The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-14
LETTER FROM DIXON SPRINGS


DAYS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ao-
oDENTs AND HISTORY.
DIXON SPRINGS, Sept. 12, 1880.
Dear Bulletin:
Having been for some little time So
journer at this delightful, quiet, peaceablc
and happy summer resort, and to-day be-
ing Sunday, leaving me nothing else to do
| cannot pass the time better than by writ
ing you letter. 1t will serve to amuse me
even if it never reaches the eyes of your
thousands and tens of thousands readers.
| started out by calling this delightful
place, but it is mine and many Others cx-
perience that words are inadequate to ex-
press the delight, experienced by one just
from the turmoil and strife OF every day
city life, as they drop into this restful and
and quiet little valley among the hills.
Standing among the
PICTURESQUE ROCKS AND CLIFFS,
that have overlooked it from perpendicular
heights of hundreds of feet for ages past,
perhaps since the great Creator, at the end
of the six days, pronounced every thing
goodwill every sense alert to drink in all
its beauty and nothing, but songs of birds
to break its calm, the heart is filled with
thankful happiness and the dreamer's
thoughts turn unconsciously to the forests
of Nova Scotia, and the lines of Longfel
low;
"This is the forest primeval. The muir
merng pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments
green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like harpers hoar, with boards
that rest on their bosoms."
This valley is about two miles long and
not more than bow-sho wide IN its widest
place while at the falls of the little stream
that, fed by numerous springs, finds its rip
ping way over rocky bed, the branches
of trees almost intercace from the tops of
the high cliffs over head. Here is where,
ia the forenoon, the guests OF the hotel
gather and pass the hours away. The air
is clear and the voice OF an occasional singer
fills it with sweet sounds. Mrs. w. p.
Wrights magnificent voice never sounds
better than in this re-echoing concert hall
of nature when singing, without an accom-
pinament, "The Maid of Dundee and
"Twickenham Ferry" the favorite songs OF
the time.
Below or at the foot of these falls one of
the natives has commenced building a mill
with an immense undershot waterwheel
that he expects to operate IN the winter
and spring, during high waters, utilizing
the falls as dam. The problem among
visitors is
| HOW WILL HE GET TO THE MILL
with the gristl" The general opinion i:
that he will have to drop it
from the top Of the cliff
a fall far enough to crushit before it reache:
the hopper. No one but native would
ever dream of mill in such spot, but he
will have the consolation of knowing, h'
has contributed greatly to the picturesque
beauty of the place, if his enterprise is
failure IN other respects. Table Rock,
First Kiss'-a cave half way up the sid
of the cliff-"Devil's Den," 1.-The Wigwam
and "the Chimneys "-perpendicular rock
fifty feet high and twenty in diameter stand
ing detached from the cliff-are among tn
objects of interest IN this part of the valley
These are all a half mile below the Springs
Above the Springs visitors have Rock City
with its streets and alleys, each rock as larg
as a dwelling house and covered with moss
dwarf, seed, maiden hair and every othe
variety OF ferns known to botansts, and nc
only covered with these but like "Albur
Rock" which lies just outside the cit
: limits, with names of visitors in white, blu,
red, green or black paint which ever cam
handlest.
We notice among Others the names
Yocum, Green, Korsmeyer, Halliday, Stew
, art Parke, Woodward, Warder, and man
others of Cairo, too numerous to mention
1 Leaving "Rock City" by the "Steppin
Stones" across the brook we come
e Eagles Peak" "the Pool" the "Churc
on the Hill", and mile up the glen, I'll
:. Twins" and the Devils Smoke House
!. with many other things, like the names
n visitors, too numerous to mention,
@. THE SPRING
c generally used is in a grove of noble beech
S d quarter of mile from the house. 1t
c built of stone after the manner OF the o
G wells in the Holy Land, and 1t is not u
G usual to see ali the people before and aft
: breakfast hocking down the path for CO
', drink as they did in those olden times, Al
>, as they gather around one is reminded
II Rebekah and the servant of Abraham
y the well (barrlng the dress and bare.fee