The daily Cairo bulletin., 1880-09-16

--oOIlc VI tuJ WiiltO iNSPuD''S"" 'S'~'S
here called the colored voters to a meeting
last Tuesday night on the pretense that I'M
portant business was to be transacted, and
after the meeting was over requested them
to go right home without stopping on their
way. These instructions were given them
manifestly to prevent them from attending
the speech of Hon. j. II. Oberly-fearing
that the coloreo men would be influenced
by the truths, which they knew he would
utter.
Mr.. Wharton, the gentleman who was
advertised in THE BULLETIN to come here
with Texas ponies for sale, has arrived with
fine lot as can be seen by visiting the
stock yards, where they are corraled. Our
informant was litte"of" in his statemen.
that they were selling from $40 to $50
That it was an error is plain to be seen as
the freight alone on any kind of an animal
is over $11 head The fact is the ponies
are selling from $50 to $65, and are we'll
worth the price asked.
False reports, regarding the move
ments Of steamboats,, are calculated to do
much harm, and should be guarded against
by those having charge of the river depart
ment of our daily newspapers. The ac-
count, which appeared in the Cincinnati
Commercial several days ago. regarding
fight on the Lower Ohio, was based upon
rumor only, and proved to be totally devoid
of truth. While the importance of the
item was not especially re-
markable, it would seem to indicate plainly
the necessity of examing carefully the
source of all rumors of like character.
We regret that the reporter at Cairo has
been misled On this occasion, especially as
his record shows him heretofore in the
light of accuracy and percision.
This is the kind of consolation the
Globe Democrat of yesterday gives to the
Republicans of the country over the re-
mains of their party in Maine;
"The result of the Maine election is now
known with sufficient accuracy to enable
us to draw our conclusions, and it would be
very foolish to disguise the meaning or di-
mlnish the importance of so serious a de-
feat. 1t is really the greatest disaster which
has happened to the Republican party in
twenty years, and it can not be disposed of
by affecting to disregard it, or by any of
those cheap consultations with which party
managers are wont to console themselves
with on such occasions. We are at loss to
understand what the New York Tribune
means, for instance by calling it "a drawn
battle" or by claiming that Maine Is state
| which had no share in the recent revival of
prosperity. If this is the case why was it
not made known before the election, and
why was the issue distinctly made on the
very point that the country's prosperity
was the Republican party's platfor
Maine was selected or accepted as a battle
ground, and the 500,000,000 Republican
voters were told that the election was test
of the feeling Of the whole country, and
that the chief reliance of the Republican
party was the general prosperity which its
management had done so much to bring
about. After this, to turn around and de-
clare the election is not test, that the re-
suit means nothing, that there is no conect
ion between the politics Of Maine and the
prosperity of the country, is to insult the
intelligence of every one who reads such
comment
A visit to the rooms of the salvation
army, the other day, proved Of interest to
us, and what we saw there may be of in
terest to our readers. They art
domlciled on the second floor of DR.. Clark:
building on Ohio Levee. The rooms which
they occupy are entirely without furniture
No carpet, no pictures, no beisteads, nc
chairs, no tables, no benches, NJ
pantry and nothing to put in one
A number of mattresses were laid
along each side of the rooms. The ladies
occupying the rooms on one side of the
hall, and the men those on the other
Some of the latter were lying on their beds
writing letters, and others were sitting
around on trunks, reading religious books
A few miserable little red apples, lying il
the corner of one of the rooms and pie
which had found its way behind a trunk
was all the eatables we could see. Ye
those present seemed to be CHEEKY and wei
enough fed. We found Mrs. Haskell, al
intelligent lady, who seemed to be de
voted to the cause in which her HUSBAND
has embarked She is an elderly lady ap
parenty in the neighborhood of sixt.
whose we'll formed head is graced by man,
A siyery hair. She spoke with much earn