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me again and I will spare Victor St. John, and not rend him as I do this letter.” lie tore the letter to-shreds and scattered them from his hand. “ I will promise anything!” cried Rosetta. “ Those who promise too freely per form but feebly,” said Raul,' sternly. “ Remember this my daughter —#hat though Viola llartly may be a grand lady, and the heiress of a rich father’s wealth, there is a jewel that shines as fair, and is as precious in the bosom of„tho wiue-scller’s daughter as in the crown of a C[ueon —and men call it purity! You have it my child ; keep it as your mother kept it, and let it go ■with you to the grave —nay, rather, than lose it, fly with it to the grave.” The stern dignity of his voice and attitude terrified his daughter. She murmured : “Father, I swear to obey you.” “I will trust you, Rosetta, —and xiever forget that the honor of Paul Amar cannot be lost to him by bis child, without driving him mad. Has Victor John St. John promised to make you liis wife V’ ' “Do you think I could become less to him or to any man ?” exclaimed Rosetta, indignantly. _ ■ Paul smiled a proud sfhile.and kissed his cThild’s quivering lips. “You evade my question, and sq I am answered well. He would deceive you as he has others. “ Others!” exclaimed Rosetta, stand ing erect, and looking half-crazed.— “ Others !-He has deceited others?” “He counts them off upon his lin gers,” said Paul, with a bitter laugfc •• I’ve heard him many a time—and, base fool that I was, laughed to hear him—never dreaming that, he aimed to place Rosetta Amar upon the tally.”. “ You are striving to make me hate him.” “ Would to Heaven I could. Rut, as I live, I have used nothing but truth.” t , . “ Leave mo now, my father, Rosetta. “ I shall feel better.alone.” “ Good niglit, my child,” were Paul’s parting words, sealed a kiss ; and as he heard Rosetta lock her door_ as he descended the stairs for he continued : ... “ Renditto’s hand shall be free to do what my promise bind aenot to do.” [TO BE COSTISCED IX OCR NEXT.] THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUTH. BY MARY A'. W. For improvement of the mind, youth is the proper season. The mind is then free from all trouble-, and ready to receive any - impyessiomand our YWciaory is also ments of study*" In youth there is sometimes a modesty and ductility, and if those years have been deft a prey to ignorance, will be filled witn self-sufficiency, prejudice, and close up all the inlets of knowledge. Un less we acquire habits of attention and application in our youthful days, we will not acquire them afterwards. — There are not many young people in the world that reflect upon this subject, j nor its great los3 until they know it cannot be retrieved. Youth is the j. time for improvement, and the sooner the mind is cultivated, the better.— The great use of knowledge in youth is to free the mind from the prejudice of ignorance and to give it juster and more enlarged conceptions, than are the mere growth of rude nature. It requires diligent labor, to pro duce cultivated knowledge, as it does to till the ground. The farmer cultivates the ground in the proper season, so it should he with tlie young. Youth is the proper season for im provement, and spring for cultivation of the earth. By hard labor we fill, those vacancies of mind which in a-’ state of idleness, would become ten anted by vice. Now is our golden age.. We are now in the bloom of life; our minds are tender, and ready for study. If our minds must be employed in something, 'what can fill its vacancies more rationally than the study of knowledge. By reading we acquire information, it also add’s more to our cultivation. . It has become notorious in these days, for the young to think, that they know more than those of advanced age. If their parents give them a little advice, about studying and trying to learn all they can while young, and try to improve their minds, they think it all foolishness for them to study when young; they say they have plenty of time after they should be grown. They also think tiny; they are too wise to learn, and are too im patient to deliberate, too forward to be restrained, so that they plunge with precipitant indiscretion, into the midst of all the dangers with which life abounds. . Reflect, that when en tering on the career of life that it is not your duty to assume therVeins into your hands ; #Ut to commit yourselves to the guidance of the more experi enced, and to become wise by the wis dom of those who have gone before you. Young friends, we are now in most early intercourse