Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-06-28
LOCAL NEWS.
AMVssMxNrs To-NraHr.


adding new features.
CASTERBrRY.-Percivalh has selected the most
prominent performers Of the New York Canter-
bury, Meledeon, and Philadelphia Olympic who,
with the old favorites OF the Washington Canier.
bury, appear nightly. TIE Seigrist brothers, the
most daring scrobats now on the stage; MILE
Zanfretta and Alexander Zanfretta, the celebrated
tighi-rcpe performers; Marietta Ravel, the fasci-
mating spanish danseufe; Eva Brent, the beauti-
full vocalist, and other STAN appear tonight In q
new and varied bill. The entertainments at Can.
tertiary appreciated by &c the grave, the gay,
the lively and serene"
WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF Music -signora
Seydsl attracts many visitors TO Rosenthal's by
her vocal powers. Pretty waiter girls dispense
nrIt-clas refreshments.
CLARENDoN.-Free concerts daily at p. m
Refreshmsnt, at hand, and pretty waiter girls to
dispense them.
APOLLO Annie West sings at this concert
saloon, and Billy worrill amuses with negro &C.
centTicities- First class refreshments to be had.
Bit orP.-Punch has a cut showing a London
barber horrihed by the shocking manner In which
some country practitioner has scissored the head
Of favorite customer.
- Badly cut eh says the sufferer
1fCut sir! cut, sir Why, it's been regularly
bit hof ;" responds the indignant tonsor
We can fancy the sublime operator who shaves
The lawns Of that pet plat Of the w est End elite
Lafayette SquaTe-ejsculating after similar fash
Ton IN view Of the manner In which The grass In
the neglected Smithsonian grounds Is being
butchered, regularly bit OF, by he clumsy 10 no.
ramuses who are banging away there with
. ythes in their hands In manner that threatens
the strawberries and their own shins In about
equal proportions.
IL really would be worth the while Of the public
gardener TO pay visit to the Smithsonian grounds
10 see how things are managed there. We are
not aware that he makes pretensions 10 any knowl-
edge practical or theoretical, Of horticulture but
We hear that he Is experienced and competent at
his own trade, (house painting,) and his eve
should be sufficiently trained to notice ANYTHING
particularly amss even In q business 20 which he
IL q novice. Ga enquiry he might learn tina the
Smithsonian grounds were laid out by person
somewhat Of an authority on landscape gardening,
Ne ned Downing, and that these grounds, so laid
out with diversihed inequalities Of surface, iva
wing In this particular essentially from the Dutch
lower garden uniformity Of the Capitol and
w bite House grounds, where q sugar loaf hill
lock 70 the right IL matched exactly by sugar
s TS bed on one g is vis-s.viS,d oy in .Iset
counterpart on the rthsr j. with choice shrubbe-
Sies and trees lin lieu OF the dollar piece silver
pOplau and other soft-wood nuisances 30 popular
with our tree-planting speculatos); with these
sh.ubbsries and trees massed u dumped for fine
picturesque effect, deciduous trees and evergreens
besring due proPCrtons with grounds well I'M
with this plan well developed, the public looked
forward with s4tisfaction TO the time when thess
grounds should serve 70 show strangers that the
landscape gardening OF our national metropolis
4. mot ali OF the ~ Eastwood" order.
AS II IL, they see the lawns overgrown with
white weed switch grass and other unwholesome
vegetation; the choice shrubs and young trees,
such Of them a. have not winter killed by neglect
choked up with grass and weeds, while the only
attention apparently bestowed there from years
end to wears end 10 when some trees OF tbs bass
voodo stripe are to be shoe-pegged along the
walks with monotonous uniformity In Innovation
npon the Downing plan; CT two or three indivdu-
AZ, Of large leisure may be seen philandering
US.s{h. room In Pickvfck, that they are doing
xomethIpo - 18th rake and hce.
Ths Con- mia. 'oner OF Public Buildings Ia re-
~ f.sf E,.A
puted to be gentle nan OF use ana Judgment
r.i VIII net be come to the 'escue OF the Smith
sonian grounds!
DKArH OF A CgNTKNARIAs joint ~. Leach,
the venerable cooper, 50 well known ID nfaI,y
every houBekeeper In Washington since the be-
ginning Of the nineteenth century, departed this
life a. ave O'Clock this morning, after illness
oftwO weeks He was q native Of Prince George
county, Nd but has lived from early cbIldkood
within the limits Of the District Of Columbia.
According 20 bis reckoning, he was, at the time
of his decease about lO2 years Of age; and circum
stances which he used to refer to, when convers-
ing with friends, seem to confirm his reckoning.
He delighted to tell OF his serving the Revolu-
tionary army as q cooper; and In his latter years
he took great pleasure In relating his reminis-
csuces Of the past century. Mr.: Leach was the
dead; the oldest Of those now living Is near sixty
years OF age, ard the third generation from him
IL con- posed principally OF adults. The deceased
corn and for over twenty year. carried bis
nI-dSe In his hat, tat, when tempted 70 violate
H. he might be siren gtksned to resist. His fuEeral
f,on h, late resideuce, on Massachusetts avenue,
between second and Third SITS.
Nozz szcxsE IN GEoRsErows.-At the en-.
kibttion OF Mr. CGarad's school, at the lecture
room Of the Methcdist Protestant Church, the
MsfIne Band were directed II to play any ms
was received with great applique. Two OF the
netropOlitas Police, who were detailed 10 pre-
serve order, on learning from the direetot ~ tns
band his Instructions about the tunes, indignant
Iy retired The leader Of the band, on being Is-
q ussteA % play Dixie, remarked that he would
comply, bus did not wish IL construed that ne
was anytking but . Union man therefrom, for
which be recsiyed the frowns II q large number
Of ladies ~ In the sudienre. The policemen
remarksd, when they lefi, hat they could not
yot,ct such assemblages, and that 10 ought not 70
Z, SIuectsd Of them, and were fully endorsed
fher for by the Union-loving citizens OF George.
town soxne Of whom however think That an arrest
Of the p-rson who 20 the directions should have
oesn made. IL 10 said several Of the scholars had
on secession badges. shall United states band
De permitted 70 be GSsd Tor sash pprposesi
This Mr.. Conrad, we are tnlorrnea, - minis
Ter Of ne N rthodi.i Rpiseopal Church, who W.,
raised and educated AZ Dickinson College by tRe
uembeIstiP OF tie church.
A y,c-xtc sor the benefit OF sick and wounded
soiiierE 10 announced % 10 take place al MI
L-lq's SEVENTH street Park, on Monday next 3oih
Gosd music Las been eng&gsdI ana day OF en-
i0ymrut may be looked for a. ths Germans are
prov .fbial 70, their good taste In geitipg up en-
tSTt@iaments OF this sort.
ckyTzxL GuARpHousR CAsss-Bsfeys Jssties
CLa,E -INomas Purnell. drunk, lying asleep 10
the street. with pocket fall OF money; fned -
Alfred Beli. srunk; turned over 10 the military.
John Clolsey, do; do. VIM. Eagerly, Indecent
sxposure do.
FouxrH WARD STATION cAsRs-Bgors Jss-
siss Watf<y-John Monison, dlsordefly eonducT
1asd q. John Taylor, do; 20. 81,
snyxa-PLArrD wARE-Any body IN vsnt OF
Snver-Pisted Ware, Spoons, Forks, CaStoD,
.SuGter Dishes Syrup Pitchsrs, Cfesmers, Sugar
Bowls, Salt Stands, etc, had better CO II al the
Dollar Store, No 135 Pennsylvania avenue, near
Four. snd-s-h half st., and supply themselves FOG