The independent. (Quitman, Ga.) 1873-1874, September 20, 1873, Image 1

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VOLUME I. THE INDEPENDENT. r :r.zss=====^== (SATURDAY, HKPTKMBEIt 40, IW3. Publlthrd Weekly at |4 00 per Annum In Advance. Single Copt** 9 cents. LYING DEAD. BY JENNIE STOVIN. “Lyme there dead!” iu her youth and her beauty— Lving alone in her dark little room; Jus! her white hands crossed over her boßom, Hhimng like silver in darkness and gloom. “Lving there dead!” with the long Bilkou lashes Biding her eyes of the violet hue— Eves that onee'looked upon me with their love light— Eyes m my madness I deemed wore so true. *‘Lving there dead l” midst her tresses of golden hair Hair I once fondled and held to my cheek: And now it is wet with the death damp and night dew. And I of her falsehood aud cruelty speak. “Lving there dead !** and once she has loved me dnee I have folded shone white hands in mine 1 Ah I love, whom the poets declare is eternal, Who can find changes so bitter as thine. “Lving there dead!” in her falsehood and beauty, /ust a faint smile on the fair cliiaeTd face; Who could believe she had blasted iny future— Who could decipher such fraud in her grace ? “Lying there dead l n yet she loved and deserted me— Married another—poor wavering will! Feeling this—proving this! laugh at me, mock at me! Holding this knowledge, I do love her still! ‘Lying there dead!” in her shroud and her coffin, Yet I remember that once she was mine; Thus love! whom we mortals declare is eternal. Who can find changes so cruel as thine! The Story of a Windmill. We went out to Slaymakers in June to spend the summer, bat we have been obliged to leave. Slaymaker has a small stream near his house, from which he used to pump water into the tank in his garret. It occurred to him some time ago that it would be a good idea to put up a windmill which could do the pumping for him, so he built one at a cost of S2OO. The first duy it began to revolve it frightened Slnymnk er's best horse so that it run against the fence and was killed, and the arms were so long that they nearly brained Slavmak er’s oldest boy, who was standing beneath watching the machine, when it suddenly stopped work and refused to move au inch, Sloymaker accordingly pumped the tank full, and just as ho stopped, the mill began to pump like fury. Slay maker, in alarm, procured a rope and tied one of the w ings to a tree. When the tank was empty he tried to make the windmill fill it again, but the concern was immovable. Then Slaymaker waited for a couple of weeks, j and earned the water up to the house, in j buckets, because he was afraid to fill the tank, when tho mill might get to work at any moment. Finally, as there seemed to be no hope of tho machinery getting all right again, he did pump the tank full, and then Went to bed. That night there was the first hurricane ever known in that neighborhood. The windmill made about four hundred revolutions a minute, and left the bed of the stream below it com pletely dry, while it poured nearly six hundred gallons an hour into Slaymaker’s garret. The boarders all swam out the windows, and spent the rest of the night in the bora, while .Slaymaker took to a tree, from which, at daylight, he had a j magnificent view of the falls as they | poured picturesquely from the attic win- ! dows, every' minute or two bringing out; with them a chair or a hair trunk, or one of Slaymaker’s shirts, or a waahstand. Mrs. Slaymaker will not ele,an house this summer, but Slaymaker has a windmill j that he is anxious to sell. He will pfobn ( bly close it out cheap to a purchaser who ' wants to take it away right off. Anocdote of a Deaf Mart. Wind-mills, made famous by the ex* ploits of Don Quixote, in olden times, were in common use in the early settle ment of this country, and then, one man who followed the business of putting up wind-mills, Caleb Snyder, of Franklin county, Georgia, was his calling. Now Caleb was very deaf, and like most deaf men he had a habit ef guessing at what was said, and answering at a venture. On one occasion, as Caleb was making a wind mill post near the public highway, he saw a man approaching on horseback. Now, said he, that man will ask me what lam making. I’ll tell him a wind-mill post. He’ll then ask me how deep I put it. I’ll tell him up to this knot on the post. He will then ask what I will charge to make him one. I’ll tell him $25. He’ll say he won’t give it. I’ll tell him if he won’t somebody else will. The stranger approached with the salu tation, “Good morning, sir.” Caleb replied, “wind-mill post, sir.” “Please inform me how far it is to the next house ?” “Up to this knot sir. ” The stranger, somewhat indignant, re plied: “You must be a fool.” “TweDty-five dollars, sir.” “I’ve a good mind to get down and give yon a hell of a whipping, sir. ” If you don’t somebody else will.” A