The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-03-27

,,,.-c.poa dence Of the Ricsnond p.spa,ch.]
.1,sD Oulo STEAMER JAMES Fisk. JS.,
u ''N'' March 90, 1876.
.Hoirh no J here ~e go
SAILING down the river Ohio
:, sung ",he boatman", so sing l; and
., ,ho hest possible terms With Jim Fisk,
.ulF,rn,linc ,oge,her, and even sleeping to-
eS,ber, What strange company we travellers
s,e sometimes thrown with. Bur, running
aside. wha; morbid spirit OF admiration
c,,d have moved the owners OF tins ooat TO
,,sru, II after The notorious Jim FISK some
thing akin TO that which gave young wilkes
E,oin Hambleton TO the world, ana Drought
n sudden grief the political aspirations OF
nrc Dr. Uamh!etcu, late OF Washington, ID.
r Ruf TO return TO the river, which Is
.i,irr .. the rate OF six inches 10 twelve
1omrs and the surface covered with logs,
i,,,ln and biz, and all manner OF rubbish,
r,ay,rr down to the Gulf. By the way,
rTe,, becomes Of it-all the hundreds and
,ho,,.,rd. OF tors Of il? A few miles out
>, .r,a and i. has al disappeared-a conun-
S,rm % 90 along with "Wbat becomes Of
,lihe rtr,''' But here we are at Shawnee
,oyr. stirring little Illinois village, the
f-,, ~ the Hoos;er State border; and here
ws come up With the "Red Cloud" rival
b5il, sEl
THAT MEANS A RACE
,s ,greJy Is two rival cocks meeting on the
same Gunrhi!l means q fight. So at it we
90. steam, up and blood's up. The cap
LAIN encourages the engineer to "put it on a
li,,le ,loogcr": the iremen shovel coal by
no
n. the passcugsr., Joining in. the excitement,
crowd The decks, the great vessel, like blge
river Inons'c-, snskeS herself, and believing
dtilrCc rusheS on 10 the contest. For miles
victory bowers undecided over the rival yes.
scI.. We are approaching another town the
contest is for the landing; our boat is steadi.
Is but surely gaining on her antagonist; and
Al last, with one splendid effort, shoots way
ahead and gains the wharf. The Red Cloud
sends her double shrek Of defiance out upon
the night, while cheer OF derision and de.
iluce from our crait
PRoCLAIMS TIE VICTORY OURS.
All night long we plash, and snort, and
psdlle, and the srg SUI finds us in front
Of Paducah, Ky. (P0duky, as it is generally
called by these river people.) l like the
locks OF the town from the deck Of the
steIlner but ss | expect to return here in 8
day or two have not time to sop. So /
having informed the captain of the fact, he
at once pulls out and pushes down the
widening stream towards Cairo.
In An hou- we pause st Metropolis, Ill.,
no. the metropolis Of Illinois, but would
like 10 be, and squirting smartly in that di-
recliOn.
Four hours more Of nonotonous padding
and iauding at uniDportant points, and
CAIro- historic, miasmatc, epidemic Cairo
big with her expectations Of the future,
looms up in the misty distance and bears
down rapidly upon Us, when the City comes
alongside aud fastens to our boat, and our
porter, in s,entorian accents, assures Us,
though disguise in mud and fog, that this
l. Cairo. We permit him to transfer US, bag
and baggage-that is, Satchel and hand
truDk-lo one Of those huge Mississippi
!cyi2thaus which, fastened to the wharf by
ring in the nose, fumes and tugs TO get
loose, while sc0:c OF sturdy blacks in hick-
ory shirts cram into lis capaciouS nav tons
upon tons Of hay. hundreds and hundreds OF
barrels Of f!pur, with boxes, and bales, and
packages lEnu!neraDlc until it would seem
That CAIRO will be depleted, and still the
man Il sUppCso it is many calls hoarsely
IRON The hOId for "more." AScertaining by
timId Inquiries OF The captain II never feel
mole painfully my own insigniticance than
when approaching one of these august per-
sonase) that the appetite of our monster
tthey call il the Capital City, will not be ap-
peased for full an hour yet, conclude TO
spend THAT hour in doing the City Of Flats.
EyESlEe-BoARD OF CAPITAL CITY,"
Fye done it, aud have not accomplished
anything OF consequence, either; am now
slrsning down the broad expanse of the
Father OF Waters rs cast a last lingering
iook upon Cairo Destling in its-mud. The
Two great rivers which uaite at this point and
send their combined food to the Gulf have
recently been on q rampage, and though now
much subsided, the Mississippi below Cairo
Nsnds al the height Of sixteen to eighteen
itet above low-water mark. The subsistence
oi the walters has left acres and acres Of black
sh>tening mud around Cairo as we'll as all
through the town, ia the low places, be.
tween and under the houses. nany Of which
ale ouitl on piles or raised above the periodi.
cai tlfe5 by strong walls. Those places
"Iete tEey interfere with the locem0tion of
cl'tzsns Or Tue current Of business are bridged
over, anu the energy OF the citizens has done
mucn 70 make the place besrabe after body
,se'' tseu 10 II, but u stranger won't be here
'ioCf hours before he feels, or thinks
ne iseis' the ague in his bones.
Lille IN Cairo may be iliustrated bv an an.
'tcdote just aalaled 10 me by q physician who
ipractices in Christian county, Ky., some one
nuuurta miles from here. lie had patient
N c-r - /.
'sVmoAt with which he bad, one after an.
'2Iner, exhausted all bis remedies. At last
ac reluctantly told his patient DE could de
nothing more sor him-he had to die, and
4!st prepare for it. Said the dying man, in
q 1e neble voice: "Wel, Doctor. take me to
CCaio; let me die there" "Rhy go tos
--ao TO diet" asked the Doctec. "Be.l
CE.s1 said the aoor fellow, Aaf am in
f.a " when dest& comes / would have
,.a" ,'"s regrets at leaving the wer;d than
'gA p4 any other place In it."
il nut we are approaching Columbus, which
= = os TIE ,hentucky side. The Missouri shore
- - opposite. From Caiso down the country
g .iay very Eat and heavily iimbered on both
s,usS VI lhe river, and CGSeled with poads |
ID1 I'G iakes and poisoned Witn miasma. Att
SO.unlo1S !, must land; ard as the steamer |
earring the wharf must break Of these |
hour. Ns" - - 's'o neA' = 'eieote
, PADUcAH, XII. March 81.
s,. aalfled ln Columbus but thies hours, |!
oI os ~ forgiven wM do 30 no mere. A parti
= aa ae town went dswn the river last year 10
,o,n, and the rest OF it is going down.
h." bor,4h 10 Inc marsh the town Is built uron and
isn taele are one thousand or twelve hun.f
N'o sou1s there, IL is doomed town, and i
"Ass ALL TlRefsIAss AGAINST IT.
-, ,ae Mobile and Ohio railroad brought me-
as ,ae ABOUT thirty miles, through some dismal