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

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take some gin and sugar, and come ou
and make speech, all of which he did
the butcher boys in the gallery, Dam
phool says Hellitisplit commenced life as
respectable butcher boy, but has de-
generated into the man he ISL gave
three cheers. Hellitisplit opened his
mouth four times, shut it thrice, fhe
went off with it wide open,) and backed
off with grace which We may suppose
would be exhibited by a mud-turtlc on
the tight-rope.
Damphool was in eostaoies---Rull
Dogge asked me how | liked the " great
American, &c." replied that l knew
not which most to admire, his euphoni-
Gus voice or his tremendous straddle,
but that Notwithstanding the late ap-
preparation of the name by rival show
shop,) was ready to maintain with the
butcher boys that there was but one
Metropolitan Theatre, and Hellitisplit is
its profit.
Admiringly,
Q. K. PHILANDER DoEsrIcKs, P.B.
vH.-DOESTICKS GOES TO CHURCH.
No. 7,0001, Narrow street.
Having seen the Opera with detesta-
ton, the theatres with appreciation,
George Christy with exclamation, and
No. Q Dey-st. with afilation having WIS.,
tied Castle Garden, the Model Artists,
and the National Museum-in fact,
knowing something of almost all the
other places of amusement in the City,
l resolved to complete and crown my
knowledge by going to church, and l
hope may receive due credit for my
pursuit of amusement under difficulties.
l made known my heroic determination
to my Few found friends, and they in
stantly resolved to bear me company
Bull Dogge by way of vatiety, and Dam
phool from force of habit-(Bull Dogge
seldom goes to church, and Damphool
alaeays does.) Sunday morning came,
and the aforesaid individuals presented
thomselves--B. D. looking pugnacious
and puglistic, and Damphool perfectly
marvelous--in fact, majestic as this lat
ter named person had ever borne himself,
and importantly huge as he had ever ap-
peared--his coat-tails were now 50 Won
derfully shirt, his collar so enviably large
and SO independently upright, anil his
hat so unusually and magnifcently lofty,
that he certainly looked a bigger Dam
phool than ever before.
Passing up Broadway through crowd
of people of all sorts, sizes, colors, and
oomplexions countrymen running over
every third man they met Now York
ers th' eading their way through appar-
emily unget-throush-a bic crowds with
out ruffling their tempers or their shirt
collars. (By the way, l have discovered
that no one but genuine New Yorker,
born and bred, can cross Broadway on
digni6ed walk.) Firemen in red shirts
and their coats over their arms news
boys with very scanty allowance of
shirt. and no coats at all Ducth emf
grants, with dirty faces, nasty breeches,
and long, lobby looking pipes; Irish
emigrants, with dirtier faces, nastier
breeches, and short, stubbfer pipes !;
spruce-l looking darkies, and wenohes
arrayed in rainbowed colored habilli.
ments--we at last reached the church
door. Every thing looked so grandly
gingerbready that | hesitated about 60
ing in. Little boy in the corner bare
footed, with letter in the Post Office
told us to ego ip," and called us "Lem.
ons." Did not perceive the force of his
genealogical remark, but " "losut IN new
theless, Man in white cravat showed
US to pew; floor covered with carpet
and seat covered with d-mask, with lit
tie stools to kneel down upon-( Bull
Dogge says, so the faithful will not dirty
their pantaloons.
Pretty soon, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
grand and solemn, but generally fast and
lively enough for contra dance. B.
D. said the player got big salary to
show off the organ and draw a big house.
He commenced to play Old Hundred,
(Damphool Ancient Centnry.) At first,
majestic as it should be, but soon his
left hand began to get unruly among
the bass notes, then the right cut up
few monkey shines in the treble the
left threw in large assortment of qua