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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. yjviA f J -A. ~ *- • “• ~ 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. »-•-< 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. p ' jHNrrhj^n*: Yc * « • , 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. ; Single Copies 5 Cenjs. Notick.—No news-boy is allowed to sell The Sun for more than five cents. We will take it as a favor to have any devia tion from this rule reported to us.