Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-21

From the Detroit d lily Advertise
nGcStirks goes TO Church in New York.

Having seen The Operas with detes,a-
iion, the Theatres with arprobltion,
George ChriSty with cacchina,ion, No 2
Dey st. with affilialion: having visited
castle Garden, the Model Artists ard tho
American Museum, in fact knowing some
thing of all the other places ofamnscment
in the city. resolved TO comple,c and
crown my knowledge by going to church
and | hope may receive due credit for
my pursuit of amusement under difficult
ties. made known my heroic determin-
alton 10 my now found friends, and they
instantly resolved 10 bear me company
Bull Dogge by way Of variety and Dan
phool from force Of habit-Bull Dogse
seldom goes to church, and Danphool al
ways does, Sunday morning came. anu The
aforesaid indiy iduals, presented them
selves-B. d. looking pugnacious and
pusilis,ic. and Danphool perfectly marvel
ous-in fact, majestic as this latter named
parsonage had borne himsaf. ana impor
family huge rs he has ever appeared-his
coat tails were now so wonderfully short,
his collar so enviably large and inGepen-
IDENTIFY upright. and his ha, so unusual ly
and magnilicenily lolty--that he certainly
looked a bigger Danphool than ever be
fore, Posing up Broadway through n
crowd Of people OF all sorts. sizes colors
and compilations, countrymen running
over every third man they meet; New
Workers threading their way through op-
parently un.ge'-throughabe crowds with
out ruffling their shirt collars. by tic
way ! have learned that TO one hu, n gen.
uine New Yorker, born and bred, can cross
Broadway upon dignifed walk Fue.
men in red shirts md their coats over
their arms, newsboys with a scanty allow
ance of shirt, and no coats at all; Dutch
emigrants, with dirty faces, nasty breech-
es, and long loppy-looking pipes; Irish
emigrnnts, with dirty faces. nasiier bTeech.
es, and short, stubbier pipes, spruce look.
ing darkies. end wenches arraye1 in rain
bow colored habiimenis-we al last reach.
ed the door OF tho church. Everything
looked so grnndly gingerbread. that hes
Itated about going IN. Little boy in the
corner bar eiooted, with letter in the
posioflico) tod us 10 go in,' and called us
Lemons, Did not perceive tie force o
his pomological remark, but went in,
nevertheless. Man in white cravat show
ed us 10 pew; floor covered with a nice
carpet and seat covered with damask, will
little stools 10 kneol down upon-(Bul
Dogge says, so the faithful will not dirty
their pantaloons.)
Pretty soon. music-organ-some
grand and solemn-bui generally fas, anl
lively enough for contra dance. (B.D
said the player got largo salary TO show
off the organ and draw big house.) HI
commenced to play Old Hundred. Dan
phool suggests Ancient Century, A
first majestic os it should be, but soon hi
left hand began to get unruly among th'
bass notes. then the right cut up few
monkey shines in The treble; left threw IL
a large assortment OF quivers, right led of
with grand flourish and dozen vara
,ions, lef. struggled manlully 10 keep up
but soon gave out; dead beat, and afte
thai. went back TO first principles, anc
hammered away religiously at Old Hun
dred in spite of tho antics Of It's fellow
right struck up march, marched into
quickstep, quickcned into gallop. lei
still at old hundred, right put in all sort
Of fentsstic extras TO entice the left from
its sense Of propriety; left still unmove,
righ, put in few bars Of a popular walt,
left wavers little. right strikes up ia
vorite polka; left evidently yielding. right
dashes into JIG, lef: now fairly deserts