The Nevada journal. [volume] (Nevada City, Calif.) 1851-18??, 1857-11-13

der of + iddlebag9e~s appears (although
not secret society to be almost less
known than those orders whose secrecy
is sealed with an oath, and whose laws
have lain for centuries
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried
There can be no doubt in the world,
however, Of the antiquity of this order,
as it can be easily shown that Tubal
Cain was the head Fiddlebagger among
the ancients, having been, as we all
know. the first musical instrument maker
i'll the world, and consequently the orr
ginal maestro of the Fiddlebaggers
The order is neither numerically nor
professionally limited. For instance,
there are Ecclesiastical Fiddlebaggers
Historical Fiddlebaggers, Medical Fid-
dlebaggers, Poetical Fiddlehaggers, AL
der anic Fiddlelbaggers, Metropolitan
Fiddlebaggers, and though last, not
least, Judicial and Legal tiddlebaggers,
besides host Of others far too numerous
to mention.
The society also claims amongst its
members some of the most distinguish he'd
men of all ages, such for example as
Solomon, David, Sampson, Nero, Marx
Antony, &c.
Solomon, indeed, appears to have
been combination Of wisdom and fd-
Neutrality-suspicious. as exemplitied i'll
the trite saws handed down to posterity,
and fddlebagging in having so many
beautiful women attached to his royal
household. David also was true i'd
dlebagger, for he played upon harp
OF thousand strings, while he whisper
ed soft nonsense into the ear of Uriah's
wife Marx Antony was also an emf
nent Fiddlebagger, as we see by ex
tracts from the logbook of the gilded
barge i'll which he went on hvmeniaI
voyage Of discovery, with the beautiful
Cleopatra, up the Nile. Neio was a
btumiaons Fiddlebagger, having rasped
upon a viola while the ancient city was
III comRagration; and Sampson ma well
be styled tlibustering Fiddlebagger,
for while he made mince meat of lions
scalp, he lost his own strength through
the soft Establishments and willy machi-
nations Of fiddlebagging Delilah.
1t has been asserted that the order
dates from .4dam, who, it has been pref
ty well ascertained was, as the first man,
also naturally the first Fiddlebagger,
while his sons went on Fiddebagging
excursion into that drouSy country, af-
forwards governed by Morpheus-the
land of Nod.
1t Is also question whether the AZ
rlcan race have ever belonged to the
order. Some writer's affirm that Adam
and Eve were black; but, according to
the best historians, Adam must have
been blue, and Eve yeliou. 1t is evil
dent, says celebrated writer that, had
Adam and Eve been white people, there
never could, "a priori," have been
blacks; ana had they been black, there
never could have been whileS; or, had
one been black and the other white,
then there could not have been either
black or white. Our opinion is, as we
have already said, that Adam was blue,
and Eve yellow, as SO many Of their de-
scendents are green-rery greeA.
With respect to modem Fidulebag-
gers it must be said that they are lot
whit behind their ancient prototypes,
while their biography naturally becomes
the property Of future generation, al
whose hands, we have no doubt, THEN
names will receive sound biographical |
illustration,
Thus much we can safely say, that
the present head Of the society is first
+a 10 II 4 4
may sometimes be seen i'll a .fat6oat OIL
the Mississippi in company wiki the
great head ot'the church. When he ELI
tiers the hall Of meeting he greets his
brethren with the usual brotherly salu-
tation- WHAT'S lie rou here motc =
WHAT'S Meagonyto-day. TAX en0ughi
Talk enougW Tie cats taH IS cutI
There is one essential difference be-
tween this society and all others; it is a
distinction not to be overlooked name |
ly: that it embraces within its limits ali
the lovely portion Of creation in heper-
sons Of the good and the beautiful of the
female sex. Indeed ole Of its special
articles plainly indicates, that no society
is worthy either of consideration, or toll
Grafton, where the fddlebagging beau
ties of the age do not form a component
part For as the poet beautifully DIS
courseth-
sob! woman lovely woman! nature formed thee
To temper We hal been brutes but for We
Finally, photographers have indul-
ged in various skeptical notions as tothe
true photography Of the word Fiddle
bagger; some declaring that it should
be spelled with Phi, and not with T,
as they say that certain Arabic charac
tiers discovered on a salcophagus in the
great pyramid Of Egypt, had reference
to a coordinate society extant amongst
the ancients called F5ters; but which
evidently read on the stone PHIPHERs
We shall not attempt to unravel this
gordian knot, believing it just as safe to
follow the photographed mandates of
modern anti Iuarlans, as to revel in the
idiosyncracies of anilliterate and remote
age:
Let others march in grave procession.
hon,