The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-02
-Rumors about the unsafety of the Mis-


sissippi levee fall thick and fast every Ray
and every one of them proves upon inves-
tigation to be entirely without foundation
in truth. Mayor Thistlewood, Chief
Myers, Street Commissioner German and
the entire police force are constantly on the
watch and are kept almost constantly busy
running down and denying false rumors.
II is difficult to see any reason for any ap-
prehension whatever, and persons who have
nothing else to do but circulate such non
sense in the city with view to alarming
people might be in less centenIptable bust
ness The truth is that the Mississippi levee
is Just exactly as able TO keep back the Mis-
sissippi river, as is the Ohio levee to keep
out the Ohio river, and as before stated,
the Mississippi levee is over foot higher
than the Ohio Chief Myers went
over the leyee Tuesday, and Mr.. German
visited it vest ,rday and both report that it
dangerous washing anywhere from its be-
ginning to its end. Perhaps what has lead
to some of the rumors IL q small wash
about hundred yards below the point
where the new levee joins the old, but this
amounts to absolutely nothing at present
and is not likely to even if nothing is done
to prevent il, @for months to come. A
small quantity of earth has been removed
from near the centre Of the levee by waves
blown against it by the wind, but this
place has been closely watched by the
authorities; it has been visited every day
by some CITY official, and it has been found
that within the last three days, or since it
hes begun to attract attention ut all, there
has been no noticeable increase in the
abrasion. Chief Myers noticed particu-
larly that the same earth at the place where
the washing is said to be in progress, lay
in exactly the same position at his last visit,
as it had lain when he was there several
days before. This ought to be sufficient
to satisfy people that there is positively no
reason for fear that the Mississippi levee
will even begin to be damaged to any ex-
tent whatever. If there were n current
near the lavee, and If the washngs com
| planned of were iu the torn of cutting
at the base of the levee by an undercurrent,
as was the case several wears ago, then
there might be some little cause for appre-
hension; but this is not the case there is
no current; the water which touches the
| levee:is all back-water from the Ohio and &C.
tually runs up stream, slowly, so that there
is no friction whatever against the bank.
But even if there were danger
Gus wash even if the levee were being
carried away little by little and
if permitted to continue uninterfered with,
the river would flood the city-even then
there would be no cause for alarm, because
the authorities are wide-awake; are keep
ing men on the levee all
night; are visiting it themselves
every day, and are prepared upon half
hours notice, to have half dozen car
loads Of rock on their way to the danger
, Gus spot to stop any washing tina, may
, prove serious. The rock is here, idle, and
the Cairo and st. Louis road runs right to
the place supposed to be threatened with
} inundation. In view Of all these facts the
people Of Cairo can well afford to laugh &c
scorn any croaker who would make them
II afraid by stories of dangerous washou,s in
the Mississippi levee.