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Sonsthntion.
-ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JANUARY
Brevities.
Senator-elect Boothia * bachelor.
F JohnMurphydrew$8,010daring*week.’*engage-
-t&eotnt New Orleans.
> Memphlihope«tobec<imc)hB“grf tnn!i,Hfigpnine
■ot European Immigrants."
Th« latest dodge In books—iclaming borrowedvol-
- -sues as Ohriatmaa presents.
In C«f km the marriage ceremony la performed by
-tying the couple together by the thumbs.
Wednesday was Mr. Dltraell’s sixty eighth blrth-
•day. Mr. Gladstone completed his sixty-fourth on
Monday.
i A minister walked six miles to marry s couple
lately. He said he felt sort of fee-bill like. The
■room saw It.
Jolla Ward Howe, who la a matron of many years*
experience, that no woman can be brilliant
«ftar marriage.
The Jury in the case of Maggie Jonrdan, tried for
-aaaistisg the escape of the notorious Sharkey, foiled
to agree, and vyere discharged.
And now the Washington Republican la serrlng up
Colfax in sarcastic paragraphs. 1 hat’s right. “ Never
kick a man when he’s down unless you are sure he
-can’t get up."
Boston florists claim special perfection for their
roaes, lilies of the valley and carnations, while to New
York they accord superiority in tuberoses, and to
Philadelphia camellias.
Duke de Broglie, the French Prime Minister, is
described as handsome, but slightly effeminate, natty
In dress, honeyed In manner and addicted to a dulcet
- -quavering method or speech.
A Boston firm prints Its card on a small section of
the backs of postal cards and then sells the cards for
-sixty-two cents a hundred, and the post office
authorities have decided that it is all r lght.
The catching of minnows for tithing bait Is a lucra-
■ tlvo business at lake Village, N. H., and It is tall
■ mated that nearly a million a day are caught in nets
and sent to dlfierent parties la that State, Massachu
setts and Vermont.
Virginia has one hundred and thirty-six regiments
- ot mIUtta.elxty-aix of which are without field officers,
- also two artillery companies and twenty-three of
■ Infantry, four or which are colored.
It ie suggested that the tax on passports be imposed
■ again, and plated at $10. During the piety-ar ten
> thousand were signed at the State Department, and
-.perhaps five thousand by our ministers abroad.
•fftoe sinking of the Virginias when Spslo'wanted
her, and the sinking ef a coal barge in front of the
Arapelles when she was ready te sail, are among the
■ curious accidents and coincidences of the troubled
■ times in which we live.
NotaUttleinterest is manifested in the approach
• log election in England, from iho fact that it will be
> the first ever held in that country m which the voting
was by ba'lo*. It is simply an experiment, but if
- proves successful, will doubtless be adopted.
John Badly, foreman of tbs cation factory at Wo'er
V<d ey. Mississippi, suot his w'f« on last Wedneanry
night The pistol was pi«c°d under bis pillow, and,
being accldentajy dlsch*-god. toeba’l piesed tnrougb
Mrs. Badly’s ba le, killing her instantly
President Billot of Harvard, Prof. Dana of Yale,
. Trof. Leo Lecqneremx of Ohio, and Dr. Bdmuud
Andrews of U‘loots. are urged as candidates for Be-
. gouts of the nmlthsonUn lustltn'e, to fill the vacan
NCleeeimt-d by the resignation of President Woolsey
And by the d' athof Prof Agassiz.
'The cofta.of the Bozaine trial smouot to about
300,*00 francs, and, as the Marshal was condemned
•to pay them all, this will leave his -family penniless.
-Over and above this are the sums due >o bis own
^ defender, and the debts contracted by h’msclf and
t family dating ths trial.
A man can scud a telegraphic message from Land’s
2nd in ungland 10 Kirk«cll in Scotland, a distance
of 700 miles, at one cent a woid. In this country he
wonldhave to pay twelve times as much. American
•newspapers, nevertheless, devote faJy twelve times
. as much apace to telegraphic news os do those of
fiogl&nd.
8ooth Bend, Indians, didn’t spend Christmas In
Alcoholic Indulgence. It had the biggest kind of
-cold water carousal. Tbe new reservoir was com-
.pkstea, and they rquirted the water over steeples, and
Around the streets, and sonsed everything all day
-ong. It wa* tbe most reckless fan imaginable, and
* here ware no beadacheB next morning.
The -Washington special correspondent of the
•Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: “That $1,600
carriage toms ont to bo one never used by the depart-
jnent, but wholly by tbo family of Williams. It is
-apho’ateied with rose colored silk and his the family
• monogram on the door, and not that of the Depart-
cnent ef Justice. Furthermore, the driver and foot-
•man are on public pay rolls."
