The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-02


themselves have already come to look upon
a ten dollar fine with contempt. 1t is but
little potion Of the revenue derived by
them from their crime; they pay it will.
ingly, because they look upon it as only a
small percentage Of the profits
of their Infamous business, which they
must periodically pay to the city for the
privilege Of keeping their dens in full blast
Let these criminals be shown that divl'
sion of spoils is not all the city asks as a
condition of their existence; let them be
shown that the object of the criminal law
is not 10 cODnive with criminals for gain,
but to punish thomand to eSterminate them.
The assessment Of the loyesw fine every
time they are found guilty or plead guilty
does not give them any suspicion of a de.
sire on the of court to do ought but
protect them agalnsfthe just penalty pre-.
scribed to them by law
1t is needless to say that under the
grateful atmospheric conditions we have
had for some weeks the people who have
remained in this city have reason TO
congratulate themselves, Last summer they
were happy who could get away from the
heat and linger long on the seaside and
battle illimitsbly in the surf, or lounge on
mountain tops, coquetting with the clouds.
But flights Of summer wanderers this year
appear rather absurd Why should they fly
from the most glorious summer weather
Cairo ever experienced No need of flight
At all, unless change of scene is positively
necessary and then Dixon Springs take
the cake" Not even Nahant, Newport and
Long Branch have this summer furnished
such delicious atmosphere as We have had
here No hot nights Think of that in
July, when the Louisville OF st. Louis or
Chicago citizen is in the habit Of roasting
all night in that month. The girls have
hoated about in their pretty white dresses,
but that is from mere habit, for the white
dress has been trihe too cool for this July.
They are entrancisg, aluring, but this year
they make one SILVER. We have been
pleased with this July. 1t has been as
different from what Vennor said it would
be as a hyena differs from a lamb. People
must not put their trust in the weather seers.
1t we'll to trust the Signal Service, whose
forecasts are based on scientific principals.
The Signal Service is not empirical. 1t
goes no farther than science permits, no
farther than exact knowledge permits. No
living man can predict the kind of weather
we shall have tor the next SIX months.
Vennor says that August will be month
of horrible storms and diluyian rains. Take
no stock in him. He has failed IN the past
The month of July was all emphatic rebuke
to Vennors presumption,
In defending himself against charges
made against him by Capt. Cowden of one
General Weitzel, Captain James B, Eads
says in communication TO the 81. Louis
Republican: "ln the last part Of his let.
ter, Gen. Weizel shows the cloyen foot
beneath the robe Of the saint. His so.caled
plan for a ship-railway was patented in
1868 by a civil engineer in New York
city. The photographs are all on record
in the engineers office. reported on the
feasibility of It's application to the falls
Of the Ohio some time in 1868, believe.
These are all matters of official record"
The spirit manifested in every line of the
above indicates that Capt Cowden and
Gen Weitzel are birds Of a feather
The motive which lies back Of this attack
upon me il the same in the case Of both
Cowden is furious because, during the past
session Of congress, | exposed an absurd
scheme of his known as the Lake Borgne
Canal outlet project" Gen. Weitzel is
chagrned, first, because defeated his pet
project, the "Fort st. Philip canal y and sec
| ond, because, when was building the ST.
Louis bridge, | ridculed the recommends
ton OF Gen. WeizeI To- build canal
| around the Illinois end Of the bridge,
50 that few steamboats, with very
high chimneys might pass through it
instead Of under the arches of the bridge.
| II Gen. Wetzel had been as well informed
as he ought to have been, he would have
known that never claimed that the design
or suggestion Of ship railway was origin
al with me. On the contrary have al
ways spoken of it as Of very ancient origin.
If Gen. Weitzel had devoted more time to
reading and less to Capt Cowden, he would
have learned that a ship.railway was used
by the ancient Greeks, and that Swedenborg
transported several vessels by this means
about 100 years ago, he would also have
learned that twenty five years ago, Brunlees