The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-09

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Speak lower, don't disturb the president"
The man replied in a husky whisper: "God
knows | would not do anything that would
annoy the president" and stepped back
When the president was placed in the car,
the crowd stood back with uncovered
heads The starting Of the train was q
skillful operation. The engineer, VIM.
Page, one of the most experienced on the
Pennsylvania road, and who has been in
the service since 1853, was in the cab I'M
perceptibly, almost, to the waved signal of
Col. Rockwell, the train began to move, SO
slowly at first and so evenly that the mo-
ton could scarcely be felt by those on
board. Indeed, from the beginning to the
end of the transfer of the president, there
was harkly single fault.
The wharf laborers strike in New Or
leans, of which mention was made in these
columns when it first began, still continues
with no prospect Of abatemnt or comprom-
Use. So serious has been the influence of
the strike upon the commerce of the city
that the council has appointed a committee
to act as arbitrator between the board OF
trade and the striking aborers. But the
board Indignantly rejected the services of
the committee and refuses to enter into any
| arrangement looking to an amciable under
standing with the strikers unless the prices
formerly paid are maintained. Thus it APP
pears that New Orleans will remain prac-
ticalIy closed to the cotton shippers of the
entire south because OF her inability to han.
die ii aud reship to its destination in Eu.
rope. This will of course he great injury
to New Orleans one which she may he
long in repairing. 1t must necessarily
cause a considerable diversion of the cotton
trade The large quantities Of the south.
| ern staple must find It's way to Europe in
some way and If it cannot do 50 by going
down the Mississippi river and out through
| the gulf from New Orleans, 1t must aud will
do SO by coming up the Mississippi river
| to Memphis, Cairo and st. Louis, there to
be compressed, packed into cars and sent by
rail to New York, from whence ii can be
| distributed to all the ports of Europe
| 1t is certain that the work of shipment at
New Orleans by hands employed in place
of the strikers does not 90 forward exPedi-
tiously, and persons who have made ad-
vances on cotton, or have become its actual
purchasers, are suffering a good deal in
cash and credit from the impossibility of
| getting the property to the consuming
markets, where It's value can be realized.
| Already the factors" and commission men
are said to be arranging for the forwarding
Of cotton from the interior to other shipping
points, because of their inability to have it
handled at New Orleans. And when the
bulk Of the cotton crop begins TO come in
we may expect to see boom in the up river
cotton tonnage such as has never been wit
messed before. OF course there is in this
situation an excellent opportunity for en-.
terpnsing railroad managers to reach GU,
for considerable part Of this important
trade, In two or three weeks the bulk OF
the cotton crop will be pressing for mean,
of shipment by any route that will land il
most expedltiously in the English ports.
| The railroads extending through the cotton
states have northern as well as southern
outlets This is the case at least with most
OF them, and the recent active competition
of the northern lines for freight has demon
strated that heavy shipments at very low
rates are remunerative. Some systematic
effort for the collection of the cotton crop
at points along the lines leading northward
and eastward, and its movement to market
| by these lines, would, in the present emer-
gency, work material advantage to the
dealers and secure lucrative work for the
railroads. The delay even OF a few weeks
| in the ordinary movement of this important
staple must materially affect the course of
trade throughout the country, for it will
retard the putting in circulation of many
millions of money which are required for
the common business of the south and the
adjustment OF the balances of that section
with the merchants of the north and west
From this increased activity in railroad
traffic Cairo with her three southern rail.
roads should certainly derive some benefit
But the railroads cannot compete with the
| river as cotton carrier, this has also been
sufficiently demonstrated and therefore it is
safe to expect that the Mississippi will
carry most Of the cotton To
such points north from whence
by reason of many competing lines, it car
be sent the cheapest overland to the East.
In this respect Cairo offers again facilities