Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-05-11
THE EVENING STAR.



IN ancient times u was only by means of broad
sides that the dOings and Inisdoings Of people
were brought before the public. The newspapers
have driven the ballad-mOngers To the wall but
they occasionally rush out from their obseurfty,
and edo up'' some exciting event just as IL used
To he done in the DAYS OF James the First. We
would not be true TO our duty OF making a fair
sketch Of the progress of this extraordinary case
did we not copy the following broadsides which
the BOYS about Third aud Chestnut streets retail
briskly at 4 nickel each:
SOS6 No. I.
AIR Williams GHd his Dinah."
IL Washington city, that town of great fame,
There lived lady, Mrs. Sickles by name;
she was the cause of murder or q sad tragedy =.
was Key.
This lady was false to her husband, IT'S true;
she went with another; and THIS she did ruei
He hired a house for a lady oi falne-
The purpose no had, I'm ashamed Ior to name.
On the twenty seventh Of February, in tho year
This crime was committed by this man, in his
But IN stating the case I would be 10 blanc
IL the truth don't tell of both parties the same.
in the first place, this Key he was false friend
Siekies H. Thought that on hin bed depend;
But the false hearted villain his honor betrayed;
He took his wife away, and Sickles him he say ed.
What IN this world is more sacred to man
Thsn the tlsht OF ms bed to protect1f he can
lie is not mt To live, 50 his life he did take
o, woman, frail woman. you were much to blame !;
Yet cannot CONSIDER all women the same;
1t could hot be right to condemn all for a few.
SoNs NOR
=, AIR. NttilkIaS aad htx DLHah.S
There lived IN Washington, not very long ago,
An Italian woman-they say il is So.
And she for his love mt bobbins i sroa1d dh''
Singing n tn raj, RI tn. &c.
All sorts of plans did this woman devise
to the rocks snd ssbsd ss5
As wouldn't have done for any single man.
The very next day the strange story was told
The papers they all noIsed about,
Declaring the trick was most awfuy bold
But the game, they confessed, was entirely played
out. -
Grlm spectres and sprites to her vision still roll
Until the deep repentance Is wrought on her mind,
She be foTcsd to unveI the dark roll of her crime
An! black hearted woman thy deeds are dark vile,
Though thy countenanc- wears a I'm p acid smi q
Thy schemes deeply planned, and with consummate
Still truth will plore you with anguish of heart
To that degradation hast thou fallen at last;
mysse ,',ss woman, only tnlnk ON this past
But now, wretched woman, abhorred by thy Kind,
disgrace 70 thy country, a disgrace to thy sex,
, .ne 1o I'VE society for years thou must nix,
And feel tbs remorse of the guilty in mind.
SoSG Nos.
AIR-"A LIZ, on Ghs Ocean Ware"
y life In the Capital,
o. a jolly life FOR me,
where men hckle mesdames meet,
md women with gallant Keys.
lis thsre We've a gallus chance
Our humble names to raise;
Just walk mp AID pin .onr riap
And you'll sure get all the praise
life In the Capital, &C.
There congressman yearly HE,
Our free nations laws to make:
But lar women blind their ewes
And their duties they forsake
scores of Keys still roam the streets
Mud many laaiy's fame
Would, II TO the world exposed
Their fond husbands bring To sbama
A life in the Capital, &c.
Nj IN then takes fellows life
FOR things often done himself
Like pot calling kettle black
They scoTn looking at themselves
Woman, since tIe world was made
Dire trouble you've brought TO NJ AN,
When hckle wOmans bani shed.
Then men sorrows will all all end