The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-25
WAR TINE HISTORY
ECHOES OF THRILLING TIMES OF
1861 IN CAIRO AND
VICINITY.
Copy of Columbus, KY, Paper Tells
Some incidents Not Given in
Ordinary Histories of
the Time.

One of our citizens has in his pos
session Vol. 4, No. so, of the Column
bus, KY, Weekly Crescent, a news
paper published by L. G. Faxon, in
1861 in that city. This copy of the
paper is dated Wednesday, February
&, 1861.
Mr.. Faxon had previously resided
IN Cairo for several years, having |
edited and published the Cairo Times,
and later the Times and Delta, in the |
SOS.
The advertising columns of the
Crescent were literally patronized by
Cairo business men of that period G.
ID. Williamson & Co., wholesale gro
ceries and boat store; B. S. Harrell,
dry goods, hardware etc; A. F. and
| ]. h. Taylor, wholesale grocers; II. H.
Candee & Co., wholesale grocers; and
Graham. Halliday & Co.. forwarding
merchants and wharfboat proprietors,
| were some of the Cairo advertisers.
| To prevent the escape Of slaves, the
!
adopted and will be rigidly enforced.
Tickets for negroes must, i'll all
leases, be purchased by the owner or
| his known authorized agent and the
negro shown to the conductor before
entering the cars.
Tickets for negroes going north
ward will only be sold to the owner
or his authorized agent when person
ally known to the station agent
Strangers making application for
tickets for negroes, will be required
to give bond equal to twice the value
of the negro, with known approved
security. to protect the company
against loss"
The news columns Of the Crescent
contain lengthy reports Of mass meet.
ines held at various points in West
ern Kentucky, protesting against
coercion of the south. At meeting
| held at New Retreat Seminary in
Graves County. it was resolved, thai
if their demands were not complied
| WIFI ny IDt all vi 4Idlttit Icoif S'iNJ
would recommend that each Of the
lfifteen Southern states withdraw from
1.-THE Union A speaker at Mayfield
said the Union had already been dis
Isolved by the withdrawal Of six
sovereign states, and he would hans
Iany traitor who would fight with the
North against the South.
Local Items From the Crescent.
One of our exchanges from Ala
! bama heads its news column, For
eieff ffttetfts-latest from the Unite
States, etc
, We neglected to mention in Oul
last that some cowardly miscrean
slipped up in the night and cut the
halyards of the secession flag, letting
the flag down. Such an act is worthy
only of cowardly wretch.
: If he is known. he had better b
watched he will be guilty of house
, burning next
, A rumor is current that Fort Stump
c ter has been attacked by the Char
a lestonians. No particulars are given
+ The brass cannon from Cairo ar
rived in due time The committed
O which accompanied it had thei
brains hammered out with old news
papers and were sent back in waite
: tight coffins to be buried in Cairo.
When the captain of the militar.
company, recently formed in Cairo
under the provisions of the state Law
went to Springfield to procure arm'
for them Gov. Yates refused to lie
him have any. His reason for refus
ing was that they were too Southern
in their sentiments" down there to b.
trusted. The city Of Cairo then mad
an appropriation of $1,000 for the pun
- chase of arms. The company reoi
ganized and formed an Independent
company which does not come unde
any state regulation.