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omtitntion. ATLANTA. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 7. Brevities. Two wastes will occupy sots In the next Wyoming GsgUtetaio. gi ffrtafln cars at to and three of Bilk want east from Quit oa the SOth.of September. It teioerted that bracelets an rapidly going ont of gbshiow. and in a few months will addon be seen. JO. Charles Stunner now takes her maiden name. 4Ul0e)f9*O8> She la also residing in Boston. A Hew York editor says sugar has gone up so high ns to prodace a slight increase In the price of sand. It IS reported that John C. Breckinridge is to take op Ills residence “in Hew York and resume the practice of law, The Homan Catholic Bishop of Ferns (Wexford) Ihaa pc ohibited the dancing of wait*, polkas, and golope within his diocese. Waterbary man has christened his daughter 'Oycerine.» Bo styItwlllbe_easyto prellxjgntrtf’ .dflher temper resembles her mothers. "7R •Che San Antonio Herald says that the Hon. G. •W. Whitmore, late Bepnblican member of Congress ■from Texas, has been Incicted for forgery. •The Mississippi State Fair, to hare opened at Jack- sonon" the 13th7bas, on account of yellow fever In • several Southern cities, been postponed to the 10th of ■November. , / The death of Wilder D. Foster, member of Con- •gree5“from Michigan, makesTfonr vacancies In the next' House since the adjournment of Congress in -March. Yellow fever at Pensacola shows decided abatement. Rom the 33d to the 26 th bat one death torn the dls- ,sm had occurred. Cases under treatment are not •considered dangerous. Here Hjaclnthe, who renounced the Virgin Mary emd'Pope Pius soma time since, has bidden aa adie u to orthodoxy, and become a convert to Darwinism, J£e Is a variegated Hyscinthe. JCt is the intention of tne Government to take an sweat on all cotton case awards made by the Court if "Claims last spring, snd In support of this action -etronuons efforts are being made to collect new evl- . deuce in all parts of the Booth. Murderers’ Bow is now occupied by Scannell, Stokes, King, Simmons, Broderick and McDermott. This list has fallen off In numbers, but additions are - .expected soon from recent homicides that will restore iho schedule to last year’s average of twenty. That exceedingly rare occurrence, a diamond wed- , ding, took place in Canton Zurich, Switzeiland, last -month, and the pastor who married the couple 75 years ago waa among the guests, all three belngrobust •and in tbe best cf health. Eighty Feats have been reserved for the represen tatives of the press at Marshal Bazame’s trial. Over -- S50 deminds for seats have already been made by Paris, provincial, and foreign journals.gin official shorthand report will probably be published. Many a Confederate soldier will drops tearovir the new-made grave of Louise Muloach. Almost the . a nly thing he had to read during the war was the Mo 'S tie reprint of her works, and he took to them as kindly as to his dally corn meal and sorghnm. B Tbe New Orleans Picayune congratulates the cot ton States upon the fact that United States securities .have depreciated in value in the European markets and assumes that cotton will again become tbe great tasiB of foreign exchange. The Pope, it is eaid, has lately appointed thirty new Cardinals, wnose names -will not be announced nntil - after his death, but who ,j$il then Immediately take • their places in the Sacred College and participate In the election of his successor. Two-thirds of the new Cardinals are said to be foreigners. There is a revival of the report that Prince Bismarck whas offered to give up Holstein to Denmark on condi tion that Denmark will, become a member of the Ger man Empire. If this were done Prnssla would there -fcy take a great stride towards becoming a great naval power, but the Danes have little or no sympathy with -Germany. The wife of Prince Bismarck, the German Chancel lor, who died last week at Berlin, belonged to an old -Pomeranian family. Herr von Bismarck andFranleln Johanna von Enttkammer first became acquainted at tbe house of their neighbor, Herr von Blackenburg. Their marriage took place in 1817, when the bride was twenty-three years of age. A daughter and two sons resulted from this marriage, which was character ized by the most harmonious relations. Mies Clara A. Bice, of Lowell, Mass., died at Milan, Italy, September 10th,,of typhus fever, fche was young lady of great musical teste and skill, and was .much respected in a large circle of friends who will mourn ber death. She wtnl to Milan about a year ago to perfect her mttaictl education, aid resided . there till the time of her death. The flrst news of ber sickness and death came In a letter from ber hankers in Milan, who appear to have klodly cared for