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THE ATHENS GEO RIGAN : MAY 22, 1877.
Wickedest Town in America.
[From New York Sun.]
1 have seen wicked cities in iny
time. I have seen sprecing at the
Esler in Si. Petersburg, seen fellows
“ make a night of it” in the Orpheum
in Berlin, seen the wickedest at Nijni
Novgorod during the September fair,
seen the Mabille packed with deprav
ity when the empire was at its me
ridian, but I never expected to see
hell itself. I sauntered out on the
streets of Cheyenne at midnight.
Fifty saloons and a dozen licensed
gambling houses line the principal
street, all thronged and gaily illumi
nated till the morning sun puts out
the lights.
What makes Cheyenne the wick
edest city in the world ?
1. Cheyenne is the metropolis
where the rich owners and the buck
skin clad drivers of live million dol
lars’ worth of cattle rendezvous fora
weekly party.
2. It is the nearest point where the
Black Hillers can sell their gold dust
and nuggets and then gamble and
spree away the proceeds so as to go
back to the mines.
3. It is the point where all the
Indian fighting army officers come as
a place where they can spree away
a hundred dollars in n night and
make up for lust time on the Big
Horn.
4. It is the stopping point for all
the swell demi-monde from San
Francisco, St. Louis and Chicago.
In a word, it is the American para
dise for licensed drinking, fighting,
gambling, etc.
Walk with me into one licensed
house on the principal street in
Cheyenne at 3 o’clock in the morn
ing. The house is a medley. It is
the Parisian Varieties on Sixteenth
street, John Morrissey Vs Saratoga
gambling house, the Argyle rooms
on Sixteenth avenue, ami the Alham
bra, with its fifty waiter girls, in
London, all crowded into one. The
building is perhaps 50 by ISO feet,
and l\\ o stories high. On the ground
floor is a theatre stage, room for
three hundred cow boys,'soldiers,
ranchmen, and waiter girls, and just
out of it are the gambling tables and
bars. At the tables every known
game is played. Among the dealers
are several French women dressed in
silks and diamonds. Utterly devoid
<of delicacy, they slmffie and deal the
•cards and handle the chips for the
« wearing, drinking crowd which
throng around the tables.
On the stage there is a constant
variety show going on. Skillful va
riety actors are employed, and there
the tight rope walkers, the song and
dance women in tights, the low-
necked ballad singer, the clog dan
cer, the negro minstrels, the model
artists and the female bathers coine
out in a continuous stream from ten
At night till morning.
On the first floor every drink is
twenty-five cents, and about thirty
English, French and American wai
ter girls keep the crowd constantly
drinking. Above this motley crowd
of cow boys, ranchmen, Black Hills
freighters, miners and soldiers, is a
row of {private boxes filled rich
ranchmen, officeis, tourists and fel
lows who have come down with gold
dust from the Black Hills. These
boxes all communicate with the
stage. Twenty or thirty waiter girls
supply the boxes with champagne, i lie
price of which is S5 for pint bottles.
All drinks in the boxes arc fifty cents.
It is a common thing for a rich
ranchman, after selling a thousand
cattle, to come here and spend a
thousand dollars on a spree. A colo
nel in the army, who had been fight
ing up in the Big Horn country,
came in the other evening and spent
$1,000, and, filially, left his watch on
the red, and lost that too. The pro
prietor of this gambling and variety
saloon is a very generous man.
Everybody likes him, and he is con
sidered a good citizen in Cheynne.
Clergymen chake him by the band,
a id bankers chum with him like an
old schoolmate. The profits in the
one building are $1,000 per day. I
sup lose there are a dozen l ouses on
oie b’oe’e where garnililg goes <n
day night ^with oj ea doors.
Sometimes the marshal and police
man take a hand. The Judge goes
out and “ bucks the tiger ” while the
jury a.e agreeing on a verdict. You
will see colonels in the army standing
by private soldiers, and see cow
boys in buckskin dividing the chips
with a Cheynne Indian—all in the
most enterprising border town in
America, and the wickedest city in
the world.
To-morrow I’m off for the Black
Hill?.
Eli Perkins.
Brown and Gordon.
[New Orleans Democrat.]
The relations between some of the
Georgia democratic leaders is any
thing but cordial. Governor Brown
has charged that General Gordon
sold out the democracy during the
progress of the electoral count.
