The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-19
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morning Thursday the 25th of October next the
will be totally ecpsed for period of than three
hours Venus will be rising the eclipse ends, Mars will
visible hour earlier Jupiter will eclipse
gins Saturn will be the meridian Thus all the usually
visible planets viii be seem the weather is clear undm
med by the superior light OF the In the meridian Of
Washington the eclipse viii begin at twenty-five minutes of
ocloek and will end six minutes past four O'Clock.
very large number of country merchants are now in
this city making their fall and winter purchases Many
from the western part of the State and have hereto
fore made their purchases IN the northern cities but from
to buy here.-Aieroadr,a Gazette.
Alexandra has capital enough enterprise enough and
natural advantages enough to make large and prosper
commercial and manufacturing city.
NAriovAL TaEATRE.--As we anticipated, Miss Agnes
Rebertson gpaeed Wednesday evening by
the largest and brilliant audiences assembled within
the walls Of the National Theatre 1t is said that upwards
Of hrythrec hundred tickets sold This may sound
like exaggeraon but when it is recolected that the Ma
ona is very large building, and that the manifest design
Of the architect to pack the largest possible
Der of eyenyfve y and twenty vecent victims, with
the slightest reference to the safe disposition OF their
limbs their ability the stage the may
easily be credited Never did larger compact
of huInantyradiant with smiles bright with ntei-
gence enjoying and enjoyable The ry STAR the evening
chaperons love style her. shone with bewchpg
re although fanced times that her spirits
quite buoyant and sparkling, and her fun electrical,
whcn eighteen months ago. she carried willing cap
vcs her swelling train Of admirers half the old and the
whole Of the young population of the federal city, The
pause during the evening occasionally udcous and fire.
queny deafening and shared in small degree by Mr..
Jefferson, young actor of great merit and still greater
promise.
Before concluding this basty notice would suggest
the manager the necessity of Immediately making suitable
provision for the prompt ng the theatre of its audience
in case fire. The building present arranged, is ad
nrab designed for the mmoation Of nearly the whole
dence in Of conagraton For the parquette and first
tier OF boxes which thousand persons have been
packed there is but egress and that through small
door which leads the outside world Of Arlington
aware PERCEPTIONS and preposterors fight Of steps. Or
edneay evening last it took nearly twenty minutes dis
miss audience when nothing occurred to interrupt the
flow Of the living ebbng tide In of fire that
ming mary hundreds out of that audience Of thousands
could have possibly reached the street in safety1
The store and dwelling of Mr. Isaiah Stuart corner of
and l4th streets destroyed by fire "Wednesday
ming last Supposed be tho work Of incendiary.
course of medical lectures about be delivered in THU
city by lady graduates of the Female Medical College
From the annual report of the master Of
we learn business the Washington
Baltimore railroad continues steadily to increase and daily
becoming more important of revenue The fol
lowing the number of passengers who have beer
conveyed over the whole rosd during the past year
From Baltimore to Washington 99Gs
From Washington to Baltimore S7,4ls
l77,ssl
Southern travel on through tickets
Passengers southwark lg,42l
Passengers northward l',szo II
Total through passengers 2A,721
The above shows slight falling of in the number of pas
conveyed compared with the business of the
ing year, and is attributed to the short session of Congress-