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Northern noses. Carpet bags have wrought this change 

 for the South; and as a result, among the very first sub- 

 jects to call for bills from Southern men are the railroad 

 interests. 



u And heading the column comes Senator Spencer, 

 with a bill making a land grant, not through the public 

 domain on the plains, but through the States of Tennes- 

 see, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, with 

 permission to get all the * earth, stone, timber and other 

 materials,' for the construction of its roads off the public 

 lands along its line, and then to receive ten sections of land 

 to the mile, wherever they can find that amount within 

 twenty miles of the line they may see fit to locate, and 

 from Mobile onward to the western boundary of Louisiana; 

 if the land cannot be found within twenty miles of the 

 road, these patriotic gentlemen are to be obliged to hunt it 

 up within forty miles of their line. What will the railroad 

 docket of the Senate not contain by the time 4 the South- 

 erners have brought up their side of the railroad jobs to 

 the present proud height of their Northern friends, and 

 shall have added to the Washington lobby its own army of 

 bloodsuckers, plausible gentlemen of unquestioned honor, 

 and thieves? for it takes all these, and more, to make a 

 lobby. What a nice thing it will be for tax payers! All 

 this presents the railroad interest merely in outline. Every 

 bill deserves a separate letter to show the means used to 

 get it before the Senate, the persons engaged in pressing it, 

 and the parties to be benefitted by it; and in due time the 

 principal ones at least will get that chapter. When the 

 railroad jobs are disposed of, then the deck is only cleared 

 for action against jobs in general. There are, aside from 

 these, the Niagara Ship Canal, with a coupon of twelve 

 millions attached; the Commercial Navigation Company, 

 with half as much on its coupon.'' 



Another correspondent says, 4l that one hundred and 



