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VOLUME I.
THE INDEPENDENT.
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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.”
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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.