gentleman residing on the outskirts of New York, placed a Mexican cactus on the top of his garden wall as an ornament. Late in the evening he thought he discov ered the head of a burglar peering over the wall, and hit out at it with all his might. He has all the summer before him to pick the thorns out of his knuckles. The Empress of Japan no longer shaves jier eyebrows or blackens her teeth. THE INDEPENDENT. Love at Sight. Lute in the last autumn a young girl, of poor but respectable parentage, in Eng land, exhibited symptoms of “going into decline,” as the old-fashiuued phrase is, and arrived at that stage of the obscure indisposition where the medical gentle man of the day is wont to coufess the in adequacy of liis science and escapes final responsibility for the case by counseling remote travel. Her father and mother were sagely informed by the family physi cian that an Atlantic voyage only could restore her to health; aud they being, as already indicated, in humble circumstan ces, that ordinarily costly resort might have been hopelessly beyond their means but for their acquaintance with a certain sea Captain, who, upon hearing what the doctor had said, volunteered to give their daughter a trip upon his vessel to Boston and back. In consideration of this gratuity she was to render such service as she could to the friendly maniner’s wife during the voyage, and readily assented to the condi tion. But scarcely had the ship cleared port and her health began mending when she discovered that the business of work ing one's pussage across the ocean is any thing but sinecurial. The Captain’s wife made her drudge from morning until night at all kinds of menial offices, and although I her physical condition steadily improved under the ordeal, she secretly determined j that she would sooner remain in this coun try all her life than return to England in that ship. Hence, upon the arrival of the latter, she took her way ashore without much ceremony, and in accordance with a previously meditated plan, began enquir ing from house to house for a servant's situation. The spirit to do such a thing as this in spired her with an air of energetic effi ciency, securing immediate favorable at tention from acute housekeepers, aud very hoou she found herself engaged by a respectable and kind family upon terms which, to her fancy, seemed promising of an early accumulation of the sum of money necessary to take her back to Europe upon a vessel not sailed by charitable friends. A letter to the old folks at home, to report her restored health and brave conclusion, and the English lass was ready for the ad venture next to be related. One day, soon after the Yankee domes tication, while on the way to a lump-post letter-box with a second letter, she acci dentally dropped the missive to the side walk, and in stooping abruptly to recover it, came into violent collision with a brusque, hurrying little man, of befurred great-coat and foreign aspect. Gallantly taking to himself the blumo of the mishap the stranger uttered a plenti ful apology in German, and apparently in- ! cousoluble at not being understood, fol-' lowed the startled girl, with much ges ticulation aud bowing to the adjacent let ter-box, and then back almost to the house door. Not only this, but on the day en suing he reappeared at the house with the well-known music leader, Mr. Koppitz, to resume his apologies through an inter preter. The family of the residence, upon learning that the polite gentleman was a highly distinguished member of the fa mous Thomas Orchestra, of New York, called the young emigrant to the parlor for the requested interview, which did not terminate until the obviously admir ing apologist bad asked and received per mission to call again. It was plain that he had contracted an unusual interest for the humble heroine of the letter-box, and when, after ascertaining her history and making several calls, he t managed to inform her that he was an honest h-itor for her hand, and what had at first been deemed an eccentric whim was accepted in sentimental earnest. The girl, as honest, practiced no affectation of displeasure at the offer of a husband so distinguished, and the betrothal being duly announced, the delighted musical ro- I rnancer saw her raised from the position of a servant to that of temporary boarder in her American home, and supplied with an efficient German teacher before he took his affectionate leave and went southward on a professional tour with his orchestra. On his return from this same melodious journey, by way of the west, his affianced wrote him that her father, in England, had j been taken suddenly sick, and desired her i speediest coming home. His answer was j an inclosure of money and a broken Eng lish letter of filial explanation to the household across the water, and another letter to tell his mistress that she must wait a few days until