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THE DAILY SUN Saturday Morning. Judy 1. The Mississippi “Ku-Klux.” A Memphis dispatch, of the 28th to the Western Associated Press, says: The Avalanche's Oxford, Miss., special to-night says of the first important case under the enforcement or Ku-Klux bill now on trial here in the United States District Court: No less than twenty-eight names figure in the indictment, all being residents for many years of Monroe county, ranging in years from eighteen to sixty. The indictment charges the defendants, while in disguise, with the forcible taking of a negro named Alexan der Page from his house, near Aberdeen, at midnight, on the 29th of March, and hanging him by the neck until he was dead. The trial opened last Friday, on a petition for a writ of halieas corpus, which was granted, and was yesterday set for hearing, which was occupied with pre liminaries. To-day the case commenced in earnest. A large number of witnesses were examined. The defense rely chiefly on alibis and previous good character.— They present a respectable appearance, and are guarded to aud from the court, which is presided over by Judge It. A TTill, by a detachment of the 16th United States Infantry; sent from Nashville, who mount guard at the Court House door all day. The trial excites the greatest in terest, and will probably last several dnya The wife of oue of the defendants was admitted to testify in behalf of her hus band, to-day. State 1C lections. Louisville Courier"*!' aL The fall elections will be opened by Kentucky the first Monday in August, when State officers and members of the Legislature are to be chosen. California comes next. Her election takes place on the first Tuesday in Sep tember. State officers and members of the Legislature and three Congressmen are to be elected. Maine elects a Governor and Shite officers the second Monday in Septem ber. Governor Davis has ordered an election in Texas for four Representatives in Con gress, commencing Tuesday, October the 3d. Ohio elects State officers and members of the Legislature the second Tuesday iu October. Iowa electa State officers the second Tuesday in October. Elections will be held in Massachu setts, New Jersey and Wisconsin on Tuesday, November 7, when State offi cers and members of the Legislature will be chosen. A Congressman for the State at large is to be elected in Illinois, to fill the va cancy caused by the election of General Logan to the United States Senate, but we believe the time has not yet been fixed. Atlanta Agricultural and Indus trial Association. In the New York Express we find the following: The progressive men of Atlanta, Georgia, have organized and had in corporated a society under the name of The Atlanta - Agricultural and Industrial Association, and will hold their first fair at Oglethorpe Park, near Atlanta, on the 16th to the 19th of October next. This As sociation has been effected on the same basis as the well-known St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanics’ Associ ation, and no doubt will be equally useful and successful. Oglethorpe Park, which is on the line of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, is two miles from the center of the city, with a double track to the park entrance, and during the Fair the cars run every fifteen minutes. The park has been arranged expressly for the purpose. The exhibition halls are large and substantial buildings, at suitable points, and are classified for every specialty, with steam power, machinery in motion, &c. There are also extensive stalls and sheds for stock, a half-mile track, and thorough arrangements throughout. From the large number of entries already made it seems certain that this event will be the great Southern Agricultural and Industrial Exhibi tion of 1871. Parties desiring to receive premium lists and full information should ad dress Samuel A. Echols, Secretary, . Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta has superior hotel accom modations for strangers, and among them is the celebrated H. I. Kimball House, the finest hotel in the South, and one of the most elegant and complete to be found anywhere. It has 317 rooms, exclusive of offices, etc., and in all its appointments is equal to a first-class New York hotel. Payment into the State Treasury of the Monthly Rental of the State Road. l! Western & Atlantic Railroad, President's Office, Atlanta, Ga., Jone 30, 1871 Dr. N<.L. Angier, Slate Treasurer : Dear Sib—I send you, by the Treasu rer of this company, twenty-five thousand dollars in cash, the rental due the State for the present month of June. Please send' me the usual receipt from the Comptroller General for the amount I am very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Joseph E. Brown, President W. & A. R. R. No. 206. Comptroller General’s Office, Atlanta, Ga., June 30, 1871 Received of W. C. Merrill, Treasurer W. & A. R. R., the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, rent for W. & A R. R for June, 1871, as per certificate No. 206, of N. L. Angier, Treasurer, d $25,000; Madison Hell, * f Comptroller. General. Mr. Alexander H. Stephens asks far some responsible and representative Democratic authority as guarantee for the “new departure,” which continues to excite his noble rage. We have to call his attention to' the Democratic Congres sional address, which is the “new depar ture” in swaddling clothes, and to the De mocratic platforms of Ohio, Pennsylva nia and Iowa, which axe the “new depar ture” fully matured. He may also ob serve, if he has a mind to, that there is scarcely a Democratic newspaper of any force or character in the country which is not square on the issues laid down by the Courier-Journal two years ago. His platform, the platform of the Bourbons, has a Radical origin. It was made by Mr. Morton, of Indiana, and adopted by the red-hot elements, who are in some cases secretly and in other cases uncon- sciously allied to Radicalism.