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tho same rule o! jading to other is* I citona to fmd points of agreement
sues, there will presently be no differ-1 tliail points of difference with this
Wednesday Morning. Jour 111-. | cnee between us as to winch i.-snes able publicist, and, as we believe, sin-
are dead. ; cere patriot. These admirable, ring-
Mr. Stephens classes slavery as well j ing paragraphs hit the mark in the
as secession among the dead issues, bullVeye:
although he docs not seem very posi-j Oncof the great live questions now,
whether tins should, or ' therefore, before the peoples of the Uni-
THE DAILY SUN.!
Alexander II. Stephen* on “Dead
Issues.”
from the New Yoik World, Jnly stli
We have n<> reason to retract or
regret our cordial welcome to Mr.
Stephens on his entrance into the
field of Southern journalism. We
desire to sec no important question
of party policy decided without thor
ough sifting and full dehate ; and
there is a manifest advantage in hav
ing in the arena of discussion the
keen logic, ripe experience, and ro
bust sincerity of a statesman like Mr.
Stephens. He compels us to respect
his views even when we are con
strained to dissent from and combat
them.
Although Mr. Stephens’ statements
are usually crisp aud clear, and quite
free from* trimming vagueness, he
scorns for once a little misty upon the
dead-issue question. We are not cer
tain that we fully understand him,
and suspect that our views and his
are not so widely at variance as they
may seem. We beg that on one or
two points he will be a little more
precise and explicit.
Tn a long article signed vyith his
initials in The Atlanta Sun of
July f 3, headed “On What Issues Shall
we go into the Fight?” Mr. Stephens
maintains that some of the issues of
our former politics are dead, and oth
ers full of gap. and vitality. Thus
far, at least, we agree. So lar as we
differ, it is in drawing the line be
tween the .issues which have become,
obsolete and those which still remain
iis questions of practical politics. We
only disagree as to • the comparative
length of the two catalogues** Our
list of the issues which should he la
belled “ dead” and laid aw'ay in the
hortnn siccus of dried specimens is a
little longer than his; but this seems
to be the whole-difference.
One of the points on which we wish
Mr. Stephens would define, his views
with more precision is the principle
on which the dividing line should be
drawn. What are tnc symptoms of
death ? By what rule of classifica
tion hiust we determine which issues
shall he inserted in the catalogue of
dead and which in the list of live is
sues ? If we can agree upon such a
rule, the’ controversy is practically
ended.
Mr. Stephens declares it to be his
opinion that the right of secession is
a “dead issue.” Now let us examine
the grounds on'which lie rests this
opinion and see if the same rule of
judgment would not include several
issues which he insists arc not obso
lete. Mr. Stephens still believes that
the secession doctrine is tenable in
logic; that it is a fair deduction from
the history of the Constitution and
the structure of the Federal Govern
ment ; and yet, though believing it
correct in principle, he unhesitating
ly consigns it to the limbo of lost
things. The Constitution has not
been changed on this point, by
Amendment or otherwise. It remains
precisely as it stood in the winter of
1861, when Sir. Stephens felt con
strained by the paramount allegiauce
lie owed to the Stale of Georgia to
follow it out of tho Union against his
own judgment of expediency and his
own eloquent protests. Why then
does he so frankly class secession as a
dead Issue ? Solely because the logic
of events is practically more conclu
sive than the unrefuted dialectics of
Mr. Calhoun. We insert what Mr.
Stephens says on that topic:
Tho right of soccasion for all practical
E urpoecs was, ns wo understand, decided
y the war; not that war can ever settle
or docide any principle or truth in matters
of government or justice between men or
States, any more than in matters of sci
ence, art, or religion. War may decide
and may dotermino permanently ques
tions of policy, but never questions of
right.
A legitimate result of tho lute war, we
beliovo, was, the settlement—and set
tlement forever—in this country of the
policy of secession ns a practical mode of
redress against any usurpations on the
part of the Federal government.
