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THE DAILY SUN.
Saturday Morning July 8.
Hon. A. H. Stephens and Sena
tor Frank P. Blair.
Frank Blair, Jr., favors the new depar
ture. He is a progressive Democrat
throughout. To be sure, he progressed
backward in 1868, but now he is pro
gressing forward in fine style. Probably,
after all, he took his steps backward only
in order to get a good Btart.—New York
Herald, June 29.
Frank Blair, Jr., has taken no “new
departure” by which he will ever affirm
that the “reconstruction measures” were
not “unconstitutional and revolutionary”
in their character; nor that they were not
carried by 'fraud, perfidy, and violence.”
This great truth, the Herald may rest as
sured, he has not denied, and never will
deny. He is, indeed, a progressive Dem
ocrat; but the line of progress he is on
is that which leads to the restoration of
the rights of the States, and with them
the rights of the people.—Atlanta Sun,
July 4.
While Senator Blair admits that the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
were passed by fraud, perfidy and vio
lence, he still acknowledges their legally
binding force as a part and parcel of the
Constitution, and that they can only be
eradicated by the voice of the people at
the ballot-box, and not by revolution.—
Does Mr. Stephens admit as much? If
so, there is no deep ditch nor high wall
between himself, Senator Blair, Hoffman,
Hancock, Hendricks, Adams, and the
entire National Democracy, North and
South.—Dr. Bard, July 5.
Mr. Stephens'admits that the best
and surest remedy for all usurpations
in our system of Government, is to
have them “eradicated by the people
at the ballot-box,” and in this he be
lieves he fully agrees with an “over
whelming majority of all true Demo
crats” North and South.
The “deep ditch and high wall” be
tween Mr. Stephens and Dr. Bard is,
that the Doctor thinks that these
iniquitous measures, carried by fraud,
perfidy and violence? (which he aided
in so carrying) should never be
“eradicated” at all; but should be de
clared to have been carried “in the
manner and by the authority .Consti-
tutionally appointed
The difference between Mr. Ste
phens and Dr. Bard is simply the
difference between true Democracy
and genuine Radicalism. A. II. S.
To cowardly cringe to Badical usurpa
tion or basely submit to a course of repu
diation of the glorious records of the past
ten years of the Democratic party for the
sake of pandering to a depraved public,
or for the sake of sneaking into power
through a back door, is furthest from the
thoughts and purposes of the Democratic
party, and we can assure our Badical
friends that they mistake us wholly if
they understand onr recognition of the
existence of the amendments as a recog
nition of the soundness of their danger
ous and destructive policy.
So says the Goshen (N. Y.) Repub
lican (Democratic paper) of the 29 th I
of June. It shows the true sentiment
of the Democratic party everywhere.
While they recognize the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments of the
Constitution as de facto parts of it—
to be obeyed as such so long as they
have the form of law, under the in
terpretation and construction of those j
clothed with power to expound and
enforce them, yet they never will cease
at all proper times and on all proper
occasions, to denounce the flagrant
usurpations of power by which they
were inaugurated and by which alone
they are claimed to have become in
corporated into the organic law of the
Union. The true Democrrcy every
where is for law and order. They
look to the intelligence, the virtue and
patriotism of the people at the ballot
-box as the surest mode of redress
r against all wrongs in Government,
^either State or Federal. But they
merer will, by their votes at the ballot-
ibox, give their sanction to the iniqui-
' toils policy by which these Amend
ments are claimed to have been car
ried; nor will they ever consent to any
trammels by which they will be es
topped from arraigning “before the
bar of public reason” usurpations, ofl
whatever grade or character, as well
as their authors. I
The mission of the Democracy is to
rescue the liberties of this country
from the hands of those now bent
upon their destruction. To do this
successfully, it seems to us, every con
sideration of good sense, as well as
impulse of duty, dictates that course,
in the struggle on the part of the de
fenders of the Constitution, *which
will not allow of any winking at, con
niving at, much less any sanctioning
of any one of those usurpations which
have so signally marked Radical Pro-
jgress for the last five years.
A.H. S.
From the Dalton Citizen, 6th.
The cattle hereabouts are dying
very fast with the murrian, and the
disease is reported to be on the in
crease. Several have died in town
within the post week. In the upper
part of the county the disease is said
to prevail to an alarming extent,
many farmers having lost all of their
best milch cows.
the PEtfSijiYEVania demo-
VCracY.
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Getting off “the New” Platform
and on w the Old.”
So Far So Good.
