Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-09-28
a Pacific Rail Read Town.
LIVELY TIMES AT JuLEsBuRu.

gives racy description of the present singu
lar and chaotic condition of affairs at the lit.
tie Pacific Rcilway town of Julesburg:
THE POPULATION
Some of thesse, possibly one fourth, arc peo.
bs BUSINESS as there to do ana esm%e,s
the large majority of its inhabitants were
frontier gamblers, whiskcy sellers aud dcni-
reps, worn out in Chicago, ST. Louis and
Omaha, and smoking "new fields and pastures
fresh toward the pure air Of the mountains.
ln short, theiworst and most reckless charac.
ters that ever gathered together ut new from.
tier town. ii
ITS BUSINESS.
AS you go along the two long streets run.
ming parallel to the rail road, nearly evcry
house is wniskey shop, gambling saloon, or
house of prostitution not unfrcquently all
OF these comMned in one great shanty, with
here and ahsfe (. clothing store or n trading
establishments if thrown in occasionally to
prevent the total depravity of the street and
preserve to it!some slight mir of rcspectabi!;ty
During the Hours of daylight the town pres
ents on all sllqes the busy aspect Of legitimate
trade. it
p1efUREsoUE ASPECTS.
bcrlcss yokos.sf oxen, roll slowly and heavily
along from the railroad depot towards the
camping grounds on The Platte O, Lodge Pole
stngcs splendid in vile paint and varnsh and
with teams Of. six horses to each, that prance
and chat" as they are kept waiting for the
load, and dash off with much dust and crack
ing Of whips. rs they leave for Denver, Salt
Lake and San Francisco; wagon masters, her.
d"rs, cavalry soldiers and officers dashing
about on fine horses; locomotives putting
in and ont along tho tract drawing long
trains of ties. rails, freight and passengcrs-
all these from daylight to sunhown combine
to make buV scene. interesting and pleas
ant to watch, because telling of the growth
and progrcss,oi a great people. AS Daylight
fades the scriie most wonderfully shifts. The
houses that we're opened by day arc nearly all
closed, always excepting the saloons, and in.
stead the broad glare Of many lamps is thrown
sh5RsFS s5P SRS s11Es ga aSa T!naGws ct whsssy
brass bands, painos hand. organs and the con-
fused murnur of many human voices inter.
ruptcd occasionally by pistol shot and few
shouts, make up concord Of sounds, new, at
least, it not sweet. to Eastern ears.
A GAMBLING SALOON.
One of the principal gambling establish
nents is wortl, describing. as being new in its
scenes outside Of the California of ls49 or
the Colorado of 1858 Ks you squeeze your
way through the crowd on the sidewalk and
around the door, following the brilliant light
from the colored windows in front and the
sound of a brass band at the rear end of the
long building, you come into long, one story
frame, building, it can hardly be called. Gov
cred and sided with canvass aud perhaps forty
feet wide. On each side as you enter is bar,
with all the attractions of mirrors. many.hued
glasses, and bottles and endless varieties Of
drinks, that are to be found in the best known
of their Eastern models Between the two
doors in front is knot of men gathered about
a small table, ut which hard faced profes.
sional is engaged in dculing Spanish monte
A few dark looking Mexican teamsters are
betting su'all sums at tho game, while few
more IRE interested spectators, but the game
s small and the customers few, and we vii!
see what that unceasng talk is just behind us.
TUE GAMES PLAYED.
"Now, gentlemen, you see the three cards,
two black and one red black wins for me and
red for you; turn the red card, and the mon
cy is yours; any amount up to five hundred
dollars"
llare is the old familiar scene of the race
track and circus of years ago, "three- card
monte," with its usual crowd Of gaping YER
dants, with here and there through the crowd
cnpper," "roperin," looking to the ia
experienced eye greener than any, but betray-
ing themselves to the initiated by occasional
offers to some by.standers to "go him halves"
on what is certainlya osure thing"
9 Don't you sce--the fool has accidentally
twisted the corner of that red card in
III 30 you hulvet; we're bound to win" Wo
to the poor grccnhorn who bites at that bait.
Thc card is turned aud the accidental twist
Of the corner of the red card has mysteriously
become amost skilfully intentional curl Oh the
corner Of one of the black ones. Tho money
is lost and the Same old game goes on. while
it is hard to tell which of the two, victim or
!" capper," shows the most ruefu! face over
what seems their common loss
just beyond is billiard table, with per-
haps fifty people crowded around it. Behind
sits q hard featured man, whose tongue is
'gliblyi running over some small variation at
the unceasing strain. I" Ftve more dollars to
be taken on rondc; any gentleman want?-
Only fUe more dollars on rondo, and the game
goes on? There you are. sir as some one
hands up the amount, 7" the game is made
VIZ soule gentleman ,,roIl the balls?" A
A pause and "Coulo wins." by the same
voice, and few minutes after begins the
same monotonous recitativo to make new