
provided we are posted in time,
The Rev. J. K. Leak will preach at
the Methodist Church, on Sunday the
17th inst.
Incendiaries.
We learn that on Thursday morning
last, between 3 and 4 o’clock, an at.
tempt was made to burn down the
wool factory of Mr. Maxie Brooks,
situated about six miles from Green
ville. A box of matches and other
evidences of incendiaries were found
upon the spot where the fire broke
forth. No great damage was done, as
the fire was discovered in time. This
outrage is supposed to have been the
work of negroes, and should serve as
a timely warning to our citizens in
these troublous times.
g@“We are indebted to Mr. R. H.
Richards, of LaGrange, for a beauti
fully bound copy of Morris’ Gram
mar and a neat pocket Diary for 1861.
Prof. Morris, of Alabama, has a
well earned reputation as a thorough
English scholar and an accomplished
grammarian, and though we cannot
agree with him in all his arguments,
we acknowledge his Grammar is far
superior to many that are now used,
and equal to any. We shall give it a
rigid examination hereafter, and if we
find it available, shall urge its univer
sal adoption, especially as the author
is of us and among us.
Mr. R. H. Richards has the above
hooks for sale in LaGrange, by single
volumes or by dozens. See his adver
tisement.
Greenville Job Office.
All those who desire excellent Job
Printing, such as pamphlets, books,
bill heads, placards, cards and posteis
should call upon the services of The
Georgia Weekly Job Office —where
every kind of Job Printing will be ex
ecuted with neatness and excellence,
cheapness and dispatch.
This department of The Georgia
Weekly office is conducted by Mr. S.
DeF. Lines, one of the best, if not
the best, Job Printers in the South.
Heretofore the citizens of Merri
wether hate been compelled to send
all such work to the presses of other
counties, but now Mr. Lines is ready
and willing to prove his hand. Give
him a call and we warrant more than
satisfaction.
Destitution in New Yoke. —Our
reporters have found a good deal of
difficulty in getting any reliable sta
tistics from the departments in regard
to the condition of the city poor. In
one place they were denied informa
tion on the ground, as stated by the
clerk, that they did not want all the
facts published, as the South would
find it out ! This corroborates our for
mer suspicion that facts were suppress
ed by the Republicans for party rea
sons. They prefer to let white per
sons, our brothers and sisters, starve
and perish for the sake of “ freedom
for the negro,” who, in plenty, laughs
at tlieir silly philanthropy.
A peculiar case of destitution was
that of a family of four negroes—an
old man with his wife and two daugh
ters —occupying a single small room
in a tenement house in Cannon street.
'J'he old man has been a preacher of
the Gospel for many years. The wo
men of this family do washing; and
this little room in which their work is
done—if they can get work to do—
is also their sleeping-room, and all, in
fact, that they have to live in. One
of the women is dangerously sick.
She lay moaning on her sick bed while
we were present, but seemed to take
a lively interest in the devotional exer
cises, which here, as in other places,
were conducted by Officer Beatle, and
most seriously participated in by our
selves. This family is also, -for the
most part, dependent oh the charity of
benevolent persons.—A. Y. Day Book.
The Brighton (Mass.) Chronicle no
tices an organization of young men in
that town styled “ Zouave Oddities
who have banded together for the pur
pose of sawing wood and splitting it
for destitute females for the winter.
With wood-saw astride ofhorse,and axe
in hand; they proceed to the premises
and reduce the wood to stove size with
an alacrity unknown to those who la
bor for pelf. There is a touch of phi
lanthrophy in this worthy of imitation.
The English Press on the Cot
ton State Movement.
