Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-11-28
After Thanksgiving.

gormand.sings of fowls and buildings. aud
guzzlings Of good, bad and Indifferent liquors
the whole town looks and feels see1y.
Everybody returns to his and her wonted
avocations reluctantly and with n feeling Of
inadequacy to their tasks. We feel that
way, and suppose every body else ia Oro-
vile that manifested a proper appreciation
OF the glorious day feels So too. IL is plea
SAINT 20 give and pleasant to receive good
thinks edible, drinkable and wearable on
general Holiday, and oh how pleasant it is
to rise with the lark (sky-lark) and com
mence the re- enlightenment of reading
people, with that instrument which is nigh
tier than the sword, the editorial pen, on
the morning after having been to Thanks
giving
We have alluded to certain exercises
which were performed in 0roville on the day
of public celebration Of Divine Goodness,
and feel that it is meet we should partcu-
larize, aud let people review what they have
done, and permit the world TO see how they
did it. Nothing was done that the doers
ought to be ashamed Of that we know of,
and peradyenture there was nothing shame
ful performed.
Frank Johnson, as he said he would do,
gave big dinner to his friends, and lis
friends friends, and to the press-gang aud
the public generally. 1t was magnani-
nous" dinner, served up with peculiar eclat,
and was partaken Of with proper degree
Of voraciousness. Wine flowed, AMI SO did
soup, and rock-cod chowjer, and turkes
and stufting, aud lots of other good things
ad M.fnitun, to the qualification and repe-
tion Of the eaters.
Good dinners beget generous sentiments,
and generous sentiments beget prod galties,
and those who had money purchased spirits
to give away and to drink themselves, ana
some of those who hadn't much money 1--WE
don't say who) went aad borrowed of their
ayuncular relative, and all toasted tie day
they celebrated, until other meals were pre-
pared, and dancings, and pool games, and
and kino were ushered in by the evening.
There were great aany sounds ofreyel-
ry by night, and old Dutte's shire town
gathered then her beauty anl her miners,
and bright the camphene lamps shone DER
fast women and hilarious men and boys
There were several balls, private and pub
lie, besides the one at the shooting gallery.
Then there were more edibles offered up
and more drinkables poured down, to the
delight of re.taurant keepers and dealers
in Dr.. Feuchtwanger's essential oils. There
was n ball at the Musical Hall which seemed
to be very pleasant, what there was Of it.
Then there was much tramping Of pleasure
seekers about the streets, and they formel
audiences for cantatrices in saloons, where
they dealt in spirits until the new moon had
long sunk behind the county of Colusa.
Different people met with different fates.
The proud military chieftain fell wounded
IN the cervical vertebrH early in the action,
while men of peace Haunted and fourished
until grey morn mantled the east, with three
sheets blowing in the breeze.
The man of eruditon an2. legal acumcn
went hand in hand with th9, hardy quartz
crusAer; the stern student Of old Galen
lowered himselfto . level with the Super
vsors, and the editor Ieigned to associate
on terms of familiarity with them all. All
was liberty, equality and fraternity, par
ticularly toward daylight. The day was
one to he remembered, and so was the night,
and for al the little indiscretions that were
we have only to say, in the
language of William Waldo, honi SOFT qui
ma! pense, which being interpreted means,
" if you don't like the way Thanksgiving is
in 0roville. 60 to Fences"
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