New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-06


Fort Pillow was the only point above in which
we felt interest. A high hill, showing nc fortca-
tons, and the site only marked by tall flagstaff.
At Cairo, at the mouth Of the Ohio, the boat
stopped for some time, and we went on shore.
There seems to be a large business transacted
here and the busness-housea facing the river look
very we'll But the remainder of the town is a
curiosity. as is well known, the ground is very
low, and the houses are built on props or stills to
bring them level with the levee and keep them
above water. The sidewalks are likewise on stills,
being sort OF wooden bridges As to the style
Of architecture, it would take Yankee ingenuity to
describe them, and / am utterly unequal to the
task, Everybody appears to have been afraid of
building to resemble his neighbors, and doubt if
two houses could be found alike albeit nearly all
are small one-story wooden structures, or cottages.
| suppose they are intended to be built in Swiss
cottage style, but judge them to be mingling
of all styles, and complete embodiment of no
style at last Ahink it is one Of the queerest and
most disagreeable looking places for residence
have seen.
On inquiring Of a 1ank individual which was the
Commercial Hotel he replied, stretching his neck
in various directions, well, meow, I-really-
carn't say; believe that is it--no-I don't know
there il the Commercial saloon; don't know
whether that is the hotel or not. l guess It's
somewhere hereabouts, but really carn't say.n
Before he was half through my companion had
disappeared into neighboring store to inquire,
but curiosity kept me still, to hear how he would
finish his explicit directions, which, at the end of
several minutes arrived at AZ carnt say.n
Whether this specimen of the gems homo was in
digenous to Cairo, carn't say" but should
judge he was from region farther East-Coneeti-
cut or g Yarmouth aa#a.
A few hours after leaving Cairo we reached
Mound City, and perambulated here also. Here
is United States armory and arsenal and a large
brick hospital. On the bank isa large mound an
Indian memorial, suppose, supporting some fine
old trees In the center stands the flagstaff and
sentry.box. Everything around the military por-
ton Of the town is exquisitely neat, but the re-
mainder of the place is somewhat in Cairo style
little new cottages of every shade and construo-
ton. Anchored out in the river were three mont
tors, and at the wharf several war steamers. The
bell, rang at the fort every half hour, was an
swered by the boats. At night, when the signal
lights were shining the monitors and steamers in
the fort and tower, more picturesque scene can
be imagined and as the bell strikes the half
hours, calls wildly before the mind the scenes
of the past few years. In few hours after dark
we again steamed away, and the next day the
scenery presented a marked difference from the
low fiat lands of the Mississippi, steep hills and
rocks being now the frequent characteristic of the
Ohio banks. We passed several thriving towns
Hawesville, on the Kentucky side, is a quiet.
Southern looking town, wen shaded. Tell City,
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