A newspaper in Southern California advises greater
cultivation of the fig free bccanse the f rult is good for
hog feed. An acre of Jigs will fatten more hogs than
an acre of corn. All that is necessary Is to stick a fig
- cutting in thefaonnd, and in three or live months the
■plant will Lear fruit—three crops a year—and in three
years the tree attains the size of a twelve year old ap
ple tree.
The last Sunday in list year was a sad day for
many In Gloucester, Massachusetts. Year by year a
death roll of those who have died at s >a in the fish
ing fleet is kept. The year 1873 shows one hundred
«nd seventy-four mariners lost in the icy North, and
services ore held in their remembrance. All the dif
ferent pastors ana congregations of the town joined
in tbe services, which were bald in the town h»p.
• A scene not down in the bills took place a few
mights since at tbe Union Square Theater, New
York: A sen of Hr. Stone, tbe well known American
- banker, of Paris, occupied a proscenium box in com-
•pany with Lord Talbot and two ladles, anting the
regress of the play, and at a critical point in tbe
love-mAking, Mr, Stone picked up the spittoon In
the box and reaching over the ledge sat it ont on the
otsge directly in front of the lovers. This little in-
-client created quite a disturbance is the house and
resulted in the proprietor sending for Ur. Stone at
his private office. Mr. 8hook told the young mm m
very plain terma what he thought of bis conduct, ac-
companying his remarks with a kick and a blow.
Mr. Stona was made to seethe error of his way. and
gave an apology.that * you can’t go anywhere in this
country bet what yon find spittoons."
So Caleb Cashing is to go Minister :to Spain in
place of Ban Sickles. How the keen witted old man
will be mUaedat Washington! The Nestor of these
modem generations, twin brother of the oentnry, hla
mother’s tooaey oosey tot when that dreadful red
trousered Jefferson first became President, a repre
sentative to the General Court half a century ago, a
European traveler, author and reviewer more *t»m
forty years ago, a Brigadier in the Mexican skirmish,
as Attorney General In the United States twentv
years ago, and the virtual Attorney General of every
body in authority, and on many important qncs-
tions. this ten years back, one of the "Geneva law
yers," and the one who has sinoe intruded his fhrnnb
between the eloaa-eet ribs of Lord Chief-Justice
Alexander Cockbura, an owner of a personal liberty
dog, withal a man who reads and studied as if he ex
pected to live another three-ecora and ten, and
fears that he might not pass a civil examination for a
contingent fund coachman at the end of that time, a
a kind of an old Frenchman of a fellow who knows
■everything, including (avoir stars; this is the gen
tleman who will represent ths United States aronnd
President Casielar’a mahogany. Whydidn’tPreeident
•Grant think of him before 7 Better late than never.—
... Storingietct Republican.
The CMventioit
The Thomaston Herald has an exhaustive
and able editorial against the convention.
It thus concludes:
“ In our opinion, if the sentiments of the
tax-payer conld be ascertained after fully
understanding this question, nine-tenths of
the property holders would oppose it. The
tax-payers will, if the constitution is to be
changal in any, or in a great many particu
lars, say let the cheapest mode be adopted.
It remains to be seen if the representatives
of the people will favor a convention at a
■large expense to gratify a few, or will make
sneb changes aa are necessary in the consti
tution in the manner pointed ont by the con
vention without expense.”
Tbe Castellmr Administration Over
thrown in spam.
The morning telegram tells the startling
news that the Castellar administration has
been overthrown in Spain. A fall synopsis
of his message to the Cortes is given. The
telegraph does not tell ns what the points of
trouble were. It is most probable that the
Virginins affair has a good deal to do with it
A good deal of excitement prevails. An
attempt is being made to formanew govern
ment but has not yet been successful.
American sympathy will go out very
largely to the eloquent Castellar. His mes
sage is statesmanlike.
ntt Stephens^ Letter.
We give elsewhere, editorially, a letter
from Mr. Stephens commenting on a brief
article of ours which he quotes, alluding to
the want of ability that has marked South
ern representation in the national councils
since the war, and urging the necessity of
oar sending our first men to Congress.
As Mr. Stephens is not assailed bj us in
the article and is recognized as of the proper
ability, we do not see why he should
get so tart over it Nor do we see in what
way bis statements affect the general charge
that the Sonth has not been ably represented
in Congress since tbe war. That charge is
trae, and the people feel it Mr. Stephens’
comments do not in the least change onr
view, nor the popular idea that the time has
come for onr highest order of public men
to go to Congress.
Mr. Stephens appears to have constituted
himself the champion of the past and present
Congressmen from the South since the war,
and flies off at an irate tangent upon the
slightest reference to them. Let Mr. Steph
ens understand, and we s*y it most courte
ously, that the people and the press do not
take their opinions from him or any one else,
bat think for themselves. And let him
recognize the Act that be has got about as
mnett as he can do to take care of himself
and bis own record.
