The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-12
Correspondence of the st. Louis Pennant.
CITY or CAIRO, May 10, 1910.

CITY OF CAIRO, may ~, 1871.
On the roof of the Cairo Hotel,
Ten feet under water.
Dear Mr. Editor-''My sufIerings is intolera-
Ble," and l refrain no longer. Here am |,
m this confounded city of Cairo, with the Whole
brook commonly called the Mississippi river,
running ten feet my poor devoted head.
Our hotel is perfect cold water establishment,
and the way there is plenty of the Squire element"
M these diggings, is with perfect rush. The
Cairo Bank, upon which we all built our hopes
and houses, after having been Cor some time
making daily deposites in the Mississippi river,
has at length fallen through, like all the rest OF
Illinois speculations, and left poor wretch
IS, not exactly high and dry, (would that we
were , but buried fsfull five fathoms Deep" and
5ebarrcd from all intercourse, except with the
catfish, buffalo, and other such scaly characters
beg you to sympathize with me, and send us
the Evening Gazette TO comfort us in our misfor-
tunes. Real estate in Cairo has emphatically
faIlen-and so low that you couldn't find it with
\ tweDty-foot pole. Oh dear, Mr.. Editor, altho'
I am very wet, yet Pm very dry-and if you
could manage to get my friend of the - to
send some of his eEspiritso to this ssnasty deepn
you will confer lasting obligation on yours, So.
THE GREAT DROWNED OUT.
This notice was transferred to the Journal OF
Commerce, with the following comments
Cairo, as most of our readers know, is situa-
Ted at the junction of the Ohio aod Mississippi
rivers, the Illinois side. This site is vary
low, but the advantages of the position were
deemed in speculation times to be so great, that
an attempt was made, chiefly with English capt.
taI, under the direction of Mr.. Holbrook, to es-
tablish city there.
Comment by the Editor of the Pilot:
The advantages of the position at the mouth
Of the Ohio such, that it was designated at
an early day as the seat of great city. But for
a.
KAYE been among the first on the western waters
The company who have embarked SO much capt.
taI in the attempt to build up city at the mouth
ef the Ohio, were well aware that the site was
subject to inundation; and hence, they despatch
ed Messrs. Strickland and Taylor, of Philadel-
phia, to examine and estimate the cost of raising
the city above the highest overflow; and the
latest accounts all agree that the late freshet
has been as great as any within the memory of
man, and yet they report but three feet water on
She site OF Cairo,-whereas the Company pro-
pose to raise their streets and embodiment eicbt
feet; being five feet above the present flood. So
far from being discouraged, the late floods should
confirm the company in their enterprise, as it
establishes the fact that city may be reared
there above the water.
That the Journal of Commerce may see how
much injustice have been done to the enterpris-
ing proprietors of Cairo, we insert the following
extract from the log of the steamboat Indcpen-
dence, which we found in New Orleans pa
per;
Extract from the Log Of The steamboat Tdepe eree.
Len Cincinnati May g, p M.-the Ohio had fallen
s, feet-ran and weather cold with east wind ndicat
mo ain af last
sennfs Left Louisville 9tb 10 A. M.-l6 feet water
she Fails,-loth, overlook the rise. The Wabash still
kis;ng. Ohio risiKg at Shnwneetown-ihc town feet
water, bottom lands inundated Cumberland ris-
ing very fast Learned at SmhIand that the Cunber-
had been fallen at Nashville, was again on the
Ss rising fast Tennessee rising fast far Up s could
be heard from above Tuscumbia Wafer on tbe Io,ger
dooFs of front in Paducah Cairo2 or 3 feet nm
der water. The Mississippi rising slowly here bt fall
len at ST. Louis-weather still cold
with wind norh-eat. At Mills Point the low lands NIL
syerfowed, and no chance of landng-broueht on the
fright. 1lt, at Canadian Reach the banks with Inn,
Few exceptions oyerlowed-the exceptions apnear 10 be
Barrow strips on the margin, the whole of the back
ground covered with water
The neghborhood of Memphis and Plum Point in The
zzuse condition. 12h--Landed nj Monteomeryis Point
WInte river very high and said to be still rsine-an
pesred to he one foot higher than White river Bacbe
E.akep0rt Bend the same. The land above Bucknerss
Gut little of water; below, for II miles fhe
psantaons nearly covered The levee keeps out of The
In the vicinity of Providence The Mississippi Is
n i was in the spring of 1928 Below the mouth of
Red River, this time, the water is a pst higher
than between Red River and Grand Gulf ut which
Ront he highest Of the water has not yet reached.
4 Convention of swedenbourgaans Is now in
session in Philadelphia
CAPE MAV.-The fine stear.haat ,r.Ie