Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-07-15
The Newspaper ON Wheels.

The /" Fromtie- Iude1,"--the pioneer paper Of
the Western wilds--ha, pulled up stakes, cracked
whip, left Julesburg, Nebraska, tits recent Heud
quarters) and taken up its rest for few days"
at Laramie City, Dakota Territory, the present
terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad, where
it is said they have "Nino months winter, and
three months cold weatler." The "Inder" ="
keeps pace with the successive termini towns Of
the great Pacific Railroad, and is consequently
continually on the move,.-but its publisher, +.
X. FREEMAN, Esq, is q real live character, after
the Brick Pomeroy" stamp, and let him sojourn
where he may, invariably turns of q sheet Of
much vvacity and universal interest. The Editor,
alluding to his paper. says: "As the emblem OF
American Liberty, THE FRONTIER INDEX IS now
perched upon the summit of the Rocky Noun
taips flaps its wings over the Great West, and
screams forth in thunder and lightning tones, the
principals of the unterrifed anti. Nigger, anti
Chinese, anti -Indian party-MasonicD Democracy =
Some Eastern Chap" has been on Western
excursion, recently, and in giving IN account of
his trip, don't speak in very complimentary terms
of Laramie City, which has brought to the surface
the ire of the Inder" man, who "piles on tho
agony" thusly:
at is certainly amusing to read accounts Of
Laramie City, written by excursionists aud cor
respondents after their return to the Enst. These
unsophsticated, flannel mouthed devils, when
they come hcre think they know it oil, when the
fact is, they don't know as much as +" a last years
bird nest with the bottom punched out" but they
Invariably 60 away, after having danced to the
tune of three or four hundred dollars" very wise.
They arc never satisfied with losing hundred or
two ut faro or three card monte, but must visit
some of the dance houses and squander us much
more in treating the fair and frail" girls to wine,
whisky, and other such beastly fodder; and when
they return to their senses and find out how nicely
they were inveigled, while intoxicated, their in
dignntion knows no bounds-hence the terrible
name they give our city. Hero is what one poor
cuss says, who got free ride from Chicago out
here to write up the sights" etc., and who paid
dearly for what wisdom ho obtained:
"Vice stalks its streets in daylight and rovels
in numerous haunts of dissipation when night
adds horror to heart-sickening scenes of debauch-
cry and liceutiousnOss. Laramie has more darce
houses, of the genus vile than has Chicago. Ev-
cry night these dens, which combine the occupa-
tions of rum-sellers, gamblers, and harlots, are
thrown open, and are patronized. Gambling i,
carried on in the bar rooms, in full view Of the
streets, and tho 8" tiger" is tough. in every form,
from keno to faro and monte"
The above is but one of the many extracts we
have seen in reference to Laramie and all written
by just such brainless tooth pick suckers as the
fellow that penned the above. We will MT at
tempt a description of his eccentricites while in
Laramie for this the first time tho poor fellow
was ever caught away from home, but then he did
fight the "tiger' and g't licked like the d-l."
We also Gull from the Inder tho following pitby
md business-like news items:
There arc sixteen bull trims in town loading
for the West.
The U. P. r. R. government commissioners,
will receive another section Of tho road on Satur
day next.
Two men at Wyoming station, named Peter
Reed and Henry Nables, decided to fight duel
on Saturday evening last to settle dispute each
fired four rounds in quick succession, when Nables
dropped dead, being shot thrcc times.
Tho big railroad excursion from New York and
Chicago, have just returned from the end Of the
track-50 miles west. They are having thigh
old time"