The Arkansas banner., 1849-07-31
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 Newre h1tsstrelsy.
 "Progress of the sgs" is noW-s-dnys fks topic ln enabling editors. otators. sA;f.sis. and school boya to drown various ideas 10 iBk and spread them upoa paper 10 dry. From siesm down 10 the ssw- ier machine not to pass -e%es railroads os the magnetic telegraph in siigh,iaG uaoner.) aI the novelties and phrases of the age put into rhetcr- cal hsrpess in this connection and gslopec throaah the land. We don't kaow whether Negro Mia. sircsy be entitled to 20 dewa to posierity notice under favor of the catalogue of progress; yet gre we disposed to book il for a short journey.
 There are yet living many of the members of the old Park pit whose mouth muscles tear medical sIe~saEy l. sislen snee the cholera srt inl f0nxnl- sivey twifch at reInembraBee of the eieetrc effect produced upen theH on benefit Biahs by the yolanteer appearance of Jim Crow Rice, who turned about and wheeled sboat' in 90 horrid
 manner inst the respectable bsss yiol of the respect ahle orchestra broke ali its strings to all intents and porposesl in sn attempt to grOan double C. Men had three four times before this, perhaps ofteaeE. blackened tseir fsccs, and grinned sung negro songs upon theatrical bosrds at sundry places in and about the SL Giles of Goth am, and dignity had got wind of the thing through the medium of handbils aud piscards; but here was ihe thing itself, sud on the Park boards! One would bsve thought that
 Jim Crow wass monster of such hideous mien
 As to be dreaded needed only to be seen; vet in accordance with some such curious fancy ne would make the lovely Desdemonia in the Dassel- don exhibition enamored of Ihs cotton laRting negro before her called OtheIlo, ihe people began to show a decided prediction for "colorcd meio- dy:' and Negro Nfinstreisy soon rallied about it. self large and thriving family Zip Coon and Jim along Josey were strong boys, but died early. They were not missed. The void their untimefy decease oceasioned was supplied by hundreds of fbsra rhaR a nd counters of the land like the armed meu of old. and in the same manner very oFten materially ia- teriered with each others peaceable existence.
 Negro minstrelsy was soon studied art Its professors mae trade of IL. and formed partner ships They serenaded Irish principles: The serensde,s coming and going from their dose in- stead of the Rerensdsrs bringing it 10 them. IL even voyaged to England, and made Ike Qaeeu clap her delicate hands in appreciation of the neio dy of !" De ole jaw bone" weep in commissera- ton of the sufferings oF E. Lucy Neal" and the hungry trials of the venerable Dsaisl Tucker" IL cid what the csasus-takers never conld have accomplished, in furnishing the available quantity Of banio players and bone-crackers in this sovereign republic IL founded an 0dd Fellow lodge oi melody throughout the land. The whistle Of a few bars in '' Goin' obsF de inouutain.'' Ma sonc password to tiIe western emigrant. The Portland boy who, of week-night, had learned from Dumboitons band in the meeting house. neal his homestead. did not feel ss among strangers when tTaversing a western prairie, lOriorn eIni- grant he halted by log hats and heard negro meIo- oies quayered by tine tongue of wooichopper.
 Negro mlnstresy, very soon alter its birth, became humoTl' l'ss in prosaics. It formed press. gangs 10 force into service s The conundrams latent i0 the head of scratching youth, or floating through au atmosphere already heaFy with nnaRt jokes oi Brother Jonathan From pfess-gaHg tyrsn, i became geReroas met chant, and rewarded lun wilt varieties oi silver gobIss ser most honorable public pi piopcsais. IL stopped not al originality. did no disdaia parody. l. became dramatic.
 Flom being great tourist 1t settled down inic residence. IL invaded ball which had beer so!ennlv set apart for purposes of educa;on, aIre has lived ihere tor more than year IL under mined the New York Society Library. II aierna ee st ihe Tabernacle with the eoqaence of divines ant the potential baton ef II. Mareizek. IL droy, MacIesay by inc magic wave of egAi agreeInea from the lecture room ot the Stuyvesaat Institute. l settled under the classic draIeries of the Apollo Saloon. place 90 long deai to Goihamites as beln, sacred 10 Terpslcbore and Si. Cecilia. IL struck down the angry wave of fashIsn's wand and Iaic itself 10 slumber upon grand pianos in Iuxoriou drawing -rooms.
 The worshippers of Van Weber, Rossini AnSer Beliui, and Donizetti. became nervous. MusIca doctors tremhled like Noah Webster whsr he hrs heard 'ot Phonogf faphy. Negro minstreisy wa spelling the public ear; viti4ting the public taste If you asked
 What was this great cnmmotion