Immigration.
Tbe Great Famine in Bengal
Two successive years of drought in the
Bengal Presidency, combined with the cupid
ity of ihe Indian government in not keeping
np tbe irrigating canals that the old Mogul
Emperors constructed, have produced tbe
most terrible famine of recent times. The
first news was startling, but it was no exag-
eration. The latest reports from the famine-
stricken territory show a rapid increase, both
of distress and crime. Ten per cent, of the
vast crowded populations, in several districts,
are starving now, and after February the
larger portion of the 23,000,000 living on the
famine tract mast be fed by the hand of
charity or die of hanger. The poor of the
Raypootana district fl.-d from their homes in
droves, not knowing whither they went, and
lining the highway with their skeleton
corpses.
Bengal is one of the three presidencies of
British India, and is the most important
division of Hindostan. It lies almost entirely
in the tropics, and is subject to great extremes
of heat, the thermometer frequently rising to
110° and never falling below 70° Fahren
heit. Taken as a whole, it i3 a vast alluvial
plain, bonndedby the Himalayan monntains
and watered by the Ganges and a network
of n^ble rivers. Rice is the principal food
crop, but, owing to the fertility of the soil,
caused by the periodical inundations of the
rivers, every product of the temperate and
tropical zones can be cultivated. Cotton,
tobacco and sugar are largely grown.
That this garden of the East, long renown
ed for its verdure and productiveness, should
have become utterly barren seems almost
impossible. The whole district of Bengal—
vast and densely populated country—seems
to be Involved in the terrible calamity. A
population nearly as great as that of the
United States is face to face with an appall
ing horror that can only bealleviated by the
most gigantic efforts on the part of that gov
ernment, which has so long grown fat from
the people who are threatened with starva
tion.
Supreme Court Jlectaioiu
Can be had at the counter or by mail. Be
sides a table of cases, a thorough General
Index is contained in the pamphlet. An ad
dendum contains the important “Home
stead” Decision of Erskine, J.,of the Fede
ral Court, and a Grand Jury Charge of Judge
Hopkins. The pamphlet is ricbly worth
$3 00. Sold at $L 00 per copy. Sent post
paid by maiL
GS” The value ot foreign coins in this
country changed with the advent of the
new year. The British pound sterling in
creased from $1 84 to $4 86.65; the French,
Swiss or Belgian Franc from 18.06 to 19.03,
and a similar increase took place in the val
ue of the Greek drachma and the Spanish
peseta. The Portugese milreis alone suffers
in our eyes, being now rated at $1 08.47 in
stead of $1.13.
Delivery off Presents. *
. All the leading premiums can be had at
once by application at the business office of
Tub Constitution. The smaller premiums
books, chromos, etc., will be delivered on
Monday. We do this to have evervthing
o arranged as to avoid confusion. By "refer
ence to the local page will be seen the list
of presents with certificate of Commissioners
The first premium—an interest in the
building—we elect, as we reserved the right
to do, to pay in gold.
Onr second and last Distribution cannot be
announced this morning for want o space
Such large and extensive gifts were never
before presented to subscribers,bat onr second
and last Distribution will eclipse in magni
tude the first ^
The year of panics and epidemics, of wars
or rather rumors of wars, is now a matter of
history. It is no longer a reality; and on
this beautiful first Sunday moraieg, in the
near measure of time, let ns take a brave look
ahead. We had much to be thankful for the
past, and we believe the future, even the im
mediate future, is full of promise to ns as a
people.
As the new year comes in perhaps no sub
ject is attracting more attention in the South
than that of immigration. An unusual in
terest is manifested in the subject; papers
and speakers far and near down in Dixie,
are discussing it in all its aspects. And it is
not a matter of talk only. An appreciable
stream of immigration is flowing into at
least two Southern 8tates—Texas and Vir
ginia—both from across the ocean and from
the States of the North and West The
former State has widely and persistently
published her advantages of soil and charac
ter, and is now reaping a rich harvest from
the swarming human hives of Europe, and
from the energetic Northwest. A concerted
effort to attract white labor has recently been
developed in upper South Carolina. Else
where in the broad territory that lies nnder
the sonny skies there is no unanimity of ac
tion that can successfully cope with the
agents of the Upper Mississippi Valley, or
even with those from the far distant plains.