This legitimate result of the war has
been accepted in good faith by all those
States which recently rosorted to this
mode of redress for what they regarded
broaches of the common compact and
. threatened usurpations by their confed
erates. Hereafter, tlio mode of redress
for all abuses of power by tho Federal
government which they seek will bo to
make common cause with all tlio friends
of tho Constitution in all the States.
live as to
should uui
mate rcsul
be regarded “as a legiti- J ted States is, indeed, the constitutional
of the war.” lie says: question, not whether a State has aright
„ ... . , to secede, or to nnllify an act of Con-
So of the old question of negro slavery*) s but u . hethcr State has any light
Tho Southern seceding States all cvei^ j which the Federal government may not
one of them—abolished that institution ! at jt3 p i PSUmre aside,
by their own acts. Iliis act on tlicii i On this iloxe ire^ov iciV/i/k/ fri vnitovutTi
parts respectively may or may not be con- j aR f rim y g liberty in all t/ie'Stairs of the
sidered as a legitimate result of the war. j !n , he C(m iing contest to put out of
Whether the one or the other, however, j the. present control of
it was done by these States themselves, \ ]ir p & j €ra i gmernment, and tvho hove so
red of the- South. ' He has
sided with tho negroes and despicable
scaliawags, and thus far they have done
notlnngbut give us low! governments
that have plundered and robbed ihe
uniformly 1 There was, witli some porsons, a strong
*' prejudice! S even taW-ga-1 ft.
negro, mostly becauso of the political
rights conferred upon him; but ,a large
portion of the wisest and most substan
tial men, especially if they arci politi
cians, and have no objection to holding
office, are rather pleased that those rights
have been conferred do .the extent of vot-
people.
The Government of Georgia—Gov. 15ul-
ioclt—Blodgett a.nil the State Hoad.
Bullock has excelled in this sort of
practice. He never was elected by a ma
jority of the people. Under his rule the
treasury had been plundered Hcjvas
iu two years .and .a half, and paid «3o,r
jjfh/Democmtichawyers, whom he had a the Constitution, until changed legiti-
■ing, as it'‘maltcs more offices; and they
will control the negro, and, through him,
gain political and representative strength
for the South. The South generally ad
mit the legal binding force of the recon
struction acts and tliC new amendments to
hanged legiti-
claiming the
We are glad to find, from the ablest
political pen in the Southern States
tliis clear admission that policy and
practicability arc legitimate grounds
for setting a'great controversy at rest
AVc subnut that by this clear admis
sion Mr. Stephens is estopped from
again arraigning the progressive ma
jority of the democratic party for
recognizing irreversible facts.* In
such cases charges of deserting prin
ciple for expediency arc as irrelevant
as they are discourteous. We do not
accuse Mr. Stephens of bartering
right for policy because he has yield
ed the convictions of his judgment
to the fortune of war; nor elm it
and after the clone of the war—after they
had fully resumed all their obligations to
tlic Union under the Constitution, and
were fully rceognized by tho Federal
Government as constituent members of
the Union, and entitled to on equal
voice upon all questions pertaining to its
welfare, even those touching changes in
the organic law. It is by the acts of these
States that tho XDIth Amendment of
the Constitution is now a valid part of
the organic law of the Union. *
These questions, therefore, relating to
the right of secession, for all practical
purposes and considerations, as well as
those relating to the nature and extent of
negro servitude in tho Southern States,
we consider emphatically among the
“deaii issues." Wchave no disposition
to revive them, nor any question relating
to them antecedent to the war. We be
lieve also tlmt in thi3 matter we but re
peat the universal sentiment of the South
ern States.
It is true that the Southern States
ratified the amendment abolishing
slavery “by their own actsbut no
body knows bettor than Mr. Stephens
that those acts were not voluntary.
