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3 THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN. THE DAILY SUN. Thursday Morning August 3. ■Special Washington rnrrfspondence of tlie Atl*nt* LETTER FROM CATO. T he South Damaged hy “Entangling Alliances”—A Few .Word* About A Democratic Platform—The South Can Afford to Walt—The Political Prospect The Duty of the Democracy. ENCE OF THE SUN. Testimony of Hr. N. L. Angler, State Treasurer. close of the war, that it passed into | WASHINGTON CORRESPOND- the hands of a few Democrats, who entered into a joint stock company for its purchase. Since then it has been considered a Democratic paper, with Mr. Marble at its head. From this view of his antecedents it will be seen why he naturally enough wants the Democratic Party to “depart” from their 11 old time honored creed,” and adopt the principles of the Radi cal Party, upon which he has indi vidually stood all the time. A Damaging Statement of Facts. Washington, July 28,1871. It must always be understood when I speak of what the Conservative party ought to do, or ought not to do, that I do not depend so much upon my own exclusive judgment. The letters I write are rather dictated by statesmen who are not to be again fooled by men of no principle at all. I am, nevertheless, of this way of thinking—otherwise I would refrain from writing altogether. And this leads me to avow that nothing could more seriously damage the South as a mass of people, than any sort-of “entangling alliance” with personal cliques formed to effect this or that man’s elevation to the Presi dency, accompanied by a dubious, or an unannounced political creed. What would it avail the South whether the so called Democratic party in the next National Convention should see proper to put up Trumbull, or Chase, or Hendricks, or Thurman, or Hoffman, or Greeley, or any of the other aspirants for that honor, if it fails to put the candidate upon a platform in consonance with truly constitutional principles ? The true lovers of constitutional liberty abhor such tricks! Their province is to de mand that the ‘sense of the country at large shall be taken upon the naked question of the rights of the States as now constituted. To be sure, this view is regarded by fools to be antagonistic to the senti ments of a vast number of men who seek office, and are anxious to get it at any price or at any sacrifice. The South can now, at least, afford to wait until the coming fall election. AH along, the people there have suc cumbed to the “powers that be.” I cannot liken the forbearance of those men, who have also remained passive upon momentous points (in spite of the severest oppression), to' anything that I have ever read in history, al though I approve of their course as yeti but advise adherence to your programme for the future. Another step in the old direction must sub ject them to the scorn of the world I The Democracy, in the hour of real trial, must not surrender the essential principles of the Constitution. Have the people of the country at large pondered upon the prospect be fore them ? I date the commencement of serious trouble at the very moment when General Grant shall be recog nized as the elected President in 1873 by Congress, with or without a suf ficient electoral vote. The question of the “ Empire,” will, at that in stant, be, informally or directly, mooted seriously. People attach too. much importance to words that have a meaning any way that interested philologists may see proper to give to them. No man can tell what the neio government may be termed. But, as a practical man, I mean to say, that until this fact shall be fully ac complished, we shall see no overt act of Executive authority not author ized by Congress. The real struggle will come when the Legislative and Executive branches of the Govern ment meet front to front! And this will be the case in less than three years (but a moment in the history of nations). It will then become the duty of the Democracy to take a decisive stand, Cato. Washington, D. C., July 30. Editor Sun: The following is taken from the sioorn testimony of Of tlie other contributors to that I Needom L. Angier, Treasurer of the paper, or the other members of the editorial staff as it is called,. I need not speak. Some of them I know to be true as well as able !men. It is from these, all the sound Democratic articles which appear in the paper come. Tammany is in great trouble The city authorities are arraigned be Answer.