* * * When the President has
solemnly declared that, though South
Carolina is not constitutionally enti
tled to secede, yet sho cannot be hin
dered in the revolutionary exercise of
her sovereign rights; when the Douse
of Representatives has voted, by a
large majority, that the omployment
of force to coerce the seceding State
is impracticable; when the Custom
house and the Post Office are actually
worked by Carolinian officials; when
the New York press heads the news
from Charleston with the title, “ For
eign Intelligence,” what can be the
chance of civil war against which the
Senator from Louisiana thinks it right
solemnly to warn his fellows ? This
is a question to which no certain an
swer can be given at present, even in
America, much less in this country. —
The minds of men across the Atlantic
are agitated hy occurrences to which
nothing similar is recorded in the his
tory of this country. When the
British fleet mutinied at the Nore,
when Ireland was in open rebellion,
when Bonaparte was at Boulogne,
when England stood alone against the
consolidated French Empire—at any
of these periods people might be anx
ious, alarmed, depressed; but they
had a confidence in the future; since
they felt that a nation can never be
destroyed hut by its own guilt.—
Thinking men in America are proba
bly more, discouraged than we were
when the sword of a military despot
ism was at our breasts. They feel
that their country runs the greatest of
dangers—thatiof being ruined by it
self. For foreign enemy, no European
tyrant, no base oligarcy threatens
them. The fable of Democratic Gov
ernment is to be rent assunder in the
name of popular right, and by means
of universal suffrage. Caricatures
represent the jubilation of the Euro
pean sovereigns at the event. Ser
mons are full of despondency. Pub
lic speeches in the North have gener
ally affected to doubt the seriousness
of the movement, and have expressed
a confidence that the separation will
only be temporary, This, in fact, is
the hope which has kept the North,
and still more the West, quiet. It
was still indulged at the close of last
year, and it remains to be seen how
far it is founded on a right estimate of
tilings. But, supposing the sanguine
politicians of whom Mr. Seward is a
typo, to be in the wrong; supposing
the gulf between free and slave siil,
when once made, to widen daily more
Liuid more ; supposing the pride, or the
political ambition, or the the pecun
iary interests of the Southerners to
be satisfied by tlieir new independence,
what will be the. action of the rest of
the federation ? Will the North give
up with the slave States all the vast
continent which lies South and West
of them ? Are all tiie dreams of Am
erican ambition to be forever forgone
by the youth of New England and
New York, Ohio and Michigan, the
most active and enterprising popula
tions of the republic '< If South
Carolina secedes ; if Georgia, Flori
da, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Lousiaua follow ; if a Southern fed
eration be formed and take its place
among the powers of the earth, there
can be no hope of keeping the bord r
slave States. These will be drawn by
a natural affinity to detach themselves
from the North and join the slave
holding federation. North Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Misouri, Vir
ginia Maryland, Delaware will then
be dissociated from the free States.—
Such an event cannot be regarded
without dismay by the most staunch
abolitionist, it would, in fact, make
the Southern federation the real Uni
ted States, as far as territory present
and prospective is concerned, and re
duce the North to what our ancestors
would have called a “ Hump.” The
people of Boston or Philadelphia
might be distinguished for their ability
and enterprise, but they would belong
to a country with hardly a greater
future than Canada. Every natural
advantage would be on tho side of the
slave States. Look at the map, and
you will see what a narrow slip of
country composes the free soil of the
American federation. Only the sea
coast from the British frontier to the
Delaware—a few hundred miles—be
longs to it; all the rest, stretching far
away down the Atlantic and along the
Gulf of Mexico, is in the hands of
the slave-owners. The mouth of the
Mississippi is theirs; the Missouri and
Arkansas, the great arteries of the
extreme West, are theirs. Virginia
pushes a spur of territory to within
less than a hundred miles of Lake
Erie, and thus divides the Atlantic
free States from the West, in a man
ner highly dangerous to tlieir future
union, indeed, it is doubtful w hether
the connection between New York and
New England on the one hand, and
Illinois and the neighboring States
outlie other, could long survive the
total separation of the South. The
North would have a territory as strag
gling as that of Prussia, and the Wes
tern region would soon fiud it advan
tageous to dissolve the Union with the
Eastern. In the meantime, all the
riches of the New World would be in
the grasp of the Southerners. In
stead of exploring the inhospitable
regions in the neighborhood of the
British frontier, which would be all
that remained to the North, the slave
owners would carry their “ undenia
ble property” into lands blessed with
every advantage of climate, soil and
mineral wealth. Texas has territory
TH E- ff E-O R &I-A- 1..E1LK.L1.,
enough to make three or four great
States. New Mexico is about to be
admitted with slave institutions. Ar
izona will follow. Mexico must in a
few years be conquered, and the South
erners, lords of the most magnificent
domain in the world, would control the
passage between the two oceans.
In short, if the Union lets South
Carolina go, there is no saying what
may go with it. It is very well to
speculate on the return of an erring
sister, but experience shows that se
cessions, when once made, are not ea
sily re-called. It is the nature, of.
cracks to widen.
Southern Privateers.—The New
York Tribune begins to croak on this
subject. It says :
It is apprehended in Washington
if Fort Pickens, at Pensacola, be ta
ken by the rebels, privateers will be
immediately fitted out to prey upon
the commerce of the North. Mr.