her, though aba was among strangers, far from her home. A forthcoming volume of Chevalier BrnetBaneon -on the “Chronology of the Biole,” which is issued -simultaneously not ouly on both sides of the Atlantic, but in tbe tour leading language s of Europe—Eng- fish, French, German and Italian—will present Borne .features ot extraordinary interest. One r t>f the most startling, and, os the whole, the most novel of Its ec centricities will be the calculation which assigns to ChnBt the age t f forty-nine years at the time of-Ms -crucifixion—an event which, accoidlr g to his theory, took place In the year thirty-five of the common era. The Methodist has an article noticing the fact that /the senior bishops of Methodism in America who have served the cause so long and well give many ..signs of unsettled, If not foiling, health, (Bishop . Scott was scarcely able .this spring to perform his ■duties m presiding officer at the Wilmington Confar- wnes> Bishop James is reported seriously ill at More »s°town, N. J. Bishop Simpson hag suffered from an .attack, of congestive chills, and has gone toJClifton •Springs, in this State; and of Bishop, Ames’ health -there have been at times alarming reports. A good story is told in connection with the run on -the Union Trust Company on Friday. Along line of people were waiting to draw their money ont of the .nntitaUon. An excited individual offered a boy -z presenting a commercial house $50 for his place In the line, and afterward Increased the hid to $100. The boy, loyal to his employers, would not tell hii -place for the tempting offer. A man ahead of him, •however, responded and caid he would sell his place £oi $800. The money was paid Immediately, and the place was given up, As he walked away he said to a friend, “Let us take a drink; I had only $100 in that ..concern, and I think Ibaye come out a little ahead:’ The receipts this week are.54,000 bales, 20,000 less than last year, and 8,000 more than two years since. ’ It is likely the receipts for next week will be about 60,000 bales, compared with 87,000 last year, and 64,000 the year before, and the receipts at the inte rior towns 20,000 bales, compared with28,000 last year, and 28.000 the year before. The thermometer has averaged 76 degrees at noon. Clear and pleasant every day. No rain. This week, last year, the thermometer woe 78 degrees at noon. Clear and pleasant every day. No rain. Next week, last year, the thermometer was 72 degrees at noon. Cloudy and pleasant two days. Clear and pleasant five days, with"a light shower one day. Very light frost one night The 11th, thermometer 42 at 7 a. m., and 60 at noon. The general news in relation to cotton.next week last year was, “Alabama—in seven counties around Montgomery cotton-picking is about done, and one-fourth, sold. All the cotton will be picked by November 1st. Av erage of State is 33 per cent, less than big crop year. Mississippi same as Alabama, ex cept damage from worms rather less. Ten nessee same aa Alabama except in worms. All will be gathered by December: 1st. Weather from August 26 th to September 25th hot and dry, causing the plant to throw off its squares and young bolls very badly. RECEIPTS. The first receipts at this point were fully ten days later than last year. Total receipts for the month of September 2,029; against 3,010 last year. Again our estimate of the receipts is about correct. But for tbe rea sons given last week, added to which is the speading of the yellow fever throughout the towns tributary to the Gulf, will materially lesson the receipts for several weeks to come. The receipts this week should be fully 80,000 bales; but for reasons given we have put them at 60,000. If there was no epidemic, and no money panic, tbe receipts at this time would be fully as large as last year. For .farmers, knowing the crop will be large, are willing to sell at once for from 12 to 15 cents, according to quality. The very small receipts at New Orleans are surprising eveiy one; but the yellow fever at Memphis, Shreveport and several Texas towns have thus far cut off the quantity very much; still the receipts are the same as they were in 1870, when the crop was 4,350,000. HfZ 1 WBATHEB. The rain fall for the month of September has been 3.48 inches, -which has fallen upon six different days. Largest fall of rain 1.25 of an inch—time, twelve hours. Smallest quantity .04—time, ten minutes. The fall of rain for the past three months has been: July 2.50, August 1.12, September 3 43. Total 7 and 10-100 inches. There has been no rain this week—neither do we expect much, for two weeks to come. There are fully two millions of bales of cot ton now open in the fields; and the fine weather for picking, which we expect this month, will help the farmers to save very