The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-12-07
LETTER FROM ST. LOUIS,
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CpNsOLIDATIoS--EM EMIGRATION
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Especial Correspondence Of the Bulle,in,)
/ have another argument in favor OF the
capitol removal to st. Louis in anticipa-
ton OF that event, and that the legislators
may be completely isolated.
Work has been stopped ON the great
bridge which was to span the river at
this place. \ newspaper man told me
yesterday that the director, Of the bridge
company had ordered work TO cease till
warm weather, because II man could not do
full days work in winter, hence the com.
pany didn't want TO be robbed 10y "A mud
sill. But one of the suL-contractors told
me last week that work was stopped be-
cause the bridge company had no money.
Anyhow, the scene around the bridge plat
! is Il very duh one; the sound of the ham
/ mor Is not heard, and the only noise that
/ brcuks on the ear Is the grinding of the
| icr against the ahulments and piers. i
! S rumorcd in railroad circles that tn
| Missouri roads contemplate the speed,
construction Of II railway bridge at Cason
dulet, three uilr, below the bridge
already commenced This last unlcral-
ing have no doubt will be successful, and
It i, the only rlar" where bridge ought
to be bujit TIE folly Of rolling through
| the heart Of the ci'y the immense freights
in transit between Mississippi and
| the .aabcari, l. too patent to any one who
VIII stop and think about it.
THE POLITICAL CAULpRoS
stu bubbles at 2l2" The truth l., st
/ Loui. politicians are nothing without being
| egoli,lic and unreasonable. Nor has the
new class been any Improvement on the
old. During ind prior to the rebellion,
ST. LpUi, poIiticiaus-of all grade, and
| cumpicNicns--Gc actual y imagined that the
| dastiuics, the veal or the woe, of all wet
Of Chicago AID southwest Of Louisville de-
pended on their management and dictg-
! tion OF affairs, Hence, in 1860 Frank
Blair and Mckee and Fishback on the one
| hand and Dick Barrett and the Knapps
on tie other openly proclaimed that they
| carried Missouri aud the southwest in
their brooches pockets. In fact, they did
carry 81. Louis there for awhile, but the
dark days Of 80 came upon the city, and
| ii is Il memorable fact that these. same
lorily proprictors were glad TO spout their
possessions for nominal sum. They don't
own St. Louis any more, no matter how
much they may try to make the distant
plblic believe they do.
RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION.
The telegraph to-day will inform you
working forces Of the Missouri Pacific
and the Atlantic ami Pacific railroads,
! giving 10 the latter company a control of
about eight hundred miles Of road Thi,
Consolidation has created considerable cx-
citement throughout the West. Now |
am no friend to railway consolidating en-
terprises, believing them TO be lrauph,
with mischie, 70 stockholler. and Of evil
10 shippers and residents along tac con-
soldated lines But there are two sides
to this consolidation. 1t should be re-
Inembered that these roads and the North
Missouri were built by donations Of hand
from the general, and donations Of bond.