The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-30

OF the South African question. "Contem.
porary Literature" gives, as usual, a full
account Of the principal books published
during the preceding quarter.
II, as many intelligent men profess to
believes, the germs of the yellow fever still
Turk in the slums and sewers and by places
of the South awaiting the developing in.
tluencc OF the July and August sun, is the
city OF Cairo in such sanitary condition as
it ought to be if the conecturcd danger in
the South were known to be actuall If it
is not in such a condition it ought to be
made so. To render ourselves yellow fever
proof, as nearly as we can, is to yield
strict obedience to the laws Of health; and
should the much dreaded scourge not visit
tn South again during the present century
every dollar we eXpend in cleaning aud
purifying our streets cellars, sewers and
out-buildings will be money most wisely
AMI judiciously expended. Every dime
expended in that way will save dollar to
somebody in the way OF doctors bills, and
pain and suffering that do admit Of money
measure. We refer to this matter now be-
cause there appears to be subsistence OF
interest in the sanitary movements iuaugu-
rated several weeks ago, alike among citi-
zens and those in authority; and because
in view ofthe near approach OF hot weather,
there seems to be demand for more Wig
orous action.
Plank walks LAID upon the ground, or
within few inches of the ground are nui-
sances, and in the interest of health, if for
no other reason, the construction of any
more walks of that character should be
forbidden. The process OF decay com
mences at once, rats and reptiles find
shelter underline floor, and the ground under
meath, cut off from the air and sunshine, is
t continually damp and mouldy. Add to
G this the vegetable and other filth that is
: carried under the walk to rot and decay,
1 and we have in the wretched, rafting,
n unseemly structures constant menace
}, to the health of the citizen. In
/ a short time walk properly
r, constructed of cnders becomes smooth
!. sd almost as compact as asphal-
: tum. The individual who would not pre-
y fer such walk, or one constructed OF
s. brick, to the filth breeding board abomina-
r, ton with its washboard surface, protrud-
r, ing spikes, its foot.traps and broken and
fitting planks, will, as a rule, be found to
IS be an individual whose preferences amount
y to nothing to nobody but himself Two Of
y the most expensive law suits for dam
t ages in which the city was ever involved,
a owed their origin to occurrences for which
Il these board nusances, constructed only a
, foot or two above the surface, were respon-
r sble.
Brought directly in contact with the
blacks who are engaged in the stampede
from the South. we know that the claim
set up by the Republican press Of the North
E that "these poor creatures are fleeing from
, the shot guns and Bowie knives of the
Southern whites, is in its greatest length
and breadth, width and depth, a miserable,
toundationleSs PARTISAN LIE. The negroes
themselves do not pretend that such is the
case, and if they did, their unconquerablc
longing to reach KOnsas-the government
land of Kansas, and nowhere elsc-would
give even their own pretences the lie. Kan
sas is Republican State, aud the town of
Wyandotte is q Republican town, yet the
town and county authorities there, Join in
a Remuneration Of those who are encourag-
ing the Southern negroes to come to Kan
sas, as the colored mems worst enemies
With fully two thousand blacks in the
4 town of Wyandottc, the Re-
1 pubhcans there have not even intmated
l. that the stampede owed its origin to any
: other cause than the insane idea that in
a Kansas farm awaited every family, and
r that to reach Kansas was to live in ease and
independence forever thereafter There
! are some "awful mean Republicans in
S Wyandottc, but none of them have so far
J outraged the truth as to even intimate that
/ the Southern blacks now there, ran away
70 escape the knives and bullets Of Southern
s bull-dozcrs. The protest issued by the
S Wyandottc authorities, calls "upon humane
and rejecting people everywhere to use
: their best endeavors to check this most in
sane and disastrous movement upon the
h part Of the negroes" "Thcsc people,
= the protest continues, care possessed Of the
g most visionary ideas concerning what
e they must confront by coming &c
n Kansas. Their sole idea seems to be
d to get west to where government land