They were done at the bidding of
Andrew Johnson, then the master of
half a million of soldiers. Mr. Ste
phens would need but a small share
of his acumen and logic to make out
a strong case against the validity of
those extorted ratifications; but it
would lie au idle expenditure of argu
mentative skill. The real reason
Avhv the abolition of slavery is final
and irreversible is that it is sanctioned
by such a body of settled and strenu
ous public opinion, that an attempt
to re-establish slavery would kindle
the whole country into a conflagra
tion. It is because of this state of
public sentiment, that the stability of
emancipation is so immovably fixed,
and that it would be so idle and fu
tile to contest the validity of the
thirteenth amendment. Apd if there
is a similar state of public feeling re
specting negro civil rights and negro
suffrage, it would be equally futile
and unprofitable to undertake a cru
sade against the fourteenth and fif
teenth amendments. If we accept
their substance (as we believe Mr.
Stephens does) what will it avail to
quarrel with their form? Practical
statesmanship disdains to waste effort
on the husks of a question after ac
cepting the kernel. As Mr. Stephens
does not wish to deprive the negroes
of their newly acquired franchises, he
practically admits that negro suffrage
and negro civil equalityare dead issues.
In opposing the amendments he is
therefore fighting with shadows. The
contest of Don Quixote with the
windmills had more of the character
of a real battle. There could not be
a more fantastic political comedy than
to admit negro suffrage to be a dead
issue aud at the same time make the
fifteenth amendment (which does
nothing but ordain negro suffrage) a
live issue. The comedian langhswith
with one side of his face and weeps
with the other, and it is not easy to
tell whether lie is really jocose or
grieved. Be consistent, Mr. Stephens,
and if yon do not wish to spill the
water make no futile attempts to
break the pitcher.
Mr. Stephens seems equally chi
merical in insisting that the recon
struction acts are a live issue. When
avc descend from the aerial region and
cloud-land of vague declamation to
the solid ground of fact aud precise
ideas, avc find that the reconstruction
acts cannot be repealed, for tho sim
ple reason that they are no longer in
force. Hoav can au obsolete and de
funct act of Congress be a live issue?
Mr. Stephens might with as much
pertinence contend that the old Alien
and Sedition laws and the Embargo
laAv are live issues. By tEe
Aery terms of the reconstruc
tion acts they ceased to be operative
in any State from the date of the
admission of Senators and Kepreson-
to Congress from that Shite.
All tnc States are represented and
the reconstruction acts have become
void by their own limitation. An
agitation to repeal them Avould be
ridiculous. I here, is nothing to re-
*i° a ii Ul ' Pp^tical form, then,
Shidl aw opposition to them take?
S AD*. Stephens wishes to overthrow
the State governments Avhich were
born of die reconstruction acts, let
him say so. lie lias avowed no such
wickedly abused their high trusts—whose
progress, if not arrested, will end inevitably
in despotism.
If the battle be pitched upon this
ground alone, with no soft \yords of usur
pations of any sort, there will be no need
of “levies.” Volunteers for their own ac
cord, when the sigual is given, Avill poor
forth from every quarter Avith that enthu
siasm for the cause which love of liberty
ever inspires, and which in popular elec
tions is ever the surest “earnest of victo
ry." A. H. S.
*- T
GEORGIANS EXAMINED BE-
FORE THE KU-KLUX
COMMITTEE.
great fancy for feeing, and some of whom j matejy, if changed at all, cmiming 1
were unable to resist his advances m this J right of appeal or a judicial negative.
regard. . , •
“During the time lie was m, be pa.U |
out 868,000 iu rewards for the .nPgtolievL
sion of fugitives.
rius time among the niggers.
intention; but if the State govern-
nge m their respective constitu
lions, if desirable, is not a question of
Federal politics, but of State politics,
aud Mr. Stephens would place him
self iu glaring contradiction to his
serve any good end for him to use own cherished principles by making
>uch censorious language towards the domestic government of the
Democratic opponents Avho apply the States a Federal issue.