—Well, sir, they have been fore tbe'public for' sanctioning'great | violated. There has been very little alleged frauds in the administration fegard paid to law. I am now speak- of the city government. I. forbear I in g °f °u r State laws. 1T ... w v w wia , all comments at present. Question.—In what way have they p ] aces outside of the State° of Geor- Argus. | been disregarded? gia-tho road not touching Georgia Answer.—I speak with regard to anv » ohlL To ___ * 0mnTn V State of Georgia, given before the Ku Klux Investigation Committee at Washington, July 14th, 1871: Question.—What is your opinion as to the manner in which the laws are administered in the State of Geor gia? by law for school taxes, has been appro priated by the Governor to other pur poses until there is none of those funds in the treasury. Another point in which the State administration has violated the law, is in the use of State Railroad Panda for other purposes than railroads. The law is that the funds of the Road shall be paid into the Treasury of the State at the end of each month, except so much as may be necessary for the expenses of the Road. The Governor has paid out large amounts directly from the re ceipts of the Road, without the money ever reaching the treasury; and it has been paid for other than Railroad purposes. A short time ago he paid to a Committee that he se lected himself, without any authority of law, to go to Kentucky to try to influence the General Assembly there to granfa charter for a railroad from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, both [Special Washington Correspondence of the Atlanta I the party in power there, and San.] GEORGIA NEWS FROM WASH. INGTON. The Acts of tile Governor. at any point. To pay this Commit tee for which there was no appropria- . if tion, and which was not authorized As the records will show, there_has b y } aWj tlie Governor drew his war- been very little attention paid to law. ^nt f or «o 70a At the close- of the war there was TI ’ considerable old bonded indebtedness . Herc , is a . S msii item, Worls. for tlie Savannah Board I of Georgia; and on the 13th of De- P a -7 11 ;IS °i y inordinate- snm for — — — 1 --RR I the printing of the Constitution of I have I have as to of Health—Forging Thunder- cember, 1866, this provision, passed yj 1L kt ^ .«, lmlic Tim Nntnrimis I Tw tho T,r»onslnt.nrf>. wns fmTvmvprl • 1"“® Estate, Splendid Spoiled. certain quarters is sufficient to cause a I commotion, and bring delegations of her bolts—The Notorious Swayze J by the Legislature, was approved: I . tue * n pamphlet fa™. Falls to got Ills Hand in-A ’-That L Plundering Scheme be and is hereby authorized to execute C0 1 7. e \ *- e ^ eial - printers said bonds, prepared as aforesaid, to the ^ would liave been the reasonable amount of §600,000, and to issue the expense of getting up that book, same upon such terms and in such man-1 Some say ten cents some say fifteen, Washington, July 29th, 1871. I ner as he may deem best for the interests and some say twenty, at the latter There must be ■something wrong in the of the State in exchange for, or redemp- price ten thousand copies would cost atmosphere around Savannah; and the ^ on - of ti 8 Rr8 iR7n e » StatefaUiDS $2,000. Most of them estimate the Board of Health should order an invest!- ^Thafwas fprSn L taking up * x P ense ** *}#*>• The gation at once. the old bond filing due in 1868, 1869 Governor dreTV tls warrant for elev- A Press telegram from Washington, ^d 1870 E * THOUSAND PIYE HUNDRED DOL- containing the slightest hint at fraud in | These Bonds navcjsot Yet Been Taken ^atf little book ‘and I paid About $173,000 of these bonds are it out of the Treasury. , ,, .. . „ still outstanding. The reason is that The next point is paying the inter- citizens to the National Capitol. But, the Governor in 1868 sold $265,000 of est on the Alabama & Chattanooga occasionally there turns up an individual these seven per cen t. mortgage bonds, Railroad bonds, to which the State toIS Uahe used the proceeds for other granted oia. The law on this subject perforce content himself in forging I purposes than the redemption of the I provides. thunderbolts out of paper and ink and old bonds. Fifty-five thousand dol- “ In tbe event that any bond or bonds, firing them off through the mail. The lars of