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THE DAILY SUN
Thursday Morning July 20.
A Few Words in Reply to Dr.
Bard.
In the True Georgian—so-called—
of the 18th inst., we find the follow
ing:
It is one of the tricks of debate, to
state the position of an adversary as "will
best suit the pnrposes of attack. Mr.
Stephens, and others who have copied
from his organ, have attempted to play
this game npon ns. They havo sttempt-
ted to force us into a false position, one
which we have not taken and which we
do not intend to take. Mr. Stephens in
sists that we are in favor of accepting
certain amendments to the Constitution
as “finalities,” “never hereafter to be
questioned at the ballot-box or else
where.” In this he has misrepresented
us.
To this we ray that the “tricks” re
ferred to have not been resorted to
by us. We do not deal in tricks of
any kind, nor is it our purpose^ in
attacking the position of an adver
sary in debate, to either overstate,
understate, or misrepresent, his argu
ments. Moreover, discussion with us,
on great public questions, is not a
game in any sense of the word. It
is no pastime play either for recrea
tion or amusement. It is for the
ascertainment, elucidation, and main
tenance of truth. If Dr. Bard’s po
sition is not that which we have rep
resented it to be, then we have been
mistaken in it—that is all—and will
most cheerfully do him the justice
to say so when ho shall present us
with the proof of our error.
Some of the facts upon which our
statement of his position lias been
based,arc these:
The lato Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
Democratic Convention, among othcT
declarations, passed what is known as
the 9th resolution of their “New
Departure” pronunciamcnto. That
resolution is in these words:
Resolved, That wo recognize the bind
ing obligation of all the provisions of
the Constitution of tho United States as
they now exist, and wo deprecate the dis
cussion of issues which have been settled
in tho manner and by tho authority con
stitutionally appointed.
We understand Dr. Bal’d and all
the “New Departures” to give this
resolution his and their cordial ap
proval and indorsement. This is the
summation and the embodiment of
their new creed, as we understand it.
Now it seems to us, there can be
no mistake as to the intention or
the meaning of this language. We
understand the words “all the provis
ions of the Constitution of the United
States, as tliey now exist,” as clearly
intended to embrace the 14th and
15th Amendments, so-called. We
further understand it to be distinctly
affirmed by this resolution that these
Amendments, with the issues present
ed by them, “have been settled in the
manner and by the authority Consti
tutionally appointed.”
Nay more; we understand it to be
announced that all discussion of
them hereafter should be deprecated.
Are wo then correct in supposing
that Dr. Bard approves and indorses
the language and sentiment of this
resolution ? If he does, as we under
stand him, and all the “New Depart-
urists” to do, how then can we be
said to misrepresent either him or
them, in assigning them the posi
tion of holding that these most
fraudulent and iniquitous measures
should bo accepted as “finalities,” and
that their validity should never here
after he questioned at the ballot box or
elsewhere ?”
If the very diseussiou of these mea
sures is to be deprecated; if tliey are
to be deemed so sacred that no allusion
is to be made to them in debate, how
is their validity to be inquired into
or the revolutionary means by which
they havo been attempted most shame
fully to be incorporated as a part of
tho organic law, to be exposed ?
For the present, all we have, in ad
dition to say on this point is, that if
wo are in error, in supposing that Dr.
Bard does approve and indorse this
“New Departure”pronunciamentoof
the Harrisburg Pennsylvania packed
Convention or junto, we shall be glad
to be distinctly so informed by him
It is far from our intention to mis
represent him or any one. The vin
dication of the truth on all questions,
and the maintenance of those princi
pics upon which alone, in our view,
Constitutional liberty can be preserv
ed on this Continent, is our great ob
ject We wish perfect union and har
mony, with all whose objects are the
same.