same rule of judgment to other cases. J When Mr. Stephens shall have
Every argument employed by. Mr. more fully explained his vieivs we
k sbhool against the have strong hopc3 that we may be
able to agree Avith him, because he is
too practical and considerate a states
man to disturb the harmony or break
the unity of the only partv which
carries the banner of State rights.—
... ^ <*>VJ ^tli pleasure and hearty
on issue ^lr. ^u*pliQns .rcusons indorsement the closing prragraplis
a statesman; and if lie will apply of his article, and arc far more soli-
progressive Deinocrats is an equally
valid argument for keeping alive the
controversy on the right of secession.
They are as much exposed as any
body to the chaTge of renouncing
principle for expediency. On the sc-
Testimony of lion. A. R. Wriglit
of Rome, ami Dr. N. L. Angler
of Atlanta.
From the Washington Patriot of
the 14th and 15th instants, avc make
the fallowing extracts—first from the
testimony of Judge Wright, given
before the Committee on the 13th
inst.: m
Iv71-1X1 ux Organizations.
Mr. Pool, (a member of the Commit
tee, and Radical Senator from North Car
olina) demanded to knoAV about Ku-
Klux organizations; whether there were
not such organizations in Georgia and
other parts of the South.
Judge Wright said that if the question
was whether there were regular secret
organizations, with secret signs and pass
words, and organized under a head, or
iu accordance with any design to restrain
any class of citizens from exercising their
privileges of citizenship, or ivith a pur
pose of resisting the authority of the
Government, ho answered no. He had
no knowledge of such organizations.
But he added that there were, in some
localities, local organizations for tho pur
pose of preserving the,pence and repress
ing lawlessness for the general good, and
lie had no doubt but that such organiza
tions had sometimes committed excesses,
and perpetrated wrongs against individ
uals. They were not organizations ef
fected to prevent the negroes from vot
ing, and he had known no instance in
which, in his section of country, they had
attempted such a thing. He stated that
tho worst acts of violence he had eA’er
Avitnessed in this regard were the violent
outrages committed by Radical negroes
upon persons of their own color who had
attempted to vote ivith the Democrats.
He had once seen the white citizens or
ganized and armed to protect negroes
Avho desired to vote their personal senti
ments, in opposition to the wishes of the
Radical organizations.
The Judge's Religious Views—Foot-
AVasliIng Baptists'.
Mr. Pool then questioned Judge Wright
as to his religious opinions, and was told
that the Avitness professed a very humble
and simple faith; that he was, in fact, a
feet-Avashing Baptist.
This answer puzzled the North Caro
lina Senator not a little, for it was evi
dent ho had never heard of the feet-
wasliers. Ho asked the Judgo if feet-
wasliiug was a doctrine or an observance.
The Judge replied that the doctrine of
feet-washing was derived from the “Last
Supper,” ns described by the Scriptures,
and that its folloAvers believed that it was
a Christian duty and privilege to perform
the same office toward one another, in
imitation of the-humble example set His
Disciples by the Saviour of mankind.—
He added that he had witnessed the ob
servance of feet-washing administered to
humble negroes by white brethren of the
faith, and would cheerfully perform the
same ceremony himself if occasion de
manded. The disciples of this faith were
generally sincere believers in its efficacy.
Loyalty to tlic Government.
Mr. Pool Avanted to know if the Judge
was loyal to the Government.
Said the Judge, “that depends on wliat
you mean by tho word loyal.”
“But," said Mr. Pool, “I want a direct
ansAver.”
‘Then,” said tho Judge, “you cannot
nave it.” He then proceeded to say that
the Irish people were loyal to the British
Crown, in that they did not try to resist
the English dominion. They submitted
to the English rule. But the English
Government did not hold out any in
ducements to that people to the loyal in
their souls to it. If Mr. Pool meant that
loyalty which has its seat in the soul of
the citizen ; which is true to a principle
because that principle is true, and which
adheres to the government because it be
lieves the government to be just and hon
est to the citizens, then he did not think
there was much of such loyalty in the
South. They don’t feel it in that way.
