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Cotton—Volume II—No. 45. The receipts this -week arc 10,000 bales; 5,000 less than last year, and 7,000 more than two years since. It is likely the receipts for next year will be about 8,000 bales; compared with 14,000 last year, and 2,500 the year before ; and the re ceipts at the interior towns 1,000 bales; compared with 2,500 last year, and COO the year before. The thermometer has averaged 87 de grees at noon. Clear and liot§Bix days, this year is not worthy of the honorable name of farmer. growing CROPS. Always, in speaking of the growing crops, we do so from its present appear ance—just as it looks to us to-day—for no one can test what is in the future; therefore, we guess, from the lights we have to-day, the crops will be 4,000,000. A general damage from catterpillari next month; a severe and burning drouth in August, or an early frost, would reduce it to 8,750,000; or a continuation and cloudy and warm one day. Light j of all the present favorable circumstan- ehowers on two days. Rainfall for the week- .34 of an inch. The same week last year, the thermometer was 88 de grees at noon. Clear and hot six days, and cloudy and warm one day. Rain fall for the week .70 of an inch. The same week, the year before . last, the thermometer was 84 •degrees at noon. Cloudy and showery every day. Rain fall for the week, 1.25 of an inch. ATLANTA MARKET. RECEIPTS. 1874 1873 ces, (which is not likely,) a late frost, say Nov. 25, will make the crop 4,250,000 biles. ., u; It must be borne in mind, by our rea ders, that, in consequence of a decline in the price, in June, instead of a rise, as was generally expected by the farmers, there is fully 100,000 bales of the last crops, that will be carried over to the . , . ANSWER—Why, he left by the Great Kennesaw Route, with a Round Trip Ticket to New'York, which he purchased for ONLY ty, and there was the most sumptuous next and this may swell the receipts the 1837»^and the schedule is so fast and connections sosure, yon fellows can never catch him; ' -? ^..'l, . . _ | private.festival ever given in the city of i 1 — ~ Baltimore. Among other outlandish 110 29875 <9985 RMeifUfbMre& Receipts previously 53054 —53091 SHIPMENTS. Shipments this week 85 Shipments previously... .52399 52484 29320 STOCK. Stock on hand 607 065 PRICE. Low middlings 14 17% RECEIPTS. The daily receipts at all ports for next ■week for the past four years are as follows: coming season. CATERPILLARS. These plagues of the Southern planter are usually reported, first in Texas and 1870 Saturday 1371 Monday 2302 Tuesday 870 Wednesday... 1266 Thursday. ...1038 Friday 2000 Various 28 9465 1S71 1872 1873 8244 2760 2352 8100 1519 239S 120 160 ”1 361 233 860 2310 1901 2877 1629 2733 1669 2783 664 14256 15493 NEW YORK. This market has been weak, but a lit tle more active for spots. Sales for five days 3,926 bales, at a decline of % of a cent in the price. There is no demand for export, except at J£ a cent bolow the ruling rates; but- spiriners have taken a little more at the dccliuc. The salop- have been so very sniall for a month past it Is likely wc may see larger sales, with -a little lower prices, for a shorf while to come.' ' 4 a ' ‘ ] G<mtmcish«ve been dull and lower, •at a general decline of % pent on Jast week’s prices. On 1 Tliureday' the market was veiy weak—July jiftjbiiig for 16tfc for short notice and i6 Liverpool. [ This market opened firm, with large sales, but closed easy! No chnnge in the price of spot cotton, bnt deliveries have falien % of a cent, and are now of a cent below the price for spots.] As wc mentioned last week, it Was per fectly natural that there should be a lit tle rally after so long and steady a de cline; particularly as Manchester spin ners had ran down their siocks 91,000 bales in the past sit weeks. ■ They now hold about 130,000 bales stock at their mills—say two weeks supply. ' " * - - CORRESPONDENCE. AfWykm, ,Ga- , July 