The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-09

Strenuous efforts are being by the officers
to run the fellows down, and we hope they
will succeed in bringing them to justice as
small robberies have been quite frequent of
late-not because of any fault of the sever
al police ofRcersi in the city, however, SO far
as we have been able to see.
The prediction OF The BULLETIN
with reference to what General Pavey
would probably do in the matter OF retain.
ing or dismissing the clerical force in his
Office when he took charge, are about to be
verified; some change or changes are about
to be made--the cleaning out" which the
General said would be necessary seems
about to begin--the indefinite period Of
time implied by his cautions "for the pres
ent, seems to have expired. But the Gen
eral has very original way of doing the
thing. Partly, perhaps because he would
practice what is taught in the old saying
don't waste your dirty water until you
have clean" or words to that effect, and,
partly because he wishes, in delicate way,
to give warning to the present incumbents
that the official guillotine is ready Cor its
ghastly work and that Official heads will
soon fall, for either or Tor both these reasons
the General has, at least in one instance, pro-
cured the successor before he has dis
missed the incumbent. And il is not a secret
either; it has been published in the papers
Of Williamson county, though it has es-
capped our eye, that Mr.. w. II. Eubanks,
county clerk of that county, has been offer
ed, has accepted, and will soon asume
the duties and responsibilities of, a
position under General Psvey in the
collectors office in the custom house at
this point. This much is known; Mr..
Eubanks, makes no bones of it is matter
OF common talk among the common people
Of Mr.. Eubanks' home. II is also known
among the clerks in General Pavey's office
here it IL matter OF common talk in the
custom house but, strangely enough, so
far as We have been able to learn, no one
knows whose place Mr. Eubanks is to take,
and here is where the General has shown
his cruel wisdom--his deep cunning;
here is where he kills all the birds
Of his little flock with q
single stone: be makes each expect that
his head is the one aimed at, and thus be
leads them all to prepare for the worst,
which all, or nearly all, will probably soon
have to face. This turn Of affairs is not a
a surprise TO us at all but it will be to
some, who firmly believed ali the time that
General Pavey would not dare to DO that
which he had only dared to INTIMATE he
would do. But We are under the impress.
sion that greater surprises still await the
people Of this city particularly, and the peo.
pie of the district generally. We are un.
der the impression that there has been a
strong, steady effort made ever since the
election, by prominent Republicans in every
part Of this district, to accomplish general
upheaval in the custom house hereto give
it a cleaning up" as General Pavey would
put it, from basement to turrett. And we
"have letter in our pocket whioh"--no,
we have SEVERAL letters snugly slowed
away in our desk, which--well which
bear US out very strongly in our belief and
which would, if published Uhis in a
purely Plckwickian sense) just raise the
devil generally in custom house official
| circles here.