The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-07
AGAlNST CAIRO.

The Cairo telegraphic correspondent OF
the st. Louis Globe-Democrot, telegraph
ed to that paper on the 4th inst. as fol-
lows:
"The situation in this region grows
critical. The Ohio continues to march
up the. lcyces and over into Kentucky with
rapid strides. Two feet three inches
more will be dangerous,to the lcvees, and
seven feet more will sweep over the le-
wees and Overwhelm the city. The Ohio
levcc Is considered safe till the water gets
to the top. The Mississippi is little
risky. and considerable alarm is felt"
We have been informed, by what we
consider reliable authority, that Mr.. d..
l.. Davis, OF the SEN, telegraphed the
above dispatch, and others almost as bad,
to the Gkobc-Democ,ut.
There is no truth in the dispatch. Two
feet three inches more will not be danger
o,,s 10 o.. io.a-- -,.so
the correspondent says seven feet
more will sweep over Our levees and
Overwhelm the city, he might as well say
one hundred feet will do the overwhclm-
ing business, since the rivers are just as
likely to rise one hundred rs seven feet
more. The correspondent evidently
wished to convey the idea that there is not
only possibility, but also probability,
that the rivers will rise seven feet more
and ruin Cairo; but he cannot certainly
be unaware of the fact, that when the
rivers rise out OF their banks
near Cairo the rise at this city cannot
thereafter be considerable. Up to yestcr-
day morning the rise at this point was rap
Id. The rivers, as the correspondent says,
had been ''marching up our lcvces," but
now the Ohio is out OF Its banks to the
high lands In Kentucky, and the Missis-
sippi is pouring over all the country be-
tween here and the st. Francis river. There
Is around us now ''lake" nearly thirty
miles wide, and all the floods that NAV
pour down the Ohio and Mississippi can
not raise Its surface seven or six or even
five feet more. Our experience in 1867
demonstrated this.
But this is not the only evidence given
by Mr.. ID. l.. Davis that he Is an enemy
of Cairo. He has presistcntly opposed,
during the past few years, every enter
prise and every suggestion in the interest
Of our city. The proof is at hand.
In most cowardly manner, the San
did all that was In its little power to pre-
vent the completion OF the Cairo Il st.
Louis railroad, and it has been most
persistent defender of the Cairo a. VIM
cennes railroad under the disastrous man.
agement of Judge Treat, who has been
and Is being used by the c. Il V. railroad
company. That paper, believing that il
Cairo and Alexander county would re-
fuse to stand by their subscriptions to the
Cairo & st. Louis railroad company, the
road would not be completed through to
this city, was DESTROYS to have the city
and county repudiate their subscriptions
II it did not say this openly, 1t certainly
said enough to convince the public that
this was its wish. On the other
hand, when the attention OF
the Sun was called to the fact that
Judge Treat, by continuing the Re-
ceivers Of the c. & V. X. r., was doing
great injustice to the persons--Our citi.
zens--tO whom the Z. & V. road owed
money. that paper always prompt
ly apologized for the management
Of the road; and, when it was
shown that the Receivers were
acting by direction Of Judge Treat In
the face Of an injunction Of the Alexan-
der Circuit Court and utterly disregard
Ing the ordinances Of the city, the SIN
stood by the Receivers, apologized for
them, and even threatened to have the
track Of the q. & V. road taken up
from Commercial avenue IL the people
did not behave themselves.
As soon as II was suggested that an cf-
tort should be made to secure the loca-
ton Of the machine shops Of the G. d
81. Louis railroad cOmOauv at Cairo the