much of it. A good hand, whether a man or woman, can gather one bale a week in such weather as we are having now. GOLD. They cannot possibly injure the cotton and | will do it much good. PANIC. Bring In tlie Cotton. The commercial skies are daily brighten ing in Augusta, and the only thing which is to pay for all the cotton, if the fanners will take a fair price for it. NEW YOKE. ands of sensible men could be found to invest money, with a hope of profit, in a railroad which began nowhere, ended nowhere, and ran for the most part through a howling will demess. That this road may be built is pos sible; that it can be made to pay, for the present generation, is too crazy a chimera to so for a moment entertained. Sixth—I predict that when all the great Pacific roads breakdown, as break they must, an immediate demand will be made for the Government to control and ruin them. This will be tbe entering wedge for the final con trol of all means of rapid transit by the cen tral Government. Seventh—I predict that, before the break down of pur isilroad system, corruption will be rampant in Washington; the railroad ring will run the Government wherever their in terests are at sta&ei The Columbus Ladles. The Columbus Enquirer tells us that the ladies of two-of the largest congregations in that city have resolved to buy no more new dresses this fall or winter, and should they be compelled to buy, they pledge themselves to use only material ol home manufacture. This is very brave in the ladies; but it strikes us that it will be very hard on the .dry goods merchants whose chief stock consists of ladies’ gear, and whose stocks are largely laid in. A total cessation of this business would be bankruptcy to many agood, worthy and now solvent diy goods merchant. It is not a benefit to a community for peo- The panic is about over; and, as soon as j needed to give entire relief is for the planters credit can be restored, every thing will go to come forward with their cotton. They ong smoot y again. There is mot money jj ave no thing to lose and everything to gain enoug in m country,to.buy all the cotton, jy displaying promptness in this matter. a i is coming, in large quantities, front The banks of the city are as solvent to-day as ♦x be . plenty °* I they have ever beerii and nearly all of them are transacting business as usual. The panic iB over. The channels of ^ . .. . ... .trade are open and ready for use. e M i nmed * um I It remains now for the planters to determine ra.. or spots—sales 8.900 bales at a rise of Aether commerce shall go on as usual or i_ot a cent. Sales of contracts-65,000 bales. whether a second and more disastrous re •« ^, wee ^" J^ ere waB ®° me I action shall ensue. Unless the crops are ac vity, at better prices» on Wedneeday, but I promptly brought ,to market business must fif 8 G a™ was 88 m . C mat ' 10n 10 P re8S remain.in an unsettled and dangerous con- the market down. There are several un- UiUon,and the cotton market itself will be usual reasons affectmg the New York mar- m ost injuriously affected. If the staple ket just now. The pressure of want of money in freely the merchants and factors will put the P^cedownjbut the falling off be able to make arrangements for meet- in receipts may keep it up. Receipts, whether their maturing paper, not by fore- large or small, always have a good deal of j n g gales on a dull or declining market, influence on the price; no matter wUit the but simply by keeping it in their warehouses cause may be. As the largest portion of the as collateral security for indebtedness. Plan- dealers in cotton look no. further ahead than I j^rs need have no idea that their interests to-day, and are governed entirely by present jj e sacrificed. Honor and policy alike appearances, whether they are good or bad. demand that they should receive fair dealing This accounts for the violent fluctuations in from theft factors in this matter and they the price of cotton; without seemingly an I have little cause to fear the result. TheAu- „ „ UU1U „ apparent cause. guata factors will not dispose of their custo- gimplv suicidal not to do so. The price of prosper ’ and do g eneraU 7 far more good Spinners are neglecting New York some- mers - cotton against their wishes. They cotton is better, and, unless our farmers are than ' d boarded awa y unused 016 pocket what just now, as they can btiy cheaper in I 1 *— * —* *- the interior towns. Bat, as exchange has . ... , , risen, the export demand iarather more ac- 8 * 1811 8 eag en eir m 1 . J tive, and, as there is a general feeling in New I,■,.