The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-07

10 uearly surrounded Oy sWampy country
All this is true, but the deductions drawn
from these facts are false. Miasma has AZ
tinlty for water The rivers that bound
Cairo on three sides are each over mile
wide the prevailing winds are from the
south and southwest, and all the breezes
from the low lands Of Kentucky and Mis-
souri, are purified of their miasma and rem
dered wholesome by the great bodies Of
water over which they pass; the only winds
that strike the city without crossing water
are from the north, and these seldom pre-.
vail tor many hours at time; besides, the
country in that direction is open, well
drained and covered with as fine farms as
any in the state. The government fully ap.
preciates these facts and is about 10 estab-
lish a marine hospital at that point, for
boatmen from both the Ohio and Mississip-
pi rivers and their tributaries; was there
any truth in the reports regarding the in
salubrity of the location it would never
have been selected for such an institution"
On account Of the nervous anxiety
and fearful uncertainty of the Argus, as to
the feeling of the present city council con
corning the raising of the city's grade, it is
suggested that the council to-nig htreconsider
the vote bywhich former council passed the
misunderstanding the present grade, and
that it then repass said ordinance and order
it republished, this time in italics or Small
caps Aud by way Of making the re-af-
tirmation more emphatic still and rendering
the ordinance entirely irrevocable, it is fur.
ther suggested that the council pass a reso
luton, declaring most alphabetically that for
ten years at least there shall be no food in
the rivers, in order that the question of
changing the grade Of the city may not for
that length of time disturb the public mind
and thus check building enterprise-may not
arouse public sentiment in favor of
change and to demand such a change-may
not induce the people to elect council
that will heed the demand and, by simple
vote Of "yea,' annul the italicized, irrevos-
bic ordinance and the iron-cad resolution
of the present council, and throw the whole
community into a heap OF chaos, on top OF
an imaginary hill, away beyond the reach
Of sipe or any other kind of water The
council might do this much tonight and
appoint a committee with instructions to
ascertain what effect the action will have
upon the Argus; carefully feel aud time
that papers huttering pulse ascertain
the temperature Of its fevered brow, and
the color of its dyspeptic tongue, and re-
port these observations to the council at It's
next regular meeting. If it shall appear
that the almcnt is of malignant nature,
and that the councils action was made
quste, the council might repeat the dose,
slightly augmenting its strength; it might
pass the ordinance once again and order 1t
printed in capitals; it might resolve, in the
stearnest aterms, that there shall never
| NEVER !! NEVER be another flood in the
! rivers and in addition to this it might make
tia pententsry offense for any citizens 70
think of changing the cityS grade and put.
ting such wicked thought into even whis
pered words. The committee should be
made one Of the standing committees Of
the council, and it should be required to
report at every regular meeting of that
body, in detail, the condition, past, present
and prospective, OF their patent. The
council should administer doses similar to
those prescribed above at regular periods
Of time, ind give the committee power to
call special meeting in case the patients
condition should seem TO require an extra
dose. We feel deep concern in our Com
mercial avenue contemporary and sympath.
Use with it in its sore affection; and we hope
that our sympathy will not be scorned and
spurned We believe the people are with
US in this matter and will applaud the
council for any action it may take tending
to the amelioration of the Argus sufierngs.