The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-25

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probability will prove successful.
Tile mortgages and other interested
parties appointed two trustees, known
as the "uairo Properly Trustees" who
were authorized to issue "Bcneiicia
Stock" In payment for mortgages anC
| tor the liquidation OF all other claims III
and upon property. The amount OF
beneficial Stock thus issued was three
millions and five hundred thousand dol
lars, none Of which, please observe, was
to operate as lien upon the property
but was 10 be paid from the proceeds OF
sales.
The property thus freed iron. all liens
and the donation Of lands made by lii
nois Tor the construction OF the Illinois
Central caused the future OF Cairo 10 loom
up, and in 1850 the Trustees ordered
plating OF the city for the
purpose OF selling lots. 1854 sales
commenced and have been continued
ever since. In Isis the leeves were broken
down and the city was oyerilowed-bu,
like the Dutch, when invaded and sub
merged by the sea, they baitled the Gle.
mems. The leevcS were rebuilt siToLCer
than ever before. At The COMMENCEMENT
oi The war the military position Oi the
place was recognized, and here were the
headquarters OF The Southern and
Western armies, CAIRO then contained
including soldiers fully ffty Thousand
people Readers Of newspapers Will
recognize the Old headlines OF Cairo and
Below. The now noted Gca. Grant
walked these streets smoking ms !neylta-
bic cigar and revolving those mighty
campaigns Which were Gtsidled 10 shat.
ter the southern armies. The LhuDderS
OF the battle Of Belmont. Missouri
were distinctly heard 81 this point. Il was
then that the women looked well 10 their
babes and men Their guns. From the close
Of the Wal until The present, Its history
has been one Of slow but sure advance.
meut. -Four additional railroads have
entered here, whereas prior 10 the war
there Was but one. In company with
George Fisher, Esq, surveyor OF the
Port Of CsirO, was invited 10 view the
city from the summit of the Custom
House and postOfiice-for they are one.
This magnificent building deserves spe-
,ial mention. Its built on made ground
'ome thirteen feet in height from the
original earth. then shoots up in
he air fifty-six feet and is seventy.
I've by siXty.five feet in di> |
nensions, being formed OF blush gray
stone and is three stories in height not in
Guiding the basement. The upper por-
ion is used for q Custom House and
Signal Office, the lower for the Post Of
ice. The ldiiice cost plump half a million
Of dollars. A nobler one have not seen.
| wish You had half as good in st. Louis.
After viewing the various departments of
the building, which will not attempt to
describe, we at last arrived at the
top. What magnificent pro-
spect was spread out before
us. "Imagination's utmost stretch in
wonder dies away" The Father of
Waters" could be seen tor miles north.
ward and southwark, the majestic Ohio
also. Birds Point in Missouri where
a portion of the union army encamped
during the war, likewise Fort Holt, Ky,
now called Fillmore, used for similar
purposes, and in another direction
Mound City, where gunboats used to
enter. Thus the eye took large por-
ton of Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri.
No wonder. thought | to
myself as we slowly descended, that city
was founded here, tor by its natural
channels and their tributaries alone it
grasps the points OF the campass. Near
to this building stands the Court House,
q brick structure substantially built,
while between the two is the large Office
OF the "Cairo Property Trustees" This
is about the same size as the Court House.
and is an ornament 10 the town.
In sauntering around | beheld number
of churches, some OF them beautiful in
design and execution. Also three large
public schools containing all the modern
Appliances for an education. 1t
is also the center of great
fruit growing region embracing every
variety. The great majority Of the fruit
for sale in st. Louis and Chicago is shpN
ped from here and vicinity. Why is it,
you ask, il Cairo is the place you des-
cribe tit has not larger population:
| can, in present space, indicate only two
or three reasons.
!. 1t has gone abroad that it is an I'M
healthy place. "Now lie will travel
from Name to Georgia, before truth gets
up in the morning and puts on
his breecbes," said the celebrated
Fisher Ames, using an illustration more
iorcible than elegant. So ! don, expect
will equal the lie; but here it
is: Tabulated statements concluslyely
show that less people die here than at
any town along the river. Again, Sur
geon general Barnes, during the war,
pronounced the city perfectly free from
and healthy. Judging BY my
own experience have never ielt better
IN my lite and the citizens all haye a
healthy, vigorous look. Again, more
hieyes and rascals are caught here
han in any other place In the |
tate. That is true; from here they 90 to
he penitentiary-not escape, as in many
,ther places. These rascals are.uot resi-
Tents, but from all parts. They come
lere because so many roads converge al
his point saying nothing about the Ohio
md Mississippi rivers. Cairo is taxed
md pays literally tor catching the Grim
mails OF other parts. If this be against
her make the most of it. A
last question, Cairo is ruled |
by company. 1t is true, but this
company oilers every inducement to SET
tiers consistent with the safety and Sc
curity of its property, and many a man
that has come here penniless by active
industry has arisen to competency and
oitentimes aiiluence. THERE'S, however, |
one valid reason, the Mississippi over
flows its channel. This is great injury |
TO Cairo as 1t has been to East st. Louis |
and other tla plSSSesSsa J AID With If rem0ys
would be removed. Whose fault il
it that 1t has not been done.
! answer unhesitatingly, the General
Government. 1t is her duty to keep her
rivers in their proper courses, not that of
cities situated on their banks. A small
appropriation has been granted. but not
enough to complete it. There Is, how.
ever, plenty of money appropriated for
bugs for the Smithsonian Institution and
the Northwest Passage. must not omit
to mention the newspapers. 1t has three:
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