Buchanan, instead of sending rein
forcements to the commander of the
small force there, has sent instructions
substantially directing him to surren
der in case of an attack. If Pensa
cola should fall completely into the
hands of the rebels it will become a
most convenient place of refuge for
pirates, and no American merchant
vessel will be safe in the Gulf without
the convoy of a man-of-war.
Georgia Army Appointments.
We understand says the Constitu
tionalist of this morning, that the Gov
ernor has made his appointments for
officers of the two regiments which
are to compose the regular army of
Georgia. We are at liberty to pub
lish only the following at present:
First Regiment —Col. Wm. J. Har
dee; Lieut. Colonel—A civilian; Ma
jors—LaFayette MeLaws and a civil
ian ; First Captain—W. D. Smith,
with a light battery of artillery.
Second Regiment —Colonel—Wm.
H. T. Walker; Lieut. Colonel—A ci
vilian ; Majors—Wm. Gardner, and
Alfred Gumming.
Ordinance Department —The Mil
ledgevile Recorder states that Lieut.
W. R. Boggs has been appointed Chief
of the Ordinance Department.
The officers whose names are here
mentioned were all recently officers in
the United States Army, and will bring
an enlarged experience and a great
amount of military skill and knowl
edge to the service of their State.
We have also understood that the
Augusta Arsenal is to be a recruiting
station, and the head quarters of the
2d Regiment.— Augusta Dispatch.
Latest Condensed.
The Congress at Montgomery, has
given the name of the Confederate
States of America to the new-born
Southern Republic; and elected, by
unanimous vote the Hon. Jeff. Davis,
of Mississippi, President, and the Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia,
Vice President of the same.
On Friday, the Bth, five New Y r ork
vessels were seized in Savannah har
bor, by order of Gov. Brown, as re
prisals for the Georgia property seized
from the Steamer Monticello by the
Black Republican police of New York,
and which Gov. Morgan, of New York,
had refused to restore. The vessels
are valued at $50,000, and named as
follows: Brigs Kerby and Golden>
Lead; Barks Adjuster and Murray;
and Schooner Ilaliock.
Detachments from the Phoenix Ri
flemen have possession.
The policy of Free Trade has been
adopted by the Congress at Mont
gomery.
The Peace Congress at Washington
is, thus far, a failure.
All of Gov. Wise’s relatives in
Washington it is said left that city for
Virginia on the 9th at his desire. It
is rumored that the projected seizure
of the Capital is the cause.
Great damage has been done by the
late freshet to the Railroads of Geor
gia.
Number of guns seized in by seced
ing States, 1400. Value of the forts
&c. $7,000,000. Number of South
ern forts in possession of the Federal
authorities, 7.
Arkansas State troops seized Little
Rock U. S. Arsenal on the 2d inst.
Fears of a general European war
are again becoming rife, and warlike
preparations resound on every side.
Garibaldi refuses to relinquish the
idea of an Italian empire unless so or
dered by the Italian parliament, and
of that there is little prospect.
The question of annexing *the Can
adas to the North American States is
greatly agitated over all Canada.
It is also asserted that thousands in
Maine have expressed a desire to join
Canada at all events.
Feb. 12 th. —Gov. Morgan, of N. Y.,
has given up the muskets seized by
the Black Republican police.
The seized vessels are still in Gov.
Brown's possession.
It is said that Abraham Lincoln is
on his way to Washington in disguise.
New Orleans, Feb. 4—(via Wash
ington.)—The custom house was open
ed yesterday under State control.
The convention appointed a com
mittee to adopt a flag.
The Texas secession ordinance, it
is believed, will be referred to the
people, and anew convention called
to assemble on the 2d of March.
We have received Pensacola dates
to t)io £>], which state that a truce
has bean concluded, and that the Mia
sissipians will return home on Mon
day. TANARUS/
The Alabama troops will remain
until relieved.
The New Orleans custom house has
refused to deliver goods to Louisiana
importers unless the Louisville survey
or will grant cancelling certificates
for goods and duties.
New Orleans, Feb. s—(via Wash
ington.)—lt was reported yesterday
that Texas had seceeded by a vote of
one hundred and fifty-four to six.
There was a strong sentiment preva
lent in favor of joining the Southern
confederacy.
The ordinance will be voted on the
23d of February, and, if adopted, will
go into effect on the 2d of March.