the proceeds of those bonds he s _° endorsed by the State as provided in following is the latest missile of this class gave H. I. Kimball to finish an Opera the first section of this act, or the inter- which has reached here. It has been ex- fr nnRp ~Tfe d est thereon, shall not be paid by the said j-luubc railroad company at maturity, it .shall be KimbaU’s Opwa Dense, the duty of the Governor, upon informa- in the city of Atlanta, although there tion thereof, to seize and take possession was no appropriation for that purpose of the property of said railroad compa- at all. The Governor went on and ny.” sold these bonds. He drew drafts in ‘ The act then goes on to provide that for over two months I have stood I the first place in favor of Kimball for that the earnings of the railroad the misrepresentations and malicious $35,000. Some of them were drawn shall be applied to the extinguish falsehoods of rnapy parties, concerning | ^ ; they did not say to whom ment of such unpaid bonds and in ' T3r ‘ ' * The Governor pays no atten -- that provision, but is ance has ceased tb become a virtue with to this Kimball’s Opera House, US it Paying tlie Interest on These Bonds me in connection with this affair, and 11 was called. When it was found that Question—Does the law which you in that have just cited require the seizure _ . and sale of the road in case of de I knew noth- fault ? groceries, and small sums of l^, Vt.^ uc , a-he Governor Answer—Yes sir. - - - - • - . AirwttMsrwiA flnrmnnflMiiMirfJ Question—Without seizing or at tempting to sell the road, the Gover nor goes on and pays the interest ? Answer—Yes, sir. He has A Sort of Sub-Treasury In New York; amined by competent authority, and pro nounced “not dangerous:’’ • Savahsah, Ga., July 19,1871. Host. Comhissioneb Intern ai. Revenue, Washington, D. C. Sir—I have the honor to inform yon me in connection wrai mis unair, anu. a was uuiieu. xuau. u. iuuuu propose to set myself right, and respect- this $35,000 had been used in that fully inform you what I have made by wa y the General Assembly .called on AnnU’o rlnfolontlAn fllA 1 AfiQ fYp fllVOA I ^ 1 _ A T 1 ATI Gould’s defalcation, viz: the loss of three | me ” ma ] ie a report. mg; month’s pay, over five hundred dollars’ j of the mat t e] .. The Governorl agement and plundering of the State Road by Bullock and Blodgett, the following question was asked: What Has Become of That Money Earned by tbe Road J Answer: Well, sir, that is the inquiry of the people generally; they believe it has been fraudulently used by the officers of the Road. Nearly every man who had anything to do with it came there poor; Mr. Bullock for one, never paid a cent of tax in Georgia in his life, unless he paid it this year. I have looked at the records myself, and up to last year, when the investi gation of the committee was made, he had never given in a cent of tax. He is now buying plantations and stocking them with fine English stock; he has the best of everything and lives very fast. Question.—What is his salary? Answer.—$4,000 a year—not a third of his family expenses; I do not believe it is one-sixth. He re marked to a person that It Would Not Feed His Horse On Oats. Every one who has anything to do with that Road came there apparent ly poor; and now they are all build ing new houses and riding in fine carriages. * * * * * * Question.—Has any effort been made to conceal the true state of the indebtedness and liabilities of the State of Georgia? Answer.—Yes, sir, the law requires the Treasurer to make reports of all bonded indebtedness—the amount of interest and bonds falling due. The Treasurer is sworn to do this. This thing had been covered up so much in darkness by Governor Bullock, that I wrote to Mr. Clews, requesting l to give me a statement of the bonds he had received, the amount hypothecated, the amount sold, at what price, and what disposition had been made of the proceeds. Mv son presented the letter to Mr. Clews. bers. They adjourned at 11 o’clock, and repaired to the Chapel in the order of their classes, from 1800 to 1870, to hear the address, or more properly, the un called for tirade of Mr. Clews Immediately Telegraphed to Governor Bullock, ■worth of NEW YORK CORRESPON DENCE. money loaned him at various times, and used this money and for months neyei to cap all, the loss of my credit, which was reported to me as Treasurer. I got a | good anywhere