The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-11-30
: OPERA HopsF-As will be seen BY ad.

za% OPERA HapsE-As will be seen BY ad-
vertisement in another column, the great
play of the Poor of New York, or the Panic
of 1857, which was received on its produc-
ton on Monday night with shouts Of APP
plause, will be repeated this evening at the
| Opera House, on which occasion Mr.. H W.
Gossin will appear as Badger, Miss Jennie
Parker as Aida Bloodgood and Miss jose
phine Parker, as Mrs Puffy. The evening 8
entertainment will conclude with that side
splitting farce, the Young Widow. e9s
TIE Gov. SPEAKS. = In answer Ia a dispatch
from Col. Hodges, OF Portsmouth, inqairng
if more ofthe Sd Regiment would be wanted
for service at Gharlestown, GOV Wis., re
piled ON Monday, that 10 more soldiers were
required at present, but requested Col. Ii. TO
hold the balance of the Regiment in readi
ness for relief service. =s.
RULES OF WAR. -rT1on't smoke il YOU
Place; no smoking is allowed inside the
gate, said sentry as Harper's Ferry, to
one OF the volunteers @,ro passed, smoking a
hne Havana 'Certainly moi" replied the
vdluateer, throwing his cigar on the ground,
and passing on. Imagine his ,spheiinks'
when, on looking back, he saw the sentry
had picked it UP and was deliberately sDo-
king that same cigar This rather circam-
vented our new 1edged .sodger,'
~ WILD Fowl.-harge nunbefsof wild f,wl
are to be seen in the lower end of Chesa-
peake Bay, among which the black duck
and red heads spredominaie. They are said
be to more plentiful than usual this season.
'yEas NEar4-sfhe Light House At Craney
Island, which has bern ia use two weeke,
has proved much more comfortable than the.
old light vessel which was formerly moored
there, andis very pretty little structure 1t
reminds one OF a crane .hammer, as it is
mounted upon stilts some twelve or fifteen
feet abovethe water s'
= THE STEAMER PEABsoY. This elegant and.
spacious steamer will take the place of the
steamer Adelaide on Tuesday next. The
Adelaide will be handed up for month. for
the purpose oil putting in new boilers, not
because they do not generate sufficient
quantity Of steam. The Peabody is SPLEEN
did sea boat, was built expressly for the Bay
trade, and has been RAINING between Baiti,
more and Richmond. $50
FAsHIoNABLE Girls TO fashionable girls
in these days, laffief az kitchen aresas
unknown regioassas Dir. Livingstone's new
found jungles and lakes in Central Africa =
Yet these young ladies, who are so much
above housekeeping, do not seem to be
above having house to keep their idle bod
les in. So they rush into matrimony AZ ma
turally as duck takes to the water. AS
soon as the wedding tour is achieved, and
the honeyiHooA has Waned chow sad it is
that the s'old NOON comes SO soon) when
the new upholsteres are all adjusted, aud
the stupid formalities Of wedding calls are
over-7then comes thetag Of war. sensi i
! BILE couple marry to be happy. The husband
expects to do his work out Of doors, and ex-
poets, toe, that his wife will do hers within
doors.
But, perhaps, instead OF wife, the young
bridegroom has only married delicate DOLL
or dippant firt or pretty paything, She
is no Martha, no Mary either. In mar
ket she can barely distinguish between
calt's head and pig s.loot; in cooking she is
as much puzzled as poor King George, who
could not conceive show the apples got into
the dumplings." s's
"But she can dance. She can spoil Bris-
toll board. She can play polkas. She has
an ear for inusie,'l she has not an eye for
dirt. She is accomr ishpd; but, alas ! her
tired and hungry husband cannot live on
accomplishments. He would gladly give all
her embroidei ed stool-eoyers for one clean
table cloth, aud for d toai OF b. cad that did
not give him Tue mig at7mare.
"a wife need not be a grudge; nof any
more should she be- drone. The most cuHi-
waited women we have ever met have known
how to prepare dinner as well as how to
critcise an essay by Macaulay."
New VoLuNTERa COMPANY. We call at
tention to the advertisement oil the new
Temperance Volunteer Company, TO attend
meeting this evening al seven O'Clock, in
the room OF the Washington Division, in
Odd Fellows Hail, for the purpose Of selec-.
ting officers and perfecting the organization.
full attendance Is re0uired
Dr.. WTLLIAMs.-Dr. Williams delighted 4
another large and intelligent audience last
evening, ,at Institute Hall, with some of his
mirth. provoking experiments, which liked
Ia ho No rnnda than- snlits thair- .siflas lanoh-