San Andreas independent., 1857-03-28

The MINsTRELs.-The San Francisco Min
strels appeared at Knckerbocker Hall, on last
Sunday evening, to the largest audience ever
assembled in the Hail. Between two and three
hundred dollars were taken in at the door
The performance was varied and amusing; we
never saw an audience better pleased, until at
ter the close The small bills had been mutt
lated-razed- short-and the Minstrels did
not play all that was left on the programme,
much to the dissatisfaction of the audience
many of whom had walked long distance to
hear the Jokes, witness the oddities, and listen
to the songs of the Minstrels. The performance
was closed prematurely (only an hour and ten
minutes of exhibition was given), which caused
an outburst of feeling against the imposition
The assemblage would not believe that the per-
formance was ended, even after second an
nouncement ofthe fact was made by Mr. Camp
bell, but fingered as if inferring that it was but
a joke, "a SELL got up as part of the play
Finally, when they discovered the mistake cries
of chang them," hang him. git, git" "put
them out &C., resounded through the hall and
leading man, would have put each minstrel
astride of a picket, in less than ten minutes
We say this for the benefit of Chilly Birch y
who after the performance, ''put on airs" be-
cause, as he inferred, q the company were indie
pendent whether they made moneyin the noun
tains or not" Billy may think he is the " big
gcst nigger" of them all but he is not and
when he talks Grace hoss' at miners he is sit
ting on an open powder keg smoking cigar
We believe the minstrclS, pampered up with
their success, did not care fig whether the
audience were satisfied or not. They had COR
raled a good house, the money in their
pockets, and who cares?" We venture to
predict, that the same company would not get
twenty men in the house, should they perform
here again. The above is the general opinion
of this community. The audience was intell-
gent, discriminating and respectable therefore,
the company went out of their way at Mokel-
umne llil in Burlcsquing San Andreas, be-
cause the miners had telegraphed their grievan-
ces to the Hill uarRng The miners of that vicini-
ty against the imposition. The despatch in
question, we learn however, was not posted on
the bulletin board of the - Union" Ofthe char
acter of the performance, we need say but little
large proportion of our community were
there to see for themselves Mr.. Campbell's
'Belle Brandon" cheered us more than dollars
worth Mr.. Goes, in his /" Get up in the morn
ing git up, git" even excelled himself in the
original song, '0ver Jordan" We think Camp
bell and Goes the two best performers in the
colnpany-in fact, in the State. Goes put on
airs here too, but that don't prevent us from
giving the just praise due his professional mer-
its. MesSrs. Campbell and Hooly are gentle
men, and so deported themselves after the per-
formance, when told of the feeling throughout
the camp. Mr. Mcguire, also, said he was sor-
ry the people were dissatisfied with the per-
formance, and he would rather than dissat-
isfy so large an audience, run all night
We have received two communications very
mcomplimentary to the minstrels, and as each
make about the same complaint we only pub
lsh one of them. The writer is a miner, who
visited the show on our recommendation. so we
publish his letter that he may get the worth of
his money. Hereafter we recommend no Ne
gro Minstrel Shows