The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-18
Solution Of Mystery
With Reference TO the Wreck Unearth-
ed upon Center Rock, Grand Chain,
Ohio River.

To Cairo Correspondent 81. Louis Globe.Demo'
| crat:
Approaching your efforts in behalf of the
public to solve the identity of the wreck
recently found on Center rock, Grand chain,
Ohio river, which is getting as awfully
mixed as the late election returns by the
Western Union or the goose bone" theory,
I offer you the following facts. The dates
are purposey omitted, but are historical.
1t was during the memorable siege of
the jamestown colony by Powhattan that
Capt John Smith adopted the Gordon tao
tics at Khartoum by sending him "chaw'
of navy plug, a little Robinson county, and
making love to Miss Pocahontas, that Pow
haitian at last got tired of promises and de-
lays, and broke off the attentions of Capt.
Smith to his favorte daughter, and when
Capt =. saw he could not throw sand 10 the
old mans eyes but must marry the princess
or fight, and being advised that he could
lick him anyway and get the princess be-
sides, he got awful mad and put on his war
paint and called to Stonewall Jackson and
says he, "Jack," Che called him fsmliarly
Stony Jack, for SHORTY "take few of your
most trusty old vets and 60 by way OF Eads
jetties and the Chesapeake and Louisville
canal and lake that barsted old redskin in
the rear, and mind you give him an awful
licking"
So Jack took Buffalo William and Bill
Anderson and a large corps of river
reporters, and ammunition and good
supplies for four-year old voyage. You
see he knew he had to pass by Ben Lomond
and the U. s. engineers Improvements at
Bulletin, Tow Head and Plum Point. So
old Jack and Buffalo William selected q
feet of light steamers, consisting of the
Robert Flu ton, belonging to the Hudson
Bay Fur Goa very light steamer, she
only drew sixteen feet; the Pawnee, that
was sunk by the rebels every day for four
years, and the Wauchusetts. Stonewall
always made success assured by laying all
plans beforehand so he enclosed postage
stamp to Gen. Hazon, of the U. s. 81 gnal
department, with request for the very
worst sample prediction of weather he could
order. AT same time he sent stamp and
, two "bts" to the secretary Of the Lime
Kiln Club for a sample lot of weather pre-
dictons. They were somewhat conflicting.
. Gen. Hezen referred him to his daily re-
. ports, but he assured him there would be
J.. storms of thunder, lightning and hail
earthquakes, cyclones and washoe zephyrs
e and that Duck river and Forked Deer river
n would continue to rise and fall. SO he sen
l to Commodore Scudder at st. Louis for tn
n names of few trusted and competen
! pilots. He gave him the names of Isaiah
e Sellers, Isaiah Hood, james D. Lacy
Horace and Mark Twain, Hy. Pardee and
8 Joe Mccullough.
The fleet got separated in storm and
the lighthouse keepers would not come on,
and light lamps, and we have not heard oil
, the Pawnee since she went up Forked
Deer, or of the Wauchusetts since she left
f Ben Lomond, but Henry and Horace got
through the fog and we're going oil o. K,
when Gen. John Morgan struck the river
and hailed her to ferry him over into
Indiana to vote for Cleveland and Hen
bricks. But Joe Mccullough knew John
and wouldn't land, and this made John
awful mad and he ordered his marines to
fire into her and sink her. Joe was on
watch, and when he saw them get ready to
shoot he initiated the pilot of the canal
boat when the lookout cries "low bridge"
, Joe laid flat.-so did Fly. Pardee, and that
is why they are here and the rest all gone
Johns marines missed the boys, but they
knocked hole in the Fulton and John run
her on Center rock, where she lies to this
day, and Rees Dugan is going to raise her
and put a side dock under her and she
will be escorted to the Centennial Cotton
exposition by the 1,40O Bostonlans on the
fleet of Anchor line steamers; and they
are going to bring the old Charter
Oak tree of Boston Common, and the
Philadelphans have changed their mind
and are going to bring the old liberty bell
and it we be rung all the time.
You see gave exact names and there
can be no doubt about the wreck; at least
Hy Pardee and Joe Mccullough say so,
and if you want all the dates you can have
them by applying to Will s. Hays or "Hun.
ter Ben" I know the young ones whose
~ n N, no m lort ouf of this will bp aWlullv