We cannot reasonably expect to feel tbe tide
of immigration when the West personally
invites each immigrant, and we are dumb
and onr advantages unheralded. Those sec
tions of the Sonth that seek immigrants as
a merchant seeks customers secure them, and
the rest do not and will not
Nature, it is true, has given ns many ad
vantages in the race, bnt of what use are
those advantages if they remain hidden on
der a bushel? There is a deal of prejudice
and ignorance concerning us,—both of
which are more or less exaggerated by our
western rivals—to be met and refuted. Be
cause a portion of your sea-board, and some
of our river bottoms, are hot and unhealthy,
it is asserted that the whole South is full of
malarial diseases. Onr rivals in this business
do not hesit te to assert that there is no
desire in the South for immigration; that
persecution and rotten tax-making govern
ments await the unfortunate man who goes
hither. We should not permit men to lie
ns out of what we sadly need. We have in
the upland sections of the seaboard States
specially adapted to white labor—neither
hot nor malarious, pleasant at all seasons,
without a climate fever or disease of any
kind, well-wooded and well-watered—a coun
try which white labor ruled even in the old
days, and one which only lacks an additional
supply of it to blossom like the rose. In
this upland country white labor bas for a
long time predominated. It grows most of
the cotton, and is yearly incroacbing on, and
perhaps, driving ont all other. To this sec
tion we should, in a systematic and thorough
manner, invite the tide that has enriched and
blessed other parts of the country, for we
sadly need it, and there is every reason why
it should come, except tile fact that we have
not proceeded in a business-like manner to
win it.
The value of immigration cannot well he
over-estimated. The Western States owe
much of their progress and prosperity to the
constant influx of bone and muscle from the
Old World, and the whole country has been
immensely benefited thereby. The total im
migration np to June 30,1873, makes a grand
aggregate of 8,750,800. Add to this the im
mediate or unmixed descendants of these
millions, and we have the numerical result
of immigration in the country. There is no
use in piling np figures to show how much
they have contributed to the national wealth.
The amount is enormous. The latest statis-
tistics r rove what we all know—that the
States which have secured the largest num
ber of immigrants have outstripped the rest
in wealth.
We need a well-directed movement in this
direction nnder the auspices of the State.
Georgia has a vast quantity of unimproved
lands, a good share of which are adapted to
white labor from colder latitude. Let us
carefully consider this subject. This week
we take a fresh start, full of energies and
hopes. If the people of Georgia will con
sider the immense money-power that lies in
immigration, if they conld witness great
cities and populous villages springing up in
the West by means of it almost like magic,
the men who tread our legislative halls would
soon get the cue to devise a practical scheme
that would make the old State smile from
the mountains to the sea.
Letter From Mr. Stephens.
National Hotel, Washington, D. C.,)
" “ i,1873. f
December 30th,
Editors Constitution, Atlanta, 6a.: The
issue ot yonr paper of the 28th inst has jnst
reached me, in which I find an article nnder
the heading, “a painful scene,” with your
comments upon it I dip out and subjoin
the entire article, which is as follows:
“A PAINFUL SCENE.
“The Washington correspondent of the
Petersburg (Va.) News, describes, tele
graphically, what hq is pleased to call
‘a painful scene in the Hoose of Representa
tives:
"Washington, December 19 —One of tbe moet
striking and painlal scenes occurrel to-day in tbe
Hones of Representative*. Batter. Lawrence, of
Ohio, and the negro Htluey, ot South Carolina, had
finished their speeches for die Civil Bights bill.
“There was then a long panes and no one from the
Sonth seemed ready or able to speak for her Messrs.
Stephens and Lamar both being too unwell, and the
rest of die Southern members not having a word to
eay, Mr. neck, of Kentucky, took the floor, though
comparatively unprepared, by reason of his laborious
duties on other questions, and made an able and ex
haustive argument against the bill. Bnt lor this the
case wonid have goae by."
“This Has evoked a very universal ex
pression of opinion from the Georgia press,
with which we very heartily concur. We
agree with the view that the time has come
to select men for Congress of commanding
ability, who, npon all occasions, can represent
her interests and defend her honor. We must
send men of qualifications to take part in
legislative contests.”
From this it would seem that yon and oth
er conductors of the press in Georgia have
been thrown into a very needless paroxysm
of pain which might have been avoided if
yon had first consulted, or sought for, the
real facts of the case, instead of assuming as
true one of the many very erroneous reports
which are heralded from this city by tele
graph and otherwise. If you had looked for
the real facts of the case, aB set forth in the
Congressional Record, giving the actual pro
ceedings of the House on the day referred
to, you would have seen that it was through
and by 8n arrangements effected by “Mr.
Stephens” that the day’s debate on the im
portant measure nnder consideration was
secured, instead of having the question
forced to a vote within a space of time too
short for Mr. Beck- or any member, either
from the Sonth or the North, to make “an
exhaustive argument” npon it; and that the
statement which caused yon and others so
much pain—to-wit: That but for the course
of Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, “the case wonid
have gone by,” was as groundless as it was
perhaps intended to be injurious and unjust
to “the rest of the Southern members.”
Yon will allow o-e most respectfully fur
ther to say that if yon wish not to subject
yourselves to an unnecessary repetition of
such “painful sensations” again, and to give
your readers the real truth of what is going
on in Congiess, yon had better wait for the
facts, and not pay for such telegraphic mis
representations, or if yon do and publish
them, guard yonr readers against placing any
reliance whatever npon them.
