Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-12-02
Troubles in Wyoming Territory.

A quarrel has sprung up between
the Legislature and the new Terri
tory of Wyoming and Gov. Camp
bell. No one seems to understand
what it is all about, or what the
Legislature expects to make by its
hostility. The Omaha Herald, a
Democratic paper, is the leader OF
the Legislative party, though pub
( lished hundreds of miles from the
scene Of the conflict. 1t charges
the Governor with trying to thwart
the wishes of the people, and with
removing the post traders at the
forts because they would not at
tempt to control the votes of the
soldiers in the interest of the Re
publican party. The correspondent
Of the Chicago Tribune, at Chey-
onne, tells the following amusing
story ofthe Governors first appear
ance before the people of Wyom-
ing.
1t appears that the Governor and
his suite arrived at Cheyenne late
in the week, and on the following
Sunday these gentlemen, as was
their custom, appeared in their best
clothes and longest faces. The
Governor inquired If there was SER
vices, and was informed by citi-
zen that "they didn't do that sort
Of thing out there much" On fur
ther inquiry the pious man learned
there was ga sort Of meetin' house
up town, but it was not used often,
though they had spilled one of the
best lots in the city to build it,
Soon after breakfast a committee
called on the Governor and in
formed him that there was to be
big Sunday "hoss race" and they
would like to have him act as Judge.
The Governor declined, bowed the
committee out and they at once
held consultation, when it was
unanimously agreed that as the
"Governor did not like hoss racin'
they would arrange a prize fite,"
and the chairman returned and ad-
dressed his Excellency thus:
" say, Guvnor, we hav kon-
Hooded not to have q hoss race,
but to hev prize fite, and would |
like you to jedge it,"
The Governor again declined,
with thanks, when the committee
in high dudgeon and one
Of them said; "That feller is mighty
stuck up, and is tryin' to play
Grant on us by refusin' of all our
honors; but he kin go to the devil,
for all we keer, so he kim" All
day committees kept calling, invit-
ng the Governor to foot races, dog
lights, cockpits, and other Sunday
games peculiar to the frontier,
When at length, worn out and dis
gusted, his Excellency put on his $
lat, and accompanied by his staff,
walked out to stroll about the city :
nd escape annoyance. Going
bove the town, the party entered
he graveyard, and was surprised
o notice but few gravestones put
p, while a large number Of boots
we're seen sticking out of the
round, The Governor inquired I
What it meant, and a citizen eX-
'lained that when a man was hung
" the vigilantes they buried him
o as to have the feet sticking out,
lille only those who died natural
were buried in the regular way
nd entitled to gravestones. The !
iovernor gave look at the many
oot soles sticking up all around
i'm, and then at the scattering head
cards, and, with q shake of the
cad, left the place, evidently not
cry fayorably impressed with the
eaceful and orderly character of
lie people he had come to preside
YER,