The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-12

SEES. But in some places this state of at
fairs is gradually changing The more in
telllgent among the colored voters are
slowly, but surely, becoming aware OF the
real motives which prompt all the nice
promises and which underlie nearly
every act Of extreme friendship
which comes from their smooth faced keep
ers. They know that their familiarity with
the colored man shows itself only Just be.
fore an election, and that their interest in
his welfare is only a shallow pretence,
which will all pass away with the present
campaign only to appear again at the next
If all the colored people would but profit
by the example of the more intelligent
among them, they would soon fud them.
selves represented in every branch of the
government, municipal and state as well as
national.
The work Of preparing the ground to
receive the stone foundation for the newele-
vator of the Illinois Central railroad COM
pany, was not interrupted day before yester-
day by the tact that it was Sunday. Enter
prise seems to have no time to waste in the
consideration OF anything but present in.
terest. The site of the great elevator that
is to be erected by the company presented
busy scene, and the work that has so tar
been done conveys some idea of the immen-
sity Of the undertaking. Beginning Just
above the old elevator, and extending up
along the outer side Of Ohio levee for about
five hundred yards, solid road bed about
twenty-five feet wide, has been made pre-.
sentng, with the Ohio levee, an even sur.
face about twenty-five feet wide. At the
end Of this stretch OF newly made embark.
ment, space one hundred feet wide and
about two hundred and fifty feet long
has been cleared away It is about fifteen
feet below the top Of the evee, and is the
spot which is be occupied by the nam
month structure. Being below high water
mark it is necessary to render the ground
secure against the action of the river, when
it rises, before the foundation for the build.
ing can be safely laid. For this purpose
trees are felled, stripped Of their crowns
and, cut to the length OF from twenty. five
to thirty-fve feet, are brought here on fiat
cars and being cut to point at the small
er end, are holsted to perpendicular posi-
ton, and driven into the ground to within
one or two feet of their tull length. This
work is done by steam. One ordinary
pile-driver and one steam hammer, weigh.
ing about two thousand pounds
each, are raised in derricks and,
together with the necessary steam engine
to operate them, are each placed upon NOV.
able carriages, constructed Of heavy tim.
bers. Through the nstrumentality OF ropes
and pulleys, these carriages with their i'm,
mense weight are moved to any position
desired by their own machinery, and after
pile has been raised to its place under the
hammer, each stroke of which shakes the
earth for quite distance around, not more
than three minutes elapse before it has al
most entirely disappeared in the ground,
unless some unusual obstruction is met
with. About one hundred and fifty of
these piles have been driven and the laying
of the massive stone foundation has been
begun This foundation is about four feet
n diameter, is composed Of stones one and
half feet square, and three to four feet
long, evenly laid in mortar upon heavy
tmbers previously laid upon the piles,which
are all sawed off to an even
heigh,h about half foot abovethe ground,
About thirty-fve men are busily engaged
in unloading and preparing the piles, at
tending to and operating the hammers,
saving off the tops Of the piles as fast as
tney are urlNcI' anu uolnS Naioue ''hel
work. The teams were not at work as they
are on other days but not because their
work Is done, for the embankment upon
which the several tracks that are to pass
through the elevator are to be laid is not
yet finished. Quite number of our citi-
sens, of both sexes, were seeted upon va
rious immiuences to witncs, the nove', and