“ Upon the Civil Rights’ Bill,” as you say
in another article, “ Mr. Stephens has the
floor;” and after yon and the people of
Georgia shall have read what he may say in
his own words, when he does speak, it will
be time,enough for yop and them to form a
proper judgment as to whether he truly “rep
resents her interest” and faithfully “defends
her honor.” It will also be time enough then,
when that judgment shall be properly ex
pressed, for him to take that course which
becomes a Patriot and a man of integrity,
who in his relations with the public, is gov
erned solely by the inflexible rule ef his own
sense of duty. Very respectfully,
Alexander H. Stephens.
Cotton—Volume II—No* 18*
The receipts this week are 170,000 bales,
66,000 more than last year and 61,000 more
than two years since.
It is likely the receipts for next week will
be about 140,000 bales, compared with 132,-
000 last year, and 92,000 the year before; and
the receipts at the interior towns 80,000 bales,
compared with 25,000 last year and 28,000
the year before.
The thermometer has averaged 41 degrees
at noon. Clear and cool five days, and cloudy
and cool two days. No rain.
Rain fall for the month of December for
four years is as follows:
1870 1871 1872 1873
3.74 8.36 448 1.70
We have had, thus far, the mildest and
pleasantest winter on record.
Next week, last year, the thermometer was
43 degrees at nocn; clear and cool six days,
cloudy and rainy one day.
receipts.
Receipts,shipments and stock,'at this point
for this season and last, to date:
pected, and an increase of stocks at thatpoit,
was dull and lower the middle of the week,
but rallied attheclose. No change in prices.
Ab customary, the stock in Liverpool was
counted this week and found to be largely
in excess of the estimate. The stock of
American having been found to be 62,000
more, and all kinds 120,000 more than esti
mated; the stock there now being 173,000
bales more than last year same time.
GENERAL REMARKS.
The'market is now almost entirely nnder
the control of the receipts,and is most likely to
be largely governed by them for a few mbnths
to come. The price is low enough, when
everything is considered, but still, we may
have lower prices in February and March.
We hear that all tbe interior depots in Texas
are still glutted with cotton, and New Or
leans will receive 700,000 bales more. The
.receipts here have fallen off to about one-
fourth, but with the holidays past and a little
better price, they will be large again. Those
who think the crop will be a small one are
looking at the proceeds of the old and worn
out lands, whilst the new lands have splendid
crops.
Last year at this time the receipts were
small on account of the horse disease and ex
tremely cold weather. The floating fields of
ice in the Missippi River obstructed naviga
tion very much; whilst this year,the weather
has been very pleasant indeed,'and everything
has favored large receipts except the price.
Bat we hope our friends will not be deceived,
for if the weather is favorable we shall re
ceive one million of bale3 in tbe next eight
weeks.
It is likely money will be very easy in
New York after next week. Very large re
ceipts of cotton usually make sterling ex
change lower, and freights higher. Both of
them tend to depress the price of cotton.
HfTwo new products are ready to grow
in Southern soil. King Cotton, however, is
a jealous as well as a powerful ruler. He
bas banished so many agricultural rivals
that we are almost brought to the verge of
despair. While be keeps out com and bacon
he keeps ns, who must stay, in constant dan
ger of universal ruin. And so perhaps he
will shut the door on the new candidates.
One is Peanut flonr, which is said to be most
excellent, most nutritions and most health
ful. Tbe other is the Algaroba beaD. It now
grows in Spain near the ocean. It bears
large pod, filled with rich, oily seeds, large
quantities of which are annually shipped to
England, where they are used as a substi
tute for oil cake as a food for stock, being
both cheap and fattening. It whl grow in
almost any soil, although the .sea coast suits
it best.
jgPGrantism in Sonth Carolina is not a
success; it rarely is. The total taxes levied
last year, according to the annual report of
the Comptroller, were $2,810,279; the re
ceipts from all sources were $1,719,727,
leaving the sum of $1,090,551 in uncertainty.
The license tax, from which so much was
expected, was stolen by Radical auditors
and treasurers to the last collected cent—
not a doll at wad returned. Daring the year,
309 buildings and 263,533 acres of land were
forfeited to the State for the non-payment of
taxes amounting in the aggregate to only
$33,0091 For the next year it is proposed to
increase the taxes to $3,500,000. Before the
war the total taxation did not much exceed
$100,000, and it was laid on an immensely
greater property than exists to-day in the un
fortunate State. The day of reckoning for
snch rascality will surely come. There will
be more than one flying Genet when
does. _
There are now fifty vessels in the Wil
mington port, and two-thirds of them are of
foreign tonnage.
MONTHLY STATEMENT.
