The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-21

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ly necessary to suggest to the people OF
Mound City that they should offer every in
ducement to Mr.. Haarstlck calculated tC
bring him and the work Of the barge line
to their town. We believe that if Mound
City even went so far as to buy the Ways OF
Captain Halliday and present them to Mr.
Haarstick, if he would agree to do all his
work at their place, it would be the hes,
paying investment that could be made. OF
course we do not think Mr.. II. would re-
quire this; we merely mention it incidently
as it were, in connection with the belief
that with the Marine Ways operated and
owned by the Mississippi Valley Transpor-
ton Company, and the new furniture fac
tory in full blast, our sister city would re-
ceive "boom" such as has never been ex-
perienced in her eyentful history,
The cholera quarantine again brings
up the question of whence come all the
rags sent from Egypt. Ship.load after ship
load arrive In England, America and every
other country where paper is made. Hun
dreds of thousands of tons of rags, and
they have been coming tor half century,
At one time it was said they were the
linens torn from mummies, and millions Of
corpses were so stripped, but, from each,
little was obtained and the supply has been
exhausted. There are in all, about 10000
900 people in Egypt and the felIaheeu
wear few garments, bit over the head aud
one around the loins. Yet the ship-loads
come as regularly as if rags were crop
and the delta of the Nile sown with rag
seed.
Though the yellow scourge has again
been brought to the American shores IN the
extreme south, there need be no fear that it
will again gain foot hold, or extend up
the river as 10 former years. The lesson Of
past yellow fever experiences have been
well learned by city authorities OF the Low
er Mississippi, Nothing could be more
complete than the precautions taken to
keep Yellow Jack from invading the South,
While there is very severe epidemic Of
of the disease raging in nearly every port
of old Mexico, the measures taken at New
Orleans are so complete that it seems i'm
possible that even a single imported case
need be feared there, and should it happen,
the measures for heading off the uuwel-
come visitor taken a: Vicksburg, Memphis
and other cities on the river promise i'm
munity to those districts which have here
tofore been among the worst sufferers"
"A gentleman prominent in Mound
City, who has ample means Of knowing all
the facts in the matter, was in this city last
evening, and stated that We had been mis-
informed as to the purposes for which the
$3.50 appropriated by the city council of
Mound City had been expended. He stated
that, nstead Of having been used as brides
to members Of the legislature, part of it
was used to defray the expenses of several
influential citizens of Mound City, who
went TO Springfield to "lobbyn for the bill,
by circulating among newspaper correspon-
dents and the boys, Setting EN- up etc,
etc. The balance, which was the largest
part Of it, had been advanced to protect the
cty's levees and for other expenses incur
red during the food, by other prominent
citizens whom the council then reimbursed
in the sum named. He said further that
the gentleman to whom the council appro-
priated this $3.50 did not as had been
charged, say that he had paid 5000 of the
money to a certain member of the fower
house, whose name he mentioned, and says
that this gentleman emphaticaly denies
having paid said certain member any sum
for any purpose. These statements, if true,
give the whole matter a very agreeable as
pect and a very different one from that
gwen il by former reports. We very much
prefer to believe the last statement; it
would be very unfortunate indeed, if it
should 90 forth that Southern Illinois
statesmen were not men Of invulnerabe
honor we're bribe-givers and bribe-takers
betrayers of public trusts, connivng with
one another to fitch from the public purse
We prefer to believe that Southern Illinois
statesmen are men Of firm integrity, not 10
be tempted, By any consideration, to depart
from the path Of strictest virtue in all mat.
tsrs pertaining to the public business. We
prefer to believe this and so far as this mat
ter is concerned at least, as 1t now appears,
we do believe it.
A N.y