The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-13

| OF tue MISSOURI N'Oi """
railroad company. These men, with colored
photographs, copies Of some OF which we
have secn, illustrating the productions Of
Kansas, hid a most wonderful effect Pict-
ures of Kansas homes comfortable homes,
half concealed in forest of grain stacks
fat cattle grazing upon the prairies; orch
ards bending under their wealth of fruit, ;
fat and ruddy-iaccd children, and every
conceivable sign Of comfort and indcpend-
ence. were pictured IN manner to set the
crcdulous and imaginative Southern negro
wild with Impotence to be off. And there
we're lthrographs of the fruits and vegcta-
blcs Of Kansas too--cxaggeratcd most
villainously. Sheaves Of wheat and oats
with straw eight feet long and heads cor,
respondingly heavy; potatoes so large that
the negro man Of the house sat
upon one end Of one of them, playing the
banjo, while the other end, covered with
ashes, was roasting IN the fire. Underneath
this prcpostcrous cxaggeration was printed:
This is the kind Of potatoes that are
raised in Kansas" Cattle are seen eating
off the rim of halt pumpkin, on the in
side of which we're two or three hogs root
ing about among the seeds. Turmps were
shown as large as sugar kettles; and in all
this abundance there were no indications
that it was the result of labor. Men loll-
ing under the shadow Of their hay stacks
or standing with pipe in mouth, viewing
Their focks and herds, were shown; and
the credulous, hard-run, over-worked Mis-
sissippi negro, contemplating such ease and
plenty-nevcr dreaming of deception, never
thinking OF the means by winch such
plenty was probably acqured-was quick
! to conclude that Kansas was the negro
! Canaan--the colored mans Arcadia-an
so thinking, the white man who sought to
dispcl the enrapturing dream, was regarded
an enemy, and held in deep suspicion. OF
course, where such wild and enthusing
visions of comfort and independence took
possession of the negro mind, one object
at once became paramount to all others
and that object was to get to Kansas
louisiana and Mississippi correspondents OF
northern papers speak Of the alarming
spread Of the fearful dclusion--how il is
passing from the cotton fields of Mississip-
ri 10 the cane breaks of Louisiana and
from there to the rice plantations Of Geor-
gia 1t is exciting widespread furore;
and the whitcs-the land owners and bust
ness men--arc becoming greatly alarmed at
the promised result, but, thus far, have
been powerlcss-can neither stop the exc
dus nor countcract the influences that are
responsible for it.
What the result of this extraordinary
movement will be, can readily be toreseen
Thousands of poor deludcd creatures will
come to the most abjcct want in Kansas.
Communities there are already organized to
keep them out-the immigrants have no
means OF their own upon which TO subsis>
even for week; and before two months
eapse the government will be called upon
to issue rations to them to prevent sctua!
starvation. Meanwhile that portion Of the
South, from which the negroes fed, will
fare but little better. Fields will remain
uncultivated, plantations will be aband-
oned, and utter ruin will be the portion Of
thousands who, hitherto, have enjoyed an
abundance. A fearful end is this, even TO
contemplate; but it will come, and that
right speedily, as sad, lamentablc
reality.