Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-14
MEMPHIS.
Sand Bars-Business In Memphis -- A
Pretty Park - Bed-bugs -- Cabbage
POlitics--Amusements- Roads.


the water, a man can safely run the
gauntlet of all the bars between Cairo
and this place, without feeling somewhat
exhilarated, he may we'll be considered tit
and proper companion for Matthew or John
B. Cough. Memphis is, at the present wrl-
ting, very lively indeed. Her merchants and
business men generally are having all they can
well attend to, making the city look bright and
cheerful. One Of the attractive features of the
place is the little park, fronting Odd Fellows S
Hall, with its deer and lively little inhabitants,
in the shape of hundreds of tame squirrels. A
beautiful monument stands in the CENTER dedi
Gated TO that great and good man, Jackson,
with the words, 1.-THE Federal Union Must be
Preserved.'' This line has been mutilated by
some dastardly hand of secessionist, and it
still remains monument Of their shame.
The hotels in the city are far from being a
credit to the place. but are nevertheless very
lively, and crowded with those beautiful little
animals that delight in roaming about at night,
much to the annoyance of the over-sensitive
occupant Of the bed
The fine steamboat Magenta, on which we
left Cairo, made the run from Cairo to this
place in twenty hours, and it would have been
u very pleasant trip had it not been for
the careful attention of the officer in loading,
| in placing several thousand head of cabbage
ON each side of the state-room guards, they
! having first been rained upon, then commenced
decaying, so that when the sun cast its warm
rays on them the perfume arising was not quite
as pleasant as that from the Night Blooming
Ccreus'' of Phalon. 1t might, however, been
made pleasant and more endurable to the pas
sengers by the addition of few hundred
| skuIks. This conduct ON the part of an officer
Of a passenger boat in leaving such quantities
of decaying vegetable matter about, and in
front of the state-rooms during this hot season
| of the year, should meet with deserved pro-
test from an indignant public.
Politics still run high in this latitude and
many curses cloud and deep are heaped upon
the head of ex-Parson Brownlow; indeed some
even go so far as to insist upon his being ar
rested for murder, committed often and in diff
ferent parts OF the State by those known to be
in his confidence and under his immediate con-
troll, they insisting that he is as much
responsible for this STATE of things as was JEFF
Davis for the cruel treatment of our prisoners
| at Andersonville; at all events Brownlow is q
queer chicken, not long since the most ultra
pro-slavery man in the South, now the most
rabid abolitionist. There is one consolation in
the fact that virtue invariably meets it's reward
If the saying holds true in the Parsons case he
may expect soon to be elected an inmate O
some State prison, with the pleasing reflection
that many better man has been there before
him.
The New Memphis Theatre opened last nigh
(Mondayl under the management of Mr.
Thompson. OF the abilities of the artists en-
gagged we cannot say much. Mr.. Garden, the
leading man, is passabe, as are several others
but not such as you would expect to see in 81
fine a theatre
The railroads in this section are being rap
idly repaired, and Memphis will soon be il
close connection with all parts of the grea
American Union
One thing strikes us very forcibly as OF IN
terest to your numerous advertisers, and tia
is this ln every little town on the route syo
can find several subscribers to the TINES; S
that when person advertises in your pape
! no may be certain of its being we'll read in tn
surrounding country.
l must now close. and as we say in Paris
f (Ky.,) o, ri0er. SAM.
A NOVEL CAsE-A novel case is now pent
. ing before the Superior Court of Cook county
: A day or two prior 10 the Cook county Repul
:, lican Convention; Sheriff A. c. Hessing recei,
ed the following note, which explains itself
| "CHICAGO, April 7, 1865
2 IA G. HEss1NG, ESQ.,:
: DEAR SIR-Enclosed please find twenty do
O lars, for which use your influence to get IN
l. nominated for Police Court Clerk. If 1get tt
n nomination, call on me for twenty more.
n II am, sir, very truly yours,
. JOSEPH Illness
:. In envelope marked ''private.' u
II Hessing, instead Of complying with the III
II given, read the note in open Convention, al
" declared that he would donate the $50 to Il
N coming Sanitary Fair. I..uess sued Hessng f
Is the money, and a few days since recover
Judgment in police court. but Hessisg appe;
at ed. The Court has not yet decided, but
n, hava The iudUmoDt Of fIiS Gourt iS-t