Geffl Houston recognizes the con
vention of the people, and declared
his attachment to the South, and his
desire to join the Southern confeder
acy ; but if no Southern confederacy
is formed he will join the republic of
Texas.
The secession news from Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana created great excitement in
northern Texas.
Montgomery, Feb. 5.—A bill ap
propriating half a million of dollars
for the cause of Southern independ
ence passed both Houses, aud the Gov
ernor signed the bill.
The bill legalizing bank suspensions
and stgy laV was defeated in the Sen
ate, but an effort will be made to-mor
roVv to and it is believed it
will be successful. ,
New Orleans, Feb. 6.—This city
is brilliantly illuminated to night, in
honor of the secession of the State of
Louisiana.
The to-day passed an
ordinance conferring the right of cit
izenship upon all persons residing in
the State of Louisiana at the time of
the adoption of the ordinance of se
cession.
Fort Smith, Feb. 7.—A body of
Arkansas State troops took possession
of the United States Arsenals at Lit
tle Bock, on Saturday night last.
The Texans threatened to take pos
session of Forts Washita, Cobb, and
.Arbuckle, . . .
Montgomery, Feb. 7.—The Con-,
gress received an official copy of the
act of Aiabatna, 'appropriating five
hundred thousand dollars for the sup
port of the provisional government off
the seceding States.
The Convention was but a very snort |
time in open session.
The committee on a plan for a pro :
visional government reported in secret h
session. " Their report was discussed f
for four hours.
The convention adjourned till to v
morrow at 11 o’clock.
It is reported that there is great f
unaniinity in the Congress on the plan t
reported.
SECOND DISPATCH.
.Montgomery, Feb. 7.—The Con-'
stitntipn of the United States was \
adopted by the Southern Congress, |
with tlif sole addition of free trade 1
with all the world.
Nothing of interest from Pensacola
—everything statu quo.
WASHINGTON' NEW-.
Washington, Feb. s.—The House l
to day passed the Bill providing that;
whenever in the opinion of the Post-
Master General, the Postal service j
cannot be safely continued, the Postal |i
revenue collected, and the Postal laws
maintained, and the contents of the j
mails preserved inviolate and delivered j
to their proper address, by reason oft
insurrection or resistance of the Fed-1
oral laws, those routes and Postoffices a
shalt'fl>e*discontinued, until the same ji
can be safely restored.
Washington, Feb. 6. —C01. Ritchie, j
an Aid-de-camp of Governor Andrews,
of Massachusetts, has arrived here
and called to day on Gen. Scott, to j
offer to the Federal Government the i
“ services” of the volunteers of his i
State.
Scott replied, that since the Virginia |
election he entertained no fears of an !
attack on Washington, and that there I
would, therefore, be no call for volun- 1
teers; adding that, even if a necessity j
for them should arise, Massachusetts s
would hardly be called on.
The Virginia Commissioners sayj
that' they are perfectly satisfied that)
the State will secede immediately onl
the failure ,of the peace conference|j
here, to agree. To-day’s works has!
upset all hopes of an adjustment.
Washington, Feb. 6.—The artille-i
ry company, who recently evacuated!
the Arsenal at Augusta, have been!
telegraphed to come to Washington. I
Washington, Feb. 7.—The Wash-1
ington correspondent of the New York(
Herald says, that the President hasi
given an answer to South Carolina’s!
ultimatum, and requiring another re- j
ply from Commissioner Hayne.
h A. Hall. G/o. L. Pxavv.
HAIX. St VEAVf,
Ittarnep at fail,
GREENVILLE, GA.
TANARUS) RACTICE in Coweta ( ircuit, Pike, of Flint
JL Circuit, Talbot and Harris of Chattahoo
chee Circuit.
AUo iD Supreme Court, Atlanta, District
Jouriat Marietta. 2—ly
SOUTHERN
jOTTON PACKER!
nMIIS SCREW was invented by It. G. Wil
liams, of Georgia, and is decidedly the
nost convenient and durable Screw now in U6e.
t can be worked by hand or horse power. The
|‘ntire cost of this Screw will not exceed $125.
Any planter wishing to build a Screw that will
last hi- life lime will please apply to the under
sigi ed for the right. J. N. BURTON.
2-Iy Warnerville, Herriwether Cos., Ga.
We are indebted to Messrs.
Adair, Malone, Mobley, Hussey and
others, for late papers.
