Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-14
Correspondence of the Cairo Times

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Correspondence of the Cairo Times.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Oct. 2, 1865.
Some days ago noticed paragraph asking
where was. can almost say, literally, am
stuck In the mud of Cairo, watching with tt e
disappointed interest attached to the waiting
Tor a pot to boil, for the filling Of her streets
and the beautifylng of her walks, SO as to offer
pleasure to her inhabitants and inducements
to the capitalists to bring their families to re-
side, in this as aeoao procizg to be, most heating
locality, for we all know that where mans FAM
lily is, there ought lie and his heart be Also and
even among those half-iroa men, yclept cap
italists (aforesaid) this rule holds sway las SAKE
would say in a general way! Therefore it is
that L would call especial attention Of ''those
whom it may concern to the planting of trees
along the sidewalks, more especially round the
private habltatlons of our people; for what so
lovely as the leafy shade, of a summers day,
or so bewitching as walk beneath the variea-
gated shadows of au avenue of trees, when the
moon is at its full-bright, clear, translucent,
beamlng like the eyes of the lover by your
side, with a lustre heavenly as it is heaven
sent. Amid such scenery of deep, Rembrandt
tic shading, oft has young love sprung to life,
to nestle in warm, young hearts, chilled by
worldly contact and strife when older grown,
but even there finding resting place, from
whence to look out with oft saddened, vet
happy memory, upon the beauties that gave it
birth
Is there aught so refining as flowers? or
aught SO clevating as the worship of the great
creator through the beuties of His handiWork?
He spreads them to our hand in profuson and
to our eyes the Kaleidoscope landscape is
stretched cut in beauty, changing loneliness and
grandeur. All! well do l remember the early
lessons of my childhood, and remembering
thus tain would strike the chord in every pa
rental breast; where the fresh plucbed velvet
rose-leaf contained story CT love and wisdom,
every green leaf and blade of grass pulled
apart did show the wonderful ingenuity; the
very rock, the annicienle and the crcumam-
blent air, the Omnipotent God When the
pulses OF the morn beat to measure with the
rising ofthe joy-awakened sun, how Joyous it
is to trip along the path, edged by the dew
genmed grass: how bright tie fresh, green
leaved trees, and how delightful to Gull the yet
sleep-laden flowers! With what bounding
step is the household greeted, and, as round
the morning table the daily prayers are said,
how thankfully and full of pure, springne love
does the heart rise in orison to meet an all
wise creator, and kiss, as it were, His extend
ed hand.
This believe is what is required to retain
that capital actsch Is so strongly attracted here
Tor no person of means likes to bring his family
where no beauty exists and where the conyen-
fences OF civilized life are so scanty or absent
altogether. 1t does not cost much to plant
trees where so many abound all around, and
the humanizing influence on the present inhab-
ltants alone would be large return upon the
outlay. When Cairo is handsomely laid out
with trees and shrubberY as Philadelphia, or
many OF the Eastern and Western towns. then
will her people increase in numbers, happiness
and contentment. Steam ferries being run to
Missouri and kentucky, more country trade
will be invited, and our country cousins be
induced to prolong their pleasant visits.
farks, also, could at the present advanced
condition of Cairo be iEaugurated, and at least
have the trees planted so as to have the ad-
vantage OF their growth. The passengers on
the to-be city railroad would willingly pay lie.
tax toward that cnd and those via steamboat
from Memphis, &c, could afford to pay the
same or more chargeable as wharf dues while
the illinois Central Railroad passengers could
and believe would, pay similar sum. all to
be devoted to the same purpose of creating and
keeping park, or parks, for people confined
all the week by labor and all Sunday by the
rivers and the marsh.
suppose you have heard the great Sake
manners, and handsome hairyness of face The
mofW part his lecture on Poets aud Poe
Try was great success, but it took such
deep scrutiny OF the manuscript that the great
rotundity of his periods were quite elongated
Tbs gentleman must have had a severe cold,
or been very nervous at the awfulness of
Cairo audience, for although his color was
much heightened, the ''pink ofperfccton'' never
doomed over either 'Poets or Poetry that
night. | like modest man, there is NOTHING
like modest man Except woman, and even
MIR. Sake himself will feelingly ac-
Knowledge that0 and the declaration of
modesty must always. be modestly
met. Now Mr.. SAKE did not say he was
ashamed of his lecture but he did say he qras
not ashamed of his poetry. Now that acas
modest, for the whole house of souls said as
plain as clapping Of hands and applause
could say it. that he need not be ashamed of his
poetry.
Adieu, Mr.. Editor. May your people plant
trees, cultivate flowers, and the graces, and
our lecturers their morals and their SUBJ
jects better. PEN.