The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-24

ANo'--A package addressed to Halliday
brolhers care Capt J. b. Fulton, WIS
placed on boardthe nav tug, Csche,r on
Monday morning ,sst; and for a time nc
body knew what 4. contained or whence
1t came. IL was finally recolected that
wealthy, wide.awake gentleman Of the
city had been repeatedly solicited to pre-
sent the tug with piano. The package,
no doubt, contained the piano. In due
time number Of gentlemen who had been
invited to join the excursion up Mayfeld
creek came aboard, and among the num-
Der was Capt. Hambleton, Of Mound City,
who, as usual, knew all about it. "Scale
off the lumber," said the Captain, "and
III guarantee that the bowels of the pack
age is made up, principally, of piano"
II was Immediately agreed, therefore,
that She piano had come, and it was unan-
imously determined that Capt. HANDLE
ton should make the presentation speech.
Mounting the box, and drawing from his
pocket o manuscript, he read in an i'm
pressive voice as follows
Gentlemen Being unexpectedly called
upon, and without moments time for
preparation, " accompany the presenta-
ton of this piano 70 the tug Cache, with @
few appropriate remarks, I must Of course
depend wholly upon the inspiration Of the
moment.
II l am not mistaken, it was Bunyan
who said
II music be the food Of love
Give me surfeit Of IL.
1t is manifest TO every man Of ordinary
intelligence that Bunyan's head was level.
He was brick. But to recur. As the
prov Of the Cache cuts the pelucid waters
Of the Ohio at the rate of ten miles in elev.
en- hours, the sounds Of this dulcet instru-
ment will swell out upon the wave, sweet
as the syrens song now soft and low as
the music OF the Eolean harp, anon as
shrill as the pipe of the Highland hunter,
as plaintive as the song of the dying swan
SO POLITICALLY described by George Fran
els Train and Parson Brownlow. Take
IT, Messrs. Officers of the Cache, and with
II my blessing. Grind her, remembering
that, inasmuch as emusic hath charms to
soothe the savage breast" nowhere in the
world Is 1t more rnanifestly needed than
on board this tug. l retire, gentlemen,
begging that you will not applaud me.
An sdmiring friend or two from Mound
City, gave a clap or two and were prompt
ly slowed away in the hold, and were or.
dered to stay there.
The response was made by Capt. Halli-
day. He said the occasion was too many
for him. Ordinarily, he GRATED felicitous-
ly. On the present occasion, however, his
mouth refused TO go off glibly, and he
would therefore conclude by saying that
he accepted the piano in the name Of the
officers OF the tug and would yield to
what seemed to be the manifest desire of
the party and produce the Bourbon"
The concluding remark was heard by
the Mound Cityites in the hold, who de-
clared they would get out of the hold and
hold some Of that Bourbon" or die in the
attempt.
EIpectant eyes watched the process of
opening the box. Sold! r. was the gen.
eral ejaculation, when an old secondhand
hand organ was disclosed AS the contents
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Confederate money II was pu, into op-
GRAFTON. Gaily it started Of, and the tune
of Dixie greeted the ears of the company:
but after three turns Of the crank the or
gan went of into dolorous whistle, like
that of the steamer Tyrone-an unearthly
noise resembling what we may imagine
the dying cries of million agonized cats
all comm.ngling into one horrible sound
would be like. Capt. Ham bleton looked
at Capt. Halliday a singIs moment in
blank dismay, and then with an expression
of unutterable agony on his features
plunged headlong into the seethng river
and passed from our gaze like a beautiful
dream. Capt Halliday stood irrssolute
for moment, and then with mournful
plunge followed Hambleton. The organ
shrieked on. Capt. Fulton after casting
an appealing eye to heaven plunged sol
EMMY after Halliday. Then Stafford fol-
lowed. Then Jim johnson went down
and Dunning-and, we'll Of all that gay
company there was not a single soul who
did no prefer drowning 10 listening TO the
detestable noise of that horrible organ.
Neither Of the bodies has yet been re-
covered. The organ Is now on exhibition
at the City National Bank.