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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,