with the world, and in all our youthful amusements let no unfairness be found, dot us re member always that the years which are now passing rapidly over pur heads, leave permanent memorials be hind them. From the thoughtless mind they may escape, but they for ever remain in the remembrance of our "Creator. Greenville Masonic Female Collect. [Communicated ] PATRIOTfSM. A flag pole and a Southern Confed eracy flag was raised at the Cedar Rock Academy, Friday, April 12th, according to the following programme: Bolt—prepared by J. Bulger, raided by Judge M. Andrews and others. Flag made by Mrs. 11. T. G. Tup per and Mrs. M. Webb, raised by Willis McLendon. Prologue spoken by Willis McLen don : If we perchance, In otir endeavor To gain fiorn you a kind applause, Should err, ascribe ihe fault to us, but never Feel the less for this noble, sacred cause* Address to the Goddess of Liberty, personified by Bettie Render, spoken by Wm. Sims: All hail! thon Goddess, beauteous bright, Os all that will or can be free, Thee we welcome to the light, And crown thee Goddess—Liberty. Palsied be that dastard arm, That will not raise itself for thjee,- • ToMefend thee from all barm, * Thou Heaven-born Goddess—Laberty. Live on, oh ! yes forever live, b nd may no bosom ever be Bereft of fire you can give. Or cease to breathe out Liberty. Invocation to the Southern Confed eracy Flag, spoken by A. J. Snel- Aon : Then sacred emU'e”™ of our freedom ! Heaw tby bo?om to the breeze] , Stronfr yAhis are ready whtn you need them, To stamp thy power on foreign seas. Let mad funatics fear and tremble, If they our land dare invade, They'll see you wave, we don’t dissemble, Nor do we trust in vain parade. Each hearthstone bears an arm that's stronger, Than standing armies’ glittering steel, Eaeh bosom holds a heart that’s warmer I'lian hired millions dare to feel. Where are brighter hearts and purer, Than are clustering at tby feet 1 Wh're the rewatd of valor surer. Than thy del nders..e’er. will meet ? In peace all beauty, in war triumphant, Thou must and shalt forever wave, Thmigh foes rush on thee wild and rampant Thou leadest to “victory or the grave.” Wltile fields arc shedding snowy fleeces, V 'st tin u, with honor, lift thy crest, \\ by country’s wealth increases May'st thou slumber od her breast. . spoken'by Wood More- Hanj : Dear friends, you’ve heard wknt we have said, • To patriots we’ve made our first appeal, ' Still, if our hearts we’ve rightly read, You know not yet but half we feel. Exercises concluded with a song— “ The Wood Nymphs ” —sung .liy the Misses Andrews, McLendon, Sims‘ Moreland and Render, and the Messrs. Sims, Snelson and McLepdon: “Ilark ! ’tis the breeze of twilight, calling . Earth’s wearied pilgrims to repose,” Leaves that tremble on the mountain, .Catch the zephyr as it goes. Rill? are hubb'ing sweetest music, Whispering purity and peace; Birds are chirping in the branches, Shadowing forth a sweet release. While we wander 'neath the shadows, Os wild Nature’s brightest .sheen, We see the vale spread outierfeath us, •' Bathed in purest, brightest^reen-: Tints of the blue sky above us, Tearing t« een the quivering leaves, Till our hearts with sweet emotion, Fiercest passions must appease. Deadest fiiends that used to greet ns, Till our rtlem’ries running o’er, Nelar again on earth will meet us Pointing back to life before. But Ob ! my loved ones, let as Cherish Brightest hope3 and nobler themes,. Let all pf.vain ambition perish, To mingle Heaven with all our dreams. All of the above poetry was written by Mr. H. T. S. Tupper, A. M., the Georgian Bard.” After the conclusion of the literary exercises, seven guns were fired in honor of those States which have raised their arms in defense of their rights. A. J. S. ggp* We have received the follow ing interesting letter from Drum Major John H. DeLacy, now sta tioned at Fort Pickens : Barrancas Barracks. Fla., 1 April 3d., 1861. / Mr. Editor: Permit ine through your worthy columns, to answer many questions, letters, &c., written by my friends of.