A great crisis is upon us, and a high
moral obligation rests npon every pa
triot in the land, to do his duty to
himself, his fellows, and his country
We cannot, however, dismiss the
ubject without a word or two, in re-
to another remark in the same
editorial of Dr. Bard. In speaking
of the Political Editor of The Sun,
the Doctor says:
His course has a direct tendency to
create divisions and dissensions in the
ranks of the party to which he claims to
belong, and to drive away from him and
the Southern people those who are ex
tending to them a helping hand in this
their time of trouble.
To this we have only to say, that
we do not' by any means, take this
view of our course. We see no “help
ing hand” to the true friends of the
Constitution and the Government, as
established by our ancestors, in their
present hour of peril and danger,
from those who wish to consign to
oblivion the most daring and reckless
usurpations, by which the liberties of
any people on earth were ever assailed.
In the hand thus extended, we very
clearly see the secret blade of Joab.—
Their helping hand is to clinch the
nails in the.coffin of the liberties of
this country.
As to the Doctor’s idea of the harm
our course will do to the only party
that can save the country* by pro
ducing divisions among them, &c., he
will allow us most respectfully to say,
that it reminds us very strikingly
of the argument used by a derelict
Parson once, when none other seemed
to have any avail, with a member of
his congregation, who was determined
to expose some of his unchristian
acts. When all other entreaties
proved ineffectual in silencing the
exposure, the graceless divine fell
back upon this last appeal, and said,
that “such exposure would only tend
to injure the church.”
Now the injury to the church and
the cause of truth, according to our
idea, was not in the exposure, but in
the misdeeds, whiclr made the expo
sure necessary for the preservation of
both. A. n. S.
Stick to Principles.
Some admiring friends of
Gov.
Gratz Brown, of Missouri, are push
ing his name as the “ very fittest ” for
the Democratic Presidential nomina
tion. Unquestionably, Gov. Brown
is a man of mark, and the liberal-
minded men of the whole country,
as w’ell as the people of Missouri, owe
him a debt of gratitude for his
agency, in conjunction with Carl
Schurz, in liberating Missouri from
the shackles of Radical tyranny. But
does this make his nomination by a
Democratic Convention one fit to be
made, any more than that of his
able coadjutor, Senator Schurz? The
latter cannot be nominated, because,
being foreign born, he is constitu
tionally ineligible. Gov. Brown is
equally out of the question, because
he does not even belong to the party
whose leader his friends would make
him. He is, and lie*professes to be, a
“ moderate Republican.” What claim
has he on the first place in Demo
cratic leadership? Just about the
same that a Democratic “departu-
rist” would have in the Radical Con
vention to supplant Grant All these
suggestions of handing over the
lower of the Democratic party to
eaders alien to its traditions ana its
historical career, are akin to, and a
sign of, that demoralization from
which the “new departure” sprang.
It shows that Democrats are afraid of
their own cardinal principles; that
they distrust the people, and so bow
to the supposed invincibility of cer
tain Radical doctrines (which they
yet denounce as baleful and revolu
tionary,) that they feel that they must
accept these doctrines as the price of
success. A cowardly party never
wins political battles, and the Demo
cratic party cannot be marshalled and
inspired for victory under a time
serving .banner. They are not states
men who think otherwise, and they
do not understand the character
of the American people. If we
bid for their votes on modified Radi
cal grounds, the Radicals will
outbid them, for the people will
choose whole rather »than half-way
measures. If we go the whole way
and stahd bodily on their platform,
one party is as deserving as the oth
er in the eyes of the people, and the
Radicals have the right and prestige
pre-emption. Every Democrat
hand, and direct and bend them to
the solution of the public welfare?. Of
all the public men whose voices
are heard in the din of the great de
bate, Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, seems
to be the only man who, points to a
statesmanlike deliverance’. • All the
rest are trimming, hedging and dodg
ing, not daring to trust themselves or
the people, or to look the great ques
tion in the face. One journal that
started out on the stilts of constitu
tional principle so high as to call
down from it the fiercest denuncia
tions of the Democratic party as
faithless to its trust, and that held to
that strain until the “new departure”
was announced, comes down from its
lofty perch and plunges headlong
into that pit “as the best we can do.”