9,187-4. Out cotton is very fine. It will average about aO ipcl^eAj Jgjh. Tlie decease in planting, about here, Is 10 per cent., but us the staniff^s^hat nflt^jrettlr than last, year, we hope io make fully as .much cotton; " r Burnet, Texas, July C, 1874. WHERE 'it'-!!.' fJ.'lJ r.' I THE MILLIONAIRE MURDERER I Sam McDonald, of Baltimore,: a Jail for Killing a Gambler—Inci- “} dents in His Life. Sam McDonald is called the “million aire fnurderer.” He is in jail at Balti- I more charged with stabbing a gambler ] named Berry Amos to death. Somebody I who knows McDonald tolls the- newspa pers a short story of bis short life, as fol- | lows: His father was a millionaire of Balti- [ more, and had two children, Sam and a daughter. Sam was sent to England to | be educated, and _ returned . an accom- ” )ied and splendid looking young man. . father died soon after Sum’s return with an education and polished manners, and this event was shortly followed by I Sam’s twenty-first birthday, when he came into possession of a vast prop erty., The birthday was celebrated at tlie il elegant * family mansion near Baltimore. Sam invited all the cityfellqws to see him attain his mnjori- SLANDER. ’Twas but a breath— , , ’ ■ . u I And yet, the fair, good name was wilted: . Florida, and as these States {have missed And friends, once fond, grew cold and them thus far. we hope the damage may . , .. J I And life was worse than death. not be severe any where. These are now reported, in small numbers in Decatur and Dougherty counties, Georgia, and in Montgomciy, Lowndes and Pike coun ties, Alabama. Continued wet weather will increase them very fast, but, if the should be dry and hot, they will do but little general harm. These are the first And j-^^o^ghtf m its power, brood, and as they come from weeks A human soul, In one short hour apart, and usually it is the third one that | Lics crus h ed beneath its blight! destroys the cotton it will be the first week in September before any material damage is done. prospects. In No. 40, written June 6, 1874, we wrote the following “It is possible that August and Sep tember contracts may sell some time be fore two months at 16 to 17 cents,” The price for each month was then 18 cents, and we reeollect the feelings with which this statement was received by the bulls, who were loaded down with spots and contracts. Many of them were our most particular friends, and our only de sire was to benefit them, and Some of them, we arc happy to know, took ad vantage of our warning and saved them selves much anxiety and money by dbing »9i and Aqguit 16% and September 16%; flpd, although iwe; see no hopt#>of a:rise riglit away; -it,is now .tooMow to sejl short, with -at certainty- of making mpney by doing so. -• j ‘ T H-HRior 1 1 '' *■ The,North One venomed word, That struck Its coward poisoned blow, In craven whispers, bushed and low— And yet, the wide world heard. ’Twas bnt one whisper—one, That, muttered low, for very shame, I The thing the slanderer dare not name— veather | And y C t f the work was done. MINNIE MORELAND; —OR,— LOVE’S DESPERATION. A Story of Frontier Life in the Far West, a Part of the Country Pro. lific of Frightfal Adventure, MVild Romance and Terrific Drama. Based Upon ; I Actual Expe rience. | BY THE AUTHOR OF “DREAMING,” “PRIS ON LIFE,” “THE FATAL CLtjEl,’’ , *.‘lVT SEA,” THE “NIGHT Everything was so still that ^ proverbial pm drop would have sum- mumination tfg* looked S off like moned attention. Minnie almost gave up | a fire Thb whole was a fire ’ just beginning (o con~ * *-— out a. youm a now’haumtogthe house and approaching I ^erewreofteu 1 revelries i by night and oblivious sleep by day. The house was Butno.shC'would notyicldtoqhiH^I a ^ keonW nfght, because it did not or cowardly fear., If , it were robber or ^ jook at the damage that daylight would have revealed, fn a year or two made a trip West with Steppm 0 li_htlj to her trunk, a tiny sd I gome Q £ ck „ fellows. . Of course ver-mounted pistol was taken out. , It | on a i,^ Rnrpp j n (fee vicinity McDonald was Afogift, and as she clasped it in her | 3°^™ °Hautef Eana, hit il-, MARCH,” ETC. CHAPTER VH—Continu Silence followed., Not anothi wits Tottered! UyflJiU- Nor tntd there- further ‘ indicatii mni 3.