-your vicinity, in relation to the fortifications, forces, &c., of this place; the-place on which the eyes of thousands are fixed. Soon Sumter is to - be surrendered, to-day or to-morrow. May be, now, the once noble Anderson is upon his journey to Washington, to report him self to His Majesty Col. Abe, for duty on Northern soil. Fort Pickens, a little form of brick-bats, sand, oyster and sea shells, &c., “can’t be taken,” so all the newspapers say. Allow one who is acquainted with almost every inch of the Fort to give you some ideas: It is-situated on the extreme West point of Santa Rosa Island, bounded on the, jNorth by Fort Barrancas (dis tance 1 mile 150 yds.) old Light House sand battery (same distance as Fort B.) also by the Perote and new Light' House sand battery, (all the ' * **< -THE GEORGIA WEEKLY. same distance of Fort Barrancas,) , bounded on the last "by the “Missis sippi Guards” of the Sunny South, and two other sand batteries (tho lat ter not quite furnished,) distance 1 mile and 228 yds, also by the Navy Yard, distance 1 mile and J, on the South by the Gulf of Jjbduaat, Tho strongest part of the Fort *s-on the South side, as attack was always ex pected from this side, as it commands the channel; consequently the weak side is exposed to all the raking fires of our batteries, forts, &c., bounded on the West side by the frowning Fortress Mcßae, in command of the gallant Leo, of Georgia, (my adopted State) and if I am not mistaken, from your native city, Atlanta.—{Augusta, not Atlanta, is our native city.—Ed.] Fort Pickens is made of the same material as that of Fort Mcßae and of Fort Barrancas, not of solid gran ite 40 feet thick, as you doubtless have heard, but of brick six feet thick that is on the side that is exposed to us, but on the side where the attack was always expected, is of solid gran ite. Her large magazines, &c., a few red hot shot from Barancas_ yould send old Seimner to the other* Side Y)f Jordan to the tune of Lilt O'Garie in double quick time. An old guns man of theirs tells us that from tho Mississippi Battevy he can take.down ten feet of hew walls at every fire.— Ido the old gentleman injustice in calling him a gunsman of theirs, but true to his country, true to the soil of South Carolina, the land of his birth, he deserted and now is one of us, and thrice welcome is he to the ranks of the first Artillerymen of Alabama.- — May he, if battle does come, direct his “Old Bets,” (a gun lie calls his) so as to take down the 10 feet as lie says lie can do; he is of the opinion that when the first gun is fired, the flag which the sausy little fish smack called the Wyandotte now carries will be hoisted in double quick time, (the flag of truce) and immediately there on ; the flag of the glorious Southern Confederacy will succeed; and wave triumphantly over the aggressors. Now for the tremendous guns and quantity of the same, to see so many, 21 guns. Fort Pickens to have so many guns of such heavy calibre, to say 20, 64 pounders, and one ten inch Columbiad. Yankee newspapers tell you they have 210 guns. You are made to believe by newspapers and by the public generally that Fort Pickens is the strongest fortification in the world. So it is on the point of main attack, on the South side, but Barrancas and Mcßae are equally as strong on the side exposed to Pickens while they have not their magazines exposed, the entire force of men in ForttPickens is 11© #be Fort is casemated and consequently it takes more men to man the guns, as they cannot stand the fatigue, housed up more than two hours at a time, longer -would cause concussion of the brain, while on the other hand our men can stand it a whole day and not be fatigued in the least; now for the fortification &c., of Barrancas, this Fort is made of solid masonry of brick walls six feet thick, mounts 49 guns, has two mortars also (12 inch,) four of these guns are ten inch Col umbiads ; this fort if compelled to re treat can do so by an underground passage to Fort Redout, distance from Barraneas sos a mile. Fort Mcßae is a very strong fortification mounts 41 guns 25, 64, 9 32, 1 18, 4 86 and 2 10 inch Columbiads (or 120 poun ders) the new Light Ilouije-sand bat tery has 6 120 pounders (or 6 10 inch Columbiad) the old Light House Sand batterv 4 8 inch Columbiad (or 4 86 pounders,) Mississippi Battery 6 10 inch guns ; Pirote Battery 2 10 inch, “ Guards Sunny South (not finished,) when finished 2 8 inch Columbiads, 4 10 inch inch Columbiads. Navy Yard 3 ship’s 32 from off the old Uni ted States Steamer Fulton 4 32, 2 10 inch Columbians several 12 pounders and 2 10 inch mortars ‘. of course the little sabine Wyandottes St. Louis and Brooklyn are here ; all mount 63 guns of 32 calibre, some 18 pounders, The Wyandotte—one shot from a ten inch would knock her into ten' thou sand pieces. She lies inside the har bor close to Fort Pickens; comes in every day or two after her mails with a flag of truce, they are very short of provisions as well as at Fort Sumter, the Brooklyn went out a few days ago after supplies. She returned yestur day; I do not know whether she suc ceeded or not; all communications ought to be cut off from the fleet out