The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-20
ST. LOUIS LETTER.
THE FAIR A FAILURE-THE COT
TON BANQU Er-POLITICo-
MANU- SnMENTo--AN INCL
DENT.

ST. LOUIS. October 10Th, 1872.
"After a storm comes Il calm" st. LOUIS
the past week has been insuilerably dull.
Fai. week was one OF intense eXcitement,
and yet the fair itself was not success, it
appeared to dag from the beginning-the
total receipts were some eight tnou>and dol
lars less tnan the pre- ious year. Notwth-
standing, The fair WIS continued four
days longer then ever before, and just there
was where one grand mistake was made.
The fair was ost' n>ibly opened on Thurs
day, ye, it was not nj the next Monday
that the several departments were fun and
| in VOL king order: OF coarse those who yi>I-
ted the grounds during this period went
! away much dissatisfied at the meager dis
play. When the fair was in fen blast, and
even on the day of the week. Thursday,
when Sc. Louis turned out en- mus. and
| crowded The great Ampni heatre, there was
| a lack of the old time enthusiasm. The fact
| is, anl;isemcn. for the crowd assembled was
not forthcoming. From II m, till pm,
| the immense crowd Of over forty thousand
| people sat in mute silence waiting for the
| sports Of the arena to commencement even
| strain from the band, VINO We're guzzling
beer at the booths during the interim.
! Even foot race or a dog fight world have
been IA refreshing change but there was
not ripple of anything. The day closed
with a stabbing ARRAY at two of the booths.
and since then, in the death of two of the
parties concerned in the same. Thursday
-,
| and kerosene. Most of the principal 0u,i-
| ness houses on Fourth street were illIlmna-
| ted in aonor of tue fair, and dense crowds
| thronged the streets to witness them. Both
| the Republicans and Democrat, had i'm.
| mensc torcIIiSht professions and rs they
| they passed up the same streets Il sea OF
mo, ing flame. miles ia extent was visible
for hours. Music oiled the air, and fire.
works were bunt with Il Lavish bent, and
with utterrecklcssnes,. Yorrcorres pondent
came near being perforated wi,h descend
ing stick i,om rocke;, which ic within y
few feet of Him, and which 0c now neeps as
a souvenir Of tue rand DISPLAY.
For full particulars we re-
fer you to Dr,. Duun.ng and Smith,
WHO performed teals of agility at the time
that were perfectly heroic and unpnrallele !,
The cotton banquet given in the Sangeriest
building at the close o. The sir was II shame
and disgrace to our fair city. Some eight
thou and dollars have been subscribed and
over one thousand ,ickets given Quito inrit-
ell guests and subscribed to the cotton luud
The contract was gwen out TO apariy who cy-
idently ''can't keep hotel as he, in the first
place, laid one long table for about one hun
dred people to stand up to feed. Just before
dark some of the committee happened into
the building, saw ice stail OF Officers, and
proceeded in hot haste 10 make n change.
Lumber had 20 he procured, carpenters ditto,
and wien ii was time for the guests to AS
sembe the tables Were not even all E'ade.
OF course this made q sci Gus delay, and il
was pea ly 10 O'Clock before everything was
ready. Al thi. time thc cha I'm, n gave
cordial invitation to OIL the invited guests
rom abroad TO be first ed. Immediately
grand rush was made by the thousan men
waiting, each one considering himself to be
an 'inyted guest end the scramble was
simply dlsgraceful. Those who could not
procure seats, "went for" pile of wine In
one corner Of the room, broke open the box
es, knocked OF the necks of the bottles,
drank the contents, and In about twenty
minutes that crowd was dreadful and up
roariously drunk, and here we let fall the
curtain.
Politics, the present week, like everything