Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-25


% play the demagogue By catering
70 any popular cry that will catch
votes in the struggle for party SUI
prcmacy. We have, personally,
not q stiver's interest in the con-
struction Of any or either route,
either present or prospective, but
have always advocated all, more
especially the Northern and South
ern lines.
AS before stated, the Central has
been in operation some time, and
the Northern, by the magnanimous
action of Congress, and the good
fortune II has had to fall into good,
able and energetic hands, is now
fully assured. We wish we could
say US much for the Southern.
Possessing all the natural advant.
ages enumerated above, it had the
misfortune to suffer a like calamity
with the man who went down
from Jerusalem to Jericho" This
was its early history, and all that
can, up to this time, be recorded of
it. The substantial and muDflcent
Legislation Of Texas, in the begin.
ing, attracted the cupidity of adj
ventnrers who have cursed the
Southern Pacific Railroad from
that day to this. Last, if not least,
in the long catalogue Of venality
and corruption, is the recent " OPP.
Grafton in Paris.
Still the road is not built, nor
any showing in that direction. A
year ago last spring, ut the South.
crn Commercial Convention, it was
unblushingly stated that three
hundred miles Of iron had been
bought in Europe, and that some
of it was then on its way to this
country.
There arc two parties now be.
sicging Congress for the control OF
this scheme, and never q barrel
of better herring among them.
The one claiming under the Mem.
phis and Fl Paso," and headed by
the " Path. finder the other under
the old Texas Western" and
manipulated by some adventures
from New York City and Boston.
This last ring is composed
OF the parties who are building
q railroad to be owned by them.
selves across the State of Ala
bama, upon the credit OF the State,
and who are so persistently urg.
ing the passage Of the Congress
sional charter for the Cincinnati
and Chattanooga Railroad, where.
by they hope to manipulate the
Cincinnati trust fund OF ten mil.
lions. There really seems to be
no bounds to modesty. Would it
not be an admirable arrangement
Ia really nice thing--and per.
haps as Cincinnatians We ought
not to object to it, to have a rail.
road commencing at San Diego,
with IN arm resting on Guymas,
built on the credit and bounty Of
the general government, through
to Shreveport, thence, by the aid
OF swamp lands and other State
bOunties. with II few sops thrown
to local interests, via Vicksburg
to Meridian, thence via the Ala
bama and Chattanooga State aid
road to Chattanooga, aud thence
to Cincinnati by our own dear,
darling Southern road, paid for by
our money, but owned by the
ring, and Cincinnati to be the
Eastern terminus of so long a line.
San Diego to Cincinnati Water one
management, dnd without change
Of cars! Isn't it a big thing2 1t
Is really Boston notion. Why,
such aerial people as Gould and
Fisk, Vanderbilt, j. Edgar ThOmp.
son, Tom Scott and old man Gar.
rett would be nowhere, and n
new man, with the smell OF cod
fish still lingering about him and
oozisg through his "store
Clothes" would DO king of the
Cannibal Islands"
Without any cquivocation, we
are in favor of the Southern Pa.
cilC Railroad, and liberal aid by
Congress TO secure its carly com
plction. Justice to the CONNER.
cial interests OF the South lie.
mands it, as well as the develop.
ment of the material interests OF
the country, and if the enterprise
is placed in the hands and under
the control ofthc best and leading
minds Of the South, "natives to
the manor born" and without the
faint of speculative avaricc, even
if headed by Jefferson Davis, r. +.
Lee and Wade Hampton, the ma
ton would say amen, but to place
it into the hands of the mOunte-
banks and acrobats who are now
buzzing around the ears Of Con
grcss, would meet with the con
demnation of all honest citizens.
The Washington correspondent
ofthe Cincinnati Times (republican)
tells the following aneCdote Of Gen.
Butler:
There arc mon who say he is UNI
scrupulOus. A good thing is told