"Should we wander from (hat" (the principles of the
old creed) “in moment> of error or alarm, let ut hasten
to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone
leads to peace, liberty and safety.—[Jmteesos’s Iht
Inacgubax.
The Philadelphia Age, of the 29 th
of June, brings us the address of the
Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic party of Pennsylvania, to the
people of thatBtate, on the issues of
the pending State elections. The
address is signed by William A.
"Wallace, Chairman of the Committee.
Whether he had anything to do with
the Harrisburg Patform, on which
the New Departure standard was
hoisted recently,we do not know. But,
if he had anything to do with that,
he has. certainly been convinced of
the error of his ways, and is “retracing
his steps” at the earliest possible
moment. .
In the Address we see nothing of
the “New Departure Platform, nor
of the heresies it proclaimed. The
very first announcement is, “We here
by solemnly renew our often repeated
declaration of fidelity to the great
principles upon which our party has
acted from the time of its first or
ganization.” That has the ring of
the old metal.
We have not space for all of the Ad
dress, but cannot omit a portion which
clearly shows how widely he is off the
track, marked out by the Harrisburg
Resolutions which deprecated all dis
cussions, thereafter, of the monstrous
usurpations of Congress by which the
XIVth and XVth Amendments were
carried. All this has in it the ring
I of the right metal. We refer specially
to what follows:
No candid person win deny that the
leading men in power at Washington
have been unfaithful to their duties.—
They have broken the pledges they made
to the people, and, fti reckless disregard
to their oaths, they have violated the
plainest provisions of the Constitution.
They have deprived the States of their
sacred (right of" self-government in mat
ters purely local, and disarmed them of
the power to enforce their on laws for the
preservation of order within their own
boundaries; they have passed bills of
pains and penalties operating on millison
at once without regard to the guilt or in
nocence of the parties; they have tram
pled on all the securities if life, liberty
and property; treated the habeas corpus
law with contempt, and denied the right
of trial by jury; they have sent out
swarms of their hireling agents with in
structions to kidnap, imprison and kill
free citizens for political offences, with-
ont judicial accusation, without warrant,
and without legal trial. They have not
only trodden upon the great principles
embodied in the original Constitution as
it came from the hands of its framers,
bnt even the amendments, which they
themselves interpolated, have been bro
ken without remorse whenever it suited
their interests. In defiance of the XlHth,
they have doomed many persons to the
worst kind of “slavery or involuntary
servitude” in the public prisons, without
the pretence of any “crime whereof the
party was legally convicted;” in the face
of the XIVth, they have abridged the
“equal rights” of whole masses of white
citizens; without the least respect for the
right of universal suffrage guaranteed by
the XVth, they have interfered both for-
I cibly and fraudulently to prevent fair
[elections, and to set them aside after
they were held.
These outrages upon justice, liberty
and law, have been perpetrated, not dur-
We complain of our present rulers for
usurpation of power. Power not delega
ted is always abused. In this, as in oth
er cases, usurpation has been accompa
nied and followed by usurpation. Frauds
without number, and almost without lim
it, have been committed on the public.
As if convinced that the Democ
racy of Pennsylvania could never be
brought to sustain the Harrisburg
Platform, Mr. Wallace and his Gom-
mittee seem very wisely to have come
to the conclusion to throw away that
one and put up another and better
one in its stead. The new one is in
I these words:
t To put the ship of State once again
on her constitutional tack and hold her
bead firmly and steadily to that course.
2d. To protect individual citizens of
all parties, classes and creeds in the en
joyment of life, liberty, property, repu
tation and the pursuit of their lawful
business, by an impartial administration
of justice in the ordained and established
courts.
3. To preserve the powers of the gen
eral government in their whole constitu
tional vigor as onr sole defense against
foreign aggression, the safest bond of
union between , different sections of the
oountry and the only sure promise of
general prosperity.
4. To maintain unimpaired the reserv-
[ ed rights of the States, not only because
they are guaranteed by the Federal Con
stitution, bat because the States alone
can safely be trusted with the manage
ment of their own local concerns.
5. To reduce the expenditure of the
Government by confining its appropria
tions to legitimate objects,by a rigid sys
tem of accountability and economy, and
I by abolishing much of the unnecessary
and pernicious machinery with which it
is encumbered.
6. To moderate the burdens of the peo
ple, not only by economical administra
tion, but by a system of taxation upon
foreign imports as well as domestic pro
ductions, .which shall be just and equal
in its operations upon the property and
business of the country, not enriching
I some while it impoverishes others, and
pvt open .to the frauds now habitually
practiced.
