The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-09

OF the leyees were OF immense size. mat 1
the Yszoo Pass, about 100 miles below
Memphis, was cut by the union forces dur
ing the war at point where it was 3S feet
high. For distance Of 200 feet it was on
an average % feet high, and in places near
y or quite 800 feet broad at its base. This
was and IS the largest levee ON the river.
Louisiana before the war had expended
more than $l4,000,0O0, Mississippi more
than $l4,000,000, Missouri over 81 $4,000,
and Arkansas nearly 81 100000 in all about
Sal 100000 spent on evees.
The late election of DR.. c. W. Dun
ming as grand generalissimo by the Grand
Lodge of Illinois Knights Templar, was not
reelection, but promotion. The DR..
had been, the year before, grand captain
general; grand generalissimo is step IN
advance of this The doctors promotion is
certainly a.grest compliment, the more so
since it was brought about during the doc
tors absence from the convention, when a
number of aspirants to the honor had the
field all to themselves. The compliment
was as well deserved as it was unsought
and freely given.
An exchange notes the discrimination
made by some of the laws of the northern
states between different classes of persons,
for various reasons, showing that IN the
state of Rhode Island cOlored man has
the night OF voting at elections, although he
may not own one dollars worth of property;
but that a man who is born outside OF the
United States, although he may be a citi-
zen and an lnhabitant of Rhode Island,
whether white or colored, is debarred from
the privilege of voting at elections, unless
he is the owner of a certain amount of
property. That the state of New Hamp-
shire DISTINGUISHES her white citizens on &C
count of certain religious views they may
entertain.
flake care of my civil rights BILL"
says the Evansville Journal, "were the dy-
ing words of Charles Sumner and adds:
"They would make an excellent rallying
cry for the Republicans" The Journal
probably falls into the common error of
supposing that it was Summers bill upon
which the Supreme court recently passed.
The bill drafted by him, like most of those
offered by him during his remarkable ca
reer, never found its way out of the COM
mittee room, and the law which was de-
cared unconstitutional was really the work
of Gen. Butler at whom the Republicans
are just now directing sundry hard words.
Remembering how Sumner was abused by
the Republicans Just before his death, it
would be interesting to hear them using
his dying words as rallying cry.
We have it now from the Paducah
News itself, that the town is on the verge
of general cusaednese. The News of Wed
nesdsy says; "The time has come for every
man to pull. 1t remains with US whether
we are to keep up with the rest of the
world, or finally take our seat upon an
empty parcel and white sticks for a pas
time. There is tide in the affairs of cities
which, taken at the flood, leads on to profit
and renown." We have in the past paid
entirely too much attention to what the
News said about Cairo. We expect nothing
and could get nothing from the News read
ers. Other people were not affected by
the News slurs upon Cairo and never
heard of them except, perhaps, when they
reappeared In these columns, and there
is barely possible that the slurs did some
mischief. In the future we shall let the
News busy itself to its hearts content IN
venting its jealousy against Cairo in its i'm
potent way, unnohced except by its readers,
who very evidently have nothing to do but
swap jack knives and build air castles.
Work was begun on the Thirty eighth
street sewer Tuesday morning. The sewer
is to be of brick like the Tenth street sewer
and Is to be thirty inches in diameter. A
tunnel will be dug through the levee not
much larger than the sewer is to be and the
brick work will proceed with the excava
ton. The same parties who built the Tenth
street sewer are building this one. They are
gentlemen from Du Quoin who understand
the business thoroughly. Before letting
this second contract the mayor spoke
to several of the best brick masons in this
city who declined the job. Only one home
man offered to do the work and he wanted
two dollars per foot more than it is being
done for. The Tenth street sewer was also
built for much less, in spite of the unforeseen
difficulties that were encountered in its con-
structions, thar home men whose Judgment
ought to be good in such matters, estimated
it would cost. The work on this sewer is
certainly of the very best kind and
this heinz the case the cost ia q m ottar th O