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The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29
FORREST.

THE HERO OF FORT PILLOW BEFORE TIT
KU-KLuX COMMITTEE HE prS,rs rur
EXISTENCE OF so-CALLED oRprp--yy-
PLAINS THE CAUSE OF THE TRouut.rs Ar
THE SOUTH.
MY theory, however, is, (said the Gene
raj that class of men, who have not the
welfare of the south ut heart, come from
the north and, knowing that tho political
rights of many Of the southern people arc
denied them, they operate with the negroes
to secure their votes to elevate them TO DO
sitions of trust and responsible
ity. Secret leagues are formed;
inccndiary speeches, calculated to do
irrcparablo injury, are made; the employ
or is denied the services of his laborers, as
they flock to these leagues and are taught
characterization. The result is, that among
the substantial citizens of the section of
country wherein these men operate, they
are regarded with distrust and socially
ostracised. They secure lucrative offices,
defraud the people, and in all their acts
seemingly endcavor to excite public favor
against them. As II natural consequence,
at intervals, the Indignation probably of
an individual may be aroused, and an in
dividual assault made which is soon mngni-
Hcu into u hu-hluN Outrugc. NOW, L 40
not pretend to deny that in some instances
men have been kil.ed-not, however indis-
crimnately slaughtered. The same mo-
tive that impels man to kill his brother
in New York, Massachusetts, or Maine, ap-
plies as well in Alabama, North Carolina,
or Tennessee, the difference being that IN
the latter States, the victim, by his action
and conduct, tempts and goads the muir
derer to his bloody work. These cases are
few, but of coarse, are credited as being
the work Of the Ku-klux, and hence pub.
lie opinion north is directed against
the whole south as blood
thirsty people. Again, bad men
come south with no fixed purpose
in view. They seem to float along, and,
like Micawbcr, await something to turn
up. In their idleness they operate anon g
the negroes; excite their superstitious
feelings against their employers, and
cause general stagnation in agricultural
pursuits. When demonstrated with for
such conduct, instead Of allowing the plan.
ter to peacefully pursue the even tenor OF
his way, they attempt to revive old sores
and make assertions calculated to excite
anger and bad feeling. The result may
be that such men are ordered to leave oil
to pursue some vocation, just the same a'
n vagrant may be locked up in Washing
ton, or suspicious character ordered GU,
of it. This, | presume, is at once calle,
ku-klux outrage.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29
POLITICAL NOTES.
fGa,hered from our Eschanges.l

Titus Pomponius Atticus Bib (hc
writes IL T.. Z. Atticus Bibb) is "A candidate
FOR thc Register of the land Office in Ken
! lucky.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that the
action of the republican convention in that
state is equivalent TO the reputation OF
Grant.
Now that California has sent Grant a
palace car the Louisville journal thinks
he won't be happy until some one gives
him railroad.
The Augusta ConStiiutionaiist admits
that the controlling sentiment among the
Democrats of Georgia is to waive useless
discussion now, and bide their time to
right what they call wrong, accepting no
usurpation as finality.
In his testimony before the Ku.Klux
Investigating committee, Gen. Forrest de-
clared, that from extensive travel through
all portions Of the south, and rs far ms his
judgment and personal observation led
him to believe, he could safely assert that
no such band as the Ku-Klux has exist
ence in any Of the southern states.
The Savannah (Ga.) Republican has
discovered that the present democratic
party is nothing but the old wing party.
1t puts it thus off there be one democrat
ic principle or purpose of tho present day
that conflicts with the principles and pur-
poses of the old whlg party, or on which
the two are not in full accord, we would
be glad to have it pointed out. 1t cannot
be done"
"A Grant and Cameron club has been
formed in Baltimore. In resolutions
adopted at the first meeting it is said that
Mr.. Simon Cameron's nomination "be-
speaks the will Of the majority of the
American people, not less than that Of
President Grant. The club invites all
who agree with these declarations to join
them; "but," it adds, ain nothing, either
from fear or favor, will it abatc one iot
from the motive, choice and purpose of its
origin
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29
BATS.
4 WORD THEIR DEFENSE,

