New Orleans Republican., 1873-02-09
CARSON CRY, January 90, 1873.

CARSON CITY, January ~, 1873.
Nesting amid the foot hills Of the eastern
and highest range Of the grand Sierra Ne
vadas, whose towering submits are covered
with the perennial SHOWS Of winter, in
cosy, basin-like valley, is the romantic and
historical little city Of Carson, the capital Of
the Silver State" second only to CalIfor
MIA in the production Of those precious
metals for which man ever tolls, and Whlch
keeps the world ever moving.
To that far famed wild rover Of the West
Kit Carson. whose romantic deeds OF won
der. as pictured by the poetic licensed
mythical biographer, Ned Buntllne' reau
more like the Muncbausen heroic DEEDS ol
feudal lords ard their henchmen IN feudai
ages than actual deeds Of record III TINS
more modern age of fact and true ValoF'
is this city indebted for her noted name.
Laboring under the disadvantages OF $50
1ation and uneasy access, this city has ad-
yAnced within few years from a mere
Mormon trading post or country viiiage' 10
a fourishing and welladvanced CITY Oh
about five thousand inhabitants bleFSod
with all the natural comforts and accom-
plishments that are necessary TO the ENJOY
ment Of cultivated social life: climate as
delicious and balmy as her maidens are lar,
and skies as bright and propitious as poet'
cal Italv's ever-shifting and transparent
dome of azure, and where, it is said, little
BOYS never stub their toes, all invariably
win at marbles, and are never troubled
with bilious attacks, even IN the midst OF
the sour apple season.
Here, not as in California and the my thlcal
land of the cedar and Of the wine, Where
the "roses ever bloom and the beams ever
shine" the climate varies and IS regulated
by the revolving seasons. The dreary WIN
ger DAYS end with the new year, and spring
veverses the usual order of things and
fingers early in the lap Of winter before
assuming her royal robe of verdure green.
The people are peculiarly blessed with
city both business like and romantic, beau
4ifully laid out in broad avenues, after the
Mormon style-it originally being poly
gamous settlement running at right angles
with each other, with sufficient declina-
zion to afford natural drainage, as on an
AQCllubu pIduC, lIllS biiS bAANNA Va
taxation for artificial canals; and, in short,
it may be said this is a city without cor
porate charter, no "city fathers" or shad-
bellied mayor, or not even an lndolent po-
Iiceman with the customary bay-window
front is seen lounging on the corners of the
orderly thoroughfares; where gambling is
licensed and prostitution officially winked
at and both carried on in full blast almost
ander the very dome Of the Capitol, in the
centre of activity, with peace and unanimi-
ty of sentiment only equaled by that OF
the innocent reclination of the millenial
lamb and lion; where the ladies may be
said to be Joy forever, inasmuch as the
climate indefinitely preserves their beauty;
where Benedicts are cOrrespOndingly home
lY; the bachelors are green as the inside OF
a young gourd and the landlords are read
lily distinguished by their preponderating
oleageniousuess to the prejudice of their
boarders, who are generally a lean and
hungry looking set-especially about office
seeking time of the year; q city uncursed
with bcggars, book agents. glass putin"
or lightning rod men, and whose only ytGa-
bon Is, except few animal-like Hoodums,
are the few struggling remnants of the
once proud tribes OF brave warriors who,
before the advent of the pale face, roamed
the primeval sage brush in undisputed ma
jesty, who gather in knots under the caves
OF the Capitol, engagein their native games
of "Indan poker" monte etc. or the
more modern game Of "seveG-up," or re-
clinirg lazly in the sun on their beds of
down, discuss with seeming anxiety and
ignorance the cause OF tins sudden assem-
blage of whites at their wigwam, and the
object Of their war council with native mis-
trustings that the pale face who no longer
smokes the pipe Of peace with the In
dian at his campfire, means no good,
and is treacherously plotting to drive
the poor red man still further toward
his final happy hunting ground
beyond the setting sun. And as we see
them warriors. squaws, picaninnies and
papooses-slowly and doggedly filing
through our streets at nightfall toward
their wigwams on the hills beyond the city
limits, we see, likewise, fading from our
vision before the dawn of civilization the
last vestige of barbaric races, to whom we
are indebted for the many romantic tradi
tons connected with the early settlement
of the many classic and euphoniOus named
sections of country we robbed them of, and
also for the treachery to and murder of our
frontier settlers, and our thoughts mad
vertently wander to the inevitable fate in
store for the black man, whose doom, too,
is written on the Interchangeable face of ma
ture, and who is also fast receding before
that advancing wave Of civilization, which
must, sooner or later, close over him.
j. NJ. S.
The Galveston CjrjtiaIa has this pleasant
paragraph