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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 184, 11 August 1870, Page 2

An Ameeican Q-oveenoe taking PoS; L bession. —If wo may judge from the following X account given by a correspondent of the.|| Chicago Tribune at Cheyenne of the Gfo'jffi vernor's first apf>earance before the people of W, Wyoming, his position does not appear alto- • gether comfortable :— " The governor and hii \ suite," we are told, "arrived in Cheyenmf. late iv the week, and on the following Sun-(-.. day these gentlemen as was their custom, ap-|'-' peared in their best clothes and long faces." 1" The governor inquired if there were services,." and was informed by a citizen that " thejß didn't do that sort of thing out there much." I 1 On further inquiry his excellency learned that I there was a " sort of meetin' house " up town, but it Avas not used often, "though they' spiled one of the best lots in the city to build, it." Soon after breakfast a committee called H on the governor, and informed him that waato. be a big Sunday " hossrace, " and they would ; like to hare him act as judge, The governor J-;: declined, bowed the committee out, and they;?, then held a consultation, when it was unani-1^ mously agreed that as the governor did not H like hoss racin' they would arrange a prize-11 fight; and the chairman retumea and ttd«'ft dressed his excellency thus : —" I say, guvnor'#J we have konklooded not to have a hoss race, §jJBj but to have a prize fight, and would like you to M judge it. " Tho governor again deolined, p with thanks, upon which the committee re- 11 tired in high dudgeon. All day long com* If mittees kept calling, inviting the governor to J£i| foot-races, dog fights, cockpits, and other Sun-11 day games peculiar to the frontier, whg atjtk length won? out and disgusted, put on his hit M; and accompanied by his staff walked out to fe stroll about the city and escape annoyance, g Q-oing above the town the party entered I Hj graveyard and were surprised to notice only 'I iff few gravestones put up, while a large numbH g of boots were seen sticking out of the ground* ■ The governor inquired what it meant, and » H citizen explained to him that when a man W :; hung by the vigilantes they buried him so al !■ to have his feet sticking out, while only those ■ • who died naturally were buried in the regular way and entitled to gravestones. The gowt- jfy nor gave a look at the many boot soles sticking up all around him, and then at the scattered .p, head boards, and with a shake of his head lew M the place evidently not favourably impressed with the peaceful and orderly character of tn» people he had come to preside over.