7. To preserve the public credit by
the prompt payment of the public obli
gations.
8. To consecrate the public lands to
the use of the landless people who need
it, by a system which will secure a suffi
ciency to all, and stop at once the long
series of swindles by which so many
millions of acres have been given away
to those who already have more than
enough.
These are some of the duties which lie
before the people if they dessire to see
their government administered with a
decent respect for the Constitution of
their fathers, or with tolerable honesty in
financial matters.
We have no test of orthodoxy—no dis
abilities for, nor discriminations against
former political antagonists. We cannot
and do not object to bygone differences,
provided the citizen be truly and faith-
folly devoted now to the interests and
institutions of the whole country, and all
the inhabitants thereof.
Onr object is not revolution, but resto
ration; not injury to onr opponents, but
an assertion of our own rights and those
of our fellow-citizens.
By order of the Democratic State Ex
ecutive Committee.
William A. Wallace,
Chairman.
This new one has the “Bonrbon”
ring throughout. When the De
mocracy of the Union shall get on it,
without any sanction of usurpations
of any sort, it will then be on the
high road—not only to victory, bnt
to the fulfillment of its misssion to
save the free institutions of this coun
try from Centralism and Despotism.
A. H. S.
In this connection, we desire to say
that, we will not be drawn into the dis
cussion of personal matters, or past dead
political issues. We are laboring to re
lieve our people of their political bur
dens too grievous to be borne. The past
has little or nothing to do with the terri
ble surroundings of the present.
We stand squarely on the recent Con
gressional Democratic Address, as well as
on tlje address of the Pennsylvania Dem
ocratic Execntive Committee, which we
here give:—Dr. Bard, July 5.
The past has everything to do with
“the terrible surroundings of the pres
ent.” What has brougnt the country
to its present sad condition so much
as the openly avowed usurpations of
Congress within the last f ve years?—
Are these “dead issues?”
It is true Dr. Bard aided in im
posing these great evils upon the
States and the people, and may
desire that they be considered as dead.
But the recent Congressional Address
does not so treat them, nor does the
more recent address of the Executive
Committee of the Pennsylvania De
mocracy so treat them. If Dr. Bard
stands squarely upon these, he stands
squarely upon our grounds, of de
nouncing these usurpations, as the
real cause and source of “the terrible
surroundings of the present,” and if
the country is to be “relieved,” it is
to be “relieved” only by putting the
authors of “these terrible surround
ings” out of power for their most mis
chievous misdeeds. A. H. S.
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The Medical Convention at
Macon.
There has long been a disput&be-
tween certain medical gentlemen of
this city concerning the Atlanta
Medical College—the exact nature
and merits of which we are not ac
quainted with. The unpleasant feel
ing engendered has spread far beyond
the limits of onr city, till the medical
profession of the State is arrayed into
two antagonistic parties, who are
almost hostile to each other—a very
bitter feeling being manifested by
quite a number on both sides.
We have never investigated this
case—do not understand its merits,
and therefore do not take sides on it.
Onr correspondent “J.,” in his report
of the convention, which appeared
yesterday morning in - The Sun,
though no name is mentioned, alludes
to some physician in Atlanta in terms
somewhat uncomplimentary—to some
extent charginghim with having aid
ed in bringing about this unfortunate
state of feeling.
Though this has appeared in our
columns, we hereby disavow it so far
as The Sun is concerned. We are
not prepared to take sides on this
question. This, as we conceive, is
not demanded by the public good; we
therefore stand neutral—recognizing
the members of the profession on both
sides as personal friends, against
whom, or whose views on the ques
tion at issue,, we have no war to make,
at present. . ...
Whenever we conceive the general
public good will he promoted by
taking sides on this question, we
Bhall investigate the same, and fear
lessly take our position according to
the real merits of the case.
Our correspondent states what he
does on his own responsibility. We
take no issue with him as to his state
ments. We only say that The Sun
■s not committed to either party.
THE MLULE DGEVIL. L.E HOMI
CIDE.
The Killing of Capt. Lewis H.
Kenan.
Full Particulas of the Tragedy.
As Capt. Kenan and his father, Col.