-' . <•-. ■ that her lbind was not in a state* favora ble to entertainment by books. : Laying down the volume she was reading, she tried'.to tliink. But what to think or what to do was not so easily determined. The voice said that she must keep her light^burning. What did this mean? That some one or something should confront her? The thouglit made her start. But why should she be alarmed, even if the '‘mysterious presence” did appear? It certainly had evinced only an earnest desird for her safety, when it dismayed the Indians, interposing to prevent her injury. •, - She was a brave girl, and she deter mined upon solving this mySteay, and dissipating her suspense, if it were possi ble. But the resolution caused her to treni^ie. She would await some devel opment, if she shouldsit there until day, or prove that there was at least some hal lucination about the matter. Moiiients Seethed hours, but one after another even the hours passed. Presently the dreamer by the table started, and hurriedly turned her, gaze to the window. She soon became satisfied that it waa only the rustling against.it of bough belonging to an ola oak, through wfciJre branches the wind was; gently •nhmrlg.' , ' t ' '. ’’ '■ Now her quick ear detected a souu,d wi^rti and unearthly. Agfim'she was' mis taken.' It was indeed a'dipiual iipte, hut only the:hooting.of an owl ,t, splits are ^supposed tlie° earth Moreland wpuld certainly make no out: I whiked hp to'"his friend'and stobbed him spirus are suppo&ea io ti^e eann cr ^. 0T , pobosition against its approach. I tn tha hx.»Vi withent awnrH. This is the npr than since the eventful eve when lie I p“airi%Tnd tified^elaSo^ with tlie fell weltering m his blood at her feet. I wors £ Qf scandals. Tlie good people If, on the contrary, the visitor were no I <p erre Haute would have: nothing to wlt ^ Sam McDonald and Ills farm the -hostly mhabi ant of mne unknown after th found bim out . ThuaSam bc . World, she had nothing to fear, for slie cahie an J outcagt }n hig an d mag- had never heard of harm done by appa- niflcence . Th he sp ^ t at lca f t Si ° r Ti^ frLttr Pe .;rf I ^O.OOO the firat year lie was at Terre fri 0 ht. The .feoutiCT girl!tonot the] Haute. That sort of thing dould not last forever, unless there were corresponding profits coming in from some other quar ter. But there were none. The whole fortune was enlisted in dissipation, and it is supposed was nearly all gone. Sam McDonald lately visited Baltimore to see some of "the old city fellows Who had not one to shrink from such an encounter. A thought somewhat akin to that of Ham let flashed through her mind : .“Be thou': a spirit of health, or goblin • . damned, Bring with thee airs from Heaven or blasts ‘rom hell, i ue tny interns wiCKea or cnamaoie, I WrteinatPiI in liis rorr-nt rirodlnalities. Ttau c S»Sk“?tSS” ll0 “ M '’ ^ SKSa Itai* of S3 ’ • _ _ ^ i»d he and two companions were together and alone \ka A slip ifiould sfee it; and for the mo-1 fn a saloon at two' o’cloctin the mom- ment ,the ; wonign nature -within her U n g. One of the fel seemed to auccumh to that spirit of heroic There had been no «tin K 4-1, 4 y-v# i •%« «. 1% yi*. n yl’ yl in I : . * W . 4 _ . quarrel or unpleasant the face °I death. Spirit, aparitlou or I hafi done. almost oyerytliing else. — liirmitir fiend,°let llf'Uofhe, for Minn jo Itook a..long knife out of liispockct and /" Wlsibkft eral Young and othera,-opened, ^ ^Id!'®«*st0P-j S ^.