among the prejudiccs cherished by the
masses against harmless animals, few are
stronger than that felt almost universally
against bats, arising probably from the
simple fact that they are children of the
night and forced to carry on their search
after food in the darkness. 1t NAV be-
howevcf, that their peculiar hideousness
has given additional strength to this feel
ing, for the Jewish legislation already de-
clared them uncloan and accursed, and the
Greeks borrowed their wings for the har-
pies, ms Christians have done for the devil.
a poor lost bat need but fly into room
filled with COMPANY, and everybody is
frightened. Supcrstitous people tremble
at their mere presence rs m evil omen,
and the strong-minded amog the fair ex-
cusc their terror by pretended fear for
tho harlan apprehension which could be
well founded only if the accounts of insects
being harborcd.in their chignons should be
verified. 1t is true these children of dark
ness are neither fair in form nor amiablc
in temper. The naked, black skin of their
wings, stretched out between enormously
heightened fingers, like the silk of an UNI
bcrella between the whalebono of the
frame; the ugly claws of their feet; the
bare appendices which frequently adorn
their noses and ears in most eccentric
manncrand their perfectly noseless, almost
sight, mysterious fight by touch, and not by
make them unwclcomc guests among men.
"Aad yet they are real public beneiactors.
When the first warm sun offspring arouses
them from their long winter sleep which
they enjoy hanging by their hind feet,
head down, and the whole body carefully
wrapped up in the wide cloak Of their
wings, they begin their night hunts. A
dozen fat beetles hardly suffice for the sup
per of hungry member of ono variety,
and sixty or seventy housc-fcs for one of
another kind. All night long they pursue
with indeiatigablc energy every variety of
beetle and moth, of fly and buff, and enjoy
most Of all those which do the greatest inju-
~ to our frut-trees and cereals. Even
the on y really formidable member of their
race, tho vampire, is much maligned,
gigantic bat, accused Of sucking the blood
of man and beast, it is strictly confined to a
small district in tho tropics, and even there
occurs but rarely"
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

TnE electric telegraph companies in
the United States, according to recent
official statistics, own ~ Alb miles OF
line, of which 5G lO3 belong to the ives
tern union telegraph company, aud u.s.
90 to various other companies. Tn,
number Of miles Of wire amounts Il
l53, 063 miles, Of which 1882 be,
long TO the western union company, and
3G,Gll to other Companies. The num-
Der Of stations is 5,2iO, the western
union having 1891, and other compan-
les $40, The western union telegraph
company owns 3 ,G0l sets ofinstruments,
aud has G,0so persons in its employ.
The statistics of the above company for
$50 are as follows Number of mes
sage sent, 9,933,327 gross receipts,
" oJi oG3; expenditures, 50, 1Ol BY;
net profits, s2,3j2,7 iG expended in
new construction, $685. s5.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29
PERSONAL.
fHome and Foreign.

Home and Foreign.l
"A son of Secretary Fish graduated at
Columbia College yesterday.
"A letter from Louis Blanc is published
declaring that the republican party, hith-
crto n force mast become power.
--Spurgoou's attack of govt is so much
aggravated, say the London journals, that
it is doubtful if he will be able to preach
again for some months.
Charles Rcadc thinks it a mistake to
suppose that great wits to madness nee y
are allied lie believes the insane in
general are men with very little brains
and enormous cgotism.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

Mrs. MYRA BRADwELL read a poem
before the Illinois press association on
Wednesday, The Madame is one of
the strong-mindcd ladies', who take de-
light in public gatherings of all kinds,
and is specifically learned. She is
smart, and puts high estimate upon
The opinion of the good looking mem
bers Of the male sex. Her poem, W,
venture to say, will treat of love, and
be a gushing production.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

