Show lie correspondence corre cheyenne city oct ad 1861 EDITOR Loveli loveliness is uni uni casal aud and the altitude of thy the ed water fowl is gaoat liero hero in cheyenne and small mall wonder too when you consider all tile the advantages C of our position situated as we ac are arc on oil the banks of the mighty ci ciuc ow or eck which as everybody knows empties into the alie gulf ulf arid and with the black hills to lack back us no wonder we look down upon the llie villages scattered along the missouri Alis that from omalia to st louis lonis inclusive lve ate making desper le but futile efforts to coni avith us its in commercial importance and nd great liess with all our natural I 1 eay bay beside a great r many advantages which iii iture evi avi I dently never intended inton ded us ns to have at all it is no n wonder that new orleans sinks beyond the horizon lioi izon ot of our memory ind and imagination financially cheyenne is is ur or is 19 to be rather like the point or small end cud of an immense gill net which is sufficiently wide to extend across the in which it is set act thus dr catching itching every fish dollar abati ing fait cu lating in its cur rent united states As I 1 was say hay ing in cheyenne is to be tile closed point or hold nil all part pait of tips net which may be besci abed is commencing to swell out at omalia Oni alia the outline of t extends down tile missouri arid and reveis to tile the 0 gulf on oil the right arid and by the way of chicago and the great lakes ill ah my native tt town wll why do you yon allow yourself to be thus entrapped down tile thu st lawrence La to tho the atlantic on the left this net is further firt ther represented presented ru by the rivers ind and railways cf if the united states state which as anybody with avith half an ail eye can see terminate in an impassable point at Ulle cheyenne yenne so that under the circumstances think of the black hills less than 29 niles miles n iles west of us how do you get over that it is n D wonder that all our buildings are arc boarding h uses and all our citizens carpenters for the p opie ople of tile the union I 1 nion must be led fed and tile they y cannot be b L ex expected p CC add to live lic out of doors all theia lives neither ia it a matter for surprise that our spirits should be exuberant ube arid and that we should keep a small del delegation cation of chiefs Chic ls about town whose duty seems seem to be to bust iiii ui i una P vv va I 1 from aront the trembling bodies bodes ot of inoh en sive give individuals thase indefatigable inde fati 0 able braves arc constantly on the war path peace with thin th in is wretchedness unbearable and ar to their thirsty souls a big medicine more soothing than mrs windlow their persons ie decorated with a cults colts navy gracefully flopping on oil each cadi hip while an ail II ll arkansaw toothpick tooth pick indicates the locality luca lity of the spinal column with all these advantages spi call out beffie beffi e us I 1 again kivist it is no wonder FLOM cities to city governments the transaction is natural ever even when not to the governed easy casy cheyenne Cheye nue lias has a ity government which has tiiu thu far proved a complete financial f in ancial success bucce SS jling billing the first fotty days of its existence the sum of was paid into the treasury of which amount was on oil account of licenses the balance remaining after deducting expenses was ah 1600 from which it would appear that the the city is doing a paying business b us iness are some pel pei sons and what makes it sound even more strange men of good sense who are arc not very well satisfied jhc thc complain that a little license costs big money every branch of business is taxed carpenters blacksmiths kt rs everybody in fact pays li berrs but not equally A blacksmith pays 65 5 a quarter qua iter this ibis is for an entire shop A kahoe shop pays 85 a quarter lor fur each tench bench A barber shop 85 5 a quarter for each chub chair this public and official manner of sticking a ab shoemaker OC on oil one bench ind and elevating a barber on oil a solitary chair and ho li idin 0 thern up tip to the same licentious lic position tion as it a blacksmith who raises tile wind with ith a doze dozen pair of bellows and leads an orchestra of as many anvils may be a piece of lasting flattery to the shoemaker and it may be soft soaping the barber at the same time that it iopu pit a a dark dingi ace it upon pull the brow of the blacksmith bulilis a piece of flattery which costs them greenbacks green backs arid and badea eaves money to his us purse purr e aiom all of which the dic intelligent leader will perceive that as the barber whispered in my ear the other day licenses licences licen ces tit ai baw e awful ful 11 speaking of shun shop bellows arid and tire like reminds rile me that this i is s an ail excellent locality for mill dill sites the mo tive live power pow er is here her fur an ail almost endless quantity of y f machinery and if put to abc might inight chuate quite a i revolution evolution in in manufactories manu factories the rho m mills ills I 1 mean windmills wind mills might be erected at a ca comparatively in ively small cost coat and the wind which is ia now wanted might be kept at lionett employment instead of indiscriminately mit lumber yards all over toun and throwing dust in ili the eyes of the good people of of cheyenne the railia railway y still lacks some 50 miles of being complete to this place nevertheless th eless many adventurous individuals arid and extensive stocks of goods sire are con scantly art arriving iving liy by Ava wagons gons arid and building is being pushed forwald ay as rapidly as ever the rile lumber used here cornea comes mm mostly aly from colorado arid and continues at the old price 0 of f per thousand excellent coal lias has been dise discovered within 15 miles of this place and will no doubt have a tendency to cheapen thu the price of wood which is now dow 20 per cord unless the owner of the mine forms a coalition with the wood lime of the be fine finet finest t quality is also produced in the black hills in the greatest abundance arid and today to day I 1 was waa shown a of coal oil which was avas said to have been manufactured frum from a well of this city or bpi I 1 ng within 20 on sunday last a row was commena ed in which two men received pistol wounds not of a dangerous character however the same difficulty in which quite a large number dumber of if persons seem to be resulted last night m in the killing of two other men one named pat callaly Mal laly and said to have been it a character and another called limber jim a sport but bearing aliu ti lo 10 reputation of a peaceable man and tile the burning by sonic some one of a house of ill fame in which callaly was killed to together c t her with all the furniture and apparel par el of the occupants and it is ia said some 2000 in greenbacks green backs a small int installment all ment is paying the national debt two men have been arrested chaigen with having been im implicated licater in the killing and are now lo 10 lodged aged in the Ci laboose AL ai |