& S X&Zj ai Ui liti'morning, a splendid campaign in I ment3 » t^ugk .astiteRfiwi«in,ii» THeM^mOTnBfeTa splendid canipaiim in v behalf 3f thatmeritorious enterprise, the ^ ^ W ^pokemJmd Ai^andiliU girlfehmideredl j j, i < _ 1 - _ I npon nistinntlr JuMrit nn/1 .nnnorcfnnri of the cricket upon the hearth Was mag- Action oi its Marriage; in Tripoli-^ Barbary ro^'and^hlrrstood'stm fo" i 1 ■ apecond. ‘ ’ - the knob, ijw. mid mby litly was detc 1U aridr;^Mlnbiij’4' J hcajt,'st09^ still fobl" •» - State after the Ceremony. second. ,^^andpr;Somethingt6uchedr^ ; , ; — j loknob, and ast^e door had been pur- [Hi. Je^sjip’s Syrian Home Life.] posely sleft unlocked, there nothing Ule daughter to ) prevent-its; ^fenmg The knob f M ops¥ omedan living in thiscity vr . - vj ■ n . w .. | been distinctly heard and understood. M&ilie finally so ^a!Vi \u Marietta and ^orth Georgia Railroad. - stio be^an to blame'herself for» not ac- slo\r]j ; to #ihg ; h^on ita hinges. though girt had 6een married sev- They set odf witli the intentioh of. ad- quainting the servant with tbe incident 1- • ; ; ,(Tq be Continued) , oral days she had never.been seen by her dressing the people at every centhdpoint Mmme “^ui^^^^tginearnpfitupon]^hi c h,had .ocfiurred, and for a papiuent. 1 ; ' |husband. He only had gone to the zsTuTi _ f. fu- • . „. ... I mental delnsioir? She-eonld rtrlt think waking her. - ■ j ,..u But this was only- a momentary' feel: Ducktown, Tennessee. , Thq Marietta j But this was only - a momentary' fee: Journal says that Mayor Spencer’s speech j ®°’ for wel1 ™ tym^tobered. the first time y. Makin ^ a strenuous effort ;to, calm at the first stopping place was|“grand, ^ at ..^pnee partied he S rself,;ffie'took up the volume beside <to^h il hPI-hfe^Bfei J( H‘jidB'ari uttefit*] Hlffi the ??F matter to th&tbst,-«»iik|h^ XteWk] t!ve ; and invincible ih Wblows. yetusliulpcould4heform nous VOlce'seetted toindieate. S phbtid neees9ity.aadTinattie biilt, and I U0 " OI ” ,. . . L,;._ uo . her watch discovered Oar cotton is splendid; th^|^tA(foa9i like stedLdf >tfus company. Afterdirmer | "ShistSaMlteidtaMe- .years. All the cotton on the low lands of the Colorado river is very fine. Sklma, Al.v, July 7, 1874. .i The cotton in tills region is very good Last year, as you know, there was al most a failure in the. canehrakc region; but now there is every prospect of a' fine crop, if tlie caterpillars let US alone; 1 hear of a few in some places, but hope .they will be too late to injure us. \ CROP TROSPEDptE , After compiling all our latest reports from the whole cotton-growing country} we find that tjic plants Af) now as tall as Jast year, but arc about one W|ek later in maturing fruit, though'it is likely, by the first of August, the crop will average fully as early in every respect Jflst year. The planting ia ten per cent, less, but the stand is fully four per cent, bet ter, making a decrease of only six per cent, in the number of plants. The finest reports are from Texas, Middle' Alabama and Southwestern and Upper Georgia. The poorest reports are from Nashville, Ten nessee—where they have had but little rain for two months—and from Rich mond and Burke counties,* Georgia, where the planting is reported as twenty- five per cent less, and the plant very small and backward. We never knew such a season before in this section. No heavy Gem 1 ’ construqtiom” After other s Judge Irwin, Colonel James others, :!J the subscription bool adnd [casual conversation, Minnie, in the neighbors tr’ere soeiai; remark ■ I But the ghost: if when 'graVeyards yawn, for its Vrfy dlfd&dy* Stalking in the m bfitside the hoU|e, : though ■ opened, and a' liberal amount^obtained. °t herwl! ’ e sb ® Rfight suffer from^a feelmg „ ~ '-. 0 oofiof Pf. londiness.