side and the little Wyandotte ought to be sunk ; if I had command of the forces at this point, I would send the infernal traitors to the land of nod with the air Lilt O'Garie, but being only seventeen years of age and not so very much experienced in point of military as Gen. Bax. Bragg, I there fore release all claims and turn the matter over to him as he promises to stop the Wyandotte some time this week. We have a harbor police es tablished ; occasionally we overhaul a shank of mutton or a leg of salt pork bound for the fleet. I worry over to Fort Pickens occa-. sionally to see if they are doing the thing up brown. I take good care to keep out of range of the sentinels. Georye Laic ! whenever old granny Slemmer catches one of our boys he very politely sends us back escorted by six or eight splendid oarsmen. My compliments to friends W. S. Williams, H. E. Malone, R. A. S. Freeman, J. M. McMath and others. Yours, With great respect, John H. DeLacy. Georgia Preldtj. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17. THE BEGINNING OF THE END. That which we asserted weeks ago, Las become fact. The Southern Com missioners have left Washington with out gaining a single iota of that which they demanded. After weeks of waiting, hoping, and solicitation, they have been forced to return home baffled, tricked, insulted. Day after day—hour after hour— they have attended upon the dilatory and treacherous diplomacy, the vacil lating policy of Lincoln’s Administra tion, until the entire South was wrought into a fever of impatience, anxiety and anger. Doubtless it was the purpose of the Black Republicans to gain time, to feel the pulse of their party, to attempt to do that by fraud and duplicity, which openly they dare not avow. Hut the vigilance of our government has thwarted all these well devised’sehemes of treachery—Fort Sumter lraS'falleq !. Anderson has capitulated, anil with liis force, is the prisoner of Gen. Beauregard. The victory is a noble prestige of success for the arms of the Southern Confederacy, and the 13th of April, 1861, is destined to become as famous in the annals of the South, as the 19th of April, 1775, is in those of the Union of our fathers. What the an niversary of the Battle of Lexington was to them, that of the Battle of Fort Sumter will be to us and our children. So far as we have been able to as certain, the victory was achieved with the death of but one man, and that man an enemy. But the details of the strife have not reached us, and the mere conjecture of one man as regards its particulars would be out of place here. Yet, whatever of such may "be proved fact hereafter, no man can deny that the capture of Fort Sumter is but the beginning of the end—that fearful and appalling end which cul minates all its dire significance in two Words— Civil War! Yes, citizens; the struggle has begun, war has be gun, war between a kindred, a war almost of brothers —the fiercest, most bitter, most vindictive of all wars. * And who wise enough to dare as sert when arid how that struggle is to end ? Some affirm that it will be as evanescent as the thunderstorm of summer—a cloud, an explosion, and then all calm again. May the Ruler of all so vouchsafe in his infinite mer cy ! But we are not so sanguine as to foresee “ a consummation so de voutly to be wished.” We fear that a sharp and bitter war has been inau gurated, and that this unhappy year of the Union’s history will end ere the conclusion of the struggle. It is a common opinion among many of our people, that the North will not fight; that she will recoil from the strife ; that she cannot sustain a war ; that the episode at Sumter will blanch with terror the faces of the antagonis tic administration. This opinion we do not share. The North ivill fight, and fight well—for Fanaticism is never Cowardice !— There are, of course, cowards among its devotees, but the spirit of Fanati cism is a3 void of fear as of truth and justice. Whilst it lives it wars. Those who conduct affairs at Washington have not fqj-ced this war upon us as a mere experiment. No test was need ed to try the genuineness of Seces sion. The fact was as palpable as a strong blow upon the face of a man. They were long in arriving at a decis ion ; hut once there, they are ready and eager to follow its results. The mutual enmity of the North and South has been growing for years ; and like a volcano, long raging beneath the earth’s surface, a vent being found, the devastion of its unbound fury will, in all human probability, he terrific and wide-spread beyond all concep tion. Pride, if nothing else, will force the Black Republicans