You cannot expect a people to love a
government that refuses their rights of
citizenship. The witness himself conld
not to-day be a balif to one of his form
er slaves if one of them were elected a
magistrate. There is no denying that
tho Southern people think the Govern
ment made a grave mistake in confer
ring
Unlimited SulTYagc on tlic Negroes.
The whites down there don’t believe
the negro race is fit for self-government;
and where a race so Avanting ia balance,
and intelligence, and other self-govern
ing qualities, largely dominates, as in
many sections of the Southern country,
aud has unrestrained right to control
elections, anything like good government
is simply impossible.” * * *
nation of white men npon earth is capa
ble of selt-government but tho American
nation, except, perhaps, the English and
Prussians. How, then, could any sane
person believe in the capacity of the ne
gro raeo to govern themselves ?
Fctling* of tlic Soutlicrn People to
wards Gen. Grant.
The great gronnd of objecSon to Grant
is that lie seems to have a particular bat
olull w He paid out §98,000
for ailA-ertlsing his proclamations, \vhich
were unheard of expenditures io ^this re
gard. He expended between §400,00U
and §500,000 for contingencies, and nev
er showed a voucher for the money so
spent. He put Foster Blodgett in charge
of the Atlanta and Georgia State. Rail
road, who kneAV as much about railroad
ing as the ‘learned pig.’ Blodgett paid
the State §25,000 the first month and
§20,000 the second month; and after that
nevei’ paid a cent or made a return. He
ran tho road down, wore out its stock,
and brought it in debt to the extent of
§700,000, which the State of Georgia is
now paying off. It is generally believed,
that Blodgett plundered the State to the
extent of two or throe millions. In the
meantimo a bill was worked through the
Legislature leasing the road to Senators
Cameron, Scott and. others, for twenty
years, at §25,000 a month, or §300,000 a
year. To show what a good thing this
party have of it, it is only necessary to
state that before the war the road brought
in §600,000 a year, and that at a time
when its business was not a third of what
it is now. Thus the people have been
robbed by the local governments the Fed
eral Government has given them to the
present time.”
Sentiments of the People TowarrtsNorth-
ern Men—Dr. Angler
In giving the terrible plunderings of
the State by Bullock and liis carpet-bag
government-, the Judge was asked by Mr.
Pool if he did not think some Of his
opinions originated in his prejudices to
wards Northern men. “Not at all,” re
plied the Judge; “I have no prejudices
agaipst Northern men. God does not
make good aud bad men by parallels of
latitude and longitude. Look at Angier,
our Treasurer; he is a Northern man—a
Republican, but an honest man. There
lie has stood at the door of the treasury,
fighting all the while, like a lion at bay,
for tho welfare of the people. ”
The Judge ivas asked if Angier had
not joined the Democrats. “Not at all,”
replied he. ‘ ‘He supports General Grant,
I suppose, and goes Avith the honest Re
publicans. The peoplo of Georgia owe
him an eternal weight of gratitude. Had
he joined Avith Bullock and his public
plunderers, no man could tell the extent
of their robberies.”
Dr. Angler’s Testimony—Tin; Iasnc of
State Bonds.
Dr. Angier, Treasurer of the State of
Georgia, was examined before the Com
mittee on Southern Outrages, the 14th in
stant. He presented facts and figures
showing a damaging record against the
Administration of Governor Bullock, of
Georgia. Aside from any exhibition of
partisan feeling, he showed Avherein Bul
lock had violated the plain letter of the
law in numerous instances. On the sub
ject of the issue of the neAv State bonds
and the Governor’s effort to conceal the
amount and disposition made of thorn,
the testimony of this witness was most
crushing, aud fully corroborative of oth
er testimony on the same point,. and
showed conclusively that Bullock had
both transcended and disregarded the
law of the State. He exhibited samples
of the different classes of bonds the
Governor had had engraved, and proof
of the number and amount of each,
showing an amount almost incredibly in
excess of the authority of the statute Cre
ating them,
There was §200,000 to be raised to pay
the salaries of the Legislature, and
§350,000 to pay the bonds of the State
falling due this year.