General Gordon denied the eliarge,
and Governor Brown l as reiterated
it. That this issue should have arisen,
must be deeply regretted, especially
by the people of Louisiana and South
Carolina, whose interest we know that
General Gordon, ami Mr. Lamar, of
Mississippi, consulted when they
adopted their line of action in rela
tion to the electoral count. If any
body is to be censured in this matter,
Governor Tilden and his eastern
Lieutenants, with A. S. Ilewitt at
their head, are the men. The South
ern democrats, among the most con
spicuous of whom were Gordon and
Lamar, won the Presidential election,
but Governor Tilden and his eastern
chiefs were too deficient in pluck and
common manliness to maiulain what
was gained. General Gordon, as well
as other Southern leaders and papers,
very soon saw this; they understood
also that the South was in no condi
tion to institute a revolution, jmd
they proceeded to make with llayes
tlic- best terms they could for the
South, and the most important of
their stipulations was that Federal
interference should cease in the local
allairs of Loui-iaua and South Caro
lina. The New Orleans Democrat
wafe the first paper in the South to
advocattfs«his liu&4f action,-and we
ave entirely satisfied that we were
right. The people of the South, and
particularly of Louisiana ami South
Carolina, will regard the attack of
Governor Brown upon Gen. Gordon
on this point as instigated by political
jealousy and ambition. There was
no weakening of tli3 line of Southern
democrats until the whole eastern
line acquiesced in the surrender by
Tilden and Hewitt.
The Final Parting of two Lov
ers.
An affecting death-bed scene oc
curred ' in Oakland California, on
Friday evening, in the Sunnyside
House. A young man named
George Edward Murray, who died
recently from the effects of an acci
dent, had been engaged to marry an
interesting young lady at the sam«
hotel; but just two weeks before the
fittal accident the lovers had a disa
greement about a trifling matter and
Mr. Murray released her from the
engagement. Although exceedingly
nettled, her love for him had not
diminished, yet she encouraged the
attentions of a rival suitor, a worthy
young man of Berkley, who pushed
his suit and engaged the young lady
to marry him, the wedding being ar
ranged to take place last Thursday.
That morning, just as the expectant
bride began to robe herself for the
altar, her former lover was brought
into the house in a dying condition.
The moment she heard of it she
rushed to the bedside of the dying
man, aud, with eyes streaming with
tears and voice tremulous with emo
tion, she brushed aside physicians and
attendants, and clasping her arms
about the neck of the former sweet
heart, pressed his pale lips to her
own and kissed him repeatedly, all
the while calling him by bis first
name in tones the most tender aud
pathetic. A faint smile of recogni
tion beamed over the pale face of the
wounded man, and the lovers parted
forever, she to finish her diessing for
the altar and he to pass over tlio
river ofdeath.—Francisco Chron
icle.
A War Romance..
A Little Babe at Shiloh—What Rename of It.
The following letter has been re
ceived at the office of the Adjutant
General of Ohio:
Charleston, S. C., March22.
Sir—In conversation yesterday
with an ex-confederate soldier,! learn
the following facts which I deem of
sufficient importance to lay’'before
y0U: .
About 8 o’clock on the first morn
ing of the battle of Shiloh, after the
confederate infantry under General
Breckinridge had driven a bpdy o
federal troeps from their position
toward the river, a battery of - Geor
gia artillery following close behind,
came upon the dead body of **-Iadv
lying outside of a tent in the rear
of what was supposed to be the
camp of the fifth Ohio volunteers—
many of the dead of that regiment,
dressed in zouave uniform, being on
the ground. By the side of the dead
lady was a little child, beautifully
dad, who seemed unconscious of its
mother’s death. Some of the men of
the battery covered the child with
their blankets, and placed-it in
charge of two of the federal prison
ers and then parsed on. VV lint be
came of the child afterward cannot
at this time he positively ascertained,
but it is thought that the confeder
ate division surgeon saw to its wel
fare. The breastpin having the
lady’s likencs on one side, and that
of a gentleman in citizen’s dress on
the other side, is now in the keeping
of an cx-member of the battery, who
I am assured would be glad to return
it to the husband or relative of the
deceased lady.
* * * * if r
Very respectively,
John McQukkn,
Formerly of Circlcville, O.
To the Adjutant General State of
Ohio, Columbus, Ohio.
Talmadge to the Journalists.
One of the great trials of the news-
pa per profession is that itsjr’ , ^ir.bers
are compelled to see more oruKjrSAMts
of the world than any other |N&i4gmii.
