Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-03-17

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your mouf, you 'leven hundred dolla
niger"
(Leader improvises as follows 8
"Hard work-no matter-get to heb
ben byln-bye-don't mind-go it boots
linen hangs out behind here havin!
achieved a rhyme he INDUCES in fan
tastic hornpipe.) "My true Iub-feath
er in him boot--yaller gal got another
sweetheart--A- -hoo--A- -hooo o - All
oooooo--O Hoe cakke done
-nigger can't git any-ole hoss in de
parlor playing de pianny-You-a-a-a-
Ga Gaia" Captain here interfere.
and order the orchestra to wood-up, and
so interrupts the concert.
Have over on the Indiana side prin-
cipal difference to be noticed in the il
habitants is in the hogs on The Ken
lucky side they are big, fat and broad as
they are long on this side they are
shaped like North River steamboat,
long and lean. I just saw two of them
sharpen their noses on the pavement,
and engaged in mortal combat one
rushed at his neighbor, struck him be-
tween the eyes,, split him from end to
end; cart came along, run over the
two halves, cut them into hams and
shoulders in jify-reqmies cat an many
pieces. This is decidedly rich country :;
the staple productions are big hogs, rag
ged niggers and the best horses in the
United States The people live princi-
pally on Tread made of corn; whisky
ditto, and hog prepared in various bar
barous ways. They give away whisky
sell cold water. The darkies are mostly
slaves they nail horse-shoes over their
doors to keep away the witches, indulge
in parii-colored hats in the most super
lative degree Of dilapidation barefooted,
and have large apertures en- puppis pan
talooni. 1t is perfect treat to watch
their entertaining performances. At the
hotel, the allowance is fourteen niggers
to each guest, and as each one seems to
be possessed of the peculiar idea that
his province is to do nothing at all, with
as many fourishes as possible, the con-
fusion that follows is far from being de-
void Of entertainment.
They never bring you anything you
call for if you call for chicken, you will
probably get corned beef and cabbage !;
if you want roast beef, they will assu-
red!y bring you apple dumplings ask
for sweet potatoes, and you'll get fried
eggs send for corn bread, and you're
safe to obtain boiled pork rim. the bell
for a boot-jack, and you'll get hand
sled. And when you t. retire for the
night, instead of poviding you with a
pair of slippers and candle, the chan
ces are ten to one the attendant sable
angel will give red fammed shirt, a
shotgun, flask of whislloy. three boil
ed eggs, and a pair of smoothing irons
There is however, one redeemed feature
about the darkies, they won't live in the
same country with Irishmen, They can
live with hogs, half dozen shoats at the
dinner table, litter of pigs in the fami-
ly bed but they can't abide Irish. The
slaves are as may be imagined, of vari.
out colors, ranging from the hue of the
beautiful yellow envelope of the Post
Department, to that of the blackest ink
that ever indites a superscription there
on. The theory of Woman's Rights is
in practical operation among them the
men cook, set the table, clean up dishes,
do the washing, and spank the babies,
while their blacker halves hoe corn,
chop wood, 60 to market, and ''run wild
de masheen"
Have great fruit in this country ap-
Piles big as pumpkins, not very large
pumpkins, small-sized pumpkins, dimin-
tive pumpkins, infantile pumpkins, just
emerged from Llossomhood, and ere they
have assumed that golden overcoat
which maketh their maturer friends glo-
rious TO the view And pumpkin pies,
manufactured by the sable god of the
kitchen pies enormous to behold ;
wherein. after thay are ready to be de-
voured, you might wade up to your
knees in the noble compound which fill
eth the interior thereof, and maketh the
pie savory and nectarean in fact, pies
celestial, whereof walters in all ages have
discoursed eloquently; and sweet pota-
toes-such S W ct P tatoes. Jlml.