and for any amount, and report from the bank. Finding ont last but not least, am a bankrupt. If the the amount that had been used, late Hon. Edwin M. Stanton was alive, The legislature Appointed a Committee. lie could tell you as to whether I am an t o investigate the matter.; and that IT Y' • ,. o , . honorable man or not Idon t propose ... he b.as another in his oince. and he to allow these small office-holders to anoy committee repor ted that th s w as done ^ as stl b-treasuries all around. I call me, for my honest opinion is—with but without any authority of law and. in t h e m sub-treasuries; they are un- one or two exceptions-honesty departed violation of the expresseil w ill of the to ^ law> Tlie la ( v prov ides from this section, and for little or noth- General Assembly. As soon as the ... p rin 1T , nT ,p V Yinllbp ing, anything would be done to vent General Assembly adjourned Gover- .J , 0 f tiie treasury witiiout an some petty spleen. The Department nor Bullock went immediately to P aia ou " tue tieasmy witiiout an does not desire one-tenth partthe posses- -vr ™. York and drew a draft for $20 - a PP ro P na, tion and a warrant. He Sion of gold that I desire to him "no more attefiHOn to tp£ provi- here. I'do not propose to suffer for the 1 sion than if there were no law. He sins of others, and can be found at my Bank and paid it to Kimball, not- . g the money from ^ ew York, or place of business from five a. m., until withstanding the positive and §. om the State Road, or wherever he nine n. M., every day, any time I am phatic action of the General Assem- L fcly.ThevotooftheLegislatureoatlie the sate of bond* One Alvin B. Clark, Assistant Assessor, re p 0r t that was adopted was one of 1 S riw Y?-• i + claims to have authority from your De- and condemnation of his . ^uo^er point is in regard to pay- partment to prosecute me as one of the . • mg more clerks than the law author- principals in Gould’s defalcation. ■ ! C0 rp h U o General Assembly nassed an ize3 ’ ^ authorizes only one; he Has I know him to be a notorious bar and Ane General Assemoiy passea an g g * x c i er ks in Ins office respectfully ask of you whether any such j act authorizing the Governor to issue | instructions have ever been issued to him. | a certain nnmbe stating what I wanted. Governor Bullock telegraphed to Mr. Clews to answer no questions at all, and stated that if I wanted to know such things I could learn them at his .office I wrote him a letter asking for that information, but I got no answer, The day I wrote the letter he was not there; but he got there before I left, I wrote a letter to his secretary re questing a statement in relation to the bonds of some of the railroads, I got no answer before I left, though the Governor had returned and was in his office. The secretary, when my son went up, said that he could not answer it, and that he would refer it to Governor Bullock. It has never been answered. The attempt is to keep all that matter concealed. Question.—The attempt of. the Governor and his friends who ought to give the information ? . Answer.—Yes, sir. Question.—They have it anil can give it you think ? Answer.—Yes, sir, certainly, have here the statement of the party who engraved those bonds, showing that the Governor had /ozir millions of gold bonds engraved—out and out State bonds! Further extracts from Treasurer Angiers testimony will be given in my next, when I also hope to furnish all the information Clews and Bui lock refused to give Angier. r*.. . ’ ’ Argus. It makes no difference to me whatever. Very Ke3pectf ally, (Signed) A. S. Auden. The World and its Editors—Tam many and the City Authori ties. or New York, 26th July, 1871. Editor of the Sun: Your reply of the 19th insti to the World of this €ity has been here three days. It has made quite an impression upon the minds of many staunch Democrats, who \were before partly committed to the “New Departure.” Many of them now eandidly confess that they are taken hack by your argument. The World has not yet replied, taken any notice of the article, though I see it has been republished in full in Connecticut It may be proper for your readers to know that there are several Editors of the World, and no two of them agree exactly upon any line. Mos£ of those who write for that paper, it is believed, are men engaged to write professionally, bare ly ; and to bring forth articles to suit