now ARAB LADIES PERFUME THEMSELVES.
How the Arab ladies'perfume themselves
is thus described by Sir Samuel Baker in
his work on the Nile:
"In the floor of the hut or tent, as it may
chance to be, small hole is excavatcd,
sufficiently large to contain champaign
bottle 4 fire of charcoal or simply glow.
ing embers is made within the hole, into
which the woman about to be scented
throws handful of drugs. She then
takes off the cloths or robe which forms
her dress, and crouchcs naked over the
fnmes, while she arrangcs her robe to fall
rs a mantle from her neck t. the ground
like tent. She now begins To pcrspire
! freely in the hot-air BATH and the pores
of the skin being open and moist, the vola-
| tile oil from the smoke of the burning
perfumes is Immediately absorbed. By
| the time the fire has expired the seeming
volatile oil from the smoke of the burL-
| ing perfumes is Immediately absorbed.
| BY the time the fire has expired the seem
| ting process is completed, and both her
person and her robe are redolent of in
cense, with which they are so thoroughly
imprcgnatcd that have frequently smelt
party of women strongly at full n hun
| dred yards distance when the wind ha;
been blowing from their direction. THIS
scent, which is supposed to be very attrac
tive to gentlemen, is composed of ginger
cloves, cinnamon frnnkinccnsc, and myrrh
n species..of seaweed brought from the Re,
Sea, and, lastly, tho horny disc which GOV
crs the aperture when the shcll-tsh with
draws itself within lis shell. The proper
ton of these ingredients in this mixtur
are according to taste.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29
Mr.. A. II. STEPHENS. editor of III,

Mr.. A. II. STEPHENS, editor of the
Atlanta Sun, is progressive gentle
man. The only objection we can urge
against him is that he progresses too
slowly. lie began political life whig,
and became 4 democrat just at the time
the party went out of power; he was an
opponent Of the sccessionists but
finally advanced his standard to THEN
position, and by the time his old scces-
sion opponents had been whipped into
unionism, he bloomed into an uncom
promising sccessionist. Ia lSGShc haC
not arrived at an acquiesccncc in thu
destruction Of slavery, but now, in 1877
hc has reached the standpoint Of tn
democratic party Of that year. He i
slow but sure.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29
ARTHUR u. BARRETT, President
BESJ. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
MISSOURI MUTUAL,

Ranks high In the lit Of sound, thrifty We-terr
ldiV Companies,
II has ample capltal--lD,o'N.
II has assets more than enough to cover ~ 1T.
liabilities IN addition tu the capital.
II has one hundred thousand dollars deposited
with the State Of Missouri a. u perpetual guar
nntee to It's policy holders.
II has complied fully with the new laws Of the
state, which are quite a. eXaeting and more ftgii
~ enforced than those Of Eastern states.
II invests IT. funds ia the West, among tho
people from whom they are received.
lts management be- vigorous, -kilml hnd ITu.
dent.
It, annual income from the interest alone -
already more than sufficient 10 pay It's losses.
II issues policies upon the ordinary NJ" aud en-
dowment plans, at the came rate A. other FIRST.
class companies.
The policy holders receive all the profits inSu-
nusl dividends.
Tho stock holders can receive only ten pcr
ceut Of interest on their capital, by the terms 81
the charter.
The annual dividends to policy holder. are Nl'
ready greater than many Old Eastern ComPanlc.
have ever been able to pay.
The State Of Illinois paid last year about btt
million dollars for Life Insurance.
Why send 80 much money out OF the stale
away to New York an New England for an article
that may be produced just rs cheapS (ormor -
At homer
WOOD a LOW.
apr2Giswu Agents at Cairo
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

THE democratic state convention for
the nomination of congressman for
the state at large should be held at
Chicago; and the headquarters of the
democratic state central committee
should be removed to that city.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29
TIE LArEsr KERosENE HORROR.

Mrs. Gargan of Long Island City, sat
uratcd her clothes with kerosene on Mon
day morning, and then, taking her babe in
her arms, set fire TO them. Her husband
coming in seized and saved the child, but
tho woman was SO badly injured that she
dled on Tuesday. Insanity is believed to
De me cause OF this strange and terrible
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

The Paducah keaWckim asserts
that there are lawful issues involved
in the political canvass now in progress
in that state.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

The friends of the Cairo and Vim.
cennes railroad enterprise are very con
fident that they can carry the election
on next Monday by an overwhelming
majority We believe they can but,
II they hope to make thsir victory de.
cisive--So overwhelming that it will be
reproach to the enemies of the road
rs well rs an instruction to the county
court which it dare not disregard, they
mast ma, abandon the tactics they have
been pursuing up to this time in the
contest They must not allow the car
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29
4 GREAT BATCH OF LEARNIIlG,