to push the war at every conceivable point. It is a struggle that must come sooner or later, and we must accept and meet it as a destiny. What Southern patriot is not willing to meet it, rather than yield to a hostile and tyrannical gov ernment ? Doubtless we shall conquer, for our cause is just and righteous; who defend it prefer death to ds|pi& Such spirit is invincible. But wfihave no child’s play, no Mexican imbroglio before us. We are to fight with the descendants of those whom both North and South have ever been proud to claim as ancestors. Greek meets Greek, and the war .will not be waged with swords of lath nor bullets of pa per. We all count much upon the anti-war party of the North. Let us not lean too confidently upon that hope, The history of the Union proves that the most intense party ha treds and political enmities of the country, have been suddenly healed, hidden or put aside, when a foreign foe wounded the pride of the nation. In the present crisis may not all the parties of the North coalesce, to avenge the blow that lias smitten the very- vital# of the Northern people and of their government ? If the North does unite, disguise and garble the truth as many may, the battle will he serious. But the South will not wait for the invasion of the North. The South is not of that tame mettle which resists only when trodden upon — the..stfifiei.will he car ried Northward. As yut we-arje.pow erless upon the seas, and many ©Four ports will be at the mercy of a vibttic-. tiro onqimy. Bui upon tho pail of Our country we are invincible, and South ern prowess'will, if the struggle reach to the bitter end, overleap the North ern frontiers, and carry fire and sword into the strongholds of Abolitionism. Such should be our policy, and must be. The government we _are to fight is not tliFencmy to he {despised, and it were well.that.-eygiv/ man of the South should hold himself in readiness to an swer the-summons for* volunteers, to beat Hack' and chastise a foe, by no means despfcdbl.h in- prowess, resour ces or nufnhersi: I's the gage thrown down so ilefijintly at Charleston on the 13th,- be accepted in the spirit we firmly helieye it will, by Lincoln and his Black Republican hordes, there will be fighting enough during the next twelve months, to stay the most belli cose stomach in Georgia. All eyes are now turned upon the Border States. If they, or a portion of them, prove true to their private and legislative pledges,* our future will be marked with but little strife. If they prove recreant to the South, the war will be all the more arduous, long and bloody; but the Confederate States will undoubtedly achieve, in the end, that glorious independence for whose defence the first blow was victo riously struck at Charleston, on April the 13th, and for whose maintenance another should be struck, immediately, at Fort Pickens in Florida. Letthem continue to fall, until not a single Southern fort or rampart, from the Federal City to the Rio Grande, from the Atlantic and Gulf coast to the Ohio river, shall he held by any man owning allegiance to the Black Re publican Administration. Later.—Since writing the above we have received information by let ter, through kindness of Mnjor 11. E. Malone, that Old Abe has called for 75,000 men, for immediate service, and has sworn—he curses like a Tar tar —that the Southern forts shall he retaken. In another column it will be seen that the Legislature of Pennsyl vania passed the war bill in both houses, immediately upon hearing of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and that Gov. Curtins signed the bill at once. It is rumored that Gen. Scott has informed Lincoln that he will be found in the ranks of Virginia, and of the South, if further coercion is at tempted. A call for 19,500 more troops has been made from Montgomery; hut if it be true that Lincoln has ordered 75,000 Abolitionists into the field, the next call from Montgomery will prob ably be for 100,000 men of our side. There will be no great difficulty in raising, this host, as the war’ spirit is intense over all the South, and thous ands are eager to join those already summoned to the field. Latest.