the views of the Proprietors, without fit all indicating their own individ ual opinions, just as men at the bar make arguments to suit the ease of their clients. Few of them write their own earnest convictions. What is true of the World in this particular is most unfortunately true ot most of our leading papers at this time. Mr. Marble, who may be consid ered the editor-in-chief of the World at this time, it may be proper for your readers to know, was, I believe, never a Democrat on the old line— His paper was started as a Radical 6heet. It was not until about the er of bonds to pay offi n ,• v . „ the members and other expenses of L Q h + °+i F 1011 ^ that body. The expenses i the Gen- l y eral Assembly np to the time theyad- J “ he f jotimed did not exceed *300,000— ^ ’^-n^hocame to Bionerprecise'y os it oesema: out *250,000 ! think; but I will marked “No answer required” and filed . A g o 0f) 0Q0 Governor foTir J ears a S° > tliafc wa S the first I away in the archives of the department. P ut fu™ at ^JUb,OUU. Ike Gowmor saw of j liave no Question - - -1 Simply an insult to the Com- issued bonds under that act to the Qn mind that H missioner. If he (Alder.) is perfectiy in- “ oftwo Minions or DoHars. Governor BnllocU was Interc9ted wlt k nocent of any complicity m the Gould He had my name engraved upon them Kimuaii. defalcation, what _ need be care as without any authority and sent them in. the Opera House, and I judge so to ''’hat instructions have been I New York without reporting from this fact: ^sued to Alvm B. Clarke . There is no I ^ enl treasury at all. He un- When they were trying to ne<ro- femplatedprosed the guiS and J e rtopk to make it appear that lie had tiate a lease with tlie citizens, Gover- Mr. Alden has not made the least im- the right to use my name, when the nor Bullock took me into his private pression by bis attempt to bluff tbe law showed plainly that he had no room at the National Hotel. He Commissioner. One thing Mr. Alden such right and that the bonds were wanted to get my influence to pay __a a.l illegal without my signature. On the I $25,000 rent for the portion of the 30th of November last he wrote me Opera House' needed for State pur- a letter stating that he had ordered poses. I told him that it was $500,000 of those Bonds An Outrageous Rent; to be sent to the treasurer’s office, That the city was not able to pay it. J. Clarke Swayze, who is an applicant I cancelled, from Clews & Co., New He did not say positively that the for the position of Collector of Internal York, and that the balance would be State would pay it, but intimated Revenue, for the Sectmd Geo^ia Dis- a i on g j n a f e w days. That balance that he thought the thing could he d r Siug e h^ 0r recent visff here, ^SbUcly has never come yet. That makes a arranged We finally made the lease boasted that the Republican del- million and a half outstanding! for $6,-000, when he wanted us to pay egation from Georgia to the next Then there was an act passed au- $25,000. Another circumstance, on National Republican Convention, would thorizing which I formed my judgment, is that go dead against Grant’s renomination. I The Governor to issue Gold I He Paid $55,ooo to KimhaU This boast has been brought to the no- (j 0nds to meet tiie bonded indebted- without any appropriation, $20,000 tice of the appointing power, and the negg and 0 ther expenses of the State, of it being paid after the General As- notcolSThe Internal Revenue fo? The General Assembly at that time semhly had censured him severely.— Second Georgia District. had not determined to put off the lhese tacts satisfy me that he was Previous to your correspondent’s expo- time of meeting till November. They interested in the concern. The build- sition of the Savannah Custom House really did not need any bonds for the ing was finally sold for twice its cost, frauds, Collector Robb made a strong ef- purposes of last year; but for this Question—Where is the residence fort to have Mr. Hale, (the special agent ygaj. flu» meeting of the General As- of Kimball now? of the Treasury at Savannah), removed, having been put off till No- Answer—He lives in Atlanta^ place^and but for 11 the^mphatio protest K™ber, I suppose that considering Question-Does lie control of several prominent Republicans, this all the expenses and extras agance i railroads * little scheme would have succeeded, and that there has been there, the entire Answer—It is reported that he has the plan of plundering the Custom House amount necessary might have been bought out can rest assured of, and that is, Major Gould it ill return, and all the mysteries connected with his defalcation and flight will be made clear; and it is advisable for those who expect to get hurt to stand from under. some carried on perhaps for years without be- n ot exceeding $1,000,000 of bonds.