In brief, it gave in its adhesion to the
Democracy the very moment the De
mocracy had shown signs of meriting
its former accusation of infidelity.
Besides backing down from its tra
ditional and strong ground, “the
ramparts of the Constitution,” and
yielding to usurpations as “dead is
sues,” in order to inveigle backsliding
Democrats and disgusted Republicans
to its standard, some are indulging in
the astounding weakness of looking
beyond their own camp of tried and
trusted chiefs to see if they cannot
fish up a leader on the outside. "We
have two passages from editorials of
two sound Democratic papers which
strike the only key-note that will find
victorious responses in the hearts and
minds of the people. We would that,
in these degenerate and time-serving
days, we could breathe this spirit into
the souls of the politicians as well as
the people of the country. Yet no
heart is so dead in its misgivings and
fears about the prevalence and the
mightiness of truth, that it will not
be more or less stirred by them. The
Cincinnati Commoner, and is entitled
The second is from the Atlanta
(Ga.) Sun, and from the pen
of the Hon. A. H. Stephens. It
is written in refutation of the charge
that his opposition to the “ new de
parture” was born of his wish to dis
tract and weaken and defeat the Dem
ocratic party in 1872:
STICK TO PRINCIPLES.
The Democratic party has ever
been destroyed when it has lost hold
of the landmarks which are not only
ancient, but sound. No matter what
influences or promises were employed
to produce the abandonment of prin
ciples, the sad result has ever been
the same, defeat after defeat, and the
victorious and defiant shout of our
opponents.
On the contrary, as long as we have
adhered sternly to our articles of
faith, one and all, the Democrats have
marched on to rare defeats and fre
quent victories. It is very seldom
that the promise fails for those who
keep the faith, and will not surrender
either to illicit love or overbearing
force. All history supports all phi
losophy, in favor of a stern adherence
to our principles. The canvass of
this year, and the vote in October
will show the truth of what we say.
The men of principle will not enlist
their feelings in the canvass: nor care
to go to the polls if the candidates in
sist upon talking of the beauties of
the new departure. A Democratic
canvass without appeals to principles,
and an exhibition of the zeal and ear
nestness which will show that the ap
peals have been effectual, is good for
nothing.
We are in favor of a very quiet
campaign and a few sensible speech
es to be made, not by random talkers,
but by those who have the creed of
Democracy in their hearts and the
talent and character which will give
them authority.
As Thomistocles, when the fate of all
Greece depended upon one impending
battle, stood forth and urged that the
stronghold should not be - given up and
abandoned, (which the leaders were
about to do,) so we now, in a crisis of
like peril, raise our. voice, and urge the
Democracy, on whom the hopes of the
continent and of the world rest, not to
give up their impregnable position on the
ramparts of the Constitution. In this is
their chief strength. This is their Sala-
mis.. Themistacles was thought to be
mutinous at the time. He was denounced
as a sower of dissensions. The hand of
Euribiades was raised to strike him down
as an enemy to the cause—as one giving
aid and comfort to the enemy. The
calm but film reply of the undaunted
Athenian was :
WASHINGTON.
The Great Ku-Klux Outrage in
New York Discussed--A Dis
reputable Party Trick— Tlie
Authors of the “New Depar
ture” the Instigators of the
Riot, and Responsible for it—
Ways that are Dark.