The Legislature authorized the Cover
nor to issue currency bonds to pay the
§200,000, and gold interest bonds to pay
the §350,000. ; ' •
On account of the §200,000 authority,
Bullock issued §2,000,000, and had the
State Treasurer’s name engraved on all
the coupons, without the knowledge or
consent of that officer.
To pay the bonds falling due, (§350,-
000,) he issued §4,000,000 of bonds,
bearing gold interest. He has never re
ported to the State Treasurer, or. any
State officer, how many of these bonds
have been sold. He has them in his pos
session, and keeps his own counsel.
A limit 10,000 lit Covington— Frinks of
ii geared Mule. ... • ;
TELEGRAPH NEWS
By the New York Associated Press.
NOON DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON.
.1 JSIack-JUalUr Walled—1 IitslraeUvt Storm
Washington, July IS—Reuben J.
Dolph has been sentenced to fivo years
imprisonment for blackmailing Buffalo
physicians.
A destructive storm, occurred yesterday
along the LouisA’ille and Nashville Rail
road. The freight train Avas blown from
a sAvitch across the main track, and threw
the passenger train off. No lives were
lost.
LOUISIANA.
Dr
Angler’ll Opinion aliout Oic Ku-
; Ktuz. t :<■ -
Dr. A. said he knew’ nothing of Kti-
Klux organizations except from rumor
and newspaper reports, never having to
his knowledge seen a Ivn Klnx. He
thought that lawlessness had been in
dulged in in several-sections of Georgia,
as it had at times in every State, and
probably always would. He could not
say how far it had been political, but be
lieved it was such in some sections, aiid
that bad men, both white and black,
were now making use of the disguise for
private gain and personal revenge, and
by boys for mischief. He regarded
it as a wonder that the people are as
quiet and peacerble as they are, with
the corruptions and the terrible plunder
ings, and over three hundred pardons
by the Governor, a large portion for mur
der, in some, cases before trial. There is
no such thing as a general disturbance,
and never has been. Many negroes and
some whites are addicted to stealing and
licentiousness, and this has caused dis
turbance and violence in some localities.
If individual accounts are true, there
is a terrible condition of affairs in cer-.
tain neighborhoods. He thought, how
ever, that the pictures are overdraAvn, as
they have been proved to be in most ca
ses, and in some entirely false. Injured
and interested parties vvere apt to give
extravagant accounts, and with unprinci
pled men this w’as a cheap and conven
ienfcwayof making, political capital, and
inducing large rewards for madc-up r.hnn>
cases. Ho thought the State courts were
sufficient to restrain lawlessness if the
Governor would eeasehis wholesale par
doning. The rights of the negro were
safer iu the hands of upright, intelligent
Ayliite juries than in those of negro juries,
in the present condition of that race.
