Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-01-13


count Of the immense number of very fine
houses on its native sand bank, where it
must be confessed you have the most r.li
able view Of it, it inspires you with the
belief that there has been o three e-day's
cock fight in the neighborbood, and the
sportsmen had suddenly absquatulated
and left the coops standing. In the eyes
Of the people who have lived there [ il
anybody ever did live there long enough
to swear to the fact) the city possesses in
the highest degree
1.-The glory which Greece,
And the grandeur which was Rome,
in the eyes Of other people it doesn't
not much no how.
Seriously, Cairo is a Dutch Irish village
of one and half musquito power during
the winter season, and Of no power at all
during the summer--unless it be the pow
er OF selt>exaltation, which it possesses,
it must be confessed, to remarkable de-
gree. 1t is decidedly fast place, how
ever as fast as one set OF inhabitatants
are killed of by the small pox (which Al.
talns too large growth there to be called
small ard yellow fever, or are shaken to
death by high pressure ague fits, Ia thing
that doesn't happen ofteuer than three
times year, another set rush in from
the first fleet OF fat boats and lumber
RATS that pass down the river, to fill up
that vacuum in the town which the nature
OF that sort Of people abhors. This state
of things, together with the dilapidated
condition of some Of the craft engaged in
the Cairo trade, gave rise to the popular
Ethiopian melody at whose pathetic touch.
es thousand lovely eyes have been dim
med with tender tears:
''oh the dsr udest boat ever saw,
1t was eTu-wheel boat,
The clerk he had no shoes,
And the captain had no coat.
hear my true.loye weep,
hear my true-lqNe zig b.
Nsy down iu Cal 70
This nigger's swiue to dis.'
The inhabitants Of the city consist Of
about fifty Dutch lrishmen and the same
number of Irish -Dutchmen, who spend
their tine in drinking adulterated whs-
key out of dirty tumblers. Thereby maxi
ing dirty tumblers of themselves, in break.
ing the Sabbath and each others heads,
and in saying hard things about. Mound
City on the Ohio, six miles above here.
During small rise in the Mississippi
last summer the water broke over the city,
and covered 1t to the average depth of six
feet. 1t is a wonder to some that the city
was not washed away bu, it will cease to
be wonder If they will remember that
that there are some things too dirty to be
washed, even by the Mississippi.
.The river Rhone doth wash Cologne.
But wnat Oh what shall wash the knons.''
During the dog days the equator runs
Immediately Through Cairo, aud in the
winter the north pole stands directly in the
center OF the town. The Ohio steamers
all lie up there duripg the summer season
lnis is one OF the stipulaions in their IN
snrance policies, Cairo being the safest
place in the western or any ether waters
for steamboat to stand the chances Of a
conllagration Tor when 1t is hot there, il
Is 50 coajoa"dedly hot that such fires as
Ia,
disgust. The southern terminus oi the
ltanols Central Railroad has tue msior-
sane 10 cal t"ilo ITS place OF residence
cars stop III the city during the reign u
the baletul SIRIUS, -tand IN the midst ot
The inhabitants until the steam hlstle re
selherales along the fiery sand bars oil the
river, and you can easily imagine yourself
N the oaseneut story OF Pandemonlun,,
and that the head devil oil the establish
nent is calling each aale daainee TO judg
ment.
Cairo has one redee ming feature. Had
Sodom and Gomorrah been 80 tortuLale,
the shower OF fire and birthstone had ney
er fallen, and the Dead Sea had never eA-
listed. Let Cairo take warning from the
iale OF her ulden antetypes, and guard
with yeslal vigilance the liie aud citizen
| ship oi her one righteous Len. Fax
on, the editor Of the Times d, Data, who
ID a gentleman, a scholar, . Judge OF bran
| dy, and United States mail agent. That
he is United States mail agent is suih.
cient evidence tina, he is a Buchanan dem
ocrat aud the color OF his politics ID the
best proot that he is judge OF brandy.
that he, gentleman aud scholar,
succeeded IN obtaining an appointment
under the present administration, can on-
ly be accounted Tor upon the suPposllion
| that he suffered the President to suspect
hlm OF ne ither learning nor honesty
! Len taAon is brick. lie has seen Cairo
IN all phases aud clinss to her still with a
,eaaeity worthy OF u better object. la his
elo,ts to build up the city he is neither
daunted by danger nor deferred by dilh.