of
and Conservative politician in the
land admits the presence of a momen-
tons micis and turning point in the
political destinies of this Government
and people. We are vibrating be
tween an absolute extinction of free,
representative and constitutional
self-government, and an empire in
spirit and form. The peril of the
crisis confronts and stalks before the
eyes of the whole country. The
minds of the masses are aroused to a
consideration of the danger and of
the measures to avert The popular
mind is thus in a condition to receive
the truth—it is the seed time of high,
sound and immutable principles of
government, and now statesmen, and
not politicians who are alone intent
on party success and its spoils, should
come to the front and drop into the
genial ground the germs that are to
fructify in the great and saving prin
ciples of liberty. It is the law of cri-
cis in the affairs of nations to brin 0,
forth great men who are equal to then-
exigencies. Of the existing crisis, no
man doubts. But where can the
public discern the features of the
rising man to gather up its con
ditions in his firm and statesmanlike
“ Strike—but hear me! ”
Fortunately for Greece he was heard.
His reasons for not abandoning the port
of Salamis prevailed. This position was
not departed from. Here the hosts of
Xerxes were beaten, and the Teutonic
system of local self-government was pre
served against the most formidable effort
to overthrow it, and to establish in its
stead that of the Asiatic type, which was
general consolidation and centralism.
Themistocles, we imagine, cared noth
ing for the odium of words, or even that
of blows, if they had followed. He was
moved by the profound conviction that
the liberties of his country were at stake;
audit was no time to consider matters of
mere taste, propriety, or even military
subordination.
We referred to this incident a few days
ago, on another occasion, in illustration
of our present position; and now repeat
it, for the special benefit of the editors
of the Advertiser, that they may bear in
mind the fact that there can be such a
thing 4 as earnest, zealous, enthusiastic,
disinterested patriotism, which rises as
high above all mere selfish personal or
party considerations as the priceless at
tributes of Liberty rise in the estimation
of all who are fit to enjoy it, above the
glittering fascinations of Power, whether
exhibited in the splendor of Royalty or
in the more imposing insignia of Empire
—Mobile Register, 14th July.
It is suggested that Fisk’s wounds
were caused by the champagne and
not the campaign.
[Special correspondence of The Atlanta Sun.]
Washington, July 14,1871.
The chief topic of conversation
here to-day, and for a day or two
past, has been the emeute in the city
of New York on the 12th. The cele
bration of the anniversary of the
Battle of the Boyne, in 1690, . has
never disturbed the equanimity. of
any part of the South to my knowl
edge—there, politics never having
reached so low a standard as to re
quire the deliberate stirring up of the
worst passions of man to the extent
of setting them to butchering one
another. In this matter the leaders of
both parties in New York are clearly
to blame—but much the heavier re
sponsibility lies on the shoulders of
such so-called Democrats as Hall,
Tweed, Belmont, Sweeney, Schell,
Marble, and the like—the same with
whom originated the famous “New
Departure.”
This clique of unprincipled and
unscrupulous “rule or ruin” poli
ticians, through their obsequious un
derling, Kelso (the superintendent of
the police), without the least color of
authority, saw proper to issue a per
emptory order forbidding the parade
of certain citizens of the United
States in honor of a particular histo
rical event. This was done, no doubt,
in order to secure the undivided vote
of their inveterate enemies, who,
numerically, are as fifty to one. That
this “order” encouraged the Irish
Catholics in their subsequent acts of
violence, no one can question. The
later “ order ” of the Governor of the
State, promising protection to the
.Orangemen, could not, after such
“ encouragement,” prevent the butch
eries which ensued.
Such are the views I hear expressed
all around me by men of both parties
—and of all religious denominations,
not excepting the Catholics. I have
heard many of the latter also (com
paring small things with great) liken
this matter to the conduct of certain
prominent politicians of the North
before and after the conflict of arms
in our late sectional war. Generals
Logan and McMillan, of Hlinois,
Stanton (of blessed memory), Dick
inson of New York, Governor Geary
of Pennsylvania, Butler of Massa
chusetts, and hosts of others, after
patting the secessionists upon the
back, and rendering abortive the
efforts of more prudent Southern
statesmen to prevent the taking of the
fearful leap, were the very first men
to out-Herod Herod in savage ven
geance to the South—and they are
still the bitterest enemies of the
Southern people. So, after Hall and
h’s coadjutors had, by their unau
thorized acts, got the Irish blood up
to fever heat, they coolly co-operated
with the Governor in calling out the
troops, national and State, to shoot
down their dupes like dogs.