—Mr. Abrahams, of Green ville, has kindly furnished us with the startling news under the head of “ Spe cial dispatch to the Southern Confed eracy,” of Atlanta. By that it will be seen that Old Abe means tough fighting. We have not space to com ment upon this intelligence, as much of our paper is crowded with news. Mr. Abrahams informs us that Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, of Tennes see, passed through LaGrange to-day —Monday the 15th—and made a pa triotic address at the depot. Gen. Pillow said, that as Lincoln had de clared liia intention to hang all traitors and rebels, and as he, Pillow, came under the ban, he was resolved to be hanged, if hanged at all, upon the battle field, fighting against Lincoln ; and that' he was ready, with 5,000 men of Tennessee, tofight under the banner of the Confederate States, at any moment. Vice-President Stephens was with Gen. Pillow, and said, in a short speech .• “ If Lincoln does not change his policy immediately, within lest than sixty days he will leave Wash ington as lie entered it—in disguise, between two suns !” We hear that tho Harriet Lane y U. S. man-of-war, was spnk off Charles ton harbor, and ’ tfyat Jicr crew ar© prisoners of war. This is unreliable. Fort Pickens has been re-inforced with 1200 men. Stand to your arms, men of the South! The word will soon be Charge ! —and take Lincoln from Washington, dead or alive ! The Ab olition cohorts of the North can never re-possess what rightfully belongs to the South. Off to Charleston. No sooner was our Saturday even ing extra out than Judges Howard and Hussey declared their intention to hasten to Charleston ; and by Sunday night they were there, we imagine, as they departed from Greenville in haste. Three cheers for the Judges ! We . have an idea that the old hero of the Blue Cockade, who has so often de clared his intention never to doff that cockade until Fort Sumter was ours again, has gone to Charleston to doff it upon the surrendered ramparts.— May the patriotic Judges return as bluff and hearty as ever. Could the old hero of the Blue Cockade and the strong-armed Hussey get a good grip on Old Abe’s “ scuff of the neck and slack of the unmentionables,” we think he would land on t’other side of Jor dan forthwith! Since writing the above we have been told that Judge Hussey has di rected his course towards Pensacola. Luck attend him, and return him safe. jgg'f” We have received two letters, dated Montgomery the 15th, from Judge llussey, but have not space to publish them. He states that crowds are flocking to Montgomery, and all is intense excitement. The general opinion is, that the Border States will secede at once. Fort Pickens is tobe attacked as soon as possible. jggp* Below we publish Lincoln’s Proclamation —written Sunday night in Washington. Washinton, April 14—10 p. aj.—• Lincoln will' to-morrow issue the fol lowing Proclamation : By the President of the United States— A PROCLAIWCATIOWr. Whereas, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execu tion thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama. Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to he suppressed by the course of judicial proceedings, or by the pow ers vested in the Marshal by law- Now, therefore, I, m mLin- COLN, President of thewL jPtates, in virtue of the power by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the'aggregate number of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed. The details for this ob ject will be immediately communica ted to the State authorities by the War Department. I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity and the existence of our National Union and the perpetuity of popular government, and to redress the wrongs already long enough en dured. 1 deem it proper to say that the first services assigned to the for ces called forth will probably be to re possess the forts, places and property which have been beized from the Union, and in such an event the ut most care will be observed, consist ently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation and destruction of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country; and I hereby command the persons composing the combinations aforesaid to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days from this date. Deeming that the present condition of public affairs present an extraor dinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Con stitution, convene both Houses of Con gress. Senators and Representatives are therefore summoned to assemble at their respective Chambers at 12 o’- clock, noon, on Thursday, the 4th day of July next, then and there to con sider and determine such measures in their wisdom, the public safety and interest may seem to demand. In witness whereof, I have hereun to set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 15th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun dred and sixty-one, and of the in dependence of the United States the eighty-fifth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary State.