he could come to her, and he himself escort her across the At lantic as his wife. She waited accord j ingl.y, reports the Boston correspondent lof the Springfield Union. The marriage I took place in the presence and under the j congratulations of American friends, who | were as well satisfied of the bridegroom’s | sterling integrity as of the bride’s exem -1 plary worthiness, and the next Cunard | steamer bore them to the English coast as I happy a pair of mated lovers as e illus trated old romance in modern instance. A teacher in Rockport received a note the other day from an indignant parent, which read; “I want you to strickly understand that you hunt boss of my Chril den if you keep maria for bein late you will have truble you need not think IV ee are Slaves becas wee hant. Wee live in a free land adoo.” - An edict has been issued in Japan that the natives shall in future eat bread instead of rice. The stars and stripes arc painted on the spire of a Methodist church in lowa. QUITMAN, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1873. LOLA MONTEZ’S DAUGHTER. Thr PrincraM Rdlthn and (hr Vlciaaitudt'M of llrr Fortune. A New York correspondent of the Chi cago Tribune writes as follows: “It has been so long since the Princess Ediths Lolita created a sensation in the newspapers here that she is well nigh for gotten. The last heard of her she was sent to an asylum on the ground of in sanity, though the general opinion was a mania for irregular adventure. You re member that she claimed to be the daugh ter of Lola Montec and Ludwig, King of Bavaria, the father of the present monarch. She still insists on this, and says, further more, that at an early age sho was impris oned in a convent by some enemies of her mother, and so strictly guarded that she found it impossible, after repeated efforts to escape. Finally, in 1809, she succeeded, with the assistance of the famous Dr. Doellinger and a young Frenchman, Paul Messant, cousin of Henri Rochefort, in gaining her freedom, though not before ! she bad been several times wounded by shots, (sho shows her wounds), fired at her while climbing the convent wall. Her hurts were not serious enough to prevent her from driving iu a carriage through the Black forest with M. Messant, who ac companied her to Munich, and then .sepa rated from her. She obtained an inter view with the present King of Bavaria, her half brother, who had allowed her a handsome annuity for some time, previous, and now gave her a considerable sum of money. With this she went to Paris, and later to London; hut finding, as she says, that she was continually persecuted by the Roman Catholic priesthood, she de termined to come to this country. She had not been long in New York before she mode the acquaintance of Cornelious Vanderbilt, and lie introduced her, she alleges, to Woodhull and Clftfliu. They interested her so deeply in the cause of woman’s right*!, and especially in them selves, that she contributed liberally to ward the Women’s Club-house, which they then pretended to be fitting up iu luxuri ous style. She also deposited with them some $85,000, but when she drew her first check they refused to pay it, declaring she had no money in their hands. She charged that they had stolen her bank-book and left no evidence of their indebtedness to her. In her trouble she had recourse to Van derbilt, who advised her to engage a certain notorious firm of shysters as her counsel. Sire did so; and the lawyers, after getting what money they could out of her, uu blushingly sold her out, and she subse quently discovered that they were really tin' counsel for Woodhull and Chitlin. The feminine bankers, she avers, to get rid of further prosecution, connived with the priesthood to have her sent to tlie insane asylum. She was soon released, as there was no evidence of her lunacy, and she went to a hotel on Broadway, where the excitement of recent events brought on a nervous fever. The physician attending her, being unable to visit her on a certain occasion, sent in his stead a young French man who was studying medicine with him; they fell in love with each other, and as soon as she recovered they were married. He was finely educated, and highly con nected in France, though very poor. He afterwards became one of the editors of the Courrier ties Etals Units, and still later was connected w ith a newspaper on Long Island. He worked very hard, and over exertion resulted in brain fever, of which he died last February. The widow gave birth to a daughter within a week of her husband’s decease. Since then she has been in very straightened circumstances; but a few weeks ago she received a large remittance from Europe, and tlie letter containing it furnished the intelligence that she had been amply provided for in France. She says she is to occupy a cha teau near Bologne, and that 120,000 francs per annum is her present