Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-28

localized burleslue extravaganza, entitled,
"Leah the ForsoOk, or the Shrewish Maid
en,"a parody Of Matilda Heron's great char
acter OF Leah the Forsaken. Dan Setchelt
plays the character Of Leah, and creates
more laughter with his broud witticisms and
clever local hits on "Short Hairs" and
"Long Hairs, - "Pixley and his Mule" the
"Colfax Party" etc etc., than l had been
led to suppose could be fund laying around
loose in a dozen such places as San Francis
co. As an instance of the correctness Of the
criticisms Of the local press on theatrical
matters, l may point to the fact that the Bull
Eetin Of last evening spoke Of Harry Cour-
taine's acting, in the character of Madeline,
in this burlesque, as "almost as good or as
bad as Setchel's, when the fact is that
Ccurtaine was off on his constitutional drunk,
and was not at the theatre that night, Fred.
Franks playing in his place, and doing the
character to the life. Fanny Brown, who
set half the young bachelors (of fifty years
and upwards) half mad with her witching
ways last winter, is playing Grips to the
Moon" etc, at the Olympic, formerly Gil
bert's Melodeon, and since Womboldrs de-
parture, seems TO have found consolation in
the friendship Of a one-horse gambler.
""Queeu of Beauty and Grace" defend us.
" WEDDING THEN OUT.
The Court Martial now in session here, en-
gagged in trying u number Of commissioned
officers of the California Volunteers, is doing
a good work in wedding the service OF some
unworthy men. One case, that Of Lieutenant
James, acting Quartermaster OF the Eighth
Regiment, c. ", seems to be one OF those
which appeal strongly to the ~sympathles OF a
commanding officer and the loyal public, but
there is no help for him, as the law is imper-
alive. He lost about Sl,68O Government
afunds-where, it is not necessary to say-and
for this was cashiered and dismissed the
service. He served with distinction in nu-
mernus hard fought battles in Virginia and
Tennessee, and 1t is a burning shame that he
should fall a victim to gamblers, and be
worse than killed at last. The Second Reg
ular Artillery y. S. A. is now on the way To
this coast, and will Supply the place Of one
or more Of the volunteer regiments now on
duty here in our harbor defenses, and sooner
or later all the volunteer regiments will be
mustered out, leaving only regulars in the
service here as we'll as at the East.
TRE GREAT HINES INNER
I hate to ~disappoint you, my boy, but am
afraid my description Of the grand compli-
mentary dinner to the Colfax party, BY our
Chinese fellow-citizcns, will not quite CON
up to the a%nticipationS you had formed Of it.
I know that it don't fill the bill l had made
out. | started in with high ideas Of the po.
etry Of the thing the fresh young vigorous
life. OF the West, as represented BY Colfax
and ms handsome friend the Governor, and
the intensely polished, ceremonious, antedi
luvian life of the Orient, meeting here and
joining hands on the far western shores Of
our mighty land, and all that sort Of thing.
But the subject was too heavy, u great deal
too heavy, and my impressions Of that gay
and festive scene are not what they should
be, according to my preconceived notions OF
the thing. remember distinctly Of my get
ting out Of a hack in front Of the Hang He
ung Restaurant, on Dupont street, and seeing
General Mcdowell and Commander Wood.
worth, in uniform, standing among the party
IN the sidewalk, while the entrance and the
stairway leading up to the supper hall was
crowded with Celestial merchants and heads
Of companies, in full robes Of blue satin,
gorgeouSly bedecked with embroidery, all
their heads bowling at once in unceaSing gen.
uaexions, the sight Of which came very near
making me sea-sick. ! remember, too,
that | met Leland Of the Occidental at the
mead Of the stairs and was politely asked to
walk up to the table in the reception room
and "take something" which | did out OF
respect to old friendship, and a black bottle,
If which there were Il number Oh the table
(bottles, not friendships, l mean). Up to
this point my notes are Ineligible and |
dnd no difficulty in transcribing, but beyond
that things become confused and mixed up,
So to speak. l find an ~alIusion to All Ting.
.ate head man Of the Hop Wo Company, whr
is represented as stating in IN undertonc
(which | caught, however) TO another Celes.
tial fellow-citizen, that that brass mounted
man with the tall whiSkers was a ~"lOoSey
paper man" whereupon Celestial No. 2 drew
oack, as If choked for breath and felt and felt
of his pockets, either for his handkerchief or
his money. l did not feel certain which.
There is also u reference to the fact that one
Of the first dishes was chop-stick soup, which
we were expected TO eat with II pair or picked
hens feet, no knives aud forks being on the
table. There is also something about the
bad effect Of mixing liquors, the birds nest
soup having highly Intoxicating properties,
if taken on top Of Lac Dor champagne, China
brandy and old Martel wine. The next line
which l am able to make out is as follows {:
/" assured him, however, that the proper
way to smoke them was By holding the little
end in the left nostril and blowing the smoke
out through the right eur, but that | had for.
gotten the last part Of the trick, although
used TO do it beautifully when a short haired
boy in Hong Kong, ut which he looked sur
priSed and said that he shouldn't wonder,
although his face would have indicated that
he did, after ALL" This must have been dur.
ing the second intermission and just before
the last sitting, Of which | forgot to say thene
were three. The last thing which | distinctly
remember was the peculiar "scenic effect"
introduced ut the third sitting, when, instead
OF the Presidents and merchants rising and
bowling to Colfax and party, as they had done
before, the tables rose and bowed repeatedly
in the most touching manner, while the
dishes of their own ~vOlitiOn arranged them.
selves handsomely in the form Of stars and
prisms, throwing out scintillatious Of light
Of an apparently electrical character. Be.
yond his there is dim trace Of u r~ecollec-
ton Of 4 China sacred concert, in which !
Joined, but was told that | pitched two notes
100 high, and had better draw out, and some-
thing about a quarrel between Sam. Buwles,
ESQ.,, Of the Springfield Republican, and
C. H. Webb, alias lingo, alias John Paul, as
TO whether a fruit about three feet long,
which lay in the center Of the table, aud
looked like u common watermelon, grew on
a tree or was dug up like a potatoe, lingo
seeming DESTROYS TO prove the latter PROPOSE
ton. Ny notes taken during this last part
Of the entertainment we're unfortunately lost
they we're not notes Of hand for thirty days,
signed Amigo Fitz Clarence Smith," or
the finder would certainly have returned them
and I write from memory only. l have
the ~faintest possible trace Of a recollection,
also, of feeling very tired and remarking to
Hop Sing, Esq. who played the one.stringed
fddle-that l wanted to 70 home, whereupon
the stairs, by some curipus mechanical dodge
which l never could L..,e credited il l had
net seen it myself-rose gradually at the
lower end, and giving me a gentle shake,
shot me into a carriage which stood at the
bottom, and the houses on both sides Of the
street trotted gently and gracefully past us
until the right one came. alongside and the
carriage got outside Of US. am aware that
this incident may seem improbable, but I
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