The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-15

and washington, all the uellCacies vi sca'
son, finest of wines, beer, liquors and cigars.
All are invited 1t
The Alexandrian flag of truce was
merely ruse to gain time and enable
Egyptians who were in dangerous places to
effect an escape to points of security. Adj
miral Seymour swears mighty oath that
the next flag those fellows hoist, unless it
be flag of surrender, he will blow to Cairo.
The striking freighthandlers in New
York are reported greatly encouraged. A
large number of the foreigners employed IN
their places have quit work, joined the
strikers and paid their initiation fee as
members of the union. The men claim to
have plenty of money and to be able to
carry their point.
1t appears that all the bad gunners
we're not inside the Egyptian Notifications
the other day. We are now informed that
the English guns were fired very wildly,
1t seems that these modern monsters OF
ordnance are not very easily managed,
while the great clouds of smoke which the
immense quantities of powder used neceS-
sarily make, render it almost impossible to
see how the guns should be aimed. 1t ls,
of course, impossible to form a judgment
| from the insufficient descriptions as yet re-
ceived of the Alexandria fight, but it looks
very much as if the big guns and heavy
armored vessels had fallen far below eX.
pectations,
AS usual the experts disagree Some
of the trained artillcrists who witnessed the
bombardment at Alexandria declare that it
was one of the finest exhibitions of scien-
tihc cunning ever given. Others assert that
| it was u most woeful waste of ammunition,
on account Of shots falling short. The de-
tailed account of the Two days engage
ment mentions I 500 yards, or about twice
the width of our river, as the distance be-
tween vessels and forts If this be APP
proximately correct, it would be wonderful
indeed had such a magnificent fleet on calm
water failed, even with poor management,
to tear any ordinary fortress to pieces In
few hours The Egyptians are probably
satisfied with the exhibition, however,
If the star route Developments had
only come out couple Of years ago Kellogg
would have been walzed out of the senate
to lively music, and that body would never
have cot INTO the hands of the Republican
party. Now he vii most likely sit out his
full term, for nothing will ever persuade
the Republican party to expel him. Unless
he should be convicted in the star route
trials and sent to the pen!tentiary before
the 4th of Merch next, he will not have his
term curtailed by anything disclosed to his
discredit, however damaging the disclosures
may be. His vote is wanted altogether toe
badly to permit the Republican party &c
indulge in any show of virtue.
The pilot of the steamer Tomas, which
made sepuIchcr of the Scioto, admitted
before cOroner's jury that he had never
piloed boat before on that part of the
river. This, taken in a connection with the
engineers testimony as to weird, wild,
confusion of signals that came to him
from the pilot house Just before the col
lison, suggests that Ohio river boat owners
consider one as good deCkhand rs another
when 1t comes to selecting pilot for al
excursion. If the bereaved relatives of the
half hundred victims of that disaster
should go running for the aforesaid boat
owners, Iawabiding people would not be
exceedingly blamable ii they stood aside
and let them pass,
Some of the buildings near the Alex
andrian folts are so strongly constructed
that when struck by one of the carloads o
iron which the British guns have been Sc
literally shipping the past three days, they
gave no sign On behalf of the survivors
of the late cyclonic engagements in TIM
and neighboring states we suggest the ap
puinment of committee for the Mrpos'
l of learning what material the Alexandran
use. Such houses as those described b,
the dispatches would afford the ordinar.
cyclone a grim sort of surprise, and W
would feel greater degree of contdcnc
, as TO the location OF our prairie towns frou
one day to another. More conservatism il
our geography is very desirable.
An interesting programme was carried
: out at st. Mory's park Yesterday afternoon
AS is known it WAS the day fixed for nun
Der of races between some well known an,
favoritc horses, chief among which wcr
Long John,' of Metropolis, and kin
Pen" OF Louisville, upon which match
stake Of $500 a side was up. The rae