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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. >-•-«- 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.