Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-08
Correspondence of the Cairo Times.
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1t is with no little pleasure l am permitted
10 inform our euterprisng friends of the great
West, Of our new steamship enterprise. We
nave line of steamers now between our city
md Liverpool, by which means, it is hoped, I
We will be enabled to place such inducements
before our friends, both of the luckily re-
deemed South as well as the go-aheadative
West, that will force them to stop with US and
make their purchases, heretofore made in the
New York markets.. We have the right sort
of men at the head of it, and it is bound to
succeed.
The steamship Somerset, one of the line of |
vessels about to be, or is inaugurated between
this port and Liverpool, and which has been
undergoing extensive repairs and alterations,
has been completed and started across the At
lantc, as the pioneer Of the enterprise the
success of which is of such vast importance to
the mercantile interest of the Monumental City.
She started on Saturday the 30th Of Septem.
Der, from Henderson's wharf, foot of Pell
street. She took out several passengers, and
a full cargo of cotton, tobacco, corn, oil cake,
bark, large quantity Of dye stuffs, canned
fruits and miscellaneous, articles. Capt John
l.. Sanford is the commander of the vessel; Mr.
f. n. Sanford is the first mate, assisted by two
others. Mr.. DavidS. Frazer is the chief en-
gireer, assisted by three others. Suitable
preparations were made, under" the manage.
ment of Messrs. VIM. P Smith, and VIM. S.
Woodside, officers of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, to give persons an oppor.
tunity not only to see the noble vessel leave
the wharf, but to witness her trip some dis
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was saluted by Fort Federal Hill, and by the
u. s. Revenue Cutter, and also by Fort
McHenry, as she passed out, all of which was
returned by the Somerset. The U. S Revenue
Cutter conveyed large number of. ladies and
gentlemen some distance down the bay.
Among them was MAJ Gen. Hancock, Hon.
Thomas Swami, Governor elect, Mayor Chap
man, John W. Garrett, Esq, and other distn
gushed gentlemen. =. An excursion steamer
also passed down the bay as far as North
Point, to witness the departure of the pioneer
ship of the Ocean Line between Baltimore and
Liverpool. az
The cholera excitement still seems to spread
Westward. The news by the last foreign stea-
mer, that the cholera is spreading in Marseles,
aud that many of the panic stricken inhabitants
were seeking safely, in flight, contradicting, as
it does the previous reports Of its retreat East
ward, is engaging the attention of the commits
L
pairing to address the citizens, setting forth what
the municipal authorities did in London Liver
pool, Manchester, Birmingham and other large
cities in England, to put their houses in order,
and calling upon them not to wait for corpora
tons to act, but to go to work on their own
responsibility.
For my part do not favor the steady excite.
ment concerning the expected approach of the
malady, for the simple reason that continued
rtio tho
do more to create an epidemic than any thing
else. Some foolish people will imagine they
are dying, and like the old darkey minister,
''belieue 1T Is trale'' and ''pass away then
comes the panic. Fear and excitement does
more to kill humanity than all else combined.
The reports of the registers, not only in this
city but in the counties generally, exhibit an
exceedingly small number of persons who are
really quail itied u0ters. Of the result in Prince
George county, the Marlboro Gazette thus
speaks: ''In the Bladensburg district l4s are
registered, out of voting population of about
3l5. In Surratt's district 70 are registered.
out of 81, offering. We suppose the number
registered in the several districts will be about
one half of the voting population.
In Montgomery county the registration also
is light The number registered in the Rock
vile district is about $50, out of voting popu.
lation of $50.
will give description of the MARYLAND In
stitute Fair when it is fairly under way For
the present, beg they will be contented with
an allusion to it. From the present appearance
of the Spacious Hall, it bids fair to surpass
anything of the kind since the days of SO
and 80.
The TINES of last week remarked in a para
graph under the ''Various Items that a rte
mus Ward had s'been compelled, by illness, to
give up his enter tainments for the present. ~
All this is not exactly correet Artemus spoke
piece in Baltimore week or two ago, and
to-day il holding forth to excited audiences
elsewhere. Success to him.
1t is said that 1.-THE people of Annapolis are
about to build a asu Opera House. - They had
better build handsome church, or an old On
era House first. Annapolis has been finished
city for over l0years.l L
If the reader will read the following s.intro-
duction' to Mr.. Washington A. Danskin' S new
book spiritualism, he or she will be satisfied.
l am sure, that ''some things can be doae as
well as Others Three years. saws Mr.
Danskin, ''have passed away since / common
ced the investigation of that which is now
called spiritualism."
1.-THE phenomena presented for nv observa-
ton were clearly supegunau1adone were evident
ly produced by invisible, intelligent agents:
and not fearing to express my convictions, be-
cause they were unpopular, /, after careful
scrutiny, announced my belief, thai the spirits
Of men and soonaem wlso dwelt on EARTH
could, and did commune a0ith nao1taLs. This
fact appeared to me to be the most important
one which had ever been given to man. If i'm.
mortality is mans destiny, surely, the kno,c-
ledge of that life which is eternal far transcends
in value any mere earthly and, consequently,
transitory requirement. 80 :.
1.-The theological ideas presented in the fol-
lowing pages are not the Celebrations of nv
own brain. have been but little more than
the amanuensis. Two friends, who have lone
been jewellers in the land of light and love
passed the thoughts to my mind; l clothed them
with the drapery of language, and transcribed
them upon the paper. Such is the extent of
my participation in the production of this
volume
Mr. Danskn holds to the idea that all the
attributes of our natures carried with us to
the spirit land; that if a man is an orator here
he will be an orator in spirit guise. If he is a
poet here he will be a poet in spirit form; and
that in that form he will be enabled to com
mune with the living. If this be true
why is it that spirit painter
can guide the hand Of q mortal, and not be able
to speak? l should think spirit ought to talk
as well as ''rup on a table, or "7ulse a piano
weighing over 800 pounds,' as Mr.. Danskin
asserts. What SLY you, Mr.. Editor and friend
reader? Let me know your opinions. 7 do
not deny any assertions found in Mr. Danskin:s
book, but simply say IL is gerry strauqe Ionic
The book is published by Mr.. ". A. DansEin
Baltimore, Md.
/ have been at my ''old tricks again Some
one once called me ''book worm,'' but |
don't believe word of it, and never will un.