Tbe stock of cotton in Liverpool and afloat
for that port, for five years, is aa follows:
1870,
1871.
1872.
1873.
1974.
— " ■
——
■ ■■"
—
Stock
379
569
421
593
Afloat
464
358
254
368
—
—
—
616
813
927
1675
961
American cotton in stock and afloat for
Liverpool, same time;
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
Stock
109
167
63
149
Afloat
355
182
204
240
255
464
340
26-7
389
tbokxstilue.
The negro shot by offlcerBlinton is rapidly recoT-
,- n ~ -The residence of Rev. E- P. Biown, formerly
rector of the Episcopal church here, was destroyed by
accidental fire on Saturday night last. Nothing wag
saved except a piano and a few chairs.—Enterprise.
hijuxtta.
Sunday work in the bwher shops has o-ased.—B.
M. C. Moore, who na* jailed for the BUng of D. L.
Malone. Is out on a ball of $4,000——PoatmaaterPret-
tyman’s horse ran away, seriously butnot dangerous
ly injuring its owner.—Journal.
, J BABNE8VUX*. •
Twelve hales of cotton were burned at Powell &
Murphy’s warehouse. Mr. William P. Bossy mar
ried Mies Della McLean, last Sunday morning.—.
Miss Mollte Powell drew a three thousand dollar
house and lot from the Christmas tree—a gift from
her brother, Captain R- J. Powell. Fifty catered
people left on Saturday for Arkansas.—Gazette.
DALTON.
The new municipal officers are: Mayor—T. J.
Kellv. Alderman—Major Jas. H. Bard, A. W. Lynn
R P. O’Neill. ThOB, Hamilton, James Bivlnge andj.
T Camp Treasurer, W. J. Ford; Clerk, L. W. Bar
rett —JThere was a slight fall of snow on Saturday
moraidg. and the distant mountains, wrapped in their
white mantles and hoods, glittered and gleamed in
majestic beauty.—Dalton has grown to be quite an
Important cotton market During fourdays last week
as high as fifty balss of cotton were sold each day-
all the prodnet of Whitfield and Murray.—Rev. Z.
T. LeavelL ol the Baptist Church, has gone to Mur
freesboro, and Professor Wilkes, of the Crawford
High Scho 1 takes his place,— Citizen.
COLUMBUS.
Bsv. Mr. Dixon, the new pastor of the Methodist
Church has arrived. The shipments of Columbus
manufactured cotton and woolen goods over the
Alabama Western nallroad in the past two weeks has
been immense. We heard yesterday or several large
orders from the West—one of which was from Utm-
)hia, for one hundred baleB of domestics, filled by
duscogaa Manufacturing Company. Everything ia
now being Bold for cash. Report has It that a man
fifty years old. who lost his wife last Friday or Sator-
H|v in upper Gir&rd* was to le&cl to tho <&r l&st night
a blooming damsel of seventeen For short grief and
attention to business, tula beats any case we have
heard of in this latitude.—Enquirer.
MACON.
Hettie Solomon, a small colored girl, was fatally
burned on Tuesday. Her clothes caught from a firs
by which she was standing. The residence of A.
iZ Parkins, of Monroe county, was hurned on Tues
day morning. M. R. Rogers is the new Chance Jor
ol Empire Lodge, No. 3, Knights of Pythias. Jno.
J. Dunn has been arrested, charged with the murder
of Sam L. Rainey. He was arrested in Jones coun
ty, about sixteen miles from Macon, by Constable
Mitcheil, and was brought to the city yesterday and
carried before Justice Sprinz.—The venerahlo Dr,
Lovlck Pierce has recovered from hla recent severe
illness, and is now visiting the family of his son, the
Bishop, near Sparta.—Telegraph and Messenger.
SAVANNAH.
Francis Campbell, charged with the murder ot
Willis Houston, has been discharged from custody
after a preliminary examination beforo a full bench
of Magistrates S. H. Eckmau wae unanimously
elected an Alderman to till a vacancy. Miss Jennie
Brvan died suddenly, on Thursday, or beirt disease,
a; the residence of her mother on Liberty street.
New Year’s Day was passed pleafautly oy all. and
without an accident of any kind John Reilly,
charged with the murder ot his step-father, died in
jail on Friday. No transactions in cotton on New
year’s Day.—Advertiser-
AUGUSTA.
The funeral sermon of the late James Meredith was
preached by Father Hamilton of Sc. Patrick's Church.
A M. Benson of Augusta and W N Merrier of
CrawfordsviUe, constitute a new firm In the general
cotton and commission business at No. 3 Warren
Block. The cenotaph In honor of the fallen brave
near St. James’ Methodist Episcopal Church, was un
veiled with appropriate ceremonies on New Years'
")sy. Mayor Oumming delivered the address.—Con-
titulionalist.
