Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-08
A STRANGERS OPINION OF CAIRO,

We republish the following extract from a
letter written to the st. Louis Daily Press: .
ST. CHARLES HOTEL, CAIRO, ILL.,
September 30, 1868.
Yesterday Sol A. Silver naval auctioneer
had large sale of Government propertv. Of
the navy yard, at Mound City, consisting of
teas, coffee, sugar and provisions of all kinds
clothing, &c Soil not only good salesman
but he understands the newspaper business.
Hreat improvements are going on in Cairo:
the streets are being we'll graded and new side.
walks built all over the city On the LIST of
January, 1866, it will be lit up with gas, the
pipes having arrived at New Orleans, from
boston, and are expected daily. The whole
expense will be $500, 900. Between the St
Charles and the stone depot there are in pro-
cess OF erection seven large brick buildings
and Messrs, Rankin and Wood have contracted
to build eighteen more The new court house
on Washington Avenue is nearly completed
and is now occupied by the city and county
officers Near the court house is fine brick
building, occupied by the Hon. S. Stats Tay-
Tor, President of the Cairo City Company. and
President of the st. Louis and Cairo railroad
Three mail trains run weekly from Columbus
KY, TO Mobile, the steamer Gen. Anderson
making the connection between Cairo and
Columbus. The through time now is forty
eight hours; but as soon as the road can be
graded 1t will be reduced to thirty hours 3
The st. Charles Hotel has been entirely rem
oVated and refurnlshed by Messers. Lansden &
Jewett Wilcox, one Of the most popular clerks
on the Mississippi river, and is full all the time,
there is SO much travel South
. The prospect for asplendid crop of cotton
IN southern Illinois is very promising should
the frost not appear in ten days. The cotton
IN Southern Illinois has been pronounced by
the Messers. Sprague Co., Senator Sprague)
of Providence, Rhode Island, to be superior to
any raised south of Mason & Dixons line The
tobacco crop also promises well. In some por-
tions of the State the potato rot has made its
appearance, which causes the farmers to keep
the prices pretty well up and rising.
The Cairo TIMES commenced on Tuesday as
morning paper, which is very beneficial to
its readers. Gocdall gets up a spicy paper,
and we are pleased at his success.
DR.. Joseph n. Mcdowell, the founder of the
Medical College in St. Louis bearing his name,
has returned from Europe. and become a resi-
dent of Cairo, and entered upon the duties of
his profession in company with Surgeon Charles
w. DuDning, late of the United States Navy
They have leased the large building formerly
occupied by the Christian Commission, and are
fitting it up in splendid manner They also
propose to build and establish medical col
lege that will be superior to any on the CONT
tinent; they have the ability and means to
do it.
Nose Harrell, one of the early pioneers of
Cairo, is writing for the TINES a series of
sketches of Cairo, entitled 'sCairo as it was, or
Dips into Cairo Life, u as early as lS4s Every
body knows Nose, of the bohemian Guard.''
and It'll source of pleasure to know that last
spring the citizens elected Nose City Treasurer
an office of honor and emolument. We called
on him on Monday of his now off1oa of tho
Court House, and not having seen him in two
years, we hardly knew him.
The survey of the st. Louis and Cairo rail-
road IS going on rapidly, by Chief Engineer in
the field, Henry Holbrook, ESQ.,, of Belleville,
and all along the line of the road, great conf
dence is felt in the success of the enterprise.
1t is but hundred and thirty miles from St.
Louis to Cairo on a direct line, and the road
will run through the richest agricultural dis
tricts and coal mines in the State of Illinois
and rich mine of lead has been discovered
near the line Of the road. The local business
will be greater than any line in the State. 1t
Is not the local business that will be of the most
Importance. A look at the railroad map shows
1t tn be the connecting link of the northwestern
railroads of the country, and, in this particular
1t must OF necessity, be OF the greatest import
arce to st. Louis. 1t viii accommodate the
counties of st. Clair Monroe, Randolph and
Jackson, in Illinois, and will receive a large
amount of business from Cape Girardeau, b.
linger, Wayne, Ripley, st. Francis St. Gene
we've and Perry counties, in southeast Missouri,
and will run through the finest fruit growing
counties in the United States.
The country on each side of the Mississippi
river, from ST. Louis to Cairo, cannot be sur
passed for raising grapes, apples, peaches and
plums, by any country in the Great West.
Ike Board of Directors are Hon. S. Stats
Taylor, q man of wealth and great financial
ability VIM. r. Halliday, President Cairo
Chamber of Commerce; Gen. l. n. Haynie,
Adutant General of Illinois; Hon. William
Thomas; L. P. Cantrill, ESD, and the Hon.
Sharon Tyndale, Secretary of State, gentlemen
well known throughout the State, the Hon. S..
Tyndae being Engineering Chief Of the road.
Two surveys will be made-oue through Ches-
ter, the other at Sparta