Miss Estha Greatbatch, who has Just
passed the second Especially examination
for women at thc University of Londor,
in French and in Harmony and in Counter
point, also took the second prize ut the ex-
animation which followed professor Guth-
rie's lectures on physics Mt the London In
s,itutc, in February 1870, and out of sew
cnty-four candidates, the first prize for the
examination in physical geography,
which followed professor HIxleys lee
lures on that subject in 1863 In 1868,
Miss Grcatba,ch passed us u junior with
first class honors, and gained prize for
Mathematics at the Cambridge Local Ex-
animation. In December, 1870, she passed
ms II senior, with first class honors, gaining
the Mill-Taylor scholarship and u prize for
Political Economy. Miss Greatbatch did
not take up the Mn-Taylor scholarship,
which can only be held ut Cambridge.
She Is pupil Of the Norty London Col
lcgiatc school for girls, whore she has re.
ccived her whole education.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

vass to flow along with its present q"'''
currcnt but must wake mp anu ~
work There i. more opposition to 4"
rooa ,hon tbc public bcIiovc--a quiet
urdcr. handed opposition that makes 1T
flo mise but will vote its sentiments
unIcss the people shall Immediately
,wokcn TO the necessity of prompt ac-
,io, and make an issue Of the most de-
ci.iyc kind with these enemies OF Cal-
ro's prosperity. For a long time coax
inc was rcsortcd to--a pattlng on
the backs of the moss-cover-
ed mcn--a smoothing of their
ruillcd plumcs but this policy amounted
to nothing and had to give way to the
policy of heavy fighting. Then the bet
ter class of the community succeeded,
and the worser class had to go to the
wall. And now the friends Of public
enterprise must not let down. Ihey
must nc acllNt lbI lHC Il''IN''J
the electromagnetic enthusiastic. They
must let the obstructing element know
that it cannot prevail. The friends of
public enterprise have in this struggle
for the Cairo and Nnccnnes road been
reinforced by gentlemen who have never
before in the history Of the city taken
any interest in its affairs, except just
before the municipal elections when
they would work little in the saloons
for their friends; and these men seem
to be really in earnest in the present
This is an encouraging
sign, but, nevertheless, the friends of
the Cairo and Nincennes road should
relax no effort to secure an affirmative
vote on the propositions to be submit
ed to the people next Monday. Ac-
ivity is absolutely necessary to success.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

The San Francisco Chronicle saws:
Mrs Fair is quietly rcposing in the cell
OF the county Jail, Her surroundings
are as comfortable and cheerful as posi-
BILE under the circumstances. Her
mother and daughter, and the few OF
her sex who still feel interested in her
late, are allowed to visit her by permit of
the sheriff She sleeps but little, which
Is scarcely to be wondered at. With the
past and the future free to work their will
with her in dreams, sleep would be tor
ture' Her appetite Is dainty and cxactng,
but not craving
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29
INSURANCE,

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The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

De5'A splendid story is told of Marshal
Mac ahon when Colonel During II
parade he had an alteration with an OIL
Ger inthc ranks, who refused to obey him.
Mac Mahon finally threatened the offender,
and the latter drawing n pistol took DELHI
crate aim and fired fortunately tho cap
snapped, Without the slightest sign Of
fear cool and impossible, MdcMahon said
give that man fifteen days Saiiade police,
for hap'ng his arD'eS oW Of ordeti"
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-29

LtB" FRANK Lcslies illustrated Nepspaper
has II capital hit on "Thc Poetry Of the
Period. The cartoon represents two
Young ladies gazing admiringly at "a rough
looking man who is addressing a bow
shopping past him with an ovcrilowing
pail Of water. Underneath is the follow
ing dialogue:
Sixth Ward Politician (who has been
splashed )-"lou bloody snoozer! IN
make you rastle your hash in Hill"
Poetic Young Lady-"O, Clara There's
the author OF the new poems? Lets stop
and listen. How sweet
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-06-07
The Folly of Attempting to Continue
Young.