American cotton in sight for same time:
1870
1871
1872
Stock at interior ports.
. 104
107
92
Stock at U. S. ports
631
600
Stock in Liverpool....
1C9
167
Afloat for Liverpool
355
182
Export this week
64
36
780
1166
977
896 1S30
We would Cill attention to this very large
excess of American cotton over former years.
Taken by our own spinners from the porta
for the past month, and for four months.
1870 1871 1672 1873 1874
Receipts to date....
Shipments'
1873
1872
.41,750
20,015
18.950
2,590
1,065
About 70 per cent of the crop has been
marketed in this region.
The daily receipts, for next week, for the
past four years are as follows:
1870
1871
1872
1873
■ — -
-
—
-
Saturday
....12,781
17,668
11,958
18,733
Monday......
24.927
21,710
21,164
Tuesday
14,634
20.517
17.458
23,097
Wednesday..
18,296
10,635
22,946
Thnrsday....
13.1C5
27,726
13,387
18,016
Friday
22,163
16,015
26,857
Various......
494
1,020
650
1,281
— ■" '■«.
—
-
85,576
132,317
91,713
132,099
The receipts this week show a falling off
of 45,000 bales, and we expect still smaller
receipts next week. Bnt our readers must
not be deceived by these smaller receipts. If
we have open weather the last of this month
and daring the month of February, we shall
have very large receipts again.
NEW YORK.
The Exchange has been open only&ur
days thi3 week. Sales of spot cotton, 9.18S
bales, at a rise of 1-4 of a cent in the price.
Contracts have been dull; sales 70,090 bales!
No change in price. The unexpectedly large
receipts on Monday caused holders to give
way; hut much smaller receipts at the close
caused a more hopeful feeling.
LIVERPOOL.
The market, under the influence of larger
receipts in this country than was ex-
91
484
63
294
64
One month 129 75 119 135 95
Four months 683 272 309 402 331
ESTIMATE CF CROPS.
The actnal per cent, of receipts of the
crops at the ports for seven years, for three
months, has been as follows
1867. 1868.1869. 1870. 1871, 1872. 1873.
Percent 45 43 2 49.2 46.2 40 6 54.5 47.9
The average of the seven years is 46.6.
The year of 1868 was late and did not come
np to the general average until the last of
January. The year of 1871 was also late,
and did not come ud to the general average
until the last of March, The years of 1869
and 1872 were both early, and were ahead of
the general average until March. The re
ceipts at the ports each year for
eight years, for four months,
are' in round numbers, as follows,
Beginning with 1867 : 837,000,947,000,1,044.-
000,1,340,000, 1,625,000, 1,486,000,1,734,000,
1,903,000.
In consequence of the very large receipts
the past month, we think the per cent is 1-4
larger than the average, making it 43 per
cent, of the total, thus making the total re
ceipts at the ports 3.958,000, to which add
300,000 for overland and Southern consump
tion, and we have a total crop of 4,258,000,
which is our present estimate,
prospects.
Weexpect smaller receipts and some higher
prices for a week or two to come, but if the
receipts should be large again we fear they
will have a very depressing effect on the
market. At one time we thought the price
might touch 15 cents in the country towns,
but in consequence of the receipts for the
past five weeks being 925,000 bales, and the
stock in Liverpool being found to be in ex
cess of the estimate, 120,000 bales, we do not
expect the price to rise much above 14 cents
for several months to come. If we were
holding cotton now we should sell on the
first active market.
Summary ot state News.
NOaCROEB.
8.T. McFlroy, Jeremiah Winter. L. A Jackson. N.
S. Arendale and C. P. Lively ate the nominees for
Town > Commissioners Faulty wheat on Major
Winn s farm produced sixty-three told.—Advance.
WATNESBOBO.
At a mass meeting ot the grangers of Burke county,
held at the court-house in Waynesboro, It was re
solved that the maximum price of labor for the com
lug year should be $8 a month, and the minimum 14
a month. The following resolution was also adopted:
Resolved, That we will not purchase fertilizers the
coming year, of any kind, except for cash, or for cot
ton without classiQcstlon at 18 esnts per pound; said
cotton to be delivered at our respective railroad de
pots, we pledging ourselves as Patrons to meet said
manure obligations promptly, and In good faith, de
liver as good cotton as we cm gather in time to meet
taid debt, requiring like fidelity npon tbe part of
manufacturers supplying us with reliable manures ;
Provided, this resolution be ratified by the Stale
Grange.—Expositor.
, G BUTIN.
W. Huff and H. G. Doyal are the policemen of
1874. —Congressman Freeman has had a large num
ber of visitors since his return from Washington,
mostly from Atlanta, In regard to the poet-office of
that city Mr. Freeman will keep the right track,
and do ms level best against old pslamslngingbard.
He returned to Washington last Monday night.