allowance. She sailed for Europe a day or two since with her child, and expects to make her future home on the continent. The princess Editha is twenty-four years old, is passably i good looking, and elegant in figure wore S she not too much inclined to be embon point. Slie is highly educated and accom plished, speaking aud writing French, German, Italian, Spanish and English with perfect fluency and correctness. She is very magnetic and dramatic, and taken altogether, a very strange compound of humanity. ” A Pheasant Predicament. — The most puzzled man in the United States lives at Sandusky, Ohio. Tlie other day he waxed at once vindictive and ingenious, and re solved to protect the sanctity of his hearth and home by an acute stratagem. In pur suance of this idea he mingled arsenic in a bottle of wine and placed it where any burglar would see it, and, unless practical believers in total abstinence, would drink therefrom, and surely die. Now, the wife of this intelligent Sanduskian is an orderly woman, and when she found that bottle of wine placed in a conspicuous position, she said that that “was just like John; he nev er did have any neatness, and she know it when she married him.” Then she took the bottle and put it in the cellar with eight dozen other bottles, tend arranged them neatly in rows, and contemplated her work with innocent pride. Then she told her husband about it. Since he ex hausted his vocabulary of profanity he has been spending all his leisure in looking at these bottles and trying to recognize the one which ho prepared for the poor bur glar, and unless he can solve the problem soon he expects a brain fever. [Correnpondcuce of 4ho Now York Express. ) Political and Social Equality at the South. Eastern Virginia. Aug. 27, 1873. Having shown the impracticability of the two races ever living together peacea bly on terms of equality, and having proven the folly of all attempts to force such equality in violation of the laws of nature, I proceed to discuss whether I.IIIKHTY AND THE FRANCHISE have elevated the moral status of the negro race. The history of this race discloses the fact that it has never attained to any de gree of civilization, except when placed under the guidance of a superior race. And it proves further that whenever it has thus been elevated and then left to itself it has relapsed back to its normal condi tion, Instance the negro of Jamaica ami Sun Domingo. The fact is the negro race has not tlie capacity for self-government, and to sustain itself in a civilized state. Aud it is obvious to every observing mind that, so fur ns the great mass of tlie negro race is concerned, it is rapidly retrograd ing, and that, too, in the midst of the most advanced civilization. It cannot be do nied that the moral status of the negro is infinitely lower tlmn it was. 'The criminal records of the State of Virginia show a most alarming increase of crime since eman cipation. At the close of the war there were in the penitentiary of the State about 153 convicts; now there are nearly 1,000, the greater part of whom are negroes. In his last annual report, the superintend ent reports 53 female convicts, 50 of whom were negroes. This latter fact discloses a most signignificant exhibit of the com parative state of criminality iu the two races. The fact is, they have no public sentiment to sustain the virtuous and frown down vice and immorality. Neither his social nor public standing is in the! least affected by his private character, j however depraved, and little or no value is placed upon virtue in the female. Iu their religious opinions and exercises they are ruuning into the wildest excesses. A considerable and growing class are now re pudiating the Bible. They contend that it is not the word of God, but the white man’s book, and they claim to have direct revelations from God. Some of them claim the power of invoking and controll ing the spirit of God. The notorious Frank Moss, a preacher, and for several years a member of the Senate of Virginia, and now a leading politician, claims to pos sess this supernatural power. Iu the com munity where the writer lives there is a man holding those views, who is A PREACHES AND A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. When such profane and horrible doc trines are. held by prominent individuals, what may be expected from the great masses? No candid, intelligent man cun deny j that the reconstruction policy is toantngo- j nize the white and black races in the South. On the one hand you see the ne gro race arrayed in solid mass against the whites whenever he is placed in power, niling with a rod of iron, and exercising the powers of his position more for the purpose of annoying and humiliating the whites than to promote the public good. On the other hand you have the whites in many localities broken-hearted, bankrupt and ruined —smarting under a