Once for all, there is no misery SC
distressful as the desperate agony OF
trying to keep young when one can't
I know an old bachelor who has at
tempted it. His affectation of youth.
like all Alterations, is a melancholy
failure. He is rapid young man OF
fifty. He plies innocent young ladies'
with the pretty compliments and soft
nothings in vogue when he was a spoony
youth of twenty. The fashion of talk
ing to young ladies has changed within
thirty years. you know, and this aged
boys soft nothings seems more out of
date than two-year old bonnet. They
make you think, somehow, of that
t1me-honored frog-story wherein is set
forth the discovery of galvanic elect
richly When you see his old fashioned
young antics-his galvanic gallantry,
so to speak-and hear the speeches he
makes to girls in their teens, when he
ought to be talking to them like a
father, you involuvtarily call him an
old idiot, ant. long to remind him of
that quaint rebuke of grand old JoLn
''Ihou talkest like one upon whose head
the shell is to this very day"
That is how he seems He is old
enough to have been almost full-fedg-
ed before you we're born. and here he
is trying to make believe that he is
still in the days of his gosling- green,
with the shell sticking on his head to
this day. 1t is melancholy absurdi-
ty. One can't be young unless one is
young. Only once is it given to us to
be united and soft, and gushing and
superlative, and when the time comes
for it all to go, no sort of effort can
hold back the feeting days.-ELIzA
ARoHARD, IN the June number of Lip
p57ac0tt's Magazine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-06-07
Not Nice ACQUISITIONS,

According to the Landauer Anziger,
things still look far from hopeful in
the new German provinces, and the
population is anything but reconciled
to the present order of things. Letters
from soldiers stationed in Metz to their
relatives in Landau report that on the
Oath of April a Bavarian corporal of
the Fourth Regiment and thee Prussian
infantry men were surprised and cruel
y murdered in an underground public
house. Not many days before the
mutilated corpse of a Prussfan cuiras-
sier was found in the MoseIle, and on
the morning of the .22d of April the
corpse of Prussian infantry man was
lying in the street, fright
fully disfigured by mutilations. When
the last letter was written a Prussian
sergeant had been missing for more
than week. All letters concur in
ascribing these outrages to hatred of
the Germans. Metz has become
dreaded garrison to the soldiers, and
sentinel and patrol duty dangerous
service
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-06-07
4 Savage Scene i'm Paris.

In visit which he paid on a recent
afternoon to the Arch of Triumph to
see the effects of the bombardment.
the Paris correspondent of the London
Daily News found compact and excit-
ed crowd under the shade of the Turk
ish Embassy. A horse had been des-
perately wounded by shell, and had
been abandoned by its owner I'm
med1ately guard came and put the
poor creature out of agony with shot.
The horse was then carefully bled, and
two individuals arrived with butchers
knives, pretended that they had been
authorized by the owner of the animal,
and proceeded to cut it up, handing
large humps of hot and steaming
flesh to the eager crowd around. The
meat was cut into pieces varying from
pound weight to three or four times
as much, and the people around gave
whatever they could aftord-some 3D.,
some 4d., some 5. Never had the Par
lslans the opertunity of SO good bar
gain, and soon nearly the whole carcass
had disappeared. Even the bones
were carried off by some to make soup
with. In the middle of this savage
scene a shell burst some little way from
the butchers and their customers. The
fright was indescribable Many people
threw themselves on what remained of
the carcass, while others lay down in
the large pool of blood which surround
ed the animal. When they rose again
they presented most singular appear
ance. With one hand some of them
still clutched piece of raw, bleeding
flesh, while their clothes, faces, hair
and boards were smeared with mud
and blood.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-06-07
A Sea Captains Humane Act Punished.

The. Liberal Christian has the fol-
lowing anecdote from gentlemen who
was an eyewitness of the circumstance
narrated:
"The thermometer often stands for
days at from 100 to 1T degrees In the
Red Sea, and when the vessel is with
the wind, and travelling at about the
speed of the air, the lack Of any breeze
or ventilation makes life on the steam
er almost insupportable On this oc-
casion four men and two passengers
were so overcome with. the heat that the
ships doctor reported that they must
die If the ships course was not chang
ed and breeze created by travelling
against the wind. The captain very
reluctantly, and in dire fear of his com
many's orders, yielded to the cry of
humanity, and steamed one hundred
miles back on his course. He thus re-
duced the oppressive temperature TWEEN
ty degrees; ventilated his ship, and
saved the lives probably of six pass
engers. The Government fined the
company (who excused the captain, al
though not without a warning not to
do SO again thousand pounds for
going out of the prescribed route with
her Majesty's mails.