— ing found out. Abgus. The Richmond Enquirer says “they are to have a ‘bridge of sighs’ Lexington;” but it neglects to say wbat At furtherest not more than that was needed of these gold bonds. The I Governor had F<nr Millions Dollar: Worth i of these bonds engraved. The revenue derived from poll tax, The Brunswick & Albany Railroad, 235 miles in length. Conant or Clews, in New York, are in some way mixed up in the affair, I believe.” After giving some account of the reported wealth of Kimball, his com nection with Bullock and others in HON. B. H. HHJj, which has greatly marred the harmony of f the Commencement proceedings. In this address we regret to say that he dragged in matters which should more properly have been discussed elsewhere.. He “went back” upon the people of Georgia and the South, and upon his own past teachings and professed princi ples. It bore tbe appearance of being intended bybim and others who agree with him politically, to purposely prosti tute the high and sacred position of Alum ni Orator of the State University, to the propagation of their partisan political views. It was wholly unsuited to the oc casion, in bad taste, indecorous and out of order, and will not reflect any credit upon him or those who agree with him | politicallv. We forbear to give a synopsis of the ad dress. We suppose it will be published at length, when you can put it entire in your columns, if you think proper, with such comments as it may deserve. After the address, a proposition made by Gov. Brown, that a committee of sev eral be appointed to memorialize and in person address the next Legislature to- make an endowment of §500,000 upon the University. . the oration by Mr. E. G. Simmons, of Macon, on occasion of the final celebration of the Demosthenian Society, this evening at o’clock, was pronounced by many to- be among tbe best delivered in many years. It abounded in beautiful, gener ous, noble sentiments, which found the most happy and eloquent delivery in this rising young orator. His theme, “National Recollections,” chimed in with the sentiments of every heart, which, though envenomed with, the direful Lotus flower, had once felt the divine love and enthusiastic reverence for his fatherland. Mr. Simmons’ address to his fellow- members of the Demostenian Society was a model of propriety. The touching pathos of his voice and manner and the thrilling tenor of liis eloquence riyited the profound attention of an audienoe who seem to think the highest preroga tive of human geniiis is to talk while tint speaker speaks. Immediately after, Mr. J. A. Barclay arose, and in a few appropriate words de livered to Mr. Gray, of Adairsvillo, a gold medal, as the best debater of the Sopho more class; to Mr. O. E. Harman, of At lanta, a gold medal as the best debater of the Junior class, and to Mr. John L. Hardeman, of Macon, a gold medal as the best debater in tbe Demosthenian? Society. THE ALUMNI BANQUET commenced at 8 o’clock in the evening and continued until one o’clock at night. The sumptuous feast of viands and deli cacies and the thonsand luxuries of the table were magnificent; but the intellec tual feast afforded by the wit and wisdom of two hundred of the most distinguished men of Georgia and the South was grand in comparison. Tho sparkling of effer vescent madeira and glittering cham pagne was drowned by the lightning flash of wit from such men as Gov. Brown, B. H. Hill, Guv. Jenkins, Mark A. Coop er, Dr. Tucker, Dr. Bledsoe, N. J. Ham mond, R. P. Trippe, Judge Yason and scores of others, whose -toasts to the Fac ulty and Trustees, the University, the- Alumni, the students, the honored de ceased Alumni, the Colleges in the land,, and their country, were delivered with , such seriousness, such humor, such ec centricity, such feeling, such enthusiasm and such overpowering eloquence, as the ease might be, that the applause made the vast building tremble under its de monstration. We hope to give a further account of