sense of wrong and injustice, and the deep humilia tion that has been forced upon them —gen- erally quiet and submissive to the “powers that lie,” but sometimes losing all patience and urged to desperation, and to seek re lief iu forbidden means. To the intelligent and patriotic classes everywhere the great practical inquiry sug gests itself. Whither does this policy lead? What is its inevitable tendency? Just as certain as that effect follows cause it is leading to THE AFRICANIZING OF THE COTTON STATES. Heretofore the white population of these States have struggled on, hoping for some favorable change. But now this hope be gins to fade, and the alternative is forced upon them of either living under negro rule or on abandonment of these States. The white man cannot live under negro rule, and as a Inst resort will be compelled to emigrate, and. thus leave the whole country to the negroes. And here is the point that, I would press upon the atten tion of our Northern brethren; and here, too, is the situation where this question comes home to them with a power and di rectness that cannot be ignored After haring waged a bloody struggle of four long years, and spent thousands of mil lions of treasure, and sacrificed a million of valuable lives to recover possession of this splendid heritage, ure they prepared to surrender np to savage rule; to give up this vast cotton monopoly; to pay fifty cents a pound for cotton; to surrender the great commercial advantages which the cotton trade gives them? Gan onr mer chants find another substitute with which to pay for their imports? Gan the vaults of our banking institutions bear the heavy drafts that will be made upon them to sat isfy the enormous trade balance that will be piled up against us? Another great question looms up in the distance. What is to be done with the inevitable question of races ? It is clear that the two cannot exist here under the present status of events. The sacrifice or ejection of one of them is only a question of time. Bo far as the cotton States are concerned, this issue is upon us. A similar issue was raised in Abraham’s household, when Hagar, the bond-woman, and lier sou Ishmaef, “mocked at Sarah,’ and claimed to participate ill the heirship aud heritage of the chosen seed. That issue was then and thcro decided by God him self, when Ife commanded Abraham not to hesitate to expel the presumptuous mother and banish them from the sacred household. I commend this precedent to the consideration of our Northern brethren. The great issue is, which of these races shall be allowed to bold the reins of Gov ernment ? They cannot rule peaceably i together. One or the other must succumb. | Were these two races left to themselves i this question would soon be solved. But j unfortunately outside parties have the ar bitrament of this momentous question, and with them the great responsibility rests. 'Bjie incidental bearings of this issue are no hws momentous and important. It is nothing less than this—whether THIS GREAT COTTON HEI.T is to become a wilderness, or is it to re main in possession of those who have both the means mid capacity to develop and utilize its boundless wealth and resources. Allow me to revert again briefly to the question of races. The colored races are more or less inferior when compared with the white. Each of them has its own pe culiar phase of development of character, and it is most difficult to change these natural proclivities. As an instance, take the Indian, who has, perhaps, more native intellect and strength of character than any of them. But ho is a wild man. He delights to hunt and roam over his native forest as free as the air which he breathes. Ho despises allot the restraints of civilized life, and you cannot bind him down to its toils, duties and responsibilities. Take the Chinese. He, too, has his peculiar development of character. He is a pagan and idolater, and although ho has attained ] some degree of civilization, and lias, per haps, carried some of the arts and sciences j to a higher degree of perfection than ever (lie white race lias done—he is still a pagan. The self-sacrificing missionary of the Cross lms been at work thcro for five hundred years, and a vast amount of treasure ex pended, and an immense number of lives sacrificed, but as yet littlo has been ac complished, as compared with the vast means expended in that direction. Take the negro as another example. He has ltis peculiarities of character also. The intelligent observer has only to look 'at his physical development to determine | wlmt they tire. The lowest instincts and | the strongest animal passions, with almost j entire absence of those moral instincts to ! check and control them, constitute the distinguishing phase of his character. I These inferior races are like the water-fowl j when forced from his native element; I whenever turned loose ho