** f op , 83 83 U York that cotton must go up in October as it | Eighth—I predict that very few will pay pie to hoard their money up and buy any heed to these prophecies, and that, after nothing. Society is composed ofi'eitizena and they prove true, they will have been forgot- j vocat j ong reciprocally depsndant upon each ten, and another instance will have been I _ given bow prophets are not honored in their I other. So that people do not dress or live ' " " extravagantly, the money they spend upon clothes and living is an active, unceasing benefit to the community. Healthy activity is far better than stagnation. The money that tho Columbus ladies will own time and nation, in the fate of A Positive Pbedicatob. Bring In Your Cotton- We have been for weeks past, and persis tently, urging the farmers to bring in their reasonably s d new dresses will be cotton Several mornings since we publish- leaguretothe m ed a strong article on the subject,from an I ^ , ... . F .. Augusta cotemporary adopting it as an edi-1 p 1 stagna on an ure, will enable the dry goods men and their toriaL We again urge upon our farmers the 6UUU “ „ . ot I families to pay their grocers and laborers and propriety and necessity of at once bring ing their cotton to market. It would be other bills, thu3 helping them in return to cuu.ua is ucucr, auu, umess our isrmers are , , , . . , willing to block the wheels of all kinds of ^ t0 , bas P ent aext ye “’ perhap3 ’ on a their hands by bring- business and precipitate general disasters, in-j ?. u e , clU8 . a 1 y 0 unusua y ne < ^ res f e9 » eluding themselves, they will immediately ° TCr *** *** tta “ send forward their cotton, and start the flow I e P 0 c a tion we notice that a much better condition did last year, holders of cotton do not offer. . _ . to sell it very freely. If money is sent South of f^P^Ued “ cotton market yes- in quantities large enough to buy all the cot- terday ' The feel “« of un ““d mse- ton offered, the receipts wUl increase very cunty * 80 generally entertained last week, , , wul Yery gave way and confidence was in a great of money, that will revive and infuse new life into every department of trade and busi ness. And so speaks, as far as we have seen, \ the entire press of the State. Contributions for tbe Sufferers. Shreveport fast, and the price will go down. UVBEPOOL. measure restored. Sales were made of over four hundred bales, a business largely in ex- We are gratefully delighted to note the fact that our notice calling attention to the terrible condition of our Louisiana brethren, Tho Shreveport and nemphis Fnnd« We are glad to announce that we forward-11 133 prompted considerable action. Several Th.ayMi.i&£&££&£?&* O* a* Of to 85 Uo»»ia™i**i<™»Mt.m panic. Let the planters bring forward their crop and no further trouble need be appre- sales. No change in' price. The rate of in- _ terest has been advanced this week from 4 to | bended.—A.uqvl&Ui Chronicle. 5 per cent., wllh a prospect of going higher. MONTHLY STATEMENT. The stock of cotton inLiverpool and afloat | for that port, for five years, is as follows: 1861 1870 1671 1872 1873 Stock .... 459 538 499 704 645 Afloat. ....374 294 408 19) 216 *853 *833 *907 *896 *861 Poor Smitten Shreveport We have rarely read of a tale of suffering that appeals so strongly to human sympathy as the one borne over the wires from poor, desolated Shreveport. “The Howard.Associa- tion have opened an asylum, which feeds nearly iwo-thirda of the population. * * The port. We acknowledge the receipt yester- j We acknowledge the receipt of $17 from day of the following additional sums: from I citizens of , Jonesboro, through Mr. T. J. an “Atlanta lady” $1 00, from Mr. James J Barksdale, a prominent merchant of that Dunlop $2 00, to be sent to the city most | town, needy, from Mr. J. Norcross $1 00, from an Atlanta merchant $10 00, and from a promi nent citizen in Madison $5.00, with the fol- j ia the matter, we here state that we shall American cotton in sight and afloat for destitution is as heart-rending as the disease ltaplf” NfiATlv ntift fhnnaarwi c?r»lr «Wn Liverpool same time: Stock. Afloat... 1869 1870 1871 1872 3873 td 163 156 108 180 23 36 ii 29 .64 176 192 119 209 American cotton in sight for same time. 1869. 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. itself.” Nearly one thousand are sick. “We feel that the great public will respond to our appeal, extorted by the most dire necessity. The wealthy are broken down, the poor are threatened with actual starvation, the sick and dying are about to be deprived of the commonest comforts humanity can offer.” Who, that has a heart, can turn aside from this appeal ? Who is so poor that he cannot give something? Any sum, however small, will help. God alone w]ean tell when pestilence may stalk in the streets of othei towns, aye, our own, and Takings by our spinners for the past I cover them with the shadow of death and the month :J I stillness of desolation, or fill our homes with the wails of the starving. Let humanity se ts I sert itself, and let us answer the appeal of _ , , famished and dying fellow-men. We have Receipts at and shipmente from {Bombay j acknowledged the receipt of sums from East- ° ~ man’s Business College of this city, and from citizens of Jonesboro, and will forward them to-day. We will gladly receive and forward all sums s6nt to The Constitution in any amount down to a dollar or less. Who will Stock Interior porta.. 