Augustus H. Kenan, were generally
known throughout Georgia, and as
many, no doubt, desire to know the
particulars of the late tragedy, result
ing in the death of Capt. Kenan, we
give the following facts which we be
lieve are entirely reliable:
Captain Kenan and Mr. Strother,
who had previously been friends, had
a difficulty of a purely private char
acter several months ago. About six
weeks ago, Capt. K., having heard
that Mr. Strother had threatened to
kill him, procured a double barrel
gun and shot at S. twice, neither
charge taking effect Friends^inter-
fered and Mr. Strother denying that
he had ever made such a threat, both
parties were induced to sign an in
strument in writing, pledgingThem-
selves not to renew the difficulty, or
interfere with each other except to
have their differences adjusted in
Court -> •
Under these circumstance, and as
both parties were generally seen upon
the streets apparently unarmed, all
apprehensions of a renewal of the
difficulty had passed away, and hopes
were entertained by the friends of
both that the settlement would finally
he amicable and permanent
Messrs. Strother and Kenan lived
within two hundred yards of each
other and on the outskircs of the city.
They were both seen about sunset,
Monday evening, tbe 3d instant, go
ing toward their homes. Strother
was on the side of the street on which
both lived. Kenan had two or three
bundles of goods in his arms which
he was carrying home. On the way
Strother stopped at the house of a
relative and got a rifle which he had
left there. When near the Executive
Mansion, Kenan took his usual path
across the street to his house, and, in
doing so was approaching Strother,
and when within some fifteen or
twenty feet, Strother leveled tlie gun
and fired, the hall passing through
Kenan’s chest, killing him almost in
stantly. He did not live more than
fifteen or twenty minutes. As he fell
he looking at Strother, said, “John,
what did you do this for ? ”
If Kenan gave any other cause for
the shooting than is given above we
learn that it did not come out at the
Coroner’s investigation. Strother has
not been arrested, as he cannot he
found; but his friends say he will
appear for trial at the proper time.
Capt. Lewis H. Kenan was known
as a highly honarable and chivalrous
gentleman, and one who would take
no mean advantage of a foe. As an
illustration of this, we will relate an
incident which occured many years
ago.
His father had offended a young
gentleman of Milledgeville, and the
latter was pubUcly abusing him when
Lewis came up and at once espoused
the cause of his father. The young
man had a single barrel pistol which
he discharged at Lewis, who immedi
ately returned the fire using a re
peater, and wounded his antagonist
in the leg. He fired a second shot
and was about to fire a third, when
his antagonist called out, “Lewis you
are a d d coward I I have no more
shots and you are still firing at me! ”
Kenan immediately ceased firing and
replied, “Bill, why didn’t yon tell me
so before? I didn’t kno.w it.” He
afterward visited and nursed his an
tagonist while his wound was healing.
In referring to Capt. Kenan, the
Macon Telegraph and Messenger says:
We pause for a moment in the rash of
life’s selfish struggle, to say a few words
in honor of the memory of one of the
truest gentlemen and most chivalrous
men we have ever counted it onr good
fortune to call friend. We mean Captain
Lewis H. Kenan, of Milledgeville, who
was shot and killed about snnset, last
Monday, by John B. Strother. Of the
particulars of his death—of the circum
stances immediately preceding and at
tending it, we have no knowledge, but
we can safely affirm, notwihstanding, that
he met his untoward fate with the serene
courage and unblenching nerve for which
he was ever distinguished, and which
were not only inherent in Lis own charac
ter, but also the logical sequences of his
birth and breeding.
Among all the knightly legions who
fought for the “Lost Cause,” there was
not one his superior in personal gallantry
or earnest devotion. We esteem it a
privilege to write that we knew him well,
and liked him better. Association in the
same regiment during tbe latter portion
of the late civil war, was the basis ol a
friendship as cordial and pleasant as any
we ever enjoyed. His faults were those
of a high spirit, a noble heart, and a soul
upon whose whiteness there rested not
even the shadow of one ignoble act or
thought. His virtues were those which
are the birthright of all suoh men in
every age and clime, and which it is just
as impossible to obliterate or even dim,
as to destroy individuality itself. He
was a gentleman, always, and to all.—
Those words are his Jhost fitting eulogy
and epitaph. We speak them with all
the emphasis of personal knowledge;
and with uncovered head and a sad heart,
we lay this simple tribute upon his new-
made grave and say: God rest his soul!
TELEGRAPH NEWS
Special Dispatches to Tie Si.
By Atlanta and Nashville News Agency.
-a FOREIGN NEWS. ,£
- . v . Miscellaneous French .V<m.
i«. Invibfli loi?ABis, July 7.
