Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-03-10

crows.
P S. Joe being whipped, and, more
over, being the only innocent one in the
whole fight, was arrested by the vigilant
and efficient police.
P P s. Damphool says that Joe
treated the Emerald conservators of the
public qniet, and is again at large.
Let Nose beware.
Yours,
@. X. PHILANDER DoEsrIcKs, P. B.
yI.-DOESTICKS SEES THE AMERICAN
TRAGEpIAN
NEw-Y -YoRK, No. 7,OOOl, Narrow-st.
have always had passion for theat-
ricals, and was, at one time of my varie-
gated existence, much more intimately
connected with the stage than at pres
ent---and on reaching this City 1 felt, Of
course, a great desire to behold again
the theatre, with all its brilliant fascina.
tions---the light, the music, the varied
scenery comprising gardens, chambers,
cottages, mountains, "cloud. capped tow
ers and gorgeous palaces" bar-rooms,
churches, huts and hovels---to look
again upon the glass jewels, the tinseled
robes of mimic royalty, the pasteboard
banquets, and molasses.wine, and all the
glary, ''pride, pomp, circumstance, and
humbug, which / once "knew so well, :"
Get quorum magma pars fui."
SO, with my trusty friends, Damphool
and Bull Dogge, l wended my way to the
Metropolitan Theatre No. 1, to see and
hear the distinguished Mr.. Rantanrave
Hellitisplit, the notorious American ira
gedian, in his great, original, unap>
proachable, inconceivable, inexplicable,
incomprehensible part of "What bore
o, the last Of the Vollypogs."
The house was full, and what spec
tacle for modest young man the front
rows of the dress circle being occupied
almost exclusively by ladies, undressed
in the latest fashion, appeared perfect
sea Of BOSOM
As the modesty Of the third tier la
dies did not permit them to vie in this
respect with their more fashionable sis.
ters, they had staid away to entertain
some audience, not so refined, whose less
cultivated taste would not require so
complete an exposure of them fact,
as Micawber would remark, 1.-THE mater
nal fount. There were several babies in
the crowd, who, evidently hungry, kept
up constant waillng---poor things! |
really pitied them---but presume they
were ignorant of the sin of covetousness,
and only wanted what they thought they
had right tothey had not yet learned,
as we had, that, although they might see,
they must touch not, taste not, handle
not" 1t was bad enough to starve them,
but to tantalize them in this manner was
really barbarie.
And opera glasses, too, were continu-
ally leveled at them, by peop..e who, inn
PEELED by laudable curiosity, were anx-
ious to see all that could be seen. dam
phool says that when you see aeoman
with one of these implements. you may
be sure she wants to be 10: ked at-and
called my attention to the confrmatory
fact that all the ladies' with the finest
busts and the best-developed forms wore
their dresses lowest in the neck, and
sported biggest glasses.) (Bull
Dogge asserts that they we're invented
by the author of Staring Made Easy"
and " A Treatise on the Use of the
Globes")
By-and. bye, after season of tramp
ing by the audience, which seemed. by
its measured regularity, to intimate that
they had learned the motion in the tread
mill, the bell jingled, and the members
of the orchestra entered, one by one
After the audience had endured the pro-
longed tuning Of the instruments, con-
dueted in a mastery manner by the
leader of the band, the music got good
ready for fair start, and at the word
I" co." they went. Icouh not critically
analyze the uproar, but it seemed to be
composed of these Clements predom-
nance Of drum and cymbals, a liberal
allowance of flute and horn, spasmod-
10 sprinkling of trombone, small guam
tity of aboe, and great deal of fiddle
The tumult was directed by the leader,
who waved his fiddle over his head,
Jumped up and down upon his seat,
kicked up his heels, disarranged his shirt
collar, threw his arms widely about,