-. ShchadgqncludSdnptto . Present lyMiqme> list' t,;««nt.;m» sa b»ritedtor» ( 0.000of, J—g;--STTSS'S':* * i not mistaken. It seemed, to Young andi^Jol Waddell, took up naiu ™ u y ,. u .... *| • j^^mmU^dpiLsed^ There^^j^a 'stiej _ «P«1 oi 1 Cherokee, flhe he,! dif | found the patty still fartllerupthe fltf^’jWI^^obboracameQYerevery few days. was sfibdued, butit was. quite distinct: and the people in heart, sonl. body and After somches^cy, the servant-wenton. ^. There was a touch upon the kalk door, pocket: % the. nulroad,, At*6ta ^ turn- fall of rof the i something fii alowerroom or parlor ( booked for Jasper, and Pickens County, because,sheliad never been able to divest* on Thursday. The people of these S e- herself ^together of the ghost stories qf. spmethinglpalowerfoomqi _ istered counties are enthusiastic over |] ier childhood, QUCStCTCd wuuuvo UIL VUIUIU1U9UO uni* k q,. ' ’ ’ II /. 111 - ! f >y. ’It l ‘ : ' Jj Ill’ll f the prospect of a connection with the rest lone1 ^ surroundings, she did, PPf ; fqel,^o opprgggjve , of mankind, and they manifest their faith much rat ease, though she, knew she had in 1i1ihlhii-aiWnntinnk‘ TMiia I nOthlBg-tO feaf, ' 1 ; ( ‘‘' in liberal subscriptions; This gi^rad^^rail-1 n< >thing_- lroad revival, by whoever phmiied,Is a| .. ,M V lis , master, sttqkc-/'f. policy, that -fill ’iter- i 0T ghostly appearance,”. said taiuly. result jn. a,material extension. if wiai a smtle, though somewhat ih a ques- nota completion, bf this important en- tioning tone of Y*ieeL*J'- ferprisb. bn,- - .. m ... > -kdTi “Yetf KEWhP reply, ‘^‘nd .am—,,! • • heard tbAuspVlers hereabouts A very serious affair was impending I strange noise that have been heard, and rapid! a few days ago inthb Dade Coal Mine, of spectre fi^t they qit>qmepamrs baye JockedLflie JuacnlM. spot Minnie talkcif among the one hundred and sixteen .con- sen, but I have never seen or 1 ^ ^ mySClt Th ^ S, ^ n refffid,°g^te dolotTileed any- formed by a gang of eighten at least, to I stoiy that a ghet was once seen in the open doors for their passage. What could murder the overseer in tliair section of the 1 ceighborhooddf this hou^e/ but lyho saw it be?\ She would bravely explore the mihe—probably a quarter of a mile from it, or from whom the story first started mystery, if waiting would compass that eammeert tnak ■tdr| ia«k i fetter©; rush upon and hill the outside J After supper Minnie retired to her ~ ~ ' ' - w — guards, and runaway, with their arms, j room. She heard-the servant lock the But Ike Russell, (who escaped last May, doors and also retirfe. * I ! V was shot and re-captured,) disclosed the ; la the centre of the room was a snrifll dreadful ploV-Whenit was about to be table; upon which lay several books. -darr^eej. into, deadly, effect. | Upon, this table was the candle, and seat- liiuiband.^ _ __ mosque when the ceremony, was per formed, she taking uo part in it. After v At a 'meeting of the stockholders of! ceremony, the bride usually stem at Thursday,:;the Oth.jqst., tfie following [finest dress and - jewels, receiving calls gentlemen were elected directors: Alfred from'her friend^., Then her joy is at an d)i S. Printiip, D.« M. HOod, caught of the if. she, or the e silence that followed was _ rr THe fall must have been of some article knocked ffom ithe -niantbl£ piece, by niglit ve^n^i£ , yadhen ■ Again the' hall ;door was shhkenligbtlv. and the 'kiibb; was turiiqd. • Some appeared, to be working, at the lock. The dppr creaked.- It must have- opened, for the noise was morej distinct and seemed to come from within the lull. >■’ Tfi)fre wfes. another pause. : Minnmlls- tened intently,' and thought with the .totmglit before .going! to? hex i6( -tii „ „ .,’und become a perfect slave, subject -.to the Will of . -her cruel master. The parents bf- this bride were .Col.,Alfred Shorter was plected Presi-1 very .poor’J.Rpr mother was dressed in Superintendent, ool. W. S. Cothran,.the I plaited full of go]d v coins; these were from the road heirjoqms, angso greatly tre^red that -■ ould almost starve sooner than one. f The present given by _ to the. bride was an elegant Cothran has been to the interests of ’the j pale-blue’brocade silk dress : and a block Rome Railroad, and the business piihUc silk embroidered with gold. ,The former hi, iacepstomed post | ^TtSHTStt of duty. 1 May much Kun mills'rCtumpent. a^-e —Rome Courier. I During the call she wore the bridegroom’s ! ■ i' —. .. i.wi'm »i,.i , presents. The other dresses were hung The- Democratic Meeting :Yesterday, spread out ontHe wall. ‘ ' !1 ’u“’ •Vi, ,-. V'.. : ti'ta* [, We stopped at.a house below, accord- Yesterday morning we took occasion ling to custom, iimd sent word-^we were to urge a large attendance upon the meet- com j°S- The teide returned answer she 1.