will instinctively go buck again. A great many people are 1 going crazy about these inferior races, and in the vain attempt to remove the ' disabilities which God in his wisdom lias thought best, to impose upon them, they I are ready to sacrifice tlie best interest of their own race. These people should remember that God Omnipotent ruleth; that these differ ent conditions of humanity arc His handi work; that certain races, as well as cer tain individuals, are more highly favored than others. “That He pulletli down one and sotteth up another, and none can say, why doeth thou thus ?” He has created each race for a purpose and for a particu lar place, and each should know and keep his place, and bo content therewith. The negro is evidently the descendant of Ham or Canaan, and the curse pronounced upon the guilty progenitor still rests upon the ill fated offspring. “A servant of ser vants shall he be unto liis brethren,” is the command, and who can reverse it ? God has evidently assigned the negro to an humble position, but it need not be an unhappy one. It is the safest,, and is not without the promise of the blessing of God. If the negro will be content to take the position assigned him, ho may be both useful and liappy iu his humble sphere. The white race has been assigned higher duties and responsibilities. Let it show itself worthy of the prerogatives bestowed upon it, and, above all; let it hold fast the reins of Government and never surrender them to an inferior race. The vain attempt to force the negro into his present unnatural position is full of peril to him, os well as destructive to the : peace and welfare of the whole country, j It is time that this ruinous contest was stopped. For fifty years it has been the great bone of contention between the two sections, and untold evils have grown out of it. The good people of both sections are disgusted and worn out with it, and the people of the South most sincerely de sire peace and entire cessation of this j strife, in order to build up their broken j fortunes and restore the happiness of their j section. “Let us have peace,” then, but! not that kind of peace that is enforced at : the point of the bayonet, but that which ] arises from reciprocal good-will and mu- j tual respect for each other's rights and interests.” Veritas. The Sabbath a Loving Day. —“ Mother, I suppose one reason why they call the j Sabbath a holy day is because it’s such a loving day,” said li little boy, as he stood by his father’s side and looked up into his mother's face. “Why is not every iloy a loving day ?” asked his mother. * “I love father and ( father loves me, and we both love you and baby every day as well as Sunday.” “Well, ljut you've no time to tell us on week days,” said the little boy. “You have to work, and father has to go ofi early to his work, and lie is so tired when he comes home; but Sunday he takes me on liis knee and tells me bibfc stories, and wo go to God's houso together, aud oh, ’tis such u toeing day !” NOT A GOOD LOOK. Whnt the l\>w York Kvprcaii Syi unm( the Political and Financial Condi tion of North Carolina. North Carolina wasled into the rebel lion agaiust her will, aud has suffered ter ribly sinco it came to an end. In 18(57 tlie ante-war debt was nearly ten millions. The scheme of tlie truly loyal and patri otic carpet-baggers was first to cry down the credit of the State, and thereby bring about a depreciation of the bonds in the usual “bearing" stylo. The taxable prop erty of tlie State is $110,000,000. The public debt, if we count in the “new bonds” as a part of it, amounts to $37,- 700,000; and the annual interest at six per cent, is $2,262,000, or 2.38 per cent, on the whole real and personal property, with agriculture almost the exclusive in terest, and realizing not moro than 21 per cent, profits; so that if taxes were levied to pay the interest of the genuine and spu rious debt, to say nothing of the State ex penses, the people would be robbod of all their earnings. It is to this strait that carpet-baggers have reduced old North Carolina, and hence the cry of repudiation now heard in the distance, especially agaiust all sorts of new debts, started by the Shylocks and imposed "by a Legislature elected in viola tion of tlie Constitution, and excluding all men in the State who, prior to the war, held any office under the United States Government, as ex-Postmasters, of whom there was not far short of a full thousand, all ex-Governora, Judges, members of the Legislature, attorneys—for the latter took an oath to support the Constitution—ami all magistrates, of which every county had living not leas tlmn fifty on the average. There is ample proof, we are assured, to show that the Legislature voting the new debt did so in violation of the Con stitution, and in a statement of Daniel It. Goodloe, eminent authority at home, it is declared— “ The election