With respect to the feuds, religious
or political, between our adopted citi
zens, originating in the respective
countries of their birth, neither this
Government nor the Governments of
the States, can lawfully make invidi
ous distinctions. It has become a
practice, under the law of the land,
to allow the celebration of events,
however, the memory of them may be
distasteful to large classes of our hete
rogeneous population, and why a
discrimination in the case of Orange
men ? In truth, this matter of “the
battle of the Boyne,” is very super
ficially understood. The stake at that
battle was no less than the liberties of
Great Britain. Politically, it estab-
lished the famous bill of rights, upon
which our own liberties were found
ed. It is false to say that the Revolu
tion of 1688, was simply a triumph
of Protestants over Catholics. Cath
olicism, truly enough, was apart of
the political policy of James the Sec
ond; hut he might, notwithstanding
his religion, have continued to reign
until he ceased to live, had he not
pursued the precise political course
which brought the head of his father
(a protestant) to the block.
In short, impartial history proves
that King James, in his desire for
despotic sway, levying taxes hy his
mere will, and disregarding at pleas
ure the solemn acts of Parliament,
under the “dispensing power” which
he assumed, and relying mainly npon
his Catholic subjects to support him
in his usurpations, made a religions
controversy inevitable, and a union of
some sort of a church, with the State,
an absolute necessity. Had he succeed
ed, Catholicism would have become
the established national religion, fora
while at least, instead of the Protes
tant.
Talking yesterday with an intelli
gent Lash Catholic, (there is nothing
else spoken of here now hut the K\v
Klnx outrage in New York), he ful
ly admitted the consummate folly of
keeping alive here the hatred between
those belligerant parties. “■ He pro
nounced the quarrel as senseless, at
this late day, as that between the
“Far-Downs” and the “Corkonians,”
of which he said no man could ever
get at the origin.
There is much talk here at this
moment of the political effect this
business may. have- God forbid it
should have any, unless it he the
kicking out of the Democratic party,
of the chronic mischief-makers—-the
“New Departure” ring, who lord it so
lustily over the country from this
central point of Gotham, Sodam, or
whatever their den may he properly
called. The starting point of con
servative success is their unceremoni
ous repudiation.
LOUISVILLE CORRESPON
DENCE.
Tlie Falls City—Its Importance,
Its Manufactures — A Rising
City—-Tlie Press—Religious De
nominations — Clmrc li e s —
Bookstores — Pulilic Institu
tions—Bridge Over tlie Oliio—
Tlie Galt House, &c., &c., &c.
Galt House, Louisville, }
July 17, 1871. J
EdiUn's Sun : Your correspondent, af
ter being hurried through some of the
most interesting and romantic regions of
north Georgia and Tennessee, finds him
self this morning in the midst of the rush
and roar of this great mart of trade—
Louisville. 5
Louisville, at the falls of the Ohio, is
thriving city of 120,000 inhabitants, and
together with Jeffersonville and New Al
bany, on the Indiana side of the river,
probably numbers 150,000.
The water power of the falls, the river
communication, the great Ohio river ca
nal and the railroads centering here—all
tend to make it a very important point.
In manufactures of iron, glass and
chemical compositions, and tobacco, and
in packing pork, it has long held a high
position. In some specialities—for in
stance, the curing of hams—it claims the
largest establishment in the United
States.
A new manufacture—that of steam fire
engines—has recently been started here.
In many important respects the steam fire
engines manufactured here have proved
superior to those made in Cincinnati.
Since the close of the war, Louisville
has taken a vigorous bound upward. Its
many advantages for business purposes
are seen and appreciated by outsiders,and
its population lias increased with great
rapidity.
