Colonel Lyon’s Letters.
Cairo, Ill., Sun. a. m., July 9, 1865.—We did not get here until after midnight, having been detained several hours by a collision ahead of us, fifty miles from here. I found the Major and Lieutenant Fowle in Chicago. Saw nothing of the Adjutant. We leave on the ‘Clara Dalson’ at 11 o’clock this morning for New Orleans. The weather is somewhat warm here. We get Government transportation from here, which is worth $10 to each of us, and our meals and staterooms cost us $20 more.