Debates upon the Budget and the re
organization of the army will prevent the
Assembly from taking a vacation until the
last of Jul£ la
1 It is proposed to lend President Thiers
the Palace of Elyssee as a residence
upon the transfer of the Government to
Paris. ? rfirevet xv/rnp’IfcSvTl
The Bank of France sent one hundred
and four millions of francs in specie to
Prussia yesterday. Fourteen draw carts
were needed for its transportation.
Amiens has been declared in a state of
siege on account ©f the murder of a
Prussian, and the failure of the local au
thorities to discover the murderer. >, * “
Thiers has subscribed one million of
francs to the new loan.
It is again reported that Favre has re
signed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
but the rumor arises probably from the
frequent expression of the hope that he.
will soon be able to relinquish his port
folio to his successor.
The Pope has written to Theirs that he
will remain in Borne, a
The trial of Bochefort, Assy and Eos-
set has again been postponed a fortnight.
Numerous Algerian tribes have given
in their submission to General Talle-
mande, and the end of the insurrection is
near at hand.
The reorganization of the French
army has been completed with an effect
ive numerical strength of 320,000.
The Coart Martial trying prisoners will
proceed in the following order : First,
members of the Central Committee; sec
ond, persons who usurped public func
tions ; third those generally implicated.
Bosset is to be tried before a special tri
bune. - •- rwiV J: (”■
. .V Heavy Storm in England.
London, July 7.
Great freshets have occurred in the
Derewent, Wye, Severn and Cosia rivers,
and cost the farmers a heavy loss by the
destruction of buildings and crops.
An unusually heavy thunder storm vis
ited the suburbs of London. Many
churches were set on fire by lightning
and destroyed, and many lives were lost.
In Spain. -o' 1 '
Madrid, July 7.
It is believed that Moret will resign the
Ministry of Finance after the presenta
tion of the report of the committee on
the tobacco monopoly.
A motion censuring the Government
has been defeated in the Cortes by a vote
of 119 to 61.
Versailles Matters,
. Versailles, July 7.—McMahon has
been appointed Commander-in-Chief of
the entire army.
It has been finally decided that the As
sembly will meet in Paris in October
next, and will probably hold its first ses
sion there, about the beginning of that
month.
.Itniens in a Slate of Siege.
Amiens, July 7.
The Prussians have declared this city
to be in a state of siege, and much ex
citement prevails among the inhabitants
in consequence. The hostility which has
been exhibited by citizens and others
toward the Prussian troops occupying
this district, and which has never been
entirely suppressed, has caused serious
uneasiness to the civil authorities, and
have been persisted in despite of previ
ous warning. A few days since a Prus
sian soldier was found assassinated. A
thorough search was instituted for the
murderer. It proved fruitless and the
assassin remains undiscovered. •This
last hostile act has caused the assurance
of the declaration of siege, and any at
tempt* at a repetition will now meet with
prompt reprisal at the hands of the Prus
sians.
The\ Insubordinate French.
Versailles, July 7.—The Government
of President Thiers is much embarassed
on account of the trouble in the occu
pied districts. Frequent resentments of
the French peasantry against a continued
German occupation is likely to cause se
rious complication, and the authorities
are taxed to the utmost to preserve tran
quility; hut, notwithstanding the most
earnest appeals have been made for pru
dence in preserving order and submitting
to the occupation while it lasts, riots are
constantly occurring.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
JInolhcr Homicide.
Cincinnati, Ohio, July 7.
Allen Carr and Thomas Atter, two re
respectable farmers, living in Springdale,
got into a quarrel yesterday, about chick
ens scratching gardens, in which Carr
struck Atter with a stone. The latter
fired the contents of a shot-gun into
Carr’s breast, producing a wound from
which he cannot recover.
Fosses by Fire.
Philadelphia, July 7.
Daring a storm the lightning struck,
set fire to and destroyed Collins’ woolen
mills, on the river road. Loss §50,000.
New York, July 7.
A fire this morning destroyed a build
ing at 142 and 144 East Third street.—
Loss §75,000,
Found Hcad—Jh'eu) Horse Disease.
New York, July 7.
The body of a young man was found
in the edge of a wood, upon the palisades,
near Jersey City, lying face upward, with
a pistol wound in his head and a revolvav
lying near him. The body is apparently
that of an Englishman about 22 years of
age.
The Fourth Avenue Railroad Company
report-, ninety cases of the new horse dis
ease, ten of which have proven fatal,
.1 Heavy Storm in Ohio.
Portsmouth, Ohio, July 7.