Daring the spring, summer and au
tumn, scarcely a week passes without a
large auction sale of business lots in the
suburbs. During the week just past the
sales of such lots at auction have_ aggre
gated 1300, and the aggregate sum paid
for them amounts to four or five hundred
thousand dollars. Most of these pur
chases have been made by residents of
the city, who contemplate building. *
The daily papers of the city are the
Courier-Journal (George D. Prentice’ old
paper)—New Departure Democrat; the
Ledger—old line Democrat; the Commer
cial--radical; the Evening Sun, and the
German papers—the Anzeiger and Fo&s-
btatl.
The religious papers are, the Christian
Observer (Presbyterian), which is said to
have a larger circulation than any other
weekly published South of the Ohio
river; the Western Recorder, (Baptist),
and a Catholic paper called The Advo
cate.
The largest denomination here is, I be
lieve, the Presbyterians—Southern and
Northern. The First Church has for
pastor Rev. Dr. Samuel R. Wilson, the
well-known author of the “Declaration
and Testimony.” The Second Church
enjoys the ministrations of Rev. Dr.
Stuart Robinson, a profound thinker and
thorough student, whose work on redemp-
tien has given him a trans-Atlantic repu
tation. He is a man who has reduced
theology to a science, and deals with
every subject with the skill of a master
workman. Of the Nothern churches Rev.
Dr. Humphery is pastor of one, Rev. Mr.
Robertson, of Springfield, Illinos, has
recently been called to another. Besides
these four churches there are numerous
other churches and missions in various
parts of the city, some of them depend
ent on the larger churches.
There are several large and flourishing
Methodist Churches here. The Broad
way Church, of which Rev. Dr. Rivers is
pastor, is one of the largest and most ac
tive.
ThO'Baptists and the Campbellites (or
Christians) are also numerous, as well as
the Episcopalians, and the Catholics
have a number of churches.
A Young Men’s Christian Association
has a good library and reading-room,
which forms a pleasant place to spend an
idle hour.
The book stores of John P. Morton &
Co., Davidson Bros. & Co., F. A. Crump
& Co., and half a dozen others, have on
hand large stocks of all recent publica
tions, and connected with one or two of
them are respectable sized printing offices
which get up publications^ the highest
style of typographic art.
The people of Louisville don’t seem to
understand sight-seeing except on special
occasions. The men seem to be engrossed
in business ; the Iadie3 in taking care of
their houses and grounds; the young
ladies in providing for the exigencies of
their wardrobe; while the young gentle
men, in hours not devoted to business,
seem to be ever on the hunt for eligible
fathers-in-law. They don’t have time to
see the sights. They have no park
worthy of the name. Cave Hill Ceme
tery is, however, a tasteful and beautiful
resort.
There are asylums, prisons, a house of
refuge, water-works, gas-works, hospitals,
a penitentiary on the other side of the
river; but these institutions seem to he
iopt for use rather than to be shown off.
The magnificent iron bridge across the
Ohio, 100.feet or more above the water,
and a mile and a quarter long, is well
worthy of examination. It is one of the
finest structures in the United States.
The locks of the canal, on close exami
nation, repay the trouble of visiting
them hy proving their magnitude.
The Galt House where I am stopping
is a mammoth establishment, which has
a reputation as wide as the hemis
phere of civilization. It is eight stories
high, and affords accommodation for twelve
hundred guests. All the sleeping apart
ments are handsomely famished, and the
numorous parlors present tho richest
specimens of art. The tables groan un
der the comforts and luxuries gathered
from all earth’s islands and continents.—
The cooking apartments, through which
I have just been conducted, are neat and
clean as a scotch cottage; and the laundry
is the most remarkable of its kind—being
capable of washing ten thousand pieces
a day. Time will not allow me to descend
to details.