19 23 16 17 28 Stock U. S. porta 92 1C6 99 162 110 Stock In Liverpool.... 56 161 184 108 180 Afloat for Liverpool.. 8 28 65 ii 29 Exports this week.... 7 10 U 20 10 182 318 366 318 357 ;1869. 1870. 1871. J872. 45 65 39 65 for four years for nine months: 1870. 1871. 1$72. 1873. Beceipts..., L15i L074 l Export* to Great Britain 792 680 OSO 678 Exports to Continent... 150 3U 341 196 Imports into Liverpool from America and,. , . ... all other countries for four years and nine I | urn 8 deaE _ ear *° tIie dying wail of their fel- months: low men—Southern men ? As these amounts sent us make it necessa- I ry for The Constitution to act intermediate- [ be happy to forward all contributions sent os j for the purpose. Saint Fanny. Saint Fanny was a notorious housewife. lowing letter: Madison, October 8,1873. Editors Constitution: As The Constitu tion of this morning offers to receive and remit contributions for tbe Shreveport suffer-1 find herein five dollars, which you will for- ‘ bave UDOn ^ er staircase. Now. ward to proper address for purpose indicated. might have dined upon her staircase. Now, her great delight was to provide all things I regret -that the scarcity of money in our I community limits my contribution to so in- S erchan ^,?y^" b ? ad »^ 1 Wlfe significant a sum. Truly yours, eta Now, one night he returned tired and hungry, and by some mischance there was nothing Let the good work continue. Remember J f or SU pper. Shops were shut, and great was that small contributions, say of one dollar j the grief of Saint Fanny. Taking off * or fifty cents each, coming from the body of I bracelet of seed pearl, she said, “I’d give this « _ _ 1 tpr» Hrnpo nupi* fnr o Qiinn^r fnr mtr grander offering than a like amount from a j £?“ ^SatoTg& few. Let the people open their hearts. It [band ate, and lo! in every oyster waB a pearl will do them good; it will bring down bless-} 33 lar S® 33 3 hazle nut; and so was Saint ings upon their heads. Read our telegrams, ** Utn - 2km ^" Jerr<Ms and think this Sabbath day, in your happy * home or pleasant church, of poor smitten Shreveport, and Memphis, whose Mayor tele graphs to New York for all the aid possible Summary of state News. COLUMBUS. to be sent. We hope every subscriber will | aid tbe Constitution in its efforts. The | iu ^ begiuniog to pay much attention 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. s^We cannot refrain from noticing the -aJtarfcicfability wiUTwKich this distinguished jurist is presiding over our Superiour Court. The Judge has given eminent satisfaction to our bar, .and has dispatched business with -remarkable rapidity. He has before him just now, one of the most important civil cases on our dockets, and although the ques tion at issue is very intricate, has already shown that he is thoroughly capable of deal- -ing with it ' - nr* Dr. E Morwitz, of Philadelphia, has s a mania for newspaper property, owning more papers than any other man living. Besides being proprietor of the German Demokrat, he owns or controls twenty-five mother papers in and out of the State. In number two we wrote that gold would not go up again tbis winter, without some thing happened that could not now be fore seen. Something did happen, and something will always happen to prevent a speculator in gold from making money. We will, in a future number, give our ideas of stock and gold speculating; but will say, now, persons had always better throw their money into the fire; for then it is gone, and no trouble about it. Gold did rise to 151-2; bat there was no from Liverpool for four years for nine I ic abroad reported in Berlin, there is a panic more reason for it than there is now for those months: sanguine persons’ ideas who expect specie Trade Total 1,897 2,375 2,291 2,374 Export 290 572 334 Trade Americsn 1,104 1,565 1,059 1,355 to saving and curing nay. From estimates given, the “ital amount wUl number several Utousand bales. ,tie lntereet on the deposits In the Uo.cmeus savings , . bank waa paid Thursday. Only a smalt amount of note the noble action Of our Atlanta uhvsi-1 deposits was drawn out, and tnoae were by country- _ * * I man who di.1 Tint dostrA to anil notinn smallest contributions will help. Om appeal ] thus far has not bL-en in vain. Elsewhere we | ■ . _ . I men who did