—Louisville Courier-Journal, 26th Jnne. Alexander H. Stephens has asked no such silly question as that stated by the Courier-Journal; hut he has said that no true Democrat—no true friend to the Constitution of the United States and the Liberties of this country can, as he believes, have the unblushing effrontry (to charac terize the act by no stronger term) to affirm and maintain before an in telligent people that the “Reconstruc tion Measures” of Congress, and the so-called Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, based upon these measures, and all questions growing out of them, have been “settled in the manner and by the authority constitutionally ap pointed /” Does the editor of the Courier- Journal affirm the truth of so mon strous a proposition? If so, he will “out Herod Herod” himself. He will h^re gotten, in his “destructive” progress, far ahead of even Thaddeus Stevens, the standard-bearer; for he openly aud boldly asserted that these measures were “outside of the Constitution,” and declared that he “would not stultify himself by claim ing them to be Constitutional.” As a reckless usurper, he admitted that the Progress he was setting out upon was the overthrow of the Fed eral Constitution, and the right of self government on the part of the people of the several States. Is this the Progress which the De mocracy of the Union is invited to follow up? If so, they will have taken quick and rapid strides in it, when at one bound they shall have gotten so far ahead of its original pro jector as to say that was Constitu tional which he was neither hold enough nor base enough to assert. When Senator Morton shall have retraced his steps and gotten on the platform of the “Bourbons,” then he will show signs of another sort of Progress—an upward Progress—a getting out of the depths of ruin, into which he and his allies have plunged the country under the lead of his great chief; but he will find himself upon no platform of “Radi cal origin.” He will find himself upon a platform erected by Jefferson; coeval with the Constitution upon which this country achieved all that marks that brilliant career of Pro gress, which redounds so much to its honor, glory and renown; a platform which was sustained by over two million six hundred thousand Demo crats in 1868, and would then have been sustained by over three hundred thousand more, but for their out rageous disfranchisement, through the most flagitous- usurpations by those in power, on that line of Pro gress, to which the Courier-Journal seems now to be so thoroughly de voted. Senator Morton can never frighten the three millions of Democrats of this country from their own princi ples, and cause them to*espouse his, aud join him and his allies (in cordi ally accepting and indorsing them) by any such bullying challenges, as that they “dare noi” assail or question any one of these sacriligious usurpa tions which have marked the progress of his party for the last fiAe years! He will be told by the “Iron-ribbed Democracy” everywhere, that they dare assail fraud, violence, perfidy, corruption and usurpation in any quarter where they are to be found, and to call upon the people at the polls to pronounce their judgment of condemnation, both upon all those abuses of power as well as upon their authors. If the Courier-Journal sees any thing in the late Address issued by the Democrats in Congress, from which it can take comfort in its “New Departure” policy, it is to he hoped it will profit by it. That Ad dress will he found in the columns of The Suh to-day. The counsels of this Address are far from advising the people of the United States to fall into that fatal line of Progress which has marked the history ofjjie country for the last five years; on the' contrary, after speaking of the grea ills it has brought about, and other greater still threatening, it says withj great power and truth: “Our hopes for redress are in tb calm good sjnse—the ‘sober secon thought’—of the American peopli We call upon them to be iru to themselves and their pos terity, and, disregarding part; names and minor differences, insist upon a decentralization of pow er, and the restoration of Federal au thority within its just and prope: limits, leaving to the States that coi trol over domestic affairs which essential to their happiness and tr: quility and good government.” This is the doctrine which we vocate. It is the doctrine which Se: ator Morton resists with allhismigh| It is also the doctrine, which, if understand some of the late articli of the "Courier-Journal,” bears sue] a dreary aspect, as it looks to a “re tracing of steps” in order to recti! wrongs in Government instead o plunging “onward” and advancing in that line of Progress which has brought ns to our present sad condi tion. A. H. S. Virginia Military Institute. We have received an invitation to at tend the Commencement'exercises ofthis celebrated Institute, at Lexington, Vir ginia, which takes place at the Institute July 4th, at 11 o’clock. The oration will be delivered by M. L. Spotswood, of Richmond, Virginia. The valedictory by J. P. Arthur, Columbia, South Carolina: Address before Society of Alnmni, by CoL John M. Patton, of Albemarle, Vir ginia. Among the names composing the Com mittee we notice those of J. T. Wade of Georgia; B. B. Pearson, O. M. Rey nolds and J. W. Moore, of Alabama ; J. S. Legare, W. J. Magrath and A. R. Sul livan, of South Crrolina. The President of the Committee is S. Grantland, of Georgia. We thank the gentlemen for their cour tesy, and shall make.it a point to be on hand at the time mentioned. ADDRESS To the People States hy the Congress. of the United Democrats in To the People of the United States: Our presence and official duties at Washington have enabled us to be come fully acquainted with the ac tions and designs of those who con trol the Radical party, and we feel called upon to utter a few words of warning against the alarming strides they have made towards centraliza tion of power in the hands of Con gress and the Executive^ The time and attention of the Rad ical leaders have been almost wholly directed to devising such legislation as will, in their view, best preserve their ascendency, and