The Kimball House is much discussed
here, and is by some supposed to be
equal to the Galt House in the magni
tude of its proportions, and in the beauty
and splendor of its decorations. But I
prefer not to take sides in this controver
sy. They are both the pride of their
respective cities.
I must not forget to mention that the
chief attraction of the Galt House is tho
enterprising and accomplished proprie
tor, CoL J. P. Johnson, and his cultivated
and elegant lady. Oglethokte.
AUGUSTA CORRESPONDENCE
A Passenger Gets Badly Scared—
Tlie Augusta Melon Trade.
Augusta, Ga., July 17,1871.
Editors of the Sun : Tlie terri
ble railroad disasters that have been
published recently are always partic
ularly fresh in the mind when the
reader of them is traveling hy rail,
and aii amusing illustration of this
was witnessed by some of the occu
pants of the sleeping car on Saturday
night. Just as the train on the
Georgia Road was crossing one of the
river bridges, some negroes, or other
rowdies on the bank raised a shout,
and one of them exclaimed “ the cars
is goin’ over the bridge!” A gentle
man who had undressed, and had al
ready fallen asleep, was awakened hy
the exclamation of the rowdies on
the bank, and heard confusedly that
exclamation about the cars and the
bridge. In a moment’s time—all in
white as he was—he was turning the
brake on the front platform of the car
while in stentorian accents he plead:
“stop the car! stop the car!” A
somewhat stern pressure of the hands
of Orion Dozier, the conductor of the
sleeping car, and his assurance that
the car was all O. K., brought our ex
cited passenger to a properunder
standing of the situation.
It would make even the wide
awake eyes of your liveliest water
melon man extend wider to see the
show of watermelons in this city. I
counted twenty-one wagon loads this
morning while walking half a mile
through Broad and Green streets. I
am reliably informed that one farmer
near the city had pulled and shipped
from his own farm, up to last Satur
day, eleven thousand melons this sea
son—shipping the large majority to
New York market. Very fine melons
retail here at 20 cents each. The
number of them shipped from Au
gusta this season would appear in
credible in print. One shipment of
twenty-three car loads was made by
one train to Savannah for shipment
to New York. The people here are
growing fat upon them, and every
animal that will eat the rinds is fat
tening also. The business done in
them is immense, and is tlie chief
business carriQd on here at this time.
This is all that is transpiring about
Augusta that could attract the notice
of the visitor. Saw.
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SUN-STROKES.
Amherst College has made Horace
Greeley a Doctor of Laws. This is
pretty hard on the old man, as he
will write himself to death in order
to establish himself worthy of the
distinction.
“ The dignity of labor” was the
subject of a recent Commencement
address hy Dr. H. H. Tucker. A fel
low out on the public works says he
knows a heap more about “ the dig-
nity'of labor” than Dr. Tucker does.
Theodore Tilton speaks of Julia
Ward Howe as “the poet-apostle, who
seems to belong in about equal por
tions between earth and air.” When
Julia read that, she spoke of Theo
dore as the biggest fool in the coun
try, then finished her plate of baked
beans and pork.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
says Mr. Stephens “ has gained nine
pounds in weight since he has been an
editor,” and adds, “he must have had
one of his editorials in his pocket
when he was last weighed.” If the
editor of the Courier-Journal were
to put one of his editorials in his
pocket he would go up like a balloon.
Two Tribune correspondents and
two men connected with the tele
graph company at Washington, have
been indicted for contempt of the
United States Senate. If every man
who feels a contempt for the present
Senate were indicted, the remainder
of the country would not have time
enough in which to hear half the
cases. * .
The mystery now agitating the
mind of New York is, how Colonel
Fisk got wounded. Fisk is satisfied
that a shot from a twenty-four-
pounder must have hit him; but,
when reminded that no cannon were
used on the “bloody 12th,” he says
there should have been, and had
there been, the wounded would have
occurred by means of them*; so he
will have it so anyhow.
