The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-03

the war Of the rebellion, and to-day, on the
soil of every battlefield Of the great con-
fict, the grass is springing, herds are feed
ing, husbandmen are working, and the sun
is shining in golden quletness. Nature has
forgotten the conflict. But the Republican
party, less kind than nature, has not forgot
ten it, and today hangs over the bloody
memories of that disastrous period, like an
old grandmother grooming over child and
rocking it affectionately to and fro"
A gentleman travelling for Cincinnati
grocery house, who was here yesterday,
states that in the establishment he repre-
sents are employed thirty-six men in differ
ent capacities Republicans-but who
will vote the national Democratic ticket
this year. Such bits OF news are, in them
selves, Insignificant from a Republican
standpoint, but when it is remembered
that it comes from the good old Repu Bill
can stronghold, the cradle Of Garfield, their
candidate for president, it gains in i'm
portance and will form one of great num-
Der of very bitter pills, in swallowing
which the Republican party will distort its
phiz horribly.
We take the following account of the
sinking of the towboat Resolute and O
barge of gravel, from the Argus; "Last
night at eleven o'clock the towboat Reso-
lutte, belonging to the Loldons, with tow
of gravel and stone from Memphis, landed
at the box factory, The landing was
scarcely made when the Waterman called
out that the barge alongside the boat and
next to the shore was sinking, and in a few
moments it went down. In doing so it
dashed against the side of the Resolute and
stove hole in her hull from which she
sunk quickly. She lies on her larboard
side, and so completely tipped over that
the edge of the hull on the startoard side
is out. She is insured for
$4,000 with Louis Shald-
cross agency, in Louisville. The stories
concerning the disaster are all substantially
the same, but one feature related by some
who saw it is entirely new and hard to be,
lieve. They say that after the barge went
down she blew up, sending blew flame
high in the air This they suppose to be
the effect of air confined in the hull be-
meath the heavy gravel and the incoming
water. Diver Hiram Hill will no doubt be
ordered to the wreck by Mr.. Shallcross to-
day, with the wrecking boat Charley Hill
Until an examination is made it will be i'm
possible to say whether she can be raised
or not"
Stephen A. Douglas has two sons
One of them was lately in this city and
talked klu-klux and waved the|bloody shirt
from the Tenth street music stand, in the
most silly and disgusting manner Shortly
after his arrival here he became intoxicated
and, at one Of our saloons, surrounded by
prominent Republicans, proposed some OF
the filthiest toasts that it is possible tor the
human mind to conceive. In fact we doubt
whether it is possible for any other
mind, however corrupt, to frame words
which would at all compare with the nasty
utterances Of this champion Of Republican
ism. He was drunk when he made his
harangue aud after having finished i. i'm
mediately "took in" the town. He went
to one of our saloons aud the proprietor de-
string to play a joke on him filled large
beer glass, which he kept for a show anc
which held gallon, with beer, and placed
it before him. Douglas raised 1t to hi
mouth and drank the entire content!
without saying a word. This alone
stamped him as a hog, bu
from here, in company with few chums
he visited the haunts OF wickedness ant
dens of crime which disgraces the lowe
portion of our city. In one OF these HI
stayed during the night, paying twenty-five
dollars for the privilege, and missed tn
train II the morning This is one Of tn
Douglas brothers. The other is TN
knowned. If he is alive, he has no douo
chosen honorable obscurity preference
to questionable notoriety.
The Benton Standard has the follow
ing to say concerning the treatment gu
colored people have receive at the hands
our white Republicans; Why, when Cul
lum SO loves the negro does his party il
this state steadily refuse to let the negroe
have any of the offices; at Cairo, when til
Republican convention met, the negroes de
manded recognition, and were insultingl
refused, yet the negro vote alone gives tina
district its republican majority. Cap
Thomas was elected by the negro vote
There is 1000 Democratic majority in tn
tQth district if the negro vote ia excluded