Washington telegraph., 1856-11-12
From the Boston Courier.
Doesticks Hears a Popular Preacher

Doesticks Hears Popular Preacher.
Things have changed Before nv hair
turned gray with age and piety, clergy
men used to take their texts from the Bi-
BILE, and preach peace and good will to men,
woman and little girls. Our old minister,
whose Sundays sermon chastised my Sat
urday's apple stealing, didn't take gun
powder text land, under aromatic Schn napp s
inspiration, preach howitzer and six
FOUNDER sermon, having a submarine bat
tery peroration, with large invoice of re-
vOlvers and bowie-knives thrown In by way
of rhetorical grace He used to think his
duty was to keep his people from war and
strife, and teach belligerent humans not to
pull off their coats for free fight every
time any body trod on their eorns.
l recently attended the performance OF
the Rev. Blood and Thunder Screecher,
who is renowned for his prolonged shrieks
for freedom, disunion, free Kansas, runa-
way darkies, Sharpe's rifles, bowie-knives.
bulldogs, and a big muss generally He
breaches electloneering sermons, and it is
said that he carries his pocket full of Ere
mont ballots, and makes his people take a
vote on the Presidential question every
Sunday, to see that they are, all ''sound on
the goose" 1t is also asserted that he
spends his leisure hours firing at the iron
man in the shooting gallery, and in throw
ing tomahawk at mark occasionally
varying those delightful occupations by ta-
king boxing lessons, learning how to egouye'
Missouri border ruffians, taking long drinks
of aromatic schnapps between times.
Went to the church, which was arran-
gsd like theatre, with the best place for
those who pay the most money-instead of
pulpit there was stage for the ministers
to perform on-people came in droves-
seats were soon full-then huge pyramid
Of stools In one corner Was attacked BY SIX
energetic and determined sections, who
speedily tore 1T to pieces, and scattered the
fragments through the aisles to sit on.
Organist executed grand Kansas bat
tie piece in five sharps, with vocal imita-
ton OF the shrieks OF the settlers and the
curses Of the border ruffians. Then the
minister came up through trap-door like
the harlequin in the pautomime when the
devil has got an invitation for him-he
prayed long prayer in his overcoat-then
ne took off his overcOat and read hymn,
to very quick metre, with very strong
chOrus-then he sat down on his overcoat
and read his letters
The Organist here made preparations to
gyrate-he rolled up his coat sleeves SO as
not to interfere with his fngers-then he
rOlled up his pantaloons SO as not to inter
tere with his toes, then he unbuttoned his
crayat and loOsened his vest; at this in
slant a very muscular man disappeared
from the ranks In the gallery, vanished
through a cubby-hole, and was instantly
lost in the anatomy of the organ Then
there was great rattling In the bowels
thereof, as if it couldn't digest the muscu-
Ar man, but had great deal of wind on
Its stomach.
This was the preparation.
Then the organist commenced violent
struggle with the keyboard, as if he re-
garded the unfortunate organ as fisticuff
enemy, whom it would require his utmost
strength and dexterity to OyercOme-sO he
went in-he hammered him on the white
keys, he belted him ON the black ones, he
punched him in the semitones, he kicked
him In the double bass, he put in series
OF running kicks in his chromatic scale, he
Peited him In the fats, he battered him LII
the sharps, he smote him in the high keys,
he bit him in the low notes, then he grab
bed both hands in his octaves and shook
him until he squealed then he ferociOus-
ly Jerked out the stops on one side, as if he
was pulling half his teeth out his head
then ne savagely jammed in those ON the
ether, as if he was knocking the rest of his
grinders down his throat-after three-quar-
ters of an hour, the left hand, which had
been doing manful service in the lower
suburbs, began to fail, and sent for rein
fOrcement, whereupon the right hand, af-
ter hitting the upper chord of G sharp a
furious DIG to keep it quiet in the interval,
scampered to the rescue, only stopping by
the way to bestow upon the middle G a
couple of punches by way of a reminder
then the player with both hands, both
feet, and his knees, went at the poor in
strument and belabored him SO unmerci-
fully in the lower pipes that he lost his
Wind and d-''enough," in roar OF
agony
This was the prelude.
Then the singing commenced; the op-
era folks stood up to earn their money
they sang as if the music scale had been
creased on this occasion, and they were
climbing for pig On the top of it; they
would 90 up note or two and then sllT
back-each one went one notch higher
than the one before him, but fell back be
lore he reached the prize, aud his voice
subsidized into diseoRted growi log down
In his ribs. At last, after five trials, each
one Ofwhich ended in an attenuated squeak
one female, with a mouth like "a hatchway
ioOsened her bonnet strings, made des
Perate scream, and went SO high that she
hnally got a firm hold of the oleaginous re-
ward of merit, and bore it off in triumph
then they all stopped
This was the singing.
Then the muscular man came out of tn.
bowels with the perspiration dripping from
MS coat tails; as he hadn't another sui