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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, PLAIN lifiT JOB WORK. GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. Having Semeo the Services of -a- first-class JOB PRINTER, We are enabled to turr out as. good work as can be done IN THE STATE. We call the attention of all our citi zens to the following Price List: Bill Heads, per Thousand, Assorted, $5. Canary Colored Envelops, Furnished to Merchants and Business Men, with their cards printed on them, At $3 PER THOUSAND, LETTER HEADS, $4 50 to $5 Per Thousand. CaRDS, Common 75cper Hundred, —AND- $4 50 to 85 per Thousand. Fancy linA Proportionately Uglier. VISITING CiLRDS, BLANKS, NOTES, Peters,Circulars, Handbills, Pamphlets, etc., Printed in any color desired, and as cheap as can be done in the State. GIVE US YOUlt orders, SAVE MONEY, And get good work, and sustain a home institution. Call at the ATh • ENS GEORGIAN office, Broad street, Athens,Ga.