not desire to sell cotton, and yet were cians, and several proposed movements for J compelled to have money - Sun. the sufferers. American 1,253 1,894 1,115 1,557 Total *,333 3,977 2,753 2.845 | Taken by the trade and actually exported I in the United States. In addition to the pan- The Financial Situation. The general situation continues to improve payments this winter. We say to all, it is against the interest of three fourths of all the citizens of the United States, and nine tenths of the trading classes, to have specie pay ments; and so it will be delayed until some more convenient season. The late rise in gold was the best time to make money on it that we ever saw. The German bankers of Wall street took advantage of it. They told millions of gold short, at 13 to 15 cents; then bought foreign exchange at 5 to 6 cents; collected it in gold, and ordered that sent by first steamer to New York to delivferson their contracts; and thus have made a very large profit, with no risk at all. This gold, about five millions of which/will arrive in New York next week, is the cause of the price being down to 10 per cent, to-day. But shipping gold to this country is all wrong. It will have to go back next spring, and then we may see another Bull ring in gold, and higher prices next summer. HOLDING COTTON. We see some persons are advising farmer to hold their cotton; but, fortunately, tbe fanners are sensible men, and know how to look after their own interests; so this advice will not afiect the receipts more than one bale in a thousand. We say to farmers: sell your ; Export in Alexandria, Egypt, and great distress in 18W* 1872. 1873, | portions of Hungary. Money is pouring South. Atlanta has lots 271 j 0 f money to buy cotton In connection with the panic it may not 90 282 90 90 At the beginning of'this cotton year we L be uninteresting to give our readers the fol- 1 lowing article written by D. G. Croly, for merly editor of the New York World and guessed the total crop ending August 31, 1874, would be 4,250,000 bales. We will now make our usual estimate at the ehd of one month—five weeks. The average of the re ceipts at the ports for six years, for Septem ber is 31-2 per cent. The recipts thus far are 188,000 bales. Sop pose the receipts have been 31-2 per cent, this year, and we have the total receipts at the ports 3,943,000, to which add 160,000 for overland and 140,000 for Southern consump tion, and we have a total crop of 4,243,000, which is our present estimate. FHOSPECTS. To farmers we will say • sell your cotton as fast as you can. We do not think it can go much higher, and when the receipts begin to get large, it is almost sure to go down. To dealers: buy cotton and turn it quick, and yon will not losejmuch. We should be afraid to buy either spot cotton, or contract to hold at present prices. Sales of December at present prices, say 171-4 to 171-2, we think well of. Heavy Grain movement Our dispatches tell us that during the last cotton as fast as possible; there is some 'week the largest amount of wheat ever money to buy with now, and you can get 15 cents from your wagons for the best quality. Those who hold until Christmas will have to take 14 cents, and possibly less. All the men we ever knew to lose much on cotton stored it, and would not sell. One year we knew a farmer to be offered 18 cento for his cotton. He stored it for 20 cento, and sold it the next spring for 6 cen*s. We say to all, sell your cotton now. Pay your debts, or keep your money until you need it. All kinds of paper money, now, is as good as gold. The United States Govern- msnt is bound for every dollar of it, and will pay gold for eveiy dollar that any farmer has as soon as specie payments are resumed. Look at your money and yon will find every bill signed by the Treasurer of tbe United States; that is, every national bank bill has four signatures instead of two. CATERPILLARS. Some persons are still complaining of the worms eating their cotton. Every farmer should be glad to see them in his fields after the 20th of September, as they do much good in eating off the rank leaves and'al lowing the bolls to open before the frost. shipped to New York poured in there. The quantity reached the enormous number of 2,953,122 bushels. And fyet it is reported Jthat the steamers leaving for Europe find it hard to get freight with which to fill their holds. Money must be had to buy and export this grain, or the consequences will be disastrous, reaching the West. A Good Tiling. The Augusta papers bring us glowing rapt ures, which we endorse, about a locomotive that they interviewed at the South Carolina depot in that city. The locomotive is new, it is one of a pair of new ones, and what is still better, it was made in Charleston, South Carolina, in