Through every newspaper Office,-'day
after day, go all the wickeduess of tiie
world—all the vainities that want to
be pufled, all the revenges that want
to be corrected, all the dull speakers
who want to be thought eloquent, all
the meanness that wants to get its
wares noticed gratis in the editorial
column, in order to save the tax of the
advertising column, all the men who
want to be set right who never were
right, all the cracked brained philoso
phers witli stoiies as long the air and
as gloomy as their finger nails in mour
ning because berelt of soap, all the
bores who come to stay five minutes,
hut talk five hours. Through the
editorial and reportoriul looms all the
follies aud shams of the world are seen
day after day, and the temptation is to
believe neither God, man nor woman.
It is no surprise to me that in your
profession there are some skeptical
men—I only wonder that you believe
anything.
Hayes ani> Billiards—The
President, all unmindful of the unfa
vorable criticism which the act will
lie pretty sure to provoke in certain
circles, has introduced a billiard
table into the White House. It is
doubtful if he remembers what the good
John Wilkins, of Stafford, had to say
on this subject, viz: “It seemeth to
me if a manne have no better use for
hys time than to sprawl upon a table
with one of hys legges indecently in
the ait, striving to make one balle
upon a green cloth to strike another,
it were better that he practyse stand
ing on hys head, the which not only
needeth the greater skill, but withal
doth make the breaking ot a worthless
back the more likely. ”
—
A Burlington man, who is a mono
maniac on the subject of roller skates,
and who spent ninety-two days in the
rink during the past season,' and got
more falls than he has hairs on his
head, aud pot himself stuck so full of
slivers that he wears through his
clothes like a nutmeg greater, calls him
self a “ hard riuker,’’ and consequent
ly ho is haunted by traveling agents
of temperance societies.
• Detroit Free Press: Themauwhoin
veuted the Gatling gun has now
brought out a still better thing. It is
a cannon which shoots off 1,000 balls
per minute and the faster a soldier
dodges the more times he will be hit
and knocked into the middle of next
week.
State News.
—Emory College had 169 pupils
during the paSt year.
—The city Bank of Macon has
failed and made assignment.
—Rome now boasts of a pair of
shears weighing over eight tons.
—Marietta claims to be the pretti
est and loveliest town in the Stated
—Urban Tinsley, ofCuniming, Ga,
has discovered a gold mine on his
place.
—Mr. E. S. Johnson, of Griffin,
died Suddenly in that city on Mon
day last.
- —In Floyd county the wheat is
being considerably injured by the
fly.
—Prof. Willoughby Reade will
give an entertainment in Marietta on
the 24th.
—Illicit distillers in Walker comity,
Ga., are being looke-l after by the
proper authorities.
—A gentleman in Meriwether
county has a piano 533 years old.
It was made in London.
—lion. B. H. Hill has been invited
to deliver tlie annual address before
the Texas State Aassociation.
—Mrs. Harriet Harvell, wife of
Rev. J. M. Harvell died near Cov
ington, on Friday last, and was
buried at Oxford Saturday.
—Messrs. W. T. Wills and W. R.
Gorman have been nominated as dels
egates to tlic Convention from Talbot
county. It was done by a primary
vote.
—The people of Baldwin have
declared Capt. T. F. Newells and
Hon. F. C. Furman to he their choice
for delegates to the State Constitu
tional Convention.
—The Butler Herald says Mr. J.
II. Bivins, of that county, has a field
of wheat that will make forty bushels
per acre The land has been in cul
tivation nearly 50 years.
—Three young men of Thomas
county, who went to Texas a few
years ago, have just returned, and
annotice their intention to stay there
till Gabriel blows bis trumpet.
—The Oartersville Express says
that at some points young grasshop
pers are to be found by the millions,
some of our friends do not apprehend
any serious danger from them, while
others are greatly alarmed.
—The Dahloncga (Ga.) Signal and
Advertiser says: “ Our farming
friends bring us cheering news of the
wheat crop in their immediate vicini
ties. A good yield throughout the
entire country is confidently ex
pected.’’
—On Memorial day in Griffin a
Confederate flag floated conspicuous
ly from the top of a high pole in
Stonewall Cemetary, and one of the
military companies raised their caps
in token of respect for it as they
passed beneath its ample folds.
—It is thought that the majority
for the ratification of the constitu
tional amendment forever barring
the payment of the Bullock fraudu
lent bonds will reach about forty
thousand.
