The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-04-17
GEN. GRANT IN CAIRO.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF MAYOR THIS
TLEwooD, JUDGE GREEN AND GENERAL
GRANT-FIREwoRKs; THE RECEPTION,
THE BALL AND SUPERB LARGE CROWD
AND MOST INTERESTING OCCASION.
Well, General Grant has been here,
and all that is left us is the memory of
memorable day in Cairo.
MORNING PREPARATIONS.
Complying with the request Of the COM
mittee of arrangements, as expressed
through THE BULLETIN, our citizens dec
Grated their homes and business houses
with flags and streamers, giving the city
gala day appearance.
THE IN-PoURING MULTITUDE.
At an early hour in the morning visitors
from neighboring localities commenced ar
irving, the number of arrivals increasing as
the day advanced The first considerable
quota was contributed by the Cairo and St.
Louis railroad. These arrivals were chiefly
from Murphysboro and points intermediate.
Shortly after one o'clock p. m. the Cairo
and Vincennes special train came in from
Mt. Carmel, bringing as many as seven Or
eight hundred persons. A half hour later
the Illinois Central excursion train from
Centralia, numbering sixteen coaches, ar
rived with the largest crowd brought in
during the day-estlmated at twelve hun
bred. On this train arrived the Normal
cadets, from Carbonate, under the
command of Col. Spencer, and
the Jonesboro National Guards, I'M
der the command of Captain - the
two companies numbering about sixty
men, all of them well uniformed and
equipped and under good discipline. By
steamer, by the Iron Mountain and South
ern, by the ferryboat Three States, and in
carriages and on horse back, great streams
of people continued to pour in until about
o'clock, when the signal gun announced
the departure Of
GENERAL GRANT AND PARTY,
under the escort of the committee Of ar
rangememts from Birds Point, at which
point they had arrived, only few minutes
before on a special train from Little Rock.
Meanwhile the Rough and Ready and
Delta City fire companies, the Normal
Cadets and Jonesboro Guards had formed
in line on Fourth street, the right resting
on the Ohio levee, and the various civic
societies among the colored people on
Sixth street.
While 1thc transit steamer Junius S.
Morgan, with General Grant and party on
board, was steaming by the city,
A NATIONAL SALUTE
was fired, under the management Of Mr..
Charles Mehner, who had his gun planted
near the junction of the (evees The ring
ing report o: the canDou brouglit Tao great
throng that had dispersed itself throughout
the city, to the wharf, so that when the
special car containing the General aud suit,
came down Levee street from the "incline, "
the crowd was so dense that it was with
difficulty that the several marshas and po-
licemen prepared clear route for its pas
sage.
GENERAL GRANT REACHES THE CITY.
The General occupied a standing position
on the rear platform of his Car, sandwiched
by three or four members of the commit.
tee of arrangements. AS the car slowly
passed along the leyee the immense crowd
closed up closely behind, and followed it to
its stopping point, at the |. c. r. X. depot.
That the effort to raise cheer was
A DISMAL FAILURE,
was not because the people were not en-
Unused by the sight Of the "Great Captain,
for the Jam and rush about the Car strongly
betekened the contrary. AT no time dur
inc the afternoon, indeed, did the crowd
betray hearty willing yelling mood.
To the carriages IN waiting at the depot
tie General and party Gncludiag Mrs
Grant and two other ladies' were at once
ESCORTED BY THE COMMITTEE
of arrangements, Col. Taylor and Mr.. Her
man Meyer taking seats in the carriage
with General Grant, and DR., G. W. Dunning
occupying a seat in the carriage with the
three ladies.
CARRIAGES IN WAITING
Were also filled with the remaining mem
bers of the committee, with tie city author
3 tues and distinguished strangers--all OF
them soon gaining their proper places in The
procession In very short order, then, thl
entire
LINE WAS FORMED
In accordance with the previously arranged
programme, and led by the excellent stree
furnished by the
COMIQuE AND DELTA BANDS,