Last Sunday AA*as preached the com
mencement sermon, at Covington, of
Emory College, preparatory to the exer
cises. which Avqro to follow tho succeed
ing day. This is an old time custom,
and a great many, people flocked to Cov-
ington to hear the.eminent 1 Bishop Pierce
orate “on that ‘occasion. True to their
apish inkic(s; negroes improvised a
big meeting in CCVington, for that day,
and an immense-.crowd of them were on
hand, from the surrounding country, in
attendance. They came up by every con
veyance, and soon outnumbered their
Avliite brethren, who Avere holding forth
in another part of the town. Quite a
large number went from this place. The
big preacher of the occasion was Joe
Woods, well known in this city as a good
drayman, and an usually good negro gen
erally. While Joe was in full swing,
warning his felloAV-sinners of the terrible
consequences ofc .their sins, and getting
up the excitement - to its usual pitch on
such occasions, the train from this city
came puffing and snprting close by the
congregation. This lent additional ex
citement to the crowd, and the country
colts and mules unused to the cars, were
all Avrhirling and twisting in the very ag
onies- of fright. Brother Joe was call
ing np the mourners; the sisters
were hugging and clasping the
brethren in true Christian unity, the en
gine was puffing and bloAving, and Avhen
the-two shrill' tools were sounded for
“down breaks,;” one old Confederate
mule could stand it no longer. He just
gave one long, strong and decided pull,
as a mule only knows how to give, and
snapped the rope which held him to a
swinging limb. He apparently closed
his eyes and went it blind, for as soon as
he was freed from the limb, he made
right for the congregation, Avith head
and tail erect. He unceremoniously
plunged into the crowd of devout blacks,
scattering them in every direction. A
wide opening was made for the mule,
which never halted until he arrived right
in front of the pulpit, amongst the
mourners and preachers.
It is supposed that Joe’s avcII Icuoavu
treatment of. mules, and his persuasive
voice attracted this animal to him as a
refuge from what, no doubt, his mulish
instincts would consider the devil on
wheels.
To Mrs. J—Widow.
BY A. It. WATSON;
So piquant, and petite and pretty,—
All this, I own, you may be— .
And winsomely witching and witty,
And yet not forme.
Though the sweetest surprise
That shines in your eyes
Is Avinning, I own,
I want the first beam
That lights up love’s dream
Or none.
Indeed, you’re so charming a body,
’Tis hard for a man to resist ;
Perhaps you may win some Tomnoddy :
Yonr lips might be kist
They’re a-blush Avith the glow
Of Love’s wine’s purple flow,
And are sweet, I own ;
Yet; T want the first sip
From Love’s roseate lip,
Or, none
You own all the graces of beauty,
None know that fact better than I
Yet to love you is hardly my duty:
I don’t think I’ll try;
Though youi* cheek is a flood
With tho royal rose-blood
As bright as e’er shone;
On cheek, such as this,'
I must press the first kiss,
Or none.
Yon were once in your weeds, aud were
charming, [ see ,
You haive wept for one husband, you
Aud I think—and the thought is alarm
ing— -.- ; U J, - .
Would, perhaps, weep for me,
No matter how loose,
Another man’s shoes
Will pinch if they’re won;
So I’ll stand in my own,
And wear them alone,
Or none.. . r ^
No! she who has been Mrs. Jenkins
»Can never become Mrs. Thrown;
So I think, and my way,-of thinking:s .
Well worth noting down.
Then go on with your Wiles
And your wlnsomest smije.s;
They’re.charming, I own;
But from love’s perfectjiower
I must claim the first' flower
Or-none.
A Homicide mid a Cllin‘drr.
Neav Orleans, July IS.
Albert Myers was shot dead this morn
ing by Michael F. Rodgers. Cause-
jealousy. Tho murderer AVns imprisoned.
Francis Monteath, a clerk in Chappin’s
store, St. James’Parish, was murdered
May 10th, the body thrown into the riA’-
er, and the store robbed and burned by
four negroes. A jury composed, of six
whites and six colored, to-day, found
them guilty of arson, burglary and mur
der. The penalty is death.
“Foreign notes”—Bank of England
currency. ' . .
Sheridan has been made an ; LL, D.
He always was an ’ll of a fellow.
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
Dispatches report a riot between the
Sociables and Ultramontaines, at Vienna.
Many people Avere injured. The police
were powerless. The military suppressed
the emeute.
The magazine of the Grecian war
steamer Eumonia exploded recently in
the Grecian Archipelago. The crew,
forty in number, Avere nearly all killed.
The balance were hurt. The vessel was
destroyed. .
