The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-11-15
Letter from 81. I.oui-.
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81. LorIs. No NV Is,n


, DEAR CLARION When last wrote yor
from Cairo, expected to have writer
often, but an over press Of business an,
feeble health have prevented.
was much astonished while nj CAIN I,
see the city in such a state Of improvement
There are many first class wholesale house,
in il, and was glad to see they were doing
a large business | have often heard this
place spoken Of as a dirty, low, unpleasant
place, with no accommodations, and that a
man was not safe, in person or property
who stopped over there, l found quite the
reverse The st. Charles hotel. kent by
Loudseu, Wilcox n Co, is as convenient
pleasant, neat and well arranged as any no.
tel have found in my travels, and | was
pleased to see that manhn grey was spe.
cially cared for There are several large
manufactures at Cairo. The streets present
quite healthy appearance, and although
the city has been low and marshy, yet the
rapid rate at which they have levied and
filed up those places would astouish person
who had mot seen IL fora few years. | was
told that twenty-five car loads of dirt were
brought in every half hour At this rate
you will see the town will soon be entirely
high and dry.
/ found the people in Southern Illinois
johnson men almost unanimously. called
on the editor of the Cairo Democrat, whom
found to be gentleman in every sense of
the term. He informed me that there were
in the city of Cairo n large majority in favor
of the Hon. Mr. Dickey, the Democratic
candidate for Congress- aud that there was
not doubt ofhis election by an oyorwhel-
ming majority
must return my sincere thanks to the
citizens generally of Cairo for the kindness
with which was received and
especially TO the editor of the Democrat, who
indicted the article in said paper compli-
mentary to your humble correspondents
would advise our trading people to give
Cairo call, and | assure them that they
will be pleased with the people, as well as
the price of goods.
From Cairo took the Illinois Central for
St. Louis. At Du Quoin, depot between
Cairo and 0din, we were pleased to see
great number of coal mines. The machinery
for raising the coal TO the surface is simple,
and was Informed that as much as thirty.
five TO forty car loads per day were obtained
from one well. The vein of coal Is about
eight feet thick, and its width had not been
ascertained. In preparing to work these
mines, the proprietor first digs weH about
six by ten feet square to the depth of eighty
to one hundred, and some times two
hundred feet. He then places a steam en-
CINE near by, so arranged as TO let down
body, which will contain about twenty
bushels Of cosl When II gets down, they
have mules which pull the car
on n railway track TO where il is filed up
by the operatives, and then in the same way
it is brought back. As many as one to two
hundred operatives are in one well. Coal is
worth at the mines from eight to fourteen
cents per bushel II isshipped from here TO
st. Louis, Chicago Cincinnati, Cairo, &c
We arrived at odin, the junction of the
Illinois Central and the Ohio and Missis-
sippi Railroads, at o'clock, p m where
we were detained until half after seven the
next morning, when with much pleasure we
took the cars for st Louis, at which place
we arrived on Monday last, about / o'clock,
A. NJ, and in few minutes found ourself
safely seated in room 26l, on the third floor
Of the Southern Hotel, the most magnificent
IN the lcorld. will send you
full description of this truly wonderful
Hotel in my next. J.