Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-07-11
To-Day.

To-day.
The bright beams of this mornings sun
lend their effulgence to the splendor Of q day
brighter in its memories and more glorious
in It's birth, than the uprising of the Day
God himself. Hail to this blessed anniyer-
sary of freedoms birth Let every heart
rejoice, ard while the political skillet is
| simme ring and sizzling, let all unite in one
glad anthem of praise to the goddess of
American Liberty. May every heart in this
great republic beat glad to-day, and may
the very names of oppression and tyranny
be blown into atoms by thirty millions of
blunderbusses, and an unprecedented i'm
mensity Of Chinese fire crackers.
Success to every Grafton, poem and essay
that shall be delivered to-day in commence
ration of the occasion--success TO every free
born thought and action--nnd success to
every vender of guDpowder, good whisky,
skyrockets, ginger bread and hard boiled
eggs. As the day grows older. may the
memory of the day grow greener in the
hearts of this happy people, and as the fun
grows ''fast and furious" may good nature
| increase Herewith.
As the sun sinks down behind the coast
range. and the glad notes of joytuned I'D
/ lies and banjoes strike up ''Sugar in the
pourj," and "Pop goes the weasel" let eve
nv man, woman and child incontinently let
themselves loose, keeping time upon the
light fantastic brogan until "grey morn
sits perched upon the east
Remembering great Lafayette, may every
Know Nothing repent and turn from the
error of his ways on this proud occaslon;
once again reminded of the broad doctrines
of State sovereignty laid down by the fra
republican relinquish his dangerous tenets !;
and proud of the triumphant success of the
principles which he advocates, may every
democratic mothers son gain fresh courage.
and hold still more steadfast to eight the
good fight of faith"
Let glad rejoicngs rise up from the depths
of Oregon Gulch" and the heights of ''Pea
Vine! From Eastport, Maine, TO San An
dreas, in Calaveras county, may good ma
ture, good speeches, and the most clamorous
patriotism prevail, and along our seaboard
and in towns accessible therefrom, may no
she'll oysters or fresh beef be called to the
relief of bunged eyes and ensanguined noses.
but rather let all ''hard feelings" give place
to universal harmony, and may no broken
heads or lacerated shirts be offered up to-
day on the altar of liberty.
May breadstuffs and pork grow plenty in
starving Michigan. and may peanuts grow
rank in Yolo county, and kae seed and the
smell of gunpowder be plenteous in the
land. Amid the booming of cannon may
there be no cries of misery and distress, and
amid the happy greetings and congratula-
tons OF the day, may "button- holing" be
Impractical and unheeded. Three cheers
for the proud eagle bird (by chance) that
scars above us three cheers for every star
and stripe upon our nations banner three
| cheers for every impression Of sweet Liber
tvs sorm on three cent pieces, ''srskins,'
and all American coins and, finally, three
times three for the memory of Washington,
and The day we celebrater'
A FossILIFERoUs PREsENT.-A specimen
of fossil formation similar to and part of
the same which we described the other day as
being taken from grounds contiguous to
Fences Ranch. at present in Mr.. Van Brunt
Co.'S, store, is to be sent by them to the
Odd Fellows of San Francisco for whose