The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-08
CAIRo's VICTORY.
Blomlng on Bullo In.


The latest report from the city of Cairo
Is that all danger is over The rivers were
at a stand still at high water mark for
few days, and have now begun to recede.
Of any other city under like circumstances
it might be said with truth, that danger
being over, business would be resumed. In
Cairo with the food surrounding her on
all sides and within an inch of going over
her. levees, the people, anxious, but brave
and determined, persued their usual bust
ness. Their hotels were open, their mer-
chants busy, the hum of their manufac-
tories did not stop; schools, churches, pub.
lie library and opera house entertainments
continued uninterruptedly in their usual
paths for the instruction and amusement of
the people. Public improvements were not
stopped, and citizens, who were putting up
residences, or other buildings, not dsmsy.
ed by the threatening approach of the
waters, went calmly forward to the accom-
plishment Of their ends.
II may be truly said that the citiz,ns Of
Cairo have gwen the people OF the country
lesson They have shown what will, de-
termination and pluck will do to avert a
great calamity. Last year /, was believed
that Cairo, 10 spite of her magnificent
levees, could not stand against the foods
that poured down on her from the Mssiss.
'ppi and the Ohio rivers, the greatest floods
ever known in the history of the Mississippi
Valley, But she did, and came out
triumphant when every city above and be.
low her that had been threatened in like
manner, succumbed to the superior power
OF the waters. This year. 10 the face Of
greater floods, even, thin those of last year,
1t was prophesied that the disaster would
certainly take place, and again has the
prophecy proved false, A large portion OF
The city Of Pittsburg was submerged; Gin
cinnati was a watery expause tor days and
all her immense business was suspended;
Louisville was deluged and suffered As she
never suffered before from the same source :;
10 Shawneetown, only the upper stories Of
the houses were visible and the waters
worked distress and devastation to au un.
prece ented degree; in the town Of Metrop-
oils, city Standing upon hill, the peo.
pie took refuge 10 their attics and second
stories, and most Of the communication
with each other was held by means of skifs
and boats. Below Cairo, the same story is
told of the villages aud towns along the
river, and she stands alone as the single
exception, the only point which held the
waters at bay. Her citizens saw what was
needed and performed the work. Her al
ready strong levees were strengthened still
more, and imprcgnsble, they said to the
Mississippi aud the Ohio. "Thus tar shalt
thou come, but no farther"
1t may be, that as consequence Of the
J destruction OF the forests as is alleged by
some, or from phenomenal causes which no
human agency can control, the Ohio and
the Mississippi rivers and their tributaries
will make an annual business Of sweeping
down the inhabitants Of the valleys in a
worse manner than the waters come down
at Lodore But what Cairo has done, she
can and will do again. shehas again demon
strated, as she has many times before, that
with water, water everywhere aud on all
sides OF her, it can be kept at bay while
her people 90 about dry shod, industrious
ly engaged 10 the pursuit of business or Of
pleasure, Her citizens are justly entitled
to the congratulations of the people of the
whole country.