The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-15

| uence) Secs rs ne suPposes, MS victim, th,
line being out two hundred feet from Oh,
boat, snaps at IL (the hook and is "snap.
ped in turn. Then comes the tug OF
war, which usually ends in the
fish being landed in the boat
when the finishing "coup de grace is adj
| minstered TO him. We have received SO
many doubling letters in regard to our
trouting expedition that we shall not at
this time give ourexpcrience in "trolling."
Suffice it to say that we h ave enjoyed it to
our hearts content.
Where the natural dam is formed at
the bridge mentioned above, all the
MANUFAToRIEs
are clustered together, which embraces a
cotton and wooden factory, two grst mills,
foundry, machine shop and paper mill, all
run by water power. Through the kind
ness of the superintendent of the last
named factory we were shown over the
same and was much interested in the
"modus operandi' of
| MAKING WHITE PAPER,
! Ia sample of which this letter is written
ON. The paper here is made entirely
from old scrap paper, mostly picked up
in the streets and alleys of New York,
brought here, picked over and cleaned,
reduced to pulp to the consistency
of starch water, when, by the aid
of a broth of sulphurc acid and
other chemicals the work of regeneration
begins. Its then Utterly "born again" and
comes forth from the forms white, pure
and undefiled, folded and packed in cases
and sent back to New-York for use. The
paper mill has q
WHISTLE,
to call its employees, and keep the time,
which much resembles that of the Belle
Memphis, so that three times day we are
reminded of Cairo, LA Belle Ohio" and
the Belle Memphis.
Many of your readers are aware that
the finest
MARBLE
in the union is quorried Mt Sutherland
Falls and this place, all within distance
Of fifty miles. Many of the marble fronts
in st. Louis are made from Middebury
marble. The beautiful new costom house
at Portland, Maine recently finished, was
erected from marble quorried here, polished
and fitted for the builders use
before being shipped for its destination.
AT BELpEN's FALLS
the water power of Otter Creek is again
utilized for the purpose of saving the
huge blocks of marble for market. We
saw there few days since over one hum
dred saws in gangs of from two to twenty
each, varying according TO the size to be
cut, or the thickness of the block, all NOV.
ing together and saving up the hard ma
teriM into grave stones, mantel pieces,
blocks for building, etc, with mathemati-
cal precision.
We have had the pleasure since our last
letter of short visit from our old friend,
WATER nYsLop, Esq,
so well and favorably known among you
all. We improved every moment of the
few days of his stay, and were "on the go2
most of the time. Among other places of
interest that we visited was picnic ride to
GRAND VIEW MOUNTAIN.
some ten miles northwest of here, a beau
tiiul drive over charming road We
drove up to within a short half mile from
the summit, when among the pines
we halted and camped, soon had
n good fire burning, the coffee pot smok-
Ing, and II cloth laid over,,the green sward
was soon covered with toothsomc edibles,
that soon disappeared with monstrous
celebrity. After having amply refreshed
the inner man, we tcthered our horses and |
started for the top of the mountain. One
Of the great charms of the place is that
your way is in the depths of the forest
until you arrive ut the very crest, when
he most magnificent Wow all at once
)ursts on the behOlder, who finds himself
'ver the verge Of precipicc, n wall of
old rock, extending perpendicularly u
listance Of 1900 feet. The views from
his point cannot be we'll described. From
his lofty gyms the eye wanders down |
.he long route and sees, 1900 feet below, |
highly cultivated farms, the houses and !
barns Of which look like .chiIdrens' toys, |
the fences black lines, and the streams !
threads Of silver. In front of this mag |
nitcent picture the beautiful and limped
waters Of Lake Champlain stretch away
before you while directly on the opposite
shore is the little historic village
Of Crown Point, A few miles below are
the ruins Of Fort Ticonderoga or "old IT,"
Ne it is Familiarity called, when you re-
member
ETHAN ALLEN,
Of revolutionary fame, modcstly demand |
ed the surrender of the fort from the Brit |
ish in the name of the Great Jehova and
the Continental Congress"
A few miles still farther 10 the west the
waters Of the beautiful Lake George are
distinctly 10 be seen, although from this
lofty height they resemble u dot on the
surface, while in the background and at
the base OF the two lakes, rises the gray
old Adriondacs, peak after peak, towering
TO the very skies, crowns the magnificent
panorama spread out before and be-