A telegram from Hong Kong to Lloyds,
announces that n typhoon visited Hiago,
Japan. Seven steamers Avent ashore or
sunk. The place was inundated.
The French Minister of Finance has
announced to the Asseifiby the desired
continuance of 20 per cent, import duty
on cotton.
The Czar has made the Crown Prince
of Saxony an honorary Field Marshal.
NEW YORK.
refer*’ Hoard of Trade Organization—The
Yacht Club not Drotcncd—Hull on the Ram
page.
New York, July 18—Tlio Grocers’
Board of Trade was organized to-day.—
W. A. Booth was elected President, and
Chas. E. Hill, Geo. W. Dare, Benj. D.
Sherman and Thos. G. Arnold, Vico
Presidents.
The reported droivning of several
members of the Oceanic Yacht Club was
false. They were all picked up by a
passing schooner. The yacht was picked
up at sea and towed ashore.
A mad bull, on Ninth Avenue, injured
two women seriously and a child fatally.
A board of officers, consisting of Cols.
Marcy, King and Hunt, and Majors
Dodge and Alexander, met to-day, in
Brooklyn, under special instructions
from the Secretary of War, to prepare
general regulations for the Army Board
of Health.
The Races.
Saratoga, July 18.—Abdel Kaderwon
the first race to-day—time 1:571. King
fisher Avalked tho second and Nellio tho
third.
WASHINGTON.
Womiuation.
Washington, July 18.—R. G. Clark
has been .appointed Assessor for the Sec
ond District of Alabama.
Routwell-Vleatanton.
The action of Bontwell, in referring
back to Commissioner Pleasanton the
appeal of the Now York Central Railroad,
in reference to taxation, was a matter of
mere routine, and without significance
as regards tho imbroglio between the two
officials.
The Probabilities.
are that the barometer will eoutinno low
in tho Gulf States, with increasing south
erly AA’ind and rains from Louisiana to
West Virginia and eastward to the Atlan
tic. A falling barometer with threaten
ing weather will probably prevail very
generally on Wednesday in the Middle
and Eastern States, and brisk winds from
the southeast and southwest are probablo
for the coast. Rain will probably extend
over Minnesota and Northern "Wisconsin
to-night.
GEORGIA.
Inihiense Jieslmclion by Storm.
Augusta, July 18.—Heavy rains, ac
companied by heavy winds, have prevail
ed for several days. The dams of the
Longley Cotton Mills and the Bath Paper
Mills, situated on Horse Creek, six miles
from Augusta, broke at 4 o’clock this
morning. The volume of water, striking
the South Carolina Railroad, swept away
the embankment and track for half a
mile. The damaged road has been re
paired, aud trains are running. Some
three hundred hands in tho mills have
been thrown out of employment. The
loss sustained amounts to about §50,000.
WASHINGTON.
The Steamboat Siupcelor*' Report.
Washington, July 18.—The Secre
tary of the Treasury has approved the re
port of the 'Steamboat Supervising In
spectors. The report covers some 400
pages. It increases the facilities for sav
ing life and imposes more stringent rules
upon managers of steamboats.
The condition of the lines South for
bids the sending of the elaborate abstract
of the report Avhich has been prepared.
Weather Report.
Washington, July 18.—The barometer
lias fallen slightly since Monday evening
in the Middle and Eastern States, but is
now again falling rapidly from tho lower
lakes to Texas and eastAvard to the Atlan
tic States. An area of Ioav barometer is
now over Lakes Huron and Ontario:-r-
Tho temperature has been generally low
er than on Monday, but the thermometer
is again rising on tho: east Atlantic.—
Southerly winds are iioav reported from
North Carolina to NeAV Jersey, and south
westerly winds from Pennsylvania to
Maine, as also on tho Gulf coast. Rainy
and threatening weather extends .from
Georgia to Virginia and westward to
thnMississippi. .'Light rain is'alsd ro
ported from Mississippi to Vermont.