A heavy rain and wind storm passed
over^this city last evening, unAofing the
Catholic schoolhouse, the German Pres
byterian church and the county jail,
Nobody was hurt.
Heavy Hmbex element.
Pittsburg, Pa., July 7,
Isaac-W. Pennack and his father, Jas.
Pennack, are under arrest, charged with
embezzlement and fraud to the amount
of §50.000. Both are prominent citizens.
Tin; affair is creating a sensation.
Cloes to the Penitentiary.
Louisville, July 7.
John H. Martin, 19 years of age, son
of prominent banker, charged with kill
ing Dan Powers, ji faro-dealer, in a house
of ill-fame, was yesterday convicted of
Fearful Unid of the Storm King,
1 Omaha, Nebraska, July 7.
Further particulars of the storm Wed
nesday evening, show that it was one of
the most severe ever experienced here.—
Twenty-four houses were demolished and
others unroofed. Tho water tank and
wind-mill nro almost total wrecks. Mr.
Phillips was picked np by the wind and
dashed to tho ground with'such violence
as to kill him instantly. . Tfiq family
were more or less in j ured. The wounded
from the wrecked train are doing well.
Nathan Allen was picked up by the wind
and carried one hundred feet and tom to
pieces:* A. B. Allen was crushed to death
by falling timbers. His daughter escaped
alive, though seriously injured. Other
casualties are reported.
, . The Jh'alional Brother-in-Faic.
■ Newark, N. J., July 7.—The President
is on a visit to Frelinghuysen.
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K WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Ku-Klux Jtgain Vpi
. . Washington, July 7.
The Administration has to make a rig
orous enforcement of the Ku-Klux
through civil officers instead of military.
The Department of Justice has deci
ded to appoint a special Assistant Attor
ney to assist the regular District Attorneys
in bringing the offenders before the
Court.
There does not seem to be any speoial
reason for this either in reports received
from Federal officials in the South or in
the testimony taken before the Commit
tee, now in daily session here. Some of
the members of tho Committee doubt
very much if there are a dozen cases
which will come under the law that have
transpired since its passage.
Senator Hill and the Governorship.
Letters received here from prominent
politicians in Georgia implicate Senator
Hill in a scheme to secure the nomina
tion for Governor of the State. Hill is
not particular which party he serves so
he rides the winning horse.
Parties have arrived here for the pur
pose of laying before the President an
exact statement of the situation and po
litical affairs in Georgia, which relates to
the suspension of action in regard to
Hill, and, if possible, prevent his secu
ring the control of any more of the Fed
eral patronage. These parties State that
Governor Bullock intends going over to
the Democrats in order to escape im
peachment at the next session of the
Legislature.
The Republican party of Georgia is
represented as being utterly demoral
ized. : v ' -• ^ \
The President returned this evening.
Akerman goes to Weldon, N. O., next
Thursday to address the Republicans.
L [For tho Sun.
Dick Busteed has gone completely
over to the Democracy; Governor Bol
lock of Georgia, is thought to be very
sure of going, in order to save
himself from impeachment ; Senator
Hill is considered unsound on Republican
principles, and a general revolution
among the carpet-baggers is confidently
expected, all on account of the new “de
parture”—the departure of all further
chance at the spoils. Southern politics,
like “niggers,” are very uncertain.—
New York Herald, June 30.
So the editor' of the Herald may
think. It has been his labor for years
past to make the impression that the
Southern white people are but little
above the grade of semi-savages in
civilization, and it may be really his
present impression that their politi
cians are more unreliable than “ nig
gers,” as he is pleased to characterize
them. The future will show wheth
er he is right in this estimate of them
or not, . Frank Short.
The Macon Telegraph and Mes
senger Rebuked,
At a largo meeting of those who
adjourned the Medical Convention,
held in the city of Macon, the fol
lowing resolution was adopted unani
mously :
Resolved, That the article in the edi
torial columns of the Macon Telegraph
and Messenger, professing to be an ac
count of the proceedings of the Medical
Convention in Macon, on yesterday, the
5tlx of July, and evidently originating
with some member of the defeated dis
organizes, is a gross perversion of facts
upon the part of the author, and in the
highest degree discourteous upon the
part of said paper, to the members of
the Medical Profession from various
parts of the State, who attended the
Convention upon the general invitation
of those who called it and the special in
vitation of the Macon Medical Profes
sion.
E. A. T. Eedley, M. D.,
LaGrange.'Ga., Ch’n.
A. W. Griggs, M. D.,
West Point, Ga., Sec’y.
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