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V 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 &lt&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