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XNDlSTlNCT PfcmTj 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.