the Railroad workshops there. Ah 1 This is the field of victory for the South now! Let us make not only enginef, but everything else we use, and thus hasten the day of our independence. These new engines cost $3,500 below the cost of two locomotives built in Northern sliops. They are fine spedtmens of work manship. Good for our Charleston friends. now editor or the Graphic, and husband of Jenny June, The Constitution Fashion Correspondent, in which he predicted in Sep tember 1872, ayear ago, tbe farmers’ move ment, tbe failure of Jay, Cooke, & Co. through the North Pacific railroad, and the very financial panic that has issued. Mr. Croly in a letter written September 27, 1873, says that his predictions were connected with no spiritualism, but were based on bis observation of facto. The thing is somewhat remarkable: From ^Um» Modern Thinker No. 2, published Decern- It is now a commonplace of. modem thought that ability to predict estab lishes the validity of any science. To prove that sociology has made some advance hi the direction of certainty, I venture upon a few generalizations touching the future. First—I predict that the Democratic party will never contest another Presidential elec tion under its oid name, and organization. The new anti administration party will have another name and will fight under new leaders. Second—I predict that questions of admin istration, such as civil service reform, minor ity representation, the control of telegraphs and railways, and the extension of the powers of the central government, will be the main issues in future political campaigns Third—I predict that within the comtog two years. this country will experience the worst financial panic known to its historv. It will be more wide-spread and disastrous than even that of 1837. All the debts created by our paper money era will be wiped out or compromised. Land will temporarily fall to one-half its value. Fourth—The panic will ba precipitated, in all probability, by -the failure of the North ern Pacific Railroad,and perhaps the bankers who manage it. This will bring to light such an amazing amount of fraud m connection with onr railroads as to discredit all stocks, good and bad. The bears will hold high car nival. The men of most repute in financial circles and on the “street” will prove to be common cheats. While the panic will com mence, from all apperance, in railroad circles, and will be confined for time to the new Western enterprises, it will spread finally to the national banks, and will develop an amount of rottenness in those institutions which is now beyond the power of the im agination to conceive. Fifth-ti-I-predict that in ten years time the Northern Pacific railroad enterprise will be regarded as one of the most astounding in- stancestof human credulity and folly. It will be a matter of profound astonishment that, among a business community tens of thous- JDirect Trade—jL,tue of Steamers Be- ] tween Port Koyal and Liverpool. ... , _ " 1 AU3D UUUJ, vrcuige, uwguvrt vt jnx. U. »Y. i£awarflS. A dispatch was received yesterday by I oied at her lather’s residence near Salem, Ala., on The shoe shop ot Mr. Robert G. Johnson, some ten or twelve miles Irom town, on the North and Sonth Road, was broken into Tuesday night last,and robbed of aboot $350 worth of boots, shoes and leather — Miss Mary George, daughter of Mr. G. W. Edwards Major George T. Jackson, from Mr. D. F. i ^esday last, ot typheio fever.—Enquirer. Appleton, to the effect that the Dominion Line of Steamers had been secured to run. . . between Liverpool and Port Royal, and that I ke36e « Alabama, has been holding meeting* at the Itthe 1 lafSarPon'th 0 at the latter place on the 20th of November I audiences. Nineteen new members ba?e been adaed next, at which time the first Ot the steamers 1 to tbe Methodist Utmrcn and eleven to the Presbyter- will certainly arrive from Liverpool. This j »—«• ye4*a steemer wiU thus be the avant Courier of a splendid fine, which will run regularly be-1 The superior court of Qtrroti county commences tween England’s great seaport and Port J nu2t Monday.—Tut^s. Royal.