Butte record., 1856-12-06

OUR NILLAGE.-Busiuess seems TO be in 3
fiourishing condition, loafers are plent,
without cash, and miners are numerous witt
cash. Whiskey is plenty for cash, and there
are many drinkers that would indulge more
freely il they had rhe cash to hey it with
Jumping lots, and sueing and being sued oc-
cupy the attention of some folks, and fight
ing and horseracing are favorite amusements
with others. Loafers seem busy loafng, and
men OF business seem busy in their several
vacations. Women an children are tolerablv
plenty, and mud, mules, and miners great.
ly abound. Chill wintry winds blow fierce
ly through our streets, and soggy saw dust
has been strewn all around the Bank Ex-
change. Floors that were laid in hot wealth
er let in great quantities Of cold cir, and the
wood we burn in our stove makes great
quantities of ashes. Everybody seems to
have cold in their heads, and chilblains are
becomiug the order of the day. Stages come
and go crowded, and boarding houses and
beds are crowded all the time. Shoemakers
and lawyers are busy attending to gentle
mems boots and cases sports and doctors
continue to deal out cards and physic, and
great gangs Of worthless dogs disturb the
rest of quiet citizens who want to sleep
The theatre is closed and amusements are
scarce; musical hall is being built on the
corner of Bird and Lincoln streets, by ex-
coroner Whaling of San Francisco. All
sorts of things are continually occurring in
private circles that oughtn't to be published,
and very few things happen that ought to be
put in the papers, and items are consequent
ly scarce, but for the information of man
kind a at large, we beg leave to state that
to-day is the first day of winter and the
commencement of the last twelfth of old so
News ITEMS are most provokingly scarce
both in Oroville and the newspapers. Now
we don't want anybody hurt, or robbed, or
murdered, neither do we wish to chronicle a
FIRE, particularly in the neighborhood of the
Record Office, but if such things must hap
pen we wish we could hear of them, just to
give US a chance to write all about them and
let the astonished world know that extraor-
linary events can happen in Oroville as well
as elsewhere Tom Bell is killed or at any
rate he has stopped robbing folks which is
Just as bad, and the Vigilance Committee
mas quit purifying San Francisco, and in
Iced nothing remarkable is transpiring any
where these dull. piping times of peace "
70 be sure we have a little chunk of a fight
If very ordinary and uninteresting nature
every two or three hours, but they are of
such common occurrence, and are so much
like, as to be hardly worthy of mention in
letail, the description of one answering for
all We have no theatrical company here |
md in fact no other pnblic amusements with
which to pass away our leisure moments, |
nd with at least one scrub race-horse to
very tenth man, there hasn't been a race |
n this vicinity for upwards of three days |
What are we coming to- When will this
state of things cease? Why don't some of
the votaries of o:d Thespis come and open |
iur theatre; There is a multitude of peo-
Die in 0roville waiting to be amused, and |
nost amiabe and obliging editor waiting for
of the kind to write about.