The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-03
A LADY AMONG THE MINERS,
The Experience of a New
York Belle in the Black
Hills.
How Deadwood Compares
with Gotham---PrOS-
poets of the
Mines.
From the New York Graphic.

From the New York Graphic.
1t is with pleasure that we give to
our readers the following extracts from
the private letter of a lady now residing
in Deadwood City, in the Black Hills.
A few years ago she was the accomplish
ed and courted belle of one OF the very
best circles of society in New York. To
dsy she is living with her husband In
what is perhaps the widest and most an
civilized OF our so-cslled mining cities.
Her letter is we'll worth place in our
columns:
DEADwOoD, August ll.-Here l am in
the Black Hills, and to my surprise l
find it quite pleasant. One sees plenty
OF character here, and people IN New
York can scarcely realize the immense
difference in the inhabitants of the two
places. 1t seems rs if the two belonged
to different nations, such is the change
in appearance, habits and even language,
for the latter is at first hardly Ineligible
to a newcomer, such is the sdmixture of
profanity aud slang. | hear plenty oft,
for my room is separated from the street
only by the thinnest of board partitic ms,
and so far as hearing goes l enjoy every
possible facility.
1t was but few moments ago that a
genuine Deadwooder rode into n livery
! stable next door and shouted, in tone
that went through and through the walls,
/ L g., hn CT h I'm
thus: "Say, old fellow, is this the ass
| CHRIST rode into Jerusalem on. You
can't play that on me. Rustic round,
and saddle up that calico horse there, or
I'll be blanketty blsnked il l don't put
mansard root on you'll" But this Is
very mild compared with what we hear
every hour.
A CROCK SHARP.
have become quite 3 "rocksharp'
myself Excuse me, bat when you hear
that term twenty or thirty times day
applied to any good Judge of gold.bear-
ing rock, the temptation to use 1t TOR
short" becomes more lenient TO people
who do not confne themselves entirely
TO Webster's Unabridged. When n
country is new and lawess, the language
will in some degree conform to the cur
rent sentiment and circumstances. It
is then that lawless terms and lawless
characters both appear, and both will
nave their day.
Well, as l was saying, have become
quite "rocksharp." In New York,
any piece OF quartz was to me but dull
unmeaning, uninteresting bit of stone,
but when you have learned to turn 1t
over and over in hopes of detecting the
least little bit of yellow gold imbedded
IN #, and realize that such stone may
really pave the way to ones fortune, 1t
begets certain interest and even tascin-
alton.
THE BOSS ROOM OF DEADwooD.
The town is hastily put up, and the
houses are very primitive. A shelter
from the weather is all that is required,
and many can hardly attain that. The
Irish cabins about Central Park are lux
urious dwellings, compared to many here.
NV room is relatively quite elaborate.
| Canvass has been tackled on the boards,
And then papered. This alone here Is
more than equivalent to trescoed walls
in town, Besides, we have put up cur
tains and put down u Brussels carpet.
We have arranged pictures, ferns, au-
tumn leaves, and intend 10 upholster
lounge, SO that, although it is but nut
shell of room and as hot as an oven
when the sun beats down on the thin
walls. still it has already become known
az the "boss room of Desdwood. Last
evening | entertained two bankers, two
Judges and United States Sen
stor We hadn't chairs enough so we
made deposits of the bankers on the
bed. and passed a delightful evening.
There are two or three houses here which
have attained to the dignity OF pls'tered
walls, and one boasts OF piano, which
is the very cap shesf OF luxury. The
fare at our hotel table embraces plenty Of
game, such rs venslon and elk. We have
had wild raspberrles IN plenty, and let
tuce three times. But eggs, poultry and
a hundred other articles On YOUR daily
bill of fare, are as yet unheard OF IN Dead
wood.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
We had an exciting and perilous timt
getting here. indians were reported a.
around US alter leaving Hat Creek. A
every rancho where We stopped "frest
trails" were reported. The last night o
the Journey We heard, as We thought, the
cries all about US of coyotes, owls OIL
strange night birds, but were very muct
alarmed when told that these were In
dams signalling 10 each other. Thu
stage was ploughing through heavy sane
and the horses gait was reduced to a
slow walk. Only two men were with Us
and every little while the vehicle stopped
and one of these went forward TO recon
pciter. There was one other lady beside
myself on board, and during these dread
| FIJI intervals we listened in the drear!
silence and darkness with our hearts II
our mouths. We did not know whether
the expected foes might turn out to b.
"road agents" or Indians. The frs
named we held as much the lighter Ill o
the two, although We hid away al GU
valusbles in anticipation of visit. Blu
the Sioux we were told have no mercy =
especially for woman. SO the othel
lady and myself resolved that we would
kill ourselves rather than fall II thel