this. We would like to devote some time, and some words to THE BEAUTIES - COMMECEMENT OF THE UNI VERSITY OF GEORGIA. Alumni Rally and Reunion—A Very Strange Address by Hon. B. H. Hill—Demostlienian Cel ebration—E. G. Simmons, Or ator—Alumni Banquet—Beau ties. “Light literature"—that of the the liquor tax, the taxon shows and various railroad enterprises in the Courier-Journal I other small special purposes, provided I State, and a history of the misman- Univebsity op Georgia, V Athens, Ga., . July 31st, 1871. J Editors Sun: We have neither time nor space to tell you of the minor details of Commencement; how the diurnal and nocturnal caravans hear on lightning’s wings (?), cargos of love and beauty that rival in splendor Cleopatra’s shining retinue; how they return freighted only with the dust of earth, and ghosts of lovers stalking about in the bewildered moonlight; how the dust, rivaling the des ert simoon, rises in cloud-like grandeur, and settling on the benighted multitudes, crown them with a halo chrysalis of mud; how the people come and come; how the young and gay, and melancholy and love-sick and sentimental, continue to come; and how even the moon and stars are waning and paling in the vain effort to furnish enough of their precious light to satisfy the yearning, sickening hearts of thousands of victims of the tender passion; how friendship and hospitality and love, ah! exalted love, (which ttimiw silly sentimentalism,) thrives and flour ishes despite the desolate surroundings; how the hotels are alive and swarming with guests to the tune of ten in a room; how the ladies, in their fdiscomfiture, yearn and pray for a looking-glass and standing room; How they ting, and play, and walk. And pray, and watch, and talk; how many of them say, in the words of the immortal Csesar, commenting on their conquests, " Fewi, Vidl Vicif' and how the whole audience “do wish the orators would not .speak so loud and in terrupt them iu their conversation.” All these we have no room for, and leave them for the fancy of the reader to pic ture. THE ALUMNI met this morning at 9- o’clock, in the University lecture room, to discuss the most expedient way of assisting iu the onward progress of the University. The morning was consumed in debating the privileges of Alumni—who were Alumni, who were to be invited to the Alumni banquet, aud in electing honorary mem-1 that have rallied around here going about “to conquer and be conquered,” but space forbids. When we shall have met them and received inspiration of their beauty, we may be able to do them jus tice. They will not suffer by waiting. To-morrow Col. B. A. Thornton de livers the address before the Demosthe nian and Phi Kappa Societies. In the evening the Phi Kappa Society has its. celebration, W. T. Armistead, Orator. Wednesday is Commencement day, when we will hear the address from members; of the junior class, and witness the con ferring of degrees. Of these and all else, More Anon. A JUDICIAL PRIZE FIGHT. A WHiteliall Street Mcrcliant Has < Fassuse at Arms tvllli a Magistrate. Whitehall street yesterday was the scene of an unusually interesting passage- at-arms between two prominent citizens, in which the parties exhibited much ani mation. Mr. Green Dodd, of the firm of P. J. & G. T. Dodd, was under the’impression that Mr. Justice Lyues had done him in justice in a conversation with Chief Jus tice Lochrane, and meeting Justice Lynes on the street yesterday, “lammed” him in a scientific manner. Justice Lynes was not prepared lor the onslaught, and consequently got the worst of it. We understand that Justice Lynes meditates an action for assault and battery. Such an affair as tins on .the public street- is to be regretted. Gentlemen should seek some more quiet place for the settlement of difficulties, and not be setting a badexamplo tolheyoutli of the city by a display of ungovernable pas sion. The rencontre was v. ry u:..eh out of place, indeed. o LOUISIANA. Troubles In the IS a died Votnj>. New Orleans, August 3.7—Serious trouble is apprehended from me bitter feeling that exists between the two wings of the Republican party when the con vention meets on the 9th. ‘ A policeman tvas fatally shot while walking his beat last night. A desperado named Gavenend has been fatally shot by Sheriff Houston. A stray- shot hit a negro. Gaveneud beat anu killed one man iu 1868, and one in 18u l J. HouUon is iu jail.