—Augusta Chronicle. The above will be pleasing intelligence to all true Southerners. -Times. AUGUSTA. A horse pistol, marked “Julius," supposed to be a reUo of Ctesarism, has been tonnd near this city- . . ‘ 1 The situation presented a much brighter aspect, es~ The day after the meeitng Of our business pecUlly tn the cotton market, yesterday, although the men in Atlanta, one of our merchants, Mr. Frank, mentioned to the writer his astooish meat that none of the speakers at the meet ing had alluded to one obvious lesson of the panic. This was the absolute necessity of Direct Trade with Europe for our own commercial and financial security. We thought the point exceedingly well taken. The South has suf fered in this crash entirely through her de pendence on New York. Suppose that the European markets were connected directly with the South; that foreign firms had branch houses among us, and that in stead of going to New York to sell our cotton to English buyers, we sold direct and got the money direct, is the benefit not apparent? Let us destroy our slavish vassalage financially to the North, and we will be less sensitive to the fluctua tions and vicissitudes of its business. When Wall street takes snuff the South sneezes. Direct trade with Europe will largely tend to disenthrall u$. Bringing In Cotton. To use thegraceful phraseology of a Georgi cotemporary not published a thousand miles away from Atlanta, “some idoit” has taken it into his head that because we published, by request, and without comment, the somewhat visionary views of Mr. Tumlin, advising the planters to stack up their cotton iu their gin houses and hold it there until-a demand for 20 cento a pound was conceded, that we en dorsed his views. If the aforesaid “idiot,” to use tho graceful phraseology aforesaid, had taken tho trouble to examine the editorial files of this paper, ho would have seen Uhat the persistent and avowed policy of thto journal has been to urge the planters to come forward with their cotton and relieve the country. ‘So, yer mt ther’s dead, isjshe?” in! quired a bootblack yesterday of a rather solemn-faced lad, who had come back with his “kit” after an absence of a day or two “Yes, she is,” replied the boy, and then straightening himself up, he continued* “And dad did the fair thing by her—seven more hacks than Mrs. had the other day. v cotton etiil moved somewhat unaer a pressure. The receipts lor tne day were 287 bales, and the salsa 365 bales, on a basis of 18>s cents fur Liverpool mid- ol.ugs The second game of the series fo- tbe championship ot oonth CarolhnL be tween the Carolina club of Charles ton, and the Cosmopolitans ofiBeaufort, was p aved on the Citadel tan en in cnaneaton on Wednesday even ing, and resulted In the defeat of the Cosmopolitans by a score of 22 to 14. Tiie colored boy, Robert tea, burned W edneaday night by the kerosene exDlo- slcn at the negro Methodist Church, dloa on Thurs day at tot horrible suffering. The farmers in the souuieaster- ponton ot Columbia county have organ ized a grange.- C/trotiide and Sentinel. vAiontn. A negro man, working upon Mr. Lewis Felt’s Diace. had hie foot nearly cat off last week by the axe ofh3 companion flying from the helve. Nearly enough money has been subscribed to warrant the bnildine committee of the Baptist Church of this place to com menee their new houee of worship. a rattlesnake four feet and five Inches In leugtn and seven lnebeg In diameter, having nine rattles and a button wm killed near here Tuesday afternoon by Richard Nor rls. A negro woman, named Narclaaa HowelL em ployed on Mr. S. L. Wright's place, fell dead upon the pnbllo road on Saturday the 2Uth ultimo.- vC sT Wright, of WarreniOD, was severely iDjnred bva fal> ing limb, last week. It struck him on the heart brniaisg his head and face badly, and knocklmront several teeth.—Clipper. WAHSHXXGT02F. A Dutchman and a nigger had a fight in town tha other day abont a quarierof a dollar. The Dutchman not understanding darkies let fly with hisflstathu opponent's head. The nigger went hit way smiling Ring, r six inomaB w. caiiaway aieu very suddenly. Onlvafew wee«s ago the lost a lovely and interesting daughter. It is feared that tbe cotton crop abont Albanv will fall cousideraoly below the yield of last year and quality prove Interior. Tho com and cain tionwnt exceed that of last year. Llttlo Julia HarH« daughter of Mr. Frank Harris, of this county Sort *? her father’s house on Snnday last of malarial fever SAVANNAH, Bishop Beckwith tfs very much broken down in health from excessive labor, and la in nead ofnvS.2 tion. He haagono North, and will .probably makTa short tiip to Europe. A meeting of ciUvpna 4.. held in the Exchange Building at Hwann&h'on day morning, to devise measures for tbe relief of the Shreveport sufferers. It was resolved that the naatom of the various churches be requested to take nn aane. cial contribution for this object on Sunday next and* committee of five citizens was appototedto DAWSON. Several fine residences are in process of construc tion in our city at present. Married, on the “Mdef beptember, by George Kaigler, Esq., Sr. TOnim w l0D * ““ ^ solicit subscriptions in tho city generally Ahnnt away ofa pulley the fly wheel buratedf^OnsoMhf fragments eteuck Mr. Harney in the abdomen, Inflict- ln» a frighted wound from which the entralls prc- fruded. Two more hands were also kflleO-Aitv?-. User and ItepvUican. Autvr