of the so-called Legisla ture was void, and the men chosen when they assembled did not constitute a Legis lature of North Carolina. They were clothed with no legitimate authority, and had no right to pledge the faith of the State to anything. Neither in law nor iu morals could they bind the people to re- deem or puy interest on bonds which they or their agents stole or misapplied." “This,” he adds, “is tho sentiment of the tax payers and of the intelligent peo ple of the State of all parties.” Of the many millions issued by this pretended Legislature, only a few hundred thousands were applied to building a railroad in the western part of the State. It is also added that, as it is a well-recognized principle of law and ethics that a man is not bound by a pledge given under duress, and a set tled principle of daily application in the courts that the holder of a forged check or note cannot compel the payee named in it to make it good, so in the case of North Carolina there is a combination of these felonies, with intent to rob the peo ple of North Carolina. First is the duress, by which the tax-payeys are warned away from the polls at the point of the bayonet; and secondly, the forgery of the seal of the State by a pretended Legislature to bonds for millions of dollars. The holders must look to the forgers for their money, suys Mr. Goodloe. [From the Indianapolis Journal. Sept. 4.] A Mammoth Loan. Considerable excitement was occasioned in railroad circles last evening over a ru mor to the effect that Thos. A. Scott had secured a loan in Europe for $100,000,000, for the construction of the Southern Pa cific railroad. Although the rumor could not be traced to an authentic source, it received general credence, from tho fact that the great railroad potentate was known to be negotiating for such a loan, and that such negotiations were understood to be about completed some days since. Mr. Scott lias been in Europe for several weeks effecting a settlement of tlie old Fremont difficulty, and making arrangements as above stated. The Southern Pacific road, when completed, will open anew route of almost incalculable value from the Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard. The line proper will begin at Shreveport, Louisiana, which will be its eastern terminus, and will ex tend through the vast timber country of \ Northern Texas, the finest in the world through the entire length of New Mexico to San Diego, California. Connections will be made at Shreveport with a road running to New Orleans, and one running to Brunswick, Florida, through Mont gomery, Jackson, Vicksburg, etc., thus making almost an airline across tlie conti nent. The road is built and in operation | for construction nearly three hundred ! miles west of Shreveport, mid the entire j line will undoubtedly be built in a com | paratively short space of time. This is | supposed to be one of the grandest money ! making enterprises in the prospective ever | undertaken in this country, ns the company | has purchased a large number of grants I and reservations along tlie line, and has under its control an enormous amount of landed property which, when properly developed, will prove of incalculable value to the owners. A number of Indianapolis capitalists are interested in this undertak ing- Au lowa lady lost her husband a few years ago, and during her absence at the funeral her house burned down. She married again, however, and while attend ing the burial of her last husband, recently, the family residence again burned down. The insurance companies will investigate the singular coincidence, NUMBER 20. The Mammoth Radical Scheme to Swindle the Government out of Two Hundred Million. The Administration organs which are congratulating tho country on the decrease of the National debt ore evidently crowing lustily before they are out of tho woods. There are several straws afloat in the wind that indicate the existence of a ring of capitalists and Administration politicians, whose purpose is to get possession of the carpet-ling bonds of the Southern States— amounting to some $200,000,000 —ut all enormous discount, and then secure their assumption by tlie Federal Government, Tho speculation will be a mammoth one if the scheme can be carriod through, and the profits to its ingenious managers would not be much under $100,000,000, which would divide very prettily among four or tivo scoro Congressmen and speculators. The Credit Mobilier fellows, the Cookes, Alex. Sheppard, and a few moro of tlie White House favorites, would smack their lips and rub their hands in ecstacy at the prospect of such a scheme. The support of the South to this job is the strong card which its manipulators will play. They know that the South is burdened with debt, and is looking around anxiously for relief from the burden of a swindling, fraudulent debt which has not an honest feature