-...yY; would be most happy to salute us. After m 0 of the Democraqy. palled to assemble! waiting about twenty minutes we went at the City Hall. . By reference to, the I yp stairs, for she lived on the second full report in our .local columns, it will be floor. She had not quite finished her seen that the meeting was not only a I toilet, and sat on the floor before a large and harmonious m its action,. We con- then returned composedly to herdress- •gratuMe the'Democracy upon a result' | .ing^''0f ! all the strange and ghastly so auspicious. It augurs well for coming sights her face was the most wonderful, . . ‘ & as may well he imagined from the way in La*! • • j a! ,l7 . I which it was prepared. The Executive Committee, appointed Eirst, hot wax was spread all over the by the meelipgpifteqmfilin eharatter and face, which, when cool, wa3 peeled off. abWty to any previofis -one; “and will This was (tofie to. remove, the hair from elicit "tlie confidence and ,»ppott.o( the *Sf : ^ h“ people. It ds^ a committee eminently ] eyebrows were painted jet black; her lips capacitated to perform the duties devolv- and a large spot on each check painted ing upon: it, and will he sure-to acquit brilhant red. On these red spots on her t: .i <; t M-iL-- forehead, and at the: corners of her itself to thv. great.'faction of all true I mouth-gilt flowers were pasted. Then Democrats. la. iwimv result of this l over the whole face powdered sugar had been snapped, which made it sparkle as —Philadelphia was first horrified and J ° eat **’ '' ras attempting to U »i.„ — | read. ' rains; but just as we have seen the dust begin to rise in the roads, a light-sprink- ( tbP n rioii^htcd last Sunday, by. the ap-j Tea J L i i l, r . ling rain has fallen—exactly what vegeta- nhrdtion of a clergyman dressed in white But she did not’make any considerable .tion has needed. The man who grumbles [linen. <t , . . ' J progress. It will he readily sormised first meeting will have its influence upon | been snapped, - «lt l c-' ;i,.. . .-]ent ones during the campaign | with “diamond dust. She wore pearl cau-; -?; - ; ^campaign, ^ around her neck were a tiously along the passage below. Now. au d now let us go forward vigorously string of large amber beads, three strings the rail of the stairway creckeii asi if it A v ^-- ’ ■ 1 - - -—«- —* ! ™’“— M — hirtf feeen tfcken'hdld of, and then the steps themselves groaned as beneath some su per-imposed burden. But ghosts are sup posed ..fo have no weight ‘ Sot Minnie ’.ought" lOUgill. i f , , /y ■ Whatever it was, however, there w^ no doubt on one point, not the! least. It -s corning. • : m Once at the head of the stairway, the midnight visitor paused. ! - t • with the work of the canvass. 0 f roped pearls, and a curious necklace -m m m which we were told privately was —A New York physician advised a borrowed for the occasion. It was made wealthy Madison avenue father to send of gold five-poimd pieces, overlapping his three s?<-k ; ■ 7 ughters to a certain lo- each other like scales. The usual heaa- cality inNei-. Jcisey for the summer. It dress was covered with real and artificial turns out that the girls were suffering for flowers. The finishing touch was put on the want, of exercise,, and’where they in the shape of a piece qf black wax have gone the musqnitoes will keep them heated over the canoon till veiy hot, at work in a very lively manner, both made round and flat, and then stuck be- ;day and Righti i: .. | tween the eyes. indistinct print