—Says the Dalton Enterprise: On
Friday la c t, Mr. Forest Morgan, of
Tilton, was driving an ox team down
a declivity. The wag-'ti which was
in rapid motion struck a tree throw
ing Mr. Morgan out and breaking his
neck, from which he died almost
instantly. He is represented as being
a sober, honest and industrious young
man, ami his untimely death is re
gretted by a large circle of friends
and neighbors.
—Dalton Enterprise: From in
formation gleaned from various
farmers we are led to believe that
the largest wheat crop will be gath
ered this year since the war. The
peach crop also promises an abundant
yield and the blackberry crop gives
promise of a good supply. While
upon this subject, acting upon the
suggestions of a grain dealer, we
advise our farmers to season their
wheat properly before threshing, and
to shelter it from the rain previous
to threshing. This will insure a good
price for it when brought into
market.
NEWS SUMMARY.
—Hie reception of the Grand
Duke Nicholas at Bucharest was
cold, with not a single cheer.
—The only Turkish officer of note
killed in the fight at Batoum was
Kbnlim Bey a major of regulars.
—The President of tlie Argentin®
Republic has decreed a general am
nesty, including Arcdondo, Lopez
.and Jordan.
—A despatch dated Canea, Crete,
but not from a reliable source,
says: The English squadron will
leave Suda Bay for Port Said to-iuor-
row. The Christian population of
Crete are greatly excited.
—There is a strong feeling at the
West End against the Duchess of
Edinburgh, daughter of the Czar,
who is supposed to be tlie head of the
court camarilla favoring Russia. The
past week has been one of intense
excitement, and, should Russia gain
a decisive victory, it is believed that
England will be compelled to an
active interference.
—An official Constantinople dis
patch says the Russians, having
attacked on Friday in great force the
position occupied by tine vanguard of
the Turkish auxiliary troops in the
vicinity of Batoum, an engagement
ensued, lasting eight and one-half
hours resulting in the complete rout
ot the Russians who lost 4,000 men.
The Turkish loss was inconsiderable.
—The New York Herald dis
patches of the 12th inst. say, the
military operations on the Danube
and in Asia make slow progress on
both sides. The Russians in spite of
their great resources and fine organ
ization, have a great many difficulties
to overcome. The character of the
country and the fortifications render
an advance tedious on land, and
Hobart Pacha’s respectable English
pluck and well drilled sailors keep
the Muscovites from making much
progress in maritime operations.
Apart from the actual warfare it is a
question whether Russia or Turkey
is suffering mqpt. Both are impecu
nious but the Turks are living on the
manna of fanaticism. A Statement has
been published by the Paris Pa trie
to the Reflect that the Russian debt
is now $3,000,000,000, while in 1830
it was scarcely $74,000,000.
—The New York Sun, of the 10th
inst., says : The retirement of Gen.
Devens from the Cabinet is certain to
occur at an early day. lie has been
offered the mission to Turkey, but will
not accept it. McCarry will be trans-
lered to the Department of Justice,
provided the right man can be found
for the War Department. Tlie Na
tional Jlejntblican of this morning
says that Senator Gordon has been
consulted, and intimates that if he will
accept the place be can have it. This
may seem remarkable at first blush,
but Gordon has but two years to serve
in the Senate, and there is no human
probability of his re-election. He has
been active in bis efforts to secure
Southern votes for the Administration
in the organization of the next House
of Representatives, and altogether it
looks as though he had cast his politi
cal fortunes with the Administration.
If the War Department is tendered
him he will undoubtedly accept it.
—A correspondent of the London
Teleyrajdiy describing the battle near
Batoum, says: “I myself was an
eye witness of this important engage
ment from first to last, and can testi
fy that the Ottoman soldiers behaved
with a gallantry which was most ad
mirable. They had, however, during
a g- eat part of the action, the advan
tage of entrenchments on high
ground, and it is duo to this tact no
doubt that their losses, compared to
those inflicted upon the enemy, were
insignificant.” The same corrcys-
pomlent, under Saturday’s date says
the victory was won l>y the extraor
dinary courage ot the Bashi Bazouks.
The dead and wounded on the Rus
sian side will exceed 4,000. The
engagement lasted over eight hours
actual lighting. The last ot the Rus
sians did not withdraw until near
midnight. The Russians lost many
guns. 3 Tlic only Turkish officer of
note killed is Khalim Bay, Major of
Irregulars,
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Canary Colored Envelops,
Furnished to Merchants and
Business Men, with their
cards printed on them,
At $3 PER THOUSAND,
LETTER HEADS,
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CaRDS,
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