about it. The originators of the Federal assumption project have strong hopes that the appeal which it makes to tho Southern pocket will meet with a ready response. There is strong reason to believe that the wily Bon Butler, who is ever on th alert when a penny is to' bo turned, is at the bottom of this movement. Ho ban shown a deep and unusual interest in the debt of Mississippi, and son-in-law Ames will of courso play into his hands. If tho plot succeeds, and tho Southern State debts bo assumed by the Federal Government, the addition of 8200,000,00 U to the Nationnl debt will shortly befollowed by others. Thu Southern State bonds would at once be put on a par, or nearly so, with Government bonds, and the spec ulators would immediately set to work to* issue n fresh batch of Southern bonds, with the intent to “bear” them, buy them up again at a discount aud interest Con gressmen enough to put through a second Federal assumption. It is not possible to see any limit to this financial operation. It admits of indefinite extension. The second assumption would go through moro easily than the first, and the third assump tion would go through more easily than the second, for the obydous reason that the money power of the bond-ring would lie rapidly increasing. At the present out look there seems to be little room for boasting of tho reduction of the National debt. It seems more likely that it will bo increased, by the power of money-jobbers, far beyond its original dimensions. [New York Herald Interview with “Mack.”] Sherman as Ctesar. Reporter—Are the President aud General .Sherman on friendly terms? Mr. McCallugli—l do not think they are on terms of more than formal friendship and have not been since Gen. Rollins, as Secre tary of War, refused to allow Gen. Sherman to run the War Department. Sherman is essentially an egotist, and believes himself to be tlie - hero of the rebellion, while every friend of Gen. Grant knows that it took alt liis military genius to cover up Sherman’.# blunders. ' There was some family trouMe between Sherman and Fred. Grant on l tho visit to Europe together, which resulted in the latter parting company with the former before tlie journey was half over, and tho two great Generals have never been on terms of cordial intimacy since. I suppose you know that Mrs. Grant had to go to Sheridan to get a staff appointment for Fred. It would liavo looked better liad Sherman given the appointment unasked; but I am doubtful if Gen. Sherman would have granted that favor to the wife of the President. Reporter—Do ynu think Sherman would like to enact the role of Cse.-uir hsmself ? Mr. McCullagh—l think he would; but lie would have no chance unless after a long struggle in which he would come out head of tlie army. It is not likely, for the reason that should a long struggle ensue between this country and the people, Sherman would not be at tlie head of the army. _ In fact, Sherman, without Grant’s backing, would play a small part in any revolution. Reporter—What part would Sheridan take in a conflict for empire?' Mr. McUullttgh—Shoridan would sup port the powers that be. He would obey every order given to him, and would do his best for those who held authority to direct him. Sheridan has no political am bition, and would be only desirous to make tho best showing for tho force under bin command. He is a mere soldier and nothing olso, believing in the power of the sword and tho virtue of blood and iron. Walking Over Niagara, The daring funambulist, Signor Henry Bnlieui, yesterday afternoon made liis second walk over the Niagra river on liis rope which is stretched from bank to bank a short distance below the Falls. As before, Signor Balleni started from the Canada side. He made his appearance about a quarter past throe o’clock, and immediately proceeded to walk aeross tho rope to the opposite bank iu excellent style. The rope was iu better cogdition than on Monday, having been considerably tight ened, but the strong wind which blew through the gorgo rendered tlie undertak ing particularly hazardous and fatiguing. When lie reached the American sido ho was considerably exhausted, und on ac count of the wind he sensibly abandoned his intention of reerosssng, enveloped in a sock. However, the. Signor was deter mined not to disappoint the expectant thousands so far as his jump was concerned, and after resting a short time he returned briskly down the rope again to the centre. There he made his brief preparations, sent his balance pole sliding down one of tho guys, and then, after affixing liis slender rubber line to the main rope, suffered him self to tumble headlong into tho abyss. The drop must have been more than a hundred feet, and it was intensely thrilling. He went under water for a moment, then came to the surface, striking out boldly, and was soon hauled into the boat which was waiting to pick him up.