S. B. OATMAN,
MARBIB DBfilßß*
MONUMENTS, TOMBS,
HEA-D-STONiiS, MANTELS, VASES,
AMD
Furnishing Marble,
"AF Also Iron Railing for Cemeiry Enclosures.
Ssntli of the Georgia Railroad Depot,
ATLANTA, GA.
GREENVILLE
female fflasmut ©allege
Greenville, Merriwether Cos., Ga.
WM. HENRY PECK, A.M.,
PRESIDENT,
(Formerly Principal of the Public Schools of
New Orleans, Chief Instructor in the New
Orleans Female College, and late Pro
fessor of Belles Lettres, Oratory
and History in the State Uni
versity of Louisiana.
The exercises of the Greenville Female
College began on the 9th of January for the
Scholastic year of 1861, and the President re
spectfully solid's the patronage and encourage
ment of the citizens of Merriwether and the
adj icent counties, in his desire to advance the
College to a rank second to none in the South,
and equal to any in the North.
The College is empowered by State authority
o grant Diplomas to regular Graduates in the
Languages, Arts or Sciences.
During the last eight years the number of
Students has averaged ftom seventy to eighty
in regular attendance, and durii g tha 1 time but
one pupil has died.
I No better proof of the excellent health of
■Greenville can be asked.
■ -k.he v JAi I year Jill consist of Forty
■WeaaSfWffl 1 a shortva cation in Julv, and will
■dose on or about the 29tb of October, 1861.
I The College will be open for such as may
■wish to continue their studies, until December
KOtb, 1861.
I A Prize of Five Dollars, in Books or Coin,
■will be given to each Model Pupil of each Colle-
K'ate Cities, at the Annual Commencement in
lOctober.
I A similar prize will be given to the Model
IPupil of the entire College.
I Minor prizes will be given to meritorious pu
pils.
The Preparatory and Primary Department is
under the supervision and instruction of Mrs.
Jennie A. Lines, formerly Principal of Prepar
atory Department in the Southern Masonic Fe
male College, Covington, Ga.
The Musical Department is conducted by
P.ofessor A. Schlichtek, late of LaGrange,
and a gentleman eminently qualified to fulfil
the requirements of his chair.
Ti e Ornamental Department, including Draw
ing, Paintirg, <fcc., will be conducted by a com
petent teacher.
Grecian Painting will be tanght by Mias
Mart Frances Beckwith, of Greenville, Ga.
Other instructors will be engaged as the in
terests of the College shall demand. 1
TJegiflqi- GoHegiqie Cotfi-se of §ltj?ij:
MINOR CLASS—Arithmetic, Grammar, His
tory, Geography, Writing. Spelling, Dictation
and Reading.
lAJOR CLASS—Arithmetic, Grammar, Ad
vanced History and Geography, Writing,
Spelling, Dictation, Reading, Composition.
UNIOR CLASS—Mathematics, Grammar, U.
Sand Foreign History, Elocution, Composi
tion, Orthography and Defining, Dictation,
Science and Rhetoric. .
SENIOR CLASS—Mathematics, Sciences, Rhet.
oric, Logic, Physiology, Composition, Dicta
tion, History, Evidences of Christianity,
Orthography, Writing and Elocution.
The French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin
and Greek Languages will be taught, at extra
charge, to such as may desire to learn them.
Instruction in Botany, Geology, Astronomy,
Chemistry, and other occult sciences will be
given during the course to those who may de
sire.
TERMS OF TUITION FOR THE SCHOLAS
TIC YEAR OF FORTY WEEKS.
I Primary Department $20.0
I Minor and Major Glasses 30.00
I Junior and Senior Classes 40.00
I Music upon Piano or Harp, 45 00
I Each Foreign or Dead Language, 10.00
I Each Ornamental Branc i 10.00
I Assessment Charge. 1 00
| Dues for tuition must be paid at the close of
I the Scholastic Year; and from them noileduc-
I tion will be made, except in cases of protracted
I illness of the pupil for whom deduction may ba
lasted, or in similar pressing exceptions,
I A discount of ten per cent, will be allowed
I for all advance payments.
■ Pupils ate charged with these rates of tuition
[ from the date of their entrance to the end of
' the Scholastic year, except in extraordinary
cases.
Board for pnpils may be obtained in Green-
I ville, or with the President, upon reasonable
I terms.
I Apply in person or by letter to
WM. HENRY PECK,
' President of tbe College,
Greenville, Ga,