The NewB office now occupies the second and third
floors of Drewry’s "Drug RnUding."—Nevis.
ALBANY.
Dr. L. L. Strozler Is seriously ill.—Mr. Jacob
Gia»s, an old and respected citizen, died cn Friday of
Asthma. Judge Warren’s kitrhenwas burned on
Thursday. Hon. B. H. Hill was in the city yester
day. He is down loosing af.erhis real estate interest.
He asserts that he has lost $10P,0f0 si, ce his embark
ation In Doogheny planting, and that his law prac
tice hSB supplied the deficiency. Still he is cheerful,
and cracks his finger at the panic. Caton Mahon,
colored, and an old offender, has been captured and is
now In j »il.—JYftrr.
Miscellaneous.
During the year 1873, Chicago has sold, at whole
sale alone, J53C.OCO.COO worth ef goods—a gain of 18
per cent, over the business of 1872, and a gain of 31
per cent, over that of 1870.
The New York Tribune sometimes grows facetious
in its sarcasm. In speaking of DureU. It e&n that
he has "agreed to resign if Grant will give him a for
eign mission." Such magnanimity, it continues, la
rare, bnt we fear it will be disregarded. The admin*
lstra’lon Is in his debt, and he knows it. But just
because he gets drunk, and leans against the admin
istration occasionally. Instead of allowing the admin
istration to lean against him, it ia proposed to im
peach and depose him.
Horses appear to be a drug in Australia. In many
of the old districts of New South Wales they run
wild In thout ends; they are not worth looking after,
and are very difficult to collect in any way; they eat
the food of other profitable stock, and are only s
scourge neon ihe pastures. Hence they have to be
exterminated like vermin. In many parts of the
country tbey are shot by hired men, for so much per
head, and are collected and destroyed systematically.
They abound in wild mobs npon monntains of the
most nigged and Inaccessible character, as well aa
npon the wildest plains of the interior; always de
generating, becoming smaller, weaker and wilder.
General and Mrs. George B. McClellan are spending
the winter at Nice. While In Paris General McClellan
received distinguished attention. He was given a
prominent seat when he attended the French Assem
bly by invitation, and at the trial of Bazalne was also
treated as a guest deserving the highest con Blderation.
Of the latter tribunal General McClellan writes that
it was a most dignified court, and its procesdings ap
peared to be conducted with a strict regard to tbe
demands ot justice. The Orleans princes on General
McClellan’s staff daring his command of the army
have shown him great attention. Mrs. McClellan's
health bas greatly improved.
IVortla Carolina.
Rev. Henry Asbtuy, of Lincoln county,
married his 306th couple the other day.
The new residence of Capt A B. Andrews,
on Blonnt street, Raleigh, nearly completed,
is one of the handsomest in the {state.
Theo. N. Ramsay, Esq., has administered
the pledge of total abstinence to one thous
and persona in North Carolina daring the
past twelve months.
There is aa oM lady living in Onslow
county who is ninety years old, the mother
of nine children and has sixty grand-chil
dren. Her own children at the time of the
war were too old for service, but nineteen of
her grand-children served through the entire
war.
Raleigh News: Hon. J. L, Pennington,
the present Governor of Dakota, was an ap
prentice boy in the old Raleigh Star office
thirty-three years ago. Ex-Governor Hol
den was foreman in the same office at the
time. Andy Johnson was then a journey
man tailor in Mr. Litchford’s tailor shop, on
Fayettevillb street.
The Greensboro’ Patriot says; The North.
Carolina Central Iron Company are making
arrangements to run the Friendship Mine on
a large scale, and have advertised for a large
force of bloomers and other workmen. They
will make 10,000 pounds a day, which is
shipped North for the especial purpose of
being converted into steel, this being an ex
cellent iron for that purpose.
The Beginnings of Disease.—It is as
true as that “great oaks from little acorns
grow,” that frightful diseases are often en
gendered by seemingly trifling ailments.
Casual fit3 of indigestion superinduce chron
ic dyspepsia, occasional bilious attacks cul
minate in fixed diseases of the liver, inter
mittent twinges in the legs and arms degen
erate into the continuous agony of
acute rheumatism. Not that such,
disastrous consequences are evitable.
Far from it. They are attributable
to neglect. A few doses of Hostetler’s Stom
ach Bitters will always cure casual indiges
tion or an ordinary bilious affections, or ar
rest the premonitory symptoms of rheuma-
tism. It i3 true that when dyspepsia, or liver
complaint, or rheumatism, or constipation, or
nervous debility, or sick headache has be
come a permanent evil, and has even baffled
the skill of eminent physicians and resisted
all the ordinary remedies, it may still be
eradicated by the Bitters; hut it is easier, aa
Macbeth suggests, to crush the serpent’s egg
than the grown serpent.
j anl—deodlw&wlt