no regard for the wise restraints imposed by the Constitution has checked their reck less and desperate career. GRANT TO BE HIS OWN SUCCESSOR. The President of the United States has been formally announced as a candidate for re-election. The decla ration of his selfish supporters have been re-echoed by a subsidized press, and the discipline of party has al ready made adhesion to his personal fortunes the supreme test of political fealty. The- partisan legislation to which we refer was decreed and shaped in secret caucus, where the extremest counsels always dominated, and was adopted by a subservient ma jority, if not with the intent, certain ly with the effect, to place in the hands of the President power to com mand his own renomination, and to employ the army, navy and militia, at his sole discretion, as a means of subserving his personal ambition. When the sad experience of the last two years, so disappointing to the hopes and generous confidence of the country, is considered in connection with the vile' utterances as rdsb pur poses of those who control the Presi dent’s policy, it is not surprising that the gravest apprehension for the fu ture peace of the nation should be entertained. At a time when labor is depressed, aud every material inter est is palsied by oppressive taxation, the public offices have been multiplied by all precedent to serve as instru ments in the perpetuation of power. CORRUPTION. Partizanship is the only test ap plied to the distribution of this vast patronage. Honesty, fitness and moral worth are openly discarded in favor of truckling submission and dishonorable compliance. Hence enormous defalcations'and widespread corruption have followed as the natu ral consequences of this pernicious system. By the official report of the Secre tary of the Treasury it appears that, after the deduction of all proper cre dits, many millions of dollars remain due from ex-collectors of the internal revenue; and that no proper diligence has ever been used to collect them.— Reforms in the revenue and fiscal sys tems, which all experience demon strates to be necessary to a frugal ad ministration of the Government, as well as a measure of relief to an over burdened people, have been persis lands, which shot served for the benefit of the pS have been voted away to giant corpo rations; .neglecting our soldiers,-en riching a handful of greedy specula tors and lobbyists, who are thereby enabled to exercise a most dangerou and corrupting influence over Stat and Federal legislation. If the caree of these conspiritors be not checked the downfall of free government is in evitable, and with it the elevation of i military dictator on the ruins of tb Republic. USURPATION—DESPOTISM. Under the pretense of passing law! to enforce the Fourteenth Amend ment, and for other purposes, Con gress has conferred most despotic pow er upon th Executive, and provide* an official machinery by which th liberties of the people, are menacec and the sacred rights of local sell government overthrown. Modelle up to the sedition laws, so odious i: history, they are at variance witli a] the sanctified theories of our institu tions, and the construction given b these Radical interpreters to the Four teenth Amendment is, to use the lan aage of an eminent Senator—M: rumbull, of Illinois—an “annihila tion of the States.” Under the las enforcement bill, “the Executive maj in his discretion, thrust aside the gov eminent of any State, suspend tb writ of habeas corpus,” arrest its Gov ernor, imprison or disperse the Legis lature, silence its judges, and tramp] down its people under the armed hes of his troops. Nothing is left to th citizen or the State which can ani longer be called a right—albis changj ed into mere sufferance. THE SAME CORRECTION THAT MlJ JEFFERSON ADVISED. Our hopes for redress are in th< calm, good sense, the “sober, seeon< thought” of the American people.— We call upon them to be true to them selves and their posterity, and, disre yarding party names and minor dif erencee, to insist upon a decentrali zation of power and the restriction o Federal authority within its just an proper limits, leaving to the State! that control over domestic affair! which is essential to their happinesl and tranquility and good govern inent. UNMANLY TREATMENT OF THE SOUTH. ' Everything that malicious ingenn ity could suggest, has been done t| irritate the people of the Middle an j Southern States. Gross and exaggei ated charges of disorder and violencl owe their origin to the misehievoul minds of the potential managers ii the Senate and House of Represents tives, to which the Executive has, wj regret to say, lent his aid, and thru helped to enflame the popular feel ini % all this course of hostile legisla tion and harsh resentment no word o conciliation, of kind encouragement or fraternal friendship, has ever bee; spoken by the President or by Con gress to the people of the Souther States. They have been addresse only in the language of proscriptioi We earnestly entreat our fellow-citi zens in all parts of the Union to spar no effort to maintain peace and orde: to carefully protect the rights ( every citizen, to preserve kindly rels tions among all men, and to discoui tenanoe and discourage any violatio of the rights of any portion of tb people secured under the Constitt tion or any of its amendments. ADVICE TO THE SOUTH. Let ns, in conclusion, earnestly be] of you not to aid the present attempt] of Radical partisans to stir up strif in the land; to renew the issues of t war, or to obstruct the return of pea aud prosperity to the Southern State because it is thus that they seek divide the attention of the conntr from the corruption and extravagan in their administration of public a fairs, aud the dangerous and profli gate attempts they are making wards the creation of a centralize military government. RADICAL EXTRAVAGANCE. * In the five years of peace followin the war the Radical administratio have expended £1,200,000,000 for o dinary purposes alone, being wit $200,000,000 of the aggregate ainoun spent for the same; purposes in wa